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Green Party candidate Dennis Spisak is running for Ohio Governor. by: Archangel M Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 11:47:28 PST (9 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) Being from Ohio, elections here are especially important to me as they have a more direct impact on the Buckeye State than do federal elections.  So it was heartening to read at USelections.com that there is an independent candidate from the left who is running for governor and who isn't culled from the pools of Big Business.  His name is Dennis Spisak, and he is running for governor this year.  You can check out his web site by clicking this LINK. Other candidates for governor are incumbent and Democrat Ted Strickland, Republican and businessboy John Kasich, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for U.S. president in 2000, and building contractor Ken Matesz on the Libertarian Party ticket. There's More... :: (1 Comments, 1159 words in story)

Dr. Jill Stein launches Green campaign for Massachusetts governor by: daveschwab Tue Feb 09, 2010 at 06:14:43 PST Dr. Jill Stein’s formal announcement on Monday of her campaign for governor of Massachusetts as the Green-Rainbow Party candidate drew coverage from media outlets including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, MySouthEnd.com, and Open Media Boston. “If you’ve had enough business as usual, if you’ve had enough of the culture of influence, if you’ve had enough payoffs and layoffs and rip-offs and bailouts, this is the campaign for you,” Stein told about three dozen cheering supporters who waved her green campaign signs. “It’s true I’ve never been a CEO and I’ve never been a Beacon Hill insider,” Stein said. “I’ve never huddled with health insurance executives who have denied people their health care. I’ve never met in the backrooms with predatory lenders or casino ambling executives or real-estate schemers. And I just don’t owe any favors to machine bosses or big-money donors who are looking to buy influence. Sorry. I’m a mother and a medical doctor and an advocate for healthy people, healthy economies and a healthy democracy.” The full text of Dr. Stein’s remarks can be found on her website JillStein.org. Jill Stein ran for governor once before in 2002, when she earned 3.5% of the vote and was widely recognized for her excellent performance in the one debate she was allowed in. She received over 20% of the vote in a 2004 state rep. race and garnered over 350,000 votes for secretary of state in 2006. She currently serves as a member of Town Meeting in Lexington. To learn more about Jill Stein’s campaign, check out JillStein.org. Discuss :: (0 Comments)

Former Green Party candidate to challenge Mass. gov. Deval Patrick as a Democrat by: rossl Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 12:44:34 PST (9 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) Grace Ross, who ran in 2006 as the Green Party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts, is now running in the Democratic primary for the same office, against incumbent governor Deval Patrick.  "I wasn't planning to run again," stated Ross, "but things got worse.  Things got worse for regular people." There's More... :: (1 Comments, 462 words in story)

You can help write the 2010 Green Party Platform by: daveschwab Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 10:39:35 PST ( - promoted by buhdydharma ) Attention Green Party members! I'd like to invite you to an experiment in online democracy. The Green Party of the United States is amending its platform for 2010. You are invited to help update the Green Platform in an open, collaborative process on GreenChange.org and GP.org, the website of the Green Party of the United States. A number of volunteers have already joined our platform writing team - will you help too? The Green platform represents our movement's collective aspirations for an American society based on peace, justice, democracy and sustainability. In the spirit of grassroots democracy, we want to maximize participation in the platform amendment process. So we've posted the 2004 Green platform, section by section, and we invite you to post your suggestions on how to improve it. Read and comment on the platform. Post your suggested amendments too. Democracy Social Justice Ecological Sustainability Economic Sustainability Nonviolence We have until February 15th to collaborate, discuss and debate, then we'll work with you to pass on your suggested amendments to your state Green Party. Only state Green parties and national party caucuses can submit amendments. The amendments must be sent to the Platform Committee no later than April 15th. This is your chance to lend your voice to the Green Party's vision for our world. I hope you'll join us today, and forward this invitation to your friends and colleagues. Peace! Discuss :: (2 Comments)

So You Want To Form A New Party? First Steps by: Archangel M Sat Sep 12, 2009 at 14:21:22 PDT This entry builds on what Something the Dog Said and rossl wrote in their own entries.  Before I get to the meat of my own text, I just want to summarize what each of the previous entries state.  Starting any political party, or building an existing one, is going to be a lot of hard work and progressives are going to face an uphill battle regardless of what we do.  If we're going to break away from the Democrats, however, it's worth the effort; there are parties such as the Progressives (currently in Vermont and Washington) and the Greens, among others, that have made substantial progress at local and state levels. That's the short version of what Something's and rossl's entries have to say.  I highly recommend reading them both in full.  Now, on to my own contribution to this subject.  Because I want to provide a real-world context to the topic at hand, I'm going to pick an existing political party (The Progressives), though feel free to substitute your own.  I'm going to lay out some first steps that can be taken to get the ball rolling. One more thing before I begin: know WHY you are forming a new political party, know what your goals are, and have realistic expectations about what you hope to accomplish.  Don't hold any illusions.  Unless either the Democrats or the Republicans implode, chances are you're not going to replace one of them on the national stage.  At most, and if you do things right, you'll force the Democrats to shift back to the left.  That's it.  If a new political party does rise to prominence, great, but that is only icing on the proverbial cake.  All you'll want to do is force one of the major parties to experience an ideological shift to the political left.  Expect at least a generation to pass before you get this result.  It was twenty years between the 1912 election, when Theodore Roosevelt led the Progressive Party and split the presidential election three ways (thus handing it to Democrat Woodrow Wilson) and that of 1932 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the New Dealers to power.  It was another generation before the Republicans built their party back up to the point where they could begin taking back political power in government.  Finally, don't let the progressive movement become subservient to your party - make the party subservient to the progressive movement.  David Sirota explains why far better than I can, so I'll let his words do it. And now, without further adieu... There's More... :: (11 Comments, 1295 words in story)

So you want to start a new party? Here's where to start by: rossl Tue Sep 08, 2009 at 15:08:28 PDT Seeing as how there's been some interest on the left recently of breaking from the Democratic Party and all of its corporate ties, I figured I would clue you in to the various third party challenges to the two party system that have the highest chances of success around the nation.  This is by no means a complete list, but it's what I could come up with from my decently extensive knowledge of modern third party politics. There's More... :: (20 Comments, 1434 words in story)

Health Care Desperation by: rossl Tue Sep 01, 2009 at 14:37:24 PDT (9 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) Recently, with what is seemingly the whole political world anxiously awaiting the outcome of the so-called reform of health care in America, I've started to feel desperate, lonely, and hopeless.  And I'm as far from a teabagger as you can get! If you've got two eyes and a brain, it's impossible not to see that the corporate domination of our government is ruining any chance of true universal health care coming out of the "Obamacare" bill.  Pharmaceutical companies, the insurance industry, and their partners-in-crime shoved single-payer off the table and now they're trying to do the same with the public option, a kind of single-payer-lite that is the last hope of many progressives for decent reform.  Obama and a majority of the Democrats in Congress have not been able to stand up to special interests enough to really protect the interests of the American people.  And perhaps they don't want to. There's More... :: (4 Comments, 530 words in story)

Greens Mobilize for Malik Rahim for Congress by: rjones2818 Sun Nov 16, 2008 at 13:48:10 PST Original article, via Ronald Hardy, via Green Party Watch: Louisiana turned out one of the better showings for Cynthia McKinney on November 4, which may have been due to her embracing of the Reconstruction Platform and strong post-Katrina positions. There's More... :: (1 Comments, 206 words in story)