[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: California Peace and Freedom Party Goes National

[alexcathy at aol.com]

 Dear Green Friends, 





An old friend in New York sent me the e-mail below.  It seems our comrades in the California Peace and Freedom Party are ambitious. 





I am sorry to see that.  A rival 3rd party sputtering tired 1960's "radical" clichés is, in my opinion, *NOT* what the world needs now and will only confuse the issue. 





When I replied to my friend, Carol's e-mail I had to explain why I am a registered Green and not P&F.  I had to write down all the reasons why I think our 10 Key Values are not only *superior* to Democratic Party liberalism, but also *superior* to that old "New Left" stuff.  I wrote about some of the history of the Greens in Europe and around the world.  I told her about my conversations with Venezuelan Greens at the GP National Convention last summer
in Chicago and why the Movimiento Ecológico de Venezuela reluctantly joined the opposition to Hugo Chavez. 

In my humble opinion, all systems based on the 19th Century model of industrial "civilization" are obsolete.  That means not only capitalist "liberalism" and "conservatism." It also means old-fashioned revolutionary socialism and all those little revolutionary nationalisms imitating British, French, Dutch, and Portuguese colonialism.  

The global Green parties, or something like it, is what the world needs now even if we, ourselves, sometimes don't have sense enough to know it. 







 
Alex Walker









 





-----Or
iginal Message-----


From: Carol Hanisch 


To: . . .Alex Walker <AlexCathy at aol.com>; Cathy Deppe <CathyD at 9to5.org>


Sent: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 6:27 am


Subject: California P & F Party goes national



















So what do my California friends make of this?











http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/conference-invitation








 


Carol Hanisch





hanisch at verizon.net

















“A crisis isn't a crisis until it hits the suits. ... The poor and hungry were devastated years before the well-off found crisis on their menu.” -- P. Sainath
















 





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