1.) First order of business is we start picking up corporate donations.  BOOM!  $$ Cash BABY $$  Right Now Jill Stein need’s a fricken $5,000 from 15 states to even get matching funds… and she has less than 3 days to do this.  So think of that the next time Jill Stein proudly announces that she doesn’t accept corporate donations.  That’s why she losses year in and year out.  She isn’t a serious contender.      

2.) Then I fire the guy who decided to have the Green Party Convention in Baltimore MD and not NYC.  Just a dumb move that makes the party look weak.  

3.) I’d tell Jill Stein that this is the last time she runs for office, any office.  I’d tell her that I’d do whatever it takes to keep her from running for office ever again. And to enjoy her LAST tour of the US on the Green Party’s dime.

4.) I’d have a conference call with every Green Party lawmaker in the country with Eli Beckerman.  And I’d tell them all to make fun of Eli whenever possible.  To try to include his name and a negative remark about the kid in any speech they deliver or in laws that they write.

5.) (A)I’d dump all talk about legalizing weed, (B) lay off the Israel debate, (C) distance the Party from the Occupy Movement, (D) and stop running nut farmers like Roseanne Barr for President.  

 

Continue reading If I ran the Green Party I’d rule it with an Iron Fist!

{Interesting summary of the Green Party and its platform. Not sure this gets to the essence of what the Green Party is all about, but that’s probably because the Green Party itself doesn’t really get to the essence of what it’s all about. -ed.}

By Joshua Fisher, OpEdNews.com

If you are like me, you were raised believing that the Green Party was a party of Socialists and Communists; and if you were taught in school like I was taught in school, then you were taught to believe that if the Green Party was a party of Socialists and Communists, then, by default, they were a party of Fascists and Dictators. I have just finished doing extensive research on them (including reading their entire 65-page platform), and I can assure you that you probably aren’t getting the full Green Party story.

History

Started in New Zealand and brought to prominence in Europe, the Green Party came to the United States in the 1980s. Then, it was known as the Green Committees of Correspondence, a decentralized network of green organizations formed by members of the North American Bioregional Congress. In 1984, the electoral branch of the Green Party was founded by 60 people at the Macalaster College in St. Paul, Minn. In 1991, the name Greens/Green Party USA was adopted after the electoral and non-electoral wings of the organizations merged. In American electoral politics, the Green Party gained prominence in 1996 and 2000, when they ran Ralph Nader for President. As of 2005, the Green Party had 305,000 registered members in states allowing party registration, and tens of thousands of members and contributors nationwide. Currently, there are 133 elected Greens across the United States, and in the 2008 Presidential election, they were on 31 state ballots, plus the District of Columbia, which translates to 70 percent of voters and 68 percent of Electoral College votes.

Continue reading A Brief Introduction to the Green Party

In case there was any lingering doubt, the Supreme Court today just destroyed any pretense that our current form of government is a democracy or even representative government. Voting against their own supposed states’ rights judicial philosophy, the conservative justices just told the state of Montana that it has no right to limit corporate spending on elections. Since corporations are chartered into existence by the state in the first place, and can have their charters removed, it’s laughable that the Supreme Court would extend personhood and First Amendment protections to these non-human psychopathic entities.

This disturbing trend foreshadows a looming battle between the haves and the have-nots. I’m convinced it’s going to get uglier before it gets better, and that incrementalism is a failed strategy.

Below the jump is the full summary of this latest Supreme Court opinion by SCOTUSblog.

Continue reading Watch your back – you no longer live in a democracy

350 Massachusetts:

Dear proponents of 350ppm and climate justice:

You are invited to officially launch people-powered 350 Massachusetts!

You and/or your organization will have an opportunity to help shape emerging campaigns and the structure of the network. 350MA will be joining other existing 350 state networks that carry out state and regional campaigns. It will also aim to be a powerful part of the regional, national and international climate movement that gets us back to 350ppm.

350.org US Campaign Director, Phil Aroneanu will join us at this meeting to share communications strategy and campaign organizing expertise.

Thursday, June 28th

Potluck: 6-7pm

Meeting: 7-9pm

First Church Cambridge

11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

(Harvard Square T stop on the red line).

Continue reading Official Launch of 350 Massachusetts – Thursday June 28.

Boston City Council

Massachusetts

By email please send the stenographic record of the public meeting of Boston City Council for Wednesday 20 June 2012, a) as is and, if you would, b) decoded…

The decoded stenographic record could be made available for folks with hearing loss, deaf, communications disorders and all interested in the words of Boston City Councilors in the public meeting!

Cc:

Ann Hess Braga, Staff Director, Boston City Council

Ann.Braga at cityofboston.gov

Myra Berloff, Director, Massachusetts Office on Disability

myra.berloff at state.ma.us

Kristen McCosh, City of Boston Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities

Kristen.McCosh at cityofboston.gov

John Winske, DRS Consulting, Mayor’s Commission for Persons with Disabilities

http://twitter.com/jwinske

http://www.facebook.com/johnwinske

Continue reading Decoded stenographic record. Public meeting. Boston City Council.

Well, this certainly news..

“On Thursday, two days after Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein received enough delegates to win the ticket, Roseanne took to Twitter asking, “I wonder if someone can tell me if I am still a candidate for green party presidential nominee or not?”

“Isn’t that something you should know if you want to be the leader of the free world?” a posting on Twitchy responded.

Classic.

From Ms. Barr’s Media & Comm person: “I agree with your perception on this. But this is her Twitter and this is microblogging and like anything else is not official until it is made official by the campaign. She is “rogue” on her own Twitter and the official one is #roseanne_2012. On her Twitter it is almost like she is thinking aloud. Her thoughts come out and then she backtracks. This is how she communicates to her followers. This is her PERSONAL Twitter, let me reiterate that.”

“Rogue on her own Twitter.” Holy shit. Baltimore’s going to be a blast.

Continue reading BARR TO RUN ON “GREEN TEA PARTY” TICKET