We Will Not Get Over It
Comments about We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White House and ensuing writings:
A wonderful, heartwarming account!
-- Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Boston University, author, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present and many other books, civil rights activist, playwright
I will NEVER get over
W's coup! Keep up the great work. From one progressive journalist to
another: I salute you!
-- Lydia Howell, writer, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minn., other newspapers, community radio show producer, Catalyst:
Politics and Culture, KFAI
I'm often impressed by these articles....Not only are they usually more well researched than syndicated columnists making big bucks in the national media, they are more passionate and just plain well written. In future centuries, it won't be the essays by the David Broder's and Charles Krauthammer's that will be studied and emulated [certainly not the Thomas Sowell's or Cal Thomas's] - it will be the Jackson Thoreau's and Bernard Weiner's of the world who write for the love of it.
-- Brad Beachy, college professor
Explosive.....raises many issues that are still not being openly debated in the mainstream media, let alone acknowledged.
-- R.B. Ham, writer, webmaster, Truth & Consequences
Here's a book about the pro-democracy movement that arose following the Theft of the Presidency by George W. Bu$h. This book is about all of US - the true patriots who have fought for democracy in the face of a criminal Republican Party, a corrupt media, and a cowardly Democratic Party.
-- Democrats.com
Congratulations on your courage in moving forward with this story. I applaud you and fear for you. It is truly sad that I fear for you for exercising your absolute rights as a citizen of this country, but as the proverb goes, we live in interesting times.
-- Dawn Walters, Texas
You did a superb job. Thank you for writing it and expressing my views....You do an excellent job of clear and compassionate expression.
-- Sara DeHart, Washington state
You write with a sword....It reads like a bomb.
-- Celia Ramirez, Nevada
You speak for a nation, my friend.
-- Chuck Weathersby, USA
When the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the legal counting of votes for U.S. president in December 2000 and effectively handed Republican George W. Bush the White House, the justices eroded many people's confidence in the judicial system, the White House, and elections. Thousands of supporters of Democrat Al Gore, who attracted more than 539,000 more overall votes than Bush, took action. They wrote letters, organized rallies and marches, signed petitions, formed Internet sites and groups, and did whatever else they could to register their disapproval of what the court did. They worked for needed electoral reforms so that all Americans' votes could be counted in future elections.
We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White House covers their story, which has been largely ignored by the media. The roughly 120,000-word book was written by journalist Jackson Thoreau and social worker Sharon Thoreau. Backed up with hundreds of footnotes and sources that are linked to Internet pages, We Will Not Get Over It starts by outlining how the Republicans employed questionable actions to win the election in Florida. Those included purging legal voters from the rolls, doctoring absentee ballots, using state offices for political purposes, giving voters misleading instructions, approving confusing ballots, questionable decisions that favored Republicans by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, who was Bush's state co-chair, behind-the-scenes maneuvers by Bush's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and blaming Democrats for delays when Republicans filed the lawsuits blocking and delaying the legal vote-counting process.
We Will Not Get Over It goes on to detail what organizations like Democrats.com and Citizens for Legitimate Government, panels like the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, politicians like U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and others are doing to restore confidence in the White House and U.S. electoral system. It shows how many in the media ignored and belittled such actions and embraced a president who has little business being in the White House. The book also covers how people and organizations in other countries are reacting to the controversy. Michael Rectenwald, an adjunct professor and writer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and founder and chairman of Citizens for Legitimate Government, wrote the foreword to this book.
Finally, We Will Not Get Over It includes recommendations from people like Rev. Jesse Jackson, Barbra Streisand, and U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and organizations like the ACLU, NAACP, and the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, led by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, on what needs to be done to restore legitimacy to the White House and our election system. There is a long directory of more than 220 organizations, Internet sites, and individuals - with Web site, email, and mailing addresses and other information - to enable readers to learn more and get involved with this important cause.
Unlike other books that focus mostly on what happened in Florida and with the U.S. Supreme Court, We Will Not Get Over It spins the story forward. No other book covers the people involved who are making a difference to restore confidence and integrity in the U.S. political system in as much detail, the authors said.
"The development of a grassroots movement since Bush stole the White House is a very important story that has been largely overlooked by the mainstream media," said Jackson Thoreau, 44, a journalist, photographer, and activist for more than two decades, primarily in the southwestern United States. "Many people who were not really involved in politics before have become involved, largely through the Internet. I know I stepped up my involvement after the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the counting of legal votes and handed Bush the White House."
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