Heard It on the Dance Floor
Press Action
Sunday, January 18, 2004
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/onedance01182004/
Here are some of the notable comments from the OneDance Summit held in Santa Cruz, Calif., Jan. 12-14, 2004. A special thanks goes out to Sylvie and Richard Oxman for organizing this exceptional event.
"When someone tells me we have a two-party system, I demand a recount." — Mickey Z., author, essayist, poet
"Only in a dream world can Howard Dean be a liberal and Wesley Clark be antiwar." — Mickey Z.
"We use the worst democratic system in the world." — Caleb Kleppner, senior analyst, Center for Voting and Democracy
"Neoconservatives cannot accept the notion that people’s consciousness has changed during the past century." — Jim Lobe, Washington correspondent, Inter Press Service News Agency
"It’s time to say ‘no’ to the machine." — former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
"The Bush administration applies the Munich analogy to every event." — Jim Lobe
"When the Bush administration calls this World War IV, we should take them at their word." — Larry Everest, author, correspondent, Revolutionary Worker
"I would inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state but is a foreign nation.” — William Blum, author, listing one of the things he would do during his first three days in office if ever elected president
"On the fourth day, I would be assassinated." — William Blum, explaining how the ruling class would react to his first three days as president
"Universities are becoming more and more like the corporate world." — John Trumpbour, research director of the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Trade Union Program