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According to Moore, 50% of the also spoke at the rally, with a
population does not vote. He point much more personal mes
ed out that it’s easy to guess who sage as why he wants to vote
that 50% includes: the poor young Bush
out
of
office.
people. Yet young adults do the Blickenstaff’s brother, Joe,
majority of complaining about the was killed in Iraq last December.
state of things. Moore’s main Blickenstaff talked about
Hllliary Ferguson
objective is to show the students Please see MOORE, Page 2
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and middle class that, if they vote,
they will easily overweigh the
Chants of “Two more weeks! votes of the minority, or upper class
Two more weeks!” rose from the Republicans.
crowd and echoed off buildings as
When Moore asked where the
infamous filmmaker and political Republicans were at, the crowd
rebel Michael Moore took to the booed and pointed at a group wav
podium
in
Portland
State ing signs supporting Bush. He had
University’s Urban Plaza yester a kind word for the few conserva
day.
tives who had braved the liberal
Moore’s appearance marked the masses at the rally.
Portland leg of his “Slacker
“We will not treat you the way
Uprising Tour,” an unabashed anti you’ve treated minorities
Bush rally to reach the younger [when Kerry is elected],
generation of America and oveyide even though you’re a
the Republican vote.
Republican,”
“We’re the majority, they’re the Moore said.
minority,”
Moore
repeated,
In
an
cementing the idea that the youth of earlier press
America does indeed .have the conference,
upper hand—if they vote.
Pope
One main aspect of the rally was touched on
getting voters to realize that their many of the
vote do indeed matter. Moore said issues
that, as was exemplified in the addressed
2000 presidential race, there are a in Moore’s
great many people who will do speech. He
whatever is necessary to silence the also noted
voices of those who oppose them.
that
he
Moore shared this thought: if believes the
some people will do whatever is presidential
possible to make sure you don’t election
vote, obviously each and every vote will
be
is important. In other words, voting determined
is critical to those who don’t want by people
Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Print
the young to vote, so it should be who have
essential to young voters.
never voted
Michael Moore, filmmaker, writer and political activist, spoke yesterday at
“Each person’s vote is very, very before (i.e.,
Portland State University. Moore gave out copies of his two new books: “The
powerful,” said Carl Pope, the college stu
Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader” and “’’Will they ever Trust us Again: Letters from
Executive Director of the Sierra dents).
Club, the sponsor of Moore’s
the War Zone” at a press conference prior to the rally. The event was spon
Eric
“Slacker” tour.
Blickenstaff
sored in part by the Sierra Club.
Partisan ‘influence’ absolute, illegal
wouldn’t register as a Democrat,
after [the student would leave]
they would change their voter reg
istration card, which is extremely
illegal.”
ASG itself was working with a
I Michaele Cooper
legitimate group to get students
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voting.
“[The]
Clackamas
Student
The
Associated
Student Government was working with the
Government found more on its Voters’ Coalition,” said Murphy.
plate than the simple act of regis “I believe we registered a little
tering students to
over 300 people.”
vote before the
Brie Dakrin, a
state
deadline,
student here at
Oct. 13. Some stu
Clackamas, was
“People were
dents on campus
harassed by one of
coming
on
cam
were not so lucky
the voter registra
to get a fair chance
pus. They
tion groups that
to register as the
were coming on
weren
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allowing
party they support
campus.
because of certain
Republicans or
“We were sitting
non-campus
in that quad area
non-partisans to
groups.
right outside the
register, and
“People were
cafeteria,”
said
coming on cam
that’s illegal.”
Dakrin.
pus,” said Rian
When asked if
Murphy, ASG Vice
she was registered
President.
to vote, she said
Rian Murphy
“Secifically, we
yes, she already
had a group of
was. The woman
Associated Student
Democrats come
questioning her
Government
Vice
President
on campus, and
pressed her further
registering
just
to re-register so
Democrats to vote.
she could get paid
They
weren’t
allowing an alleged five dollars for the reg
Republicans or non-partisans ... to istration.
register, and that’s illegal. What’s
“I didn’t want this lady calling
even more illegal is that ... if they me, so I left my phone number
Groups on campus
tamper with students'
voter registration cards
blank. She saw that I left it blank,
and she was like ‘No, no, no, you
need to put [your phone number]
in or I don’t get paid.’ ... Then, I
go to mark ‘other’ or, like, ‘not
affiliated with a party,’ and she’s
like ‘No, no, no, you need to mark
Republican or I don’t get paid.’ ...
And then when she was walking
away, I saw her mark Republican
[on my form].”
“We ended up having [these
groups] kicked off campus,” said
Murphy. He also addressed the
free speech areas on campus.
“There is a specific free speech
area that is located right over by
the fountains in front of the Dye
Learning Center,” said
Murphy. “We’ve had
people stepping out
side of that area,
going around on
campus,
and
we’re trying to
minimize the
harassment
of students
by keeping
the [lobby
ists] in the
free speech area, but not every
one’s been following that.”
Despite the unfortunate acts of
partisan groups on campus,
Murphy still strongly supports
increased voter registration among
students and young people.
“We’re extremely unrepresent
ed for the fact that we don’t vote,”
continued Murphy. “We don’t reg
ister to vote ... we don’t express
our issues, we don’t get our voice
out there. So that’s what we were
working on this year, you know,
letting people know [that] we do
have a voice in this election ...we
have a voice too.”