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Green Party to Democratic Party apologists: The message of the Wall Street protests is not ‘Vote Democrat’

frmr Green Party NYS co-chair Ian Wilder at OWS

frmr Green Party NYS co-chair Ian Wilder at OWS

Green Party leaders sharply criticized Democratic Party supporters online and in the media who have tried to turn the ongoing Occupy Wall Street, Occupy America, and October 2011 demonstrations across America into an appeal to vote Democrat and reelect President Obama in 2012. Many of the protesters have expressed their disgust with two-party politics (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wall-street-protesters-disgusted-parties-14687840) and the influence of corporate money.  Organizers have rejected attempts to shoehorn the movement into any party and assert that the protesters come from diverse political persuasions. Greens Party activists, who are participating in the protests and among the organizers, have pointed to the Green Party’s alternative vision for America, as expressed in the Green New Deal (http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/08/11/62-green-candidates-endorse-green-new-deal).

The Green Party offers a platform for peace, economic security for working people, millions of new green jobs in conservation and clean energy development, an end to fossil fuel addiction, real steps for curbing global climate change and restoring the health of the planet, universal health care (Medicare For All), and reforms that would limit the power of corporations and restore the promise of participatory democracy and fair elections.  Green candidates do not accept corporate money.

The Democratic Party does not speak for the Occupy Wall Street, Occupy America, and October 2011 protesters.  No political party speaks for the protesters, not even the Green Party.  The protesters speak for themselves.  The Green Party has endorsed and joined the demonstrations because we share the same frustration and anger as the other protesters.  Greens are there because we bring alternative ideas like the Green New Deal.  And we’re there because we encourage the 99 percent — We The People — to organize, end pro-corporate two-party rule, and replace the politicians in public office who enabled Wall Street’s theft of America’s future.  This can only happen through an independent alliance with the same diversity we’re seeing at the protests: labor activists, Greens, progressives, anarchists, libertarians, nonvoters, disappointed Democrats and Republicans, and all others who want real change.

Farheen Hakeem

Farheen Hakeem

Farheen Hakeem, Green Party candidate for the Minnesota State Senate in District 61 (http://www.farheenhakeem.org) and co-chair of the Green Party of the United States: “Say no to the parties of war and corporate money!  That’s our message to all Americans who are worried about the dangerous direction that the two Titanic Parties have steered our country.  If the field of presidential candidates is limited to incumbent Obama and the Republican nominee after the primaries, then everything the Wall Street protesters are talking about will be erased from the election season debate and from the media.  Hopes for a progressive challenge in the Democratic primaries are unrealistic.  The challenger will inevitably be defeated by the Obama campaign juggernaut, which is already loaded with corporate campaign checks, and the challenger’s supporters will find themselves muzzled, with the expectation that they’ll vote Democrat.” 

Terry Baum, Green Party candidate for Mayor of San Francisco (http://terryjoanbaum.com): “Barack Obama received more Wall Street money than any other candidate in US history.  Instead of change, the Obama Administration gave us Phase 2 of the Bush-Cheney agenda: more Wall Street bailouts, more endless war, more offshore oil drilling and the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline, more mountaintop detonation mining.  Instead of financial security for Americans, we got plans to slash Social Security and Medicare.  We got minimal assistance for people facing home foreclosures and more crushing debt for college students.  We got silence about the racist death penalty and record-high mass incarceration of young black, brown, and poor people in a greedy private prison system.  We got a health care bill with mandates that are a direct public subsidy for the insurance industry (originally a Republican proposal), but no universal health care or controls for
skyrocketing medical costs.  We got impunity for Bush officials who authorized torture and other war crimes — and more extraordinary rendition, more warrantless surveillance of US citizens, more erosion of due process, more persecution of whistleblowers, and even a secret presidential hit list of Americans targeted for assassination.”

Cheri Honkala, Green candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia (http://www.cherihonkala.com) running on an anti-foreclosure platform, speaking at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC on October 6: “What I’m doing is not symbolic.  It’s concrete and Bill and Aida and Glenn who’s here with me today, like millions of people across this country are gonna lose their homes… unless you take this seriously and not just march about it, pray about it, and sing about it but help me fill every damn poll in Philadelphia where there’s a birthplace of revolution and change…  We can do this again in this country and take our country back!”

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• Sanda Everette, co-coordinator of the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of California: “If pro-Democrat web sites and the media believe that the message of the protests is ‘Vote Democrat’ and ‘Reelect Obama’ in 2012, they’ve missed the point.  The current demonstrations became necessary after Election Day 2008, when too many liberal, progressive, and antiwar Democrats declared ‘Mission Accomplished’ with Barack Obama’s election victory.  The Democratic Party has proved itself as dedicated to Wall Street as the GOP.  We look forward to more protests and direct action as the election season unfolds, especially during the 2012 Democratic and Republican conventions.”

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See also:

• “Green Party of the US endorses, joins ‘October 2011’ protest against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and 2012 austerity budget”
Green Party media advisory, September 27, 2011
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=450

• October 2011 http://october2011.org

• Occupy Wall Street http://www.occupywallst.org

• Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
NYC General Assembly: The Official Website of the GA at #OccupyWallStreet
http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occupation-of-new-york-city

• It’s Our Economy http://itsoureconomy.us

7 Responses

  1. Want a waste free and more efficient government? Join the rest of us by signing the petition to get President Obama to work with Congress in Implementing Lean and Six Sigma from the top down across the government. Sign here:
    http://www.wh.gov/4b7
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    • Kimberly writes: At msisensei – Thanks for visiting our site, and for caring enough to try something. Though, I don’t waste my time asking Obama for favors. He had a long time to listen. The left gave him an election and several years of sitting on their hands, and Obama is still bombing and torturing people, and he is still financially supporting the 1%. Wouldn’t waste my breath asking him nicely.

  2. Kwilder,
    I appreciate your opinion. This is just one step in our approach. WE have also met with Newt Gingrich to have him push the idea in debates as well as having meetings scheduled to meet with both republican and Democratic members of congress. Even though we want an approved government, we are still wiling to follow the current processes to make our voices heard.

    [Editor’s Note: Just to clarify, this post was actually put up by Ian Wilder. Ian is an enrolled Green Party member. Kimberly Wilder is me. I am a “blank”, and have not read this whole article.

    Many thanks for your comment, msisensei]

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