[Peace-discuss] Illinois Green party State conference

[E. W. Johnson]

The two-headed political beast that thinks that it owns the US of A is
absolutely terrified of a viable Green Party.

The tactics that the beast resorted to in fighting Rich Whitney
indicate just how frightened is the beast.

I hope that the Green party is able to rebrand itself effectively
as a real alternative to the status quo.  The Green Party must draw
new membership if it is to be viable.  If the Green Party just wants to
be a private club for a handful of misfits who have had their little 
feelings
hurt by tougher players and political bullies, then the Greens don't 
need to do anything.
They have arrived already.  We can all commiserate with them.

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.

The political party game of life is that if the "colony" is able to 
grow, it will survive.
If it does not grow, that is exactly the same as death.  Lather. Rinse.  
Repeat.
Voila.  Yer dead.

The Green Party needs to brand itself as a viable alternative and it 
needs to be
able to draw members from both the Republican and Democrat camps.

The beast has rejected anarchists of various flavours, anti-war-ists and 
pacifists,
libertarians, Occupy!, tea-partiers, and the common people in general.

Can the Green party be something more and draw in the politically poor,
the politically blind, the politically maimed, and the politically 
quadriplegic?

The Green party has the reputation of fielding some off-the-wall 
candidates like
Cynthia McKinney (I think she's awesome) and but it also has a 
reputation for
candidates that are intellectuals and real thinkers and good guys.

There seems to be some opportunity.  It will be interesting to see what 
is done with it.





On 02/19/2015 02:45 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
> We need mass movements, strikes, disruptions in transportation as they 
> had in France, sit-ins, etc.
> We need both. Perhaps you, Ron and or the two Davids can discuss on 
> NFN at some point?
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:11:00 -0600
> > To: davegreen84 at yahoo.com; peace-discuss at anti-war.net
> > CC: karenaram at hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Illinois Green party State conference
> > From: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> >
> > I quite agree. Greens can take new inspiration from Syriza, Podemos, 
> etc. and reject the neolib/neocon-dominated Republican and Democrat 
> parties.
> >
> >
> > On Feb 18, 2015, at 9:50 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Great news. Thanks for your efforts, David.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:55 AM, David Johnson 
> <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > A quick note before I have to run out the door.
> > >
> > > The Illinois Green party will be having their State conference in 
> Urbana on Sat. April 18th at the IMC.
> > >
> > > 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..
> > >
> > > David J.
> >
> >
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