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Peter Camejo had stood as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Workers Party in the 1976 presidential election and later ran for the Greens in California. He was Ralph Nader's running mate when Nader ran for president in 2004. One of the consistent things about Camejo's autobiography North Star - A Memoir is that, whatever his political evolution, he remained hostile to the Democratic Party.
Camejo had initially formed a positive impression of Jackson when Camejo went to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to take part in one of the voting rights marches to Montgomery and observed Jackson and King in action.
Two sections from North Star explain his complete disillusionment with Jackson:
The Rainbow Coalition (1984)
'At the time the North Star Network was formed I made a major political mistake. A new sense of possibility had emerged when Jesse Jackson started the Rainbow Coalition and ran (as a Democrat) for president in 1984. Within the North Star there was a desire to get involved in supporting Jackson’s organization. While there were various points of view, mine being clearly opposed to the Democratic Party, I let myself be influenced into seeing the Jackson movement as a possible beginning of a real reform movement (similar to the nineteenth-century “barnburners”) or an actual split with the Democrats.
This error on my part lasted until I came to my senses and realized that, with few exceptions, the Rainbow Coalition was just another name for keeping progressives in the Democratic Party. Jesse Jackson was a hard-core Democrat and remains so today.
In Oakland the Rainbow Coalition was led by an extremely dedicated man, Wilson Riles, Jr., the son of the first African American elected to statewide office in California. Wilson, a Democrat, had been an Oakland city council member, and through the Rainbow Coalition it was decided that he should run for mayor. The mayoral election was a nonpartisan race and I felt very comfortable working to help Wilson, as did all the other people involved in the North Star Network or the Rainbow Coalition. He was running against a mainstream, pro-corporate Democrat, also African American. We all felt Wilson had a good chance if we could put together a powerful campaign. His platform was clearly pro-labor, pro-social justice, and pro-peace.
Jesse Jackson was scheduled to come to Oakland and we thought this could be a real opportunity to gain support for Wilson Riles. To our shock and amazement Jesse Jackson, without talking to Wilson or to the Rainbow Coalition, held a press conference to endorse the mainstream Democrat against Riles. I will never forget the anger it created. Wilson stood up to Jackson and publicly attacked Jackson’s open break with the supposed platform of the Rainbow Coalition. Wilson lost the election in part due to Jesse Jackson’s betrayal. Years later Wilson Riles, Jr., resigned as a Democrat and joined the Green Party.
After this betrayal most of the Oakland members of the Rainbow Coalition changed their attitude toward Jesse Jackson. Over time Jackson worked to end the Rainbow’s independent organizational structure, putting it under his direct control as he more openly opposed allowing the Rainbow Coalition to be an organizing center for people who favored independent political action. Only in Vermont did the coalition break with Jackson to form an independent political current, called the Progressive Party, which still exists. It has its own representatives in the state legislature but does also endorse Democrats.'
The Campaign for Matt Gonzalez as Mayor of San Francisco (2003)
'Amazing events began to take place. Bill Clinton, the Democratic former president of the United States, took off three days from his schedule to come to San Francisco to campaign against Matt. The fear this reflected was astonishing. This should be a lesson to all progressives of the underlying power of a mass break from the two parties.
The Nader phenomenon, which the Democrats thought had been buried by their relentless “spoiler” campaign, had raised its head in a new place and manner. A city assumed to be completely controlled by the Democrats - where a challenge had never even been considered a possibility - was in play to a Nader supporter. Quickly following Clinton was Al Gore, the former vice president, who came to plead with the Democrats to stand fast behind their party’s nominee. Never mind that Newsom had been on George Bush’s voter cards in the 2000 election when Newsom was running for board of supervisors. Never mind that Newsom was essentially also the nominee of the Republican Party. Did Gore or Clinton argue the issues? Of course not. Jesse Jackson was next in line, making robo-calls urging a vote for Newsom. Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein also got in on the act. Here was a clear class lineup. San Francisco Republicans and Democrats joined forces, with the Democrats reaching for their biggest names, to try and stop an unknown Green Latino from becoming a pro-labor mayor of a major U.S. city.'
Perhaps a warning sign from this week's oppo profile was that when Blackburn had a hot streak in October, winning against Southampton, Leicester, Bristol and Preston, three of those four wins were away.
Walking to North Greenwich is pretty much the only option if you don't want to wait for a train or bus from Charlton. It's estimated at about 40 minutes walk in Google maps.
You can save yourself about half the walk if you walk to IKEA Greenwich on the Millennium Leisure Park, off Bugsby's Way/Partree Way. Some of the buses for North Greenwich that stop there come from Greenwich so shouldn't be packed with fans coming from Charlton.
It really is very unusual. Normally when players score with those inside flicks they have one foot on the ground, but Kone has both feet off the ground.
Yes, you can't really appreciate it unless you see it in slow motion from the right angle. On the extended highlights, about 7 minutes in, you can see it in slow motion from a good angle (from the end of Ellerslie).
After considering different sites White City was chosen as the terminus. The line would have gone through Clapham Junction. The plan was cancelled in 1975.
In the map you can see White City Stadium was still standing.
@GaryBannister86 'Although I am well aware as an alleged grown-up that the model of flogging players as soon as they come into some sort of form is a wise one, it isn't half a depressing thought that as soon as say Burrell becomes a top Championship striker we would be gleefully cashing in.'
Isn't it actually worse than that because so many of our players are injured that we can't cash in, even if we wanted to. Our best bet is Eze moving to Real Madrid and then on to the Saudi League.
If anyone is staying at one of the hotels (Ibis/Premier Inn/Novotel) on Greenwich High Street, or coming through Greenwich Station on the day, good fish and chips are to be had at The Golden Chippy, one of the venerable chippies of London. It's about 5 minutes walk from Greenwich Station, in the opposite direction from the town centre: https://www.thegoldenchippy.co
There are some pretty poor restaurants in Greenwich town centre because it's so on the beaten tourist track that it doesn't matter to the owners if they serve good food or not - they will always get new business.
Cutty Sark station is closed because the escalators kept breaking down and are being replaced.
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