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You'll be forced to get lots of signatures and face various tricks.<br>
<br>
Actually what the beast did to Rich Whitney makes a good story in
the favour of the Greens.<br>
.<br>
While it would make sense to stop here---<br>
<br>
I further suggest that the ideologic 10 points of the Green party be
examined.<br>
I would dare say (at the risk of triggering a state of being
hen-flogged) that the post-feminists are correct in saying that
"feminism is no longer relevant in today's society". This may be
particularly so in the face of the spectre of Hillary Clinton.<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/20/2015 12:50 PM, David Johnson
wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">David
Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Peace-discuss
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net">mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net</a>] <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> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] Illinois Green party
State conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 02/19/2015 02:45 AM, Karen Aram via
Peace-discuss wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:11:00
-0600<br>
> To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</a>;
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:peace-discuss@anti-war.net">peace-discuss@anti-war.net</a><br>
> CC: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Illinois Green party
State conference<br>
> From: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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
moz-do-not-send="true"
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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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