[Peace-discuss] Illinois Green party State conference
E. W. Johnson
ewj at pigsqq.org
Fri Feb 20 03:56:04 EST 2015
You'll be forced to get lots of signatures and face various tricks.
Actually what the beast did to Rich Whitney makes a good story in the
favour of the Greens.
.
While it would make sense to stop here---
I further suggest that the ideologic 10 points of the Green party be
examined.
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.
On 02/20/2015 12:50 PM, David Johnson wrote:
>
> Thanks for your thoughts Wayne and I do agree.
>
> 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.
>
> That is about 85 % of the adult population.
>
> 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.
>
> Those are big problems in trying to get the message out and let people
> know that there is an alternative.
>
> David Johnson
>
> *From:*Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net]
> *On Behalf Of *E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:28 PM
> *To:* peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] Illinois Green party State conference
>
> 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 <mailto:davegreen84 at yahoo.com>;
> peace-discuss at anti-war.net <mailto:peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> > CC: karenaram at hotmail.com <mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Illinois Green party State conference
> > From: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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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