From: Dale McMillen <dmcmillen@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.greens
Date: 03 Jan 93 20:02 PST
Subject: Re: NEWS ABOUT THE GREENS
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!dmcmillen    Jan  3 20:02:00 1993


From: Dale McMillen <dmcmillen>
Subject: NEWS ABOUT THE GREENS

/* Written 12:07 am  Dec  3, 1992 by socalgreens@igc.apc.org in igc:green.general */
/* ---------- "New book on EuroGreen Parties" ---------- */


sdfMAJOR NEW BOOK ON EUROPEAN GREEN PARTIES RECENTLY RELEASED

for information:  Mike Feinstein (310) 392-8450 Robert Miles (310)
833-8856

"SIXTEEN WEEKS WITH EUROPEAN GREENS:
INTERVIEWS, IMPRESSIONS, PLATFORMS, AND PERSONALITIES"
by Mike Feinstein

has been recently released and is an important new addition to the
global Green library.

Like no Green book ever published, "Sixteen Weeks with European
Greens" has chapters on Green Parties in 27 Western and Eastern
European countries. In 1990 and 1991, as a representative of the
International Working Group of the Green Party USA and of the
Green Party  of California, Mike Feinstein visited Green Parties
in 12 Western and Eastern European countries and attended several
international Green Party conferences.

Part of the book features interviews Feinstein did with numerous
Green Party spokespersons, international secretaries, and elected
representatives around Europe; as well as Feinstein's own analysis
of European Greens' successes, failures, trends, and challenges.
The remainder of the book, which is 8 1/2" x 11" and almost 700
pages long, features an incredible array of Green Party source
documents, from individual Greens' position papers and strategic
pieces, to press statements, party histories and full general
election platforms.

With this kind of mix, "Sixteen Weeks" allows the reader to
understand how individual Greens and whole Green Parties are
dealing with the real issues of their time-both as they speak
about it in their own words as well as from a view from the
"outside" by a U.S.  Green.

One of the primary (and most timely) focuses of "Sixteen Weeks" is
how European Green Parties have acted and reacted during the
evolutionary period in Europe from the end of the Cold War and the
"opening of Eastern Europe, to German unification and the "1992"
completion of the Internal Market of the European Community (EC).
In particular, the book is one of the outstanding collections of
both Green/alternative critiques of the EC and their positive
Green/alternative visions to it,  including:

*       European Greens' analysis of the economic, social,
environmental, and security implications of the EC drive towards
economic, monetary, political, and military union; and

*       European Greens' critique of the 20-century nation-state
and their institutional alternatives to it, including Greens'
visions of a "Europe of Regions" that would involve
decentralization and pan-European cooperation on environment,
human rights, and security/disarmament.

Other highlights include

*       the evolution of the new Eastern European Green Parties
and the relationships between Greens East and West
*       first hand accounts by local Greens of the ecological
situation in several Eastern European countries
*       bioregional approaches to the Baltic and Mediterranean
*       Green perspectives on Swedish energy policy
*       Green Party positions on Baltic independence, the breakup
of Yugoslavia, ethnic relations in Georgia, the Persian Gulf War,
and the attempted coup d'etat in the former Soviet Union
*       the relationships between Green Parties and Green movement
groups
*       The German Greens and German unification
*       the full general election platforms of the Belgian,
British, Bulgarian, Dublin, German, Irish, Latvian, Slovakian,
Slovenian, Swedish, and West Berlin Green Parties
*       close-up looks at the European-wide organization of Green
Parties called "The European Green Coordination" or simply "The
European Greens", as well as the green collective in the European
Parliament called "The Green Group in the European Parliament"

SIXTEEN WEEKS WITH EUROPEAN GREENS (ISBN: 0-936810-22-X)
IS AVAILABLE BY MAIL ORDER THROUGH:

R & E MILES, PO BOX 1916, SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA, USA 90733.
phone (310) 833-8856, fax same number after 7pm and before 8am
pacific time zone.

PRICE IS US$17
PLUS $3 SHIPPING & HANDLING WITHIN THE US
AND $5 SHIPPING & HANDLING INTERNATIONALLY.

This book is a bargain-it is priced inexpensively so that it can
spread around the movement.

Please ask you local bookstore and library to carry "Sixteen Weeks
with European Greens" (and the other Green books listed in the
appendix to "Sixteen Weeks")!

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book are donated
to the International Working Group of the Green Party USA to help
promote international Green communication, cooperation, and
understanding.

Chapter titles from the TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface Foreword, by Ross Mirkarimi, co-coordinator of the
International Working Group of the Green Party USA Introduction
Denmark:  De Gronne Sweden:  Miljopartiet de Grona Germany:  Die
Gruenen
	West Berlin:  Alternative Liste East Berlin: Gruene Partei
	in der DDR
Austria:  Die Gruene Alternative Czechoslovakia:  Strana Zelenych
Hungary:  Zold Part Poland: Poski Partia Zielonych Belgium:
Agalev, Ecolo Holland: De Groenen, Groen Links European Green
Coordination Green Group in the European Parliament (GGEP)
	Green-Alternative European Link (GRAEL) United Kingdom:
Green Party Ireland: Comhaontas Glas The Mediterranean Bioregion
France: Les Verts Catalonia: Alternativa Verda/Movimento
Ecologista de Catalunya The Baltic Bioregion Estonia: Eesti
Roheline Liikumine Finland: Vihrea Litto Latvia: Green Party of
Latvia Lithuania: Lietuva Zaliojo Partija Russia Eastern Europe
Bulgaria: Green Party, Ecoglasnost Georgia: Green Party of Georgia
Slovenia: Zeleni Slovenije Ukraine: Ukainian Green Party
Yugoslavia Persian Gulf War European Greens and US Greens World
Greens Appendix A: Addresses of Green Parties around the world
(partial list) Appendix B: Selected Green Bibliography (from the
Green Party of California/Los Angles County, May, 1992 Appendix C:
European Green Election Results, 1984-1992