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Ralph Nader

“Progressive leaders led by Ralph Nader and Cornel West unveiled a proposal today to challenge President Obama in the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries in 2012.

The proposal, which has been endorsed by over 45 distinguished leaders, seeks to have a slate of six candidates run against President Obama, each representing a field in which Obama has never clearly staked a progressive claim or where he has drifted toward the corporatist right.

“Without debates by challengers inside the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries, the liberal/majoritarian agenda will be muted and ignored,” said Ralph Nader.”

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Here’s a list of some supporting the proposal…for the sake of transparency.

James Abourezk
Former U.S. Senator, South Dakota

Gar Alperovitz, Professor University of Maryland, Co-Founder Democracy Collaborative

Norman Birnbaum
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center

Dr. Brent Blackwelder
President Emeritus of Friends of the Earth

Ellen H. Brown
Lawyer and Author of Web of Debt

Edgar Stuart Cahn
Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia
Co-founder Legal Services for the Poor

Pat Choate
1996 Reform Party Vice President Candidate

Charles Cray
Director of the Center for Corporate Policy

Peter Coyote
Actor, Author and Director

Ronnie Cummins, Executive Director, Organic Consumers Association

Charles Derber, Professor, Boston College

Ronnie Dugger
Founder, Alliance for Democracy

John Fullerton
President, Capital Institute

Rebecca and James Goodman, Northwood Farm

Randy Hayes
Director, Foundation Earth
Rainforest Action Network Founder

Chris Hedges
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist of the New York Times and Author

Hazel Henderson,
Author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy
President, Ethical Markets Media, LLC.

Jean Houston
Psychologist, Anthropologist and Author of The Possible Human and The
Possible Society

Nicholas Johnson
Former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Former Administrator, Federal Maritime Commission

Alan F. Kay
Author of Spot the Spin and Locating Consensus for Democracy

Harry Kelber
The Labor Educator

Andrew Kimbrell
Executive Director, Center for Food Safety&
International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA)

Jonathan Kozol
Educator, Author of Savage Inequalities

Lewis Lapham
Former Editor, Harper’s Magazine

Leland Lehrman, Partner, Fund Balance

Rabbi Michael Lerner
Editor, Tikkun Magazine
Chair, Network of Spiritual Progressives

Dr. Richard Lippin, MD
Physician Forecaster, Board Certified in Preventive Medicine and
Advocate for both Individual and Institutional Prevention

Robert D. Manning
Founder and CEO, Responsible Debt Relief Institute
Author of Credit Card Nation

Dr. Samuel Metz, MD
Mad As Hell Doctors, founding member
Physicians for a National Health Plan, member of Portland chapter

Carol Miller, Community Activist, New Mexico

E. Ethelbert Miller, Board Chair Institute for Policy Studies

Ralph Nader
Citizen Advocate

Michael Parenti
Author

John Passacantando
Former Executive Director, Greenpeace USA

Erich Pica
President of Friends of the Earth

Vijay Prashad
Author and Professor, Trinity College

Nomi Prins
Author and former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs

Marcus Raskin
Author of The Common Good and former White House Advisor

Andy Shallal
“Democracy’s Restauranteur” and Owner of Bus Boys& Poets

Michelle Shocked
Musician

David Swanson
Author, War is a Lie

Chris Townsend
Political Action Director, United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America (UE)

Gore Vidal
Author and Political Activist

Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Chair, The Shalom Center

Harvey Wasserman
Author of Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth

Cornel West
Professor and Author of Race Matters

Quentin D. Young MD
National Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program

(On a side note, it should be noted that the news of this proposal was sent out by Tavis Smiley’s TV show publicist.  Take that for what it’s worth.  It is also relevant to highlight as to the messenger and how this message is being sent out.  Mo’Kelly’s not sure how Tavis’ TV show is connected to Ralph Nader…Just sayin’.  It most definitely calls into question one’s agenda and who tangentially is connected to it and promoting it.)

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To be clear, Mo’Kelly loves Dr. West…but to be also clear, it seems to be open season on him from many corners of the house of the Black Intelligentsia.  He’s grown, he can take it.  Mo’Kelly wants no parts of this.  From The Washington Post

West is no better than a birther. By making petty complaints in that Truthdig interview about the lack of returned phone calls and not getting Inauguration tickets, West is no different than Gingrich in 1995 , when his displeasure over his seat on Air Force One led to a government shutdown.”

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Our last hope is to generate a democratic awakening among our fellow citizens. This means raising our voices, very loud and strong, bearing witness, individually and collectively. Tavis [Smiley] and I have talked about ways of civil disobedience, beginning with ways for both of us to get arrested…”

- Dr. Cornel West

God help us if Cornel West and Tavis Smiley getting arrested is our last chance at a democratic awakening.”

As West derides the President’s economic policies he remains silent on his friend Tavis Smiley’s relationship with Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, and McDonald’s—all corporations whose invasive and predatory actions in poor and black communities have been the target of progressive organizing for decades. I have never heard him take Tavis Smiley to task for helping convince black Americans to enter into predatory mortgages. I’ve never heard him ask whether Tavis’ decision to publish R. Kelly’s memoirs might be a less than progressive decision. He doesn’t hold Tavis accountable because Tavis is his friend and he is loyal.

From – Cornel West V. Barack Obama

The Nation magazine goes hard at Dr. West with not-so-thinly veiled shots at Smiley in creating a narrative that the criticism of President Obama in 2011 is linked to personal animus dating back to a perceived inauguration snub in 2009 and historical close association with chief critic Tavis Smiley.

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The video is enough for this discussion.  Mo’Kelly has addressed this enough, no need for extra commentary.  But what IS interesting is that Dr. West campaigned for President Obama, stumping for him all around the country.  Before you allege Dr. West is a hater, get your facts in order.

Conversely, many feel Al Sharpton is only on board because the White House offers Sharpton access to the president…meaning support of the National Action Network specifically, not African-Americans more generally.

You decide…

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Streaming LIVE at 8am CDT Saturday March 20th (9am EDT/6am PDT)

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Panelists include:

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. – President and Founder, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Dr. Cornel West – Author and professor, Princeton University

Dr. Julianne Malveaux – President of Bennett College for Women

Dr. Ronald Walters – Political Analyst and Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland

Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan – The Nation of Islam

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson – Author and professor, Georgetown University

Angela Glover Blackwell – Founder and CEO, PolyLink

Tom Burrell – Author and founder of Burrell Communications

Raven Curling – Student Government President – Chicago State University

Dorothy Tillman – Former Alderman, City of Chicago

Michael Fauntroy – Professor, George Mason University

Congressman Bobby L. Rush – (D-IL)

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Someone once said, “you know my glory, but not my story.”  The accolades that continue to rain down on Dr. Cornel are plentiful to be sure, but often obscure the trials and travails along his trodden path to becoming America’s leading public intellectual.  Rarely will you encounter someone like Dr. West, equally revered in the world of Hip Hop as well as the halls of academia.

From his signature afro, to scarf and trademark 3-piece black suit; Dr. West has not only made philosophy and theology “quintessentially cool,” more importantly he continues to serve as a voice for the under-served and marginalized people of America and beyond.

This week Dr. West celebrates the release of his new book, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud – A Memoir and it is my privilege to welcome into The Mo’Kelly Report, the inimitable Dr. Cornel West.

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Someone once said, “you know my glory, but not my story.”  The accolades that continue to rain down on Dr. Cornel are plentiful to be sure, but often obscure the trials and travails along his trodden path to becoming America’s leading public intellectual.  Rarely will you encounter someone like Dr. West, equally revered in the world of Hip Hop as well as the halls of academia.

From his signature afro, to scarf and trademark 3-piece black suit; Dr. West has not only made philosophy and theology “quintessentially cool,” more importantly he continues to serve as a voice for the under-served and marginalized people of America and beyond.

This week Dr. West celebrates the release of his new book, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud – A Memoir and it is my privilege to welcome into The Mo’Kelly Report, the inimitable Dr. Cornel West.

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