Baba Ram Dass

Pete Seeger

They have endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who endorses a platform of peace, cleaning up the environment, alternative medicine, and organic food.

Kucinich insists, despite his pure vegetarian diet, that there will still be meat on the menu at the White House if he is elected. He plans a Department of Peace to 'facilitate the dream and vision of Martin Luther King, to make nonviolence an organising principle in our society.'

He wants to make war 'archaic,' and claims "We have become so enamoured of our technology that we forget the power of the human heart to transform any condition.'

Ram Dass, author of the best-selling hippy bible, Be Here Now, speaks for a growing minority and believes that Kucinich can put the heart back into government. Pollsters though, barely rate Kucinich chances. But to borrow from John Lennon's famous lyrics: You may say he's a dreamer, but he's definitely not the only one...