Important Green Party Online Convention Tomorrow!
Join and bring your own creative videos, poetry and music!
Today I have a very important event to promote: The 2021 Maine Green Independent Party Convention: Direct Democracy Forum an online event starting at 6PM, Tomorrow, Saturday, May 22!
Then on Sunday, May 23, the business portion of the convention will take place, with registration starting at 9 AM. For more information on the business day, please visit the event link at
https://www.facebook.com/events/286955096283340
Please read the online description of the event which invites anyone to contribute video, music, poetry- or whatever form you work in to get the message to resonate.
With everything that is going on at a rather aggressive place, on the Boothbay Peninsula and other places, it is important to recognize that there are organized factions at work who are not necessarily concerned with the interests of anything other than making money. To my observation, they regard any form of urbanization as progress with no regard for what a rural quality of living is actually about, and simply ignore environmental sustainability. People who share in a concept of a quality rural lifestyle tend to be less aggressive and not as pro-active about it but that will no longer do if we want to preserve a rural lifestyle for the wider culture and future generations.
I am just learning about the Green Party but I have been studying the Maine legislative policies enacted since 1976, for about a dozen years. 1976 is the year that Maine became a centrally managed economy.
As I wrote in the last email I am working on a paper to submit to Humanity and Social Sciences Communications that documents a small part of this history in rigorous detail. Such detail may be quite tedious to some, but that is what it takes to understand the political mechanism that has been enacted and concealed over the decades to benefit the investors class through the special use of public resources. The unspoken reasoning seems to be “Job creation is a public benefit and so the public must contribute at least 50% of the capitalization of the private ownership of the means of large production that provides the “workforce” with ”quality jobs” Ironically, now that we have been subsidizing the “workforce” of the upper end of the economy for decades, it seems even they cannot afford to live in Maine. What is wrong with this picture?
Consistent with the underlying philosophy, a “quality job” is defined strictly by the amount of pay and benefits. Today that long-entrenched paradigm is meeting a new one on the rise- the remote workforce that prefers working at home, but the old paradigm is obstinately stuck in its ways and very organized, so it needs to be met with an equally well-organized opposition. While I am just becoming familiar with the Green Party, running on instinct, I believe it is our best hope.
Today I have to get back to work on the HSSC project but I hope I will meet some of you tomorrow at the online event. It’s a new beginning!