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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. <br>
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I am sorry to see that. A rival 3rd party sputtering tired 1960's "radical" </font><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.2 (Win32)"><meta name="AUTHOR" content="Alex Walker"><meta name="CREATED" content="20090604;14270755"><meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="Alex Walker"><meta name="CHANGED" content="20090604;15015247"><style type="text/css">
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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 </font></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Venezuelan Greens at the GP National Convention last summer
in Chicago and why the <i>Movimiento Ecológico de Venezuela</i> reluctantly joi
ned the opposition to Hugo Chavez. <br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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From: Carol Hanisch <br>
To:<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> . . .</font>Alex Walker <AlexCathy@aol.com>; Cathy Deppe <CathyD@9to5.org><br>
Sent: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 6:27 am<br>
Subject: California P & F Party goes national<br>
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<div>So what do my California friends make of this?</div>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/conference-invitation">http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/conference-invitation</a><br>
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