From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:35:13 GMT


"That's what we're up against.  Nothing short of a *fundamental 
challenge* to the rule of the rich and the super-rich and a [...] 
reorganization of this society will do.  What we need is economic 
democracy.  What we need is a situation where we have 
worker-community ownership.  Community-owned enterprises.  We need 
a situation where we have cooperatives, community development 
corporations, a _new paradigm of economic democracy_ where the 
people seize back control of the most vital thing in their lives: 
the ability to work and own a living.  That's what needs to be in 
the hands of the people.  And unless we have that we will not have 
a reinvigorated democracy, we'll have the same old same old.  And 
people are sick and tired of being sick and tired in terms of a 
system that afflicts and exploits and oppresses the vast majority of 
people in this country.  That's what we must be talking about in 
terms of a radical politics as we go into the 21st century. <applause> 

"And it's in that context that when you look at a Bill Clinton, 
<laughter> what you see is a Republican in George Bush, and a 
"republicrat" in Bill Clinton.  Because if you understand what I'm 
saying about the need for radical fundamental change, then rotating 
Presidents is not what we're talking about.  Just rotating Presidents 
will not bring the radical change that we need.  Because as long as 
the Democratic party and the Republican parties are owned by the 
corporate elite in this country, then nothing ever will fundamentally 
change.  There is beyond my rhetoric a difference between Bill Clinton 
and George Bush.  But the difference is _incremental_, it is not 
_fundamental_.  There is a *small* margin of difference.  And at times, 
the small margin of difference makes a difference. 

But you reach a point in the crisis of life, the crisis of society, 
when small little increments of change will not do.  It may do for 
me because I'm in the middle class, [...] and you know I can get 
along okay.  But it does not do for those who live in South Central. 
It does not do for those who are locked in the ghettos and the 
barrios and the reservations in this country, who indeed are being 
afflicted.  In fact as Malcolm X would put it, those who are in the 
ghettos and the barrios and reservations are catching more hell 
today --- the statistics tell us they are catching more hell!  In 
Watts what do they tell us?  There was a rebellion in 65, the people 
live *worse* in Watts now than they did 25, or whatever it is, 30 
[...] years ago.  They're worse off now!  Because we live in a 
society that neglects, and does not pay attention to the needs of 
the least of us. 

		-Presidential Candidate Ron Daniels


CANDIDATES FORUM, 21 MAY 1992 
OAKES COLLEGE, UC SANTA CRUZ 
LARRY AGRAN (DEMOCRAT), RON DANIELS (PEACE & FREEDOM) 

Transcribed by Don Fong 

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login as "anonymous" and do a "cd LOOKEE_HERE/map"
and then "dir *daniels*

Then "get file.name" the files you want.
Then "quit" to get out of ftp and the files will be sitting in your
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