Welcome to the Power Blog! This area will serve as a clearinghouse and forum for the open exchange of ideas and strategies for building Green Party Power locally. In order to preserve integrity and accountability to ourselves and each other, the option of using password protection on some posts will be utilized at the discretion of the individual authors and their corresponding Green Power Project chapters.
Why Are Democrats Trying to End the Independence of the Green Party of Connecticut?
One of Green Power Project's core missions is to call for the Green Party to be independent from the Democrats in both word and deed. We were alerted to this situation in the Green Party of Connecticut, which threatens to turn that state party into a satellite of...
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Howie Hawkins on the Case for an Independent Left Party: From the bottom up
We are going to be syndicating a few recent articles from across the web that we hope Green Party Power readers will read and use in the coming weeks and months to build their Green Party locals. Our goal is to head into 2019 and the presidential nominations season...
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Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese: Healthcare Impacts Everyone. Demand Transparency In Medicare For All
We are going to be syndicating a few recent articles from across the web that we hope Green Party Power readers will read and use in the coming weeks and months to build their Green Party locals. Our goal is to head into 2019 and the presidential nominations season with a clear sense of purpose and emphasis on Green independence, clarity of vision, and opposition to the duopoly, especially the Democratic Party.
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Jon Olsen: Ecosocialism Enters The US Political Dialogue
We are going to be syndicating a few recent articles from across the web that we hope Green Party Power readers will read and use in the coming weeks and months to build their Green Party locals. Our goal is to head into 2019 and the presidential nominations season with a clear sense of purpose and emphasis on Green independence, clarity of vision, and opposition to the duopoly, especially the Democratic Party.
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Don’t Forget, We Came Up With the Green New Deal, Improved National Medicare for All!
We applaud the efforts of Democrats for finally adopting what the Global Greens began to work on in in 2006 while noting that the delay of 12 years is very significant when it comes to climate change. The Green Party has been advocating for a massive jobs and public works program to transition our energy infrastructure rapidly over to renewable energy for more than a decade.
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Video: “For Comrades”
Artist Statement:
Prof. Cedric J. Robinson’s oeuvre, which sought to define the coordinates of what he called the Black Radical Tradition, is inspirational during Trump time. As a Green, I seek to actualize system change as opposed to limiting the range of this movement to electoralism. I think the history of the events in 2004 are still instructive moving forward.
Andrea E. Merida, GPUS Co-Chair: How do we handle violence against women? Some ideas about dealing with misogyny in our organizing spaces
I want to tell my own story about facing misogynyst violence and what we can do about it. The world is changing because of Kavanaugh, and we should make our organizing spaces ready for it.
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National Public Call: Ending the Wars at Home and Abroad with Cindy Sheehan and Ajamu Baraka
Cindy Sheehan, longtime antiwar activist and organizer, is speaking on her Women’s March on the Pentagon on Oct. 20 and 21. Green VP nominee Ajamu Baraka, Lead Organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace, will talk about the importance of the march and offer critical insights about how Green Party activists and progressives in general should approach the issues of war, imperialism, and militarism.
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Political Education: C. L. R. James interview on his book “Black Jacobins” (1970)
Following our recent national conference call, we came away with the conclusion, based on participant request, for further political education that elaborates upon the meaning and nature of socialism and its politics. This is conversation between CLR James and Studs...
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Political Education: Marxism After Marx
Following our recent national conference call, we came away with the conclusion, based on participant request, for further political education that elaborates upon the meaning and nature of socialism and its politics. David McLellan's Marxism After Marx is one of the...
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HowIe Hawkins: Progressive Democrats Have Little Power Without an Independent Left
Longtime Green Howie Hawkins, now running for Governor of New York on a multi-candidate Green ticket, wrote this piece in 2017 about the Working Families Party. WFP is one of several groups that claim they can make progressive change from within the Democratic Party....
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Political Education: Dr. Jared Ball and Dr. Josh Myers on Cedric J. Robinson and the Black Radical Tradition
Robinson reveals how W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright, by confronting Black mass movements, revised their positions on Western Marxism or broke with it altogether. The way they came to the Black Radical Tradition was more of an act of recognition than invention; they did not create the theory of black radicalism as much as found it in the movements of ‘ordinary’ Black people.
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Ajamu Baraka on Trump and the Politics of Neoliberal Distraction
“If Trump decides to ‘throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I. to spy on a journalist, he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama.’” With the outrageous decision by the Trump White...
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore: Don’t Reform Prisons, Abolish Them
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist, speaking at the 12/8/2012 conference CT Coalition to Oppose Indefinite Detention. From the Critical Resistance website: What is the PIC? What is Abolition? THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a...
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Flowers and Zeese: Trump era is “great disorder under the sky, situation excellent!”
Margaret Flowers was elected this month as one of the seven national co-chairs of the Green Party of the United States, and she serves as a steering committee member of the Green Power Project. We will continue to carry pieces Margaret writes, as these topics are...
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Download the Green Party Power Reader for Free Today!
This new collection of classic writings about the struggle against racial capitalism by both Greens and longtime freedom fighters is created to help build your Green local and Green Party Power! Get your copy today to share with Greens in your community.
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Hawkins: Democracy is not possible under capitalism
In 2016, Greens unanimously declared the party an ecosocialist party, and Howie Hawkins is discussing this promise and how democracy cannot truly play out under capitalism (click play on the audio feed at the end of this post). The Green Party platform on economic...
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Texas GP members call for strong anti-racist stance from party leaders
By now, many people are familiar with the situation in San Antonio over the weekend preceding July 4th, in which a local activist threw a drink into the face of a young person that was joking out loud about lynching Black people, while in a public establishment. It...
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Dr. Margaret Flowers: Unity and principled disagreement in the Green Party
An ongoing issue within the Green Party is the attempt to characterize differences of opinion as "factionalism." This phenomenon is a posture some "old guard Greens" take when confronting change. You may not realize that one of our core organizers, Dr. Margaret...
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Why Green Party politics must explicitly oppose white supremacy
Greens and Green Parties must embrace an anti-oppression awareness to build power. Failure to do so will inhibit building a base within the working class and reaching party goals.
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Free Family Movie Nights: A Surefire Way to Build Your Base
We're approaching the summertime and that means we have plenty of opportunities in the next few months to build our base memberships. One of the most certain ways to do this is by holding free Family Movie Nights at a local library or community center. Programming is...
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John Bellamy Foster – Marx’s ‘Capital’ and the Earth
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on economic, political, and ecological problems of capitalism and imperialism.
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Howie Hawkins – Ecological Socialism vs. Capitalist Exterminism
Longtime Green Howie Hawkins describes the praxis of eco-socialism. Howie has been a Green Party candidate for city council, mayor, and auditor in Syracuse as well as governor in New York State. His vote has grown from 3% for at-large councilor in 1993 to 48% for a district council seat in 2011. In 2015, he received 35% of the citywide vote for city auditor.
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Ralph Nader to ‘Decrepit’ Democrats: Stop Scapegoating Greens!
Over at Common Dreams, Jake Johnson writes about how Ralph Nader went on MSNBC to denounce the continuing demonizing of third party candidates while failing to clean their own house. Nader said Democratic Party: stop scapegoating, look in the mirror, and ask yourself...
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Green Party Power: Time for a new worker’s party
On this day, known as International Workers’ Day, the Green Party Power Project (GPPP) expresses its solidarity with workers in the United States and abroad and re-commits itself to the historic task of building an independent political formation that centers the...
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The Time to Oppose War is Now; Greens take Action
Written on behalf of the Green Party Power Coordinating Committee. Momentum toward war is escalating dangerously with new additions to the Trump war cabinet, John Bolton as national security adviser and Mike Pompeo as secretary of state. Bolton is a war criminal for...
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First Webpage Renovation Post
Welcome to the new and re-designed Green Party Power Project website and its new blog! This blog is going to offer a wide range of tools and utilities that allow us to succeed in building the Green Party into a viable alternative to the duopoly system. As a...
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