The Cabinet will operate in the tradition of shadow cabinets in other countries, such as the United Kingdom and Mexico, responding to actions of the government in office, and demonstrating that another government is possible.
The Green Shadow Cabinet includes nearly 100 prominent scientists, community and labor leaders, physicians, cultural workers, veterans, and more, and will provide an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the dysfunctional government in Washington D.C..
The Cabinet is organized into six federal branches: Democracy, Economy, Ecology, Foreign Affairs, General Welfare, and Justice. Topics include the economy, environment and climate change, health and general welfare, democratization, rights of workers, wages and labor, community power, closing military bases, ending wars for resources and restoring the rule of law.
Among the top priorities will be advocating for full employment through a Green New Deal and confronting climate change and the ecological crisis through a program of creating a carbon-free and nuclear free energy economy.
In honor of the launch of the Green Shadow Cabinet, twenty members of the Cabinet have issued public statements for Earth Week. These are available for republication at http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements
The Green Shadow Cabinet includes not only scientists and leaders of social change organizations, but also artists and writers. The talented comedian Lee Camp offers the above video on the need for the Cabinet.
The Green Shadow Cabinet:
Democracy
Marsha Coleman Adebayo, Government Transparency and Accountability, Director
Ajamu Baraka, Public Intervenor for Human Rights
Roshan Bliss, Assistant Secretary of Education for Higher Education
David Cobb, Commission on Corporations and Democracy, Chair
Mike Ferner, National Guard Bureau, Chief
Robert Fitrakis, Federal Elections Commission, Chair
George Friday, Commission on Community Power, Chair
Jack Gerson, Assistant Secretary of Education for K-12
Kimberly King, Secretary of Education
Ethel Long-Scott, Commission on Women's Power, Co-Chair
Ben Manski, White House Chief of Staff
Suren Moodliar, Global Democracy Programs, Director
Todd Price, Assistant Secretary of Education for Education Technology
Lewis Rosenbaum, Public Media Administration, Administrator
Kabzuag Vaj, Commission on Women's Power, Co-Chair
Economy
Gar Alperovitz, New Economy Advisor to the President
Ellen Brown, Secretary of the Treasury
Marc Armstrong, Secretary of Commerce
Steve Early, Workers Power Administration, Administrator
Philip Harvey, Full Employment Council, Chair
Howie Hawkins, Full Employment Council, Vice Chair
Sarah Manski, Small Business Administration, Administrator
Richard McIntyre, U.S. Trade Representative
Richard Monje, Secretary of Labor
Sandy Perry, Secretary of Housing
Jack Rasmus, Federal Reserve System, Chairman
Ray Rogers, International Labor Rights, Advisor
Rich Whitney, Office of Management and Budget, Director
Richard D. Wolff, Council of Economic Advisors, Chair
Stephen Zarlenga, Monetary Authority Board, Chair
Ecology
Steve Breyman, Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator
Christopher Cox, Political Ecology Advisor to the President
Tim DeChristopher, Emergency Climate Action Coordinator
Mark Dunlea, Secretary of Agriculture
Bruce Gagnon, Secretary of Space Ecology
Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Bureau of Water Preservation, Director
Jill Stein, President
Sean Sweeney, Climate Change Advisor to the President
Brian Tokar, Director of the Office of Technology Assessment
Harvey Wasserman, Secretary of Energy
Foreign Affairs
Leah Bolger, Secretary of Defense
George Paz Martin, Peace Ambassador
David McReynolds, Peace Advisor to the President
David Swanson, Secretary of Peace
Ann Wright, Secretary of State
General Welfare
Patch Adams, Assistant Secretary of Health for Holistic Health
Kris Alman, Assistant Secretary of Health for Data Privacy
Mary Bricker-Jenkins, Aid to Families and Youth, Director
Richard Bruno, Assistant Secretary of Health for Medical Education and Training
Lee Camp, Commissioner for the Comedic Arts
Olveen Carrasquillo, Assistant Secretary of Health for Health Equity
Claudia Chaufan, Assistant Secretary of Health for System Design
Steven Chrismer, Secretary of Transportation
Khalilah Collins, Public Intervenor for Social Justice
Michael Crenshaw, People's Culture Bureau, Work Progress Administration
Maureen Cruise, Assistant Secretary of Health for Community Wellbeing
Ronnie Cummins, Administrator, Food and Drug Administration
Margaret Flowers, Secretary of Health
Cheri Honkala, Vice-President
Charles Komanoff, Assistant Secretary for Sustainable Urban Transportation
Bruce Levine, Assistant Secretary of Health for Clinical Mental Health
Vance "Head-Roc" Levy, Poet Laureate
Gloria Mattera, Assistant Secretary of Health for Public Health Education
Carol Paris, Assistant Secretary of Health for Mental Health Systems
Anna Rondon, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs
Daniel Shea, Veteran's Affairs: Chemical Exposure
Diljeet Singh, Assistant Secretary of Health for Women's Health and Cancer
Robert Stone, Assistant Secretary of Health for Emergency and Palliative Care
Bruce Trigg, Assistant Secretary of Health for Drug Policy
Walter Tsou, Surgeon General
Justice
Shahid Buttar, Civil Rights Enforcement, Director
King Downing, President's Commission on Corrections Reform, Chair
Gloria Meneses-Sandoval, Secretary of Immigration
Jim Moran, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Administrator
Jesselyn Radack, National Security and Human Rights Advisor to the President
Michael Ratner, Division of Civil, Social & Economic Rights, Director
Clifford Thornton, Drug Policy Agency, Administrator
Kevin Zeese, Attorney General
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