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The Forest Feeds Us
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
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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Greens blast EPA lack of preparedness in handling TVA plant’s coal ash spill
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
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
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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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 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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Enacting a single-payer health care program will boost the ailing US economy, say Greens
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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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
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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Gay rights supporters should protest Obama’s choice of antigay minister Rick Warren to deliver inaugural prayer, say Greens
reen Party activists challenged gay voters and advocates of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender rights to protest President-elect Barack Obama’s invitation to Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation.
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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 state budget that improves the future of all New Yorkers, rather than reacting out of fear of a budget shortfall.
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