Alliance 90/The Greens,often simply referred to as the Greens,is a green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Greens and Alliance 90. The Greens had itself merged with the East German Green Party after German reunification in 1990.
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson is an Irish politician who was the 7th president of Ireland,serving from December 1990 to September 1997,the first woman to hold this office. Prior to her election,Robinson was a senator in Seanad Éireann between 1969 and 1989,and a councilor on Dublin Corporation from 1979 to 1983. Though briefly affiliated with the Labour Party while a senator,she became the first independent candidate to win the presidency and the first not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil. Following her time as president,Robinson became the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.
Naomi A. Klein is a Canadian author,social activist,and filmmaker known for her political analyses,support of ecofeminism,organized labour,left-wing politics and criticism of corporate globalization,fascism,ecofascism and capitalism. As of 2021 she is Associate Professor,and Professor of Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia,co-directing a Centre for Climate Justice.
The Green Party of England and Wales is a green,left-wing political party in England and Wales. Since October 2021,Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay have served as the party's co-leaders. The party currently has one representative in the House of Commons and two in the House of Lords,in addition to over 700 councillors at the local government level and three members of the London Assembly.
The Green Party is a political party in Sweden based on green politics.
The Green Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada,founded in 1983 with a focus on green politics.
Caroline Patricia Lucas is a British politician who has twice led the Green Party of England and Wales and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton Pavilion since the 2010 general election. She was re-elected in the 2015,2017 and 2019 general elections,increasing her majority each time.
Peace Action is a peace organization whose focus is on preventing the deployment of nuclear weapons in space,thwarting weapons sales to countries with human rights violations,and promoting a new United States foreign policy based on common security and peaceful resolution to international conflicts.
Medea Benjamin is an American political activist who was the co-founder of Code Pink with Jodie Evans and others. Along with activist and author Kevin Danaher,she created the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin was the Green Party candidate in California in 2000 for the United States Senate.
Anti-terrorism legislation are laws with the purpose of fighting terrorism. They usually,if not always,follow specific bombings or assassinations. Anti-terrorism legislation usually includes specific amendments allowing the state to bypass its own legislation when fighting terrorism-related crimes,under alleged grounds of necessity.
The Green Party of Canada was founded at a conference held at Carleton University in Ottawa in 1983.
Leslie Cagan is an American activist,writer,and socialist organizer involved with the peace and social justice movements. She is the former national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice,the former co-chair of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism,and the former chair of Pacifica Radio.
Kerry-Lynne Donna Findlay is a Canadian politician who has served as the member of Parliament for South Surrey—White Rock since 2019,and previously represented the electoral district of Delta—Richmond East in the House of Commons of Canada from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Conservative Party,she had served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice,Associate Minister of National Defence,and Minister of National Revenue while that party was in power under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The Justice Party is a centre-left to left-wing political party in South Korea. It has been placed as liberal and progressive. It was founded on 21 October 2012 when it split from moderates of the Unified Progressive Party. The Justice Party now takes a more moderate stance than the United Progressive Party or the Democratic Labor Party in the past.
Antimilitarism is a doctrine that opposes war,relying heavily on a critical theory of imperialism and was an explicit goal of the First and Second International. Whereas pacifism is the doctrine that disputes should be settled without recourse to violence,Paul B. Miller defines anti-militarism as "ideology and activities...aimed at reducing the civil power of the military and ultimately,preventing international war". Cynthia Cockburn defines an anti-militarist movement as one opposed to "military rule,high military expenditure or the imposition of foreign bases in their country". Martin Ceadel points out that anti-militarism is sometimes equated with pacificism—general opposition to war or violence,except in cases where force is deemed necessary to advance the cause of peace.
The legitimacy of the State of Israel has been questioned by a number of countries and individuals since the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. Specifically,it concerns the matter of whether the authority of Israel over the area in which it exists and/or the areas that it claims should be accepted as legitimate political authority;in the former context,which concerns the legitimacy of Israel in the area of its sovereign existence and not only its authority in the Israeli-occupied territories,the argument becomes couched in terms of its right to exist.
Marama Mere-Ana Davidson is a New Zealand politician who entered the New Zealand Parliament in 2015 as a representative of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,of which she is the female co-leader.
Ayşe Gül Altınay is a Turkish academic working in the disciplines of anthropology,cultural studies,and gender studies,focusing especially on militarism,violence,and memory. She is a professor of anthropology at SabancıUniversity and director of the university's Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence. Altınay stated that "the main question that shapes my work and my life" is "Are we going to turn our pain into more violence,hate,pain and injustice,or into steps that multiply life,beauty,love,peace and justice?" She is a signatory of the Academics for Peace petition "We will not be party to this crime!" and advocates a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish-Turkish conflict.
