Adam Glickman
interviewed by Anthony Qaiyum on August 9, 1996
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Adam Glickman, 24, is the Communications Director of the New Party. He first became active in politics as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, where he fought battles for need-blind admissions, workers' rights, affirmative action, and benefits for same-sex partners.
Tripod: How does the New Party compare to the Green Party and other such environmental parties?
Adam Glickman: To start off, as we move along and all these things grow, there's likely to be one or no major progressive third parties in America. They're all going to have to come together at some point. We recognize that there are some real differences both in program and in strategy between us and the Greens. We focus on being a metropolitan, working class multi-racial party. The Greens are generally none of the three. We're much more focused on economic and urban issues, government accountability, clean government and democracy.
Generally, we see the Green Party as more suburban, more white, more upper middle class, and not as attentive to concerns of labor and other constituencies that we see as particularly important. The strategy is completely different because we have strategy and the Green Party, since it's not a cohesive national organization, doesn't really have a strategy. There's no executive council of the Greens. They're all completely independent, autonomous state or local organizations. Some of them run people for local offices, some of them run people for governors, some of them don't run candidates at all. Some endorse Ralph Nader for President. So the lack of structure is a big difference. I think it's hard to be internally democratic when you don't have structure.
