The Green Alliance
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The Green Alliance is a national network of Green Party
political clubs in the United States
, which are local membership organizations for Green activists. It is a membership organization, and requires payment of an annual fee to maintain good standing in the organization.
The goals of the Green Alliance are:
1) building rank-and-file democracy and power in the Green Party so that it lives up to its principle of grassroots democracy, and
2) educating and acting for a radical social, ecological, and economic democracy in place of capitalism's exploitation and ecological destruction.
The Officers of the Green Alliance Coordinating Committee, elected on June 25, 2004, to serve until the next annual Congress of the Green Alliance, are as follows:
Walt Contreras Sheasby (now deceased)http://www.green-rainbow.org/pipermail/needtoknow/2004-August/002546.html and Howie Hawkins
co-founded the Green Alliance.
Green Alliance Locals exist in:
, usually referred to as Carbondale (in combination with subsequent events, and the decision of the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) to endorse the Boston Proposal and follow through with the commitments made in it) ultimately led a large number of G/GPUSA members to leave the organization. http://web.greens.org/~jsutter/ggpusa/ Many of these individuals in turn later came together to found The Green Alliance http://web.greens.org/~cls/gp/allianceinit.html, out of a desire to bring grassroots "movement" politics into the Green Party of the United States (the successor organization to the ASGP), which they saw as being overly focused on "electoral" politics, and also relatively conservative.
Green Party (United States)
The Green Party of the United States is a nationally recognized political party which officially formed in 1991. It is a voluntary association of state green parties. Prior to national formation, many state affiliates had already formed and were recognized by other state parties...
political clubs in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, which are local membership organizations for Green activists. It is a membership organization, and requires payment of an annual fee to maintain good standing in the organization.
The goals of the Green Alliance are:
1) building rank-and-file democracy and power in the Green Party so that it lives up to its principle of grassroots democracy, and
2) educating and acting for a radical social, ecological, and economic democracy in place of capitalism's exploitation and ecological destruction.
The Officers of the Green Alliance Coordinating Committee, elected on June 25, 2004, to serve until the next annual Congress of the Green Alliance, are as follows:
- Peter LaVenia, President and Co-Chair, Albany, NY
- Bob Nanninga, Vice-President and Co-Chair, Encinitas, CA
- Jared Laiti, Co-Chair Santa Rosa, CA
- Alex K. Briscoe, Treasurer, Chicago, IL
- Belinda Coppernoll, Secretary, Ellensburg, WA
- Bahram Zandi, Web Manager Rockville, MD
Walt Contreras Sheasby (now deceased)http://www.green-rainbow.org/pipermail/needtoknow/2004-August/002546.html and Howie Hawkins
Howie Hawkins
Howie Hawkins is an American politician and activist with the Green Party of the United States and Socialist Party USA. He co-founded the anti-nuclear Clamshell Alliance in 1976 and the Green Party in the United States in 1984. He was New York's Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in the...
co-founded the Green Alliance.
Green Alliance Locals exist in:
- Syracuse, NY
- Albany, NY
- Cook County, IL
- Baltimore, MD
History
The controversial failure of the Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA) to endorse the Boston Proposal at its annual Congress in 2001 in Carbondale, IllinoisCarbondale, Illinois
Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, in the state of Illinois, within the Southern Illinois region. It is located at the junction of Illinois Route 13 and U.S. Route 51, southeast of St. Louis, Missouri, on the northern edge of the Shawnee National Forest...
, usually referred to as Carbondale (in combination with subsequent events, and the decision of the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) to endorse the Boston Proposal and follow through with the commitments made in it) ultimately led a large number of G/GPUSA members to leave the organization. http://web.greens.org/~jsutter/ggpusa/ Many of these individuals in turn later came together to found The Green Alliance http://web.greens.org/~cls/gp/allianceinit.html, out of a desire to bring grassroots "movement" politics into the Green Party of the United States (the successor organization to the ASGP), which they saw as being overly focused on "electoral" politics, and also relatively conservative.