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Green Mass. Group joins Blue, Red, Gold and Purple Mass. Groups
By adamg on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 8:49am
Local greenies have set up Green Mass. Group to chat about Jill Stein and environmental issues:
... We have seen the word "Green" robbed of its meaning and we will use this site to reclaim it.
The Green movement is an ecological movement, based on the idea that the whole human experiment is part of nature and not separate from it. Human systems are subject to nature's laws whether we like it or not. Human endeavors are inextricably linked to our biosphere. Our health and well-being is intricately connected to the health and well-being of plant and animal species across the planet. Our economic, social, and political systems cannot change this simple fact -- they must reflect it.
They join Blue Mass. Group (liberal Democrats), Red Mass. Group (conservative Republicans), Gold Mass. Group (libertarians) and Purple Mass. Group (anti-cloning). Plaid Mass. Group, anyone?
Via Open Media Boston.
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Comments
Don't get it
The plaid ribbon is the universal symbol for health care. Didn't know this until a couple months ago.
The Green Mass Group is great but why am I not suprised that one of the very first entries includes a mention of Noam Chomsky? (And, the word "comrades".)
Because they're the Baby
Because they're the Baby Boomer teabaggers of the left.
Nothing to worry about, they don't actually have a plan on how to govern. Just a bunch of pet issues they're not about to concede on.
in fairness
I believe the people running this site are in their 20s and 30s. And teabaggers? I don't think the Greens will be rubbing their scrota across their enemies anytime soon ... besides they're a co-ed organization and very forward-thinking on gender politics. Unlike the frat boys of the right.
Jason
Open Media Boston
hmmm
hmmm. The Purple guy is interesting, although he seems to be a little all-over-the-place. His mission statement seems to insult pretty much everyone. :)
So it is written, so it shall be done
So now I've set up @PlaidMass on the Twitters, but am not sure what to do with it.
Any interest in having it be an aggregator of Massachusetts political news?
I was thinking of maybe setting it up so that if these other groups have RSS feeds, their material can be re-distributed at @PlaidMass.
That or someone with sufficient time & interest can step in & curate it, but that's probably biting off more than I was expecting here.
Any other ideas?
This is the year for it
It's going to be an interesting election season in Massachusetts.
All of those sites use the same exact platform (eerie, I know), which has RSS, so the aggregation would be the easy part. The tougher part would be the curating/editing/pontificating part, where somebody tries to make sense of it all.
amusing idea, but ...
amusing idea, Chris ... but on the Twitter account Bio listing for @PlaidMass why do the Blue, Red and Gold Mass Groups get their party affiliations listed, but the Greens get called "hippies?"
if you're serious about doing this, then be even-handed in your approach - don't be selective about who gets slammed out of the gate ...
Jason
Open Media Boston
"Patches welcome." I'm at
"Patches welcome."
I'm at work right now, just wanted to stub something in for the moment.
That and it had to fit within 160 characters.
(Also, I used to be in the green party, so this is a bit of self-slamming :-)
oh ok
cool ... then soldier on ... will be good to have a one-stop shopping feed for these sites ...
Yeah
But calling Republicans scrote-dragging frat boys is OK!
sure
in the UH comment area where warranted (the idea of otherwise straight politicos using that particular term to describe themselves is endlessly hilarious to me), but I'm not doing an aggregator feed of political discussion groups ...
Thanks for the nod
I'd say we aim for a whole lot more than talking about Jill Stein's campaign and environmental issues. This is about building an independent political force that can challenge entrenched power, it's about extending what Blue Mass Group did well -- forcing both reality and respect back into the political discourse, and it's about ecological politics which is basically a different lens through which to make ALL political decisions and policies. That ecological lens is key, and it's as relevant to potholes and property taxes as it is to climate and conservation. The point I was making in the post you quote from is that "green" has been made to be synonymous with "environmental", when it really means "ecological".