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I'll acknowledge that the three videos put on the web by the Green Party in response to the President's message are far from professional. In one, for example, John Eder of Maine tells us that "You don't even have to be smart to run for office.". Thanks John! *L*

Even so, the videos do tell a bit about the Green Party. Two are from elected Greens. Two are women. All are young. All are passionate. All are comitted to being the change they want to make.

The videos are refreshing to me in one sense, and that is that it clearly shows that the Green Party can elect average folks to important local offices without turning them into smooth professional politicians.

I want to extend an invitation to national reps to post here about the recent Delegate Allocation Proposal. I don't understand it, and I bet many other Greens don't, either. Just looking down the vote list makes it clear it was controversial. What were the issues? What happens now? Please catch your constituents up!

The proposal, which would change the way delegates to the Green National Committee are apportioned and allow for proxy voting for no longer than a year, had to pass a 2/3 muster to win. It failed that.

Cat Wood of California has written on the Green National Committee listserve that the California Greens might re-evaluate their continuing association with the USGP.

More details and links can be found at my blog, Green News and Opinion

Remember back in 2004, when Ohio was the new Florida? It wasn't the Democrat you saw calling for democracy, or standing up for himself! No, you saw the Green and the Libertarian calling for the votes to all be counted. Well, it's resulted in two felony convictions at this point, and might be creeping into the public consciousness.

The Nuclear Regulatory Comission has ruled that companies who own and run nuclear power stations and other nuclear related facilities like waste storage can't be expected to implement prevention programs to safeguard their nuclear materials, therefore they need only plan to clean up after the fact. The report is right right here.

Now I live less than ten miles as the crow flies from two reactors at the Catawba Nuclear Station. They are less than twenty miles from the Charlotte airport. A stolen plane could crash into the reactor within minutes of take off.

If you don't recognize it yourself, read all about it!

Frankly, I think they're a little overoptimistic about the results of a procedural foul-up, but see what you think.

Chalk up another milestone for the Green Party! Well, soon, anyhow. Some time this week, the FEC will consider our application for a Senatorial Campaign Committee. Assuming they approve us, we'll be only the third party in history to have an SCC (not to be confused with the SC, the CCC, or the old CC).

from The Nation; by John Nichols

Viewers of Fox News, listeners to Rush Limbaugh and all the other sorry deadenders who choose Bush administration propaganda over perspective will be shocked to learn that the debate about global warming has been over for a long time.

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator

• Greens urge Congress, media, and public to be skeptical about 'Yellow Cake Propaganda' -- a Bush Administration disinformation campaign to justify going to war, similar to deception behind Iraq invasion in 2002-2003

• Impeachment is necessary to halt Bush's war agenda, restore the rule of law to the executive branch

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders appealed to Congress embers today to prevent the Bush Administration from launching military attacks and a possible war on Iran.