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Economy: 10 ways to make it work for everyone -- Health care: a right for all -- Education: free public college, reduce student debt -- Environment: save the planet, transform our energy use -- Taxes: the wealthy need to pay their fair share -- Wall Street: too big to fail? Too big to exist -- Workers: unions and rebuilding the middle class -- Family values: our shared responsibility -- Society: expand social security, medicare, and medicaid -- Politics: billionaires cannot buy our democracy -- Infrastructure: rebuild America -- Veterans: care for them when they come home -- Agriculture: our food, our farmers, our health -- Immigration: keep the American dream alive -- Civil rights: the long road to justice -- Foreign policy: peace and diplomacy, not war -- Foreign trade: for people and the planet, not corporations -- Media: a neutral 'net, making sure all voices are heard -- Government oversight: what is the Fed doing with your money? -- Personal liberty: freedom and unity

"Over the past quarter century, we have lived through the greatest looting of wealth in human history. While billions of dollars streamed into the pockets of a few elites in the corporate and economic classes, the vast majority of citizens have lived through a period of falling wages, disappearing pensions and dwindling bank accounts - all of which led to the personal debt crisis that lies at the root of the current financial meltdown. This "audacity of greed" was legally blessed by the ethos of the "free market," a phony marketing phrase that covered up the fleecing of the American public." "In The Audacity of Greed, Jonathan Tasini examines the reasons and exposes the people responsible for the looting of America - from corporate executives who funded their lavish lifestyles at the public's expense to the politicians who let it happen - arguing that we need a cultural and philosophical revolution that punctures the fable of market fundamentalism and, by doing so, values the contributions made by ordinary Americans throughout the economy."--BOOK JACKET

The Green Party candidate Howie Hopkins recalls his experiences of the anti-war campaign against pro-war Hillary Clinton for U.S. Senate in 2006. The unanimous support by the Green Party of New York State for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, & US Senator as a Peace Slate became imperative when the Zogby poll results indicated an anti-war candidate was within striking distance of Clinton. The shoestring budget & little coverage from big media resulted in little improvement over the 2002 results, & the antiwar vote went to the Democrats. Active support for Clinton by the Working Families Party, despite their claims of pressuring Democrats to move to the left, became integral to the Democratic dominance by co-opting Progressives. The Green vote in 2006 in New York demonstrated a modest increase in their core or voters, but expansion of the base will require rededicating their organizing to building strong local chapters that can engage pervert progressive activists & voters in their own communities. The greens need to rethink maintaining the old local Green political clubs, and rather restructure to create new energy and incentives for local county organizations to reorganize and recruit paid members to strengthen the state party at the grassroots and financially. References. J. Harwell