GPCA Blogs Page
GPCA believes that internet in general, and blogs in particular, are fine examples of grassroots democracy in action. This page is meant to support these efforts by gathering together links to blogs by GPCA members.
Contents & Other Links
Blogs
The blogs listed here are not operated or edited by the Green Party of California. They are free speech. Therefore, the Green Party of California does not necessarily endorse any ideas and opinions expressed.
- Alex Walker
- Byron De Lear
- California Greening (Wes Rolley)
- Cameron
- Donny Fix
- Drew Johnson
- Ginny Case
- Green Commons (Serena Blaiz, GP of Texas). This site hosts numerous other blogs, including a number of California Greens
- Los Angeles Greens MySpace page
- One SoCal Green (Roger Gray)
- Orval Osborne
- Pragmatos (Jonathan Lundell)
- Vibes Watch (Michael Rochmes)
GPCA Web Log Rules
In order to have a presence on (link from) the GPCA web site, a blog must meet the following conditions.
The blog must...
- be authored by a Green Party member. (Media would love to promote every thought by every progressive everywhere, but the reality is that this is a Green Party web site)
- ... not be used in such a manner as to promote policies that violate the 10 key values of the Green Party. (the reason for this rule is sort of obvious, is it not?)
- have been in existence for at least 3 months. (a blog with no "track record" cannot be evaluated according to these rules)
- have regular postings. (blogs without regular postings soon disappear)
- accept comments from the public. (this is in keeping with Green thinking about grassroots democracy)
- have safeguards against comment spam - in general, requiring a login and / or having an image that must be read to validate the post will suffice. (we are not promoting spam, ever)
- have a target that can be linked to directly. In practical terms this means that the link on this page must take a reader directly to a blog page and not (for example) to a personal page with a blog buried somewhere inside of it. (blog readers are looking for blogs and will move right past pages that require "hunting through")
The GPCA Media Committee maintains the blogs page. As such, Media Committee reserves the right to add blogs to this page, and/or remove blogs that are inactive or are deemed inappropriate.
Adding a Blog
If you have a blog, you meet the conditions above, and you want your blog added to the list above, then contact the GPCA Media Committee
Please note that this blog page is new, and so are the procedures surrounding it. So bear with us.