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Comment on Chris Hedges’ Empty Chair Speech by R j Schwichtrnberg

R j Schwichtrnberg — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:06:44 +0000

We started the whole local green shebang in the OC from a community garden in Costa Mesa. We worked together to fight the machines with thin dimes from shallow pockets then as now. The electoral street muscle in this county was stretched with our spirits and we will continue to think beyond occupy. We Are witness to the body politic, we are the left flank that will be present with passion and firm with desire to educate first ,demonstrate alternatives for a planet worthy of our relationship with all that is. You can’t miss it we’ve been branded and then misbranded, laughed at then despised.
We win every opportunity we can just by being there together to laugh even to consensus.

Comment on Chris Hedges’ Empty Chair Speech by Lorna's Voice

Lorna's Voice — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:51:54 +0000

Fair enough!

Comment on Chris Hedges’ Empty Chair Speech by kitchenmudge

kitchenmudge — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:52:11 +0000

What would I say to Chris Hedges and the like? Haven’t I said enough? It’s not unusual, and not particularly bad, to talk about failings, but people should talk about what they know, not what they don’t know.

Comment on Chris Hedges’ Empty Chair Speech by Lorna's Voice

Lorna's Voice — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:43:35 +0000

Seems to me that a common strategy among all parties and pundits is to point out what is wrong without offering any tangible ideas about how to fix anything. What would you suggest as a way to address your concerns? What’s working (if anything) that can be built upon in the Green Party? What would you say to Chris Hedges or others like him who seem point out the failings of the past but not the possibilities of the future?

Comment on Chris Hedges’ Empty Chair Speech by kitchenmudge

kitchenmudge — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:20:31 +0000

Ballot access is, unfortunately, very difficult to regain once it’s lost. The whole idea of maintaining it is to keep it available for any good candidate that might come along.

Many of my readers know lotsa things wrong with the GP, much more than any non-member would know about. None of them couldn’t be cured by an influx of new members. When major “lefty” figures like Hedges and Nader are silent or dismissive about us, they discourage new members, and make the same self-fulfilling prophesy about us that the msm makes.

Comment on Chris Hedges’ Empty Chair Speech by Tian

Tian — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:01:49 +0000

I actually agree with him that putting too much energy into ballot access can be a mistake. Lately I’ve been mostly doing green movement work with Bike Party. If you take that “think globally, act locally” thing to extremes, it seems that bicycles are a global touchstone that make sense in a lot of relatively sustainable places. Running candidates does make sense, and it is worth doing, but moreso when you have a steady stream of willing volunteers. When nobody wants to run ballot lines don’t help much.

Comment on Chris Hedges’ Empty Chair Speech by Charlotte Avant

Charlotte Avant — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:57:05 +0000

I identify as a deep ecologist, peace worker, and civil rights activist. If not the Green Party, what other party gives priority to these issues for me to join? Good job, Greens. Keep up the good work.

Comment on Chris Hedges’ Empty Chair Speech by Matt Leslie

Matt Leslie — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:43:40 +0000

“Not much in the way of strikes in my own locality, but I do recall Greens standing with striking grocery workers in 2004, and buying them pizza. That’s seven years before Occupy.”

Yes, the Green Party of OC read a statement of support to hundreds (thousands?) of striking workers and other sympathetic union members at a mass rally in 2004. The Democrats were caught off-guard, and had to scramble to put something together for the next event.

I generally like what I hear from Chris Hedges, but his griping about the Green Party strikes a familiar key. Celebrity progressives like himself are always crying in the wind about how there is no mass progressive movement, but somehow they are too busy themselves to work tables at events, call voters, write letters, and generally do whatever it takes to contact people to let them know that the movement they seek is right here, and what’s more, it’s actually on the ballot. I hope he keeps up his inspirational work of getting arrested, but if he wants to see a more effective Green Party he ought to learn a little more about what does work before concentrating on what doesn’t.