''1) The Green New Deal, Green Economy, Green Jobs...would create public works and public services. So it would jump-start public sector jobs, where they are needed, and it would jump-start private sector jobs. In that way it differs a little bit from the New Deal that got us out of the Great Depression.

''That's the inspiration for this program, but we go beyond it, a little bit, in also jump-starting the private sector, and by providing loans, grants, credit to small businesses and worker cooperatives that are community-based, instead of multinational corporate enterprises that take the money, the profits, and send them overseas.

''The advantage of community-based businesses is that they spend their money locally, so every dollar counts for much more. So, that's why, with the same price tag as the stimulus package of 2009, we expect to create 25 million jobs, not the 2-3 million that were created in 2009....

''2) Rebuilding Public Infrastructure, Public Transportation, Active Transportation.... We see this as a critical piece of the Green New Deal...

''3) Healthy Diets, Food Policy, Labeling GMOs... Right now we have a food system where the subsidies from the federal government... provide processed, nutrient-poor, calorie-rich foods that are a big driver of our public health epidemic. By changing those priorities... we provide... healthy food system we need.

''There's a very important role here for education as well, because the food system relies on misinformation in advertising, in targeting kids.... Obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes and all that. It's really important that we provide a counterweight to the intensive advertising, and perhaps even restrict advertising that targets kids....

''In the current economic environment, when the public is massively beat up, there's enormous public will to do the right thing on many fronts, including on GMOs.... There are many ways to fight this, including in getting Monsanto and agribusiness out of the White House, out of the FDA, out of the business of writing our regulations and our policies. This is very linked to getting big money out of politics. ...

''4) Energy Policy & Climate Policy... the public is extremely up in arms about climate, very worried about climate. Polls show something like 75% of voters, in spite of the misinformation campaign, see this as a critical problem. 

''5) The Role of the Occupy Movement... Occupy is an expression of refusal to just go down with the ship. Occupy is an expression of courage and a healing process whereby the public, particularly young people are standing up and saying no to this exploitive and predatory economic system.

''Young people especially are saying no to debt... We're now looking at the third quantitative easing for the mortgage lenders and big banks, who got themselves into this mess. Instead of bailing out the big banks we should be bailing out students and homeowners who were victims of that waste, fraud and abuse committed by the bankers and mortgage lenders on Wall Street....

''6) The Importance of Third Parties, Voting Your Values....

''In fact Obama embraced most of the key policies of George Bush, and even went beyond in expanding the war, the surge into Afghanistan, the drone wars in Pakistan, in Somalia and Yemen.... Dropping bombs on weddings and funerals is not a good way to win the hearts and minds of the Middle East....

''[Obama's] basically codified the violations of George Bush, and gone much further in criminalizing the right to protest, in giving the President the right, the dictatorial right, of indefinite detention without trial, without accusation of a crime. Likewise the assassination list that the President personally oversees once a week—the assassination list which has included American citizens, as well. Our civil liberties have been really devastated under this president, far worse than under George Bush....

''[Obama] has embraced the policies of Bush, embraced drill baby drill, and gone much further, even in the wake of the Gulf oil disaster, for which there is no fix. There are no technology improvements that have made this a safer thing to do. Obama has given the thumbs up to fracking, to shale oil, to oil exploration in our national parks, and devastatingly into the Arctic...

''The reality on the ground in Nader-Bush-Gore, studies have shown, done by CNN and others, that Nader drew equally from Democrats and Republicans, but the vast majority of his vote came from independent voters who had previously voted for Ross Perot. They did not belong to either party; their votes do not belong to either Romney or Obama. It's preposterous to think that the diversity of America should be scrunched into these two pigeon holes that are both owned by Wall Street.

''It's absolutely wrongheaded to buy this propaganda, which is basically a public relations campaign intended to silence opposition.... If our voices aren't in this race, you have an unmitigated public relations competition...for... Corporate campaign sponsorship dollars.... Which is why both parties continue to surge to the right....''