The ego has landed

Posted on 19 July 2012 by scooterbird

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it to the Green Party National Convention this weekend – an embarrassing turn of events, since I’m a former co-Chair of the Party and here it was happening in my own city.  Furthermore, I was actually in downtown Baltimore on Saturday night, but fates conspired such that I found myself cruising all over the city, ending up in a number of locations where family members were, none of which was the Holiday Inn on Howard Street at Lombard.  It wasn’t a huge loss for the Party, at least, or for Jill Stein: no one asked me to speak, or even comp’ed me a ticket to attend, and I expressed my preference to the Maryland Green Party that I not be selected as a delegate for the Convention.  Further, I didn’t have my podcast, The Secret Frequency, back up and ready to go, so I couldn’t really attend as a member of the press, either.  I don’t feel bad about it because I want to know that the GPUS is capable of dealing with things given a dynamic leadership, and isn’t relying on me for anything special.  No problems there.  I do, however, wish I could have said hello to some old friends. Continue reading →

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Green VP pick: it’s Honkala

Posted on 11 July 2012 by scooterbird

Jill Stein has selected her running mate the day before the convention opens: Cheri Honkala, of Pennsylvania.  CBS has the story, in the inimitable style that is the Mainstream Media attempting to understand something that hasn’t been gatekeeper-approved yet.  At least CBS isn’t openly mocking Stein, but read the story and see if there isn’t an undertone there of, “Wait…who are you again and what are you doing in our election?”

The choice is mildly interesting.  Honkala is National Coordinator of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, among other accomplishments in a fairly impressive resume; I’d put her up against Joe Biden, certainly, and whomever Mitt Romney chooses.  Her record and speaking style (I have heard her speak briefly) suggest someone who can stand her ground, and her choice highlights Stein’s commitment to domestic economic issues as the primary focus of her campaign.  It also represents something of a reversal for Stein, who during the primaries suggested she would be looking for geographic balance for the ticket, which seemed to indicate Kent Mesplay of California, who ran a distant third in the voting in his third attempt at the nomination.  Mesplay certainly would have been the better choice in terms of foreign policy and environmental policy, but wasn’t a dynamic speaker, sometimes coming across as awkward and ill-prepared.
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The shot heard by no one

Posted on 22 July 2008 by scooterbird

I haven’t written here for a while, but there’s a particular reason for that.  The GP’s convention occurred the weekend before last, and it’s safe to say that it had an impact on my view of the Party and the actions that I’ve been taking and planning to take as an activist.  I figured that the best thing to do was to take some time and sort out exactly how I felt about the whole thing.  (As an aside, I do wish more people, particularly journalists, would do exactly that; however, the 24-hour news cycle demands immediate filler and “breaking news” even when it would be best to report the bare bones of a story and leave analysis to a later time, once things develop – in other words, say it is too early to tell because it is, and leave it at that for a bit.  Of course, this can’t be done, and in any case such tactics are best for those who create the policy rather than those who report on it.  I have a foot in both camps, to an extent, so I find myself in the ever-popular “weird area”.)

So my silence hasn’t been because of neglect, but rather a deliberate consideration as to my next move: what I’m going to say, how I’m going to say it, and what I’m going to do next.

In the meantime, I was struck by a few recent developments of JFK assassination lore: the publishing of a new home movie taken on the day of the assassination, and the publication of Vincent Bugliosi’s voluminous defense of the Lone Gunman Theory. Continue reading →

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