The New Green America Agenda
The Plan for the New American Electoral Revolution
Originally posted at facebook Friday, February 11, 2011 at 3:16pm
Mubarak was removed from power today. Now what for Egypt? A new, just government must be designed and programs developed. In Egypt, the people were galvanized by revulsion of widespread corruption, no jobs, especially for the younger Egyptians, and poverty.
So what about us? Can we galvanize our own electoral revolution around fixing the major crises of the USA? Can we come together as a nation to fight for what we all have in common?
I think we can. But to do this, we do need something to focus the diversity of Americans on a Shared Vision
I’m building my Congressional campaign around the seven proposals of my New Green America plan. We don’t have time to recruit all caring souls into the same political party. Thirty years of working in the Citizens and Green Parties has shown me that the Green Party task can not accomplish these goals in time, and nature bats last.
So I’ve articulated the path for solutions to the most fundamental problems faced by Americans, but in which there are large numbers of people in agreement. To join this revolution, you don’t even have to agree about all seven! But if you focus on just one of these seven, in concert with the rest of us, you’re doing your part for building a New Green America and saving the planet.
One thing you can do is use the NGA Proposals as a scale by which to evaluate candidates. Ask them where they stand on all seven proposals and you’ll have a great idea of where your candidates are at. Then use it to challenge the inadequacy or corruption of their proposed programs.
1) The Climate Crisis is an emergency and the global industrial consumer economy is collapsing. This requires that federal funds be directed in an emergency effort to
2) Build strong local economic infrastructures that are sustainable. This is done with bioregionally-centered Green Plans developed by the local communities to meet local needs and fit local cultures. The goal is to meet as many personal and community needs as possible from as close to home as possible. The ecological goal is to end all intrusions into native wildlands and Restoration of the Natural Capital that is the basis for all human economies.
This is a Big Transition, unfamiliar to most people. With fewer fears, more people will be liberated to join this redirection campaign. So we need to expand the social safety net, including Medicare for All, a regeneration of our public schools to be the Best in the World, Free College and Trade Schools, apprenticeship support, mortgage support, foreclosure holidays, and free public transportation. Social Security for All.
3) This requires an end to Corporate Personhood and
4) This is paid for by taxing the super-rich and retreating the American empire. Money only for defense of Americans and their domestic property, not for corporate empire.
5) It is also paid for by ending the War on Drugs and legalizing marijuana.
6) End Presidential Crime by Punishing It. Prosecute American War Criminals, starting with the Bush Coup, and impeach the U.S. Supreme Court justices that successfully conspired to overthrow the duly elected 43rd President of the United States Al Gore. Nixon was pardoned, Reagan and George H.W. Bush walked, and now President Obama is facilitating perpetual Republican Treason.
7) Electoral reform. Back to paper ballots. Corporate money out of elections.
Don’t live in the U.S.? Don’t worry. These proposals are probably just right for you to organize and fight for in your country too! Just insert the name of your nation after New Green…
So next, a good way to start to know Andy is by listening to this 26-minute improv rap by Andy over acoustic guitar by Andy’s friend and campaign Minister of Parties DJ Delux. It’s perhaps the best place to start to know Andy’s most fundamental views of Our Plight on the planet at this time and what we can do about it. It’s called
“Problem Solved”
Hi Andy!
It was great to meet you this afternoon .. and with the thorium I’m just now recently learning about the stuff. This YouTube channel has six videos on the topic remixed from in some cases two hour tech talks given at Google, TED and other forums and this is the latest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkC8kItzdZI
The only thorium legislation pending in congress is: S.3060: Thorium Energy Security Act of 2010, and that bill has been languishing in committee in one form or another since 2001. It is sponsored by Hatch of Utah and Reid of Nevada.
The technology itself is inevitable as the video points out now that China and also India are developing it because it is superior to all other methods of generating electricity with the possible exception of hydro which involves damming the rivers, so we either develop our own technology here or else buy it from them, not that I object to that but we do need to put our own engineering talent to work.
Technology is advancing rapidly and it’s very possible within the next decade that we’ll seen cold fusion discoveries, and that would be about as non-polluting as it gets, but that’s not anything we can reasonably count on and it’s certainly far from proven.
There are advances in energy technology. There’s a new gas turbine which was developed recently at Sandia in New Mexico which can increase the output of existing power plants by 40%. And there’s a new thing called the Luxin
Plasma Lightbulb produced by an Indiana company which is something like a hundred
times more efficient than the standard lightbulb … it’s being adapted for horticultural
use and the light is about the size of a vitamin pill … I’ve got their literature.
Mainly I think it’s important that it’s important that our political candidates are aware of these things in order to be in a position to make intelligent decisions of these very important matters.
Thank you. – Glenn
Good Folks . .
I just heard Andy on the Thom Hartmann Show! It was brief but what a breath of fresh air. You hit the nail on the head Andy!!! Mother Earth can not wait for the Green Party. We need to push Obama and now with the occupy middle class revolution building steam, lets hope we can make a difference in time. I was living in the mountains of Oregon when I realized that my love energy engines were being wasted. I am now down in the trenches of the big shitty fighting for justice and equality. Let me know how I can help.
Peace ~ Love ~ Green ~ Life ~ Sojourner Colleen Truth Born 1953
It’s about time we had a candidate that represents OUR Progressive interests rather than Corporate Greed. Heard your call on Doc’s show, I have to be honest, I got down right giddy when I heard your positions on the issues… Thank You.
I’m giddy too, Aaron. Thanks for what you’re doing, Coleen. Probably the two things anybody can do that would help the most is to spread the word and raise money. You can download a flyer to pass out to start a discussion on New Green America if you click on the Help Out link above. You can also simply email the pdf of the flyer.
People outside of the district can forward the link to this site and the flyer to everyone in their network. As you can see, we’re talking about a new political agenda that counters the Tea Party. Let’s get the country talking about this! It’s really not that complicated! Talk it up! Call talk radio. We need to shift the framing of these issues in the minds of everybody. This is the path out of so many of our problems. So let’s demand that our government get on it already today!
I’m going to be producing some videos on the New Green America agenda designed to be informative and fun, which people anywhere can show at house parties and other political discussions. The town meetings I’m setting up in the district will start the process of writing our own legislation. I’ll be videotaping those so you’ll be able to copy the process in your area too.
This isn’t just about electing me to Congress. It’s about activating the American People to run our governments ourselves. Say good bye to the corporatists!
One more thing y’all can do. Email Thom Hartmann and other talk show hosts to have me on as a guest. It’s really impossible to lay out the purposes and potential of this campaign and how they work in a 20-minute phone call.
Thanks for your work! Corporate money out of politics is essential to gov’t for and by the people. An amendment is doable I hope.