In the streets of Manhattan, during a weekend in late September, the faces of steel and concrete behemoths staring down at me, I quickly weaved my way through stopped cars. I moved with several thousand others. A collective elation filled the air, surrounding us as we sped forward. Cars honked in support, cab drivers [...]
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Many thanks to my old friend, comrade and compatriot Bob Morris for inviting me to blog here. Bob was interested in my take on the ongoing turmoil between Mike Feinstein and Nativo Lopez. I blogged extensively on that subject some time ago, A plague on both your houses. The information that I impart will however, [...] Libertarian W.E. Messamore interviews Green Party candidate Jill Stein for CAIVN and finds much common ground. Excerpt: CAIVN: You have shown a lot of sympathy for the grievances of the Occupy Wall Street protesters. In 2009 a lot of the Tea Party protesters were extremely opposed to the Wall Street bailouts. How central of an [...] Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President, is a genuine and outspoken progressive. Naturally liberals will be all in a dither about whether to vote for someone who articulates the issues well and wants real change or delude themselves into thinking the Democratic Party won’t punch them in the face and betray them again after [...] Last year, Mark Miller ran for state representative with the Green Party in Massachusetts. In a two way race with a Democrat, he got 45% of the vote. Now, after that same Democrat got appointed to another job, he’s running again. The election is October 18, and Mark has already received the endorsement (and with [...] The Green Party’s national convention was this past weekend and my absolute favorite candidate in the country this year – the election is November 2011 – gave an inspiring speech there, introduced by David Cobb. The quote in the title is from that speech, as are those below. The full video is posted below, as [...] Elizabeth May has become the first-ever Green MP in Canada, defeating a longtime Tory minister. “I stand here today as the first elected Green MP in the history of Canadian politics,” she yelled above the crowd chanting her name. “And I stand here today and I remain committed, as all of us are, to rejecting [...] [Originally posted at IndependentPoliticalReport.com, hence the somewhat dry tone about a campaign I actually have been slightly involved in. The Green Party of Philadelphia will also be nominating candidates for other offices this Thursday, and we've been keeping busy with fracking protests, a May Day event, a monthly dinner, among other things.] The Green [...] According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the cost of food increased in February for the eighth consecutive month and reached an all time high. You heard a bit of this in the news coverage of the grassroots protests in Tunisia and Egypt. While not even the major cause of the unrest, frustration [...] The fight against the [UK budget] cuts is central to green politics, including the fight against climate change. Green politics is also not simply about the environment – one of the core values of green politics, together with non-violence, ecology and grass-roots democracy, is social justice. US biologist professor Barry Commoner puts it rather well. [...] |  | ||||
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