{"article":{"id":3055,"heading":"RALPH NADER PUPPET SEZ \"DEBATE ME!\"","author":"Art For A Change","created":"2000-08-22 02:54:15","modified":"2005-08-15 00:24:36","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:24:36","article":"<p>I photographed this enormous puppet of Ralph Nader as it was paraded up and down directly in front of the security fence surrounding the Staples Center. The puppet of the Green Party Candidate made it's appearance just as Al Gore took the podium inside the CONvention hall. Those that held up the puppet called out to the Democratic Delegates and members of the press just beyond the gate... \"Come on down here and DEBATE ME!\" For more photographs and artworks dedicated to social justice, please visit the ART FOR A CHANGE Web site at;<\/p>\n","contact":"mvallen@primenet.com","link":"http:\/\/www.primenet.com\/~mvallen\/","address":"Art For A Change \/ P.O. Box 5751 Sherman Oaks, CA. 91413","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"What can be said about U.S. \"Democracy\" when a legitimate and extremely popular Candidate like Ralph Nader gets little mention in the press and is excluded from the so-called \"debates.\"","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2000\/08\/naderctvyvy.jpg","filesize":"21.6 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/3055.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2000\/08\/naderctvyvy.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2000\/08\/naderctvyvy.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":3066,"heading":"Sparky","article":"\r\nI don't think they would dare to debate Ralph Nader.  God forbid if the Democratic-Republican Party had to respond to the American people for thier actions!  They would have to account for corporate financing, a WTO that ignores the working class and the failed War on Drugs\/War with Thugs!\r\nNader might represent the wishes of the people and if he did that, he might even win the election and end the gravy-train of our two headed political monster!  No, I don't think they have the balls to do that!  What! Do you really think you are free?\r\n\r\nYour brother in freedom: \"Sparky!\"","author":"John L. Sparks","parent_id":3055,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-22 04:25:25","modified":"2000-08-22 05:15:31","fileurl":""},{"id":3778,"heading":"Protest To Allow Nader In The Debates","article":"The Pasadena Greens are staging a protest on Sept. 21 At the anhueser Busch brewery in Van Nuys.  We are urging the Commision on Presidential Debates(CPD) to allow Ralph Nader in the debates.  Anhueser Busch is the biggest cash contributor to the CPD.  Please join us!  For more info please e-mail  burnetkent@compuserve.com   Thank You","author":"Jeff Leming","parent_id":3055,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-09-11 23:09:34","modified":"2000-09-12 23:46:36","fileurl":""}]}