For the most part, I like peoplesparty.org, the redesigned website of the Movement a People's Party, If you navigate to the old domain, forapeoplesparty.org, it redirects you to the new one. Once you get there, you're treated to an au courant, NationBuilder-style layer-cake homepage with a rotating gallery of photos at the top. Some of the photos include founder Nick Brana with a group of fellow MPP ralliers. The rest...well, that's the part I don't like so much.
Even if the many photos that adorn the site are not purchased from istockphoto.com or one of its competitors, they most definitely have the look of stock photos. They consist mostly of well-scrubbed and -coiffed Millennials of various ethnicities, some sitting and smiling or daydreaming or looking with intensity at the camera, some conversing, some doing what looks like work.
I'm looking forward to a time when MPP can replace the stock-looking images with actual of People's Party activists in action.
Even if the many photos that adorn the site are not purchased from istockphoto.com or one of its competitors, they most definitely have the look of stock photos. They consist mostly of well-scrubbed and -coiffed Millennials of various ethnicities, some sitting and smiling or daydreaming or looking with intensity at the camera, some conversing, some doing what looks like work.
I'm looking forward to a time when MPP can replace the stock-looking images with actual of People's Party activists in action.
Aside from that, one section of the homepage got me a little miffed at first, with its observation that "Wealthy donors and big corporations have two major parties. The people have none." This struck me initially as indulging in Green Party denialism, in which I've never seen Brana publicly indulging: i.e., that the none means no party at all. On second look, I noticed that it quite correctly states that the people at large have no major party. The implication here is that MPP truly aspires to be the major party that the Greens have never been and likely never will be.
And I'm quite OK with that.
As I observed back on my last birthday, the MPP platform echoes the Green platform in many respects, albeit with less of the overt Gaia-consciousness that serves as the Greens' philosophical foundation. MPP also is less overtly socialist (or eco-socialist) than the Greens. They refuse contributions from corporate entities and the über-wealthy. They refuse to work directly with progressive organizations that maintain connections with the Democratic Party.
If MPP has success in organizing state and local chapters and gets bigger, faster than GPUS, I would love to see the two parties merge, even under the MPP banner. I am more interested in seeing a thriving political expression of pissed-off progressivism than in preserving the Green Party brand.
And I'm quite OK with that.
As I observed back on my last birthday, the MPP platform echoes the Green platform in many respects, albeit with less of the overt Gaia-consciousness that serves as the Greens' philosophical foundation. MPP also is less overtly socialist (or eco-socialist) than the Greens. They refuse contributions from corporate entities and the über-wealthy. They refuse to work directly with progressive organizations that maintain connections with the Democratic Party.
If MPP has success in organizing state and local chapters and gets bigger, faster than GPUS, I would love to see the two parties merge, even under the MPP banner. I am more interested in seeing a thriving political expression of pissed-off progressivism than in preserving the Green Party brand.
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