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 AllRefer.com - Green party (Political Parties And Movements) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Green party, any of the political parties established in various countries to oppose the destructive environmental effects of many modern technologies and the economic systems and institutions that drive them.
Many Green parties also advocate pacifism and strongly support human rights; the parties are typically grassroots leftist in their political orientation.
Ralph Nader was the Green party's presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, and in the latter election the party garnered the largest vote (2.6%) of any U.S. third party.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Greenpart.html   (322 words)

  
 Nazism - Wikipedia
Germany during this period is also referred to as Nazi Germany.
Internationally, the Nazi party believed that a international banking cabal was behind the global depression of the 1930s.
As the National Socialist in the name NSDAP suggests, the party's primary motivation was to incorporate previously international resources into the Reich by force, rather than by trade (compare to the international socialism as practiced by the Soviet Union and the COMECON[?] trade organization).
www.web-dictionary.org /encyclopedia/na/Nazi.html   (2203 words)

  
 Political party
Green is the color for green parties and Islamic parties.
In Northern Ireland, the Protestant parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly are called the "orange block" and the Catholic parties are the "green block".
In Taiwan, the New Party uses yellow as its party color though its policies are conservative; Democratic Progressive Party uses green though its international alignment is with the Liberal International and not the Green parties.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/political_party   (1185 words)

  
 Green Party News :: The party is not over yet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Under the proportional voting system, parties may canvass for votes on a single issue or represent a particular, special interest such as the Green Party in Germany which harps on the environment.
Though parties may fail to garner enough votes to control the national government, but they still remain relevant to the system through their representation in government.
Incidentally too, one of the newly registered political parties is a Green Party which, I suspect, is a soul-mate of the Germany variety.
www.cagreens.org /media/displayarticle.php?mediaId=1073   (608 words)

  
 Green Party (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page is about parties called Green Party (or the equivalent to that in the local language).
The name Green Party or The Greens is used by a lot of political parties all over the world.
United States - Green Party (United States), whose national committee is the Green Party of the United States
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_Party_(disambiguation)   (205 words)

  
 Alliance 90/Green Party - dKosopedia
Germany's Greens achieved their first electoral success at the state level in 1977 and won Bundestag representation in 1983.
It is a grassroots democratic party which has become an established presence in the German political landscape.
Together with the eastern-based Alliance 90 (Bündnis 90), the Greens won 47 seats in the Bundestag in the 2002 federal elections, allowing it to continue its ruling government coalition with the Social Democratic Party.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Alliance_90/Green_Party   (92 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: The Green Menace by Christopher Archangelli
Fallen from the vine of the Green Party in Germany, planted in the dark socialist earth of the American Left, and watered with rampant anti-Americanism, the Green Committees of Correspondence took root in 1990 and adopted their first national Platform.
By 1996 the Green Party was formed and the twelve years of growth had created a succulent fruit for the far-left movement: the watermelon.
Green on the outside and red on the inside, the watermelon became the perfect metaphor for the Green Party with its deeply Marxist philosophy hidden underneath a thin environmentalist façade.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7165   (1527 words)

  
 Germany's Green Party Divided Over US Bombing of Iraq
STUTTGART, Germany - Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer was to speak to a congress of his Greens party Saturday as the junior coalition partners seek to close ranks over such divisive issues as the US bombing of Iraq and transport of nuclear waste in Germany.
Greens leaders have supported him on the issue, but the party's rank-and-file was in an uproar after a recent visit by Fischer to Washington where he said he favored the US action.
The Greens have plummeted in popularity since the last general elections in 1998 and are keenly aware of the need to revive their fortunes.
www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines01/0310-01.htm   (920 words)

  
 German Green Party Faces Reshuffle at Top | Germany | Deutsche Welle |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
One of the most nagging issues dodging the Green party in Germany in recent weeks, the junior coalition partner in the current government, has finally been laid to rest.
At a party conference in Hanover on Saturday, the party found itself facing a leadership crisis after delegates narrowly rejected a motion to allow Claudia Roth and Fritz Kuhn to remain the party's leaders.
This second time around, the partnership between the Greens and the SPD has come under tremendous strain as the government stands accused from all sides of raising taxes in the face of an ailing economy and staggering unemployment.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,709005,00.html   (782 words)

  
 Germany: Green party moves further to the right
The Greens presented themselves as a party of state that fits seamlessly into German political operations, and in view of a sinking membership and a significant loss of votes in the last state elections, one that is concentrating on clinging to power.
Stuttgart was the congress of a transformed Green party, conducted with the same media antics as the other parties, to try and sell policies that mean ever-deeper social cuts and more audacious attacks on democratic rights.
The widespread political alienation that all the parties confront in the general population is clearly visible in the Greens.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/mar2001/germ-m23.shtml   (2026 words)

  
 Germany's Green Party demands a powerful professional army
In the course of the current debate in Germany over the future of the country’s conscript army, the Green Party has emerged as the most vehement proponent of the re-emergence of German militarism and advocate of a professional army.
After changes of position by the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism, successor party to the East German Stalinist SED) and in particular the tactical change by the FDP (liberal Free Democratic Party), in the meantime high ranking (former) military personnel such as ex-army chief of staff Willmann have articulated fundamental doubts regarding a conscript army.
Nevertheless Germany’s highest ranking officer does not want to do away with conscription altogether: “Without conscription it would not be possible to recruit either the ranks necessary for intervention nor secure the new blood required for the regeneration of long-time serving and professional soldiers.
www.wsws.org /articles/2002/apr2002/gree-a24.shtml   (1632 words)

  
 Green Party of Sonoma County » A Green Community
The Green Party of Sonoma County, or GPSC, is an informal association of Green Party activists working on local political initiatives and candidate campaigns, helping to build the Green Party in Sonoma County, and supporting statewide, national, and international Green Party issues at a grassroots level.
The Green Party started in West Germany in 1979 when a group of civic organizations united in opposition to nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.
The Green Party is making history as the only political party committed to grassroots democracy, social justice, and environmental sustainability.
www.sonomagreenparty.org /pages/faq.shtml   (952 words)

  
 Green Party Article
Joschka Fischer and the German Green Party, as we all know, are part of the German government and the German government is part of the NATO war in the Balkans.
Of course, an option for him and his party is to make the great refusal, to resign the office of foreign minister and the other two ministries they head and thus to terminate the coalition with the Social Democrats and very likely bring about the downfall of Schroeder's government.
Because of all this, the Green Party in the US,those committed to building a serious, credible, and transformational political party, have had to struggle against incredible odds, and are just now beginning to establish a beachhead in the political sphere.
www.gp.org /articles/kosovo.shtml   (1679 words)

  
 Green Party History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Green movement in the United States began in 1984, philosophically modeled after the global Green movement that had been taking shape beginning with the Tasmanian Greens in the late 1960s and the New Zealand Values Party created in 1972- but inspired most especially by the growing success of West Germany's Green Party.
They continued their work towards organizing a national Green organization to be composed of autonomous state parties through 1996 when the first campaign by Ralph Nader spurred the creation of Green parties in several states, including Massachusetts where several Green locals had already been established by 1987.
With 31 member states, ASGP became the Green Party of the United States (GPUS) in 2001 while the G/ GPUSA began to suffer steep declines in membership.
home.comcast.net /~marymjb/WebsiteGPUS.html   (340 words)

  
 Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
BERLIN (ANS)--The Green Party in Germany has not been known as a stronghold of traditional family values.
Katrin Goering-Eckardt (37), speaker of the Greens in the German Parliament, comes from East Germany, has studied theology and is a member of the general synod of the Protestant Churches in Germany.
Goering-Eckardt rejects the notion that Greens on the whole are skeptics when it comes to family values: "Many of our party members live much the same way as I do.
www.pastors.com /article.asp?ArtID=6598   (366 words)

  
 Green party remains split   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At the 2001 Green Gathering that took place at SIUC's Touch of Nature last weekend, members of the National Congress, the largest decision-making body of the Greens/Green Party USA, hoped to discuss issues on energy policy, public land use and revise major G/GP political strategies.
While Greens seem too much like '60s leftovers in a world of corporate cake-eaters to whet the appetite of serious policy makers, Nader enjoyed strong support in the Northwest, particularly in Oregon, and ended up with about three percent of the nationwide popular vote.
Greens oppose the coffee industries of Brazil and Columbia because of those industries' focus on profit over the needs of workers.
www.dailyegyptian.com /Summer01/07-24-01/green.html   (1242 words)

  
 Green Party of Canada: St Paul's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
TORONTO — The St. Paul’s Green Party of Canada Electoral District Association has chosen local resident Kevin Farmer as their candidate to stand in the next federal election.
The Green Party of Canada is planning to once again run a full slate of candidates in the upcoming federal election.
With a comprehensive platform that addresses a full range of issues, the Green Party of Canada has polled as high as 10% in recent months.
stpauls.greenparty.on.ca   (475 words)

  
 Learn more about List of Green party issues in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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)
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_green_party_issues.html   (374 words)

  
 S/R 27: Open Letter to the Green Party of Germany (G/GPUSA)
The Green Party USA expresses its support for the 70% of German Greens opposed to the war against Afghanistan and to the 11 of 16 regional Green Party organizations in Germany critical of sending 4,000 combat troops.
In 2000, Green Party leaders intensified the hostility by supporting the transportation of radioactive nuclear waste through residential communities, even though an accident could poison the countryside.
On behalf of the Green Party USA, we hope that members of the German Green Party can return to basic Green values and register our opposition to the killing of innocent people to insure the interests (and profits) of the oil companies.
www.greens.org /s-r/27/27-00.html   (879 words)

  
 The Greater Milwaukee Green Party
Coming out of the movement era, the Greens knew they had to form a political party in order to deal with the issues plaguing their society.
The Green party in Germany first got elected to office in the state of Hesse and the national Bundestag in the early 1980s.
The Wisconsin Greens started in the northern part of the state and dealt with issues concerning nuclear waste and the Navy’s ELF underground antenna.
www.milwaukeegreens.org /history.html   (642 words)

  
 German Green Party, Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Although established in 1979, the Green Party did not achieve representation in the Bundestag, and did not therefore receive recognition as a true party, until 1983 when the Greens exceeded the 5% hurdle.
The Greens took votes from the generally SPD voters, leaving the SPD with little option other than moving toward the Greens to maintain those votes.
As a rising party, some speculate as to the role The Greens will have in future governments: remaining a small party or becoming the new pivot party.
www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP1990/12-Germany/Party124/Party124-hj.htm   (197 words)

  
 skusearch.com -- - Society - Politics - Green - Parties
Green balkan net - A network between the green parties and groups across the Balkan region.
Green Parties Worldwide - A list of Green Parties and associated groups from across the world, divided by continent.
Green Party of Ukraine - Up-to-date information about the party including latest news, their charter, policies and photos.
www.skusearch.com /directory/Society/Politics/Green/Parties   (409 words)

  
 S/R 9: Standing on the Threshold of a Third Party Dream
That is because it is virtually impossible for minority parties or candidates to win a seat in a majoritarian winner-take-all system, no matter how small the district, since by virtue of our being a minority, we can not normally attract a majority of votes.
The Greens would decide who fills the seats by having a party caucus prior to the general election, in which they would elect their party's list.
As voters realized that voting for third parties was not a "wasted vote," more of them might stop selecting the "lesser of two evils" and pick their top choice.
www.greens.org /s-r/09/09-16.html   (1866 words)

  
 Title page for etd-0827103-162407
Both the Green Party of Germany and the New Party of Taiwan are minority political parties.
In Germany, the Green Party has successfully constrained the development of nuclear industry, and gained strong support from the public in social well-beings.
Therefore, the rise and fall of the Green Party of Germany and the New Party of Taiwan and their strategies for development may well be served as cases for the study of political parties that appeal to political agenda.
etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw /ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0827103-162407   (525 words)

  
 FRIEDENSBUERO GOETTINGEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
We are deeply disappointed with the role of your country, with its government headed by a representative of the Green Party of Germany.
Since our political branch, the Green Party of Vojvodina, belongs to the same European family of green parties, we feel free to express an energetic protest against the unparalleled violation of the basic principles of the green parties - pacifism and anti-militarism.
We sincerely hope that the Green Party of Germany will take a position regarding this shameful and criminal act of the German government.
www.angelfire.com /ns/ekopokret/friedens.html   (231 words)

  
 Green Party Black Caucus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Maathai is founder of the Mazingira Green Party and the Green Belt Movement in Kenya.
In 2002, before her current appointment, she was elected to the Kenyan parliament on the Green Party ticket in the first free elections held in the country in decades.
U.S. Greens, sending their congratulations to Dr. Maathai, noted her long career of activism on behalf of human rights, especially equality for women, democracy, peaceful resolution to Kenya's internal strife, and the environment.
gpblackcaucus.us /re_maathai.html   (314 words)

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