Letters.

Dear Synthesis/Regeneration Editors and Writers,

Thank you very much for your contributions to Synthesis/Regeneration. I enjoy reading them very much. As my "local" is in a neighboring county and I am the only Green in my county, I find the discussions interesting and empowering. These correspondences help me feel less isolated when I am speaking in front of City Council, the County Commissioners or a public hearing. Some of the local causes I am helping citizen groups with include an asphalt plant, land use planning, alternative transportation and immigrant rights.

I hope it has been helpful to other people as well. Let's keep it going, no matter what happens with the Boston Proposal.

Lisa Thurman

Mountain Greens, Hendersonville, NC

Greetings from Mongolia

[The following is an edited version of a letter received by the G/GPUSA.]

December 13, 2000

I am very glad to send this letter in the name of all members of the Mongolian Green Party, and wish you Greens success in implementing our common goal to build ecological wisdom in the world.

Our party was founded in 1990 after democratic changes in Mongolia and was the first Green Party in Asia. From 1996-2000 we were in the governing coalition with the Mongolian Social Democratic Party, Mongolian National Democratic Party, and the Mongolian Democratic Religion Party, and worked to improve the legal basis for the protection of nature in Mongolia. The parliamentary election in June 2000 was very hard for democratic parties in Mongolia. Our party is now in coalition with the Citizen Courage Party of Mongolia, and the leader of that party, Ms. S. Oyun, is in parliament as one of four members from the democratic movement.

The Mongolian Greens have about 6,000 members, and we are working to build the local branches of the party. Our declared strategy is to pursue a political struggle in the interest of nature within the framework of the Mongolian constitution and based on equality and democracy. The party will actively participate in the struggle for democracy, freedom, and human rights and remain steadfastly committed to the fight against religious, national, and racial discrimination and dictatorial social orders.

We also give much attention to developing international relations with Green Parties and movements. Our party supports the aim of the world's greens to become a united political force with the purpose of eradicating the crisis between the natural environment and society. We aspire to a...