Video of Green Liberty PAC opening conference & Emanuel's remarks

November 4, 2023

Green Liberty PAC

First National Meeting

Emanuel Pastreich

Former Green Party US candidate for President

Remarks

My deepest thanks to everyone gathered here who helped to build a national and international Green Liberty dedicated to truth politics, and even deeper thanks to the many out there, many whom I will never know, who worked behind the scenes to make this moment possible, to give new hope to those who felt that evil and decadence, narcissism and indifference had penetrated our society to the core, new hope that the promise of America might be possible again.

We all know that this event was never supposed to ever take place. We know that during the comic and tragic Green Party presidential campaign, and for that matter in every other activity of that sad creature now slowly limping towards a damp grave, that our friends at Homeland Security had their orders that we would be split up into angry factions fighting over gender identity and slavery reparations, over climate change and the second amendment, and that we would never, ever, ever, come together to address the elephant among elephants in the room: the class warfare launched by the super-rich and their minions against the rest of humanity.

But that is not what happened. Congratulations! Thanks to your bravery, your imagination, your vision, and above all your empathy, we have avoided all the traps that they laid out so carefully for us, and now we are ready to march forward to a greater union of all peoples; the truth goes marching on.

I do not want to sound like Trump, but I am serious when I say that we will make America great for the first time.

Green Liberty takes a fundamentally different approach to its relationship with citizens than the corporate political parties that dominate the United States today.

The rich, and the multinational corporations that they control, are happy to shower the political parties with money because they know that they will get value equal, or greater, than the money that they invest from the various favors the political parties will do for them.

For the average citizen, however, the only reason to donate to a political party is an abstract idealism, a belief that somehow the money you give to a politician will help to realize some ideal, or hold up some value, in concrete policy through the efforts of a political party. There is no expectation, or even hope, that the political party will offer you and your family benefits in the way that corporations and the rich get benefits from them. In fact, there is no office for the Democrats or Republicans nearby you where you can demand accountability, or ask for help. If you are foolish enough to call up these political parties, you will get a recording asking for more money.

We do not suck up your money for our use to prepare hyped-up elections that will change nothing, but that will make IT contractors and PR firms rich. No! We will work together with you to completely transform the United States into an egalitarian, transparent, accountable, scientific society in which all citizens have basic rights and all children have equal opportunities.

As Langston Hughes put it,

“Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death

The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,

We, the people, must redeem

The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.

The mountains and the endless plain—

All, all the stretch of these great green states

And make America again”

Our activities:

① Advice for organizing your community

② Setting up mutual support systems

③ Forming youth corps

④ Educational programs for citizens

⑤ Regular talks for citizens to explain economics, politics, society and international relations

⑥ Setting up barter and local currency programs for the community

⑦ Sharing of resources and tools

⑧ Creating local newspapers

⑨ Forming a “constitutional government” in your community

⑩ Advocating for policy, supporting political candidates, and working with political parties