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Green Horizon Quarterly number 30 fall/winter • 2014 secongd issue of vorlume xi een hori Zon Newsstand $3 .00 Magazine . 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: . 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Alternative Press Center, PO Box 33109, Baltimore, MD 21218 . 2 green horizon magazine fall /winter • 2014 . INTRODUCTION TO THIS ISSUE Yes! Go Local & Go Global BUT AS TYRANNY LOOMS MUST THE NATIONAL HAVE PRIORITY? CAN WE FIND A WORKABLE BALANCE? For this issue, we pose some critical questions but without of injustice, impoverishment, homelessness, rape and torture not claiming to have final answers to those questions. Four questions just within the borders of a country but across borders everywhere. especially. Climate change, air and water pollution, ocean warming and Considering the state of the world, is local the way to go or acidification-- which respect no national sovereignty—deepen the is global the way to go for the survival and happiness of our problem and produce new dimensions of impending horror. The species? Second: but what about the national level? Third: does national level seems helpless to do anything about it in a timely it make sense for strategists and activists in the United States and alleviating way. This is even true for a hugely dominating and to work and hope for a “Big Tent”--one that brings parties and aggressive country like the United States. movements like the Greens and progressives for peace, climate On the other hand nationally organized power still dominates change responsibility, and social justice together with forces and the world scene. It is both an obstacle to world peace and justice movements on the right that are critical of imperialism, denial and it is also a security blanket for many peoples in the world— of personal freedoms, and centralization? A fourth question: If and highly prized because of that. The myth inhabiting the tyranny is the wholesale subjection of all the citizens to the top- dominating few in the U.S. (the 1% at the top) is that the U.S down and arbitrary force of one or more persons (a cabal or a and its allies can provide security and progress for all peoples and class) –and we believe it is—then in what direction can we hope nations—even those nations and peoples who still won’t listen to to dismantle it--at the local, national, or global level? Or at all the U.S.-NATO way (meaning: submit). Yet even that myth is levels at once? The first and fourth questions are linked. exploding in the face of realities—the dire ecological threat of Keep these questions in mind (adding other questions of impending oblivion, the obvious demand of most nations and your own) as you read the articles that follow, by Jeff Taylor, peoples to follow their own star, the rise of other super-powers, Sam Smith, Steve Schmidt, Charles Keil, Steve Welzer, Paul and the repeated narcissistic failures of the U.S. government and Woodruff, and John Rensenbrink. We start with Jeff and Sam its dominant class to face these realities. on decentralism. We then go on a planetary excursion with Consequently, as the shattering of the myth penetrates Steve Schmidt, Charlie, and Steve Welzer. You will notice the throughout the nation and the world, we see the tendency by the interesting and exciting overlap of all three. top class to turn more and more to tyranny (both soft and hard In the issues of the past several years, you may have noticed, tyranny) as the only way forward. More on that in my article. we have fore-fronted local resurgence and then also we have I conclude that article with a return to the question of local, posed the question of global governance, arguing the importance national, and global. How should we think about a new world of taking an authentically planetary stance about a world in that can unite all peoples at all these three levels in a framework deeply worrisome crisis. But we have treated the local and that works against the rise of tyranny in all three—a framework global separately. True enough, we did bring in the principle of that promotes peace, safely, justice, good livelihood, and equality subsidiarity to point to a way of linking the levels of local and of power for all? . beyond. Sam Smith returns to subsidiarity in his article, pointing But there is much more in this issue. Lively letters from readers out that it is a workable principle to follow in linking local and around the country and in Canada; Maynard Kaufman on the global patterns of governance. But we have not until this issue crucial question of carbon sequestration; Rob Ritchie on the put the local and the global side by side. representation of women in governments in the United States; To continue: having presented two articles on the local and Justine McCabe on the false claim that Ralph Nader “spoiled” two articles on the global, we pause to listen to Paul Woodruff ’s Albert Gore’s bid for the presidency in 20000; two arresting voice recalling us to what the ancient Greeks warn us about poems by Bruce Gagnon; and a pertinent book review by Jon tyranny—a startling way to pose what is dangerously facing us Olsen. —JR in this nation and in the world at large. In the article that follows his, I take up the questions “What about the national level?” and [NOTE: Dear reader, you have probably noticed that by far “How best can we deal with the rising tide of tyranny?” most of the articles in this issue are by men, all but one.
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