Introducing 8 Young Greens to Watch: 8 young candidates who are running hard to bring our values into the halls of power.

The Greens won a historic first Westminster seat early this morning as the party's leader, Caroline Lucas, overturned a 5,000-strong Labour majority to take the Brighton Pavilion constituency.

The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama. It kills as brutally and indiscriminately....as it did under George W. Bush....It will not push through significant environmental reform, regulate Wall Street...

Joan Baez performs with Rev. Billy Talen, Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York City, and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir.

One of the real victors in this month's elections for the European Parliament is a 64-year-old former radical, an ebullient Franco-German who has turned his efforts to transform society from revolution to ecology.

The Green Party has kicked off a campaign for the June European Parliament election with the support of former President Vaclav Havel.

"Bloomberg is aiding and abetting a bubble economy that considers the boroughs and neighborhoods to be a soft colony, a third-world country that you invade with your extracting industries."

"The Wall Street experience is parallel and equal to the destruction of neighborhoods through chain stores," Reverend Billy says.

"Even if you have 20 billion dollars, you're not going to buy this election!" he shouted through a white bullhorn to a small gathering of supporters and reporters. "This campaign will be the revolt of the fabulous 500 neighborhoods, amen!"

The mayor of the financially struggling city, Gayle McLaughlin, a Green Party member and backer of Measure T, said Thursday she's "confident this measure will hold up in court."

The race to replace Becker is likely to be crowded. But if anyone can turn Racine Green -- with a capital "G" -- and establish some new models for politics at the municipal level in Wisconsin, it's Pete Karas.

Pete is running for mayor of Racine, WI. Find out how you can help him win.

In a Dine creation story, the people were given a choice of two yellow powders. They chose the yellow dust of corn pollen, and were instructed to leave the other yellow powder—uranium—in the soil and never to dig it up. If it were taken from the ground, they were told, a great evil would come.

As Paris' chief of transportation, Green Party member Denis Baupin has changed the face of mobility in Paris, making it, by most accounts, easier for users of public transportation, pedestrians and bikers, and less accessible to car drivers.

Support for the government of crisis-hit Iceland has plunged even further and if elections were held now the opposition Left-Green Party would become the biggest party, a new opinion poll showed on Thursday.

Watch the new video about Malik Rahim, founder of New Orleans hurricane relief group Common Ground and candidate for Congress in Louisiana.

Malik Rahim is the Green candidate for Congress in the Louisiana’s 2nd district special election on December 6th. He has been a pioneering community organizer for decades. His chances are good to unseat the incumbent, who has weak political support and grave legal problems.

Cleverer children are more likely to vote for the Green Party or the Liberal Democrats in a general election than other parties when they become adults, new research suggests.

At a 2008 University of Michigan appearance, the Dalai Lama tells the audience: "If you have a Green Party, I want to join."

Popular outcry helped Canadian Green leader Elizabeth May get into nationally televised debates, overcoming partisan attempts to exclude her.

Peter Camejo, a Green Party leader who was a third-party candidate in three California gubernatorial elections before becoming Ralph Nader's running mate in the 2004 presidential race, has died. He was 68.

In her acceptance speech as the Green Party VP nominee, hip-hop activist Rosa Clemente said to applause "we can lead a nation with a microphone. Hip-hop has been that mic, but now the Green Party needs to be the power that can turn up the volume and blow the speakers out."

A group of about 15 D.C. Statehood Green Party protesters and candidates gathered outside The Washington Post building today, saying that The Post "routinely ignores or marginalizes the party's candidates."

Many adults in the U.S. are voicing support for a new option in the country's political scene. 56 per cent of respondents believe the U.S. should have a third major political party in addition to the Democrats and Republicans, up six points since June 2004.

The Green Party has made a good deal of history this weekend. The party has nominated a former member of Congress for the presidency, a coup for the party that itself has yet to elect a U.S. representative or senator.

According to Black Agenda Report, former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney "is at this juncture in history the only vehicle through which progressives can both register their outrage at Barack Obama and begin the process of rebuilding a mass, Black-led movement for real social change."

"It's a small, simple, modest act that makes people feel that they're actually contributing" to reducing litter, waste and dependence on foreign oil, says [Green] Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, sponsor of San Francisco's ban on petroleum-based plastic bags in big grocery stores.

Are children under 5 years old who live near nuclear power plants in Germany more likely to develop leukaemia or not? Germany's powerful Green Party thinks so and has seized upon the results of a new study to renew its calls for the closure of all German nuclear facilities.

The electorate does not want simply a change in leadership; for the Democrats to take over the White House or the Republicans to take control of Congress. Rather, they want something new and different; they want an independent candidate to run for president.

We are left with corporatized, conservative compromisers who add mightily to the argument that the Democratic Party should be forced to change its name to end the consumer fraud it purveys. What should we do about it?

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is on the political comeback trail again. This time, she's running for president.