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:: Monday, May 24, 2004 ::

Front-of-the-bus activism by SU-JIN YIM, Oregonian
Zephyr draws more than 10,000 hits a month at www.zephyrmagazine.com. A chapter of a recent book distributed nationwide -- 'How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-politics, Un-boring Guide to Power' -- is written by board member Adam J. Smith. When California governor-wannabe Arianna Huffington came to town in early May, she asked for a bus ride and got it. Howard Dean, in town this week with presidential candidate John Kerry, even taped a short video for the project.

While the grass-roots group's profile is undeniably growing, 'the Bus Project is still in its infancy,' says Patrick Green, campaign director for the AFL-CIO, who calls himself an early doubter of the group.

'I thought they had kind of like a carnival atmosphere and seemed pretty disorganized. It was basically a nonprofessional group,' Green says. He changed his mind after the project proved it could draw young people to political events. But, he wonders, what kind of political power will the Bus Project become?

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