CONVINCING GREENS TO VOTE FOR JOHN KERRY

first published in Mesh Magazine #7, November/December/January 2005; reprinted in San Francisco Call, November 16, 2004 IGNORING TIRED PLEAS by Matt Gonzalez Democrats succeeded in getting Greens and Independents to vote for John Kerry, but will we be asked to

WHY VOTE FOR RALPH NADER?

first published in the San Francisco Examiner, July 15, 2004; reprinted in Anderson Valley Advertiser, July 21, 2004; reprinted in Independent Politics, The Green Strategy Debate (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2006) ed. Howie Hawkins Peter Camejo, Matt Gonzalez & Ralph Nader,