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THE DRAFT The There’s a huge, hulking, hairy beast lurking in the corner that the Powers That Be don’t want you to notice: The draft. Oh, no, insists George W, “We’re not going to have a draft, period.” Edited by Jim Hightower and Phillip Frazer Vol. 6 No. 10 October 2004 But the situation in Iraq is getting worse by the day— and our so-called “leaders” don’t have a clue what to do except send more troops. Hey, there’s good news at the grassroots Indeed, top military analysts concede that our troops will have to occupy that country for another 10-20 years. Progressive groups Meanwhile, Bush is already pushing for his next war—against Iran. There’s also that boiling pot in North Korea, a nation that really are busting out all over does have weapons of mass destruction; we’re still in Afghanistan; there’s the genocide in Darfur; we’re ey, come on, progressives— Stop Beating Around the Bush) as a focal point, I’ve been sinking more troops into the buck up! There’s been too crisscrossing America, speaking with folks in salons and jungle of Colombia, and much doom and gloom—espe- saloons, labor halls and cow barns, bookstores and art we’re constantly told to cially among inside-the-belt- museums, churches and theaters, on country fairgrounds, expect yet another major hit way progressives—about John in civic centers, on campuses, in parks, and even inside on America by al Qaeda. Kerry’s chances on Nov. 2. neon-lit dance halls. Where will the Bushites Maybe they inherited an extra I find that people are onto the Bushites—and why wouldn’t they be? Bush Inc. has spent nearly four years get the troops for all of this? dour gene, or maybe they’re spending too much time Not by continuing to force H downsizing the middle-class, offshoring our best jobs, listening to pollsters and pundits. Of course there’s troops to extend their stay in ignoring the growing cries for health care, gutting worker the occasional discouraging campaign news, but don’t Iraq—there’s already rebel- rights, unleashing corporate polluters and plunder- lion within the ranks against wallow in it, for there’s also greatly encouraging news: ers, defunding public education programs, bash- this illegal conscription. The ■ Yes, I know that some polls have shown Bush run- ing gays and lesbians, sending hundreds of volunteer army? Guess what ning even with Kerry or ahead—but —recruitment is way off now the pollsters are vastly undercount- that potential volunteers see ing anti-Bush votes. the Bushites’ inept handling ■ Yes, I know that Kerry’s charisma of their wars. quotient ranks somewhere between Just as George dodged that of Al Gore and Michael the draft in his day, he’s now Dukakis—but John’s been perking dodging the question up lately, showing a bit of populist whether he’ll impose the passion, striking some solid blows, draft on this generation. and winning all three debates. ■ Yes, I know that the Bushites are KING GEORGE creepy-scary thugs who’ve shown NIXES DISSENT that they’ll lie, cheat, and steal to In monarchies, the peas- win, but they’ve been doing such ants aren’t even supposed things so often that their color-coded to speak to the royals unless bag of tricks has lost credibility with the they’re spoken to first. In general public—the curtain has been democracies, however, the pulled back, and the wizard has been folks are supposed to be revealed to be just a spoiled, inse- free to speak their minds to cure, petulant little son of a Bush. those in power. Prediction: I believe George W. is a one- Under the reign of King term president, just like his daddy was. George the W. and his Chief I don’t say this glibly, nor is it wishful Justice Ashcroft, however, thinking. My prediction is based on what the folks are supposed to I’ve seen at the grassroots level all give fealty to the king—or across the country. As many of you suffer severe consequences Lowdowners know, I’ve been travel- for their disobedience. The ing practically nonstop since mid-July, unpatriotic Patriot Act puts going to 50-some cities and towns as this new order of things into part of my “Show Bush the Door in —continued p. 2 ’04” tour. Using my new book (Let’s lowdown 10/22/04 1:26 PM Page 2

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law. Here are three stories thousands of our loved ones into a of an election: Kerry will win going two 16-year-old sons. “The thought that tell us how the new order deadly war of lies, empowering fed- away. This has little to do with our of a draft is scary,” he says. Plus, works in the streets of eral agents to stomp on our liberties, boy John—and everything to do he’s worried about his job and the America today: making wholesale arrests of peace- with an electorate that is fired up middle-class possibilities for his ●1 Earlier this year, Sue ful dissenters...(gosh, so much to and on the move. family: “All that money spent on Iraq, Niederer of Hopewell, NJ, list, so little space). Lest you think I’m juiced up on then old people can’t buy medicine. learned that her 24-year-old Bush’s policies are all big fat ugly jimson weed, let me make three Figure that out!” son Seth had been killed in hogs. The White House has tried to points about the conventional wis- Second, there’s not only a tsuna- Iraq while trying to defuse a pretty them up with a coat of bright dom of the pollsters, who (as of mi of new voters, but also an inten- roadside bomb. Enraged, glossy lipstick—but who wants to mid-October) assert that it’s a nip- sity of opposition to BushCheney she went to a Laura Bush kiss a hog? Even many of the people and-tuck race. First, pollsters are AshcroftRumsfeld & Gang that the rally wearing a T-shirt embla- who voted for the “compassionate like cats watching the wrong pollsters can’t measure. This intensi- zoned with a picture of Seth conservative” in 2000 have since mousehole, for they’re only tele- ty translates into real political and the words “President found themselves up close and per- phoning “likely voters”—those action—people willing to volunteer, Bush Killed My Son.” As sonal with the raw ugliness of the who’ve been voting consistently in give money, argue with their ditto- Laura nattered on about the Bushite agenda, and they want no past presidential elections. This head brothers-in-law, talk to their heroic nature of her hus- part of “Four More Years”— a partisan leaves out half of America’s eligi- family and friends, and otherwise band’s war, Ms. Niederer chant that most Americans now ble voters. This time—surprise, reach out personally to others. hollered out: “If the war is so view as a direct threat. George!—a substantial number of Third— and this is a giant one— essential to our national It’s no idle threat, either, for vari- the other half, the “unlikely vot- the pollsters are almost completely security, why aren’t the Bush ous Bushites have talked ominously ers,” are going to show up at the missing the coming youth vote. daughters enlisting in it?” of “the next” agenda, including a polls, eager to punch out the Since 1972, there’s been a precipi- Police handcuffed her, push to privatize Social Security, a Bushites who have been running tous decline in turnout by the hauled her to jail, and booked war with Iran (while continuing to roughshod over them. under-26 voter. Only about a third her for trespassing. The maintain our current troop levels in A big indicator of this is the mas- of these young folks have been vot- charge later had to be occupied Iraq, thus raising the stark sive surge in voter registration. ing, with the result that presidential dropped...but the Secret possibility of a draft), a national sales Election boards are swamped with campaigns have ignored them on Service is now hounding Sue tax that’ll shift practically all federal new registrants, particularly in the the grounds that kids “don’t do pol- for posting on a website that taxation from the wealthy to the mid- so-called battleground states, where itics” anymore. Yoo-hoo...the kids she’d like to “rip the president’s dle-class and poor people, an all-out they’re having to add staff and work are back, registering in record num- head off” and “shoot him in drive for more NAFTAs, deep cuts in around the clock to absorb the influx. bers! A March poll of college stu- the groin area.” Of course funding for education and other For example, Philadelphia has had dents found that 62 percent defi- she didn’t mean that literally, essential public needs, Patriot Act II, the highest number of new registra- nitely plan to vote in November. “I but the vindictive Bushites and much more federal debt piled on tions in 21 years, Cleveland has am determined that my vote will be are still out to destroy her. the backs of our children. There’s a more than doubled the number of counted this year,” says 25-year-old To tell the monarchy of growing awareness among regular new voters it had in 2000, St. Louis Rachelle Reposa of Oakland, who King George the W. to leave folks that Bush and his crowd are not says it’ll have the largest number of didn’t vote in 2000. “I do not want Sue Niederer alone, call the your normal Republican conservatives registered voters in its history...etc., to go into war with other countries White House comment line at —they’re ultra-extremist, big-govern- etc. Even in supposedly Bush-safe and waste billions of dollars when 202-456-1111. ment corporatists, attempting to “red states,” the surge is phenome- we need it over here.” ● superimpose their Ayn Randian, Jerry nal—in my Democratic town of There are 24 million of these 18- 2 Nicole and Jeff Rank, a Falwellian, Orwellian, Strangelovean Austin, new voters are up 64 per- to-25-year-olds—yet few ever get a young couple from Charleston, ideology over our country’s historic cent over 2000. call from a pollster. This is because WV, were arrested on the democratic values of fairness, justice, What’s going on? People are real- most of them don’t use regular grounds of their state capitol and equal opportunity for all. izing that it matters. Bush’s loss of phones, relying instead on their cell during a July 4 appearance by This is a BIG TIME for America. the popular vote and his enthrone- phones. It’s estimated that 21 mil- George W. for wearing hand- It’s not just another election—and I ment by the Supreme Court last lion of them own cell phones. painted T-shirts with the “no” find in my travels that people not time around—combined with the Pollsters can’t reach them, so their symbol slashed across Bush’s only are aware of this, but they’re extremist agenda he’s pushed since voting preferences are simply not name. That was it—they didn’t preparing to spring an election sur- then—has motivated folks to being counted. “The people who shout, heckle, or disrupt any- prise on George W. believe that they can make a differ- are using telephone surveys are in thing, but two Secret Service ence this time...and must. “I’ve denial,” says noted pollster John agents demanded that they The polls been too lazy,” says Kurt Saukatis, a Zogby. “They try not to mention cell remove or cover their T-shirts. OK, I’m out on a limb here, but I 43-year-old Pennsylvanian who did phones. They go ahead with a “No,” they quietly said, so the daresay that this won’t be that close not go to the polls in 2000. He has method that is old and wrong.” agents instructed local police to arrest them. They were handcuffed, jailed, and charged with trespassing. Even more outrageously, Do something! Nicole—who works for a federal agency—was dismissed To get involved in your state check out the following organizations: from her job. But this arrest was also Public Interest Research Group: www.pirg.org, 202-546-9707 thrown out of court, and the ACORN: www.acorn.org federal agency backed down Voter Virgin: www.votervirgin.com and rehired Nicole. Indy Voter: www.indyvoter.org 212-283-8879 Jeff, a registered Republican, New Voters Project: www.newvotersproject.org says: “Unless common citi- —continued p. 3 lowdown 10/22/04 1:26 PM Page 3

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teaching the young how to take ignored by both major parties. Its zens like ourselves are willing DIY politics to stand and fight for their civil Harrell’s hardware store, near my charge of their own democracy. effort is particularly significant in the National league leader Adrienne battleground states—for example, liberties, those very liberties home in Austin, is a terrific place that our nation was founded that’ll not only sell you the one hinge Maree Brown, 25, says: “Folks get more than 187,000 new registrants cast as apathetic when they just in Florida, 158,000 in Ohio, and upon… will wither and erode you need rather than making you buy until they are gone forever.” a whole box, but also offers free how- don’t know the process for getting 120,000 in Pennsylvania. ●3 to advice and will even lend you a tool power in this country. We are the Leave No Voter Behind. This is a dra- New York’s billionaire to do a particular job. Harrell’s slogan demystification league.” matic electoral project by the MoveOn mayor Michael Bloomberg is “Together, we can do-it-yourself.” The league is big on the concept PAC, which has trained a skilled got into the act during the This could well be the motto of of do-it-yourself democracy, offering democratic army of 500 organizers to Republican National the scores of scrappy and savvy all sorts of how-to guidance for local go into the key battleground states, Convention. Bloomberg used political organizations that have chapters on such matters as holding working with 10,000 MoveOn precinct the New York police as a popped up like beautiful weeds in your own strategy sessions, writing leaders to recruit tens of thousands of bludgeon to crack down on this electoral season. your own voters’ guides (“You don’t local volunteers. All of this to reach dissenters. Their impact will reach way beyond have to be a brain surgeon to know out —neighbor-to-neighbor, the most Citizen Alex Pincus wasn’t this election, for nearly all of them are who sucks,” they point out), throw- effective voter contact there is—to even a protestor—just a city committed to creating an indepen- ing your own Politics ’n’ Pizza fest (or people in their communities who oth- resident who went out to a deli dent, progressive, web-connected, ’n’ Pina Coladas...’n’ Pierogies...’n’ erwise are not likely to vote. and innocently walked into a democratic base that will change Punk...’n’ whatever), hosting your Their goal is not merely registra- police dragnet. Pincus asked American politics over the long haul, own Slam Bush poetry slams, and tion and get-out-the-vote efforts, but an officer how to get out of the transforming it from the ground up. organizing your own Party Squad. specifically to produce 440,000 new way, was told “follow me”— Toward that end, these groups are Declaring that their goal is noth- voters for Kerry—votes he other- then was grabbed by cops, determinedly independent, purposely ing less than “to build a progressive wise wouldn’t get! handcuffed and forced to kneel organized outside the Kerry campaign governing majority in our lifetime,” MoveOn is also pioneering a revo- for an hour before being tossed and the Democratic Party—indeed, LoPOV has already set Nov. 13-14 lution in phone banking: Instead of into a filthy makeshift cage most understand clearly that once the for local “Debrief and Next Steps” gathering callers into a room with topped with razor wire, where inaugural cheering is over next January, meetings nationwide, and it’s plan- banks of phones, anyone can play at he was held for 25 hours with- they will have to be in the face of a ning to organize itself as a bottom- any time. From your home phone or out access to a lawyer. Kerry-Edwards administration. up national council controlled by rep- your cell phone, if you’ve got a free Bloomberg’s police kept saying resentatives from each local chapter. to him and all the others, “This League of Pissed Off Voters. What moment, you can call an 800 num- is what you get for protesting.” a great group this is! Organized in ACORN. This excellent organization ber, enter an ID, hear the message of The mayor later admitted 70 cities in 26 states, these are of low-income folks, now organized the day, and be connected to a that innocent citizens were young folks committed to educating, in 35 states, has long been known potential undecided voter in a given abused, but the Gooberhead organizing, and mobilizing 18-to-35- for its grassroots ingenuity in mobi- state within seconds. “There is a year-olds into a unified, progressive lizing previously powerless people feeling you have to tie people’s shoes blamed the victims them- political bloc. Conceived, founded, into potent players in local politics — for them,” says MoveOn’s 24-year-old selves: “If you go to where peo- and implemented by and for young and this year it has become the director, Eli Pariser. “But, in fact, poli- ple are protesting and don’t people, LoPOV comes with an anti- national champion of new voter reg- tics does not require any special skill want to be part of the protest,” establishment attitude and a strong istration. In a phenomenal organizing aside from those required in any he haughtily sniffed, “you’re sense of sass and fun—but also a feat, ACORN has enlisted more than social engagement.” always going to run the risk very serious purpose. a million low-income working people Music Row Democrats. George W. that maybe you’ll be tied up They’ve registered thousands of onto America’s voter rolls. and the GOP have generally tried to with it.” Yeah—literally tied up! young voters, but they’re going Going door to door—as well as to make themselves look populist by Our liberties are not taken much deeper by training organizers, working-class shopping centers, surrounding themselves with country from us in one big bang of a rallying young people to dig into the street festivals, hip-hop concerts, musicians, claiming that Nashville is coup d’etat, but rather slipped issues and candidates, teaching naturalization ceremonies, and other red-white-and-blue Republican Land. out from under us inch by inch people how to hold the candidates high-traffic areas—ACORN mem- But hold your sorry horse right there, by autocratic Goobers like they elect accountable, putting up bers have taken their clipboards into says a rowdy group of Nashville Bloomberg. their own members as candidates communities that have traditionally stars, songwriters, managers, and for local offices, and generally been left out of the process and others—the majority of music- CONGRESS RAISES ITS OWN PAY

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One attributes,” and “embodies all rights of music-row progressives to than 2,000 of its members from of its primary goals is to build pro- that Hummer is.” criticize the president whenever California and other “safe states” to gressive majorities in 15 state legisla- tures by 2011, when those states will Hmmm. The Hummer is an they feel the need. They have more work full-time in the swing states. redraw the lines for congressional dis- absurdly expensive, gas-guz- than 1,500 members and are hold- More than a quarter of all voters in tricts. “We’re investing in people as zling, low-performance, high- ing a series of “Kerry-glee” fundrais- 2000 came from union households. opposed to specific races for offices,” polluting, gussied-up chunk of ers, focusing especially on musical Grassroots galore says one of PM’s state directors. automotive junk. What would events in rural areas. There are so many more efforts, Likewise, 21st Century Democrats that smell like? Lately I’ve Unions. There’s been a sea change nearly all of them unnoticed by the is out there building the political infra- seen more women driving in the union approach to presiden- media powers. There’s the League structure to elect true progressives. It has these behemoths than men. tial campaigns. Rather than simply of Rural Voters (especially active in trained 2,200 campaign organizers this Forget the masculinity pitch, sending money to the parties and Iowa and Minnesota, going farm-to- year. The director of 21st Century Dems this thing has turned into a accepting marching orders from the farm), Voter Virgin (targeting first- says, “We are focused on what really girly car! I suggest they’d do candidates, unions like AFSCME, time young voters with the slogan wins elections—direct personal contact better with a perfume than a SEIU, UNITE, HERE, the steelwork- “Everybody’s Doing It in ‘04” and with voters, front-porch politicking.” cologne—preferably one with ers and the AFL-CIO have been advising them to practice safe vot- Not only is there good reason to the alluring scent of money. training their members and dispers- ing), Wellstone Action (conducting a be optimistic about Nov. 2: Over the ing them into battleground states. terrific series of trainings for grass- long haul it’s only going to get bet- NICKNAMING They go with many specific goals roots organizers and candidates), ter, for people are on the move at BUSH and are held accountable for them. Punkvoter, MustVote, Next Wave of America’s grassroots. Last issue of The Lowdown we asked for suggestions for a nickname for George W. Bush MOVING? 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