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<DIV>Caroline<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 6/4/09, alexcathy@aol.com <I><alexcathy@aol.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: alexcathy@aol.com <alexcathy@aol.com><BR>Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: California Peace and Freedom Party Goes National<BR>To: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org, gplac-forum@lists.cagreens.org, gpbc@googlegroups.com<BR>Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 3:33 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Green Friends, <BR><BR>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><BR>I am sorry to see that. A rival 3rd party sputtering tired 1960's "radical" </FONT>
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<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size=2>clichés is, in my opinion, *NOT* what the world needs now and will only confuse the issue. <BR><BR>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><BR>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><BR>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></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>Alex Walker<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>-----Original Message-----<BR>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><BR>
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<DIV>So what do my California friends make of this?</DIV>
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