The Green Alliance

The Green Alliance is a national network of Green Party political clubs in the United States, which are local membership organizations for Green activists. It is a membership organization, and requires payment of an annual fee to maintain good standing in the organization.

The goals of the Green Alliance are:

1) building rank-and-file democracy and power in the Green Party so that it lives up to its principle of grassroots democracy, and2) educating and acting for a radical social, ecological, and economic democracy in place of capitalism's exploitation and ecological destruction.

The Officers of the Green Alliance Coordinating Committee, elected on June 25, 2004, to serve until the next annual Congress of the Green Alliance, are as follows:

* Peter LaVenia, President and Co-Chair, Albany, NY
* Bob Nanninga, Vice-President and Co-Chair, Encinitas, CA
* Jared Laiti, Co-Chair Santa Rosa, CA
* Alex K. Briscoe, Treasurer, Chicago, IL
* Belinda Coppernoll, Secretary, Ellensburg, WA
* Bahram Zandi, Web Manager Rockville, MD

Walt Contreras Sheasby (now deceased) [http://www.green-rainbow.org/pipermail/needtoknow/2004-August/002546.html] and Howie Hawkins co-founded the Green Alliance.

Green Alliance Locals exist in:
* Syracuse, NY
* Albany, NY
* Cook County, IL
* Baltimore, MD

History

The controversial failure of the Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA) to endorse the Boston Proposal at its annual Congress in 2001 in Carbondale, Illinois, usually referred to as Carbondale (in combination with subsequent events, and the decision of the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) to endorse the Boston Proposal and follow through with the commitments made in it) ultimately led a large number of G/GPUSA members to leave the organization. [http://web.greens.org/~jsutter/ggpusa/] Many of these individuals in turn later came together to found The Green Alliance [http://web.greens.org/~cls/gp/allianceinit.html] , out of a desire to bring grassroots "movement" politics into the Green Party of the United States (the successor organization to the ASGP), which they saw as being overly focused on "electoral" politics, and also relatively conservative.

External links

* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/greenallianceus/ Green Alliance Business Discussion List]
* [http://www.greenallianceusa.org Official website (current, temporary, redirects to Geocities page)]
* [http://www.thegreenalliance.org Official website (unfinished, temporarily not under control of The Green Alliance due to death of Walt Sheasby)]