On Friday, January 13th, media maverick Sander Hicks will take the stage at Vox Pop, his fair-trade, union-shop, coffeehouse, and announce his run for the Governorship of New York State. A member of the Green Party, and a New Yorker since 1991, Hicks will announce his three-point platform, a vision of “Peace, Truth and Sanity.”

As founder of two independent media companies, Hicks vowed to continue his fight against the corporate consolidation of big media, a monopoly that deprives people of the information they need to make sound choices.
The Nazis at Nuremburg were prosecuted for wars of aggression. To keep the New York National Guard on the right side of the law, as governor, Hicks will recall them from the illegal occupation of Iraq.

Hicks’ program calls for an independent investigation into the 9/11 attack, through a new Governor/Attorney General’s Joint Task Force to work with citizen’s watch groups and Hicks’s own contacts among members of Congress. Hicks vowed to make New York State a leader in Universal Healthcare. As an anti-racist activist for Long Island coalition UPSERJ, Hicks learned how to dismantle the institutional racism and anti-immigrant hate that continues to damage the American social fabric. In fact, Hicks believes that the racism that the USA has been plagued with historically has only been exacerbated by the era of fear, paranoia, and down-sized civil liberties ushered in by the 9/11 attacks.
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Hicks doesn’t mince words about current Gubernatorial front-runner, NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, “Spitzer is pro-war and pro-death penalty. He’s out of step with most New Yorkers. Activists in New York City begged Spitzer to undertake a real investigation into 9/11, into the homicide of almost 3,000 people, and yet he refused. He started out idealistic and crusading, but he’s turned into political mush.” Hicks, a proud, practicing Roman Catholic, shares the faith of the largest block of New York State residents. According to the 2000 census, 38% of New York is Catholic. This is key to Hicks’s strategy for victory, “Imagine a Green Party candidate who can connect with born-again Christians, patriots, moderates, and find common ground? That’s the kind of coalition we’re going to build up. We’ll be unstoppable.”

On January 13th, Hicks will be joined on stage by folksinger Holley Anderson, and political comedian Ravi Kissoon.

Hicks is nationally-known thanks to Cinemax movie “Horns and Halos” which documented his gutsy media battle against G.W. Bush from 1999-2001, fought through Hicks’ re-publishing of a controversial Bush biography, Fortunate Son. The book was the first to point out the connection between the Bush and Bin Laden families, and on 9/11, it proved painfully prescient.
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