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...... AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE GREEN HORIZON FOUNDATION ...... Go LOCAL and Go GLOBAL But as Tyranny Looms, Should NATIONAL ACTION Take Priority? HOW? Jeff Taylor | Sam Smith Steve Schmidt | Steve Welzer Charles Keil | Paul Woodruff John Rensenbrink

PLUS: Letters On The Representation Of Women In The Governments Of The United States — ROB RICHE Poems That Speak Truth To Power — BRUCE GAGNON Carbon Sequestration, Naturally — MAYNARD KAUFMAN Rivera Sun’s New Book — JON OLSEN Nader did not “Spoil” Gore’s Bid for the Presidency in 2000 — JUSTINE McCABE A Call for Distinguishing Clean from Dirty Candidates — SAM SMITH ...... table of contents . . . . participants were energized to form a . TRANSFORMING POLITICS . Prairie Green Conference Report . . . . . 2 . working group to consider starting a peti - . BEN KJELSHUS ON THE PRAIRIE: . tion drive in 2015 to get the Greens on . European Greens ...... 2 . . the state ballot in 2016. They also consid - . The GHM Team ...... 2 . . Building the ered action to have the U.S. Green Party . Yes! Go Local & Go Global ...... 3 . presidential candidate on the ballot in . JOHN RENSENBRINK . . 2016, as well as run a candidate for state . Green Party . office in Missouri. Two participants vol - . Presenting the Key Value of . . Decentralism ...... 4 unteered to explore interest in holding . . JEFF TAYLOR in the Midwest another Prairie States Green Conference . . . How Decentralism Helps in 2015. . . the Green Party Cause ...... 7 . This was the theme of the Prairie States . SAM SMITH . Green Conference held June 13-15, 2014 — Ben Kjelshus . . . For the Earth, Our Planet: at the scenic Heartland Center, Parkville, Kansas City . an eOS Proposal (part three) ...... 10 . MO. . STEVE SCHMIDT . . Thirty seven Midwest participants . . A Vision of the Future: attended the conference sponsored by the . European . Reclaiming our Species Being ...... 14 . CHARLES KEIL Greater Kansas City Greens. Jill Stein, . . Green Party presidential candidate in . . Thoughts for My Grandchildren: Greens . 2012, gave a rousing key-note address on . A Cultural Revolution is Coming — . . or is Already Upon Us ...... 16 the critical challenge and opportunity the The European Green Council will be . STEVE WELZER . Green Party has in presenting its transform - meeting in Istanbul November 7 to 9. . . . The Fear of Tyrants ...... 20 ing , vital message for the 2016 national They will be meeting amid the turmoil . . PAUL WOODRUFF election. throughout the Near East. We look for . . . Learning to Find a Successful Strategy Excellent workshops were held on timely wisdom on the knotty and explosive . . to Change the World ...... 22 topics : including “Green Imperative in issues and wish them well in their delib - . . JOHN RENSENBRINK . Dealing with Climate Change”, Single erations. This meeting is the 21st . . Payer Health Care”. “Fighting the Grand Council meeting of the European . Election Rules Matter . in Election of Women ...... 24 . Bargain”, “Running Green Candidates”, Greens. —Editors. . ROB RITCHIE . . “Transforming Politics”. . . The Dandelion Insurrection ...... 26 At the concluding session, break-down . . JOHN OLSEN . discussion groups by states were held . . Carbon Sequestration, Naturally . . . . . 27 dealing with next steps: Kansas partici - ...... page 33 . Letters . MAYNARD KAUFMAN . pants set up a future meeting to work on . . forming a Kansas Green Party. Missouri . Nader Did Not “Spoil” the . 2000 Election ...... 31 . . JUSTINE MCCABE . . . . A Call for Distinguishing Clean from . THE TEAM . Dirty Candidates ...... 32 . SAM SMITH PUBLISHED BY THE GREEN HORIZON FOUNDATION • FALL/WINTER, 2014 • VOLUME ELEVEN #30 . . . . LETTERS EDITORS: . GRAPHIC DESIGN: Sharon Pieniak . Terry Fowler ...... 33 John Rensenbrink: [email protected] www.bluecatmedia.com . . Viginia Rasmussen ...... 33 Steve Welzer: [email protected] . LOGO DESIGN: Sean Hill . Olenka Folda ...... 33 . MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF GREEN HORIZON FOUNDATION: . Ellen LaConte ...... 33 EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE: . Ted Becker, Alabama John Rensenbrink, Maine . Mark Skinner ...... 33 Carla Rensenbrink . Edmund P. Fowler, Ontario, Canada Liz Rensenbrink, Maine . Rhoda Gilman ...... 33 . Greg Gerritt, Rhode Island Sam Smith, Maine MEMBERSHIP & BOOKKEEPING: . Abhi and Sid Hudson ...... 33 . Rhoda Gilman, Minnesota Steve Welzer, New Jersey Liz Rensenbrink . Paul Loney ...... 33 . Ellen LaConte, North Carolina . MARKETING AND . Poems That Speak Truth to Power . . . 34 COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER: . Inquiries, submissions, . BRUCE GAGNON Brielle Welzer . EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: subscriptions, letters: . . Sustainers 2014 ...... 31 Holly Hart, Iowa GHM, PO Box 476 WEBMASTER: Evie Leder . . Sam Smith, Maine Topsham, ME 04086 USA . Check out our website for articles . . . www.Green-Horizon.org Green Horizon Magazine is indexed in the Alternative Press Index, which is available from: . . Donations via PayPal are welcome. Thank you! Alternative Press Center, PO Box 33109, Baltimore, MD 21218 . . . 2 green horizon magazine fall /winter • 2014 ...... 3

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Consequently, as the shattering of the myth penetrates Consequently, Lively readers letters from in this issue. more is much But there On the other hand nationally organized still dominates power poems by Bruce Gagnon; and a pertinent review book by Jon poems by Bruce Gagnon; Olsen. have probably you noticed that by far Dear reader, [NOTE: I am all but one. most of the articles by men, in this issue are Several but would have had articles women for this issue, sorry. unfortunatelythey were unable to do so for a variety of very we In the pipeline of articles for the next issue, reasons. good JR] femalehave authors. many nations—even those nations and peoples who still won’t listen to nations—even and peoples who still those nations won’t even that myth is Yet submit). (meaning: way the U.S.-NATO of ecological threat dire exploding in the face of realities—the and the obvious demand of most nations impending oblivion, the rise of other super-powers, star, their own peoples to follow and government U.S. the of failures narcissistic repeated the and classits dominant to face these realities. we see the tendency and the world, by the the nation throughout top class to tyranny and more to turn more soft (both and hard tyranny)article.in my that on onlythe as forward. More way concludeI articlethat local, of question the to return a with new should we think about a world How global. and national, that can levels unite all at all peoples these three in a framework against the risethat works of tyranny framework in all three—a and equality livelihood, good justice, safely, peace, that promotes for all? of power the country Kaufman Maynard around the on and in Canada; the Rob Ritchie on crucial of carbon question sequestration; in the United States; in governments of women representation “spoiled” claim false the McCabe on Justine Ralph that Nader two arresting bid for the presidency in 20000; Albert Gore’s of injustice, impoverishment, homelessness, rape and torture not homelessness, impoverishment, of injustice, of a country borders the just within everywhere. borders across but ocean warming and air and water pollution, Climate change, the sovereignty—deepen respect no national acidification-- which The new horror. of impending and produce dimensions problem levelnational to do anything seems helpless about it in a timely evenThis is true for a hugely and dominating and alleviating way. countryaggressive United States. like the an obstacle It is both the world to world scene. justice peace and and it is also a security peoples in the world— blanket for many The myth inhabiting the and highly prized because of that. (the 1% at the top) is that the U.S fewdominating in the U.S. securityand its allies can for all and peoples provide and progress green horizon magazine horizon green INTRODUCTION TO THIS ISSUE THIS TO INTRODUCTION

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Considering the state of the world, is local the way to go or or is local to go Considering the way state of the world, the Yes! Go Local Global Go Go & Yes! fall globe; and in the face of what seem to be uncontrollable explosions and in the face of what seem to be uncontrollable globe; On the one hand national sovereignty is losing ground in the face is losing ground sovereignty hand national On the one girdlingnow the corporate powerful of forces commercial and in this nation and in the world at large. In the article and in the worldin this nation at large. that follows “What I take up the questions and his, level?” about the national best can“How deal with the rising we tide of tyranny?” two articles on the global, we pause to listen to Paul Woodruff two we pause to listen to Paul articles the global, on ’s warn us about voice recalling us to what the ancient Greeks tyranny—a startlingto pose what is dangerously way facing us global patterns of governance. But we have But this issue not until global patterns of governance. put the local and the global side by side. subsidiarity of linking the levels to point to a way of local and SamSmith subsidiarity to returns beyond. pointing article, in his principle in linking localout that it is a workable to follow and of taking an authenticallyan taking of planetaryworlda about stance in the local But we havedeeply and treated worrisome crisis. we did bring in the principle of enough, True global separately. we have fore-fronted local and then also we have resurgence we have fore-fronted arguing the importance of global governance, posed the question on decentralism. We then go on a planetary on then go with excursion We decentralism. on willnotice the You and Steve Welzer. SteveCharlie, Schmidt, overlap and exciting of allinteresting three. your own) as you read the articles that follow, by Jeff Taylor, Taylor, by Jeff the articles read as you own) that follow, your Paul SteveSam Steve CharlesWelzer, Smith, Keil, Schmidt, start with Jeff and Sam We Rensenbrink. and John Woodruff, to dismantle it--at the local, national, or global level? or Or at all national, to dismantle it--at the local, linked. The first and fourth are questions levels at once? tyrannyof all is the wholesale subjection the citizens to the top- and arbitrarydown (a cabal persons or a or more of one force class) can–and we believe we hope direction in what it is—then change responsibility, and social justice together with forces and justice together with forces and social change responsibility, denial the right critical on are that movements of imperialism, If and centralization? A fourth question: freedoms, of personal it make sense for strategists States and activists in the United that brings parties and Tent”--one “Big for a and hope to work climate peace, for progressives and the Greens like movements is global the way to go for the survival to go is global the way of our and happiness does Third: level? national but what about the species? Second: For this issue, we pose some critical some we pose but without questions this issue, For questions Four claiminghaveto questions. to those answers final especially. 2014

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When it began, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the West German Green Party German Green West Whenin the late 1970s and early the it began, 1980s, Deep in American soil, there is the decentralist tradition of Thomas Jefferson, John John Jefferson, Thomas is the decentralist tradition of there Deep in American soil, Kropotkin’s Peter Anticipating On an international scale, all of the great politicalcenturypast of the all monsters great the of scale, international On an have die Grünen party: its slogan “We are neither Left nor Right; we are in Front.” neither Left in Front.” are we are “We party: nor Right; its slogan ( and all the parts of a civilized community upon each other, create that great chain great that create alland parts the civilizeda of each other, upon community “The also believed that perfect more Paine which holds it together.” of connection because does it regulate more the the less occasion has it for government, civilization is, itself.” affairs and govern its own AND THE GREENS DECENTRALIZATION and the New Left, partly has three the Counterculture descended from Party, The Green democracy, grassroots decentralization, Values: Key Ten its decentralist among positions often Greens defense default to a knee-jerk Nonetheless, and community-based economics. as an acting more thereby in policy control debates, bureaucratic or even global, of federal, auxiliary alternativegenuine liberalism. a as than Democratic the of Party government big to movement/ of the original one Green appeals of the international undercuts This approach Proudhon, Kropotkin, Goldman, and Orwell. Goldman, Kropotkin, Proudhon, democrat the great Sam Adams, Paine. Thomas and Samuel Adams, of Caroline, Taylor the least part in “played “the best government” which was the one thought of Boston, political theory “negative of natural rights” and who believed in a daily affairs” men’s him to fear every“caused power.” in the centralwhich government’s increase of Man It had its origin in the principles of society and the naturalgovernment. constitution and would exist if the formality of government It existed prior to government, of man. which man has in man, interest dependence and reciprocal The mutual was abolished. these crusades for slavery and segregation—in the Civil War, Jim Crow, and Civil Jim Crow, these crusades for slaveryWar, Civil the and segregation—in a special with supremacy, white cause: a single of manifestations eras—were Rights means. not the evil was the end, The real elite. the southern economic on emphasis opposite of the decentralism the exemplified principlerights. that underlies states’ was about concentrating and fascist forms, its communist in both Totalitarianism, For people. common the from levelat a removed far few, of the hands in the power of local for the desire a regard it was not as though Hitler had too great instance, Resistance to political centralization Quite themselves. the opposite. people to govern is not antithetical or alien to the centralization, economic companion, and its frequent variety anti-bureaucratic has always of There been an anti-statist, tradition. progressive has been a Bakunin, there and Mao, Stalin, Trotsky, every Marx, Lenin, For socialism. Addressing progressive, fair-minded Americans on the subject of states’ rights and fair-minded Americans the subject of states’ on progressive, Addressing It evokes images of is to swim upstream. of decentralization, other manifestations can We of lynchings and Lester of Bull Connor the Klan, Maddox. and burnings, Modern liberalism usually value the on a premium means putting understand why. rallying has been the rights” cry“States’ for severalof equality well- all else. above that though, publicized Keep in mind, crusades for inequality the past 150 years. over

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And yet… You are reading this. It is something. It is a start. First It is a start. It is something. this. reading are You yet… And Power needs to be held in check, partly through decentralization, partly in check, needs to be held decentralization, through Power is not a cure of governance, other way or any Decentralism, their also corrupt, It is true people are that the common The old cliché says, “You can’t fight City Hall.” It is It even fight Citymore Hall.” can’t “You clichéThe old says, our politics exist? Do the people care about where our authorityour politics exist? Do the people care about where lies in Our but, good instincts remain in a decadent not. era? Probably by entertainment our minds have been turned to mush cases, many have been short-circuitedand our emotions by hucksters. on getting then we can work here, got we how out let us figure important More others who care. are There to a better place. One than this have begun with smallermovements numbers. advantage we have is that those of us who care about restoring of helping people. Democrats want to help the “disadvantaged.” “disadvantaged.” Democrats the want to help of helping people. they are really, But, class.” “middle Republicans want to help the helping themselves even more. Recognition for humans. attraction a great holds because power of this human tendency against it step in guarding is the first in power of Concentration backgetting and path. better a on inevitable was almost government afterthe hands of the national in a world course of things if dangerous, It was the natural, 1789. of misplaced priorities and perverted values. A change in the mechanics politics is of our for all that ails us. to automaticallynot going change the meaning of our culture. superficiality, and materialism, Withself-indulgence, its People’s Americanmorally is culture ways. degradedin many But a shifting closerminds and hearts of power need to change. corrupted elites in from national and away to the grassroots would be helpful. York and New Washington and political business, natural human flaws encouraged by media, everything, commodify establishments that trample truth, on and keep us stuckstate of perpetual in a social justice, ignore does the will to change and circuses, In an age of bread adolescence. difficult to fight the Governor’s Mansion or the White House. The or the Mansion White House. Governor’s fight the difficult to CitySometimes Hall average cliché citizens overstatement. an is the misguided will against do prevail of city and government insurgencies become of successful popular But odds local elites. often More powers. remote theyslimmer as and more face larger government local is better than national government than not, are human forms of government More human. becauseit is more government. of humane functions likely more more to produce THE LURE OF POWER it is rarely Once gained, is addictive. of power The acquisition is a certainThere trajectory in politics that given up voluntarily. When decline have seen a governor you is the last time to is clear. instead seek a seat in the state legislature? but run for reelection When Senate try member of the U.S. seen a sitting have you to When House? decide to seen a president have you join the U.S. is power More not done. These things are after term?retire one rationalizes of power The holder that it to be better. considered for the sake It is about power sake. for power’s is not about power

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winter / Decentralism is the best political tool to ensure equilibrium, to Decentralism equilibrium, is the best political tool to ensure Bigger is not always better. A government that presides that presides A government Bigger is not always better. Part of the desirable equilibrium is a sense of proportionality. of the desirable equilibrium is a sense of proportionality. Part Some Green leaders, such as John Rensenbrink, have Rensenbrink, such John as Some leaders, Green fall It gives us more democracy within the framework of a republic. democracyIt gives us more within the framework of a republic. human beings are not swallowed by a monstrous Leviathan. monstrous a by swallowed not are beings human not at the mercy bureaucracy of an impersonal are led by Persons Decentralism a human scale. gives us politics on few. the far-away promote proportionality, and to obtain appropriate scale. Power Power and to obtain appropriate scale. proportionality, promote functions Government distribution should be as wide as possible. individual should be as close In this way, to the people as practicable. own borders, and fails to protect its own people. This scenario people. its own protect and fails to borders, own should sound familiar to Americans. republic. Often the reverse is true, as the empire entangles itself as the empire Often reverse the is true, republic. its military stretches affairs, thin in distant in other people’s its fails to secure unnecessary creates enemies, foreign places, over a vast expanse of land and a multitude of people does not a vast expanse of land and a multitude over empire A proud necessarily happiness or justice. bring greater does not necessarily security foster greater than a humble realize that one size does not fit all, that one body of law that cannot realize size that one not fit all, does be entirely appropriate for fifty diverse areas. geographic than others. A person should not eat fifty A person slices of pizzathan others. during lock should one naughtya up No child one-year-old meal. one for fifty Everyone security years in a maximum prison. should will fail to promote justice and commonweal. justice and commonweal. will fail to promote appropriate levels more some are amounts, some Some sizes, structure government in a way that helps to maintain social that in a way structure government A strong Liberty both important. equilibrium. are and order weak government A and rights. will hinder freedom government Human behavior is a mixture of competition and cooperation, and cooperation, of competition Human behavior is a mixture Each side of the equation of individualism and integration. It is a tricky thing to of value to life. contributes something both left-wing ecologists and right-wing traditionalists. HUMAN POLITICS effort the wide American to tap into of being suspicious tradition of disliking bigness whether in business or of concentrated power, Berry by is admired It partlyWendell explains why government. have not met with much practical success. The Nader campaignsThe Nader practicalhave not met with much success. Still, have been only marginally successful in this regard. more decentralizationin significanta is interest common of expression emphasized a deep ecology basis for the party philosophical in a They have also modern liberalism. that gets past conventional way build bridgesto attempted effortsthese but Right the populist to standard Democratic liberals. (See the classicDemocratic liberals. standard book by Spretnak and Capra.) New Left solidly was Left the on movements, spectrum side of the have however, did, These antecedent movements the start. from a decentralist or even set them apart flavor that anarchistic from eco-minded Christian Democrats. Gradually, its ideologically- its Gradually, Christianeco-minded Democrats. conventionally diminished as it becametranscendent more nature and Counterculture in the roots with Party, Green The U.S. leftist.

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Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition Philosophies to each four values can of the committed be is politics of word root The When perhapstruth to statecraft, like a it comes is more book, All rights © Lexington Books, 2013. Used by arrangement with the publisher. reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or printed without permission in writing from the publisher. to love your neighbor as yourself, fraternity, the common good the common fraternity, neighbor as yourself, your to love Morality is championedwe stand. and united (commonwealth), conservatism. of traditional It is linked to social by the philosophy righteousness improvement, and social personal virtue, ethics, and the beatitudes. exalts a nation, Thomas found in the American agrarian thinker and practitioner to populism, congenial Elements of his thought are Jefferson. conservatism. and traditional communitarianism, libertarianism, influence is still widely found in Jefferson’s reason This is one American society the political and found across spectrum. or at least (This interplay or balance of seemingly contradictory, set can a different is not unique to Jefferson; ideologies different, socialism, libertarianism, utilitarianism, Mill: be found in J.S. and feminism. city the once-were states To It is time to get back to our roots. to the of Jefferson, republics to the could-be ward of Greece, human are We should-be reserved of the Constitution. powers Let not cogs in a machine us of epic proportions. are We beings. a human scale. have politics on must work along with the left along work enable it and bird to balance the must the If this is an accurate applied to theology, insight when to fly.” including political theory. same can discipline, any be said for have Butterflies and moths two pairs of butterfly than a bird. left right forewing, left forewing, wings: for a total of four wings, Decentralized is political power and right hindwing. hindwing, similarly characterized four values. by FOUR CRUCIAL VALUES of decentralismThe quadraticincludes persuasion four and community, liberty, democracy, underpinnings: philosophical Democracy of populism. philosophy is championed by the morality. we the popular sovereignty, majority rule, It is linked to equality, Liberty is championed by the elections. and competitive people, individualism, It is linked to freedom, of libertarianism. philosophy Community is and a pluralistic society. civil liberties, natural rights, It is linked of communitarianism. philosophy the by championed green horizon magazine horizon green usually to refers Standardization is not a natural fit for humans. fit for a natural is not Standardization federalism no. 45 and ostensibly protected no. Federalist The second text must be placed over against the be placed over text must The second Yet we are forever trying we are wing off with one to take Yet A.W. Tozer once wrote, “Truth is like a bird: it cannoton fly is like a bird: “Truth wrote, once Tozer A.W. When shifted form of government the United States’ from Humans are complex creatures who are characterized who are creatures by great complex Humans are

6 first to balance it and give it symmetry, just as the right wing first to balance it and give it symmetry, believe it was Dr. G. Campbell Morgan who said that the whole G. believe it was Dr. ‘Again and ‘It is written’ but in ‘It is written,’ truth does not lie in it is written.’ one wing. wing. one flapping furiously I and the other tucked neatly sight. out of proved to be empty, and the protections of the Constitution of the Constitution and the protections to be empty, proved even in its weakened Decentralism, be impotent. to proved has been an elusive principle. federal form, against by the Bill of Rights. As time unfolded, as judges As time unfolded, against by the Bill of Rights. of the Anti- the concerns politicians acted, and as interpreted, assurances the Madison of be justified, to proved Federalists was feared by Anti-Federalists, who preferred sticking with the who preferred by Anti-Federalists, was feared Articles. Such was rhetorically of power concentration dismissed as a possibility by the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution in 1787-89, the Articles in 1787-89, to the Constitution of Confederation government in the hands of the national power of concentration and a confederal system is in which is one all most or power A federal system levels. is a compromise at the lower concentrated between unitary (centralized) and confederal (decentralized). constitutional two-way flow of the line of authority. In contrast In contrast of the line of authority. flow two-way constitutional a unitaryto a federal distribution, system system of power is one at the upper level is concentrated in which most or all power the division of power between the federal and of power government the division Political scientists call this vertical fiftythe governments. state a a sharing It connotes responsibilities, of social federalism. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNITED STATES the word In an American context, Complexity and individual conscience, diversity and free will, all diversitywill, and free Complexityconscience, and individual They argue for as people. to who we are demand a politics proper multiformity and accountability in government. transcendent way, their application as policies will vary. If theyIf applicationtheir willpolicies as vary. transcendentway, A political the body politic suffers. to vary, not allowed are scale matters. That is why straitjacket ill-suits human beings. certain basic norms consonant with natural/divine law, the certain with natural/divine law, basic norms consonant should be as diverse as humans. policies of human government While politicalprinciples can be universal in a time-and place- fellow citizens.fellow Within Standardization is not a natural fit for humans. diversity. policies to address common concerns. We do not have to agree do not have to agree We concerns. common policies to address just have to recognize that we all have a stake We Or later. now. another as one in our society be willing respect to and we must seeking a tool that transcends policy differences. We can work We tool that transcendsseeking a policy differences. set newtogether to rules ground and afterwards work-debate- with particular ourselves we want to proceed vote among how politics to its proper scale need not agree on everything. We are are everything.We on scale its proper politics to not agree need

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Here, for example, is the hidden story the as Obamacare, such behind for example, problems Here, The result in Washington has been a trend towards government by a gradocracy, a by a gradocracy, government towards has been a trend Washington in The result Meanwhile, in the 1950s universities were turning out less than 5,000 MBAs a turning out less than 5,000 MBAs the 1950s universities in were Meanwhile, I covered my first Washington story over a half century ago. At the time more than At the time more story Washington over a half century ago. my first I covered Why are we not made aware of this big split in how we view government at different we view at different Why government this big split in how of not made aware we are What’s even while only fascinating is that 4% of Republicans more viewed local The data is there. It’s just ignored. For example, the Pew Research Center last year Research the Pew example, For just ignored. It’s The data is there. fall haven for the socially intelligent politician, the country lawyer, or the guy who made who or the guy the countryhaven for the socially intelligent politician, lawyer, misbegotten war in Afghanistan, and the assumption that Washington experts are Washington that and the assumption war in Afghanistan, misbegotten The capital is a no longer the best to instruct to educate teachers our children. in how highly educated elite comprised of lawyers, MBAs, economists, and journalists who economists, highly MBAs, educated elite comprised of lawyers, theywith assume have contact skillsthe runtoken to than more without place the what we used to call the citizenry. year. By 2005 they graduated 142,000 MBAs. And between 1970s and the turn And of the By 2005 they graduated 142,000 MBAs. year. nearly lawyers increased sever fold. centuryWashington of the number by many. As late as 1971, only 58% of reporters had more than a high school education. schoola high than onlyeducation. 58% of reportershad more As late as 1971, by many. 98% have a college degree. to Harper’s according Now, half the reporters in the country only had a high school education. I didn’t tell anyone tell anyone half the reporterscountry in the I didn’t only had a high school education. to Harvard the Hill that I had gone on negatively because it would have been regarded from being a movement emphasizing broad based economic decency based economic to a demographic broad emphasizing being a movement from a well educated elite - a status that can carry other things, among an characterized by, of superiorityassumption and planning the future. in making decisions Republicans. Republicans. Democratic liberals have shifted decades, is that in recent levels? One little noted reason government less favorablygovernment than Democrats and virtually oftied in their opinion the federal vote is 41% favorable for Democrats but only 13% forstate government, government – a five-point uptick from last year. By contrast, just 28% rate the federal By contrast, – a five-point last uptickgovernment year. from the and a ago year five from points down is That favorably. Washington in government Center survey.” Research ever percentage in a Pew lowest pointed out that “63% say they have a favorable opinion of their local government, they have“63% say of their local a favorable opinion government, pointed out that a favorable view 57% express state their of virtuallyyears. recent unchanged over many times,. For example, the American left in the 1960s was deep into community, the American left in the 1960s was deep into community, example, For times,. many some the buy local reflects movement Today, and the local. decentralization of power of the same values.” progressives have to love big government and the right has to hate it. And so they do. so they And do. the right and big government have has to hate it. to love progressives to sit contentedly we tend And the media and politicians have assigned in the rows ideological crossed has lines devolutionthe of idea the power of fact, in But, us. for One of the most powerful yet under-rated tools at the Green Party’s disposal is its blend Party’s yetOne of the most powerful under-rated tools at the Green a myth that “There’s As I wrote a few years ago, and decentralist politics. of progressive

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When I moved to Maine, I found something similar, such as similar, I found something When to Maine, I moved The aforementioned are clearly are The aforementioned major ideological not issues, Tocgueville, Alex de the start. from The danger has been there others on days this would help progressives, On some I learned about this serving as WhenWashington, I lived in Todd Shea, town manager of Arundel, said it would be unfair said it would be manager of Arundel, town Shea, Todd a meeting at which 100 people gathered to discuss the effect of a meeting at which 100 people gathered likely look not did It runoffnearby farmland on clamming. from included that severalto succeed what with a crowd members of state agencies, of four different representatives council, the town backthe in standing farmers warden game the and clammers, I But an hour or so into the discussion his hip. with a gun on to ought “We turned to the man sitting next to me and said, The lack of haranguing Washington.” send all these people to to remove a sign for Arundel, while pointing out that more than while pointing out that more a sign for Arundel, to remove the town. fivego through miles of the turnpike a cultural shiftbut rather represent in who gets to decide what. not only an “Decentralization has, noted that for example, since it increases but also a civic dimension, administrative value, it the opportunities for citizens in public affairs; to take interest the from And to using freedom. makes them get accustomed is persnickety freedoms, active, local, of these accumulation born the most efficient counterweight against the claims of the central government.” as liberals constantly conservatives. But it is not a question, endangering of individual rights since such matters are suggest, about rather, is, This clearlypolicy. uniformof matter a national the rediscovery of a true democracy. The decisions an elected advisory neighborhood commissioner. about which the city ones were we frequently confronted by yet when confronted had failed its citizenry, government generally discussion the actuallythose became affected them, by even rational more if no less complicated. green horizon magazine horizon green the rest as generically modified by oligarchs (or GMO)? as generically modified by oligarchs the rest What if we treated politicians the same way as we do corn or bread and label What and label the same way as we politicians if do corn we or bread treated those relying on local and reasonable funding as organic pols, while regarding while regarding pols, funding as organic on localreasonable and those relying After the Maine Mall opened in 1971, the state refused to the state refused After the Maine Mall opened in 1971, Some towns … would lose signs directing drivers … would lose signs directing Some to them towns Or consider the problem in Maine, where federal where highway in Maine, the problem Or consider Consider, for example, the school nutrition rules that are for example, Consider, The problem now is that an increasing number of Americans is that an increasing now The problem This is not a matter of taking sides towards big or small towards This is not a matter of taking sides

8 the purpose… put a sign for the Mall on the turnpike. So … the mall’s first So … the mall’s put a sign for the Mall the turnpike. on Maine to Road citythe Payne got rename to generalmanager, and the Maine Mall Road exit sign servedMall Road in 1975, because not they of less than 10,000 and are have populations major attractions. considered to an exit may not be close enough to meet the standards. For For not be closeto an exit may the standards. enough to meet Herald pointed out: Press the Portland example, a sign along a freeway or turnpike. It is clear that the law was or turnpike. a freeway a sign along But in an dense communities. written those living in large, by motel the nearest populated state like Maine, expansive but low contribute to such a conflict. contribute to such a conflict. determines which rate attractions interpreted as state, the by law, putting the clamp sports bake sales for on teams and other Go back a fewhigh school decades organizations. and you politician dumb enough to Washington could hardly one find to the specific policy but anger against the government federal as a whole. local turf. You can argue that when these issues come to the fore canfore to the come issues when these that argue You local turf. often theyare significanttoo not fiscal a in policy or yet nature by their verythey trivial stir up not only trespassing resistance at the lowest practicalat the lowest level. see the federal getting into what used to be more government government, but in dividing government into rational segments into rational but in dividing government government, what the Catholics used to call based on subsidiarity: government it all work back in Boston. Now it is filled with data drones, filled it is with data drones, Now backit all work in Boston. junkies and designers of legal labyrinths. process

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Churches, small business groups, and non-profits could and non-profits small business groups, Churches, with is nothing inconsistent But the main point is that there more than two dozen publiications. Smith has helped to start a half dozen Party. Green national and Party Statehood DC the including - organizations a and commissioner neighborhood elected DC as an served has also He school parents’ association president. politicians? Whatwe politicians? as way same the politicians treated we if and label those relying do corn local or bread on and reasonable the others as GMOs, while regarding funding as organic pols, generically i.e. local Clean by oligarchs? modified money vs. dirty offshore money? clean in a community constitutes as to what a consensus reach need new law, don’t We campaign local funding for candidates. to we just need a label to give to those politicians who agree for state for carrots it might work If it works these standards. legislators as well. especially politics, progressive and the decentralization of power not should context the And Party. as practiced by the Green betweenbe a false dichotomy but a big and small government society in whichto preserve together big and the small the work a political ecology for the benefit of all. What to the apply of its principles if we were some to our green horizon magazine horizon green The capitol no longer is a haven for the socially intelligent politician, the politician, for the socially intelligent is a haven The capitol no longer filled with data drones, process junkies and purveyors process labyrinths. of drones, legal filled with data country lawyer, or the guy who made it all work back in Chicago. it all work guy who made or the country lawyer,

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winter / And here’s something we could do right now. A successful we could do right something now. here’s And The principle could be applied to other agencies. Why not, forWhy not, The principle could be applied to other agencies. Even when you don’t want to devolve out of the federal power don’t Even when you Similarly, a study of Milwaukee County in 1988 found Similarly, Can this work in a larger fashion? I believe in a larger fashion? Can this work as I have so argued: both social security tax and the earned income example, For fall progressive effort these days has been the local food movement. effortprogressive these days has been the local food movement. would have a better idea of what was going on in federal on would have a better idea of what was going housing would get better. and (2) the programs programs okayed by the state’s senators and each given a budget, a menu of senators and each given a budget, by the state’s okayed to handle in how them? I autonomy and considerable programs, (1) citizens would be at least two results: would wager that there example, have 50 state directors for the Department have 50 state directors of Housing example, as with US Attorney nominations, each, and Urban Development, mail. In such cases, the federal government is represented by a the federal is represented government In such cases, mail. small unit (or even postal carrier) such an individual as your with within a defined turf. autonomy considerable themselves Some can agencies closer be brought to people. including quite decentralized, US Attorney are offices, already Service Park the National and the deliverythe Coast Guard, of income familyincome the poverty -- well above level. programs the -- cases don’t many in and -- you government government agencies spending more than $1 billion annually than $1 billion agencies spending more government If this money had been given in cash to poverty. fighting on than $33,000 for each low it would have meant more the poor, in federal and local for each overhead $1600 in weather-proofing home. income a low provided federal serves government primarily center for as a redistribution ranwho a enviromentalist an hand, other the On revenues. tax weatherization $30,000 cost it figured she told me that program credit function well with little overhead. In such programs, the In such programs, well function with little overhead. credit and hyperbole, and the honest effort and the honest for to make things work and hyperbole, everyone all live could with. a result produced , 3 2014

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PART THREE) ( Continuing his series of articles entitled eOS, an eco-operating system, his seriesContinuing of articles an eco-operating system, entitled eOS, is pleased to look over the horizon over a central who played is pleased to look role with Steve, again green horizon magazine horizon green —Steven July Soderbergh, 2014 We’re in need of another Enlightenment. We need to evolve to another We in need of another Enlightenment. We’re The last Enlightenment happened all need to step up. level veryWe soon… potentially. The Internet is that, because of the printing press. In Parts 1 and 2 of a green eOS, we spoke of the sociallythe of spoke we Internet enabling connected eOS, a green of 2 and 1 Parts In a transformative to present the ones are is needed and greens vision A big picture Starting in the 1960s, first as an upstart movement focused on the West Coast of Coast West upstart the an on as first Starting focused movement 1960s, in the transnational and international connections international and transnational vision as an “overview”, a green belief in interconnectivity. We speak of the ecology of We belief in interconnectivity. a green “overview”, as an vision “it’sglobal planetary a all connected”, hold where realitygreens a biosphere our planet, worth and sustaining. protecting creating a new norm. a new norm. creating and even economics dogmatic religion. old wayswaves of politics, of change reshaping truth to power”. taking up the challenge“speak to change are the worldGreens and values green living, education or simple day-to-day business, Whether religion, in politics, impacting business practices in effect are Green and ideas for change. pushing policies are and life at every level and better use of Internet technology/IT and the worldwide web by an eco Online sharing best practices, of green the world will act to reshape greens as it is. to a world brings solutions and templates as green successful models operating system, of doing politics and business. ways’ ‘old beyond that needs to move SEEING THE WORLD IN NEW WAYS ‘value to add’ The worldwide ideas as a powerful of the Internet enables green reach ‘business-as-usual’, Old ways of thinking, politics and business as they exist today. as an alternative networking that is urgently offersprevails but green a vision needed. then cyberculture a counterculture the US, in expanding frontiers keeps on a net counterculture, now a legacy of the 60s, culture, digitally Linking is a new science world. connected a liberating, utilize the unprecedented developing worldwide Web/Internet. The future of online of online The future utilize developing the unprecedented worldwideWeb/Internet. in ways that are locally both and globally, politics, redefine has potential to networking connected ‘globally Steve of the concept introduces sustainable. and resilient green, citizensplanet as a new(with citizens’ even website www.planetcitizen.org). -- Horizon We draftingthe and formation platform. national 2000 the of Party’s Green US the in find this furtherhope you as development as positive and promising of his eOS vision we do. Editor’s Note: Note: Editor’s that fully best practices” Steve“green the horizon Schmidt over looks as he encourages

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and Africa Middle East are pointing toward a new evolving pointing toward are democratic network. 10 Yet efforts to spy on, restrict, limit and otherwise restrict, stop the spread efforts to spy on, Yet An expanding body of globally expanding An citizens connected is flourishingThe open data movement even as nations, With the worldwide web and its unique cross-border connectivity, With the worldwide connectivity, web and its unique cross-border orld 87% military and surveillance corporations and other organizations, activity the online legally and illegally, attempt to access, groups Two, Part As we discussed in eOS users. and behavior of online oftenthe users of the net are being tracked and privacy rights The sharing is at times of data/content increasingly at risk. are a danger zone and real. present Wide Web of the Internet/World make and re-form ideologies and powers-that-be. Green politics ispolitics Green powers-that-be. and ideologies re-form and make level’ the limits of nations, – beyond ‘next primed to take it to the the ground.’ ‘on and harsh conditions wars conflicts, is rapidlyeras previous issues and separation of beyond moving ethnicity, of tribe, Limitations thinking. “us versus them” of by the being confronted are nationalism dogma, religious with access to knowledge Now, openness of the worldwide web. expanding via the engagement online and information, and is not weapons, of ideas, a proliferation infrastructure, net’s Business-as-usual is transforming old ways of doing business. and making more values are and green being seen for what it is, greens The interconnectedness sense in a newmore linked world. have been advocating philosophically a reality is becoming as The connectivity of the Internet is the worldwide out. net rolls that we fostering the realization a global village and prompting all in this together. are MOVEMENT OPEN DATA for New ways of seeing and sharing, here. is already The future Open Data embedded in the open data movement. are example, resources citizen in of the planet can content/media/messaging share have the potential to re- We historically ways. unprecedented Rest of the W

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In the bigger picture, an overview of earthIn the bigger picture, brings a realization Choose a challenge that works for you and use the data… and use the data… Choose a challenge for you that works The ‘greening’ of our culture, our politics, business and business politics, our culture, our of ‘greening’ The that has come to those who have seen the wonder of earthof havewho those to wonder the seen come has that from perhaps focus on your latitude/longitude, e.g., check the out e.g., latitude/longitude, your perhaps focus on city your carbon further over or go signature with the data openly being made report, study and available to is now that as nextgen #earthsciences distribute and share -- OCO-2 tag, and the challenge to join in nextgen of earth monitoring and earth systems awareness will be the most comprehensive ever undertaken. Here is where is Here ever willcomprehensive most be the undertaken. have opportunityan citizens’ canthat data open access to ‘global willThe data be made security threat.’ ‘existential demonstrate an analyze report in case studies, to study, the public, available to us, open dataThe OCO levels threat into the future. and project on ‘army’ to first ever opportunitygreen a first time, for a will provide field and wage a scientific into the protect (a go campaign to new security of)definition all for of that is, security, common-ground of earth. the biosphere us, as a way to interact with our earth systems for successful, sustainable to interact with our earthas a way systems for successful, we will never for knowing know With a touch of humility, results. is to interact way certain the green exactly earth how systems work, several on with nature levels – such senses play that our of awareness just are We and science plays a part. our feelings a part, play a part, of earth and our atmosphere’’ ‘’thin the beginning to geo-monitor space from biosphere environment is to watch greens @work. Going forward, the green @work. to watch is greens environment will alwayscounterculture be an alternative to destructive policies. new ways to approach options, will offer work choices, Green borders beyond going is way green A have we inherited. problems Without and thinking of Doctors Borders) (like the organization, needs and issues. us all together and our common GREENS AND SCIENCE One of the guiding principles thought is a reasoned of green whether simple or to identifyingapproach and solving problems, The natural world and to interact is a system of systems, complex. we need with our natural world in harmony as it were, successfully, can“you manage only It has been said that to manage carefully. and to manage with success in the natural can what you measure” at science to look need Greens carefully. we need to measure world,

18 . 16 grow, greens greens grow, green horizon magazine horizon green 14 and, as WWW originatorWWW as and, 15 . are being confronted by the openness of by the openness the worldwide web. being confronted are Limitations of tribe, ethnicity, religious dogma, nationalism nationalism dogma, religious ethnicity, of tribe, Limitations 17 The recent launch of the first “Orbiting Carbon launch of the first recent The Observatory-2” Let’s citizen global at one look initiative that is not traditionally Greens speak of security threats beyond nationalism, of security speak nationalism, Greens beyond threats Greens should be in the forefront of an international/global international/global of an forefront in the be should Greens

12 the carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere in a 360° survey atmosphere that the carbon in the earth’s dioxide data being delivered from space from data being delivered of data monitoring a stream beginning late in 2014, will provide, associated with greens but could be an example of how greens greens of how example could be an but greens with associated in new vision ways to benefit allon a green of us ‘elevate’ can via democratization of earth science/open in this case, earth, attributed to Albert Einstein -- “We cannot solve our problems “We attributed to Albert Einstein -- them.”) with the same thinking we used when we created the-horizon thinking is global citizenship, a reality a check that the-horizoncitizenship, is global thinking to ways if we are and act in different says we need to re-think quotation familiar the solverestate (to we’ve created problems resource depletion, biodiversity devastation, water shortage biodiversity and devastation, depletion, resource have who raised the ones concerns that need to are Greens more. beyond- Green not exclusivebe raised nation. and are one any to debilitating wars, denial of science, global warming/climate denial of science, debilitating wars, nuclear risks, threats, environmental extreme rising seas, change, ‘national security’ is no longer merely self-interest. The fact is it’s The fact is it’s security’ merely‘national self-interest. is no longer the 19th centuryno longer or the 20th century with millions of of nationalism. deaths attributable to extremes look to our planet as a common ground community. We share share We community. ground common as a planet to our look for the health of out to look as it were, defense pact, a mutual When to security, to threats it comes the planet as a community. PLANET STEWARDSHIP perspective has never criticallyGreen been more even important, the tools of the Internet and best to employ as we talk how vital, and its digital extensions to enable a new enlightenment, with to enable a newand its digital extensions enlightenment, and knowledge. information advocacy and science, of reason movement to expand Internet rights, as we have advocated in our to expand Internet rights, movement rights. platforms to expand human/civil/environmental Green have the Internet interactive netizens, as global citizens, Greens on behalf of a digital Bill behalf of Rights on Carta Magna an online Tim Berners-Lee has called for, Internet’s systemsInternet’s and a privacy rights movement belief a core advocating of rights, should continue an expansion be out-in-front and platforms, Green and Euro in the US Green are bound to fail with netizen engagement. As awareness of the As awareness bound to fail with netizenare engagement.

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, I hear blue-green citizens. We can all #planetcitizens.be We citizens. blue-green hear I , 25 When we speak of a Blue Marble, a Pale Blue Dot, our Dot, Blue When a Pale Marble, a Blue speak of we president of a leading interactive firm, he established M Channel to set up a president of a leading interactive firm, he established forward-looking online media company http://www.mchannelonline.com/. Steven can be followed at Facebook, DC with the Institute http://bit.ly/1277ZiX. A key drafter of the founding A key drafter of the founding DC with the Institute http://bit.ly/1277ZiX. http://www.gp.org/platform2000.shtml, Platform Party Green national from 1995 to 2001. committee, serving platform the original Schmidt chaired of Ground platform between the Association He initiated the first Common assisted and Parties Green of Federation European and Parties Green State In 1994 he ran for the first Green Global Charter. in the proposal to draft with Roberto Mondragon, Lt. Governor on the Green ticket in New Mexico and over the Green Party, achieving major party status for the New Mexico legally recognized U.S. Green Party worked to organize a course of the 1990’s 1995-1999, he served http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Schmidt. From of Education. Recently with distinction on the New Mexico State Board home

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winter / Beginning with first images of our home planet, Earth, taken from the Apollo era - Beginning with first images of our home planet, Earth, taken from http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Whole_Earth_1972_Apollo_17.jpg Micro-satellites Delivering a Next Generation of Earth Monitoring and Earth Systems Awareness - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites#Micro-Satellites.2C_ Delivering a Next Generation of Earth Monitoring and Earth Systems Awareness Micro-satellites low-cost_earth_imaging, http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Doves_flocking_Planet_Labs Mission: Democratizing Access to Information about the Changing Planet - Doves/Planet Labs - http://vimeo.com/88602839 Mission: Democratizing Access to Information about the Changing Planet - Doves/Planet Labs - http://vimeo.com/88602839 http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshwolfe/2014/04/02/this-radical-satellite-startup-is-democratizing-space-video/ The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age (UN Human Rights Council Report/June 2014) - http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/DigitalAge/Pages/DigitalAgeIndex.aspx, http://www. The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age (UN Human Rights Council Report/June 2014) - http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/DigitalAge/Pages/DigitalAgeIndex.aspx, ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session27/Documents/A.HRC.27.37_en.pdf The founding Green Party platform Party The founding Green From an ecological perspective, conscious of the conscious an ecologicalperspective, From Beginning with first ever images of our home planet, Earth first with Beginning planet, ever home our images of fall 24. Green Party US Platform (founding platform 2000) - http://www.gp.org/platform2000.shtml Party US Platform (founding platform 2000) - http://www.gp.org/platform2000.shtml 24. Green , www.planetcitizen.org www.earthpov.com 25. Our Planet, Our Home - http://www.scribd.com/doc/234244894/Our-Blue-Marble-Pale-Blue-Dot, 21. We are just beginning to geo-monitor our ‘’’thin atmosphere,’’’ earth and biosphere from space -http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites space -http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites from earth and biosphere atmosphere,’’’ just beginning to geo-monitor our ‘’’thin are 21. We 22.  23. Apollo Era - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/From_Apollo_4.jpg 20.  GREENS AND SCIENCE 17.  Space - http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/oco2/a-train-atmosphere-20140703/index.html#.U7qp9JH8cjw 18. Earth Science from 19. OCO-2 and the Challenge to Join In - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/NASA_EarthSciences,_Challenges_Public_to_Join_In 14.  15. Digital Bill of Rights - http://jameslosey.com/post/79356515492/an-overview-of-calls-for-rights-or-principles-for-the 16. Online Magna Carta - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web 10. Open Data linked resources - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#GreenPolicy360_.2F_Open_Data_linked_resources - http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#GreenPolicy360_.2F_Open_Data_linked_resources 10. Open Data linked resources 11. Danger Zone - http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/winning-the-war-on-info to the Net - http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/07/03/net-threats/ 12. Threats 13. Surveillance State - http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/23560-taking-on-americas-runaway-surveillance-state 8. Think Globally, Act Locally - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_globally,_act_locally 8. Think Globally, 9. Global Citizenship - http://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-global-citizen/ OPEN DATA 5. Bursts, the Hidden Patterns - http://amzn.to/1nA72n5 Parties, International http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Green_Parties_global_list_June_2014update.pdf 6. Green GLOBAL CITIZEN 7. Overview - http://vimeo.com/88602839 1. 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An eOS, eOS, An #greenbestpractices. and #greenvalues, #earthsciences, utilizing the full scope of the Internet/ an eco operatingsystem, for all in a green of us as a tool is there WideWeb, World interdependence of life and environment and the necessity of life of a and environment interdependence we have a world to support reasons of sustainable eco-nomics, Greens of all stripes are at work these days greening politics and these days of all greening stripes at work Greens are a in and policies ideas bringing credible forth serious, business, world.connected taken from the Apollo eraApollo the from taken the “overview” far from gone have and first our of earth, images Whole Earth catalog computers. of personal out roll and 60’s space, suspended blue-green with its thin atmosphere seemingly thin atmosphere with its blue-green suspended space, fragile and against a background in the vacuum of deep space.

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(MUHAMMAD ALI) Reclaiming Our Species Being: Reclaiming Being: Our Species (R.HOPKINS) (2006). Charles retired from teaching in 1999 and has been morphing into an instrument playing poet who gardens sloppily. from ‘pure’ meanings back to movements-feelings-meanings ‘pure’ from back to players professionals from work back to play from from power-over-structures back to pleasure-in-processes back to pleasure-in-processes power-over-structures from to community musicking commodified music back from alienation back to participation from back to sacrament entropy from cyclical recursive linear discursive back to from and willingness back to life force death wish & resistances from back to classlessness & equality class & hierarchy from humility/comedy hubris/tragedy back to from immanence transcendence back to from immanence to trance-in-dance) (from to incorporative thinking exclusionarythinking back from utilitariaian to spiritual from genuine prime cultures spurious civilization to from to emergent residual from back to processes products from enough back to mind and Nature projects endless men’s from efficiency back to sufficiency from legal world back to Natural world from land belongs to us back to we-belong-to-land from unison back to lift-up-over-sounding from back to being anarchs anarchism from addiction to perfection back to participatory discrepancies from dismal sciences back to joyous sciences from me to we from we need to go from and how . . . DEAR READER: please fill out this list of where . . . . here ARTICLE 1 OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF HUMAN DECLARATION 1 OF UNIVERSAL ARTICLE endowed They are and equal in dignity and rights. born free are All human beings & conscience and should act with reason one another in a spirit of brother/sisterhood. towards OF THE US CONSTITUTION THE NINTH AMENDMENT deny of certain rights, shall not be construed to The enumeration in the Constitution, by the people. or disparage others retained and conscience reason reclaiming toward worldview thru the ‘ignorance-based’ war to peace from too big to fail back to small is beautiful from famines back to local foods global and regional from to save and conserve spend & consume back from values back to local energy & resilience national energy & dominance from values to partnership values dominator values back from drama back to dromenon from Humo Humo green horizon magazine horizon green

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The Call of the WildThe Call of the The Limits to GrowthThe Limits and then Silent Spring green horizon magazine horizon green By the time you are in the prime of your lives it’s likely in the prime lives of it’s that the concentration of your are By the time you History But certain aspects of with calamities trauma. is replete great and times of is a deeper level...touching then there issues of whichAnd on only a small minority its flora and fauna—but the urban-industrial evolvedand with the land, to live on We I hope that you’ll find fulfillment, hope that you’llI hope that you’ll hope that even the experience find fulfillment, of living, enjoy after millennia in a of going these notebooks: As we’ve been discussing throughout context of our daily lives is now so severed from nature and the Earth that most people, if and the Earth nature of our daily that most people, so severedcontext from lives is now than a nebulous unnamed sense it as nothing more they experience at all, the dissociation like a book why That’s deficiency. carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will have surpassed 450ppm. I’m confident that you’ll that confident I’m will have surpassedcarbon in the atmosphere 450ppm. dioxide necessarybe enlightened enough to recognize both how that from a radical reduction level difficult it will be to achieve. will be and how geologicalThey scope. in are the crises qualitatively of our epoch profound. are more destruction, habitat lifewaysour that fact The ecosystemin have despoliation, resulted to be you I know is startingand mass species extinctions the human spirit. to weigh on will be affected. that you sensitive and I know fullyare aware: problematic direction humanity has arrived at a point where we are risking ecological, humanity risking direction has arrived ecological, we are problematic at a point where Aspects of each life will color your and geopolitical breakdown. psychological, social, experience every day. ECOLOGICAL SENSIBILITIES The ramifications of the ecological crisis—which all fifty but unanticipated were years when ago is The result in the news just about every of progress—are about the notion now. day in especially warming, of global the consequences what about a background anxiety, A corollary ultimately will be. of that is a subtle sense of culpability among particular, pursuit of affluence. of our society’s those who understand the repercussions DEAR GRANDCHILDREN: you’llthe special conditions for understanding the groundwork to lay be In order to key regard in points some making have on focused far, so notebooks, these facing, we’ll Now see the macro-trajectories of human history. and objective circumstances truth, tell you To subjective experiencelife. of personal, your allon might bear that how what I really about the most! care that’s (see David Turning The Great be quite a challengethough it may during the period of achieveto able the regarding Whatever name). that by you’re insights book Korten’s to navigate the challenges transitions will help you impending tectonic and apply your and satisfying. creative in ways that are resources personal This is the fifth in a series of articles by Steve Welzer seriesThis is the fifth in a of articles by Steve

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Grandchildren, you need to understand the fact that we’re need to understand the fact that we’re you Grandchildren, Sosystem the wellcountries for the not work does that function reality of malnutrition, exploitation, and squalor. They subsist and squalor. exploitation, reality of malnutrition, within the artificial held boundariessometimes of nation-states not held together at all. and sometimes together by strongmen In Within and little progress. is little hope those countries there it appears that during the twenty-first centuryfact, retrogression us in the privilegedThose of get a vague sense societies has set in. of this as we try ethnic conflict, to digest news bites regarding social implosion, disease, corruption, fundamentalism, religious World. Third terrorism and lashing out in the phenomenon, mostly confined to exotic items. As one group afterone group As items. mostly to exotic confined phenomenon, another transitioned (voluntarily to complex or by compulsion) startingconsumption and systems five thousand yearsproduction of localized Nonetheless, gradually interdependence ago expanded. of necessities for the vast majority the bulk produced economies the planet until the emergence of the modern world-of people on system between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. the reside We the privileged within that system. fortunate, the among the modern countries that benefits from “advanced” the of in one in to the United flows States Wealth geopolitical conformation. systems, This enables our institutions, the world. all over from and technologies to operate adequately for the most part—“the But in abundant. are food and amusements trains run time,” on the countries the periphery that constitute of the world-system to support of hypermodernity the functioning the resources are drained to away are hand those resources On the one lacking. hand hypermodern On the other development is an the center. incongruous overlay imposed by the center—embraced by the elites of the peripheral by the populaces. countries but resisted which the affluent from developed world zones” “sacrifice as the dailyface a people Their derivesraw materials and cheap labor. avarice, and competition. You’ll find that cooperative find and You’ll competition. and avarice, alloften too are impulses communitarian overwhelmed the by discover You’ll drives builders. and imperatives of the empire the interlocking are and the state technology, that capital, of a Machinevalue system whose components around centers I’ll can righteous advise that the most you do is to work power. and just alternatives. healthy, of sane, participate the creation in GEOPOLITICAL DISORDER back than a hundred go may more between groups human Trade but until relatively recently it tended to be a marginalthousand years, green horizon magazine horizon green I hope that, in your time, the green movement will succeed movement the green your time, in I hope that, in fostering an appreciation of deep ecological a sensibility. an appreciation in fostering

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(excerpts) All higher animals exhibit “fight or flight” to response in All higher animals exhibit An interpretation (derived the fullAn lyrics from the context and is trueIt that psychological have issues factor of been a Escapehas consistently been a motif of what Korten calls by the hand, a sister Take land. Lead this foreign from her away we might laugh again. where away, Far the water, have set out in] wooden ships on [We supposed to be. it’s the way . . and easy . free Very let us be. Silver the shoreline, people on need us. don’t leaving—you are We and mortality uniquely engender and kinds of human degrees imagine that our impulses could be destructive We apprehension. we imagine adverse consequences. or reviled; subject to the abstract but humans are objective adverse stimuli, anxiety this reason and neurosis For of adversity. contemplation an important provides Culture extent. to some inherent are to live It enables us and psyche. betweenmediation nature a channeling buffering, a requisite providing by within nature of the times): The reality we, the younger generations, have been generations, the younger The reality we, of the times): It’s with by the adults is intimidating and oppressive. presented escaping in simple wooden ships. We’re unnatural and unhealthy. seem behind leaving we’re that shoreline the on ones stolid The of lifewayspropagators . . technocratic) . to us (metallic, “silver” Our it all makes us from alienation un-free. that feel foreign, counterproductive to those who want to integrate their us into an alternative existence. heading off to create We’re Leviathan. the social from and disorientation, the alienation from . . Escape . will tell some you Grandchildren, and psychological pathology. But in the human condition. inherent are that those phenomena that is not the case. developedhuman existence at least since consciousness to the Our imaginative mental life. fosteringof point a complex, aggrandizement, ability of success, to imagine extensive degrees uniquelyengender motivations—along human etc. satisfaction, Ourwith uniquely and kinds of frustration. human degrees loss, infirmity, humiliation, ability suffering, to contemplate childhood still remains closechildhood still remains characterized to what the original human reality: of experience, manageable domain a limited and starts Alienation relationships. familiar territorial boundedness, opens to adulthood of life a factor road when the to become a corpusof the theme is This of modern the adolescent. up for notes the Goodman Paul Up Absurd In Growing literature. Winesburg, SherwoodIn disorientation. associated Anderson’s Willard George finds most of the adults around young Ohio, to escape. He has the impetus “grotesques.” him to be the of the sixties counter-culture, anthem An Culture. Empire example: is a good Ships,” “Wooden song green horizon magazine horizon green

* * * * * * * * For the individual this especially starts a life to become issue For I’ve made the point that people grounded in the affinity, in the affinity, I’ve made the point that people grounded We have lost our Home and our bearings. Those who enjoy enjoy who Those bearings. our and have Home our lost We But it probably will not be possible or advisable to disregard But it probably will not be possible or advisable to disregard At one time it was thought that the “wretched of the earth” “wretched earth” of the time it was thought that the one At

during modern adolescence, because, in many ways, the world of ways, in many because, during modern adolescence, we need to start to termsthat certain coming with the idea crucial elements of social sanity have been lost since humanity Revolution. turn a wrong the Neolithic in the wake of took in favor of “going back”—which would be neither possible nor back”—which “going in favor of forward—toward to go in order effectuating Rather, desirable. called that’s for at this historical juncture— Turning The Great stability, and intelligibility of the Old Ways would find our would find and intelligibility of the OldWays stability, argue to not is This lifeways current incomprehensible. and alien The Leviathan cannot be our Home. We’re too sensitive to be We’re The Leviathan cannot be our Home. to fulfill is unable its Culture comfortable within its harshness. ameliorative within such an antipathetic environment. role is pervasive. affluence sense that there is something hollow about it. Humanity about it. hollow is something affluence sense that there Under crisisa very whichmeaning of goes confronting is deep. it should be no surprisesuch conditions that psychopathology more personal . . . an underlying a kind of spiritual . disaffection, . . personal more impoverishment that touches nearly all of us. the pathology all around. Beyond that of the ecological Beyond the pathology abuses all around. subjective, more is something and the social injustices there resources, you’ll have myriadresources, opportunities for achievement, and you As individuals, and success. self-expression, enjoyment, And I hope that will be the case. do fine. peers may of your many PSYCHE, CULTURE, AND CIVILIZATION PSYCHE, CULTURE, reality the you’llGrandchildren, riddledis facing be with In twenty-first centurycontradictions. with abundant America, not oppression simply manifests as pathology . . . a pathology a . simply manifestsnot oppression . as pathology . destined to subtly but increasingly permeate into the center. would risethe of up and liberate themselves the yoke from often But more than world-system them. that so oppresses 18 productivity, control, possession, expansion, and expansion, possession, control, productivity, values These cultural mastery. technological changes. induced characterological The value system of the New Ways prioritized Ways of the New system The value Escape has consistently been consistently Escape has a motif Culture. of Empire

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The real revolution of our time, percolating under the surface, under the surface, percolating of our time, revolution The real “When Lakotathe Blackman medicine Elk, Watson: David The natives did not have the perspective to recognize pathology. The natives did not have the perspective to recognize pathology. Rutgers University. He lives in East Windsor, New Jersey, and is pursuing a New Jersey, He lives in East Windsor, Rutgers University. project to establish an ecovillage in that state. injustices, and indignities. We do not need to be armored and do not need to be armored We and indignities. injustices, could escape world the suffocation surrogate of the We repressed. weight of under the burdensome get out from we have created, on what it is and then, could see it for if we Leviathan existence, transform our value systems and our lifeways.that basis, that humans have the capacity the realization is based on to attain by struggling and social harmony—not health, a state of peace, “higher“abundance”— stage of development” a toward or a faux Our struggling nowhere. but rather to by getting off the treadmill For the vast majority salvation has benefitted so few us. among will entail turning our backs the Machineour and finding on Home. way should even be as ‘We said, sounding exactly like the old taoists, rocks,’ than the yet stronger all than things, which is lower water, He was telling us something servility. counseling he wasn’t about but as endurance; not as force valuable about strength, about it; rather than possessing or controlling radiating power instead of fantasizing about mastering it—alllistening to nature evocative of the kind of character change that will be necessary periodto sustain us in the coming of challenge.” high, straight bodied, strong composed, smooth-skinned, smooth-skinned, composed, strong straight bodied, high, so they grow why rendered reason The . merry . countenance . (most of them in their vigor so long proportionable and continue being fifty a age) their hair betray or gray wrinkled before brow labor, suppressing with down becauseis brought not they are abuse in the excessive or drowned cares, with annoying bothered the natives described the By contrast, plenty.” of overflowing and cold. domineering, as aggressive, Europeans only developing are that perspective at this point in our history. We that life does not need to be theIt could lead us to the realization to tolerate do not need the discontents, We has been. it is and way green horizon magazine horizon green

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I advocate what I call a Jolt strategy. Jill Stein’s bid for the Jill Stein’s I advocate what I call a Jolt strategy. Thus the qualitative contrast between local must and national level—or national at the action forsaking mean this Does Firstcryingis a foremost and tyrannythe of aware to be need But it is getting even worse. As I alluded to earlier, the As I alluded to earlier, But it is getting even worse. out for compromises that eviscerate the kind of pressure that is that eviscerate the kind of pressure out for compromises required. So by Jill is the formation presidency is a harbinger. in 2012 of a Green Ben Manski and others, and her campaign manager, I think and is needed, substance a tougher But ShadowCabinet. New Deal”, “Green of a though their promotion will emerge, maybeis centristtoo long the for ways, in some appealing towards tyranny. Yes, tyranny. Not just oligarchy, a favorite word just oligarchy, Not tyranny. Yes, tyranny. towards But tyranny. liberal criticsin vogue among establishment. of the But tyrannyOligarchy suggests inequality is a politicalof wealth. follows Money domination. for power termpower, of speaks and use abusers instrumentsthe of one is Money power its train. in and expand their power. maintain, to get, be taken into account efforts or just making token at change? In my hold, putting it on But of what is necessary. Action this would be a mistake. view, when and how? kind, Along level—thatus at the national it IS tyranny. that confronts to how answers on will come that, from and resulting with that, Strivingdeal with this grim and terrible in our midst. monster in his promotes be useful as Ralph Nader may Tent for a Big It is But it could be a naïve and useless project. newest book. the Big if in seeking and even deleterious, naïve and useless, are that and forces movements with to work agree you Tent themselves in authoritarian complicit and tyrannical thinking; with self-styledor to work moderates who though at times are holding rhetoric on nevertheless of opposition strong conciliate, THE WILL TO DEMOCRACY VS. THE WILL TO POWER THE WILL VS. DEMOCRACY WILL TO THE a qualitative difference there Isn’t this. consider again, once Yet, between the local political climate political national and the climate? is the will that at the local I would argue to there the democracy it is quite different, the national at whereas capitol will is awash in the to power— The nation’s opposite. parties The two contending are with. not power over, power and privileges the perks of over squabbling nothing but factions They mouth whatever and keep to gain is convenient high office. “How including embarrassing claims of their democracy. power, of what men claimmuch themselves to be blisters in the light of not. of course Is this true of everyonewhat theyare!” No, there? veryBut the fewwillwho exhibit the to democracyout as stand duly and destroyed. They are suppressed exceptions. and its rulling of a nation mounting stress class under clouds squalor leads and psychic log jams, factional of incompetence, Security National The Statehas desperateto measures. now it journey deepening the long of decades pretty taken over, much complex presidential and militarythe by industrial congressional, green horizon magazine horizon green

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winter / So shift local let’s races our focus from to gubernatorial, The local level is vulnerable, very vulnerable, to national power power very national to localThe level vulnerable, is vulnerable, I respect the argument and can agree with it to a certain argument and can the I respect agree So party a third it would seem that local is where like the All four levels are connected. It helps a lot to be fully It helps a lot to be and All four levels connected. are The core issue is how and where to direct limited resources. resources. limited to direct and where issue is how The core But any national focus needs to be examined as part as be examined needs to focus national But any a of fall emphasis on the local, weren’t we? weren’t the local, on emphasis congressional, and presidential races—especially and presidential congressional congressional, to put primary just now wrong were We and presidential. deprives local and state governments of sources of funds. Even deprives of funds. local of sources and state governments permanent for these taxes war permanently deplete the worse, wallets and purses of the average citizen. the states and localities is an obvious case in point. Jobs are at Jobs are the states and localities is an obvious case in point. to maintain the production Money for taxes stake in a big way. wars of arms foreign and for the use of those arms in constant here is where the crunch comes. the crunch is where comes. here for war in most of of production The omnipresence and policies. how national and global events national policies and global national and how and intimate and politics directly impact the voters in direct What ways at the local level. can party a third to that? Right say point. But there is more to be considered. Let’s recall the need to be considered. is more But there point. Theyhave levels. four of the the interconnection of aware be to can see We interactiveboomerang effects--multiple impacts. local that is advocated emphasis in the first two articles in this and Sam Smith. Taylor of Jeff those issue, Greens can make hay. This is where they should put the greater they greater the put should where is This can hay. make Greens strong the in with ties It money. and energy, parttime, their of the cost of campaigning is much less in local races. In some In some the cost of campaigning less in local is much races. (clean public funding is available in district- election) states, locally-centered) races for the state legislature. defined (thus, and neighborhood lens of direct voter-to-voter campaigningand neighborhood lens of direct in And, fitsTent approach right in. A Big and office holding. offices, and presidential congressional, contrast to gubernatorial, can interact with the voters in a personal way, building trustbuilding and canway, interact personal a in voters the with as solid as seem Values Key Ten Party’s Green The confidence. localthe through understood and received when pie pumpkin and state office, be it for non-partisan or for partisan office, gives be it for non-partisan or for partisan office, and state office, and county constituencies city, In town, the party profile. a high the candidates district office, state for many in and constituencies action or potential action in the others. A strong and dynamic and strong A others. the in action potential or action and the at the state local and confidence gives base strength running candidates many for local Furthermore, levels. national we should think about it in a different way. way. it in a different we should think about affects in one of action The impact strategically of this. aware Should it be local, or state, or nation? Or global? Seems or nation? or state, Should it be local, overwhelming to mount significant to think of having at action But maybe it. and to find the money it takes to do all these levels, on very little money. Though lack is a supremely of money veryon money. little issue. it is not the core important issue, workable strategy. The resources of a third party a third of severelyThe resources are strategy. workable a countrylimited in to get along parties forced third are where

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green horizon magazine horizon green These findings of course do not mean that the mere presence of citywideresults presence seats These findings of course do not mean that the mere Women hold more than 30% of the at-large seats in the 47 cities that elect at least hold more Women have at least one residents also is a striking many in measuringThere difference how The contrast is most revealing when comparing cities where women hold the most city women The contrast is most revealing when comparing cities where An oft-overlooked factor is how we elect candidates. FairVote’s Representation 2020 Representation FairVote’s oft-overlookedAn we elect candidates. factor is how than 61 million, of more population 100 largest cities have a combined Our nation’s resident has at least one woman representative. representative. woman one has at least resident always or that women of women in election do badly But the trends in district elections. some seats at-large and hold fewersome than 20% of at-large seats in just five of those 47 half than have more Women cities. entirelyout shut in only three are Women cities. of the In contrast, of these citywide seats in 12 cities and at least half in another six. than half of the district seats in just five hold more women 86 cities with district seats, Overall, have parity women cities and half the seats in another six. in representation havebut parity citywidethe of citywide any with cities 47 the 38% of in seats in seats, only in the district 13% of districtleast some with at in the 86 cities seats representation seats - a disparity to one. of three In no city with only district does every elections female representative. have a resident every citywidewith cities 47 the of 44 in But seats, council. on femalerepresentative member districts. This trend echoes consistent findings over time that women win a win over women that time findings echoes consistent trend This districts. member district than single-member district of multi-seat elections elections higher percentage for state legislature. a hold Women poorlymost do women where cities with seats council council seats. in at-large havecities these of some least Allat one but majority cities. nine in seats council of hold nearly three-quarters Women elected citywide. and 36% of their seats overall are seats, district half (53%) of these cities’ to just over as opposed at-large seats, (72%) of these cities’ seats in the eight worst cities for hold a grand just three women total of In contrast, seats. and Milwaukee - and fully Miami, Los Angeles, - including Buffalo, representation women districts. elected in single member 76 council seats are 73 of these cities’ United Statesdeclined has in of women world to being 98th in the in representation legislature. its national between political has taken the lead in explaining the connection rulesproject and fair and this summer had enterprising intern Duncanrepresentation, Hosie take a close in city – with eye-opening governments results. at representation look only in 12 of these mayors are Women nearlywhich represents a fifth of allAmericans. A particularly 1,068 citytheir of 336 (31.5%) hold but seats. council 100 large cities, did when running better women much clear for at-large city was how council trend 39.2% won Women to running in single-member districtseats as compared wards. to winning 29.6% of seats in single- as compared of 209 citywide seats in these cities, Green Parties have been leaders in establishing rules men and women that ensure Parties Green of the value That recognition likely are to runGreens and win in equal numbers. higher than the of parity of women representation – or at least raising the floor for the This explains why – is widely nations. accepted in many Congress 18% in U.S.

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I think the course of a successful strategy for a party This flexible and savvy will approach in the next ten to All this leads one’s thinking to the global level of action. thinking to the global level of action. All one’s this leads (1999). His forthcoming book is entitled, New Beginning. dedicated help build local to big change self- is clear: and self-help by the citizensdetermination in producing clearand fresh keep a life; of staples the controlling and steep ourselves citizens and our fellow in the global vision; in practice difference between the will to democracy and the “jolt strategy” a and pursue with vigor will to domination; tyrannythe becomes Toppling changebig for nationally. plausible. twenty to bear for a truly years bring mounting pressure It will build policy. collaborative foreign and global-centered and of local simultaneously for expansion powers pressure will back diversion be aided by the The expansion resources. to the local presently sopped levelresources vital financial of Such dual government. empire-deluded up by the national hope and abroad will givehere people grows, as it pressure, the impetus to tackle creatively and provide and confidence; and healingly in the world huge problems the resolving of totallywhich are critical to our survival and livelihood as a species. Learning Find to a Successful Strategy the World Change to 23 page from continued Deal, New recalling FDR’s The slogan carries with it, haul. A and centralization. government of big hint than a more between of the qualitative local difference full awareness between the will to democracy and the will to and national, campaigns. presidential is crucial Green for future power, is titled, book Ralph Nader’s State. Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate at siege under and more more is government U.S The though that is not what they will admit. abroad, and home vulnerable They are reality keeps seeping in. Nevertheless, the imperial In time, and uneasy underneath their bravado. will answers. wither and expose the need for different pretense can in decisively. begin to wedge below from Pressure He green horizon magazine horizon green Whose Votes Count. Whose Votes

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Park, Maryland. He is co-author of is a guest on many national media including NPR, C-SPAN, at the a speaker been Rob has FOX. and CNN, News, NBC American Political Science Association conventions, National ROB RICHIE Takoma in is office His 1992. since FairVote directed has winter / For advocates of equitable representation of women, these women, of advocates representation equitable of For Minneapolis and Oakland have now held open seat mayoral held open seat mayoral Minneapolis and Oakland have now Relating to choice of electoral systems, four of these 100 cities Relating to choice of electoral systems, and his wife Cynthia Terrell live with their three children in Takoma Park. live with their three children in Takoma and his wife Cynthia Terrell Latino Congresso, and the National Conference of State Legislatures. He fall Representation 2020 at FairVote, (301) 270-4616, or visit www. 270-4616, (301) 2020 at FairVote, Representation Representation2020.com. and voting rules. They also are a window into how fairer voting fairer into how a window They also are and voting rules. rules generally more democracy can open our representative contact information, more For representative. well, to be, the first time and currently ranks 64th in women’s representation. the first time and currently ranks 64th in women’s the importancefindings show of prioritizing structure election also having people of color hold nine of 11 seats, nearly11 seats, nine of color hold of double having people also St. This November was implemented. RCV before their share half of it city for will elect the remaining council with RCV Paul second in the nation in women’s representation on city on councils representation in women’s the nation in second and Minneapolis also ranks highly at in the 100 biggest cities, while representation ranks 38th for women’s San Francisco 16th. male candidates—and in this year’s mayoral election, three three election, mayoral male candidates—and in this year’s also hold Women widely are as the frontrunners. seen women which puts the city eight city council seats, five of Oakland’s elections with ranked choice voting, and in both cases female with ranked elections choice voting, candidates despite being heavily won outspent by well-connected and reduces the impact of money in the campaign the impact of money by process and reduces shorteningcampaignthe of impact the mitigating and season negative campaign ads. Minneapolis (MN), Oakland (CA), San Francisco (CA), and (CA), San Francisco (CA), Oakland (MN), Minneapolis incentives for Ranked more choice voting creates (MN). Paul St. candidates politics grassroots rewards to run positive campaigns, elect their mayor and councils with one-winner ranked choice councils with one-winner and elect their mayor voting (RCV) without a primary election in one or runoff: voting that can correct the downsides of citywide the downsides voting that can elections correct positivewithout losing their attributes that include more creating opportunities for women. option of reforming winner-take-all citywide of reforming option with fair elections -- voting forms of proportional representation representation rankedsystems choicelike multi-winner voting and cumulative potential adverse impact on representation of women being even being of women representation potential adverse impact on greater women’s of believe that recognition We a slight factor. to the attention will draw elections more multi-seat success in are clear, and it is time for us to take this consideration seriouslyconsideration take this for us to it is time and clear, are generala been has There city debating when reform. election decades citywide thewithout recent in from elections away move A 2014

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The Dandelion InsurrectionThe Dandelion is a long time peace and justice activist and a Green Party member for 25 years. A he went to the graduate of Bates College in Maine with a degree in philosophy, Maine Degree in the same field. He returned to University of Hawai’i for a Master’s in 2001, serving twice on the Steering committee of the Maine Green Independent He has conducted town caucuses and gathered signatures for Green Party Party. JON OLSEN green horizon magazine horizon green Like me, Rivera major Sunis a independence where Maine of state the in up grew me, Like Rivera, with this political thriller, expresses a possible scenario for this REVEL- expresses with this political thriller, Rivera,

of Hawai’I and demonstrates its fraudulent nature as well. Olsen draws a parallel with the similar of Hawai’I and demonstrates its fraudulent nature as well. Olsen draws a parallel with the fraudulent attempt by the late USSR to do the same to Lithuania. gubernatorial candidates. His recent book, Liberate Hawai’i, describes the legal and historical research gubernatorial candidates. His recent book, Liberate Hawai’i, describes the legal and historical research sovereignty US to the claim of the the illegal The book documents Hawaiian scholar-activists. done by utionary evolution. This is a book for all who yearn for a more honorable, humane, just, just, humane, for all honorable, who yearnThis is a book for a more utionary evolution. and peaceful country and world. like-minded people. for its virtue this book I love of illegitimate and defiance authorityrespected. is well The spirit Rivera as brings future to our projected embodiment of these qualities! rebellion—weAmerican loving citizens I have coined to describe a word joyful, expresses I think of those who joyfully sledge hammers brought REVEL-utionaries. kindred are that this political-economic know We and gave out pieces to friends. to the BerlinWall not the least of which is Mother Nature reasons, for many system is unsustainable, as Arundhati has so well put it, Roy affirms, This book herself! It cannot endure. canI day quiet a On her hear way! her on is she world onlynot is possible; “Another breathing!” Rivera Sun has written an incisive book, and provocative Rivera Sun name. is her professional Mexico. New Taos lives in she now native Mainer, County famed Aroostook organic farmer the late Jim She is the daughter of Maine’s the author and early In her a stage performer she is already and dancer, thirties, Cook. of several books. It does not remain Canadian history. French as Arcadia with a strong known Maine area It is like a sailing ship in a stiff wind. the U.S. across but moves in this locale however, a very in view encroachments of our near future of the continuing projection credible spontaneous of early and people’s one normalon behavior that reminds state fascism, Zadie intuits that there are Byrd (and one Gray The two protagonists to it. response on they embark Together Charlieis a lot of Rivera in her) and her companion Rider. the mobilization of through to the stifling encroachments of resistance an adventure

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Naturally Carbon Sequestration, fall important opportunity. and where hard data is not available some scientific writers seem to avoid the issue. scientific data is not available some writers hard issue. and where seem to avoid the it how because if we fail to see that carbon is in soil, This would be a serious error, we miss an back into the soil, sequestered it could be and how the soil, escaped from mentioned, and it is certainly a major factor. Deforestation is also recognized is cause as a Deforestation it is certainly and major factor. a mentioned, The amounts here with agricultural along practices such as plowing. of global warming, burning difficult to quantify than fossil fuels, from more carbon emissions much are emissions of carbonemissions dioxide. been The burning of fossil fuels has already it is emitted. understanding of how is new interest in a back-to-the-land movement motivated by rising food prices. In is new in a back-to-the-land motivated by rising interest movement food prices. writers with many this paper disagrees about climate changeview who of such trends, simply will be shaped by business as usual with increasing assume that our future Rising prices for energy social changes pressuring as new already attitudes and food are for urban cities opens possibilities Unused land in many about food raising emerge. Also evident and rising opens the need and time to do so. unemployment gardening, planet. Once we understand this we can move from hopelessness to hopefulness. This This hopelessness to hopefulness. Once we understand this we can from move planet. is especially true of us can if many actually participate to global warming. in solutions total, also escaped from the soil because of deforestation and agricultural practices. Can agriculturaland becausesoil the escapedalso practices. deforestation of from total, This is the in plants? backthis carbon into the soil and stored be sequestered dioxide in this paper. explored question as a tax on carbon, that could curtail the burning of fossil fuels, which causescurtailthat could most burning the carbon, fossil fuels, of a tax on as energylarge when Even time a at daunting is this corporations warming. global of of the or more a third as as much carbon But much dioxide, policies. seem to control leads to confusion and paralysis.leads to confusion such we need policies, of this task is political; Part carbon out of the air. dioxide become hopeless and fatalistic while carbon emissions continue to rise. Many people Many and fatalistic while carbon hopeless to rise. become continue emissions can recognize the scientific truth about climate on an intellectual levelchange still and level an emotional it on becausedeny Such it is too overwhelming. split consciousness the loss of biodiversity or even, some assert, to the extinction of human life on earth. human life earth. of on extinction to the assert, the loss of biodiversity some or even, climateof problem the on focus this of change havepeople that is result net The It is time for the conversation about climateIt is time for the conversation change to shift to solutions! problems from 2014

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and it was edited by Zach Willey and it was edited by Zach and Bill Chameides. Most of the details in the preceding paragraphs were based paragraphs were Most of the details in the preceding Several the details of carbon on books offsets have been published recently. One that supports carbon in sequestration published recently. is soils and forests Greenhouse Verify and Measure, to Create, How Carbon Economy: Gas Offsets causesbusiness whose to help those was intended This book carbon carbon or offsets to purchase emissions credits from Some who can trading like this sequester carbon. land owners program trade” and “cap a If countries. other in happens already is mandated in this country like this will a book be indispensable. called because it seeks to maximize organic matter (i. e., carbon) called e., because it seeks to maximize organic matter (i. in the soil to develop humus. TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION FROM ORGANIC FARMING This happens naturally in photosynthesis as sunshine uses carbon in oxygen and provides in the air to make plants grow dioxide matter organic and their decompose plants the As process. the But this carbon some is sequestered. into the soil, is worked and in which the soil micro-organisms a living soil, requires have not been damaged such as earthworms, larger organisms, by chemicals. years of experience my many on as a part-time organic farmer Studies trying professor who was also an Environmental to organic matter on The emphasis understand what he was doing. and its loss after of years of in the soil (carbon), hundreds has also been reviewed by Albert Bates in plowing, Change. Climate and Farming Carbon Revolution: soil scientist Rattan Lal at Ohio State with University found that, US soils in the continental better carbon management practices, than more of carboncould soak up 330 million tons each year, by 12%. food production and improve cars, from the emissions adage: “feed the soil to feed the plant.” Organic farmingso is the soil to feed the plant.” “feed adage: green horizon magazine horizon green Those pioneers were part of a process, begun with the origins of plowing centuries ago, with the origins begun of centuries plowing partThose pioneers were of ago, a process, in which large amounts of carbon dioxide escaped as the soil lost its organic matter and fertility. matter amounts of as the soil lost its organic escaped carbon dioxide large in which These artificial or chemical fertilizers plants that produced This early agricultural was clearly regime not sustainable and

28 farming for destroying lifefarming in the soil and they for destroying have evolved the to the “need” for pesticides which, when dumped on farmland, farmland, when dumped on for pesticides which, “need” to the in the soil. micro-organisms remaining to kill off any continued Organic farmers criticized and soil scientists have long chemical were more vulnerable to insect pests. Monocultures, large Monocultures, vulnerable to insect pests. more were This led added to this vulnerability. fields of a the same crop, were soon added to supply added soon with phosphorus plants and were and they added to the destruction of earthwormspotassium, and life in the soil. other microbial the biological life that had earlier liberated nutrients for plants. carbon and methane. of more dioxide was the release The result Other with acid to make them water soluble, fertilizers, treated explosives. Fertility in the soil that was lost through bad in the soil that was lost through Fertility explosives. by chemicalagricultural replaced fertilizers. practices was now of much but they also destroyed These could make plants grow it soon had to be subsidized had it soon with chemical fertilizers, especially II with War This was made available afterWorld for nitrogen. after used to manufacture it was no longer ammonia, anhydrous is more specificallyis more soil the loss of organic matter that destroyed fertility and contributed to carbon emissions. which large amounts of carbon escaped as the soil lost its dioxide as the loss of this process speak We organic matter and fertility. but it contributed to it, and water and wind erosion of topsoil, food production because annuals put their energyfood production into seeds part were Those pioneers do. as perennials instead of into roots in centuries begun with the origins ago, of plowing of a process, it to air it oxidizes and escapes as carbon dioxide. The pioneers pioneers The oxidizesit air to it escapesand carbonas dioxide. the prairie grass the annual grasses to plant plowed of perennial for great are These such corn. or as wheat grains, as we know THE VALUE OF ORGANIC FARMING THE VALUE When tillage exposes Carbon exists in the soil as organic matter.

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Unfortunately, those sequestration strategies that are beneficial, beneficial, strategies those sequestration that are Unfortunately, The new argument for tree crops is emerging in the context of in the context emerging is crops The new for tree argument is largely crops Carbon biochar in sequestration or in tree their technological hubris is alarming. We should worry that We their technological hubris is alarming. eventually may some be tried small-scale if the many and natural possibilities that could sequester carbon not put into practice. are because and natural have been ignored they might not do safe, and slow emissions But as they reduce the job by themselves. out fossil to phase the time needed global warming they provide tree insist that better farming methods and more must We fuels. to sequester carbon and used should be promoted dioxide crops safeother as effectivecost and be would It evolve. methods foolish to sequester carbon in ways simultaneously that do not a changing climate. As they replace the energy-intensive they As replace changinga climate. annual can withstand roots, deeper their with crops, tree food crops, rainstormsviolent and droughts which otherwisewould cause They the process can slow soil. matter from loss of organic and thriveof climate with carbon, more change as they store mature when trees term, virtually In the longer no tillage. they can be burned oxygen with limited and need replacement, and so-called(pyrolysis) biochar, and turned into charcoal, I have patches of for permanent into soil sequestration. worked and burned gathered fruit were my farm where soil on trees dark fertile. more they and years remain ago technological total one by scientists who seek ignored is easilyThis seen by googling to climatesolution change. and risky expensive, large scale, Many sequestration.” “carbon reviewedThey are geoengineering have been proposed. projects by James Roger Fleming in Control. and Climate HistoryWeather of the climate and “fix” to is devotedbook proposals to the many Tree Tree green horizon magazine horizon green Smith’s book was largely book ignored Smith’s A paradigm shift to organic methods is needed in agricultural science. shift to organic A paradigm

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winter / A paradigm shift of farming to organic methods needed is fall revitalization of life in the soil by building organic matter. revitalization of life organic matter. in the soil by building for nearly fifty in newresurrected years until his argument was as permaculture. ways by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren generally and the emphasizes crops perennial Permaculture each year from the air. These trees can be food producing, as J. as J. can be food producing, These trees the air. each year from Russell Smith in his important explained of 1929, book Agriculture. A Permanent Crops: States this would be forests of various kinds, and my local and States of various kinds, this would be forests trees, Conservation people to plant more in urging District, of carbon 2.6 tons dioxide claimed removes of trees that an acre THE NEEDED TRANSITION TO TREE CROPS THE NEEDED TRANSITION TO TREE that best mimics is the one region in any The best agriculture In the eastern part natural of the United ecosystems. the region’s times more carbon dioxide than organic farming. This lends This carbon farming. organic than more times dioxide for carbonsupport crops sequestration. to tree as much carbon dioxide as organic row crop farming sequestered, farming sequestered, crop carbon row organic as much as dioxide farmlandwhile unmanaged ecosystems in the abandoned on about four early sequestered trees toward of succession stages but it is beginning. Michigan State University the scientists at but it is beginning. Ecological Kelloggthe at site Biological Research Term Long farming emitted about crop row Station found that conventional schools and their extension servicesschools their extension and have given up the chemical Given the political power agriculture. paradigm conventional of this is not likelyof agroindustrial to happen soon, corporations, in agricultural science. But although the United States although the United But in agricultural science. and Department tolerates of Agriculture farming, organic it nor state agricultural neither organic produce, regulates It describeswould that various and forests both fields in methods evenand some supportcarbon, sequester farming. organic 2014

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winter / fall Duke University Press, 2007. 2007. Duke University Press, . Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, 1999. 1991. This past spring he planted over 250 fruit and nut 1991. This past spring Michigan. trees on his farm near Bangor, MAYNARD KAUFMAN KAUFMAN MAYNARD and has been a leader in the organic farming movement Alliance in organized Michigan Organic Food and Farming

Washington DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2009. DC: Worldwatch Washington Madison: Soil Science Society of America, 2009 . . Earthscan, 2009. . New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Columbia University Press, . New York: farms and homesteads, more people active in Transition Towns, Towns, Transition people active in more farmshomesteads, and that gives planting people a stake in the fight tree and more it is the people who willlead in Here against climate change. They should be helped with necessary. the changes are that polices and assistance. appropriate governmental Austin, TX: Acres, USA, 2013. Austin, TX: Acres, State of the World, 2009 State of the World,

New Society Publishers, 2010. Chelsea Green Publishers, 2014. Chelsea Green Australia: Keyline Publishing Company, 2005. Australia: Keyline Publishing Company, green horizon magazine horizon green New York: Devin Adair, 1950. Devin Adair, New York: This has been the first part of a two-part paper. paper. This has been the first part of a two-part New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. Hill and Wang, New York: . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. . Princeton: Princeton University Press, will appear in a subsequent issue of Green Horizon. will appear in a subsequent issue of Green Biochar for Environmental Management to feed under the constraints ofto feed under warming. constraints the global The Potential of U. S. Cropland to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013. Chelsea Green Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect. . London: Earthscan, 2010. Fixing Climate. Rodale Press, 2014. Rodale Press, More productive soils will be needed in a future with more mouths with more future be needed in a soils will productive More The author reviews author The initiatives many Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low Carbon Economy: How to create, measure, and verify greenhouse gas offsets. Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low Carbon Economy: How to create, measure, and verify greenhouse gas New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. University Press, New Haven: Yale Plagues and Petroleum The second part, focused on the importance of restoring carbon that was lost from the soil, The second part, focused on the importance Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Fixing the Sky: The checkered history of weather and climate control Cows Save the Planet. Hot. Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country. Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture. Tree Priority One: Together we can beat global warming. Priority One: Together Earthmasters. Requiem for a Species Restoration Agriculture: Real world permaculture for farmers. The Soil Will Save Us. The Biochar Solution: Carbon farming and Climate Change. The Soil Will SaveThe Soil Us. Above all, we need to be open to the social changes we need to be open that all, Above

30 White, Courtney, White, Courtney, and Bill Chameides, Zack Willey, Allen, Yeomans, Schwartz, Judith D, Mark, Sheperd, Smith, J. Russell, Ohlson, Kristin, Plows, Ruddiman, William F. Sara, and Sajal Sthapit, “Farming and Land Use to Cool the Planet,” in Scherr, Lal, Rattan, and Ronald F. Follett, Editors, Lal, Rattan, and Ronald F. Cole, Lal, R., J. M. Kimble, R. R. Follett, and C. V. Lehmann, Johannes, and Stephen Joseph, (editors) Hamilton, Clive, Mark, Hertsgaard, Broecker, Wallace and Robert Kunzig, Wallace Broecker, Fleming, James Roger, Hamilton, Clive, BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR “CARBON SEQUESTRATION, NATURALLY” BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR “CARBON SEQUESTRATION, Bates, Albert, reduce carbon emissions: more local food systems, more small more local food systems, more carbonreduce emissions: feeding soil micro-organisms. feeding soil micro-organisms. by higher energy serendipitously pressured are prices and thus global warming. A new by Kristin book asserts Ohlson in its this global warming. title: and experiments building organic matter by in which people are they sequester carbon in humus. This is done by building up by is done This they carbon sequester in humus. soils will productive be needed More soil. organic matter in the mouths to feed constraints of under the with more in a future improve the soil. Soils even productive can be made more as soil. the improve

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JUSTINE MCCABE is a cultural anthropologist who worked in the Middle East and is now a clinical psychologist She is a former practicing in CT. co-chair of the United States Green Party’s International Committee Green Party’s and Democrats: 1 percent. Nader also Nader 1 percent. and Democrats: vote. independent the of percent 4 took of registered 13 percent time, the same At Gore Democrats voted for Bush! Again, and because base hold his own couldn’t say The Democrats don’t lost. he of this, of 13 percent about the fact that word one partytheir own in Florida members voted Ed.] for Bush. [In conversation with Justine, she also with Justine, [In conversation exit that in Florida,mentioned CNN’s Tony polling to journalist [according same the taking Nader Schinella)showed both Republicans amount of votes from

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The fact is that nothing in our constitution limits us to a two-partyThe fact is that nothing in our constitution Given system. Gore not only failed to beat Bush in the debates and to win his own state, but also state, not only failed to beat Bush in the debates and to win his own Gore not to seat the motion Black failed to support Caucus’ Gore the Congressional According to Al From, chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council [ to Al From, According Eleven percent of Democrats voted for Bush, while only 2 percent voted for Nader for Nader voted while only 2 percent Eleven of Democrats voted for Bush, percent Although such “Democratic” behavior challenges Salzman’s speculation that a Gore that a Gore speculation “Democratic” behavior challenges Salzman’s Although such Had Salzman been paying attention, he’d know how Democrats actually how helped elect know he’d Had Salzman been paying attention, fall by 1.5 percent, and Republicans by .03 percent. by 1.5 percent, percent of those eligible to vote - we sorely of those eligible by the need the civic liveliness being brought percent growing It’s the only political national party members. to gain registered Party, Green down including All other parties the Democrats, have lost members, by 27.7 percent. Florida electors, which, as senators, either he or Lieberman could have seconded. as senators, Florida which, electors, voters cast ballots -only in our last election about 25 of registered that only39 percent failed to call of Florida for a statewide recount which would have he won. ballots, vote hurt Gore is not borne out by polling data. When they would have vote hurt asked how is not borne out by polling data. Gore Nader with did he than better actuallyBush ... point a by won race, two-way a in voted in the race.” went to Nader). Magazine Bush is much less encouraging: Bush is much while only about 800,000 (which means about 5 million Democrats defected to Bush, resistance to his tax-cut war on middle to his tax-cut war on resistance and working-class home. families at lost to Gore of how a reminder would haveadministration been appreciably different, “Nader Voter Sings The Blues” [Other Opinion, July 14]. [Other Opinion, The Blues” Sings Voter “Nader enabled him with a blank check the marshmallow and then offered for war in Iraq Bush, DEMOCRATS HELPED ELECT BUSH DEMOCRATS Salzman voter that Jason to this Nader [writer incredible of a LetterIt’s to which in pushes he given propaganda the actually responding] Nader, is for voted Justine Justine is a former Chair of the International Committee of the U.S. Green Party and, at the and, Green Party Justine is a former of Chair of the U.S. Committee the International —Eds. of Co-Chair Party. the Connecticut Green the Letter, time in 2003 when she wrote media. We believe that it is critically urgent to unmask the falsehoods that skewerthat falsehoods the unmask to is criticallyit that believe urgent American We media. to the a Letter With the following from her consent we present This is one of them. politics. of Connecticut. in her home state Courant The Hartford for 2003 on July 26, Editor she wrote presidency in 2000. The propaganda and the delusion continue to be pushed by the Democratic the Democratic continue to be pushed by and the delusion The propaganda in 2000. presidency in and believed intellectuals, liberal of if out-to-lunch not hundreds seconded by scores Party, by millions of consumers of hapless the stuff served owned main stream up by the corporate Justine McCabe has written one of the best essays we’ve come across rebutting the widespread the widespread rebutting come across one ofJustine McCabe has written the best essays we’ve the bid for spoiling Gore’s beliefs mythic self-deluding and about Ralphpropaganda Nader’s Setting the Record Straight Record the Setting the 2000 Election: 2000the Election: Nader Did Not “Spoil” Not Did Nader 2014 for

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This is the ideal of the democratic leader, who has relinquished relinquished has who democraticthe ideal of is the This leader, What the fear democracy of tyrants we learn from and is this: A leader in democracy will cheerfully take turns ruling and obey, must you But when the city leader, takes a or wrong. or right, Whethertrivial, are his commands I have no doubt that suchAnd a man will rule well, will he cheerfully else. to someone hand off power later, And, he will times stand firmIn hard with his spear law-abiding soldier. a good, for orders, Waiting in — Creon Philosophy specialty, including literature courses and specialty seminars, Philosophy specialty, often for the Plan II program. Woodruff. entry for Paul Wikipedia’s The above brief bio is from Google’s at We Fear “The article, his note, will reader the As contributors. our among Paul classics the reads he of how an indication timely, and apt is Tyrants”, of and affairs everyday of world the to relevance their for eye shrewd a with our present predicaments. Paul has been a supporter of several years. Thank you, Paul! [JR] service. On September 21, 2006, University President William C. Powers, He studies. undergraduate of dean inaugural the Woodruff Dr. named Jr. is best known for his work on Socrates, Plato, and philosophy of theater. he often teaches courses outside his Ancient Greek A beloved professor, authority and now obeys others, in defense of the land. The defense in land. of the authority obeysnow and others, signs of some who has shown oddly is Creon, enough, speaker, that the democratic But the theme is one tyranny in his behavior. Thucydides has about deeply. understood and cared Athenians in the offices,” public “rotating speak proudlyPericles of their funeral (2.37). oration just as tyranny They nourish each other, courage together. go Virtues grow in individuals nourish each other. and cowardice as Platoparallel understood very to virtues in communities, dies in a foolish wisdom Evenin the soul of an individual, well. and courage unjust society, in an justice withers community, is enforced. cowardice in a land where fades away The Fear of Tyrants of The Fear 21 page from continued and The tyrant a wave of injustice, on to power rose casualties. He is afraid him in power. injustice to keep depend on so must they resort to injustice because unjust; they are of his people, the onlybecause mechanisms which by he has destroyed they because And he is afraid of their could bring him to justice. The injustice. he keeps them in check more through injustice, “vicious was made for such a situation. circle” expression I quote Sophocles: being ruled.

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