Stories by Jennifer Bleyer
Perhaps the best gauge of inauguration day was Andy Lu, who was selling commemorative Bush T-shirts and baseball caps. "Probably if I was selling anti-Bush shirts," he said, "I'd make a lot of money."
Posted on Jan 22, 2001, Source: AlterNet
After months of virtual invisibility in the popular press, Ralph Nader has now become a huge story -- but only as threat to Al Gore's campaign. Did the press simply miss the Nader boat, or was his campaign subject to an intentional "black out" because of its anti-corporate message?
Posted on Nov 1, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
After a week of intense attacks on his campaign by Democrat Al Gore and his liberal supporters, Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader responded to detractors over the weekend with little more than a shrug.
Posted on Oct 30, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Several pro-Nader advertisements, paid for by businessman Greg MacArthur, will run this week in the New York Times, Boston Globe and several other papers. But the planned ads were pulled from California papers after the ad text became inaccurate in light of new poll numbers.
Posted on Oct 26, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
At Ralph Nader's largest "super-rally" yet, celebrities like Ani DiFranco, Susan Sarandon, Bill Murray and Ben Harper helped to rouse an electrified crowd of 15,000 at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Posted on Oct 16, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Nader's campaign stop in Florida was a bold move, considering that Florida is perhaps the most crucial swing state in this election. Despite the tight race there between Gore and Bush, most Nader supporters did not seem dissuaded by arguments that voting for their candidate could help put a Republican in the White House.
Posted on Oct 13, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
When Ralph Nader spoke to the Economic Club of Detroit yesterday it was a little like Gandhi addressing the British Royal Society -- underneath all the nods and smiles, you could sense a thick layer of resentment.
Posted on Oct 11, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
When Ralph Nader became the first presidential candidate in the 2000 election to go on Saturday Night Live, he proved his sense of humor, hammered home his politics and confirmed his future in acting if the whole campaign thing doesn't work out.
Posted on Oct 9, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Running on more political steam than sleep after his dramatic expulsion from the first presidential debate, Ralph Nader affirmed today that he may bring a lawsuit against the Debate Commission.
Posted on Oct 5, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
After a sympathetic college student gave him a valid ticket to Tuesday's presidential debate, Ralph Nader tried to enter the audience only to was muscled away at the door. Meanwhile, 5,000 protesters demanded that Nader be admitted to the debate until they were attacked by a police horse charge, replete with chemical spray and beatings, which resulted in numerous injuries and arrests.
Posted on Oct 4, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
What does Ralph Nader hope accomplish with his run for the Presidency? To move the Democrats left? To build a strong Green Party? To actually win the election? Talking with state coordinators and organizers for Nader's campaign reveals a vast -- and sometimes contradictory -- set of goals.
Posted on Oct 3, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
In the final days before the first presidential debate in Boston on Tuesday night, Ralph Nader began a blitz of appearances in New England to amass and confirm support for his presidential campaign, and to draw attention to his exclusion from the debates.
Posted on Oct 2, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
As anti-globalization protesters and police clashed violently in distant Prague on Tuesday, Ralph Nader took a night off from campaigning for president to tutor a packed hall of college students in the intricacies of 21st century capitalism.
Posted on Sep 27, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Ralph Nader tried to embarrass Al Gore, the self-described environmental candidate, in a campaign stop in East Liverpool, a polluted Ohio hamlet that Gore had promised to help clean up many years ago.
Posted on Sep 27, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Green Party organizers were nearly beside themselves when close to 12,000 people poured into a Minneapolis stadium last Friday, paying seven dollars each to hear Ralph Nader's message of radical political reform.
Posted on Sep 26, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Michael Moore has become a working-class American icon, unmistakeable in his baseball cap and slightly sinister giggle, and a passionate advocate for Ralph Nader's candidacy. Jennifer Bleyer spoke with him as he traveled with Nader's three-day whirlwind "Non-Voter Tour" and found out why voting with your conscience should outweigh logic.
Posted on Sep 26, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Thirty-five years after he exposed General Motors for producing unsafe cars, Ralph Nader teamed up with director Michael Moore to condemn GM in the company's battered hometown of Flint, Michigan.
Posted on Sep 22, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
After absorbing stinging criticism from progressives that he pays too little attention to minority issues, Ralph Nader began a three-day swing through the Midwest on Wednesday by emphasizing the persistent link between race and money in the United States.
Posted on Sep 21, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Before a full roster of star musicians took the stage at Farm Aid 2000, presidential candidates Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader both called for a repeal of the farm policies they say have bankrupted thousands of family farms.
Posted on Sep 18, 2000, Source: WorkingForChange.com
As the advertising industry held its Golden Marble Awards in New York this week -- a ceremony that honors the "best" in marketing to kids as young as 18 months -- a group of protesters in the streets raised a ruckus about the industry's seedy practices. But is there any way to protect kids from rampant commercialism?
Posted on Sep 14, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Now that the tear gas has finally settled, are you feeling down from all those clashes with cops? Come in out of the pepper spray and be good to yourself by following these eight fabulous tips!
Posted on Aug 21, 2000, Source: AlterNet
As delegates rallied around Joseph Lieberman's acceptance speech this week, making him America's first Jewish nominee to a national ticket, politically progressive Jews expressed their disenchantment with Al Gore's vice-presidential pick.
Posted on Aug 16, 2000, Source: AlterNet
What began as a peaceful, festive march became violent late Monday night as police officers shot high-pressure water and pepper spray pellets at protesters, and later chased them down on horses while beating them with batons.
Posted on Aug 15, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Representatives from the Shadow Convention, the ACLU, Global Exchange, D2KLA and the Green Party denounced the LAPD's use of force against protesters as unwarranted and brutal, and called for an independent investigation of the Police Department's actions.
Posted on Aug 15, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Late Tuesday afternoon, approximately fifty bicycle activists from the group Critical Mass were arrested on the streets of LA, making it the largest arrest that has occurred so far during the Democratic National Convention.
Posted on Aug 15, 2000, Source: AlterNet
While Democratic visitors inside the posh Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel gussied themselves up for yesterday evening's events, dozens of hotel workers and hundreds of supporters -- including Jesse Jackson, John Sweeney and Paul Wellstone -- rallied outside the hotel for their right to organize.
Posted on Aug 14, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Throughout the week, numerous Republicans frequented Delilah's, Philadelphia's premier gentleman's club, where three or four nude girls writhe around onstage in front of a banner reading "Welcome GOP Delegates!"
Posted on Aug 3, 2000, Source: AlterNet
As the RNC whipped itself into a masturbatory frenzy yesterday, thousands of activists spent the afternoon regrouping for Tuesday's demostrations and beyond.
Posted on Aug 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
The most moving guests at Tuesday's Shadow Convention were the family members of people incarcerated for non-violent drug offenses.
Posted on Aug 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Anti-poverty activists in Philadelphia are bringing journalists, delegates and protesters on "reality tours" of the city to expose its blighted underbelly that the GOP is ignoring.
Posted on Jul 30, 2000, Source: AlterNet
