Hey all, its a Iowa State college student here... My opinion: The WTO is a terrible idea. It is an attack on workers & unions, the environment, national soverignity, farmers, small business, human rights, childrens' rights and an attack on democracy itself. Who gives the WTO the right to overrule our laws? The corrupt Republican/Democratic Establishment, that's who. They sell us out everyday, in exchange for corporate money from multinational corporations. Their cronies in the Media trys to demonize the protesters in Seattle, at the same time trying to demonize anyway with the guts to stand up and shout for Reform. Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George Bush Jr, Bill Bradely, John McCain - all supported the WTO in its CURRENT FORM, without changes. They tell us to go home, not to vote, to listen to the lying biased Big Media about how great the multinational corporations are. NBC -General Electric, CBS -WestingHouse-Viacom, ABC-Capital Cities-Disney, CNN-Time Warner- WB...all biased, and heavily involved in non-media relations, in the defense industry, in the nuclear industry, in the oil industry, etc. I recently joined the Reform Party. The Reform Party has become the third largest political party in the US, firmly dedicated to pushing power away from Big Government or Big Corporations and back into the People. We daily work togather and try to stop the vast corruption in the government. We push for the interests of the common person, the working American family. The most important goal we have is political openness, of open debate, of political reform. We push for campaign finance reform (and unlike John McCain and his watered down version, we don't fly on corporate jets and generally be snobbish). We push for an end to the One Party state. And in our founding Principles of Reform, we push for "Fair Trade" and protested against the WTO in Seattle. Here's a link to a small report from some Reformers in Seattle who protested: http://reformparty.org/news/wto.html On the http://www.reformparty.org website, you'll see our platform. We believe in working to restore power to all Americans, not just the corporations. Please those out there, who are opposed to the corporate globalization of the "World Trade Organization" completly rammed down our throats by the Establishment of the Republican/Democrat Parties, get involved in your local Reform Party chapter, or just check it out. There are local Reform Party organizations in your state, and on the national website, www.reformparty.org, there is a "state contacts" link that lists all the states, usually like this "http://washington.reformparty.org" As a college student, I've worked closely on grassroots anti-Nazi campaigns on the Internet, and as a Reformer, I believe that if students and all people join togather, and demand that our political system be opened up, not closed down, things will happen. And they won't always be the repressive police tactics of the Mayor of Seattle (a Bradely supporter). I've talked to tons of students in the last few days about the WTO...not a single one is in favor of it...our local Reform Party is also having discussion with local small unions and I've been talking to environemtalists about joining the Reform Party. Listen, the point I'm *trying* to make is that a anti-WTO protest coalition was formed in Seattle, with the likes of Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader, and James Hoffa of the Teamsters. I invite my Green friends and the many patriotic Consitutionalists into the Reform Party...we are a national party, we have the grassroots, we're expanding, we are populist, we have black and white, Christian and pagan, young and old supporting grassroots Reform. I'm new to Slashdot, but I hope I get some feedback on the Reform Party, and refute any and all of the biased Media's propaganda on the need for Reform. If you are interested in getting into a political discussion, with a huge number of Reform Party activists around the country, send an email to grassrootsreform@egroups.com Reform Party sez "NO, WTO, NO" ISUman (whoa, today I think I'm almost tongue tied, but I'll get better)
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Hey all, its a Iowa State college student here... My opinion: The WTO is a terrible idea. It is an attack on workers & unions, the environment, national soverignity, farmers, small business, human rights, childrens' rights and an attack on democracy itself. Who gives the WTO the right to overrule our laws? The corrupt Republican/Democratic Establishment, that's who. They sell us out everyday, in exchange for corporate money from multinational corporations. Their cronies in the Media trys to demonize the protesters in Seattle, at the same time trying to demonize anyway with the guts to stand up and shout for Reform. Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George Bush Jr, Bill Bradely, John McCain - all supported the WTO in its CURRENT FORM, without changes. They tell us to go home, not to vote, to listen to the lying biased Big Media about how great the multinational corporations are. NBC -General Electric, CBS -WestingHouse-Viacom, ABC-Capital Cities-Disney, CNN-Time Warner- WB...all biased, and heavily involved in non-media relations, in the defense industry, in the nuclear industry, in the oil industry, etc. I recently joined the Reform Party. The Reform Party has become the third largest political party in the US, firmly dedicated to pushing power away from Big Government or Big Corporations and back into the People. We daily work togather and try to stop the vast corruption in the government. We push for the interests of the common person, the working American family. The most important goal we have is political openness, of open debate, of political reform. We push for campaign finance reform (and unlike John McCain and his watered down version, we don't fly on corporate jets and generally be snobbish). We push for an end to the One Party state. And in our founding Principles of Reform, we push for "Fair Trade" and protested against the WTO in Seattle. Here's a link to a small report from some Reformers in Seattle who protested: http://reformparty.org/news/wto.html On the http://www.reformparty.org website, you'll see our platform. We believe in working to restore power to all Americans, not just the corporations. Please those out there, who are opposed to the corporate globalization of the "World Trade Organization" completly rammed down our throats by the Establishment of the Republican/Democrat Parties, get involved in your local Reform Party chapter, or just check it out. There are local Reform Party organizations in your state, and on the national website, www.reformparty.org, there is a "state contacts" link that lists all the states, usually like this "http://washington.reformparty.org" As a college student, I've worked closely on grassroots anti-Nazi campaigns on the Internet, and as a Reformer, I believe that if students and all people join togather, and demand that our political system be opened up, not closed down, things will happen. And they won't always be the repressive police tactics of the Mayor of Seattle (a Bradely supporter). I've talked to tons of students in the last few days about the WTO...not a single one is in favor of it...our local Reform Party is also having discussion with local small unions and I've been talking to environemtalists about joining the Reform Party. Listen, the point I'm *trying* to make is that a anti-WTO protest coalition was formed in Seattle, with the likes of Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader, and James Hoffa of the Teamsters. I invite my Green friends and the many patriotic Consitutionalists into the Reform Party...we are a national party, we have the grassroots, we're expanding, we are populist, we have black and white, Christian and pagan, young and old supporting grassroots Reform. I'm new to Slashdot, but I hope I get some feedback on the Reform Party, and refute any and all of the biased Media's propaganda on the need for Reform. If you are interested in getting into a political discussion, with a huge number of Reform Party activists around the country, send an email to grassrootsreform@egroups.com Reform Party sez "NO, WTO, NO" ISUman (whoa, today I think I'm almost tongue tied, but I'll get better)