Calls for More Funding for Green Jobs, Higher Ed, Bottle Bill The Green Party today criticized state Democratic lawmakers for Continue reading

The Green Party today criticized state Democratic lawmakers for negotiating this year's state budget in virtual secrecy. So far lawmakers Continue reading

On Monday, March 30, the Green Party of the United States will join other advocates for an end to the Continue reading

Are your local elected officials out of touch with what your community needs? Are you a Green Party activist in Continue reading

There is very important lessons to be taken from the film “Solaris” which deals with the relationship between the other, Continue reading

There is very important lessons to be taken from the film “Solaris” which deals with the relationship between the other, exploration, desire, and understanding culture. The 1972 film “Solaris” by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky is a visually stunning film that was an adaptation of a science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem. It is an example of a science fiction film, in the same general spirit as “2001: A Space Odyssey”, that deals with ideas rather than being an elaborate action movie. Beyond the wonderful cinematography, there is the presentation of a very interesting set of philosophical ideas that moves the plot forward. A psychologist is assigned to visit a space station orbiting the planet Solaris whose surface is a mysterious ocean of some kind of liquid. Strange occurrences have been going on with the crew of the space station, including cases of hallucinations. When the psychologist arrives at the space station, he finds one of the three remaining scientists has committed suicide and the other two are reluctant to talk about what is going on. Shortly afterward he finds his wife, who herself committed suicide some time ago, in his quarters. The psychologist discovers that the planet, or some alien force on the surface, has been able to tap into the minds of the visitors and project incarnations of their unconscious as living beings on the space station. If these beings die or are killed, they return shortly afterward with no memory of their disposal. The rest of the movie is the psychologist and the crew dealing with this phenomenon, as the artificial wife begins to believe that she is more and more real, while trying to understand what the alien force wants through this manifestation process. The attempt at understanding what is going on leads to some conclusions about how humans encounter what is different from them, while the emotional conflict between the psychologist and the image of his dead wife illustrates related issues concerning desire and how humans express that desire. Continue reading

The Village of Victory, NY has elected a new mayor, Green Party member James Sullivan. James Sullivan received 71 Continue reading

The Blessing of The Water & PicnicWe invite New Yorkers from the 500 fabulous neighborhoods to join mayoral candidate Continue reading

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES: Obama should reverse course and reject Bush-Cheney policies on the drug war, illegal Continue reading

[From Ballot Access News]The New York State Board of Elections recently revised its official November 2008 election returns, Continue reading

n Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 7 pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering will feature Dr. Scott Carlin, the founder Continue reading

Green Party leaders challenged the Obama Administration to reverse the failed policies and reject the agenda of the Bush Administration, Continue reading

http://gpny.fliggo.com/embed/t1c5g4lVReverend Billy Announces Green Party campaign for Mayor of New York City

Despite its negative connotations, anarchism can provide a non-anarchist political movement with many ideas based upon its practices and theoretical Continue reading

Despite its negative connotations, anarchism can provide a non-anarchist political movement with many ideas based upon its practices and theoretical speculations throughout the decades. The twentieth century has been the manifestation of various lines of thought that began in the nineteenth century. Before the sudden event of the Bolshevik Revolution, there was, to a limited degree, a public discussion of socialism, communism, and anarchism. It would be very common for socialists, communists, and anarchists to have meetings and public speaking venues. They were viewed as real alternatives. As a point of clarification, the difference between socialism and communism can be defined in a specific way. Socialists are Marxists that enter into power through elections while communists are Marxists who enter into power through revolution. Socialism made some electoral gains in the United States in the early twentieth century and in Europe as well later on. Communism became relegated to one side of an ideological warfare during the Cold War, and was easily caricatured. However, socialism became limited as only reformers within a democratic structure and communism reconstituted the centralization of power that was supposedly overthrown by revolution. In both cases, real systematic change was restricted. The anarchist tradition used a different approach which emphasized creating the new world in the shell of the old. In other words, real change was enacted through immanent structures that expressed both freedom and equality in a substantial way that was also local and voluntary. Unfortunately, anarchism as a movement that could effectively achieve the overall goals of socialism and communism was strongly misinterpreted as rooted in violence and a push to create absolute chaos. It can be very helpful, and very productive, for any political movement committed to social, economic, and ecological justice to understand the anarchist vision as a template. This process may need to ignore the term anarchism itself in order to look at its traits clearly and impartially. Continue reading

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Green Party leaders called the White House's reversal on excluding Single-payer advocates from a March 5 health care policy summit Continue reading

Green Party leaders said today that Americans should be furious over President Obama's barring of advocates for single-payer (also called Continue reading

Green Party leaders today offered critical comments on President Obama's recently announced plans for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the Continue reading

Israel's three-week attack on Gaza, during December 2008 and January 2009, left over 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead, and Continue reading

The Bronx County Green Party (BCGP) announced today that it has endorsed Bronx Community Board 9 member Walter Nestler as Continue reading

The following is part two of a series that explores various current economic aspects in a way that illustrates the Continue reading

The Green Party of New York State condemns the recent termination of Dr. Joel Kovel by Bard College after 20 Continue reading