{"id":3955,"date":"2012-07-16T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T01:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:50:58","slug":"gar-alperovitzs-green-party-keynote-we-are-laying-groundwork-for-next-great-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3955","title":{"rendered":"Gar Alperovitz&#8217;s Green Party Keynote: We Are Laying Groundwork for &#8220;Next Great Revolution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\">Democracy Now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-iiPMFZBlBQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the Green Party&#8217;s 2012 National Convention in Baltimore over the weekend, Massachusetts physician Jill Stein and anti-poverty campaigner Cheri Honkala were nominated the party&#8217;s presidential and vice-presidential contenders. We air the convention&#8217;s keynote address delivered by Gar Alperovitz, a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Alperovitz is the author of, &#8220;America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy.&#8221; In his remarks, Alperovitz stressed the importance of third-party politics to challenge a corporate-run society. &#8220;Systems in history are defined above all by who controls the wealth,&#8221; Alperovitz says. &#8220;The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>For more from Gar Alperovitz, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RKaCyB41yCQ\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Democracy Now! At the Green Party&#8217;s 2012 National Convention in Baltimore over the weekend, Massachusetts physician Jill Stein and anti-poverty campaigner Cheri Honkala were nominated the party&#8217;s presidential and vice-presidential contenders. We air the convention&#8217;s keynote address delivered by Gar Alperovitz, a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[577,1228,1227,1230,1224,695,36,1229,1225,305,1226,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7102,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/7102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}