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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your thoughts Wayne and I do agree.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The positive for the Greens is that the largest voting block currently is the 60 % who don’t vote in addition to the 64 % of the 40 % who are registered who did NOT vote in the recent 2014 general election.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That is about 85 % of the adult population.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The negatives are that the corporate rulers ; block ballot access ( or at least attempt to with varying degrees of success ), deny participation in debates since we no longer have real public debates moderated by the league of women voters but instead a private corporation owned by the corporate controlled national democratic party and the national republican party, and the black-out of any news coverage by the corporate media. The iron curtain of the U.S. corporate media.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Those are big problems in trying to get the message out and let people know that there is an alternative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] Illinois Green party State conference<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>The two-headed political beast that thinks that it owns the US of A is<br>absolutely terrified of a viable Green Party.<br><br>The tactics that the beast resorted to in fighting Rich Whitney<br>indicate just how frightened is the beast.<br><br>I hope that the Green party is able to rebrand itself effectively<br>as a real alternative to the status quo. The Green Party must draw<br>new membership if it is to be viable. If the Green Party just wants to<br>be a private club for a handful of misfits who have had their little feelings<br>hurt by tougher players and political bullies, then the Greens don't need to do anything. <br>They have arrived already. We can all commiserate with them.<br><br>I like the Green party, and although I have never voted for a Democrat in any general election, ever, I have and would vote for a Green.<br><br>The political party game of life is that if the "colony" is able to grow, it will survive.<br>If it does not grow, that is exactly the same as death. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.<br>Voila. Yer dead.<br><br>The Green Party needs to brand itself as a viable alternative and it needs to be <br>able to draw members from both the Republican and Democrat camps.<br><br>The beast has rejected anarchists of various flavours, anti-war-ists and pacifists,<br>libertarians, Occupy!, tea-partiers, and the common people in general.<br><br>Can the Green party be something more and draw in the politically poor,<br>the politically blind, the politically maimed, and the politically quadriplegic?<br><br>The Green party has the reputation of fielding some off-the-wall candidates like<br>Cynthia McKinney (I think she's awesome) and but it also has a reputation for <br>candidates that are intellectuals and real thinkers and good guys.<br><br>There seems to be some opportunity. It will be interesting to see what is done with it.<br><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 02/19/2015 02:45 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>I agree Carl, which is why we started the ball rolling on the local chapter of the Green Party. Thanks to David Johnson for bringing about the State Party Conference here in April, and the upcoming general public meeting we will be having in March. <br> <br>I also agree with Chris Hedges in his interview on "The Real News Network. org", that electoral politics is just a small part of bringing about progress and change. <br>We need mass movements, strikes, disruptions in transportation as they had in France, sit-ins, etc. <br>We need both. Perhaps you, Ron and or the two Davids can discuss on NFN at some point?<br> <br> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:11:00 -0600<br>> To: <a href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a><br>> CC: <a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a><br>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Illinois Green party State conference<br>> From: <a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br>> <br>> I quite agree. Greens can take new inspiration from Syriza, Podemos, etc. and reject the neolib/neocon-dominated Republican and Democrat parties. <br>> <br>> <br>> On Feb 18, 2015, at 9:50 AM, David Green <a href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com"><davegreen84@yahoo.com></a> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Great news. Thanks for your efforts, David.<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:55 AM, David Johnson <a href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net"><davidjohnson1451@comcast.net></a> wrote:<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > A quick note before I have to run out the door.<br>> > <br>> > The Illinois Green party will be having their State conference in Urbana on Sat. April 18th at the IMC.<br>> > <br>> > I helped make this happen and I am hoping that this event will generate some more interest in our local Green party chapter and the Green party in general..<br>> > <br>> > David J.<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Peace-discuss mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br>> <a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Peace-discuss mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>