2004 former Reform Party nominee for Vice President; previously Candidate for CA Governor
Both parties stand for corporate globalization
The Green Party is at a crossroads. The 2004 elections place before us a clear and unavoidable choice. On one side, we can continue on the path of political independence, building a party of, by and for the people by running our own campaign for
President of the United States. The other choice is the well-trodden path of lesser-evil politics, sacrificing our own voice and independence to support whoever the Democrats nominate in order, we are told, to defeat Bush.
The difference is not over whether to "defeat Bush"-understanding that to mean the program of corporate globalization and the wars and trampling of the Constitution that come with it-but rather how to do it. We do not believe it is possible to defeat
the "greater" evil by supporting a shamefaced version of the same evil. We believe it is precisely by openly and sharply confronting the two major parties that the policies of the corporate interests these parties represent can be set back and defeated.
Source: The Avocado Declaration, by Peter Miguel Camejo
Jan 1, 2004
