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LENOX, Mass. — The term "green" has swiftly become shorthand for thoughtful alternatives — in energy, in food and now, in Massachusetts, in political parties.

Local Green-Rainbow Party activists are hoping to keep voters thinking green with a "public mobilization" on Tuesday night from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Lenox Library to lay the groundwork to grow at both the state and local level.

Lee Scott Laugenour of Lenox, one of the organizers and the Green-Rainbow candidate for state representative in the last election, said the response so far has been great.

"I'm thrilled with the RSVPs we've had," he said recently, adding that the party's platform seems to be connecting with voters. The meeting has been moved to the library's Welles Gallery to accommodate the expected turnout. "It's about tax fairness, and real health care and real infrastructure improvement and education ... it sounds like something radical but these are the larger issues that people did respond to."