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Mark Green
Democratic Agenda
More than 1,200 people attended the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee initiated Democratic Agenda Conference held November 16-18, 1979, at the International Inn and Metropolitan AM Church in Washington 1 DC. The conference focused on "corporate power'; as the key barrier to "economic and political democracy," concepts many Democratic Agenda participants defined as "socialism.'
The Democratic Agenda meetings attempted to develop anti-corporate alternatives" through influencing the direction of the Democratic Party during the period leading to the July 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York.
Workshops included "Fighting Corporations from the Inside" - Randy Barber, Mark Green, Ray Rogers - .[1]
IPS connection
Mark Green was a member of the Institute for Policy Studies 20th Anniversary celebrations committee which organized an April 5, 1983, reception at the National Building Museum attended by approximately 1,000 IPS staffers and former staff.[2]
Greeting the Peace Marchers
The Great Peace Marchers arrived in New York, October 23 1986, after trekking 3,500 miles with their message of global nuclear disarmament.
They were greeted at the George Washington Bridge by Mark Green, Democratic candidate for Senate, David Dinkins, Manhattan Borough president, David Livingston, president of District 65 UAW, Assemblymembers David Paterson and Jerrold Nadler, and City Council members Ruth Messinger, Miriam Friedlander, Carolyn Maloney and Stanley Michaels.
The following Friday, the Communist Party USA's People's Daily World sponsored a reception for 25 of the marchers at Unity Auditorium on West 23rd St.[3]
DSA support
In 1987, Democratic Socialists of America helped Mark Green "carry Albany on election day". [4]
DSA youth conference
A Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section, annual winter conference was held February 16-18, 1990 Columbia University New York. Speakers included;[5]
DSA adviser
In 1994 Jim Chapin was a a Vice Chair of Democratic Socialists of America and a senior policy adviser to the New York Public Advocate Mark Green and [6]
Take Back America America - "progressive plan for victory"
On March 17, 2008, at the Take Back America conference in Washington D.C. Eric Boehlert, Michael Calderone, Mark Green, Michael Hirsh, Cenk Uygur and Tracy Van Slyke spoke in a session entitled "Angles of Vision: Big Media People's Media".[7]
JStreet advisory council
In 2009 listed members of the JStreet advisory council included Mark Green, Former New York City Public Advocate[8]
References
- ↑ Information Digest, December 14, 1979, page 370/371
- ↑ Information Digest April l5, 1983 p77-79
- ↑ PDW Oct. 23. 1986, page 3, 'Full schedule in NYC for peace marchers' by Richard Hoyen
- ↑ Democratic Left, Jan./Feb. 1987, page 18
- ↑ Democratic left, Jan./Feb. 1990, page 13
- ↑ Revised list of committees of the 1994-1995 DSA National Political Committee
- ↑ Campaign for America's Future website: Take Back America 2008 - Agenda (accessed on May 11, 2010)
- ↑ JStreet website: Advisory Council (accessed on Oct. 26, 2009)
