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The Greens / Green
Party USA
PO Box 1406 Chicago, Illinois 60690 1-866-GREENS2 gpusa@igc.org Description: Radical political party advocating various left-wing ideologies and programs. Party platform proposes revoking the U.S. Constitution to rearrange American government to resemble a bizarre blend of Bernsteinian socialism (total welfare state), Soviet-style bureaucracy (commissariats and single-chamber legislatures), Nazi-style private enterprise (totally controlled by government agents), and environmental protectionism (any government can ban any substance it regards as toxic or undesirable). Green Party of Texas activist lawyer David Cobb hung a banner and the 2001 Exxon Mobil shareholders meeting, reading "Stop Killing For Oil." Green Party platform is at http://www.greenparty.org/Platform.html. Green Party year 2000 presidential ticket offered presidential candidate Ralph Nader, anti-corporate icon, and vice-presidential candidate Winona LaDuke, long-time Native American activist and Democratic Party agent. Background: The founding meeting of the U.S. Greens was held in 1984 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where 62 activists gathered at the invitation of:
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The group named itself the Committee of Correspondence (after early American revolutionaries) and set up a temporary office in St. Paul. The meeting endorsed "ten key values", first four borrowed from the "four pillars" of the German Greens:
to which they added six more:
The office was moved to St. Louis in 1985 while the movement suffered paralysis by consensus. The first national meeting was held in 1987 at Amherst, Massachusetts. There factions developed, split into grassroots activists emphasizing direct action and building alternative institutions, and electoral activists pushing to organize a Green party. The second national gathering, called the Greens Congress, met in Eugene, Oregon in 1989 with inconclusive results. The third national gathering was in Estes Park, Colorado in 1990 the produces twenty position statements. The fourth national gathering was in Elkins, West Virginia in 1991 where the organization's name was changed to The Greens (USA) and attendees adopted a structure to accommodate both electoral and nonelectoral activists. In 1992, Green parties gained ballot status in California and Alaska. During the 1990s, the parties spread and grew in size and influence. In 2000, the Green Party USA nominated consumerist Ralph Nader and Native American activist Winona LaDuke as their candidates for president and vice-president of the United States. Many Democrats feel they split the Gore vote and helped elect George W. Bush. Back to Exxon Mobil Attack Campaigns Master Page
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former
New Left organizer and theorist Harry Boyte.