The Green Party Platform : Ecological and Energy Sustainability

The human community is an element of the Earth community, not the other way around. All human endeavors are situated within the dynamics of the biosphere. If we wish to have sustainable institutions and enterprises, they must fit well with the processes of the Earth.

The ideology of industrialism, in both capitalist and communist countries, insists that modern society lives on top of nature and should rightly use and despoil the rest of the natural world as we desire—because any loss of the ecosystems is merely an externality” in economic thought and because any problems can be addressed later by a technological fix. We are now living through the painful consequences of that arrogant, ignorant perspective. Many of our children suffer from accumulations of mercury and other toxins in their neurological systems, environmentally related cancer is on the rise, and our air and water are increasingly polluted. Meanwhile, our ecosystems are being compromised by the spreading presence of genetically engineered organisms.

Timothy Kincaid

The Hollis F. Price Middle College High School is undoubtedly a successful school. As a collaboration between the Memphis school district and LeMoyne-Owen College, it provides an opportunity for gifted African-American students to earn credits towards their college degrees while still in high school. And by selecting only 150 of the district’s best students, it avoids many of the problems that plague public schools: fighting, truancy, and falling educational standards.

David Doonan was considering a run for public office last year, but not necessarily for Mayor. But when then Mayor Chris McCormick, was quoted in the local paper as saying "things are easier to get done when the public doesn't show up"

Doonan knew he had to run. "That was really the turning point for me". Doonan said, "People felt like they were shut out of the process, that decisions were being made without public input".

April 22—Several students and workers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are entering the sixth day of a sit-in in Chancellor James Moeser’s lobby, the longest sit-in at UNC since 1993. About 25 students and workers entered the administration building on April 17 and have been occupying it ever since.

These students and workers are affiliated with Student Action with Workers (SAW), a UNC group affiliated with United Students against Sweatshops, as well as several other campus groups that are part of the Sweatfree Coalition and the community-based youth group FIST—Fight Imperialism, Stand Together.

Brand names such as Nike and Adidas are currently partnered with UNC to make apparel bearing the “Carolina” name. These brands source the apparel from factories all over the world and have been paying increasingly lower prices for the apparel.

North Carolina ranks as the 3^rd worst state in the nation for open ballot access.

This means third parties and candidates are essentially kept out of elections. A simple solution is to reduce the number of signatures required to gain ballot access – a step many other states have already taken.

Written by Galés Gabirondo Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Bill Gates has called for "creative capitalism" - that is a philanthropy spurred on by profit. But Galés Gabirondo unmasks creative capitalism to reveal it as philanthro-capitalism. She uses the Bill Gates/Rockeffeler initiative, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, to show just how devastating it can be when good-will meets a corporate driven and market hungry capitalism.

In September 2006, the Bill & MelindaGates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation teamed up to launch “AGRA” a $150 million Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.

Tell Your Congressional Rep. to Vote for HR 5036 "The Emergency Election Assistance for Secure Elections Act"

Americans need to be able to trust the counting of the vote on Election Day. Paperless electronic voting is rife with computer mistakes and security problems. Only 17 states have a voter verified paper record and require an audit. With no paper record it is impossible to audit the vote and we cannot be sure the vote was counted accurately. Peace voters can only have an impact if we are sure our votes are counted as they are cast.

Are you in danger of getting kicked out of your house or rental unit because of the mortgage crisis?

Do you work full time but keep falling behind on your bills?

Do you find it impossible to balance health care needs with the cost of everything else—from food, transportation and education to just trying to get a little enjoyment out of life?

Don’t beat yourself up. It’s not because you did something wrong.

You have plenty of company. Many tens of millions in this country are really suffering. Your problems are not personal. Even if you did everything “right”—struggled to get an education and job skills, struggled to find full-time work, struggled to be pleasant and agreeable on your job even when you were justifiably angry over conditions—you could still be in the same boat.