Dr. Kent P. Mesplay on GreenStream, June 13th, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party’s online Livestream show ‘GreenStream’ features Dr. Kent P. Mesplay, the party’s first announced presidential candidate for 2012, June 13th, 2011 (now archived). Native American, Biomedical Engineering Scientist and Green Party leader Dr. Mesplay speaks of key issues he is bringing to his Green Power to The People campaign, including "Liberating America from the Corporationists", "Sustainability Equals Security" and "Civil Rights for All", including native peoples and immigrants. He runs for those who ordinarily have little or no voice in political decision-making, stating, “Through its Future-Focus, the Green Party embodies tribal wisdom: consider the seventh generation in our thoughts and actions, in our decisions.”

Along with discussion, these one-hour shows (ordinarily Wednesday evenings) present Green news, interviews, video clips, and viewer participation.

Viewers can tune in at http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus or go to http://www.livestream.com and enter the channel name: greenpartyus. The channel is also accessible at the Green Party’s video page (http://www.gp.org/video/index.php).

To participate in the ongoing discussion in the chat window during the show, viewers can log in to Livestream or can join the chat as a nonmember guest. Viewers can register for a free Livestream account by clicking on ‘Sign Up’ at the top of the page, but membership is not necessary to watch the broadcast. The shows are repeated in rotation after the initial broadcast and are archived on the Green Party Livestream Channel web site. During the June 13th interview, chat-room members were surprised and disturbed to hear Kent report that ballot-qualified independent-party candidates are arrested trying to get into debates (David Cobb and Michael Badnarik, 2004; Laura Wells, 2011 and others).

Dr. Kent P. Mesplay's bio for June 13th:
Kent was born and raised by Lutheran missionary parents in Papua New Guinea. After returning to America for his high school years he graduated Valedictorian from Mira Mesa High School in 1980. In college, he studied Western and non-Western medicine, earning a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University, and he obtained an undergrad degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California. After graduate school, Kent worked at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Long Beach, California, before moving to La Mesa and teaching mathematics in the Grossmont Union High School District. He currently works as an Air Quality Inspector at the Air Pollution Control District in San Diego. Kent ran for the Green Party presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008 and ran for the Green Party nomination for Senate in California in 2006. His Green Power to the People campaign is nationwide, cross-cultural and inclusive of all The People.

Starlene Rankin and Craig Seeman of the Green Party’s Media Committee have coordinated and hosted previous shows which covered various topics including Wisconsin Green Party actions against Gov. Scott Walker’s outrages, Green responses to the Bin Laden assassination, Aftermath of the BP Ecodisaster in the Gulf and Rachel Treichler on the harmful process of Hydrofracking.