Greens Call for Balancing State Budget with Fat Cat Taxes, Amnesty for Non-violent drug prisoners
The Green Party of NYS renewed their call today for a carbon tax and the stock transfer tax, which would
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Green Party Calls for Carbon Tax, Higher Taxes for the Rich and Wall Street, to Resolve State Budget Crisis
The Green Party of NYS today offered a number of alternatives to resolve the state's fiscal crisis, calling for a
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Statement on human rights, with a challenge to Obama, from Cynthia McKinney and fellow US delegates attending international conference in Cuba
Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party's 2008 presidential candidate, and other US delegates in Cuba for an international conference marking the
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Green Party US offers six big steps for economic recovery
The Green Party of The United States supports workers occupying a factory in Chicago after layoff: bailout money isn’t being
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Greens offer six big steps for economic recovery
Green Party leaders said today that the incoming Obama Administration and Congress should take six major steps to reverse the
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Green-Rainbow Party files request for investigation of FBI targeting
The Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party has filed a formal request with the Department of Justice for an investigation into the process
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Illinois Green Party Statement on Arrest of Gov. Rod Blagojevich
We in the Illinois Green Party are deeply troubled by the arrest of Governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief-of-staff John
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NEW DIMENSIONS IN IDEOLOGICAL PROFILING
Both the culture war and the class war reveal the importance of the political in social life, as well as
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NEW DIMENSIONS IN IDEOLOGICAL PROFILING
Both the culture war and the class war reveal the importance of the political in social life, as well as a broader political spectrum beyond just liberal and conservative.
For the past twenty years or so, there has been two accusations directed toward liberals and conservatives in various media and public debates. The liberals accuse the conservatives of waging culture war, while conservatives accuse the liberals of waging class war. Liberals have been afraid to engage in the culture war since that would require taking an oppositional stance to what has been considered traditional and therefore wholesome. Conservatives are reluctant to engage in the class war since that would reveal a complicity in the current economic drawbacks and exploitation through the various stages of capitalism in the modern era. From an impartial perspective, the two conflicts reveal that there are radical and traditional poor people as well as radical and traditional rich people. The term radical in a cultural sense can be aligned with the new and the avant garde, and the term traditional can be seen as a reluctance toward cultural change or even a direct atavism. For clarification, it should also be noted that the use of the terms rich and poor would imply a difference of opinion on how the benefits of an economy should be distributed and who are the most important actors in an economy. Being poor would imply a collective distribution and action, while being rich would imply an individual distribution and action. In other words, the poor might be inclined to form groups to achieve economic goals, considering their conditions, and the rich would emphasize rugged individualism, also considering their conditions.
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GPNY Calls the Appointment of Sen. Clinton as Secretary of State "Four More Years Without Change!"
The Green Party of New York State strongly condemns the decision of President-elect Barack Obama to appoint New York Senator
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GPNYS Endorses March 21st Peace March
The Green Party of New York has endorsed demonstrations on Saturday, March 21, in D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco ,
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GPNY Calls the Appointment of Sen. Clinton as Secretary of State "Four More Years Without Change!"
The Green Party of New York State strongly condemns the decision of President-elect Barack Obama to appoint New York Senator
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Greens Oppose Nomination of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State
The Capital District Greens criticized President-elect Obama today for nominating Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) to be his Secretary of State,
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Text of Cynthia McKinney's speech prepared for conference in Damascus on Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the denial of the Right of Return for Palestinians
2008 Green presidential candidate and former six-term Congress member Cynthia McKinney has published the text of her speech prepared for
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GPNYS Signs Tolerance for Immigrants Advertisement
The Green Party in NY has signed an ad paid for the Long Island Wins, a group of people working
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JEFFERSON WAS A MARXIST, AND OTHER COMMENTS ON ANTI-CAPITALISM
Workers owning the means of production is still a valid idea, and can support the growth of authentic democracy.
In the last month of the presidential election, Barack Obama’s tax plan was characterized as a redistribution of wealth by conservatives and the Republican Party. This claim was incorrect for two reasons. First, it did not reflect the reality of the platform of the Democratic candidate which was in fact very similar to the approach of John McCain’s platform. Second, the perspective offered on any kind of redistribution of wealth as something negative obscured the actual facts of such an endeavor. A redistribution of wealth, either through taxes or other ways, can only be a short-term solution to issues of wage disparity and economic injustice. Both candidates of the two-party system fail to address the issue of disempowerment in economic terms that can severely limit democracy in political terms. The very idea of a redistribution of wealth points to a structural flaw in capitalism that both candidates agree to ignore, assuming that the overall economic system is sound. But a redistribution of wealth is not as effective as a redistribution of the means of production. This concept, originally advocated by Marx, can extend beyond a strict doctrine of Marxist communism to become an integral component of a new economic method that is more aligned with what American citizens expect of democracy in their society.
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Green-Rainbow Party stands with Turner
The Green-Rainbow Party stands with Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, who has been a tireless servant in the broad struggle
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Greens urge Obama to appoint Cabinet members dedicated to real change, not more corporate operatives and warhawks like Rahm Emanuel
Green Party leaders called on President-elect Barack Obama to appoint a Cabinet that will pursue real reform, in accord with
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Greens focus on electing Malik Rahim, Louisiana Green Party candidate for the US House on Dec. 6
Green Party leaders are focusing on the campaign to elect Malik Rahim, Louisiana Green candidate for the US House in
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Louisiana Congressional Candidate Honored for Commitment to Humanity
Thomas Merton, philosopher and noteworthy catholic author and theologian once said, "We must make the choices that enable us to
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Green Party of California endorses mass protests Saturday across the nation, and the state against Prop. 8, says it rejects legislation that legalizes a 'hate crime'
The Green Party of California endorsed mass, worldwide demonstrations this Saturday (November 15) in every state in the nation, including
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Public Memorial for Peter Camejo, former Green Party gubernatorial candidate, activist, planned for Sunday, Nov. 23
public memorial celebrating the life of former gubernatorial, presidential and vice-presidential candidate Peter Camejo will be held SUNDAY, Nov. 23,
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CT Green Party To File Complaint That Write In Votes Were Not Counted In State Election
Green Party of Connecticut officials will file a complaint with local and state election boards that "REGISTERED" WRITE IN votes
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Green Party racks up Election Day 2008 victories, new percentage records
The Green Party's 2008 candidates for the US House doubled the number of votes they received collectively from the number
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30 Days to Congressman Malik Rahim
The elections are not done After Hurricane Gustav, the Louisiana Secretary of State pushed
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