Green Party Members Worldwide Join U.S. Counterparts to Forge Global Solidarity in Trying Times

Amy Goodman
Democracy Now! / Video Report
Published: Friday 13 July 2012
“We have to strengthen the transatlantic bridge because more and more things will be decided on a global level.”

Green Party members from around the world have joined people from across the United States for the organization’s 2012 national convention in Baltimore. We discuss the Green Party’s global reach with Dr. Joachim Denkinger, Deputy Secretary General of The Greens Group in the European Parliament, and Justine McCabe of the International Committee of the Green Party of the United States. "I think we just recognized that something is moving in the U.S. in the Green field," McCabe says. "We have to strengthen the transatlantic bridge because more and more things will be decided on a global level."



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3 comments on "Green Party Members Worldwide Join U.S. Counterparts to Forge Global Solidarity in Trying Times"

Ron in NM

July 13, 2012 8:12pm

I have voted for Green Party members here in NM. It was a difficult time for me when Al Gore was the Democratic candidate for president and Ralph Nader was the Green Party candidate. Ralph was saying all the things that Gore should have said, IMO, and I was sorely tempted to vote for Ralph. However, at the last minute I decided to vote for Gore because I thought he had a better chance of beating Junior Bush than Ralph did. But I didn't like the fact that Gore didn't sound much like the Democratic candidates I knew years ago. So I voted for Gore, and Bush stole the election from him anyway, so I wished I had voted for Ralph. But I don't think Ralph caused Al to lose the election. The fact is that most of the people who voted for Ralph would not have voted for Gore anyway. Al should have sounded more like a Democrat, and his choice for VP candidate left me cold.

I wish we had a viable third or fourth party in this country, and our system wasn't a "winner-take-all" form of democracy. Progressives should have a voice in our government, but because much of the voting public has moved rightward (thanks to Rupert Murdoch's Fox News), progressives are often silenced in the national Democratic party.

Charles Thomas

July 13, 2012 1:05pm

One of the many weaknesses of the present Democratic Party is its lack of clearly defined principals and goals--resulting in the lack of willingness to stick its neck out. I think it needs to go back to its original progressive roots, part of which the Green Party practices. The extreme right on the other hand, with its present focus on hypocritical bigotry, hatred, ultra-nationalism, fear, fake religiosity, and corporate interests at the expense of this nations original principals, are very well united and focused.

frigate

July 13, 2012 12:29pm

I would like to see a Green Party contingent within the Democratic Party with the stated purpose of eventually taking it over by virtue of its better ideas and solutions.