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  Green Party faction (Bundestag)
Scoring 5.6% in the federal parliamental elections in 1983, the Greens enter the Bundestag for the first time with a total of 28 seats; fraction members are rotated after two years in 1985 (with the exception of Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian[?]), but the concept is abolished in May 1986 again.
In the 1987 parliamental elections, the Green Party manages to increase its share of votes to 8.3%, gaining 44 parliamental seats in the process.
In 1990, elections are held separately in former East and West Germany; in West Germany, the Green Party does not manage to gain enough votes to enter parliament, only scoring 4.8% instead of the necessary 5%, but in East Germany, the Greens gain a 6.1% share of the votes and 8 seats in the Bundestag.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gr/Green_Party_faction_(Bundestag).html   (545 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > German Green Party
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, the Green Party is a political party in Germany.
However, in the December 1990 all-German elections, the Greens in western Germany were not able to clear the 5% hurdle required to win seats in the Bundestag.
Especially since the party has become part of the governing coalition, there have been many internal struggles between the realpolitik faction within the party and the fundamentalist faction: for example, over allowing the transport of nuclear waste, but also over the internal organization of the party.
encyclopedia.kids.net.au /page/ge/German_Green_Party   (827 words)

  
 Alliance '90/The Greens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Those who remained in the Green party were more strongly anti-military and against restrictions on immigration and abortion, while supporting the decriminalization of marijuana use, placing a higher priority on working for the rights of gays and lesbians, and tending to advocate what they described as "anti-authoritarian" concepts of education and child-raising.
Numerous anti-war party members resigned their party membership when the first deployment of German troops in a military conflict abroad occurred under a Green government, and the party began to experience a long string of defeats in local and regional elections.
The November 2003 party convention was held in Dresden and decided the election platform for the 2004 European Parliament elections.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_Green_Party   (1944 words)

  
 Global Greens -
The Green Party is unanimous in it strong opposition to all elements of nationalism and chauvinism.
After all, if you have a Green minister for environment telling you she is doing everything to stop pollution, but unfortunately the agreements with the Social Democrats don't allow it for the time being, it's easier to justify environmental pollution than if you have strong extra-parliamentary movements and an opposition Green Party challenging the government.
Green Parties were among the first new independent political forces to be established as the power monopolies of the Communist Parties began to fade.
www.globalgreens.info /literature/maier/westerneurope.html   (7301 words)

  
 Green Party Rising
The original American Greens came largely from the social justice and environmental activist communities and their values (combined with a desire to reduce the power of corporations, a belief in grassroots democracy, and a global perspective) form the essence of today’s Green Party.
In Germany, the Greens hold seven percent of the seats in the lower house of their legislature, the Bundestag, and are part of a coalition government with the dominant Social Democratic party.
German Greens, who have their roots in the peace movement, generally oppose sending German troops to fight foreign wars and were divided on the question of leaving the coalition on principle or pragmatically going along with Schroeder.
www.mainegreens.org /electoral/candidates/Farsaci02/PP_120601.htm   (5216 words)

  
 List of Green party issues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Green Party of England and Wales (England and Wales)
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand (New Zealand)
Wild Greens (New Zealand Green Party youth movement)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Green_party_issues   (335 words)

  
 Green Party of Santa Cruz County California
Green Party fights to stay on ballot - Party officials ask for an injunction to retain ballot access status - The Green Party of Alaska filed a lawsuit in Anchorage Superior Court on Tuesday challenging the state law that decides which political parties are given access to statewide ballots.
Green Party calls for halt to dual mandate pay-off - The Green Party has called on the Government to halt payments to TDs and Senators who are giving up their seats on local councils due to the end of the 'dual mandate'.
Greens reject blueprint for future shape of EU THE new draft EU constitution, published yesterday, is unacceptable in its current form, the Green Party warned last night.
www.santacruzgreenparty.org /announcement.archive.htm   (12733 words)

  
 Green Party of Marin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
However, the Green Party, which held 8.6% of the votes, formed a Coalition government with the Social Democrats, which, combined, was able to take a majority.
The Greens, who played a crucial role in securing victory for the centre-left at last Sunday's general election, went into the negotiations with a far stronger hand than four years ago when the 'red-green' experiment was launched after the ousting of Helmut Kohl.
Even the harshest critics had to admit that green ideas and green politics were able to convince a larger percentage of the population than they expected.
www.greens.org /cal/marin/cooperation.html   (1013 words)

  
 GPCA )) History
They entered the lower chamber of the national assembly, the Bundestag, and took their seats as the first new party to be elected in more than thirty years.
Early Green thinking was also significantly shaped by the traditions and struggles of Native Americans; much of the understanding that all life is interdependent, that ecological balance is essential to survival, originated in the wisdom of native cultures.
Local Green groups in California liked the idea of having a statewide network of GCoC locals, and in November of 1989, the California Green Assembly is launched.
cagreens.org /history/history1992.html   (990 words)

  
 Petra Kelly, 1947-1992   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Young, charismatic and full of energy, Kelly was elected to the German Bundestag (parliament) in 1983 as a member of the Greens, a party she had helped to found in 1979.
The revival of racial hatred and attacks on asylum seekers alarmed her, and she was known to be bitterly disappointed with the political trajectory of former dissidents from the old East Germany.
Despite this, she was actively lobbying prominent members of the Greens with a view to becoming a Green member of the European Parliament.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1992/77/77p8.htm   (814 words)

  
 Green Party of Santa Cruz County California
Greens offer their sympathy to people affected by the attacks, especially those injured, and to the loved ones of people killed or injured.
Greens appeal for a careful response, after investigation, from the White House, and insist that rash and violent retaliation will only increase the loss of life, especially of the innocent.
Greens in New York City have joined thousands of others in organizing blood donations, carrying supplies, and digging through the rubble of what had been the twin towers of the World Trade Center to help save as many lives as we can.
www.santacruzgreenparty.org /statements.re.9.11.destruction.htm   (20531 words)

  
 S/R 14: The Political Decomposition of the German Greens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
At the beginning of the decade the German Green Party was on the verge of collapse.
In the state of Bremen Greens in the ruling coalition carried out immense "development" projects that mostly benefited Mercedes-Benz; and in 1995 a Green mayor of Munich presented an environmental award to Siemens, Germany's largest nuclear power corporation, just as a massive boycott of the company was underway, supported by over one hundred grassroots groups.
Every single one of the German Greens' leaders who are presently carrying the party inexorably to the right began their political careers as committed radicals.
www.greens.org /s-r/14/14-12.html   (2006 words)

  
 German Greens look at Coalition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Gerhardt Lippe, a member of the Greens' general management committee, told Green Left Weekly that Volmer first raised the coalition strategy at the June meeting of the party's national conference in Cologne.
Volmer, a leader of the Left Forum faction, has since written that the Greens must choose between accepting the coalition strategy and disappearing as a party.
Lippe thinks Die Grünen were punished in December by voters who did not accept the party's policies in the context of unification but who had not intended to put them out of parliament.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1991/28/28p10.htm   (790 words)

  
 Alliance '90/The Greens - GigaDictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Perhaps most importantly for determining the success of both the Greens and the SPD was the increasing threat of war in Iraq, which was highly unpopular with the German public, and helped gather votes for the parties which had taken a stand against participation in this war.
57 % of all party members voted in the member referendum, with 67 % voting in favor of the change.
The November 2003 party convention was held in Dresden and decided about the election platform for the 2004 European Parliament elections.
www.gigadictionary.com /Alliance_'90/The_Greens   (1947 words)

  
 village voice > news > Endorsements by
Nader and the Green Party are the only national political force willing to speak out against the stranglehold that corporate America has on our political system.
The German Green party, Die Grünen, emerged from modest roots and now controls 47 seats in the Bundestag, serving as a junior partner in Gerhard Schröder's government.
The reform faction of the Democratic Party—Jackson, Wellstone, labor, etc.—has failed to move the party in a progressive direction, to turn it away from a corporate agenda.
www.villagevoice.com /issues/0044/endorsementsnader.shtml   (1059 words)

  
 Learn more about List of Green party issues in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Learn more about List of Green party issues in the online encyclopedia.
Four Pillars of the Green Party (Germany, Europe)
"Green" articles that don't relate in any way to Green politics or parties
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_green_party_issues.html   (374 words)

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