Where are the Greens?

• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

It seems that my subscription is up, and since I've truly enjoyed your magazine, I think you deserve an explanation for why I have chosen not to renew. In recent years you've allotted the Republican and Democratic Parties a great deal of ink, if only to rage at them for their misbehavior. Yet America's most unabashedly progressive political party--the Green Party of the United States--has been conspicuously absent from these pages.

While Greens are still excluded from ballots, debates, newspaper pages, and television shows across America, a circumstance that compounds the difficulty of challenging the Democratic-Republican power trust, they have nevertheless managed to strike important blows for democracy, social justice, environmental sustainability, and peace through grassroots democratic action.

Greens don't expect to be covered by corporate media conglomerates like Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, GE, or TimeWarner, but...