Green Party (United States)

In United States politics, the Green Party has been active as a third party since the 1980s. The party first gained widespread public attention during Ralph Nader's presidential runs in 1996 and 2000. The FEC-recognized national committee of the party is the Green Party of the United States (although there remains also a mostly-defunct separate Green national political organization, the Greens/Green Party USA).

Sources

• http://www.greenpartyus.org/fec/fec.html
• http://www.greenparties.org/documents/cand_hist.html
• http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june00/green_history.html
• http://www.greenparty.org/
• Charlene Spretnak & Fritjof Capra, Green Politics (1984, ISBN 0939680289) – incl. lengthy & influential chapter on first stirrings of U.S. Greens
• Mark Satin, New Options for America (1991, ISBN 080931794X) – incl. lengthy & widely discussed chapters on the 1987 and 1990 Green gatherings
• Brian Tokar, The Green Alternative (rev. 1994, ISBN 0865713189) – principal statement by prominent member of the original "left Greens" faction
• John Rensenbrink, Against All Odds (1999, ISBN 0966062914) – history of U.S. Green organizing during the 1980s and 1990s
• Ralph Nader, Crashing the Party (2002, ISBN 0312302584) – memoir of his Green campaign during the 2000 Presidential election
• Micah Sifry, Spoiling for a Fight (rev. 2003, ISBN 0415931436) – description & analysis of Green and other "third" party efforts in contemporary U.S.