Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President

Madame President, written shortly after 9/11, provides an introduction to the politics of the Green Party in the United States. The Greens have four core ecology, nonviolence, grassroots democracy, and social and economic justice. Madame President is an alternative history. It makes two historical changes. First, the voters and the Electoral College, not the US Supreme Court, decide the 2000 presidential election. Rachel Moreno, a nurse who is the Green Party's vice-presidential candidate, ends up becoming vice-president because the Democrats need their handful of electoral votes to select the Democrat as president. The Democrat dies — under mysterious circumstances of course — and the Green becomes president. Second, a Green is President on the day that two airplanes fly into the World Trade Center. Her son is killed by the terrorist act. She responds to the attack not as a declaration of war but as a criminal justice matter. "This book provides hope to those who want to build a world based on peace and justice. It shows how the American government should have responded to September 11th, and why the Bush administration has fought so hard to avoid the truth from becoming possible. Another World is Possible" Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink. President Moreno's efforts to build a more just world are confronted by an angry Congress determined to go to war and CEOs outraged about her Justice Department's prosecution of corporate crime. Forced to confront the pressing social issues of our time, Rachel puts into practice a Green vision for the environment, health care, feminism, racism, energy, and foreign policy. Mark Dunlea is a long-time anti-poverty and climate organizer. A co-founder of the Green Party of NY in 1991, he has been elected to office as a Greens and has coordinated numerous electoral campaigns for President, US Senate, Congress, Governor, and local offices. He lives in Common Farms. an intentional community in Poestenkill NY, in a passive solar home that he and his wife built. He is the author of Putting Out the Planetary An Introduction to Climate Change and Advocacy. He has been a community radio news producer for more than 25 years.