Building Critical Mass
Monday, August 19th, Freud Playhouse
University of California, Los Angeles
Nominees:
Ralph Nader, President
Winona LaDuke, Vice-President
Video
Ralph Nader Presidential Acceptance Speech
Part one - time: 26:27
Part two - time: 33:55
Part three - time: 28:33
Part four - time: 28:37
State Green Party reports and welcomes from international Green guests, preceding the nomination speech of Ralph Nader for President
International Guests
Niki Kortvelyessy (European Greens)
Marco Antonio Mroz
Walter de Oliveira (Partido Verde do Brasil)
Steve Kisby (Green Party of Canada);
State Reports (in order of appearance) - DC (Bernardo Issel), ME (John Rensenbrink); NJ (Madelaine Hoffman); Moderator (Linda Martin); MN (Jo Haberman); MO (Dee Berry); OH (David Ellison); TN (Winston Grizzard); MS, KY, AL, DEL (Tom Linzey); AK (b); HI (Nikhilananda); CA (David Silva, Betty Traynor); OR (Deborah Howes); Moderators (Charles Laws, Annie Goeke); AZ (Sloane Heywood); CO (Karen Kos); NV (Sandy Rizzo); UT (Greg Jan); NM (Cris Moore, Tammy Davis)
Time: 42:12
Winona LaDuke Vice-Presidential Acceptance Speech (long)
Presidential Nomination Speeches for Ralph Nader
Vice-Presidential acceptance speech by Winona LaDuke, followed by nomination speeches by Keiko Bonk (Hawai'i County Councilmember); Ronnie Dugger (founding editor, the Texas Observer); Sherry Meddick (Greenpeace); and Dan Hamburg (former US Congressmember); moderated by Linda Martin (Hawai'i Green Party) and Mike Feinstein (Green Party of California)
Time: 35:48
Winona LaDuke Vice-Presidential Acceptance Speech (short)
Short version of Winona LaDuke's acceptance speech for Vice-President for the Green Party in 1996. Filmed on the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota where LaDuke lives. A short and long version was prepared, in case of time constraints. This rare short version footage was not broadcast. Instead the longer version was played on the large movie screen in the theatre where the convention took place and was carried live on C-SPAN.
Time: 02:21
Green Party 1996 Convention - Ralph Nader Interviews (part one)
Raw footage of media interviews w/Ralph Nader during the afternoon before his presidential nomination acceptance speech
Time: 33:17
Green Party 1996 Convention – Ralph Nader Interviews (part two)
Raw footage of media interviews w/Ralph Nader during the afternoon before his presidential nomination acceptance speech
Time: 31:34
Audio
Radio Coverage by KPFK Pacifica, 90.7FM Los Angeles
Robin Urevitch reports from the floor of the Green Party nominating convention
Excerpts from Ralph Nader's two hour acceptance speech
Nader accepts the presidential nomination and goes on to discuss a number of themes relevant to his candidacy. These include the need for a new majoritarian party in the face of Democrat and Republican similarity; the need for balancing duties as public and private citizens; and the need to return the notion of justice to the center of politics.
Continued excerpts from Ralph Nader's acceptance speech
Nader discusses problems facing the country. These include the concentration of power and wealth; declines in real wages; lack of universal health care; NAFTA, GATT, and the problem of lowest-common-denominator harmonization demanded by free trade regimes; the tendency of the middle class to turn on the poor when the country is in decline; the lack of facts about corporate welfare in debates about public welfare; and skewed budget priorities.
Continued excerpts from Ralph Nader's acceptance speech
Nader outlines solutions to the problems facing the country. These include developing alternative energy sources; following up on pilot housing projects to solve homelessness; a universal single-payer health care system modeled on Canada's; fast, reliable, and pollution-free public transportation; the use of pest management control, crop rotation, and organic farming; shift toward citizen and liberal education; upgraded labor laws; tax checkoffs to prevent pharmaceutical corporations from getting big gains from publicly-funded research; public funding of elections; improved ballot access for third parties; establishing the initiative, referendum, and recall in every state; adding a binding 'none of the above' option to the ballot; 12 year legislative term limits; and the reconstruction of civic community.
