2012 Election

2012 Election, 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, Climate Change, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Green Party, Jill Stein, Ralph Nader, Single Payer, Socialism, Third Party January 9, 2020

Socialists and the 2020 Election

Solidarity By Linda Thompson and Steve Bloom January/February 2020 issue PROSPECTS FOR SOCIALISM are off in the future. The 2020 presidential election is here and now, and confronts us with a right-wing menace unlike any that has been faced before. When asked what our goals are in the 2020 elections the majority of left activists in the USA will say: “to defeat Donald Trump.” Many are even more specific: “We are Bernie or Bust.” If we are honest with ourselves, however, we must acknowledge that many of these will also end up urging people to vote for the eventual Democratic…

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2012 Election, 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Libertarian Party May 19, 2016

About That Post-Bernie Movement

counterpunch By Scott Mclarty May 18, 2016 Now that it’s almost inevitable Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination, the talk is turning to what will come out of Bernie Sanders’ campaign after the Democratic National Convention. Enthusiasm is growing for a post-Sanders movement. Khwaja Khusro Tariq writes “if one accepts that Hillary is the most likely Democratic nominee for president does that mean we pack it up and go home? No. We signed up for a political revolution, not just this campaign.” Even Noam Chomsky is optimistic: Mr. Sanders has “mobilized a large number of young people who are…

2012 Election, Green Party March 18, 2013

“We are Far From Having Any Kind of Democracy in This Country”

An Interview With Cheri Honkala by Lee Ballinger Originally published by CounterPunch Cheri Honkala was born into poverty in Minneapolis in 1963. For the past twenty-five years she has served as national director of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, helping to lead marches, tent cities, homeless encampments, sit-ins and educational retreats. Working as part of an organization with a bare bones budget, Cheri has still managed to travel the United States and the world, making connections among poor people’s organizations from every continent. She is now the Vice Presidential candidate of the Green Party, sharing the ticket with…

2012 Election, Green Party, National Politics December 31, 2012

Morian gets 31.7% for Florida House 12

by Jeff Roby Green Party of Florida December 30, 2012   Running against Republican Lake Gross Ray III, Green Party candidate Karen Morian racked up 20,496 votes in her Jacksonville race for District 12 rep to the Florida House, an impressive 31.7% of the vote. With the Democrats failing to field a candidate, Morian had the progressive field to herself in this supposedly Republican district, and made the most of it, as her supporters included the Florida Education Association, Florida Planned Parenthood, the Duval County Democrats, Equality Florida, the Jacksonville Area Coalition of Black Trade Unions (AFL-CIO), Jacksonville Young Democrats,…

2012 Election, Democracy, Green Party November 19, 2012

‘No Impact Man’ Runs for Office

The Atlantic by Colin Beavan November 16, 2012 My unlikely course in activist politicking started with a May call from a member of the executive committee of the Green Party of New York State. The call came, I understood, because of the notoriety of my very-publicly performed 2007 experiment in extreme environmental living in the middle of Manhattan. The project had been intended to question and look for alternatives to the typical American’s consumption-based way of life. It was also a vehicle to help bring broader public attention to the range of our environmental crises — from ocean depletion to…