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Reverend Billy tells Mike Bloomberg what NY City is about
http://youtube.com/v/NgyeyvoI7M4Reverend Billy interrupts Mike Bloomberg to tell him what this city is about.
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Walt Nestler's Tour de District
http://youtube.com/v/4zraLOziZ3YA newly released video from the campaign provides a summary of the thought-provoking "toxic tour" of the 18th
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PREHENSION AND PREFIGURATION IN POLITICS
The constant incorporation of reality into the creation of political structures that are employed as an alternative to the status quo can be one of the most important actions in regards to real political change, more revolutionary than traditional types of revolution.
The main hope for a real political alternative lies in the ability to both understand how the current structures of power work, as well as the formation of tools for empowerment. The political is always embedded within both the social field and reality in itself, and makes use of reality in order make new configurations within the social field. These structures of power can be transcendent and lay beyond the ability of the populace to control it, taking on the appearance of being both natural and eternal. However, these structures of power can also be immanent and within the control of the people who are engaged within it to solve problems within social relationships. The factors that determine whether political structures are transcendent or immanent is whether or not prehension and prefiguration are employed to allow a true and direct democratic process. Democracy used to widen empowerment will use prehension and prefiguration to accomplish specific goals while also generally offering a real alternative to business as usual.
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Walt Nestler to Appear on TV Show
Walt Nestler to Appear on TV Show, Monday, 10/26, 9 P.M. The NYC League of Women Voters and
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Green Party candidate David Pechefsky Before the Brooklyn Paper Editorial Board
Green Party candidate David Pechefsky joined other NY City Council District 39 candidates at the Brooklyn
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Serpe puts Green Party in the spotlight
[From Queens Chronicle]by Willow Belden, Editor
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Student Activism Needs Revival During Recession, Speaker Says
[From The Cornell Daily Sun]By Patricio Martinez
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Green Party urges widespread antiwar protests on the day President Obama accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders expressed puzzlement and outrage over the decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace
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On The Obama Peace Prize - Reverend Billy
[From Vote Reverend Billy]Now we have to change all our
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Greens to join mid-October protests against US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders, activists, and
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Rev. Billy Talen and the anarchists
[From Green Party Watch]by Gregg JocoyThis AP article says
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How Property Tax Has Shaped Our Local Economy (and look at the shape we’re in)
By Susan Donderewicz:
This is our third annual public meeting on the economy. If ever there was a subject that lent itself to varied and often inconsistent viewpoints, it is the economy. Tonight, we’ll focus on the policy of collecting taxes based on property. It has occurred to me as I planned for this program that most people, the sane ones, would rather have knee surgery than sit through a meeting about tax policy. So thank you so much for being here. I’m going to try to make this as listener-friendly as possible. We’ll look at some different taxes and see what kind of footprint each leaves.
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Rosa Clemente in Rochester, October 3rd
[From Green Party of Monroe County]Rosa Clemente, 2008 Green Party candidate for
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The Green Party responds to Obama's speech: Mr. President, make health care a right for all Americans
... the Green Party supports Single-Payer/Medicare For All. It has always been in our national platform -- and Green candidates
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It's Not About Van Jones. It's About Barack Obama.
[From the PBS web site] BY ROSA CLEMENTEGreen Party 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate
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OBAMA AS THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF DESIRE
In the election of 2008 Barack Obama became a commodity sold to voters as an agent of change, regardless of his status quo platform, that spoke volumes about the mediation of human desire into instruments of control.
It can not be denied that on the election night of 2008 there literally was dancing in the streets. This phenomenon illuminated the fact that the past eight years was in many ways a time of immense darkness. In possibly no other time in the history of the United States was the country so close to an actual dictatorship as it was during the George W. Bush administration. There were concrete cases of a centralization of power within the executive branch, and especially within the office of the president and vice president. The Patriot Act, sanctioning of torture, increased internal surveillance, and the detaining of suspects without filing of charges all eroded the protections found in the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. These decisions all did lasting damage to the idea of the United States as a representative democracy. Unfortunately, this centralization of power was the culmination of other actions taken by previous presidents during times of war. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War, Wilson enacted the Alien and Sedition Act with the Palmer Raids during WWI, Roosevelt interned Japanese-Americans during WWII, and Nixon used COINTELPRO and an enemies list during the war in Vietnam. All of these men were gravely wrong, but what distinguished the Bush administration was the creation of an artificial state of emergency after Sept. 11th, 2001 that lead to a fabricated war for hegemony in the Middle East. Therefore, there were reasons to celebrate the election of a new president, one who was considered a real agent of change.
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Romanelli Asks President Obama For Beer Summit II, Challenges Bob Casey To Basketball Game With Romanelli's Fate As The Prize
Frustrated by yet another setback in the Pennsylvania Courts, Green Party US
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THE IMPORTANCE OF THEORY IN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
We are gathered together, both here and within the Green Party overall, because we want to engage in the great
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Open Letter of Protest Calling Upon United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) to Become an Anti-War Organization
From the Executive Committee of the Green Party of New York State (GPNYS) The Executive Committee of the Green Party
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ACLU Challenges Unconstitutional Arkansas Ballot Access Rule In Federal Court
State Illegally Barring Green Party Access To BallotFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAugust 27, 2009LITTLE ROCK, ARThe
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Billy Talen, Running to be Mayor of the City of New York
From: WNBC's Video Voter GuideMore info on the Rev. Billy Green Party Campaign.
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Record number of Green candidates run in 2009 elections
WASHINGTON, DC -- A record number of Green Party candidates are running for public office throughout the US, with many
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THE IMPORTANCE OF THEORY IN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
The following is my presentation at the 2009 Green Fest.
We are gathered together, both here and within the Green Party overall, because we want to engage in the great political work of the day. It is a day that is truly benighted where peace, civil liberties, communities, and our own environment is threatened by a comprehensive system of power. If we are to fight this power then there is the necessity to understand its operation, how it functions and consolidates its influence to such a degree that at first blush it seems impossible to oppose it. This is where theory comes in as a supplement to political action. I will give some examples of what theory can do to enrich our work, and illustrate that theory is not only an embellishment or flavoring to action, but a vital binding agent that makes our actions sensible.
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