PROPOSED EXECUTIVE BRANCH LEADERS.

May 15, 2006

The following is for immediate release:


After more than a year of sponsoring www.greencabinet.org we are releasing the newest update of what Del La Magna at our sister site from the east coast www.progressivegovernment.org would call our "dream team," what most of the English speaking countries of the world would call the "shadow cabinet," and what our committee had agreed to call "the embodiment of the Green Platform."

This last condition is no longer true. The list has few "pure" greens partially because the GPUS national leadership did not release the addresses to us when a coterie of insiders voted to disband our committee. A year's worth of work....to those of us willing to continue the work of the committee...a year's worth of work withheld from a committee empowered by the national Coordinating Committee (representatives from each state.) My argument that that representative-body's power to create certainly trumps some burn-outs' power to destroy has fallen on deaf ears. Bad process in my opinion. See www.greencabinet.org for more on our continuing process.

So, those of us who wanted to, continued. It now behooves me, sadly, to report when I told Ralph Nader "Our committee has sixty names of possible cabinet heads..." He said, "...and you or I could each name sixty more. The point is who it leaves out. "

Error. We're not talking about plum-Ambassadorship rewards to campaign supporters, where the tradition is the officers in the diplomat corps actually run things.

The actual reversal of bureaucratic priority is often what will be required in each cabinet area. Thus our current suggested list of sincere but canny people who know how inspire and to listen, yes, but also know how to make something happen.


Steal this idea, Mr. Kerry, please.

And please do conduct yourself according to the Ten Key Values of the American Green Movement: nonviolence, social justice, diversity, feminism, personal responsibility, future focus, community-based economics, ecological wisdom, decentralization, grassroots democracy.

Where we see these green ideas we should nurture. To a great degree, the people listed below have made (or found) a name for themselves in one way or another and have been proven to "make things happen." We challenge Greens or anybody to come up with savvy people who would be better to run the shadow cabinet. Below we may even have one or two that are not vegetarian, for example. Please feel free to nominate savvy people (include her/his resume and contact, please, or they will not be included) to serve in the shadow cabinet.


PROPOSED EXECUTIVE BRANCH LEADERS.

ATTENTION MEDIA: Please search out these folks both to acquaint yourself with them and to notify them of the interest generated by their nomination for the indicated shadow cabinet post. Please ask them to check the Green Party Platform, posted at www.gpus.org . Follow-up and seek a comment on this Green Platform, particularly as it relates to his or her field of suggested service.

Then ask each nominee (not if they would be willing to serve, but) if he or she would be willing to attend at colloquium in Los Angeles. The rationale for creating a shadow cabinet is found at www.greencabinet.org.

With your help (we cannot bring this country back to responsibility without your help)...with your help we will be hearing from many of them soon.

Thank you for your participation,

Glenn Hopkins, Convener, www.greencabinet.org
Member, United Teachers, Los Angeles
Santa Monica United Methodist Church
Westside Greens/ Lavender-Green Caucus
(no endorsement implied via these affiliations)

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