[Lnc-business] FW: why are there two Green Parties?

[Scott L.]

Forwarded at the request of Paul Frankel.

 

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From: travellingcircus at gmail.com [mailto:travellingcircus at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 8:33 AM
To: Scott L.
Subject: Re: [Lnc-votes] [Lnc-business] Why are there two Green Parties?

 

 

Their website makes them out to be bigger than they are. Here is what
http://politics1.com/parties.htm  has to say about them (I emphasized the
part about them having chapters only in three cities): 



 <http://www.greenparty.org/> THE GREENS/GREEN PARTY USA (G/GPUSA) - When
people talk about "the Green Party" in the US, they are likely NOT talking
about this entity. The G/GPUSA is the older, very much smaller, and more
stridently leftist of the two Green parties. While the GPUSA also nominated
Nader for President back in 2000, Nader rejected the Right-click here to
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The Greens (1980s)G/GPUSA nomination (while embracing the other Green party,
listed above). Prominent Nader campaign strategist Jim Hightower described
the two Green factions as follows in 2001: "There are two Green party
organizations -- the [Green Party of the US] whose nomination Ralph accepted
and the much smaller one [G/GPUSA] ... on the fringes ... [with] all sorts
of damned-near-communistic ideas." Some in the G/GPUSA protested that
Hightower's comments were a bit unfair -- but read the G/GPUSA 2000 Platform
<http://www.greenparty.org/Platform.html>  (which remains the current
G/GPUSA platform) and decide for yourself. The G/GPUSA largely emphasizes
direct action tactics over traditional electoral politics. A majorty of the
G/GPUSA delegates and large number of party activists quit the group and
bolted to the larger Green Party of the US in 2001 (forming an informal
leftist caucus within the Green Party). The small splinter group remaining
within the G/GPUSA are more dogmatically Marxist. The G/GPUSA maintain
formal local affiliates <http://www.greenparty.org/structure.php>  only
Chicago, St. Louis and Philadelphia. The G/GPUSA has fielded a few state and
federal candidates over the years -- often running them in Green primaries
against candidates affiliated with the larger Green Party of the US. Related
G/GPUSA links include Synthesis/Regeneration <http://greens.org/s-r/>
(party magazine), and Green Politics <http://www.greenparty.org/newsletter/>
(quarterly e-newspaper).

 

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From: travellingcircus at gmail.com [mailto:travellingcircus at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 9:29 AM
To: Scott L.
Subject: Re: [Lnc-votes] [Lnc-business] Why are there two Green Parties?

 

Please share what I actually sent you with LNC. Calling G/GPUSA a national
party is a bit of a stretch. The Nader/Cobb rift in 2004 was IMO a much more
significant split in the Green Party than the G/GPUSA several years earlier.


paulie

 

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