The Forest Feeds Us

Posted January 31st, 2009 by admin

Back on January 13 th, 2009, my wife and partner Katey had come up with an idea for the theme of an art program, The Forest that Feeds Us.  Since I often write topical songs she asked me to write one for the forest.  So that evening I did and here it is, […]

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The First Hundred Days: A Precedent for the Next Hundred Years

Posted January 21st, 2009 by Howard Switzer

Brian Czech
President, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

 The First Hundred Days:  A Precedent for the Next Hundred Years
 The first thing Greens would do in office is continue leveling with Americans and resonating with their common sense.  We would clarify for all that the Wall Street obsession with economic growth - increasing production and consumption […]

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The Vicious Silence

Posted January 10th, 2009 by Howard Switzer

Gaza is being bombed by Israel. Frightened children, their hungry mothers and the rest of their poor families are being bombed.  Schools, hospitals, mosques, markets and other public places are being bombed.  The cover for this, the terrible excuse, is that they are attacking terrorists.  But what could be more terrifying that to […]

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The Coal Disaster

Posted January 10th, 2009 by Howard Switzer

It’s being called a huge environmental disaster but, unlike Katrina, the TVA coal ash pond dam collapse disaster was not caused by the environment.  Rather, this disaster was caused by the continued use of a dirty, poisonous fuel used in an outdated and inefficient mode of energy production, coal. Earthen dams holding the toxic […]

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Greens blast EPA lack of preparedness in handling TVA plant’s coal ash spill

Posted January 8th, 2009 by Green Party of the United States

Green Party leaders strongly criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s response to the recent spill of 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash from the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant.

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Duncan rates Paterson - says NY needs sustainable funding

Posted January 8th, 2009 by Green Party of the United States

Alison Duncan, the Green Party of New York State’s 2006 candidate for Lieutenant Governor, has rated Governor David Paterson on 25 Green Party challenges for his first year in office. The challenges, which are listed below, were first issued to Eliot Spitzer after he was elected to office in 2006. They include bringing National Guard […]

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Green Party condemns Israel’s massive air attack on Gaza, calls on US to rein in Israel and seek a ceasefire

Posted December 29th, 2008 by Green Party of the United States

The Green Party of the United States calls for an immediate end to Israel’s bombing attacks on Gaza, which in the past four days has already caused at least 364 deaths, including Palestinian women and children, with hundreds more wounded.

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State Green Party demands Obama un-invite California pastor Rick Warren to inauguration, suggests President-elect, Democratic Party ‘ambiguity’ may have helped passage of Prop. 8

Posted December 23rd, 2008 by Green Party of the United States

The Green Party of California - noting the Democratic Party’s national platform does not support same sex marriage - is demanding that President-elect Obama un-invite pro-Prop 8 pastor Rick Warren to perform the invocation for the Obama inauguration.

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Enacting a single-payer health care program will boost the ailing US economy, say Greens

Posted December 23rd, 2008 by Green Party of the United States

reen Party leaders urged Americans to take up President-elect Barack Obama’s call for discussion on health care and demand a single-payer national health care program, also called Medicare For All.

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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

Posted December 23rd, 2008 by Green Party of the United States

Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party’s 2008 presidential candidate, and other US delegates in Cuba for an international conference marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have issued a statement calling on the US to confirm and observe the tenets of the Declaration (http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html).

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