[GPCA Updates] Support Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente - Vote Green Party

[Green Party of California Updates]

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Speak Truth:  Hip-Hop's All Out for McKinney/Clemente

Is the Green Party running the first ever Hip-Hop ticket? The McKinney
Clemente Presidential Campaign continues to garner endosements of many
leaders in the hip-hop community. If you haven't heard, Public Enemy's
legendary Proffesor Griff supports the ticket as does M1 from Dead Prez; La
Bruja; MC NYOil; and most recently, RAS (Riders Against the Storm). Check
out RAS latest video "Speak the Truth" endorsing the campaign:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shcIcOU1JNs

To watch other video endorsements and find out how you can help this
historic campaign
go to: http://www2.runcynthiarun.org/Endorsements

The Green Party is the Imperative!

Ballot Access is Key to success!

The clock is ticking for a few state Green Parties and we need all available
volunteers to help complete ballot access drives! The McKinney campaign
seeks to pull up another chair to the national political dialogue, but we
can't win 5% of the national vote without ballot access in as many states as
possible.

If you live in or near one of the following states and can help collect
petitions on the street, at events, or from family and friends, please
contact the following coordinators:

Tom Yager (Virginia) vagreen at earthlink.net
Michael O'Neill (New York) petition at gpny.org
Deanna Taylor (Utah) deesings at xmission.com
Anita Rios (Ohio) rhannon at toast.net
Phil Huckelberry (Kentucky) phil.huckelberry at gmail.com
Holly Hart (Iowa) hhart11 at gmail.com
Greg Gerritt (Rhode Island) gerritt at mindspring.com

You can also start right now by downloading petitions, volunteering for the
Ballot Access Committee, and making a financial contribution at
www.gp.org/committees/ballot/.

Take the Green Party Back to School with you

Students and teachers - school will be back in session soon and
'Obama-mania' and 'McCain-ity' will soon be spreading on campus. We need to
spread the word about the McKinney/Clemente campaign and build the
groundwork for campus organizations for years to come.

If you are a student, teacher or staff member and have been a member of a
campus Green Party chapter or want to get one started at your school, please
e-mail us at campus at gp.org.

We are looking to provide resources for campus Green Party chapters, hook
you up with Greens from your school, and help you form a lasting chapter
that can help train the next generation of Green Party leadership. If you
have a group together already or need help, e-mail campus at gp.org today!

Harmony Groves - Green City Council Member

As an ardent advocate for cyclists, she has established excellent
infrastructure for the greener transport, and promoted Arcata, CA "as a
destination of eco-friendly bike tourism". Also, as the youngest
councilmember in a college town, she is proud to have "have spoken from a
renter's perspective to hold landlords accountable".

Groves, like most of the Greens, rejects both the Republican and Democratic
Parties, which she believes are not leading the nation on environmental
issues. "I do not want to commit myself to their party lines", she says.
However, strikingly for a Green, she admits that she agrees with some of the
two dominant parties' policies.

She praises Democratic policies on trade unions, and she goes so far as to
say that "I believe in some of the Republican Party's tenets." She is
referring to fiscal responsibility which is hardly left-wing, even though it
has largely been abandoned by the Republicans under Bush.

Groves open-mindedness to other party's political ideas is rooted in her
belief in a democratic process and electoral politics. She thinks that no
Green policy can be realistic and sustainable without support from people of
different political backgrounds and beliefs. "We [Greens] need to be a part
of larger discussions to find common goals and values we can agree on [with
people who have different political ideologies], which are often broader and
deeper than our disagreements", she says.

She argues for the Green Party's vital need to present ourselves as "a
professional, creative and positive political voice" and "a credible,
professional alternative", not only as a pure and idealistic force. She
emphatically appeals that we need to focus on the common values we share and
work together for our common goals, if we are to succeed.

Some might disagree with her political styles and approaches. However, what
is certain are that her voice is valuable to the green discourse and Green
politics, and that her ideas merit consideration and discussion, both within
and outside of the Green Party.

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