Greens turned out on July 24 to support the NYC Transit Forward rally to restore MTA services Continue reading

Flagrant transparency evasions and fundraising corruption puts Governor Cuomo on Citizen for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's ignominious list. Continue reading

The Green Party criticized Governor Cuomo today for his flawed efforts to reduce public corruption in New York State.The Green Continue reading

From the Green Shadow Cabinet website: The Green Shadow Cabinet said today that while President Obama's call for Continue reading

Will you stand up and end the threat of fracking in NY State, once and for all? Not a moratorium, Continue reading

Green Party of New YorkMedia Releasewww.gpnys.orgFor Immediate Release: May 1, 2013For More Info: Gloria Mattera, 917 886-4538, [email protected] O'Neil, [email protected], Continue reading

GPNY State Committee Meeting On May 18, Deadline to Submit Agenda Items to the Secretary is May 3 Continue reading

Resisting Drones, Global War & Empire: 4/26-4/28 Syracuse NYCome to Syracuse this weekend to participate in three days of networking, movement building and resistance! Continue reading

On Immanence: 1. Immanence is internal causality, in that any action or phenomenon in a structure occurs within that structure and each part has the potential to affect any other part. All things in reality can be defined as structures in that each thing can be made up of parts that are in relationships with each other. 2. This internal causality means that the structure in question has autonomy. Autonomy can be defined as “self law” or self-determination, and is a form of freedom that is independent of external forces. 3. Autonomy results in the formation of many cases of direct democracy and an abundance of the commons. Democracy is the method where individuals in groups are able to practice autonomy, while the commons is the resources that allow individuals and groups to make free choices and free actions because of their equality of access to those necessary resources. 4. The many cases of democracy and the abundance of the commons are used as an apparent tool by participants. Participants make use of democracy and the commons in a very self-aware way to further autonomy in the understanding that these tools are their own creation and are meant for this purpose. 5. The apparent tools of democracy and the commons are an expression of desire. Humans can either passively consume external things to fill the lack they have within themselves to fulfill their drive, or they can actively produce things in the world to fulfill their desire. Continue reading

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public Continue reading

Ursula serves on the GPNYS executive committee. She is a community columnist with syracuse.com. The article, along with video of Continue reading

Need Full Public Campaign Financing, Not NYC ModelTime to End Allowing Candidates to Run on ballot lines of other PartiesThe Continue reading

Thursday, March 28 - The Green Party calls for NYS Legislature to legalize the use of marijuana.  The Green Party dismissed Governor Continue reading

There are basic premises that direct democracy is built upon in order to be the most effective way to organize society and collective action. In the multiple debates and discussions about democracy, specifically direct democracy, there has been attempts to define it. Or at the very least, to distill what is its most basic principles and the traits that exist in all forms of democracy. The major obstacle to this analysis, and the discovery of the axioms of democracy, is that the American tradition has been more about representative democracy than direct democracy. The emphasis on representative democracy is based on the inherent belief at the time that direct control by the people was dangerous and that direct democracy was nothing more than mob rule. This was used as an excuse for the landed and propertied class of the American colonies to recuperate the freedom gained by the American Revolution and redefine it through the lens of limited government and natural rights. The theory of natural rights proposes that there are certain rights that are outside of the decisions of any government, or any changes that could be made by a democratic body. Thus, they are inalienable rights. However, it can be argued that the purpose of natural rights do not necessarily need the institution of a representative government that in the end perpetuates the power of the status quo and the elite that profit from it. On the contrary, representation can be an abstraction and alienation of the popular will, and is an almost impossible way to reflect what free people truly want in a collective sense. The result is that representative democracy reproduces the state and limits the possibility of democracy. In other words, there are axioms of democracy that exist outside of the decision making process of the particular democracy in question. These axioms, as first rules that are self evident and do not need to be explained, insures that the fear of mob rule does not actually happen in direct democracy. They are the foundation for how democracy has worked throughout history as the best way for a group of people to self-organize themselves. Enumerating these axioms will help to insure that the direct democratic tradition is able to refute the charges of mob rule that is so easily used against it in order to defend an existing hierarchy and power structure. The axioms of democracy are the founding rules that allow democracy to happen. Continue reading

This speech was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. The speech was delivered one year to the day before his assassination, and it signaled a change in approach toward what King only weeks earlier had called the "triple evils of racism, extreme materialism and militarism."We have reposted this text from the archives of the Black Radical Congress, and encourage you to forward it repost it yourself. Continue reading

On January 9, 2,000+ fracktivists rallied for a fracking ban outside Cuomo's State of the State address. The next day, Continue reading

On January 9th you can travel with anti-fracking activists from around New York to rally in Albany for the Continue reading

by Mark Dunlea, GPNYS Executive Committee MemberPointing out in 1982 that John Lennon probably would still be alive if he Continue reading

 The Green Party of New York State has called for environmental concerns to be a priority in the response to Continue reading

I was persuaded to run for Congress by the fact that a lot of people were looking to be active Continue reading