[Peace-discuss] "Why Our Green Parties Haven't Taken Off"

[C G Estabrook]

https://blackagendareport.com/why-our-green-parties-havent-taken

"The Green Party does get many important things right. The biggest thing it gets right is its adamant insistence on independence from the two ruling class parties. They know you cannot ride to freedom on Pharaoh's chariot. That’s vitally important. The best among them, like Howie Hawkins, the current Green candidate for NY governor have also preached for years that a sustainable Green Party has to be built on a dues-based membership, with all officers directly responsible to the members who pay those dues.”

—CGE

> On May 30, 2018, at 1:57 PM, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-jill-steins-recount-millions <https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-jill-steins-recount-millions>
> 
> Louis Proyect's comment is harsh but perhaps correct:
> 
> "If Stein and her pal David Cobb had the slightest interest in building the GP …, 
> they would have used the money to create a professional national office and field organizers 
> [as] SDS did in 1965. What a waste."

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