Interview with Green Party candidate for Mayor of Baltimore
Submitted by Nastarana on Sat, 11/05/2016 - 12:11pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiTrD5abt_c
Young Joshua Harris, on the evidence of this interview, is a most impressive young man. I particularly liked that he proposes to divert Baltimore tax revenue into a Baltimore City Bank, not to Wall Street. He also impressed me, on the strength of this one interview, as being very grounded in the reality of life in his city. There seems to be no politics as fantasy life with Mr. Harris.
Perhaps someone from Maryland can tell us more about this election?
If the Green Party is attracting young candidates of Mr. Harris's caliber across the country, it may have a future as more than just a fringe party.
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BTW, I liked the green tie!
I think I might wear a green scarf to the polling place Tuesday, even though I am still a WFP member. I would like to see if I can't manage to annoy the major party poll watchers.
Mary Bennett
Since I support public banking, this is quite interesting .
I can even see donating a little to his efforts...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
FWIW I went to the link in the tweet above and was
able to contribute using PayPal.
Was interesting to look at his Twitter feed which included this for two Green candidates....
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
I supported Ian Schlakman
He asked, I donated.
His campaign has really gone gangbusters. They've knocked on every door in his district.
“He may not have gotten the words out but the thoughts were great.”
Thanks for this
I lived in Baltimore -- Bawlmer Hun -- for many years. There is a hip side to Baltimore. Unfortunately, most of what we see is the crap side. It's necessary for that to be addressed but there is so much more that town.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Greens win a third of the time
They just don't run everywhere. Just because Jill is running into the wall of silence at the national level doesn't mean that more local races suffer the same problem.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
CNBC
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Reading between the lines of the interview,
and thinking about what was not being said, it seems to me that this was a very tough-minded statement.
He starts with public banking, in other wards claw back public money from private banks. He makes no promises of patronage, programs that his supporters might get to be director of; no diatribes about "privilege", no finger pointing, just, here is what we have to do. Among the buzz words not mentioned are 'diversity' and 'multicuralism' I was surprised to see that he brought up the importance of good health and availability of good quality food--none of the deference to jobs for farmworkers that we are used to hearing from AA public figures.
Mary Bennett
I just sent a small amount also.
Putting the money where the mouth is.
Normally, I don't hold with donating outside my own state, but I think we all need to be encouraging up and coming leadership.
Mary Bennett
Same here.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.