Green Web - Grow Your Own
May 24 '00
More Than Two Parties
If you only paid attention to the traditional media, you'd think that this year's presidential contest is just a matter of Gush vs. Bore, oops, I mean Bush vs. Gore. Well, guess what? It turns out that we actually live in multi-party democracy. The problem is that most people don't know that because the folks in the traditional media don't seem interested in reporting about the alternatives to the Remocracts and Depublicans, oops, I mean the Democrats and Republicans.
Gathering Grist on the Greens
One alternative party (I don't use the term "third party" because there are more than three political parties in the United States) is the Green Party. Yes, the Green Party is alive and active in the United States. This year, candidates are being run on the local, state and national level. In Arcata, California the city council is majority Green! Even here in Tennessee, a conservative and generally anti-environmentalist
state, they're running a candidate for Senate.
At the national level, three candidates are vying for the nomination of the Green Party. Why won't the folks on TV report this dramatic race? The three candidates (Stephen Gaskin, Jello Biafra and Ralph Nader) certainly are colorful enough for prime time.
Well, never fear. You can find your own information about the Green Party by getting on the net and taking responsibility for your own political education. A good site to start with is http://www.gp.org/, which has a comparison of American Greens and European Greens as well as the unusually exciting Green Party Platform. Then there's http://www.fpva.org.mx/, the home page of the Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas, which covers all of North, Central and South America!
Putting Out
What most people fail to realize is that the best way to use the web to get information is to use to web to create sources of information. After using other people's web sites to find out about the different candidates running for office, building a web site of your own to promote the candidates of your choice is the most important thing you can do as an internet citizen.
Whether you decide to go Green or not, take this campaign year as an opportunity to tell the traditional, commercial media to shove off! Go put up your own website about the candidates and the issues you think they should be addressing. The best media in an election year is your own.
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