The Green Institute is proud to announce that we have commissioned community organizer, journalist and Hip-Hop activist Rosa Clemente to write a series of four articles for the Green Institute. The first article will address Women of Color in positions of Leadership, and three other articles will follow on the first of the month.

Born and raised in the South Bronx she is a graduate of the University of Albany and Cornell University. A much sought after commentator, political activist, community organize and independent reporter, Rosa has been delivering workshops, presentations and commentary for over ten years. For more details, please see her website.


Green Institute Publications - Papers by Roger Morris

In February of 2008, Roger Morris concluded four years as a Fellow for the Green Institute and moved on to other projects. It was a very productive and enlightening four years and we thank Roger for his great work and wish him the best on his future projects.

The Specialist
by Roger Morris
June, 2007
Green Institute Publications

The bombing attempt on Vice President Dick Cheney's life reminds us that Bagram has a long history in Afghanistan, one that US war-makers should not ignore


Dispatches from the Front - In Memory of David Halberstam

by Roger Morris
April 24, 2007
Green Institute Publications
There will be an outpouring of tributes to David
Halberstam, the renowned American writer who died at 73 Monday in an
automobile accident near San Francisco. But no eulogy can match the sheer memorial of his work. Halberstam
was, in every sense, a complete journalist -- truth-teller as artist
-- and his legacy leaves a lasting chance of redemption for a media
whose decay his standard always silhouetted so starkly.

Reflections on the Widening War
by Roger Morris
March, 2007
Green Institute Publications
It was
1969. My universe was the National Security Council staff under
then-President Richard Nixon and his advisor Henry Kissinger. We were
fresh from another election in which America voted to end a war. Yet in
another abhorrence of defeat, the familiar lure of some redeeming if
only cosmetic victory, we met in secret to plan another escalation. “I
can’t believe,” Kissinger told us, “that a fourth-rate power like North
Vietnam doesn’t have a breaking point.”

Bagram Ghosts
by Roger Morris
March 1, 2007
Green Institute Publications

It was a failed administration's ritual scapegoating, the ousting last winter of its ruinous secretary of defense. But in the sauve qui peut confirmation of his replacement -- "The only thing that mattered," said a Senate aide, "was that he was not Don Rumsfeld" -- there was inadvertent irony.

The Undertaker's Tally
by Roger Morris
January 22, 2007
Green Institute Publications

As he leaves the Pentagon and American foreign policy in unprecedented ruin, it is the reckoning on a long, portentous history that went typically unheeded.

The Source Beyond Rove - Condoleezza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal
by Roger Morris
July 27, 2005
Green Institute Publications - The Midnight Ride
The evidence of Rice’s complicity is increasingly damning as it gathers
over a six-year twisting chronology of the Nigerien
uranium-Wilson-Plame affair, particularly when set beside what we also
know very well about the inside operations of the NSC and Rice’s unique
closeness to Bush, her tight grip on her staff, and the power and reach
that went with it all.

Strategic Demands of the 21st Century: A New Global Vision for a New World
by Roger Morris & Steven Schmidt
June 03, 2005
Green Institute Publications

Of America's Dunkirk, Napoleon's Winter, and FDR's Third Freedom. Roger Morris and Steve Schmidt evoke history, envision political alternatives and offer a provocative reappraisal of national security policy in a swiftly changing world.


Origins of the Species Neo-Con

by Roger Morris

April 19, 2005
Green Institute Publications - Midnight Ride
[When
"Scoop"] Jackson died… he had spawned a cult following. With the
lavishly financed and much-propagandized neo-conservatives first taking
power under President Reagan, and then at the senior levels under a few
and ignorant George W. Bush, their throwback foreign policy was, and
is, "Scoop" Jackson warmed over -- the red, white and blue, bombs-away
dawn of an old era.

War for the Future
by Roger Morris
Green Institute Publications - Midnight Ride
What a surreal moment—this faded end-of-summer 2005. We are locked in
an evil lost war of staggering costs. Some flail at the atrocity in a
cause that seems equally lost. Most play on in the ebbing season's sun,
oblivious to reckonings. In Washington rules the worst regime in
memory. Yet it falls to a fiercely bereaved 48-year-old mother, camping
beside a dusty ditch in Texas, to embody the conscience of the culture,
at least until the media move on . . .


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Global Greens 2008

In May of this year, Greens from all over the world met for the second Global Greens Gathering in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The objectives were to:
  • promote the Global Green Charter among the Green Parties of the world, as
    well as kindred groups and society at-large;
  • stimulate and facilitate action on matters of global consequence; and
  • deepen communication among Green Parties and Federations everywhere

The delegation of Green representatives approved fice declarations as well as a group of resolutions. See www.globalgreens.org for details.