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Introducing the Green Shadow Cabinet

Introducing the Green Shadow Cabinet
Thu, 4/25/2013
This article originally appeared on Green Shadow Cabinet

Dr. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the 2012 Green Party presidential and vice-presidential nominees, have marked the beginning of Earth Week by announcing a new Green Shadow Cabinet that will serve as an independent voice in U.S. politics, putting the needs of people and protection of the planet ahead of profits for big corporations.

The Cabinet will operate in the tradition of shadow cabinets in other countries, such as the United Kingdom and Mexico, responding to actions of the government in office, and demonstrating that another government is possible.

The Green Shadow Cabinet includes nearly 100 prominent scientists, community and labor leaders, physicians, cultural workers, veterans, and more, and will provide an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the dysfunctional government in Washington D.C..

The Cabinet is organized into six federal branches: Democracy, Economy, Ecology, Foreign Affairs, General Welfare, and Justice. Topics include the economy, environment and climate change, health and general welfare, democratization, rights of workers, wages and labor, community power, closing military bases, ending wars for resources and restoring the rule of law.

Among the top priorities will be advocating for full employment through a Green New Deal and confronting climate change and the ecological crisis through a program of creating a carbon-free and nuclear free energy economy.

In honor of the launch of the Green Shadow Cabinet, twenty members of the Cabinet have issued public statements for Earth Week. These are available for republication at http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements

The Green Shadow Cabinet includes not only scientists and leaders of social change organizations, but also artists and writers. The talented comedian Lee Camp offers the above video on the need for the Cabinet.

 

The Green Shadow Cabinet:

 

Democracy

Marsha Coleman Adebayo, Government Transparency and Accountability, Director

Ajamu Baraka, Public Intervenor for Human Rights

Roshan Bliss, Assistant Secretary of Education for Higher Education

David Cobb, Commission on Corporations and Democracy, Chair

Mike Ferner, National Guard Bureau, Chief

Robert Fitrakis, Federal Elections Commission, Chair

George Friday, Commission on Community Power, Chair

Jack Gerson, Assistant Secretary of Education for K-12

Kimberly King, Secretary of Education

Ethel Long-Scott, Commission on Women's Power, Co-Chair

Ben Manski, White House Chief of Staff

Suren Moodliar, Global Democracy Programs, Director

Todd Price, Assistant Secretary of Education for Education Technology

Lewis Rosenbaum, Public Media Administration, Administrator

Kabzuag Vaj, Commission on Women's Power, Co-Chair

 

Economy

Gar Alperovitz, New Economy Advisor to the President

Ellen Brown, Secretary of the Treasury

Marc Armstrong, Secretary of Commerce

Steve Early, Workers Power Administration, Administrator

Philip Harvey, Full Employment Council, Chair

Howie Hawkins, Full Employment Council, Vice Chair

Sarah Manski, Small Business Administration, Administrator

Richard McIntyre, U.S. Trade Representative

Richard Monje, Secretary of Labor

Sandy Perry, Secretary of Housing

Jack Rasmus, Federal Reserve System, Chairman

Ray Rogers, International Labor Rights, Advisor

Rich Whitney, Office of Management and Budget, Director

Richard D. Wolff, Council of Economic Advisors, Chair

Stephen Zarlenga, Monetary Authority Board, Chair

 

Ecology

Steve Breyman, Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator

Christopher Cox, Political Ecology Advisor to the President

Tim DeChristopher, Emergency Climate Action Coordinator

Mark Dunlea, Secretary of Agriculture

Bruce Gagnon, Secretary of Space Ecology

Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Bureau of Water Preservation, Director

Jill Stein, President

Sean Sweeney, Climate Change Advisor to the President

Brian Tokar, Director of the Office of Technology Assessment

Harvey Wasserman, Secretary of Energy 

 

Foreign Affairs

Leah Bolger, Secretary of Defense

George Paz Martin, Peace Ambassador

David McReynolds, Peace Advisor to the President

David Swanson, Secretary of Peace

Ann Wright, Secretary of State

 

General Welfare

Patch Adams, Assistant Secretary of Health for Holistic Health

Kris Alman, Assistant Secretary of Health for Data Privacy

Mary Bricker-Jenkins, Aid to Families and Youth, Director

Richard Bruno, Assistant Secretary of Health for Medical Education and Training

Lee Camp, Commissioner for the Comedic Arts

Olveen Carrasquillo, Assistant Secretary of Health for Health Equity

Claudia Chaufan, Assistant Secretary of Health for System Design

Steven Chrismer, Secretary of Transportation

Khalilah Collins, Public Intervenor for Social Justice

Michael Crenshaw, People's Culture Bureau, Work Progress Administration

Maureen Cruise, Assistant Secretary of Health for Community Wellbeing

Ronnie Cummins, Administrator, Food and Drug Administration

Margaret Flowers, Secretary of Health

Cheri Honkala, Vice-President

Charles Komanoff, Assistant Secretary for Sustainable Urban Transportation

Bruce Levine, Assistant Secretary of Health for Clinical Mental Health

Vance "Head-Roc" Levy, Poet Laureate

Gloria Mattera, Assistant Secretary of Health for Public Health Education

Carol Paris, Assistant Secretary of Health for Mental Health Systems

Anna Rondon, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs

Daniel Shea, Veteran's Affairs: Chemical Exposure

Diljeet Singh, Assistant Secretary of Health for Women's Health and Cancer

Robert Stone, Assistant Secretary of Health for Emergency and Palliative Care

Bruce Trigg, Assistant Secretary of Health for Drug Policy

Walter Tsou, Surgeon General

 

Justice

Shahid Buttar, Civil Rights Enforcement, Director

King Downing, President's Commission on Corrections Reform, Chair

Gloria Meneses-Sandoval, Secretary of Immigration

Jim Moran, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Administrator

Jesselyn Radack, National Security and Human Rights Advisor to the President

Michael Ratner, Division of Civil, Social & Economic Rights, Director

Clifford Thornton, Drug Policy Agency, Administrator

Kevin Zeese, Attorney General

 

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