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  "You know a
refuge never grows
from a chin in a hand
in a thoughtful pose,
gotta tend the earth
if you want a rose."

                  - Indigo Girls

  f i r s t    t i m e    h e r e

It's easy to feel hopeless about American politics. In fact, its hard not to be cynical when we see the hypocrisy and corruption which has pervaded our political system. The major parties blame each other, while the corporate media excludes alternative opinions, as more and more honest citizens say, "a pox on both your houses" and turn away in disgust.

More than 1000 of our neighbors have already registered Green in Baltimore County-- we know there is a huge untapped reservoir of good will in America-- millions1 of citizens who would love to vote if only they thought it mattered who was elected.2 If only there was a candidate or a party that would really represent the best interests of the nation, the whole nation, and improve the lives of the people, all the people, and especially their fellow citizens who live in despair.3

Greens in Howard and Baltimore county and city organized four protest rallies at the Commission for Presidential Debates in DC in 2000.  The major media, including CNN film crews were there.  No violence ensued.  The major media did not  find our demonstrations newsworthy.

The members of the Baltimore Country Green party are doing our part to revitalize American politics, in order to make a more just and equitable society. We have gotten off our couches, turned off the TV, and rolled up our sleeves. We are organizing like- minded citizens who feel, like us, that enough is enough. We own the airways; elected officials work for us. We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore.

If you feel the same way, please learn more about us, see what we've been doing in Baltimore County, learn about our party's platform, and help us to turn America into the land of peace and justice we all want it to be.


1The Green party candidate for president, Ralph Nader, received over 2.5 million votes nationally in 2000.

2A majority of the electorate did not vote in the 1996 presidential elections, and it was only the influx of new Green voters that raised the percentage in the 2000 presidential elections to (barely) over 50%.

3For example, one out of five children in America live in poverty, and this after the decade of the greatest economic expansion in our nation's history.