28 April 2003

What To Do Next? The Real Epidemic is Here
by Marta Steele

Whatever became of the promise to allow all the illegally purged voters back onto the voting rolls in Florida? What of all those right-wing-manufactured touch-screen voting machines that will be used in 2004 to bounce all votes from the Democratic to the Republican corner without leaving a paper trail? I mean, whatever became of the irrefutable proof that the current occupant of the White House is there illegally and unconstitutionally? Our nation is ailing: not from SARS but something becoming rapidly less curable: a right-wing takeover.

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We must raise money for campaign 2004 in record-breaking quantities. We must begin the campaign now and unite all progressives behind the Democratic Party, our only chance at regaining our democracy. We must bring out all those activists again, all those moderates who joined our rallies to oust Saddam, convincing them that election 2004 is far more important to our present and future well being than ousting a foreign tyrant who was no immediate threat to this country. Over one million activists (the largest number of Americans who came out in one day to protest the latest war) can do much to help, the sooner the better. The exigency now is far greater.

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