Category Archives: politics

This is not a campaign. This is a movement!

ST. PETERSBURG, FL, June 6, 2017 — We are young! We are Black! We are Green!  We are Red!  We are a movement!  That was the message from the diverse crowd of 50 gathered on the steps of City Hall … Continue reading

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Indignation is not Courage. Outrage is not Brains.

By most accounts, that Napoleon was a pretty smart fellow.  Riding the crest of the energy unleashed by the French Revolution, he revolutionized how war was fought.  Year after year, La Grande Armée laid low the feudal armies arrayed against … Continue reading

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We, too, are “Deplorables”

— An Interview with Don DeBar, conducted by Rose Roby Don DeBar is a highly-respected broadcast journalist and a courageous leader and former candidate for the Green Party.  As Senior Producer at Community Public Radio CPR News (CPR), he has … Continue reading

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Independent isn’t just another word for nothing left to sell.

Already Greens are starting to leave. We fought hard, we fought brave, we endured the full viciousness of the Hillary machine. We were endangering the U.S. role as leader of the Free World. We are endangering the world order of … Continue reading

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Hands Off Syria!

The following was adopted on November 27, 2016, as an official statement on the situation in Syria by the Pinellas Greens of Pinellas County, Florida: Jill Stein (website): “The situation in Syria is complicated and disastrous, with an all-out civil … Continue reading

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A Patriot’s Lament

  So I’m kicking back on this post-hurricane Labor Day, doing what every red-blooded American does on this most sanctified of holidays.  Nothing.  Well, maybe I’ll work up the energy to watch a couple of football games, but first I … Continue reading

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Jill Stein vs. the Two Horsemen of the Apocalypse

“The Green Party is all about integrity. I didn’t say purity. I said integrity.” — Ajamu Baraka, Green Party 2016 vice-presidential candidate. I am afraid. Very afraid. I fear that Donald Trump will unleash a race war, will empower white … Continue reading

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Can We Cancel the Endorsement?

Updated below. Obama has repeatedly vowed to try to ram the TPP deal down the throat of the American people in the lame-duck congressional session after the November election.  Sez Obama:  “Right now, I’m president and I’m for it, and … Continue reading

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It’s Us. Period!

In response to my last post, many people responded with one simple word, “Stein!”  But many others said, “Wait and see what happens at the convention.”  Maybe a lawsuit exposing Hillary’s voter fraud will turn the tide and the superdelegates … Continue reading

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… the Centre Cannot Hold

We’ve all heard the poem that goes: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; … The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” We are supposed to lament the “best lacking all conviction,” but in … Continue reading

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