There are around 3 million ethnic Turks in Germany, and German Green and Parliament member Cem Ozdemir is one of them. This weekend he was elected co-leader of the German Greens to serve along with Claudia Roth. Ozdemir is the first German politician of foreign descent to ascend to the leadership of a political [...]

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Well, I was going to do as early Green Party blogger Ken Sain did at his blog and wait until I felt sure we were not set for a back-slide before announcing another milestone, but our visitors from Canada have had such an impact today that I feel comfortable saying this:
Green Party Watch is now [...]

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I have found myself obsessed with the Canadian election results, particularly in respect to how the Green Party of Canada did. I can’t help asking the question - if the United States had a Parliamentary form of government, and if there were five political parties treated equally in the United States (rather than two [...]

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Canada heads to the polls, and I confess that I don’t know how the Canadian system works. However, the Green Party of Canada has candidates running in “ridings” (whatever that is) across the nation, and Elizabeth May, the Leader of the Green Party of Canada, is poised to take her own riding of Central [...]

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Congratulations Green Party of Canada - Their candidate will participate in major debate
Canada is having an election too, in case you had not heard. Their candidate for Prime Minister, Elizabeth May, is polling at 10% currently, and will participate in the nationally televised debates.
It appears Canadians will get to hear more than just the pre-approved [...]

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Posted on Green Ferret, there is relevance here for the Greens in the US. Democrats are notoriously weak on these issues, and Greens obviously benefit from online networking and information dissemination since the mainstream media has shut us out.
One of the political parties of New Zealand, namely the Green Party, is pushing for bold [...]

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This was an ad for the Canadian Green party in 2007. Very well done.

What kind of generic ad would play well for the GPUS?

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First of all, we are still in the very early stages of knowing what happened, but it seems that the Colombian military pulled off a legitimate rescue, something Betancourt’s family had asked the Colombian government not to do for fear that Ingrid would be hurt or killed in the rescue attempt. Fortunately in this [...]

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According to a report at the BBC, Ingrid Betancourt has been freed from her captivity at the hands of the FARC, a formerly revolutionary movement now fallen into narcotics trafficking. Betancourt was the presidential candidate of El Partido Verde/Oxigeno . Her campaign manager, Clara Rojas, was freed on January 10th of this year.
Ms. Betancourt sent [...]

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