Great speech by John Nichols of the Nation:
Continue reading John Nichols at Stein HQ opening in Madison, WIGreen Party
From the Green-Rainbow Party:
Vote in the Green-Rainbow Primary on “Super” Tuesday, March 6.
On March 6 you will have a chance to vote for peace, compassion, economic justice, women’s rights and environmental sanity. All you have to do is go to the polls and take a Green-Rainbow ballot. This opportunity is open to any voter who is registered in the Green-Rainbow Party or is un-enrolled (independent).
By taking a Green-Rainbow ballot, you’re saying no to politics as usual. You’ll be joining the growing number of voters who refuse to endorse bailouts, sellouts, negative advertising, trashing the environment, troop surges, attacks on Social Security and Medicare, piling college debt on students, state-sponsored assassinations, and sending American jobs overseas with ‘free trade’ treaties.
Continue reading Calling all Independent and Green-Rainbow voters in MassachusettsGreat to see some progressive media giving Jill some attention. I’m pretty disappointed that Democracy NOW! has ignored her strengthening campaign.
Stein made the case for her Green New Deal and the 25 million jobs it would create for the same price tag as the first Federal bailout of about $700 billion.
Continue reading Green Party candidate Jill Stein on Thom Hartmann’s The Big Picture
From the Jill Stein camp:
Continue reading The race for ballot access & matching funds heating upWe are on the ballot in: Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia
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Next major priorities include: New Mexico and Nevada
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We are currently petitioning in: Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Iowa, Indiana, New Hampshire, Vermont, Virginia
The Canadian Greens and the voters of the Saanich-Gulf Islands BC riding made history yesterday by electing Green Party leader Elizabeth May to Parliament. May, who was excluded from the national debates (as a national party leader) on the argument that they did not have an elected Member of Parliament, became the first Green MP in Canada’s federal government. They excluded her despite the fact that May participated in the 2008 debates and did very well, resulting in significant federal funding of the Green Party annually. The Greens also fielded MP candidates in 304 out of Canada’s 308 total ridings.
Asked what just one lone MP can do, May responded “Just watch me!”
Watch her victory speech and post-election interview (below the jump):
Continue reading Greens make history in CanadaWith incredible 2010 victories for the Green Party in the UK and in Australia, and an early breakthrough in 2011 in Germany on the heels of Japan’s Fukushima disaster, the Global Greens seem poised to break through the corporate political chatter.
In Canada, the Green Party received just under 1 million votes in the 2008 federal elections, qualifying it for nearly $2 million/year in public financing. That was because of the inclusion of Green Party leader Elizabeth May in the debates. This time around, the political class has successfully excluded her from the debates, despite an ever-strengthening party with a Green Party candidate for Member of Parliament in every single electoral district (“riding”). And despite the citizens of Canada paying $2 million a year to the Greens in public financing.
Remarkably, Canada’s public television didn’t go along, and invited Elizabeth May to their debate. All the other candidates refused to participate. The 30-minute “debate” can be viewed in 3 chunks (linked below), and I can only imagine this shameful exclusion will help the Greens in Canada break through more impressively than ever before:
Oh Canada!
Continue reading Green Party on verge of global breakthrough?Why, after 30 years, are German Greens finding success in regional elections? In a recent article in the Guardian newspaper, Cem Ă–zdemir, one of the party’s co-chair has an interesting thesis: the Greens are increasingly recognized as grownups able to address the most pressing issues in a way other parties can not.
In the past, surveys show, people liked the Greens but didn’t vote for them because they feared the party wouldn’t have the brain and muscle to run the country. This perception has changed over the last few years.
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What has lead to that change in perception?
Continue reading In Germany, Green is for grownupWhat connects Holyoke, Massachusetts, with floods in Australia, and explosions in La Preciosa, Colombia? The answer is coal.
As the January flood waters subsided in Australia the governor of the state of Victoria, medical researcher Professor David de Kretser, pointed the finger directly at climate change. Referring to the spate of record-breaking climate events de Kretser commented “everyone says this week [is a] one in 100, one in 200 years [event] but they are happening pretty much more frequently now.”
Continue reading Colombia, Australia, and MassachusettsIn an open letter to the leaders of the Philadelphia labor movement, the young and energetic organizer for UFCW Local 152 Hugh Giordano has challenged the city’s unions to have the courage to support the Green Party. Giordano ran an exceptionally strong campaign as a Green for state legislature this year, raising almost $30,000 from unions and individuals and capturing over 18 percent of the vote in a three way race. Now he would like to spread the same movement for honest politics, workers’ rights, and a clean environment (among other things) to the rest of Philadelphia, beyond his single district.
As the members of the party, which I am aiding in every way I can, build the organization for the 2011 local elections, Giordano has seized the opportunity make the area’s union leadership reconsider the popular path of supporting corporate Democrats. In his words, “Why are we, the strong men and women of the labor movement, bowing down to the corporate bosses and politicians…Union brothers and sisters, when any one of us becomes ‘fearful’ or ‘controlled’ by a political party – it’s time to step down and pass the torch on.”
The full letter is printed, with Hugh Giordano’s permission, below the fold.
Continue reading Labor’s obligation and opportunity: Philly organizer challenges unions to rally around GreensEd. note: this is a stunning development. I dare say it represents the beginning of a changing tide from timidity regarding the Green Party to explicit investment of hope in its development. Korten’s courage here is noteworthy, moving from theoretical ideas of a sustainable and just economy to the practical work of designing its political roadmap and beginning road construction.
2010 Pacific Northwest Regional Green Gathering
David Korten, November 13, 2010
Read the original article.
I was delighted to be invited to address this gathering of Pacific Northwest Regional Green Party leaders. I had not realized at the time that would be an exclusive gathering of the party elders. We do have the benefit of bringing a depth of experience and connections to the significant work at hand.
I’ll be laying out my take on what is at stake at this point in America’s history and how I believe we need to rethink and reposition the Green Party to function as the political arm of a much larger social movement devoted to advancing the universal human values that frame the Green Party’s agenda. It requires, among other things, coming up with a much more concise statement of what we are about-our elevator speech.
Continue reading How the Green Party Can Become America’s Most Significant Political Force