Re: [Marxism] What are the Greens, or waiting for the industrial proletarian Godot

[Benjamin Morgan <foreverblaze89@xxxxxxxxx>]

Comrade Ben:
   
  I have my reservations about the Green Party(which will most likely be 
expressed during a later post) However if any comrades are looking for a 
potential candidate I would be in remiss if I didn't mention comrade Brown
   
  Ben
   
  Elaine Brown, former chair of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, is 
seeking the nomination of the Green Party of the United States for President.

Brown, who ran as a Green in the 2005 Brunswick, Georgia, mayoral election 
where Republicans succeeded in illegally removing her name from both the ballot 
and the voter roll, intends to run on a platform that addresses the interests 
of poor and working families, in terms of living wages, free healthcare, decent 
housing and increased funding for public education and higher education; ending 
the war in Iraq; restoring the environment and bringing about economic parity. 
Strategically, she intends to target non-voters, specifically women under 30 
and African Americans, constituencies she believes are not represented by the 
nearly identical agendas of the Democrat and Republican parties, stating these 
crucial constituencies "have the power to build up an alternative party to 
truly challenge the status quo."

"I believe I have the ability to raise consciousness among disaffected and 
disenfranchised poor and working people, women and blacks, to galvanize them to 
vote for a real second party. Such a broadening of the Green Party base will 
allow us to start winning big time, at the state level and nationally, so that 
we can overturn some of the most egregious policies and laws (like the three 
strikes crime bill which has so devastated black communities) and introduce 
progressive legislation. There are a lot of great community organizations 
working for change, performing Sisyphean tasks that cannot address the 
fundamental problems. I believe the time is right to use the ballot to make the 
kinds of changes we know must be made to serve the people we represent."

Brown stated she is running as a Green because: "Not only does the Green Party 
support reparations for slavery, but the party¹s ten key values represent the 
values and interests of poor and working people. Only the Green Party offers 
clear positions on the needs of the people, in terms of a living wage, decent 
housing, food, education, and medical care. The Democrats and Republicans offer 
black and poor people nothing."

When asked what she hopes to achieve with her run, Brown said: "I know the 
party can earn a significant increase in votes and membership, which will 
increase our viability to take congressional seats, state house seats, and 
local offices; so that we can really start changing the way government 
operates." 


?Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has 
reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our 
arms.?
   
  ~ Ernesto "Che" Guevara
       
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