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Climate Change, Environment, Green Party, National Politics, Third Party April 22, 2014

The Future Will Be Green Or It Won’t Be At All

Stop Capitulating, Start Converging: The Global Climate Convergence and the Independent Political Imperative     firedoglake by Scott McLarty Monday April 21, 2014 In early April, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim issued a dire warning about the consequences of global climate change and increasing economic inequality. The combination of the two, he said, are likely to result in violent clashes around the world: “Fights over water and food are going to be the most significant direct impacts of climate change in the next five to 10 years. There’s just no question about it.” Mr. Kim urged scientists and environmental…

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Climate Change, Economy, Environment April 18, 2014

Business Climate Mania in Rhode Island

eco opinions April 16, 2014 by Greg Gerritt Rhode Island is in the economic dumps and its politicians are pledging allegiance to economic growth at all costs and pulling out all of the traditional verbiage and a few new buzz words in the never ending search for faster economic growth. The traditional, but unproven, methods are to cut taxes, reduce regulation, and provide subsidies for those seeking to build or rebuild buildings. It is announced solemnly at least once a week by a powerful politician that he is working to get rid of the impediments to business and thereby create…

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campaign reform, New York, political corruption, Public Campaign Finance Reform April 8, 2014

New York voters deserve a Clean Money system

by Howie Hawkins and Steve Breyman Albany Times Union Friday, April 4, 2014 The U.S. Supreme Court decision this week in McCutcheon vs. FEC removed limits on the total amount that rich donors could contribute to all candidates in an electoral cycle. The need for a voluntary system of public campaign financing for candidates to run with no-strings-attached clean money is now greater than ever. With the passage of the budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders missed an opportunity to enact just such a system. What New Yorkers got was a watered-down, partial public financing system for the comptroller’s…

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Economy, Green Party, New York, Public Campaign Finance Reform, State Politics March 31, 2014

The Green Alternative to Austerity Budgets

by Howie Hawkins March 25, 2014 Austerity budgets mean a whole generation of school children bear the burden of closing budget gaps with cuts in state funding for public schools. They mean scores of towns, school districts, counties, and most upstate cities bear the burden of fiscal distress and impending insolvency because state revenue sharing has been slashed. How long must we wait for meaningful steps on progressive goals like living-wage jobs for the unemployed in public works and services, fully-funded public schools, tuition-free public colleges, health care for all, affordable housing and mass transit, and climate-safe clean energy?  …

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Democracy, Green Party, National Politics, Third Party March 14, 2014

Why the Green Party

As Greens, we are all here to save the planet. I believe that there is no lack of consensus on that. But that could also be said of the membership of the hundreds of NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations) which currently exist? The reason we’re are here, in the Green Party, and not in  NGO’s is that we see our particular role  as being members of a political party, and not in belonging to yet another NGO. This is not to trash the NGO’s — it is just to point out why we are the the Green Party of the United States,…