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January 15, 2008 at 06:23:55

KUCINICH TIDE TURNS: Protest Becomes Celebration 01/14/08

by Meryl Ann Butler     Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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NBC Studios, Burbank, CA Photo: Meryl Ann Butler

A hastily planned activist event by grassroots Kucinich supporters at NBC Studios, set to protest the candidate’s sudden exclusion from the NBC’s Las Vegas debates, turned into celebration when the tables turned, today.


NBC Studios, Burbank CA. Photo: Meryl Ann Butler

Kucinich has been locked out of previous debates by both AARP and ABC. But when NBC decided to follow suit, Uncle Sam finally put his foot down. In an unexpected, but stunning, display of American justice and democracy, a Las Vegas judge ruled that Kucinich must be allowed to participate in the Tuesday night presidential debate in Las Vegas.


Kucinich activists at NBC Studios, Burbank, CA. Photo: Butler

Kucinich supporters turned in their debate protest signs for “Vote for Kucinich” signs and “Impeach” banners, and carried on, sharing the sidewalk with writers’ strikers, and eliciting shouts and honks of approval from passing cars. Several activists held Kucinich signs stating, “Give me your vote, and I’ll give you back your country.”


Nina Hagen supports Kucinich. www.ninahagen.com Photo: M. Butler

Activist Nina Hagen, the “mother of punk rock,” and Kucinich supporter Mary Jacobs, sang a sidewalk duet of “Amazing Grace” as people exited the NBC studios.

The Los Angeles Times reported that, “Senior Clark County District Court Judge Charles Thompson vowed to issue an injunction halting the nationally televised debate if MSNBC failed to comply. Kucinich had filed a lawsuit seeking to be included just this morning.

“The judge ruled it was a matter of fairness, and Nevada voters would benefit from hearing from more than just Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama. Kucinich had been invited to participate in the 6 p.m. Pacific debate Tuesday, but that invitation was rescinded last week ...”

Will America now begin to wonder what it is that Kucinich stands for, that merits such extreme measures from mega-corporations like NBC, ABC, and AARP, to silence him?

Because in that very question, lies the answer to who is the best candidate for the people.

 

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author and educator who counts First Lady Dolley Payne Todd Madison as well as two signers of the Articles of Confederation among her ancestors. Mary Ball, mother of George Washington is in the ancestral lineage of Butler's great grandmother, Blanche Ball. Grateful to know that the blood of America's founding mothers and fathers runs in her veins, Butler has been newly filled with matriotism as a direct result of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Lest she appear too uppity, it should be revealed that she also has family ties to James Butler Hickok, better known as Wild Bill. Butler has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled enlightenment for the past two decades. A native of NYC, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006). They don't call quilts "comforters" for nothing! www.90minutequilts.com Butler was faculty advisor for "The Love for All Mankind/Anti-Apartheid Quilt" project at ENMU (1993), now in the collection of the Hon. Nelson Mandela. As Arts Advisor for the Center for Improving U.S.- Soviet Relations (CIUSSR) Baltimore, MD; her activities included the "First U.S.-Soviet Childrens' Peace Quilt Exchange" (1987-88), an historic project chronicled in the media of both countries. Citizen diplomacy trips to the U.S.S.R. in 1987 and 1988 included lectures and presentations to fashion designers, craftspeople and artists in Odessa, Moscow, Kiev and St.Petersburg, in which she focused on the topic of creating global peace through international art exchanges. Butler is the proud mother of a daughter and seven stepchildren (all grown), and a passel o' grand younguns. It is to these new generations that she dedicates her political activism. Archived articles www.opednews.com/author/author1820.html Older archived articles, from before May 2005 are here.,

 

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Nina Rules !

On a recent local TV quiz show...I forget which...Nina was given a chance to say a few words about, well, just whatever it is that "Promis" usually have to say when they get a chance to say something on national TV. Guess what Nina said. Nina endorsed Dennis K. and told us just how important it is that we lend him our support. German TV. Now, you may know, I know and Nina certainly knows how US politics effect european politics. Too bad nobody listens.

Nina is a very lively and colourful figure. In short.........Nina rocks !

by Tony Forest (4 articles, 14 quicklinks, 131 diaries, 1216 comments) on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 7:10:57 AM
 


Former computer/communications marketing and product strategist. Currently teaching part time in retirement.
Alan MacDonaldFormer computer/communications marketing and product strategist. Currently teaching part time in retirement.

What Kucinich stands for? ---- hopefully he will articulate.

Kucinich needs to put all the dots together and articulate what he stands for and what he stands agains --- and now is a perfect time, as he is being mauled by the corporatist Empire hiding behind 'Vichy America' which is also mauling all of us and our democracy.

 

 

Here's a link to CommonDreams posting of Ralph Nader's prescient article "Candidate Taboos" noting corporate and corporate media resistance to hearing anything like the truths that Kucinich speaks.

 

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/15/6381/

 

It also contains hundreds of more comments from principled progressives like you, and me, who want open democracy, debate, and ‘reason’ to prevail over entrenched power.

 

The only answer to actions like NBC's of  "Mr. Kucinich, please don't debate" is the same as the answer to the NYTimes' ignoble "Mr. Nader, please don't run" editorial in 2000 ---- and it's an answer that even Al Gore today in his fabulous book against corporatist empire, "The Assault on Reason" would agree with: 

 

Get the heck out of the way of our democracy, corporate chumps!

 

 

Judge Charles Thompson's order declares:

 

“This is a matter which affects the public interest.”

 

But judge, don’t you know that the very term, “the public interest” is not only ignored but held in absolute contempt by this whole pack of corporate imperialists behind NBC?

 

In fact, judge, in Al Gore’s insightful new book, “The Assault on Reason” he carefully reasons and documents several times that within the radical right-wing corporatist faction which has captured our government, “there is no such thing as ‘the public interest’; that phrase represents a dangerous fiction created as an excuse to impose unfair burdens on the wealthy and the powerful.”

 

The corporatist empire behind this façade of ‘Vichy America’ (and the ‘Vichy’ MSM) does not even ordain to accept the concept of a ‘public interest’ ---- a point of truth that unites Al Gore, Ralph Nader, and of course Dennis Kucinich.

 

 

by Alan MacDonald (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 50 comments) on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 3:09:14 PM
 


I am an American who loves her country and would like to see us get back to the constitutional values that made America great.
GatorVolI am an American who loves her country and would like to see us get back to the constitutional values that made America great.

Right On!

If we can't get a voice in the debates, we can make our own news! 

Win or lose with the Nevada Supreme Court ...We Won!

The rest of the public is getting the news straight from fellow Americans...that what they see on TV is biased and censored !

 

by GatorVol (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 10 comments) on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 6:50:09 PM
 


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RLAnchorsUSAF 1986 - 1991Disabled VetMensa Member 1992

NBC..

managed to get an appeal court to overturn the previous ruling. Denis and by extension YOU and I have been silenced once again by the corporations.

Maybe it's time for something drastic.

by RLAnchors (7 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 39 comments) on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 8:45:48 PM
 


I am a retired opera singer. I was a leading soprano with the New York City Opera for ten years. I am a strong supporter of Dennis Kucinich and worked for his campaign in 2004. I believe that he is the ONLY honest man in congress. He has been working against this insane war since before it began. I am 72 years old and I have been so frustrated with the media, the Congress and the American people that they don't tell the truth.
CaronomeI am a retired opera singer. I was a leading soprano with the New York City Opera for ten years. I am a strong supporter of Dennis Kucinich and worked for his campaign in 2004. I believe that he is the ONLY honest man in congress. He has been working against this insane war since before it began. I am 72 years old and I have been so frustrated with the media, the Congress and the American people that they don't tell the truth.

Protest!!!!!

If this doesn't activate the American people, then we're all in big trouble. Yes, Dennis has infuriated the rich and mighty who want the status quo. That should convince the people that there is something very wonderful about Kucinich. Pay attention, people. When our rights are trampled, it's time to act. Boycott NBC, ABC, GE, and MSNBC. And be very vocal about it. GE products suck anyway so it's no hardship there.

 Our vote is one of the most precious things we own. So give your vote to Dennis and he will bring back the country we love.

by Caronome (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 202 comments) on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 11:43:53 AM
 

 

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