Tokenism Will Not Give the Green Party More Color
This is a good article about how tokenism won’t give the Green Party the diversity it needs. The answer, according to this Green Party member, is to recruit from outside the institutions controlled by the Democrats. Additionally, good points are made about the need of the Green Party to require dues from its members.
Read in CounterPunch
Image from New Statesman
About The Author
Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his four books:
From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning
Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World
Co-Authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn
Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present and Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized
He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia WA.