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FINDING GREENER PASTURES & GREENER VOTERS
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| Contributor | The Oncoming Storm |
| Last Edited | The Oncoming Storm May 20, 2005 04:03pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, May 14, 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ten years ago next month a small group of us staged a conference of third party activists that led to several other meetings culminating in this country's first Green presidential campaign in 1996 and, in suitably confused order, a few weeks later in the formation of a national association of Green parties.
Thus we can soon celebrate with a peculiar mixture of pride and disappointment the first decade of the American Green Party. The pride includes being part of a diaspora of the first great political idea since social democracy to spread across our globe without force of arms or even supranational organization. Upon meeting with a Green from, say, Tasmania or Africa, I am quickly reminded of how little borders interfere with our conversation for the only geography that limits us is the endangered atmosphere above our heads rather than some imaginary line drawn on a map.
The pride also comes from something that is still unappreciated by many Greens and certainly ignored by the media - namely that based on public opinion polls, Greens - despite their meager electoral showing - are the party that best reflects the view of a majority of Americans on such issues as the Iraq war, the environment, health care, campaign financing, population growth, genetically modified foods, and marijuana use. |
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