Rosa Clemente, the Green Party’s 2008 Vice Presidential candidate, declared during her campaign that “the Green Party is no longer the alternative, the Green Party is the imperative.” Events since then have not really borne her out. Was she wrong? Was she just using hyperbolic rhetoric? Or was she simply ahead of her time? In …
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Update: May edition of We, The Media has been posted.
Green Mass Group is proud and humbled to have entered the emerging arena of people-powered media. We have big designs on a grassroots, decentralized, and democratized truth-telling apparatus working in synergy and solidarity with other institutions of the same nature. We see a variety of important institutions in existence that need to be supported and nourished, and we dream of a slew of other institutions that do not yet exist. We hope to play a small part in organizing the voices of the people of the Commonwealth and beyond into a beautiful and powerful chorus that reflects and articulates our deepest desires so that they may become reality.
Green Mass Group is an effort by concerned global citizens (who happen to live in the state of Massachusetts) to build an online community that will engage in a political discourse that is rooted in reality and steeped in compassion.
We have seen the word “Green” robbed of its meaning and we will use this site to reclaim it.
The Green movement is an ecological movement, based on the idea that the whole human experiment is part of nature and not separate from it. Human systems are subject to nature’s laws whether we like it or not. Human endeavors are inextricably linked to our biosphere. Our health and well-being is intricately connected to the health and well-being of plant and animal species across the planet. Our economic, social, and political systems cannot change this simple fact — they must reflect it.
Continue reading Taking back “Green”, taking back the planet