Abstract

What I Voted For

This article presents views of the author on his political support to presidential candidate Ralph Nader, while speaking at the annual dinner of the Liberty Hill Foundation. In recognition of his politically engaged films and his activist commitments, the foundation gave him its Upton Sinclair Award. A new movement is slowly taking hold on college campuses, among left-wing groups in Europe and human rights groups throughout the world. The protests in Seattle in 1999, the IMF, World Bank protests in Washington D.C., in 2000, and the continuing presence of agitation wherever corporate entities gather to determine global economic and environmental policies do not, as the media portray them, merely reflect the work of fringe radicals and anarchists. Nader was the only candidate to talk about these issues and to embrace this new movement as his own.