I am not sure I understand the real deifference between leftists and rughtests in todays US world of political confusion! Richard ... From: Howard Switzer To:...
I don't understand these terms anymore. though now I am wondering if I ever did. Richard ... From: Howard Switzer To: ruralgreen@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
neo-cons were actually aligned with the US Trotskyite Max Schactman who migrated into the Scoop Jackson wing of the DP and then crossed over to the RP with...
May 2007 News Headlines In case you had any doubt . . . . There's only one Peace Party! Are you as outraged as we are about the Democrats capitulation...
I suggest you attend the strategy caucus at the Annual National Convention. You will find yourself strangely alone because we consider ourselves radical...
I have to disagree that Greens should concentrate on jobs for people before pushing environmental concerns, Walter. What Greens are all about is understanding...
Walk the streets of Pennsylvania or New York or New Jersey with me. Walk the city streets of Michigan and ask the people what is important to them and they...
Walt- there is no historical precedent for what you are calling for - a party started to the left of the Democratic Party without a unifying theme like the...
Fellow RG's - Lately I've been participating in (Oregon's) pacific green party discussion group. Naturally I'm in trouble with the Party Secretary Steve Geiger...
This is a whole lot less complicated than you make it out to be. What it boils down to is strategy formulation that is naturally driven by our mission and...
Re: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ruralgreen/message/6021 LindaC. - Creating jobs have to be a top priority <(as I'm sure you know) for any green progressive...
Well, well, well I'm not at all surprised the Nixon-loving Murphy is in bed with the organized crime owned Teamsters. The Teamsters must be the only major...
what is the mission of a political party but to get their candidates elected? the left vision in our platform is geared towards those progressives in the DP -...
Wow! I thought you were a bit more sophisticated than that. There are any number of missions an organization can postulate and similarly any number of...
Here's an excellent example of why the so-called progressive Democrats should stand with the Greens against the Democratic Party in 2008. Senator Hillary...
I’m ashamed to say that The Teamsters endorsed Gore in 2000 and Clinton in both his campaigns. And despite what this pussy said, the Teamsters are still...
Your right oh-so-scary!, oh-so-tough! John A. Murphy pretend trucker man. The Third Reich Teamsters did lift member restrictions on 75+ I.Q.'s back in 1992. As...
Sorry Murphy, but with psycho green party leaders like you any self-respecting progressive would rather stand with Hillary - she smells better. Frankly the GP,...
Walt- the major political parties are a fusion of different coalitions - this is historically the result of our single district voting, winning takes all...
BG 1)"you can't solely target a segment of one of the major party's coalititon because you can not build a ruling majority from it." We are not interested in...
Being pro-environment and pro-jobs goes together, Walt, and I don't think Greens need to be "watermelons," (green on the outside and red on the inside.) Why...
First of all, your problem may be that you're walking the city streets. Come walk the country lanes with me and I'll show you why the environment needs to be...
We are not for one minute suggesting that we would abandon environmental concerns. Our platform would remain the same on those issues. But they must be...
We need to get our candidates elected. In order to do that we must take positions and advanced candidates that people will elect. Candidates are elected in...
LindaC. is right on target. Our ability to have quality jobs, UHC, etc. is directly locked to maintaining/restoring a quality natural environment. Furthermore...
Green politics should be as transformative as the Green vision for a just and sustainable world. In everything we do we're showing people what it means to be...
I have added the "carbon tax" document as presented at the May, 2007 State Membership Meeting of the Green Party of Michigan as the "Carbon Tax" page of the...
A few years ago, before I joined rural greens, a person named Joann Cvar <(also a member of this group) passed along some words of wisdom from the Cherokee's....
Happy Women's Day! No, it's not an officially recognized holiday, but it ought to be. Today, in 1919, the 19th Amendment, finally recognizing the voting...