Green Party Parades for the 99% in Coconut Grove Mango Strut;
Message touches wide audience — with humor.

A Call for Fairness & Democracy in America. One observer: "The best messages in the Grove were Green!"

Counting Our Votes, "Yes." Buying of Elections, "No!"
David Cobb (2004 Green Party Presidential Candidate): How Corporations Work
-- Discussing What Needs to Be Done In Light of "Citizens United" Supreme Court Ruling

The Move To Amend Barnstorming Tour made its first stop of 13 events throughout Florida at South Miami City Hall Friday evening, December 2. South Miami's City's Council recently endorsed the ending corporate personhood which gives companies more rights than ordinary citizens. The event featured former Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb, to raise awareness of the damage being wrought to citizens by corporations insisting upon having "rights" just like individual citizens and to inspire our fight to bring an end to corporate personhood!
    MTA spokesperson Cobb pointed out that the Constitution, which enumerates rights of people, and lists the duties that government has to The People, makes no mention of corporations. Read more.

NOTE: This Move to Amend Tour is listed on Occupy Miami's facebook page as an official Occupy Miami event. Also, Cobb addressed the Occupy encampment Friday afternoon. A contingent of Occupiers participated at the City Hall meeting, which was live-streamed from http://www.occupymia.org/

... lest we forget ...

Is OCCUPY a Green Thing?
Well..., NO ... and yes

Born from the same citizen frustration with a growing political class that is farther and farther from the People of America and from the democratic participatory nature of our Nation, the Occupy Movement and the Green Party share a desire and fervor to get our Representatives to ... well, represent us — as though we still had a participatory democracy here. We consider this our birthright, and long for a day when all Americans truly participate in their own governing to the benefit of us all. It would be nice, too, to have a Presidency that didn't consider itself above all laws and treat critics as criminals. No Rule by the 1% for the 99%. We agree. Read more.

"OCCUPY the White House?" asks the Hill magazine
Green Party Presidential hopeful Dr. Jill Stein featured in "The Hill"

"This [was] really a crisis of the president's creation, so that was pretty problematic to start with," Stein says. "Then when he put Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security on the chopping block ... it seemed to me absolutely unconscionable for the president's policies not to be challenged," quotes Hill reporter, Kris Kitto.
    Dr. Stein's main policy platform is what she calls the "Green New Deal," which she claims will end unemployment through government investments in energy efficiency, among other tools. See article.

The Green Party stand at a previous Book Fair generated a lot of interest

Greens at the Miami International Book Fair
Miami's Greens Run homey, informative booth a this year's Fair!

Our booth at the Miami Book Fair was a smashing success! Hundreds of fair goers visited us, many engaging in passionate discussions of the state of our society. Half book store, and half salon, many visitors sat with us in rocking chairs on carpets in the back sipping green tea and talking, talking, talking.
    Highlights were appearances by local authors Sandy Davies, whose "Blood On Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq" had just been named to The Progressive magazine's Best Books of 2011 list, and Camilo Mejia, author of "Road From Ar Ramadi" about his journey as "the first combat veteran to publicly refuse to return for another tour of duty in Iraq.

    Another highlight was the appearance of our own unrepentant Alan Kobrin, Ralph Nader's 2000 Florida campaign manager, armed with a dozen reasons other than Ralph on why Al Gore lost, and wow, did that cause a stir, at least among a handful of "dying-hard" Democrats. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of our visitors were independents, and there was clearly a current of alienation from the two parties that keep serving up endless wars of aggression, eroding our civil liberties, using government as a protection racket for the rich and running phoney unfair money-soaked elections that maintain their two party autocratic rule.
    On one wall was our banner, "Fighting for the 99% since 1982, the Green Party supports OCCUPY."

Write us if you'd like to be part of the Green Team at the Bookfair next year or any other public outreach event. Let's spend time together, and talk with the public.

Register Green: Make A Clear Political Statement:
Defend the Planet — and both America's Heritage and Future!
A Sustainable Politics of Meaning that Serves the 99%; Critical Thinking in Crucial Times

Register GREEN!

Safe Energy Advocates Help Elect Mayor & Commissioners in S. Miami
Voter opposition to FPL plans for powerlines thru town gives victory to new slate in City Hall
(details on CASE site)

Florida "Good 'Ol Boys" put people last—again!
Utilities take the gain, we get the pain! Public(!?) Service Commission approves FPL/PE boondoggle for 'nuclear cost recovery' (see story below)

Green Party of Florida: PSC's deal w/ Utilities is "a License to Steal"
GPF opposes Commission's approval of nuclear cost recovery plan

Turkey Point

The Green Party of Florida (GPF) denounces the October 16 decision by the Public Service Commission allowing Progress Energy and Florida Power & Light to raise utility rates paid by their customers in order to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in so-called "nuclear cost recovery" funds.
    Green Party members from around the State weigh in, citing political corruption, private taxation scam, economic and environmental dangers, threats to homeland security, and the imperative to go solar! Read Release

Who's the 'Spoiler' Now?
In 2000 many asked Nader to 'leave the race' to avoid an undesireable in office; where was that 'thinking' in last year's Florida Senate race?

Calls for Democrat Kendrick Meek to step down from the U.S. Senate race because he would dilute Independent Crist's chances of beating Republican Marco Rubio turned out to be an ironic inversion of the usual "spoiler" scenario, one in which many disappointed Democrats in 2000 blamed Ralph Nader's supporters for 'electing' George Bush...
Read:
"WHO'S THE REAL SPOILER IN FLORIDA'S SENATE RACE" by Steve Showen

Who Benefits from Your Death?
The boss' secret: Cashing in on your death. Hard to believe? see this report

MDGP Brings Carbon-Free Nuke-Free Position to Climate Event
Greens at '350 Day' of Climate Action: We Need a Safe & Sustainable Energy Bill
Scores of people joined hands Saturday, October 24, in Bicentennial Park (Downtown Miami) to form the number 350, representing the critical 350 parts per million limit of atmospheric CO² which must be attained this century; if not, scientists say, the Earth is headed for a catastrophe. Current levels are at 390 ppm.
    M-DGP was present at the public event, espousing the Green Party's more critical stance, which insists that any environmentally appropriate climate bill must not include nuclear energy nor so-called "clean coal."
    Event participants visiting the environmental sailing ship Ocean Watch docked nearby, were reminded of the importance of the day's issues as they witnessed the air around the lithe wind powered vessel become fouled with dense diesel smoke belching from smokestacks of gargantuan Port of Miami cruise liners heading out for their weekend of fun. Read more

The Green Party appeals to Labor: Democrats have failed working people -- help elect Greens to Congress    Read more

Unfurling the Flag of the United States of Greed by Pat LaMarche.* Read essay.
  * 2004 Green Party Vice-Presidential Candidate

Ingrid's "brilliant spirit" survived 6 years in jungle.
Green presidential candidate Betancourt, 14 others leave long jungle captivity. More.

Ingrid, mother & husband

"She lived in the vast jungles, forests and swamps of Colombia, trapped in the dark politics of the country, with its violence, multibillion-dollar cocaine industry and regional rivalries," says writer Andrew Darby of Australian paper, The Age.
    Darby recalls that when Ingrid Betancourt addressed the assembled Global Greens in Canberra, 2001, she demanded of fellow Greens, "defiance of corruption, a rejection of the 'dictatorship of profits' in favour of a new humanism by the Greens. She urged the party to aim beyond a mere balance of power, and instead to claim it fully.

    "'All our big leaders have been killed,' Ms Betancourt had told the Greens in Canberra. 'So the challenge is to be alive at the end of the elections.' Less than a year into her campaign, in February 2002, Ms Betancourt was abducted by guerillas and held for six years and four months."