[Peace-discussion] Elaine Brown Withdrew from Green Party,Renounced Membership while Nader has vast majority of Green Votes: Gloria LaRiva from ANSWER ties Cynthia McKinney on California Peace and Freedom Party Ticket
henry duke
henryduke2004@yahoo.com
Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:50:42 -0800
Elaine Brown
139 Altama Connector, No. 107
Brunswick, Georgia 31525
telephone/facsimile: 912-261-1799
email: sistaelaine@gmail.com
For Immediate Release
Brunswick, Georgia,
December 28, 2007
ELAINE BROWN WITHDRAWS
FROM GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Renounces Green Party Membership
_____________________________
OPEN STATEMENT TO THE GREEN PARTY
As of today, I am no longer a candidate for the Green Party
nomination for president of the United States, and I hereby resign from all
affiliation with the Green Party. I believe the leadership of the Green
Party of the United States has been seized by neo-liberal men who entrench
the Party in internecine antagonisms so as to compromise its stated
principles and frustrate its electoral and other goals. They have made it
impossible to advance any truly progressive ideals or objectives under the
umbrella of the Green Party, and, thus, rendered it counterproductive for me
to go forward as a Green Party candidate or member.
I believe this small clique that has captured control of the Party
has transformed it into a repository for erstwhile, disgruntled Democrats,
who would violate the Party's own vision and sabotage the good will and
genuine commitment of the general membership. Indeed, these usurpers foster
a reactionary agenda, supporting partisans in and backers of the Bush wars
and disavowing the Party's more progressive tenets in favor of promoting
high-profile participation in the politics of the establishment.
This became clear to me almost from the moment I announced my
candidacy in February of 2007. I intended using my campaign to bring large
numbers of blacks and browns into the Party, particularly from the hood and
the barrio-as would come to be reflected in the lists of supporters and
delegates I've submitted in connection with my candidacy. As I asserted I
would use the respect I enjoyed as a former leader of the Black Panther
Party to do so, some in the hierarchy seemed utterly fearful of the prospect
of a massive influx of blacks and browns into the Green Party. Soon, there
was wide circulation of false rumors that I was a one-time "government
agent," which was intended to discredit my history in the Black Panther
Party so as to undermine my potential influence.-And, since then, I have had
to devote significant time and energy to addressing these lies.-What this
effort revealed, though, was how the Green Party, while advocating
"diversity," remains dominated by whites. Indeed, the Party is able to
count less blacks, browns and natives in its membership than our national
population percentages and certainly less than the Democrats themselves.
In effect, the present Green Party leadership promotes a kinder,
gentler capitalism, a moderated racism, an environmentally-sustainable
globalism, which I cannot support. They are dedicated to the underside of
the Party's platform, which falls short of repudiating the capitalist state,
source of all the social ills the Party would address. They equivocate by
promoting "an economic alternative to corporate capitalism and a socialist
state," advocate a "re-formulation" of the IMF, NAFTA, so forth, and advance
the institution of "stakeholder capitalism."
On the other hand, they demonstrate a willingness to override the
best of the Party's platform. My sharp criticism of high-profile Party
members' support for the "three-strikes" crime laws, the sole basis for the
inhumane mass incarceration of people in the United States, particularly
blacks-the repeal of which the Party's platform advocates-has been met with
outright enmity. And, to divert attention from this and other critical
issues, the leadership has employed chicanery in their promulgation of
defamatory lies about me-which they finally extended to character assaults
on my supporters and critics of their unscrupulousness.
It is my sincere belief that the Green Party as it now exists has no
intention of using the ballot to actualize real social progress, and will
aggressively repel attempts to do so. To remain in the fray or in the
Party, then, would require a betrayal of my lifelong and ongoing commitment
to serving the interests of black and other oppressed people by advancing
revolutionary change in America.
-----Original Message-----
From: peace-discussion-admin@lists.gp-us.org
[mailto:peace-discussion-admin@lists.gp-us.org] On Behalf Of David Strand
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:40 PM
To: henry duke; peacetalkbham@yahoogroups.com;
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Subject: Re: [Peace-discussion] The Green Party is Dying, Nader has vast
majority of Green Votes: Gloria LaRiva from ANSWER ties Cynthia McKinney on
California Peace and Freedom Party Ticket
Ahhh.... My apologies everyone. The Elaine Brown
wasn't posted to you tube until Jan. 25th but it
actually took place on Nov. 14th. That's what I get
for not double checking the original source. Still a
good speech over all so enjoy.
David Strand
--- David Strand <mncivil@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Cynthia Mckinney, if you include the votes for Jared
> Ball who has thrown his support to Cynthia Mckinney,
> the same day recieved nearly 70% of the vote in
> Illinois Green Party primaries.
>
> Nader via Howie Hawkins recieve 17% of the vote in
> Illinois.
>
> Mumia Abu Jamal & Angela Davis, and Elaine
> herself(based on her late Jan. speech at CSU at
> Sonoma) are still calling on people to register and
> vote Green this year.
>
> You can view Elaine Brown's speech here.
>
> Note the first question from the audience was about
> her presence on the GP primary ballot in CA and who
> she believes folks should support for president.
>
> Also as usual, great speech(though I disagree with
> the
> swipe at primo anti war & feminist activist Eve
> Ensler).
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjXckhikz6w
>
> David Strand
> --- henry duke <henryduke2004@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey Bhamamians,
> >
> >
> >
> > FYI the Democratic Party clique in control of the
> > national Green Party,
> > GPUS, which has been doing so, so much
> undermining
> > of Ralph to the point
> > that they made Elaine Brown resign from the race
> and
> > denounce her membership
> > in the organization I formerly supported wasn't
> able
> > to stop what the
> > Democrats fear most: the protest vote against war
> > and social injustice that
> > Ralph is the standard-bearer for.
> >
> >
> >
> > The vote here in California where more than half
> of
> > all US greens vote, was
> > nearly 2/3 greens for Nader, and nearly half of
> the
> > Peace and Freedom party
> > for Nader.
> >
> >
> >
> > Interestingly, as Elaine Brown was not on the
> Peace
> > and Freedom party ticket
> >
> >
> > The results in California's Peace and Freedom
> Party
> > primary as of February 8
> > at 6:44 pm PT, with 100% of precincts reporting:
> >
> > Ralph Nader (Green Party): 40.0 percent
> > Gloria La Riva (PFP and Party for Socialism and
> > Liberation): 21.4 percent
> > Cynthia McKinney (Green Party): 21.0 percent
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Elections are not a be all and end all; they are a
> > part of politics and
> > policy.
> >
> >
> >
> > Me and my people who are for human rights, against
> > slavery, and for freedom,
> > value democracy as the means towards achieving a
> > better world.
> >
> >
> >
> > And yet everytime it is housing, bread, and
> dignity
> > that will force us to
> > organize, and since we don't have the money or the
> > media we must use debate
> > and democracy.
> >
> >
> >
> > We grow our power not by lesser evilism, but by
> > research and independent
> > truth telling, with non-censored debate.
> >
> >
> >
> > Come Obama or McCain, we will have to end the
> > corporate duopoly, their
> > media, their language, their power which brings so
> > much terror and suffering
> > to our world.
> >
> >
> >
> > As they say, the courts are the tool of the rich
> > man's rule. So could it be
> > said about electoral politics or trade unionism,
> or
> > the Anti-War Folks who
> > say pull out of Iraq so we can win in Afghanistan
> or
> > defend the Mexico
> > border.
> >
> >
> >
> > Complexities, but we don't mourn, we organize.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hope everyone's well.
> >
> >
> >
> > Visit the left coast, stay a guest with henry
> duke.
> >
> >
> >
> > Peace, love,
> >
> > Henry Duke
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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