From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Jan  6 16:32:26 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:32:26 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GPCA Release: Gov. Brown missed mark in his
	inaugural speech
Message-ID: <4D265F1A.9000008@greens.org>






Gov. Brown missed mark in his inaugural speech, charges Green Party gov
candidate; CA poorest should not be asked to shoulder more austerity

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE

SACRAMENTO (Jan 4, 2010) - Gov. Brown's inaugural speech Monday was far off
the mark, asking the poorest in state to shoulder more austerity even while
the wealthiest in the state get wealthier, charged 2010 Green Party of
California gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells.

In a YouTube video (link), Wells said "Here's what a Green Governor in
California would and would not be talking about today.

"Governor Brown is talking about austerity for the majority of Californians. A
Green Governor would be talking about fairness and balance, and continuing to
have great schools, environment, healthcare and jobs. We would be talking
about the kind of California we want."

Referencing a new report showing that California's income gap is continuing to
widen, Wells said:

"Imagine a ballot proposition that would guarantee that the richest one
percent of Californians would become even richer. (It) would give the richest
one percent an increase in income of three times the total income of average
Californians. Would that pass? No!

"This disparity of wealth didn't happen because only that one percent are good
and smart or because they're better or smarter than the rest of us nor because
they were creating jobs or helping California.

"The problem is that the government of California is set up to encourage the
concentration of wealth rather than sharing it fairly.

"There are solutions to this problem, but austerity for those who have already
been experiencing austerity, is not the solution. We do not need the richest
one percent... running the show. They have not been helping with our jobs,
with our environment, with our kids," Wells said.




From updates at cagreens.org  Wed Jan 12 16:59:47 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:59:47 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] RELEASE: Arizona Green Party statement after Tucson
	tragedy
Message-ID: <4D2E4E83.1050909@greens.org>








(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States, http://www.gp.org)

Arizona Green Party (AZGP)
(602) 417-0213
P.O. Box 60173
Phoenix , AZ 85082
http://azgp.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
DATE: January 10, 2011



The Arizona Green Party continues to advocate for non-violence after tragedy 
in Tucson


ARIZONA ? The Arizona Green Party is both saddened and outraged in response to 
the acts of domestic terrorism that plagued not only the City of Tucson this 
weekend, but our whole nation. Our hearts go out to Congresswoman Gabrielle 
Giffords as well as all the victims and their families, friends, and 
communities affected by this senseless tragedy. Our sincerest condolences to 
those lives that were lost devastatingly on Saturday and we hope for a speedy 
recovery to those beginning their healing process.

Nonviolence is one of The Ten Key Values of the Green Party. We promote 
non-violent methods to oppose practices and policies with which we disagree, 
and will guide our actions toward lasting personal, community and global 
peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence; it is a willingness to 
resolve conflict in a constructive manner with a spirit of good will and respect.

Violence is never an answer. We, the Arizona Green Party, will continue to 
advocate for peace and non-violence in the wake of this tragedy in Tucson and 
everyday; that bloodshed and brutality are not replacements for compassionate 
dialogue and diplomatic action.

###



From updates at cagreens.org  Mon Jan 17 17:13:55 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:13:55 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Greens to 112th Congress: restore the
 rule of law after a decade of abuse of the Constitution
Message-ID: <4D34E953.2020908@greens.org>







GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, January 17, 2011



Green Party leaders challenge the new Congress to restore the rule of law
after a decade of constitutional violations and abuses of power by Presidents
and other officials

? Greens cite election theft, vote theft, torture, warrantless surveillance of
US citizens, official lies and impunity, 'preemptive' military attacks, denied
rights in DC and Puerto Rico


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders challenged Democrats and Republicans in
the 112th Congress, as well as President Obama, to end a decade of reckless
violations of the US Constitution, international agreements, and other laws by
the US government and begin a new era of respect for the rule of law.

"The new Congress began with a reading of the Constitution in the US House,
but the document seems to be incomprehensible for many Representatives," said
Muhammed Malik, co-chair of the Miami-Dade Green Party in Florida
(http://www.miamidadegreenparty.org).  "The protections enshrined in the
constitutional amendments and Article Six's requirement that the US honor
treaties are not subject to the whims of Presidents, State Departments, the
Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security
Administration, or any other government body.  If we don't restore the rule of
law now, we're in danger of seeing the end of the US as a republic and a free
country."

Greens listed examples of official lawlessness and disregard for rights since
2000:

? The Obama Administration has maintained many of the Bush-Cheney abuses of
the Constitution: denial of habeas corpus, detention of suspects for long
periods without charges, persecution of whistleblowers, targeting of innocent
Muslim and Arab individuals and organizations, and surveillance without
warrant of US citizens.  The Obama Justice Department has refused to
investigate and prosecute Bush-Cheney officials for torture and other crimes
-- including President Bush himself, who has boasted publicly of his approval
for waterboarding.

Guantanamo and several 'black sites' remain open.  The treatment of Khalid
El-Masri (tortured under the US's extraordinary rendition program, later found
to be innocent), PFC Bradley Manning (detained in solitary confinement but
unconvicted for leaking classified material to Wikileaks: see
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning and
http://www.psysr.org/about/programs/humanrights/gates-manning-letter.php), and
other prisoners reveals increasing disregard for laws against torture in the
US Constitution and Geneva Conventions.

The Green Party of the United States endorsed impeachment of President Bush
and Vice President Cheney.  Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) introduced articles
of impeachment in December 2006, before joining the Green Party and becoming
the 2008 Green presidential nominee.

? Military action outside of immediate self-defense is prohibited under
international law, but the Bush Administration launched the invasion of Iraq
based on the neocon doctrine of 'preemption,' which is now embraced by both
Democrats and Republicans.  Some members of Congress have urged a military
assault on Iran based on the same doctrine.

? The US, under both Bush and Obama presidencies, has continued to politically
support and fund Israel's brutal treatment of Palestinians, which violates
scores of UN Security Council resolutions and amounts to war crimes under
international law.

? The Wikileaks cables have exposed extralegal actions and official lies,
including US airstrikes in Yemen (denied by President Obama), secret military
operations in Pakistan, a secret agreement with Britain to allow US bases in
the UK to stockpile cluster bombs, and bribery and illegal surveillance to
undermine opposition to US climate change policies
(http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4215).

"Exposure of wrong-doing by government officials, which often requires
publication of secret documents, is the responsibility of the press in a free
society.  The claim that Julian Assange doesn't deserve First Amendment
protections because he isn't a credentialed reporter is unfounded, since the
First Amendment covers everyone, not just professional journalists," said Pat
LaMarche, weekly columnist for Maine's largest daily newspaper, The Bangor
Daily News and 2004 Green nominee for Vice President.  (See
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=372)

? Irregularities in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections disenfranchised
thousands of US citizens, especially black, young, and low-income voters.  The
Supreme Court's patently biased Bush v. Gore decision (2000), which handed the
presidency to George W. Bush, held that no national right to vote exists.

Greens led the effort in 2004 to expose and challenge election irregularities
in Ohio and New Mexico (http://www.iwantmyvote.com).  Although two Republican
operatives were convicted in January 2007 of election tampering in Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, Congress has taken no action to protect voters' rights.

Greens have argued that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment requires punishment
for states that "abridge" voting rights.  In the wake of the 2004 election,
Asa Gordon, chair of the DC Statehood Green Party's Electoral College Task
Force, filed suit against the malapportionment of Electoral College votes
under the US's winner-take-all election system, citing Section 2's penalty
clause and the legacy of racial disenfranchisement in southern states.

On Jan. 4, the day before the first session of the 112th Congress, Mr. Gordon
was granted an emergency presentation of arguments before US District Court
Judge Henry H. Kennedy challenging the seating of Representatives from
southern states.  Mr. Gordon's motion is currently pending.  (More information
and documents: http://www.electors.us or contact Asa Gordon at 202-635-7926)

? Whole populations of the US remain outside the US Constitution's coverage.
The local laws of the District of Columbia are subject to Congress's control
and veto power, regardless of the will of DC residents.  Whether Democrats or
Republicans have been in control, the White House and Congress have ignored
the repeated requests by the citizens of the nation's capital, with its black
majority, for full representation in Congress and statehood.

The US has also ignored demands by the people of Puerto Rico for
self-determination and independence, ignoring protests against US Navy bomb
detonations in Vieques, which have spread depleted uranium contamination, and
unwanted laws and policies imposed on the island by the US government.

"The Green Party calls for the end of the colonial treatment of people living
in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and others who've been denied
self-determination and self-government," said Darryl! L.C. Moch, who serves on
the steering committee of the DC Statehood Green Party
(http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org).  "We support statehood for DC
(http://www.gp.org/press/pr-state.php?ID=172).  We support the 2005 draft
resolution by the UN's Special Committee on Decolonization calling on the US
to allow the Puerto Rican people to exercise fully their right to
self-determination and independence
(http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/gacol3121.doc.htm).  Bipartisan
inaction on DC and Puerto RIco are an affront to the UN's Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and the US's own equal protection laws.  It's time
to complete the unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement and the
national rights of US colonies."


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Green Party Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~



From updates at cagreens.org  Wed Jan 19 16:52:40 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:52:40 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] ADVISORY Bride seeks corporation for first
 corporate-human merger wedding
Message-ID: <4D378758.4050009@greens.org>








(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States, http://www.gp.org)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 18, 2011
Photo Opportunity



Press conference:
Saturday, January 22, 2:00 pm
Little Owl, 527 N. Dixie Highway
Lake Worth, Florida

First Ever Marriage to a Corporation Contemplated by Single, Female, 39.

The Search for a Corporate Husband will Commemorate the 1st Anniversary of the
Supreme Court Ruling Re-affirming Corporate Personhood.


One year ago on January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States
reaffirmed that corporations have the same constitutional rights as people
(Citizens United v FEC).  In commemoration of that decision there will
commence a national search for the ideal corporate groom for a mere mortal,
Ms. Sarah ?echo? Steiner.  Ms. Steiner has made it clear that she intends to
take the Supreme Court at its word and honor her marriage when she finds a
suitable candidate.

Members of the press are cordially invited to join the Bride as she formally
announces her intention to seek a corporate partner and to unite one heart and
one corporate charter in love forever (or not).  A press conference will kick
off the search for a corporate groom on Saturday, January 22, 2011.

There have been rumors circulating that a number of potential corporate grooms
are already in the running (including green corporate persons).  Once a suitor
has been found, the Bride and her future corporate husband will announce their
plans to marry in a public ceremony.

"The court's ruling has opened the door to the union of corporate and human
persons in ways that were never imagined before," said the Bride.  "But,
frankly, I'm wondering who's going to be on top on the wedding night."

?If corporations are persons, then let us celebrate the end of discrimination
against them by permitting them to marry just like everyone else ? well,
almost everyone else,? says Carla Christianson of Move to Amend Florida.

But Suki DeJong of the Palm Beach County Green Party has expressed concern for
the inevitable consequences of the Supreme Court's ruling.  "There just aren't
enough corporations to go around," said DeJong.  "Sure, it's okay for Ms.
Steiner, but what about the rest of us?  I'd like to marry one myself.  On the
other hand, those things can live forever.  They're not like real people."

The bride will be given away by Florida Move to Amend
(http://www.movetoamend.org).  Her bridesmaids will be members of the Palm
Beach County Green Party and Progressive Democrats of America, Florida.

END




From updates at cagreens.org  Fri Jan 21 17:42:48 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:42:48 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] Anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC
Message-ID: <4D3A3618.70001@greens.org>






(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States, http://www.gp.org)

January 21, 2011


Today - on the one-year anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC decision
that legalized unrestrained corporate spending on federal elections - the
Green Party re-affirms its opposition to corporate personhood, corporate
speech rights, and corporate control of America's public spaces, media, and
elections.

After the Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 decision to strike down federal laws
limiting the use of corporate money for campaign advertising, we predicted ?a
flood of election season ads promoting corporate-sponsored candidates?.

Sure enough, the nonpartisan group Common Cause noted that ?outside groups
spent more than $296 million on the 2010 Congressional midterms ? a 330
percent increase over 2006?.

The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics found that millions of the
dollars spent in the 2010 election were donated anonymously by corporations or
nonprofits, and millions more were funneled into Congressional races by ?super
PACs? created in response to the Citizens United decision.

Greens have responded to this crisis in American democracy in innovate ways.
Help support our opposition today.

David Cobb, the Green Party's 2004 candidate for the President of the United
States, has been on the road with Move to Amend, a coalition seeking to amend
the Constitution to outlaw corporate personhood. The Green Party is a key
partner of the Move to Amend coalition and firmly believes that corporations
should be stripped of the ability to spend unlimited sums on political campaigns.

Sarah ?echo? Steiner, a former co-chair of the Green Party of the United
States, made headlines this week with her intention to marry a corporation,
which the Supreme Court has endowed with the same rights as individuals. "The
court's ruling has opened the door to the union of corporate and human persons
in ways that were never imagined before," said Steiner. "But, frankly, I'm
wondering who's going to be on top on the wedding night."

And most importantly, over 300 Green candidates ran for local, state, and
federal office last year. Each of them rejected corporate contributions for
their campaigns and urged their opponents to do the same.

The Green Party depends only on individual "human persons" for all its
support. On this first anniversary of the Citizens United decision we continue
to urge all candidates to reject corporate influence. And we ask you to help
us continue our mission by making a contribution to the Green Party today.



Support the Green Party!

Contribute today. A Greener future is within our reach. Your donation today
can help us bring the vision we share a little closer to reality.

You can sustain the Green Party by making a monthly contribution here.


Spread our message by joining us on Facebook and Twitter.

Thank you!



From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Jan 25 16:35:56 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:35:56 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP ADVISORY Green Party LIVESTREAM: Greens discuss
 Obama's State of the Union during speech
Message-ID: <4D3F6C6C.4040408@greens.org>









GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, January 25, 2011



Green Party leaders respond to Obama's State of the Union speech

? Green Party LIVESTREAM: Greens discuss the speech during tonight's
broadcast, 9 pm ET / 6 pm PT http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

? Greens on solving the deficit: end the wars, cut the military budget, tax
the rich.  Greens on solving the health care crisis: enact Medicare For All.
Greens on jobs: a 'Green New Deal' with massive public investment in green
jobs and clean energy.


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party leaders offered comments on President
Obama's 2011 State of the Union speech to Congress and the nation, scheduled
for Tuesday, January 25.  The Green response covers major issues the President
will discuss in his speech, as well as topics he won't address.

The Green Party will air an online livestream with party members discussing
the State of the Union, beginning at 9 pm ET, 6 pm PT, and running
concurrently with the speech.  Viewers can watch and participate on the Green
Party Livestream channel (http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus).  Call-in
comments will be accepted on Skype after the speech ends.

"There?s a lot of talk about Democrats and Republicans 'reaching across the
aisle' during the State of the Union.  What about the gap between Washington
and the rest of the country, much wider than the aisle between the two Titanic
parties?" said Carl Romanelli, 2006 Green candidate for the US Senate in
Pennsylvania.

HEALTH CARE

Should the Democratic health care reform bill be repealed?  Yes, say Greens,
and replaced with a Medicare For All plan -- legislation for single-payer
national health care, covering everyone regardless of ability to pay, age, or
prior medical condition, while allowing freedom to choose one's physician and
hospital.  Medicare For All reduces costs dramatically by enabling price
controls and because Medicare's overhead is only about 3%, while the
for-profit health insurance bureaucracy -- the real "death panels" -- pad
costs by up to 30% for administrative overhead, executive bonuses, and profits
for investors.  Medicare For All would help business and stimulate the economy
by relieving employers of the burden of providing health benefits.

Obamacare and the Republicans' effort to overturn it demonstrate that the
leadership of both parties care more about profits for the insurance cartel,
Big Pharma, and other corporate interests than high-quality low-cost health
care for everyone.  The Obamacare mandate (originally a Republican idea from
the 1990s) forces people who can't afford it to purchase defective, inadequate
coverage from private insurance companies, while doing nothing about
skyrocketing costs.

The narrow Democrat vs. Republican debate on health care, which refuses to
allow even the argument for Medicare For All, proves the need to get Greens
elected to Congress and state legislatures.

THE ECONOMY

There are millions of jobs waiting to be created in alternative energy,
retrofitting of buildings and other forms of conservation, and expansion of
public transportation to reduce car traffic, say Greens, but this can only
happen with a 'Green New Deal' with public investment in these ideas at
national, state, and local levels.  All of the Green New Deal proposals have
become vitally necessary in the century of global warming.  See "Fast Forward
to Renewable Energy" by Cecile Lawrence (http://www.greenpapers.net/?p=58).

Such measures face a huge political obstacle: opposition from Republicans and
"moderate" Democrats who insist -- contrary to all evidence -- that the best
way to stimulate the economy is to reduce government spending (by $100
billion, according to the GOP), slash taxes on the highest income brackets,
privatize essential public services and resources, and send taxpayer-funded
bailouts to reckless Wall Street firms.

The White House and Congress can reduce the deficit drastically by ending the
wars and occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, cutting military spending and
the number of US bases on foreign soil, and taxing the wealthy so that they
pay their fair share.  Future meltdowns can be averted by breaking up the "too
big to fail" financial firms into smaller locally-based companies.  The Green
Party's goal of a decentralized economy, based on Main Street rather the Wall
Street, will restore economic stability and security to the US.

Instead of shilling for Wal-Mart's grocery section, First Lady Michelle Obama
would do far more good by promoting local produce, small farms and businesses,
local banks and credit unions, union jobs with good benefits at stores like
Walmart, extended compensation for the unemployed, and aid for people dealing
with home foreclosures, said Greens.  Ms. Obama's promotion of Walmart
coincides with efforts by the chain to open four department stores in
Washington, DC, over the objections of many local residents and merchants.

CORPORATE 'PERSONHOOD'

On the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision
upholding the legal status of corporations as person under the US
Constitution, Green Party leader Sarah 'echo' Steiner announced that she
intends to take the Supreme Court at its word and honor her marriage when she
finds a suitable candidate.  See "First Ever Marriage to a Corporation
Contemplated by Single, Female, 39" (Jan. 18 press release,
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=384), as well as an interview and
other links on the Green Party's home page (http://www.gp.org).

The decision, which abolished limits on corporate spending for political
campaign ads, severely damages the integrity of US elections and caused a
flood of misleading and offensive corporate-sponsored ads in the 2010 election
season.

President Obama and some other Democrats initially criticized the Citizens
United ruling but have taken no further action.  Greens have urged the
President and Congress to recognize that the growing power of corporations
threatens democracy, economic stability, and human rights and freedoms in the
US and abroad.  The Green Party, along with Move To Amend
(http://www.movetoamend.org), supports passage of an amendment that limits
constitutional rights and protections to humans and makes corporations
accountable to their own charters and to the public good.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Green Party Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~




From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Jan 27 16:00:17 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:00:17 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] PRESS RELEASE: Green Candidate Finds No Ballot Access
Message-ID: <4D420711.4010301@greens.org>








Greens fighting to be heard in Special Election Assembly race; New rules meant
to keep Green Party candidates off ballot

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE

SACRAMENTO (Jan 26, 2011) - A potential Green Party candidate in an Assembly
special election said today he is considering a lawsuit after he and at least
one other potential candidate were prevented from running in the election
because there was an extremely short time period - only two days after Gov.
Brown declared the special election - and a unusually large number of
signatures needed to qualify.

Gary Blenner, a registered Green Party member, former Center Unified School
District board trustee and teacher at Rio Americano High School, said the time
limits made it impossible for him to run for the seat as planned.

He said he and other rejected candidates are considering a lawsuit.

"It was barely 48 hours from the time Gov. Brown called the Special Election
until the time signatures were due. When I inquired about filing my candidacy
the next day, I was told the only way to file was by paying an outrageously
high filing fee," said Blenner.

"There was no way anyone without a huge campaign war chest can participate in
our so-called democracy under these conditions. It severely limits the choices
for voters," he added.

Election law expert Richard Winger of Ballot Access News confirmed that nine
federal courts have ruled, during the last 30 years, that states cannot force
candidates to complete ballot access petitions in tiny amounts of time.

Further, he said, smaller parties previously have had to only collect a
maximum of 150 signatures, not 1,500 under new rules.

"California elections officials have been careless and inconsiderate of the
rights of candidates and voters by assuming they can force candidates in
special elections to complete hefty petitions for themselves in less than a
week," said Winger.

Daniel Frederick, Peace and Freedom Party nominee for State Assembly from
District 4 in 2010, also said he was turned down when he tried to run because
he could not collect the 1,500 signatures.

######


From updates at cagreens.org  Sun Jan 30 16:35:33 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:35:33 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE: US Greens declare support for
 pro-democracy protesters in Egypt, Tunisia, other countries
Message-ID: <4D4603D5.6080902@greens.org>







GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Sunday, January 30, 2011



US Greens declare support for pro-democracy protesters in Egypt, Tunisia,
Jordan, Algeria, and other nations

? Greens condemn US aid to dictators like Mubarak -- some of it used to
suppress nonviolent protesters

? Green Party 'Egypt in Revolt' page with news feeds http://www.gp.org/egypt.html

? "Tunisia: African Greens Federation calls for Peace and Non-Violence"
http://africangreens.org/spip.php?article53

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on international
issues http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders in the US announced the party's support
and encouragement for nonviolent protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan,
Algeria, and other nations in the region who have taken to the streets in
demand for an end to corrupt and oppressive regimes.

"The Green Party of the United States supports democracy, here and throughout
the world.  We hope that the protesters in Egypt succeed in deposing President
Mubarak, and we're thrilled to see so many young people stand up against
dictators.  The best outcome would be for Tunisia, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi
Arabia to improve economic conditions for their populations and embrace
democracy, equal rights and protections for women and for ethnic, religious,
and sexual minorities, and freedom of the press.  We condemn the brutal
responses to the protests, including police violence and the shutdown of the
Internet," said Dr. Anthony Gronowicz, 2010 Green candidate for Congress in
New York's 7th District and a member of the party's International Committee
(http://www.gp.org/committees/intl).

Greens noted that the threatened regimes, especially Egyptian President
Mubarak's administration, were propped up by the US for the purpose of serving
US interests such as access to oil and other resources, the maintenance of
military bases on foreign soil, and unequivocal support for Israel's brutal
occupation and apartheid system.

"While the Obama Administration has offered some restrained rhetorical support
for the demonstrations, the US continues to send the Egyptian government
billions of dollars in military aid, some of it now being used by security
forces to beat and teargas protesters," said David Doonan, Mayor of Greenwich,
New York, and a member of the Green Party.  "For true stability in the region,
North African and Middle Eastern governments must serve the interests of their
own people instead of the demands of the US State Department and western
business."

Egypt is the second largest recipient of US military and economic aid ($1.55
billion in 2010), after Israel ($3.175 billion).

"The young people marching for democracy and freedom in these nations are a
model for people in the US.  We need a mass opposition movement in the US
against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the gross violations of our
Constitution in the name of 'homeland security,' and the reckless greed of
Wall Street, the insurance industry, oil companies, and other corporations.
Let's learn something from the Tunisian protesters: our outrage should not be
directed at Wikileaks but at our own government's secret policies and actions
that were exposed by the Wikileaks cables, such as the US bombing of Yemen and
the attempts to undermine the Copenhagen talks on global warming," said
Farheen Hakeem, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Green Party Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

"President Obama, Say the 'D-Word'"
By Mark LeVine, Al Jazeera, January 29, 2011
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/29-4

Egyptian Greens (in Arabic)
http://www.egyptiangreens.com/docs/firstpage/index.php

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Mon Jan 31 17:43:36 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:43:36 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] Press Release: Greens to Gov Brown on Financial
	Crisis
Message-ID: <4D476548.4050409@greens.org>









Green Party warns Brown that, like Egypt, the "have not's" can only take so
much; Urge Governor to fix financial crisis by taxing the wealthy as they do
the rest of us

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE

SACRAMENTO (Jan 31, 2011) - The Green Party of California warned Gov. Jerry
Brown today - minutes before he gives his "State of the State" address - to
not go down the same path as ex-Gov. Schwarzenegger by trying to solve
California's financial crisis on the backs of workers and the poor.

Like in Egypt, Californians can only take so much unemployment, out-of-sight
education costs and increasing disparity between the wealthy and the rest of
the population, Greens said.

"There is no reason California is in the financial state it's in, other than
the fact that our state government continues to practice prosperity for the
richest of the rich, and austerity for the rest of us. The richest 1% captured
a huge portion of economic growth in past years; they should get the austerity
now," said Laura Wells, a GPCA spokesperson and 2010 candidate for Governor.

"If California taxed them fairly, we would have enough money to improve
education, environment, equality, and economy. And, they would still be rich.
They would still have multiple houses, and private yachts, and private schools
and golf courses. Their assets would keep growing. They just wouldn't be
filthy rich, while so many are dirt poor today," Wells said.

"We need more justice in the tax system, rather than unfairness through
cutting education and basic services. A Green administration would start by
closing the gaping tax loophole in Prop 13 through a split-roll and making the
income tax more progressive at the very top. Why isn't this possibility even
part of the dialogue? " said Michael Feinstein, Green Party spokesperson and
former Mayor of Santa Monica.

"These are the kind of long-term, structural reforms needed to address our
structural deficit. Instead Gov. Brown is advocating extending temporary tax
increases for five years, leaving long-term uncertainty and missing a historic
opportunity for sustainable reform," Feinstein said.

###



From updates at cagreens.org  Sun Feb 13 17:33:25 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:33:25 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE:   US Greens congratulate Egyptians,
 insist that Egypt must move to democracy without US interference
Message-ID: <4D588665.1060306@greens.org>







GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Sunday, February 13, 2011



US Greens celebrate Egypt's giant step towards democracy, assert that the
Egyptian people must build a new government according to their own interests,
not US strategic demands

? Green Party 'Egypt in Revolt' page with news feeds http://www.gp.org/egypt.html

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on international
issues http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States congratulated the
Egyptian people and called President Hosni Mubarak's resignation a huge step
towards democracy, human rights, and stability for their country.

"The Egyptian revolution is a victory for the people of Egypt, and also the
victory for an idea -- the idea that violent regimes can be overthrown through
nonviolent means," said Romi Elnagar, member of the Green Party of Louisiana
and wife and mother of Egyptian-Americans.  "While police and rampaging
pro-Mubark thugs killed 350 and injured thousands more, the protesters
themselves remained overwhelmingly peaceful."

US Greens hoped for an end to the 30-year-old 'emergency decree' and for a
broad-based transitional government that embraced opposition parties, to begin
the work of dismantling the brutally oppressive Mubarak regime.  The next step
will take place when the military relinquishes power and Egyptians establish a
civil government with a constitution, free and fair elections, democratic
institutions, and the means to solve problems like unemployment and poverty.

Greens also urged the Obama Administration to cooperate in an investigation of
the alleged $70 billion that Mr. Mubarak's accumulated during his corrupt
regime and to freeze any of his assets that are held in the US.

"We call on the US government to avoid meddling and respect the right of
Egyptians to rule themselves.  Aid for Egypt must be for humanitarian
purposes, not military, and without strings attached.  If the Obama
Administration tries to press the new Egypt into subordination, to satisfy the
US's strategic military and economic interests in the region, we will betray
the Egyptian people and their right to democratic sovereignty," said Laura
Wells, 2010 Green Party candidate for Governor of California.

US Greens noted that much of the conflict in the Middle East and resentment of
the US by Egyptians and other populations in the region centers around the
unresolved Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

"Since making its 1979 'cold peace' with Israel, the Egyptian government has
supported Israel's ongoing apartheid and dispossession of Palestinians, most
recently complying with the siege of Gaza, in return for billions in aid from
the US.   We look to the formation of a democratic Egypt which adheres to
international law and reflects its citizens' long-standing opposition to
Israel's oppression of Palestinians," said Dr. Justine McCabe, co-chair of the
Green Party's International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl).


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Green Party Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Egyptian Greens (in Arabic)
http://www.egyptiangreens.com/docs/firstpage/index.php

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~



From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Feb 17 17:04:24 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:04:24 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Greens speak out against FBI raids
 targeting peace activists
Message-ID: <4D5DC598.700@greens.org>







GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, February 17, 2011



Greens: Raids and harassment against peace activists by FBI, police,
and prosecutors must end

? Green Party co-chair Theresa El-Amin to speak at a conference in
North Carolina against FBI raids on Feb. 19


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders called for an end to FBI
harassment, raids, false entrapment, and other violations of the
rights of peace activists, progressive leaders, and whistleblowers
throughout the US.

Theresa El-Amin, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States,
will speak at a conference addressing the recent FBI raids on anti-war
and international solidarity activists' homes and workplaces, to take
place Saturday, Feb. 19, 9:45 am to 5:00 pm at the UNC Law School on
the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (free
and open to the public:
http://www.stopfbi.net/conference/north-carolina).

The conference, organized by the Triangle Committee to Stop FBI
Repression, is the southern regional event in response to FBI raids on
September 24, 2010 on activists? homes in Minneapolis and Chicago, and
at the office of the Twin Cities Anti War Committee.  Similar
conferences are planned for New York, Chicago, and Oakland
(http://www.stopfbi.net).

"If the US began to resemble a police state under Bush, the
resemblance has increased under Obama.  While granting impunity to
top-level Bush-Cheney officials responsible for authorizing torture,
warrantless surveillance of US citizens, war crimes, and other serious
abuses of power, the Holder Justice Department has allowed the FBI,
police, and prosecutors to violate the constitutional rights of
activists for peace and justice and to harass whistleblowers," said
Ms. El-Amin.

"The Obama Administration, surpassing the Bush Administration's
contempt for the rule of law, has even argued for the right to
assassinate US citizens suspected of aiding terrorists, as in the case
of Anwar al-Awlaki -- a gross violation of the Constitution's
guarantee of due process," added Efia Nwangaza, South Carolina
attorney with the US Human Rights Network and Green candidate for the
US Senate in 2004.  Ms. Nwangaza will also speak at the North Carolina
conference.  (More on the al-Awlaki case:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/07/assassinations)

Greens cited several other examples of abuses by FBI, police, and
prosecutors, including the 2010 conviction of popular Boston
Councilmember Chuck Turner, a Green Party member, after the
prosecution failed to bring forth credible evidence.  Mr. Turner, an
outspoken opponent of US military aggression, was the target of an FBI
investigation apparently aimed at black officeholders in Boston, since
Dianne Wilkerson, a black state senator, was also targeted.  The
prosecutor and judge admitted that Mr. Turner was being punished for
his criticism of the FBI and the US attorney who initiated the
investigation (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38295348245).

The Turner case recalls the conviction of Rev. Edward Pinkney in
Benton Harbor, Michigan. Rev. Pinkney, a community activist and Green
Party candidate for Congress, was accused of voter fraud in the wake
of a successful recall campaign and was only convicted on the second
try by an all-white jury, and then was jailed for quoting the Bible at
a judge (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-state.php?ID=84 and
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/525).

Other targets during the past decade include Palestinian activist Amer
Jubran in 2002 (jailed without charges and forced to leave the US:
http://amerjubrandefense.org), members of the New England Committee to
Defend Palestine
(http://www.onepalestine.org/resources/articles/Repression_Of_Palestinian_Activists.html),
Tarek Mehanna (arrested by the FBI for refusing to become an informant
on his mosque, now in solitary confinement: http://www.freetarek.com),
and Imam Abdullah (shot 18 times and left to die during a 2009 FBI
raid in Dearborn, Michigan:
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-state.php?ID=261).

The FBI also has a long history of actions against environmental
activists, including the infamous Judi Bari car bombing case
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Bari).

In Maryland, an ACLU lawsuit in 2008 revealed that police abused their
power by infiltrating law-abiding antiwar groups, death penalty
opponents, and other organizations, including the Maryland Green
Party.  In 2007, Brandon Darby admitted that he worked as an informant
for the FBI.  Mr. Darby was co-founder of Common Ground Relief, a
relief organization that aided New Orleanians in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, along with Malik Rahim, who has run as a Green for
public office in New Orleans.

Greens also pointed to the 2005 conviction (with an expanded sentence
in 2009) of Lynne Stewart, an attorney who was representing Abdel
Rahman, based on evidence gathered in violation of attorney-client
privilege.  The conviction and severe ten-year sentence were meant to
intimidate lawyers willing to represent clients accused of terrorism
and silence lawyers who would expose abuses by law enforcement and
government officials, said Greens.

Green Party leaders also noted dangerous legislation introduced by
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Sens. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Joe Lieberman
(I-Conn.) and Scott Brown (R-Mass.) that would expand the Espionage
Act in order to criminalize Wikileaks, endangering the ability of the
press to expose war crimes and wrong-doing by government officials and
enabling the prosecution of Wikileaks and making anyone who supports
Wikileaks vulnerable to charges
(http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/15/rep-peter-king-introduces-anti-wikileaks-legislation).
  In 2010, Rep. King demanded that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
and Attorney General Holder classify Wikileaks as a "foreign terrorist
organization."

Greens urged Congress to reject the bills, calling them a tool to
suppress the right to dissent and freedom of the press and obstruct
the ability of journalists to investigate official crimes, which often
requires uncovering classified documents.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Green Party Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

"Why is Chuck Turner in Handcuffs?"
ByJohn Andrews, Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party, December 8, 2008
http://www.green-rainbow.org/content/why-chuck-turner-handcuffs

"When Sting is King: Chuck Turner: 'Guilty', Energized"
By Dave Lewit, Alliance for Democracy, October 31, 2010
http://www.green-rainbow.org/content/when-sting-king

"ACLU, CCR seek to have Obama enjoined from killing Awlaki without due process"
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com, August 3, 2010
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/03/awlaki

"Greens vs. the FBI: An Interview with Hugh Farrell and Mary Sackley"
By Linda Greene, CounterPunch, February 16, 2011
http://counterpunch.com/greene02162011.html

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of
the United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Sat Feb 19 16:10:38 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:10:38 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] Los Angeles Event - Candidates Forum
Message-ID: <4D605BFE.4040108@greens.org>







Dear Voters,
The City Election is March 8th, less than three weeks away. Coverage of the
election in the media has been sparse...even though the city is going bankrupt
and has corruption issues and pay-to-play issues that are becoming overwhelming.

The incumbents are facing a strong roster of citizen-candidates and community
leaders as challengers in every council district. Some endorsements for the
challengers from prominent news media and local community organizations are
beginning to change the expected outcome and it looks like We the People, may
make real change possible in this election! Exciting news indeed!

The First Key Value of the Green Party is Grassroots Democracy.

We ask all voters of every political stripe to get engaged in this
non-partisan election and make a difference! We will help you to do this by
introducing you to the candidates in person.

The San Fernando Valley Greens invite you to please join us on the President's
Day Holiday to meet the candidates, and support "Yes on H," the
election-reform measure that stands for _H_onesty in City Elections!
Details in attached flyer...
[download flyer - http://cagreens.org/misc/Candidates_Forum_Flyer.pdf]

Thank you, and please join us for this important event in our city's history.

In your service,

Michael McCue
Co-Coordinator
SFV Greens
818-293-1440



From updates at cagreens.org  Mon Feb 21 19:23:51 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:23:51 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] NEW! Livestream Greens every Wed 7pm
Message-ID: <4D632C47.2080308@greens.org>





***  From the Green Party of the United States ***



The Media Committee, working with Greens around the US, are making our
Livestream Channel show a regular series!

Every Wednesday evening, 10 pm ET, 7 pm PT, we will broadcast 'Greenstream
Wednesday', featuring Green news, interviews, video clips, & viewer
participation. Our first show will take place Wednesday, Feb. 23, with 2008
Green presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney as our guest (to be confirmed).

Tune in here: http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus (or go to
http://www.livestream.com <http://www.livestream.com/> and enter the channel
name: greenpartyus)

To participate in the ongoing discussion in the chat window during the show,
log in to Livestream. If you aren't a member yet, you can become one quickly
for free by clicking on 'Sign Up' at the top of the page.

If you were one of the hundreds of people who joined us during President
Obama's State of the Union address, you'll remember how much fun it was to
read & contribute comments about the speech. Livestream is like a town hall
meeting where you don't have to raise your hand to state your opinions.

Please help us promote the show & build an audience. Forward this message to
all state & local Green Party e-mail lists and to all your friends!

Scott
Green Party Media Committee



From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Feb 22 19:29:26 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:29:26 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE   Greens support Wisc. public employees,
 urge wider protest against budget policies that slash benefits,
 collective bargaining
Message-ID: <4D647F16.2010406@greens.org>









GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011


The Green Party supports Wisconsin public employees, urges wider protest
against policies that cut benefits and eliminate collective bargaining

? Greens denounce austerity budgets, calling them a ploy to balance budgets on
the backs of working people, destroy unions, and enlarge the power of corporations

? Green solution to deficits and economic recession: rescind tax cuts for the
rich, end the wars and reduce military spending, enact Medicare For All and
public works programs

? 'GreenStream Wednesday' on Feb. 23: online show will feature Wisconsin Green
leaders and an elected Oshkosh City Council member, 10 pm ET, 7 pm PT, on the
Green Party Livestream Channel (http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus).


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders declared today that the party solidly
supports Wisconsin's public-sector employees protesting a bill introduced by
Gov. Scott Walker to eliminate their benefits and collective bargaining rights.

"We in the Green Party are standing out front on this issue by standing with
our labor and public service brothers and sisters here in Wisconsin," said AJ
Segneri, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party
(http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org).

On Feb. 17, the Wisconsin Greens issued a statement affirming that their party
"salutes the state?s public workers, and stands in solidarity with their fight
to retain full collective bargaining rights with their employers"
(http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org/?q=node/97).

On Wednesday, Feb. 23, Wisconsin Wave will hold a demonstration at a
conference of Wisconsin Manufacturing and Commerce (WMC), which includes the
state's top corporate lobbyists
(http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org/?q=node/97).  Wisconsin Wave is a project
of the Liberty Tree Foundation and the Center for Media and Democracy; Liberty
Tree's founder and executive director is Ben Manski, a Green who ran for the
Wisconsin state legislature in 2010 and received the best numbers for an
independent party candidate since 1944.

Greens speak out on the Wisconsin uprising:

? Laura Wells, 2010 Green Party candidate for Governor of California: "At long
last, Americans are pushing back against the rule of our country by corporate
oligarchies.  We've been inspired by the courage of people in countries like
Egypt and Tunisia, and now by public employees in Wisconsin.  This is more
than a struggle to preserve benefits and collective bargaining rights in a
single state.  It's about saving the infrastructure of our democracy and
preventing the US from lapsing into a new Robber Baron Era reminiscent of the
late 19th century.  We hope that the fire of protest spreads to every state
where such budgets are proposed, whether by Democrats in California or
Republicans in Wisconsin.  It?s a thrill to see working people take back their
rights, their freedoms, and their financial security."

? AJ Segneri, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party: "Gov. Walker's bill to
strip benefits and bargaining rights from state workers, based on the claim of
a state deficit, is an old Republican trick.  The governor enacted tax breaks
and special interest spending for the top income brackets, then introduced a
bill to solve the resulting deficit on the backs of working people in
Wisconsin and break up the public employees' unions.  The 14 Democratic state
legislators in Wisconsn deserve our praise for denying Gov. Walker his quorum.
  National Democratic leaders should follow their example, instead of demanding
sacrifice from working people and the needy while excusing the wealthy and
corporations from paying their fair share in taxes.  President Obama's budget
plan would place a five-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending,
affecting programs like heating assistance to low-income Americans and
community-service block grants, as well as cuts in
  money for water treatment plants and other environmental projects and higher
interest on federal loans for graduate students.  The rampaging union-busting
extremism of the GOP and their billionaire supporters like the Koch brothers
doesn't justify the Obama austerity plan."

? Howie Hawkins, 2010 Green candidate for Governor of New York: "The biggest
myth is that these deficits are caused by excessive social spending and
generous wages and benefits for public workers.  The real cause is tax cuts
for the rich, runaway military spending, and a recession triggered by the
subprime mortage crisis, which was caused by deregulation of the financial
industry.  The Green Party proposes the obvious solution.  One, call US troops
home from Iraq and Afghanistan and reduce military spending.  Two, roll back
the tax cuts and loopholes for wealthy individuals and corporations.  Three,
enact Medicare For All, which will save 30% by eliminating private insurance
administrative overhead and reduce the cost of health insurance for public
workers.  Medicare For All will also stimulate the economy by relieving the
financial burden on business of providing health benefits, enabling
negotiation to bring down skyrocketing drug prices and other
  health costs, promoting competition by letting everyone choose which
physician or hospital to visit, and saving tens of thousands of people from
financial ruin over medical costs every year.  And four, initiate major public
works projects in conservation, green energy, public transportation, and
repair of infrastructure.  Presidents like FDR and Eisenhower proved that
public works boost the economy for everyone."

? Tony Palmeri, Green city council member in Oshkosh serving his second term:
"Gov. Walker says he wants to give local governments the tools to balance our
budgets -- including a hammer to destroy collective bargaining rights.  We
reject his tools of divisiveness, and instead ask state government for
assistance based on Green values, such as fairer distribution of shared
revenue dollars to support local budgets; an end to needless budget-busting
and polluting road projects; a fairer distribution of tax dollars to support
equity in our K-12 system; increased grant money for college students; an end
to special-interest tax breaks for the wealthy that drain millions of dollars
from the budget; a progressive tax system based on ability to pay; and a green
jobs program to help us build a sustainable, economically viable future.
These measures, taken together, would save the state money and restore
Wisconsin's tradition as a laboratory for progressive ideas
  and democracy.  Citizen activism has demonstrated, in an inspiring way, that
we will not let Mr. Walker and his corporate sponsors bury that tradition."


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~



From updates at cagreens.org  Fri Feb 25 19:35:10 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:35:10 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] NEWS RELEASE -- Green Party supports public worker
	protests
Message-ID: <4D6874EE.7070203@greens.org>







Green Party of California supports public worker protests in Wisconsin,
California and other states; Greens urge more 'pushing back' to preserve
workers' rights

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE

SACRAMENTO (Feb 24, 2011) - In response to the Wisconsin protests - and
sympathetic actions in California and other states by public employees this
week to preserve their rights to collective bargaining - the Green Party of
California affirmed its support for unionized public workers across California
and nation.

The Green Party said it urges more protests against corporate-influenced
attacks to reduce benefits and even eliminate collective bargaining - as
suggested in recent legislation introduced in the California State
Legislature, and threatened by anti-union forces by way of a California state
initiative to end public union collective bargaining rights and other benefits.

"At long last, Americans are pushing back against the rule of our country by
corporate oligarchies. We've been inspired by the courage of people in
countries like Egypt and Tunisia, and now by public employees in Wisconsin,"
said Laura Wells, 2010 Green Party candidate for Governor of California

"This is more than a struggle to preserve benefits and collective bargaining
rights in a single state. It's about saving the infrastructure of our
democracy and preventing the U.S. from lapsing into a new Robber Baron Era
reminiscent of the late 19th century.

"We hope that the fire of protest spreads to every state where such budgets
are proposed, whether by Democrats in California or Republicans in Wisconsin.
It's a thrill to see working people take back their rights, their freedoms and
their financial security," she said.

Noting that many public workers have forgone pay increases for years and
experienced furloughs and benefit cuts, the Green Party of California praised
the unions who have already agreed to concessions to help during the budget
crisis. Republicans, and some Democrats, are simply using the crisis to break
the unions, Greens said.

The GPCA also noted it has had a long-standing platform plank that supports
the "fundamental" right to belong to an independent, democratic, member-run,
labor union and that the widespread existence of such unions is vital to
ensure a more democratic and just society.

-30-


The Green Party of California
PO Box 2828
Sacramento, CA 95812
Phone: (916) 448-3437
Web: http://www.cagreens.org
EMail: gpca at greens.org


From updates at cagreens.org  Sun Feb 27 18:36:59 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:36:59 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] SF Bay Area Event for Green Party Activists
Message-ID: <4D6B0A4B.5080404@greens.org>









GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA GOALS AND STRATEGIES FOR LONG-TERM PLANNING

                   A Participatory Exercise


WHEN: Sunday, March 20th - 1 to 5 pm

WHO:  Bay Area Greens
San Mateo and Santa Clara Greens recently met to discuss Goals and
Strategies.  The information sent out to them in advance of their
meeting appears below.  This meeting is being hosted by San Francisco
and Alameda Greens.  Greens in all other parts of the Bay Area or the
state are welcome to attend.  Please forward to your Green lists.  The
results from this meeting will be brought before the GPCA spring plenary.

WHERE: The Women's Building, 3543 18th Street, San Francisco - Audre
Lorde room
Between Valencia and Guerrero. Public transit within 4 Blocks - 16th
Street BART station, #14, 22, 33 and 49 busses and the J-Church street car.

WHY:  GPCA needs to hear from you.  What are your concerns?  What would
you like to see the Green Party accomplish in the coming years? What are
you willing to do to make that happen?

This room will seat up to 80 people.

NEEDS: Some drinks and snacks would be nice. Please respond to
barry at hermansons.com  if you can bring something.

Contact Barry (barry at hermansons.com  or 415-664-7754) with any questions
or comments.
------------------------------


The following text was written by Jim Stauffer.  When you have a moment,
it is worth reading.  For me, it is an exciting time to be a Green.
Corporate America is spending tens of millions of dollars trying to
convince everyone that they are green.  Everyone wants to be green.  How
can we take advantage of that?

Dear Greens:

The state party would like to engage county Locals in an exercise to
help establish long-term goals for the party. By agreeing on a set
of goals, we give the party definition and purpose. From those
goals we develop strategies for their implementation. This creates
projects for our Working Groups and Standing Committees, and it
helps attract volunteers and donations.

It?s important to be realistic when setting goals. Brainstorming
exercises encourage free-thinking with no critique or analysis of
suggested issues. Goal setting is different; it's intended to
derive projects that are achievable, not just desirable. We all have
a list of favorite issues and a wish-list of what we?d like the
party to be. But we must focus on what we can actually accomplish...
realistic goals.

Locals are encourage to get together with neighboring counties for
this exercise. Gathering into a group from a few counties helps the
thought process. It gets us outside of our normal monthly meeting
crowd and provides the synergy of a larger group.



PROCESS

Take notes of the goals discussed and rank or categorize them by the
level of agreement or support.

There is wiki that is (ostensibly) for posting comments. It's not
designed too well, but it can be used for submitting our comments.
http://wiki.cagreens.org/index.php/GPCA_Strategic_Action_Plan

DISCUSSION

The state party wants to hear what Locals think our long-term goals
should be. This requires some degree of open discussion, but the
exercise must remain moderated by the theme of realistic goals. For
every suggested goal, the presenter should have some idea of a
strategy to implement that goal.

Basically, the question to answer is, "What should the GPCA
accomplish in five years and in ten years?"

Some organizing may help the discussion:

-Political Goals-
Partisan and non-partisan candidates
Campaigns and ballot proposition
Election reforms

-Internal / Party Goals-
Voter registration
Developing county Locals
Fund raising
Internal structure and process

REFERENCES

State committee and working group people have been discussing this
subject and have come up with their list of issues. These are being
provided here just as a reference, they should not be used as
guidance for your discussions. Its purpose is to provide input as
to what volunteers at the state level see as our long-term issues.

1. Given the current recession and its detrimental effect on
fundraising, should GPCA and its locals adopt a 'survival plan'
until recovery is tangible (e.g. unemployment below 8%)? How would
this affect all goals and strategies?

2. What are realistic voter registration goals? What attracts people
to a small party? What caused the California Green registration
decline of the past six years, can it be reversed?

3. Given that we have less than 1% of registered voters, what are
realistic electoral strategies for a party of our size? Do we
continue attempts in partisan races or focus on non-partisan races?
Is there a realistic strategy for winning partisan races?

4. How do we recruit/develop electable candidates for non-partisan
offices?

5. Does Prop 14 provide any potential to us?

6. Should we make a real, concerted effort to promote ranked-choice
voting (i.e. Instant Runoff Voting and proportional representation)?

7. The GPCA?s decentralized structure and consensus-seeking decision
process is an experiment that we've carried on for 20 years. Is it
working well enough? Is there a good balance of responsibilities
between the state party and the county parties? Should we examine
giving more authority over internal business to the state party?

8. Is continuing to rely solely on volunteer labor a viable plan for
growth?

9. What factors have created viable, stable Locals? What factors
have caused Locals to deteriorate?

10. What resources do Locals need from the state party? What
resources does the state party need from Locals?







From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Mar  1 15:42:40 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:42:40 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] PRESS RELEASE: Green Party supports public worker
	protests in Wisconsin
Message-ID: <4D6D8470.50308@greens.org>








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Green Party of California supports public worker protests in Wisconsin,
California and other states; Greens urge more 'pushing back' to preserve
workers' rights

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE

SACRAMENTO (Feb 24, 2011) - In response to the Wisconsin protests - and
sympathetic actions in California and other states by public employees this
week to preserve their rights to collective bargaining - the Green Party of
California affirmed its support for unionized public workers across California
and nation.

The Green Party said it urges more protests against corporate-influenced
attacks to reduce benefits and even eliminate collective bargaining - as
suggested in recent legislation introduced in the California State
Legislature, and threatened by anti-union forces by way of a California state
initiative to end public union collective bargaining rights and other benefits.

"At long last, Americans are pushing back against the rule of our country by
corporate oligarchies. We've been inspired by the courage of people in
countries like Egypt and Tunisia, and now by public employees in Wisconsin,"
said Laura Wells, 2010 Green Party candidate for Governor of California

"This is more than a struggle to preserve benefits and collective bargaining
rights in a single state. It's about saving the infrastructure of our
democracy and preventing the U.S. from lapsing into a new Robber Baron Era
reminiscent of the late 19th century.

"We hope that the fire of protest spreads to every state where such budgets
are proposed, whether by Democrats in California or Republicans in Wisconsin.
It's a thrill to see working people take back their rights, their freedoms and
their financial security," she said.

Noting that many public workers have forgone pay increases for years and
experienced furloughs and benefit cuts, the Green Party of California praised
the unions who have already agreed to concessions to help during the budget
crisis. Republicans, and some Democrats, are simply using the crisis to break
the unions, Greens said.

The GPCA also noted it has had a long-standing platform plank that supports
the "fundamental" right to belong to an independent, democratic, member-run,
labor union and that the widespread existence of such unions is vital to
ensure a more democratic and just society.


The Green Party of California
PO Box 2828
Sacramento, CA 95812
Phone: (916) 448-3437
Web: http://www.cagreens.org
EMail: gpca at greens.org


From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Mar  8 19:44:15 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:44:15 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE No US/NATO military intervention in Libya,
	say US Greens
Message-ID: <4D76F78F.6020109@greens.org>








GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, March 8, 2011


The US and NATO must not intervene in Libya, say US Greens

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on foreign policy:
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php

? 'GreenStream Wednesday', March 9: discussion on Libya and intervention, 9 pm
ET, 6 pm PT on the Green Party's Livestream channel
(http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus), with guests Patricia Hill
(http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=249), Keith
Harmon Snow
(http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com/2011/03/petroleum-empire-maps-for-north-africa/),
Glen Ford (http://www.blackagendareport.com/blog/101), and Bernard White
(former Program Director of WBAI Pacifica radio)


WASHINGTON -- Green Party leaders strongly urged the White House not to launch
a military intervention in Libya, saying that democracy must be achieved by
Libyans without meddling by the US or NATO.

Greens insisted that the US and NATO honor the request of human rights lawyer
Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, spokesman for the new Libyan National Transitional
Council, who said, "We are against any foreign intervention or military
intervention in our internal affairs... This revolution will be completed by
our people."

"We're seeing a repeat of the kind of propaganda, deception, and phony
rhetoric about liberation, democracy, and human rights that were used to boost
the US invasion of Iraq," said Leenie Halbert, co-chair of the Green Party of
the United States and a member of the party's International Committee
(http://www.gp.org/committees/intl).  "Liberation, democracy, and human rights
were never on the table when the US government made deals with Gadhafi for
Libyan oil or when President Obama promised him a $77 million dollar military
aid package (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110307/ap_on_re_us/us_arming_libya).
  The real goal of a military intervention in Libya is control over the
country's oil resources and the planned Trans-Saharan gas pipeline from
Nigeria to Algeria."

Green Party leaders warned that a foreign 'special forces' action in Libya
that was ostensibly in support of the Libyan people would have the opposite
effect, compromising the democratic uprising and subjecting the country to the
kind of destruction and mass casualties that resulted from the invasions of
Iraq and Afghanistan.

Green Party leaders also said that medical and other aid, as well as asylum
for those fleeing the country, are urgently necessary for Libyans suffering
from Gadhafi's actions to crush the rebellion.  But Greens added that such aid
must come from humanitarian organizations and opposed the linking of such aid
to US and other western military and political objectives.

"The Obama Administration must reject all the resurrected neocon arguments for
military action in Libya.  The fact that standards for intervention are based
on access to oil shows that the US government hasn't begun to liberate our own
country from dependence on fossil fuels and the political grip of oil
companies.  Fossil fuel addiction remains the greatest threat to both global
climate and global peace," said Muhammed Malik, co-chair of the Miami-Dade
Green Party (http://www.miamidadegreenparty.org) and a member of the Green
Party's International Committee.  Mr. Malik helped organize a rally at the
Federal Courthouse in Ft. Lauderdale on Feb. 26 against US military
intervention in Libya.  This summer, he will address the dangers of military
intervention at a forum, entitled "Self-Determination: Opportunities and
Challenges" at Florida International University.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

"Intervention in Libya would poison the Arab revolution"
By Seumas Milne, The Guardian, March 2, 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/02/intervention-libya-poison-arab-revolution

"War porn is back in Libya"
By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times, March 3, 2011
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MC03Ak03.html

'GreenStream Wednesday': Weekly news and discussion on the Green Party's
Livestream channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~




From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Mar  8 19:46:54 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:46:54 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GreenStream Wednesday, March 9: Discussion of Libya,
 threat of US intervention, on the Green Party's Livestream Channel
Message-ID: <4D76F82E.4040701@greens.org>






On this week's GreenStream Wednesday on March 9th we will be discussing the US
military's intervention in Libya. Our guests will be Keith Harmon Snow,
Patricia Hill, Glen Ford and Bernard White. Don DeBar will be the Host.

Green Party Livestream Channel: http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Participate in our live chat room!  Please note that we're starting the show
an hour earlier from now on: 6pm PT, 7pm MT, 8pm CT, 9pm ET.

Info on Guests:

? Keith Harmon Snow is a war correspondent, photographer and independent
investigator, and a four time (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010) Project Censored award
winner. He is also the 2009 Regent's Lecturer in Law & Society at the
University of California Santa Barbara, recognized for over a decade of work,
outside of academia, contesting official narratives on war crimes, crimes
against humanity and genocide while also working as a genocide investigator
for the United Nations and other bodies. The first UCSB Regent's Lecturer, in
1960, was Aldous Huxley; other recipients include Margaret Mead, Peter
Matthiessen and Meredith Monk. See his article:
http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com/2011/03/petroleum-empire-maps-for-north-africa

? Patricia Hill, member of the Black United Front and National Black Police
Association, former president and executive director of the African-American
Police League:
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=249

? Glen Ford, co-founder and Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report:
http://blackagendareport.com/ http://www.blackagendareport.com/blog/101

? Bernard White, former Program Director of WBAI Pacifica radio.





From updates at cagreens.org  Sun Mar 13 13:14:06 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:14:06 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] RELEASE Ga. Greens: Danger from Fukushima nuclear
 plant damage should be a warning to Georgians
Message-ID: <4D7D258E.8000505@greens.org>







(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States, http://www.gp.org)

Georgia Green Party http://www.georgiagreenparty.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Saturday, March 12th, 2011


Fukushima Radioactive Release Should Serve as Warning Greens Urge Obama to
Withdraw Loan Guarantees for Nukes

"We are horrified, but not at all surprised by this latest nuclear accident,"
said Denice Traina, a health-care worker residing in Augusta Georgia and
former co-chair of the Georgia Green Party.  "Fukushima has now joined
Chernobyl and Three Mile Island as beacons to the human folly of boiling water
with nuclear fission."

News agencies from around the world are reporting on a Saturday explosion at a
nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan which destroyed the containment building
housing a nuclear power reactor, triggering a radiation leak.  The disaster
was set off by an earthquake which hit 8.9 on the Richter scale and the
resultant tsunami.  The explosion and resulting fire were caught on video and
have been published to youtube.

In 2010, the Obama Administration announced tax-payer financed loan guarantees
for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle in Burke
County, Georgia.

"Greens in Georgia and elsewhere urge the administration to reverse itself on
the insanity of using public assets to finance a new round of nuclear
construction," said Adam Shapiro, Co-Chair of the Georgia Green Party,
resident of Atlanta and a radio show host.  "Private capital has known for
years what a poor investment nuclear power is.  If not for these taxpayer
backed loan guarantees and the immunity from liability provided by the
ill-advised Congressional Price-Anderson Act, the nuclear industry would have
long ago succumbed to market forces."

Engineering firms and bond financiers still stand to make tremendous profits
from the industry, if public tax dollars can be found to underwrite the failed
technology.  Heralding a new generation of safe nuclear reactors, fission is
being sold as a 'carbon-free energy'. That can only be said if one ignores the
tremendous carbon footprint of the nuclear fuel cycle.  Greens urge
investments instead in solar, wind and geothermal technologies which would
harness the Earth's solar income, rather than tapping its fossile fuel savings.

"While Fukushima underscores the insanity of the Yucca proposal to store
nuclear wastes over a fault line, the 1986 explosion in the Ukraine shows us
you don't have to build a reactor on a fault line to incur these risks," said
Traina, whose kids and grandchild all live within thirty miles of Plant
Vogtle.  Studies have documented nearly a million radiation-related deaths
since the April 26th, 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which led to nuclear fallout
and raised background radiation levels throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

-- 30 --

http://www.georgiagreenparty.org/Issues/NuclearPower/Obama_Props_Up_Nukes_with_Taxpayer_backed_Loan_Guarantees_Is_That_Environmental_Racism




From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Mar 15 18:03:16 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:03:16 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GPCA PRESS RELEASE: Green Party sympathizes with
	Japanese people
Message-ID: <4D800C54.7020807@greens.org>








Green Party of California sympathizes with Japanese people, expresses concern
for safety of California, supports dismantling all nuclear power plants and
shift to 'greener, safer power sources'

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE

SACRAMENTO (Mar 14, 2011) - The Green Party of California Monday expressed its
"deepest sympathies" with the people of Japan after last week's earthquake and
tsunami disaster, and the possible nuclear catastrophe that may engulf Japan
and parts of the rest of the world - including California, which may be one of
the first mainland states to be effected by radiation from a Japanese meltdown.

"We express our deepest sympathies for the people of Japan. The Japanese
became the only people to suffer from an attack on cities using atomic bombs.
It is indeed horrifying that this island nation again be the victim of
humankind's shortsightedness," said Laura Wells, the 2010 Green Party
candidate for governor in California.

"The idea that nuclear fission reactions could be used to produce power for
peaceful purposes has been shown to be wishful thinking, because there is
nothing peaceful about a power source that is unsafe for people and the
environment," added Wells, who said the Green Party's platform calls for all
nuclear plants around the globe to be dismantled.

"This is a wake-up call. We need to transition to renewable, non-toxic,
non-radioactive sources like solar, wind, wave, biomass-waste, industrial hemp
and geothermal. Every single region in every single country has access to at
least one of these - we need green economies now. No one should have to face
the horror of nuclear meltdown in the throes of a natural disaster - its
incomprehensible," said Kendra Gonzales, GPCA Campaigns and Campaigns Working
Group co-chair.

"This is a warning not to locate nuclear reactors in earthquake zones like
California, which derives 20 percent of its energy from nuclear reactors. We
must use alternative sources of energy like solar, wind, tidal, geothermal
power, and hydro power," added Shane Que Hee, GPCA Platform co-chair.

"The Green Party of California believes grassroots democracy and conservation
to be two of the most underutilized energy sources available to humankind,
everywhere. We share one planet, we share one global future," added Wells.



The Green Party of California
PO Box 2828
Sacramento, CA 95812
Phone: (916) 448-3437
Web: http://www.cagreens.org
EMail: gpca at greens.org


From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Mar 17 18:24:52 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:24:52 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GPCA RELEASE: Gov. Brown accused of offering 'false
 choices' about budget
Message-ID: <4D82B464.3050404@greens.org>








Gov. Brown accused of offering 'false choices' about budget, asked if he
supports 'human needs or tax breaks for huge corporations' in letter from
Green Party state official

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE

SACRAMENTO (Mar 17, 2011) - Gov. Jerry Brown was accused of offering "false
choices" to Californians about the state budget by an official of the
opposition Green Party of California, who went on to ask the governor if he
stands "with us for human needs, or will you instead stand for continuing tax
breaks for huge corporations and the very wealthy?"

"The Green Party says no to the false choices offered by yourself, and the
Republicans...what do you stand for?" said Michael Rubin in a letter sent to
Brown this week. Rubin, an Alameda County resident, is a member of the Green
Party of California state coordinating council.

Noting that Brown's current budget proposal contains almost $13 billion in
cuts; cuts to UC and CSU, the Community Colleges, health care and K-12
education, Rubin accused the governor of instituting more "regressive taxes"
in his proposed ballot measure.

"The income tax and the sales tax proposals are regressive taxes. The Green
Party supports a progressive tax structure; that is, the tax structure should
reflect people's ability to pay. The proposed special election is an integral
part of this proposal...if it makes it to the ballot...we will not be
supporting these regressive tax proposals," said Rubin.

"(It) seems that you do not want people to remember that corporate taxes
dropped 40 percent in the years from 1985 to 2005; 52 percent of profitable
corporations paid no state income tax at all (in 2005). The Legislature has
been cutting corporate taxes for years," he added.

"You also are limiting discussion about alternatives. Our choices should not
be cuts plus regressive taxes or even deeper cuts. Some alternatives
are...institute an oil severance tax, tax the rich more than the middle class
(add higher income tax brackets) and redo Prop 13 (restore the split roll,
that is, higher taxes for property that is used for business, not for
owner-occupied housing)," wrote Rubin.



The Green Party of California
PO Box 2828
Sacramento, CA 95812
Phone: (916) 448-3437
Web: http://www.cagreens.org
EMail: gpca at greens.org



From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Mar 22 17:56:11 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:56:11 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Green Party: The US must honor Libyan
 rebels' call for no military attacks
Message-ID: <4D89452B.4030409@greens.org>








GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, March 22, 2011



The US and other western nations must honor the Libyan rebels' requests for no
military intervention, say Greens

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on foreign policy:
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders today warned that western military
intervention, now unfolding with air strikes against Libyan leader Muammar
Gadhafi's forces allegedly to create a no-fly zone, could escalate into a new
US/NATO war on a Muslim nation rather than the stated goal of humanitarian
protection for Libyan civilians and aid for rebels.

"Libyan rebel leaders have compared their cause to the uprisings in Tunisia
and Egypt and expressed their wish for no military involvement from other
countries.  The resolution of the conflict in Libya should not be led by
foreign powers that have an interest in controlling Libya's oil -- the largest
reserves in Africa.  The military intervention by the US, UK, and France could
easily turn into a situation like Iraq and Afghanistan, in which US bombs
cause widespread civilian death and destruction," said Romi Elnagar, a member
of the Louisiana Green Party and a member of the party's International
Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl).

The new Libyan Interim National Transitional Council in Benghazi issued a
decree on March 5 stating "we request from the international community to
fulfil its obligations to protect the Libyan people from any further genocide
and crimes against humanity without any direct military intervention on Libyan
soil."
(http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-08/libyan-rebels-appeal-to-un-for-protection-formal-recognition.html)

Human rights lawyer Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, spokesman for the National
Transitional Council, said, "We are against any foreign intervention or
military intervention in our internal affairs... This revolution will be
completed by our people with the liberation of the rest of Libyan ?territory."

Greens said that the intervention could quickly backfire and incite regional
outrage against the US.  According to the Washington Post, "The Arab League
secretary general, Amr Moussa, deplored the broad scope of the US-European
bombing campaign in Libya on Sunday and said he would call a new league
meeting to reconsider Arab approval of the Western military intervention....
'What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone,'
he said in a statement on the official Middle East News Agency. 'And what we
want is the protection of civilians and not the shelling of more civilians.'"
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/arab-league-condemns-broad-bombing-campaign-in-libya/2011/03/20/AB1pSg1_story.html).

"The conflict in Libya is a civil war -- a rebellion against a violent regime.
  We question whether the enthusiasm among western leaders for a military
assault on Gadhafi's forces, including calls for a ground invasion by some
Republicans in the US
(http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/20/bill-kristol-calls-for-u-s-ground-forces-in-libya/),
is motivated by humanitarian concerns or by an oil grab.  Not content with
escalating the Afghanistan War and expanding it into Pakistan, President Obama
might get his very own war-without-end if he acts without regard for the
wishes, views, and needs of people in north Africa," said Farheen Hakeem,
co-chair of the Green Party of the United States.

The Green Party has supported movements for democracy throughout the Middle
East and Africa and their efforts to remove violently repressive and corrupt
dictators like Muammar Gadhafi.  But Green leaders insisted that the
imposition of a no-fly zone by foreign attack is an illegitimate intervention
in a civil war that Libyans have the right to resolve without interference
from western powers for whom humanitarian claims have been cover for economic
and geopolitical domination.

Greens noted that the US offered no such assistance during the Algerian Civil
War of the 1990s (in which the US encouraged a military takeover after
Islamists won the election, precipitating a civil war that cost between
150,000 and 200,000 lives) or the Congo War, which alone killed 4 million
people (1998-2003), the bloodiest conflict since World War II.

"Greens remain skeptical of US intentions, noting the selective attention to
the suffering of civilians resisting repressive governments in the Middle
East.  Why no intervention when US client-state Bahrain recently slaughtered
its opposition?  Even more shockingly, the US supported Israel's air and
ground assault on illegally occupied Gaza in 2008 and 2009, in which over 1400
Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed in contrast to 13 Israelis, 10 of
whom were soldiers.  The history of US failure to protect civilians from
avoidable mass killings in the Middle East should give every thinking person
pause," said Muhammed Malik, co-chair of the Miami-Dade Green Party
(http://www.miamidadegreenparty.org) and a member of the Green Party's
International Committee.

Mr. Malik helped organize a rally at the Federal Courthouse in Ft. Lauderdale
on Feb. 26 against US military intervention in Libya. This summer, he will
address the dangers of military intervention at a forum, entitled
"Self-Determination: Opportunities and Challenges" at Florida International
University.

See also: "The US and NATO must not intervene in Libya, say US Greens," press
release from the Green Party of the United States, March 8, 2011
(http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=399).


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

"AP Exclusive: Rebels want Gadhafi ousted, not dead"
Associated Press, March 21, 2011
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7484459.html

"Libya Oil Grab Disguised As Humanitarian Assistance: While others clamor for
a no-fly zone over Libya, the Libyan rebels themselves need to be heard"
The Wisdom Fund, March 8, 2011
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2011/0308-Oil.html

"African Union demands 'immediate' halt to Libya attacks"
Associated Press, March 21, 2011
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i-8HhcGv5ZC4Cfeq421M_omVVpvA

'GreenStream Wednesday': Weekly news and discussion on the Green Party's
Livestream channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~




From updates at cagreens.org  Fri Mar 25 17:41:48 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:41:48 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] NEWS RELEASE: Green Party of California attacks
 latest billion-dollar budget cuts
Message-ID: <4D8D364C.3050907@greens.org>







NEWS ADVISORY
Green Party of California
http://www.cagreens.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 24, 2011
	

Green Party of California attacks latest billion-dollar
budget cuts to poor, and elderly; Governor's action
called 'unconscionable' and lacking 'guts'

SACRAMENTO ? The Green Party of California attacked Gov. Brown's
slashing more than $11 billion from the state budget late Thursday,
calling the actions avoidable if only the Governor and the Legislature
had "guts."

Brown signed legislation approving higher community college fees,
eliminating Adult Day Health Care, and cutting monies from
welfare-to-work grants and First5 childhood development funds.

"The governor calls these cuts 'painful,' but he's not the one trying to
take care of a young child, or a frail, aging senior, or trying to pay
for an education at a community college," said Laura Wells, 2010 Green
Party candidate for Governor of California. "These cuts are
unconscionable."

"The governor said he 'had to do something,' so then why didn't he and
lawmakers have the guts to find a way to tax the very wealthy and
corporations who pay no tax in this state?" asked Wells.
"There are ways to do this, but they must have the will to do so."

Wells called the budget cuts a "tax the poor scheme, and said "while
prison budgets are being protected, the opportunities of the young for a
better education are cut."

   "Since the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, California budget
allocations have slighted education.
This is true at the preschool and K-12 grade levels, and in the area of
higher education as well. We will never have a quality educational
system until we provide adequate funding," she said.

"People have a growing sense of their own power as they witness ordinary
people - many of them young - take down an Egyptian dictator. They are
inspired by people in Wisconsin. People are beginning to see through
statements by lawmakers such as Gov. Brown who claim 'there are no
alternatives,' because there are," said Wells.

----


From updates at cagreens.org  Fri Apr  1 17:27:21 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:27:21 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Green law suit challenges the legitimacy
 of US Reps from five southern states
Message-ID: <4D966D69.8090102@greens.org>






GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Friday, April 1, 2011



Green civil action challenges the legitimacy of US Representatives from
southern states

? 'Winner take all' apportionment of presidential electors in Arkansas,
Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas is not grounded in law and violates
the 14th Amendment


WASHINGTON, DC -- A civil action filed by Green Party member Asa Gordon is
challenging the constitutional legitimacy of several US Representives from
southern states.

The civil action (Gordon et al v. Clerk, US House of Representatives,
1:11-cv-00003, filed Jan. 3, 2011), which is now pending before a US District
Court, seeks to enforce the US Constitution's malapportionment penalty (14th
Amendment, Section 2).

The Amendment mandates reduction of a state's presidential electors and
congressional Representatives ("the basis of representation therein shall be
reduced") if "the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for
President and Vice President of the United States... is denied... or in any
way abridged."

The civil action would enjoin the Clerk of the US House of Representatives
from recognizing the full slate of Representatives from "unbounded Southern
electoral states."  It requests that the court take judicial notice that
Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas are "unbound presidential
elector states."  After the November 2008 election, these 'unbounded' states
allocated their presidential electors on a 'winner take all' basis, even
though there exists no 'winner take all' election statute in their state
election laws.

"The 'winner take all' apportionment of electors in these states effectively
disenfranchised their citizens who voted for the presidential electors pledged
to any candidate with less than the popular majority vote," said Asa Gordon,
chair of the DC Statehood Green Party's Electoral College Task Force.  Mr.
Gordon can be reached by e-mail at Electorsus at aol.com or dignews at aol.com and
by phone at 202-635-7926.

"These southern states in particular awarded all of their unbounded
presidential electors on a 'winner take all' basis that isn't grounded in any
state or federal law.  In particular, they engaged in de-facto
disenfranchisement of those electors based on the votes of the states'
African-American citizens.  We're seeking either a temporary restraining order
or a preliminary injunction that would prohibit the Clerk of the US House from
including the full slate of unbounded electoral states' congressional
Representatives, which are subject to the malapportionment penalty in the 14th
Amendment to the US Constitution," said Mr. Gordon.

District Court Judge Henry H Kennedy Jr., in a hearing on the civil action's
request for a temporary restraining order on Jan. 4, said, "Mr. Gordon raises
some weighty issues having to do with the consequences or results of an
electoral system where a minority, a minority number of votes are not
recognized, that is when there is a winner-take-all system."

The civil action notes that Section 2 the 14th Amendment requires that
unbounded southern states allocate their presidential electors in proportion
to the popular vote split or suffer the federal statutory mandate to reduce
the states' representatives in Congress.  The 'winner take all' allocation of
electors triggers the malapportionment penalty in Section 2, as implemented by
the "Reduction of Representation" federal statute Section 6 of Title 2 of the
US Code.  This statute creates a remedy for the abridgment in the right "to
vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and
Vice-President of the United States."

"The original intent of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment -- sometimes called
the Reconstruction Amendment -- as implemented by the federal statute was to
place a ruinous penalty on those former confederate states that would effect
'minority vote dilution.'  It took over a century to enforce properly Section
1 of the 14th Amendment.  Let us not allow another century to pass before
enforcing Section 2," said Mr. Gordon.

"The de facto disqualification of legitimate votes in many southern states is
as much an outrage as the irregularities in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio and
other states in 2004 that changed the outcome of presidential elections," said
Darryl L.C. Moch,  member of the DC Statehood Green Party and the Green Party
Black Caucus (http://www.gp.org/caucuses/black/index.php).  "It's also
consistent with the obstructions imposed by many states on alternative party
and independent candidates on the extra-legal assumption that only two parties
deserve recognition."

In earlier civil action, Gordon v. Cheney/Biden (1/28/2008-10), Mr. Gordon
addressed Electoral College malapportionment (see Green Party press releases:
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=275).  The current action addresses
the malapportionment of Congress.

A letter to House Speaker John Boehner from the DC Statehood Green Party
proposed that the Speaker form a House Committee of Congressional Legitimacy
to study and recommend House rules and procedures to ensure that, in the
current and subsequent sessions of Congress, all US Representatives are in
full compliance with the Constitution and the US Code.  In a companion letter
to the Honorable Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the US House, the DC Statehood Green
Party requested that the Clerk advise the party on how the Office of the Clerk
views its responsibility in this matter.  The party specifically requested
information regarding House procedures for recognizing members from any state
that may be subject to the Constitution's "Reduction of Representation"
mandate and the requirements of the US Code.

Two Louisiana voters have filed a Motion to Intervene as co-plaintiffs in
Gordon et al. v. Clerk, US House, with a plea to "permit the Intervenors to
adopt the existing pleadings, briefs and legal arguments by Plaintiffs". In
response, the Defendant replied to the court that the Defendant "takes no
position on the Motion to Intervene as Co-Plaintiffs" taking exception that
the Intervenors have not been ?given an unconditional right to intervene by a
federal statute.?

All court pleadings, videos, press releases and essays are available at
http://www.electors.us

See also "Democratize The Electoral College," Atlanta Daily World, Feb. 17,
2010
(http://www.atlantadailyworld.com/articles/2010/02/22/viewpoints/doc4b7afa734a47e762104017.prt)
and the following sites:
? http://www.nomorestolenelections.org/news/gordon_democratize_electoral_college
? http://www.democracysquare.org/news/gordon_democratize_electoral_college

Green Party press releases
? "Greens launch effort against Electoral College manipulation of presidential
elections" (August 5, 2008) http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=85
? "Greens: Enforce 14th Amendment's 'Right to Vote' Provision" (October 18,
2004) http://www.gp.org/press/pr_10_18_04.html


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

'GreenStream Wednesday': News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream
channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Apr 14 20:48:59 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:48:59 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Greens: Emerging budget deal fulfills GOP
 plan to dismantle gov't, destroy the social safety net
Message-ID: <4DA7C02B.1070901@greens.org>







GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, April 13, 2011



Greens: Emerging deal on the federal budget fulfills GOP plan to dismantle
government and destroy the social safety net

? Obama's retreat from promises of change led to the Democrats' sell-out and a
battle to save Social Security, Medicare, collective bargaining, public
broadcasting, the EPA, scientific research, and Planned Parenthood

? Greens blast Obama's proposed $1 trillion cut in Medicare and Medicaid and
the budget deal's 'tyrannical' policies imposed on the District of Columbia,
including denial of funds for abortion


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders urged President Obama to expand his goal
of raising taxes on the wealthiest tax brackets, and insisted that the key to
dealing with the deficit is reversing tax cuts for the wealthy, even greater
reductions in military spending, and ending the wars.  Greens strongly
rejected the President's proposal on Wednesday for $1 trillion in cuts to
Medicare and Medicaid.

? Farheen Hakeem, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States:  "The
Green Party calls for withdrawal of troops and a halt to US military
operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Iraq; an overall cut in
military spending of at least 50%; and cancellation of the $900 billion in tax
cuts for the rich enacted six months ago, with a requirement that corporations
and the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share.  These actions would
quickly solve the federal deficit.  It's obvious that Republicans are seeking
to dismantle government, to satisfy regulation-hating corporate lobbies and
false populists in the Tea Party whose agenda would destroy the infrastructure
of democracy.  Democrats, led by President Obama, have marched into the budget
debate armed with a willingness to capitulate.  This pattern will continue as
long as Democrats and Republicans remain each others' sole competition."

? Laura Wells, 2010 Green candidate for Governor of California:  "Last
Friday's 11th-hour postponement agreement opened up a chance to keep the
social safety net in place and maintain investments in America's future.
Unfortunately, Democratic leaders are continuing to compromise with
Republicans, with virtually no consideration of the effect that the budget
will have on low-income and unemployed Americans or future generations.
President Obama's promise of change has turned into a battle to save Social
Security, Medicare, Medicaid, collective bargaining, public broadcasting, the
EPA, scientific research, and Planned Parenthood.  Top Democrats are willing
to place these necessities on the chopping block, helping the GOP make federal
government a wholly owned subsidiary of the US Chamber of Commerce.  By
rejecting single-payer and incorporating mandates in their 'historic' health
care bill, Democrats set the stage for the Republican plan to slash
  Medicare and Medicaid, even before the bill would go into effect."

? Audrey Clement, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States:
"Republicans describe the wealthy beneficiaries of their draconian budget
cuts, tax giveaways, and deregulation schemes as 'job creators'.  In reality
they are corporate welfare addicts.  In light of the GOP's attempt to abolish
EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by corporate polluters, we might
also call them 'global catastrophe creators'."

Greens were especially critical of language in the budget deal that would
impose Republican policies on the District of Columbia, outlawing the use of
federal or local funds for abortion for low-income women or for needle exchange:

? Alan Page, DC Statehood Green Party candidate for At-Large City Council in
the April 26 special election (http://alanpagedc.com):  "The White House and
Congress have fulfilled Newt Gingrich's dream of making the District a
'laboratory' for Republican policies.  Congress has a long history of forcing
unwanted laws on DC and vetoing locally passed statutes.  After the 2008
election, President Obama and Democrats in Congress refused to act on their
ability to end this outrage by granting DC statehood, even though the result
would very likely have been a new Democratic vote in the House and two new
Democratic votes in the Senate.  During the past decade, while the DC
Statehood Green Party and other local advocates of DC democracy demanded
statehood, Democrats led by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Sen. Joe
Lieberman (Ind.-Conn.) campaigned for a bill that would have given DC a single
voting seat in the US House but would not have abolished federal
  control over DC laws, policies, and budgets.  The 'DC Vote' bill served only
to eclipse the far greater need for genuine self-government and an end to
Congress's tyrannical rule over the District.  Under the continuing resolution
passed on Friday, DC residents will suffer the brunt of the Democrats' lack of
political will."


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

"Mr. President: Why Medicare Isn?t the Problem, It?s the Solution"
By Robert Reich, April 13, 2011
http://robertreich.org/post/4559031328

"Budget compromise will cut education and science research, but not defense"
By Ryan Witt, Examiner.com, April 5, 2011
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/budget-compromise-will-cut-education-and-science-research-but-not-defense

"Free DC! The Obama Inauguration and a New Chance for Democracy in Our
Nation's Capital"
By Scott McLarty, OpEdNews.com, January 17, 2009
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Free-DC--The-Obama-Inaugu-by-Scott-McLarty-090115-146.html

'GreenStream Wednesday': News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream
channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~




From updates at cagreens.org  Fri Apr 22 18:55:26 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:55:26 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE: Greens to Obama & Congress on Earth Day:
 Get serious about global warming, clean energy
Message-ID: <4DB2318E.20808@greens.org>






GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Friday, April 22, 2011


On Earth Day, the Green Party urges the US to get serious about global
warming, clean energy, and transition to a carbon-free, nuclear-free economy

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on ecological
sustainability, global warming, and population
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-ecological.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- On Earth Day 2011, Green Party leaders called on the White
House and Congress to provide strong leadership on fighting global climate
change and converting the US to safe and clean energy.

"It's time to replace the ideology of unlimited growth with a set of
principles based on sustainable use of land and resources.  We need to keep
alive the ecosystems that support life on our planet.  We need to make access
to fresh water a human right instead of a privatized commodity.  We need
energy policies that address our dangerously high rates of consumption and the
threat of a climate catastrophe before the end of the 21st century.  And we
need democratic reforms that limit the power of major corporations, which have
too often fought measures to protect the earth's delicate ecological balance
and provide for human needs," said David McCorquodale, treasurer of the Green
Party of Delaware.  (See Mr. McCorquodale's guest column "Renewables, not
nuclear power, are the way forward," Delaware Online, April 11, 2011,
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110411/OPINION07/104110316/Renewables-not-nuclear-power-way-forward)

Green Party Agenda on Energy

? Creation of millions of new jobs in conservation, safe and clean energy
cultivation, and retrofitting buildings: President Obama has not followed
through on his promise of new jobs in these fields.

? Incentives, legislation, and reforms to provide renewable energy
technologies (solar, wind, geo-thermal, marine, and other clean renewable
sources) and encourage their use, combined with enactment of a progressive
carbon tax and rebate in the form of a graduated refundable tax credit, with
the goal of a carbon-free economy.

? Replacement of car traffic with energy-efficient mass transportation.

? Absolute limits on greenhouse gas emissions, under a strong international
climate treaty under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change.  President Obama and Congress must do far better than the US offer,
during the Copenhagen talks, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4% below
1990 levels.  Greens favor a minimum 40% reduction by 2020 and 95% reduction
by 2050, over 1990 levels.

? No more false solutions: Carbon emissions trading schemes ("cap and trade"),
which allow polluting companies to trade licenses to pollute, are full of
loopholes and ineffective at curbing global climate change.

? No more subsidies and tax breaks for fossil-fuel industries; no more
off-shore drilling contracts: The problem isn't just dependence on foreign
oil, it's the addiction to fossil fuels regardless of their source, say
Greens, who point to last year's BP-Deepwater Horizon disaster as a warning of
the risks of oil consumption.

? No nuclear power: The tsunami that devastated parts of Japan in March
exposed the dangers of nuclear energy, which no private company will invest in
without billions in publicly funded subsidies and loan guarantees.  President
Obama's plans to build new nuclear plants on the taxpayers' dime are a
concession to powerful corporate lobbies that want to reap high profits while
forcing the public to assume the high cost and extreme liabilities of nuclear
energy.  Existing nuclear plants must be phased out and the 20-year license
extension granted for aging reactors must be rescinded, say Greens.  More:
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=401

? An end to mountaintop removal mining: The detonation of mountaintops has
wreaked untold destruction on the natural environment and posed a massive
threat to public health, through contamination of water and other resources in
several states.  Greens have called West Virginia "ground zero" for global
warming in the US.

? An end to hydrofracking. Water supplies and landscapes are endangered when
millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals are forced through
shale formations to release natural gas.  More:
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog/?p=2440

? No biofuels subsidies that promote the burning of crops and forests and
support the expansion of genetically engineered plants and trees to feed
large-scale biomass burners.  The corn-to-ethanol scam already consumes 2/5 of
US corn production and has aggravated the global food crisis.  More:
http://www.pfpi.net


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

2010 Platform of the Green Party of the United States, section on Ecological
Sustainability: http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/ecology.php

Green Party Eco-Action Committee http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/index.php

"Greens call for a new kind of national defense: defense against catastrophic
climate change"
Green Party press release, August 6, 2010
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=336

Earth Day Release from the Green Party of New York, April 22, 2011
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-state.php?ID=416

'GreenStream Wednesday': News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream
channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~



From updates at cagreens.org  Tue May  3 19:13:15 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 19:13:15 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GPCA RELEASE: Green Party urging immediate closure
 of nuclear power plants
Message-ID: <4DC0B63B.8020604@greens.org>







Green Party of California makes major announcement Tuesday urging immediate
closure of nuclear power plants at Diablo Canyon, San Onofre to 'promote
safety' for humans, state

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS RELEASE

SAN FRANCISCO (May 2, 2011) - The Green Party of California - the state's only
ballot-qualified environmental political party - said it will make a major
announcement Tuesday regarding closing the state's power plants at Diablo
Canyon and San Onofre.

A news conference will be held Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. at PG&E, 1 Market Plaza in
San Francisco.

The Greens, meeting at their statewide convention this past weekend, approved
a resolution calling for the "immediate closure and decommissioning of the
state's nuclear power plants at Diablo Canyon and San Onofre... to promote the
safety of all Californians and our fellow living beings, and to protect our
natural environment."

The Green Party noted the "Fukushima nuclear power plant catastrophe in Japan
is a wakeup call for all Californians that this energy source is neither safe
nor sustainable...The entire nuclear power life cycle is already fraught with
inherent risk and is multiplied by the possibility of human error."

In a recent letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Senators Barbara
Boxer and Dianne Feinstein noted that "roughly 424,000 live within 50 miles of
the Diablo Canyon and 7.4 million live within 50 miles of the San Onofre
Nuclear Generating Station."

Full details of the Green Party's resolution, and a background report will be
released at the news briefing.

-30-


The Green Party of California
PO Box 2828
Sacramento, CA 95812
Phone: (916) 448-3437
Web: http://www.cagreens.org
EMail: gpca at greens.org


From updates at cagreens.org  Wed May  4 18:00:16 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 18:00:16 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE: US Greens congratulate Elizabeth May,
 first Green elected to Canadian Parliament
Message-ID: <4DC1F6A0.3030305@greens.org>









GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, May 4, 2011



US Greens congratulate Elizabeth May, first Green elected to Canadian Parliament

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on foreign policy:
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- US Greens enthusiastically congratulated Elizabeth May and
the Green Party of Canada (http://greenparty.ca) on Ms. May's election victory
on May 2, in which she made Canadian history by becoming her country's first
Green member of Parliament.

Ms. May's election comes a year after Caroline Lucas was elected as the first
Green member of the British Parliament.  She will represent the Saanich-Gulf
Islands, British Columbia, in Canada's House of Commons.

On May 4, the International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl) of
the Green Party of the United States sent the following letter to Ms. May:


Elizabeth May, Leader
Green Party of Canada

Dear Elizabeth,

On behalf of the Green Party of the United States, we heartily congratulate
you and Canadian Greens on your historic election to Parliament.  We also
recognize the enormous effort you and your party have made over many years,
persevering to reach this victory. http://www.gp.org/index.php

As we labor under a similar "winner-takes-all" system in the US, your win
gives us hope for a future Green victory at the federal government level here.

Also, we take this joyous occasion to recall the collaborative efforts the US
and Canadian Greens have made in the past, such as our 2008 joint teach-in in
Ottawa opposing the US/Canadian/Mexican  "Security and Prosperity Partnership"
(SPP).  We look forward to more of this cooperation and to our joint work in
the Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas. (FPVA).

Again, congratulations to you and all your Green colleagues.

Justine McCabe
Marian Douglas-Ungaro
Co-Chairs, International Committee
Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org/committees/intl/


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

"May breaks through as first Green MP"
The Montreal Gazette, May 3, 2011
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/decision-canada/breaks+through+first+Green/4715011/story.html

'GreenStream Wednesday': News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream
channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Wed May 25 19:01:25 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 19:01:25 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Greens oppose 'Via Verde' gas pipeline in
	Puerto Rico
Message-ID: <4DDDB475.1040104@greens.org>






GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org


Green Party supports protesters opposing massive 'Via Verde' gas pipeline
through Puerto Rico

? Puerto Rico's colonial status must be replaced with self-determination and
independence, say Greens

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on ecological
sustainability and global warming:
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-ecological.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party has joined Puerto Ricans protesting a
proposal by Gov. Luis Fortu?o to construct a huge natural gas pipeline that
would endanger Puerto Rico's communities and ecosystems.  Green Party leaders
said that the problem of Puerto Rico's high electric bills and dirty air from
burning oil must be resolved through alternative energy instead of burning
another fossil fuel.

"Everything about the project is wrong, beginning with Gov. Fortu?o's
Orwellian name for the pipeline -- the 'Green Way' [Via Verde].  A pipeline
that threatens people living nearby and damages green mountains is not green,
by any stretch.  The top contract for the $450 million pipeline has been
awarded to a company with no experience constructing pipelines.  It's a
corrupt deal to benefit a favored corporation," said Rosa Clemente, the Green
Party's 2008 nominee for Vice President.  Ms. Clemente is Puerto Rican.

The contractor, Gas Natural de Puerto Rico, is also seeking tax exemption,
while the bill for the pipeline will be covered by Puerto Rican taxpayers
("Pide exenci?n contributiva al Gobierno," Perla del Sur,
http://www.periodicolaperla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2585:pide-exencion-contributiva-futuro-usuario-del-gasoducto-del-norte&catid=81:locales&Itemid=198).

For more information on the serious risks of the pipeline, see "Casa Pueblo:
scientific paper on the pipeline," RedBetances.com (in Spanish)
(http://www.redbetances.com/component/content/article/51-en-portada/390-casa-pueblo-html).

"Puerto Rico's colonial status makes it especially vulnerable to the kind of
corporate influence, official corruption, and disregard for the well-being of
residents and the environment in evidence now with the pipeline proposal.
Puerto Ricans were also forced to accept weapons testing by the US Navy on the
island of Vieques, until widespread protests shut down the firing range in
2003.  The Green Party supports the efforts of Puerto Ricans to stop this
misnamed gas pipeline, and we support self-determination, independence, and
democratic sovereignty for the people of Puerto Rico," said Michael Canney,
Florida Green and member of the Green Party's International Committee
(http://www.gp.org/committees/intl).

Green Party leaders said that the Puerto Rico's energy problems must be solved
by diversifying energy sources (excluding nuclear power), aggressive energy
conservation and efficiency, and finding ways to reduce the island's reliance
on expensive fossil fuels.  The top priority, in Puerto Rico and throughout
the world, must be protection of the health of humans, other living beings,
and ecosystems and action to curb the advance of global warming.

On May 9, the Jacksonville office of the US Army Corps of Engineers, in an
unprecedented move, removed all documents related to the permitting process
for the Via Verde pipeline from the Corps' San Juan office and transferred
jurisdiction to Florida.
(http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&&note_id=118899578193054&id=109915969091415)
  This decision leaves the San Juan Office, which has spent six months
evaluating the project, without jurisdiction.  It also distances the people of
Puerto Rico from the permitting process.  Greens urge the US Army Corps of
Engineers to return jurisdiction to its Puerto Rico office, and to decline
approval for the project.

"While Gov. Fortu?o is promoting Via Verde, President Obama is calling for
expanded domestic drilling for oil, with more drilling in Alaska, Atlantic
coastal areas, and the Gulf of Mexico.  The problem isn't just dependence on
foreign oil, as the President seems to think.  The problem is the US's
addiction to fossil fuels regardless of their source, with a US energy policy
driven by corporate greed rather than the public interest.  Increased drilling
and new pipelines are insane in the context of climate change and last year's
BP oil spill disaster," said Hector Lopez, Connecticut Green and member of the
International Committee.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

"Shedding Light on Puerto Rico's Gasoducto Project" (collection of documents
related to the project)
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.)
http://www.gutierrez.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=662&Itemid=73

"Massive pipeline proposed by island?s governor triggers fierce debate"
The Washington Post, May 14, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/massive-pipeline-proposed-by-islands-governor-triggers-fierce-debate/2011/05/14/AFaatU3G_story.html

"Dozens of organizations support protest against the pipeline"
El Vocero, April 30, 2011 (in Spanish)
http://www.vocero.com/noticias-es/decenas-de-organizaciones-respaldan-manifestacion-contra-el-gasoducto

"V?a Verde being rushed through, says Sierra Club; People should have a say in
the process, say environmentalists"
Puerto Rico Daily Sun, October 13, 2010
http://www.prdailysun.com/news/Va-Verde-being-rushed-through-says-Sierra-Club

"Obama vows to expand oil production"
Agence France-Presse, May 14, 2011
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/14/obama-vows-to-expand-oil-production

Green Party Platform: Puerto Rican Independence
http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/democracy.php#307680

'GreenStream Wednesday': News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream
channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~



From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Jun  2 15:58:23 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:58:23 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] Single-Payer Health Care Conference in Southern CA
Message-ID: <4DE8158F.8000001@greens.org>



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Please join us!
Date: 	Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:39:40 -0700
From: 	Molly Tavella <molly at pnhpcalifornia.org>
To: 	gpca at cagreens.org



Dear California Green Party,

Physicians for a National Health Program California is having our 2nd annual
California Single-Payer Health Care Summer Conference at USC's Tutor Campus
Center Ballroom on Saturday, July 16th, 2011 from 9am - 5pm.

*Summer Conference 2011 is designed to teach attendees about just, guaranteed,
comprehensive health care for ALL who live in California. We are gearing this
conference toward professionals working in health, policy, advocacy,
education, and organizing arenas. *

This year's conference will feature Dr. Carmen Rita Nevarez, Immediate Past
President, American Public Health Association as our keynote speaker, plus
three Leadership Institutes that will help you develop your skills to build
the movement through public speaking, coalition building or grassroots advocacy.

Ticket prices are on a sliding scale, and people who are "new to the movement"
receive a discount.

*For more information and to register, go to*
healthisahumanright.eventbrite.com
<http://healthcareisahumanright.eventbrite.com/>. Please also download our
flyer here
<http://pnhpcalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/SummerConferenceFLYER1.pdf>.

Please help us spread the word!

If your organization would like to sponsor this event, you can download our
sponsorship form here
<http://pnhpcalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Summer-Conference-Sponsorship.pdf>.

Hope you can join us this summer in Los Angeles. If you have any questions,
please feel free to contact me.

Thanks,

Molly Tavella, MPH
Shearer Student Fellow
Physicians for a National Health Program California
2344 6th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 665-8523 office
(408) 892-1255 mobile
(510) 665-6027 fax
molly at pnhpcalifornia.org <mailto:molly at pnhpcalifornia.org>
www.cahpsa.org <http://www.cahpsa.org>

/America: We're #1 in health spending! #37 in health.../







From updates at cagreens.org  Sun Jun  5 13:14:48 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:14:48 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] California event for Signs: Cars and Capitalism on
 the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
Message-ID: <4DEBE3B8.2010207@greens.org>








-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	California event for Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to
Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
Date: 	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:21:54 +0000
From: 	Yves Engler <yvesengler at hotmail.com>



Dear California Greens, from June 12 to 19 I will be in California promoting
my just released /Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic,
Social and Ecological Decay/. There are events set for LA on June 12 & 14 as
well as San Fran & San Jose for June 18 & 19. I would like to set up events
for the other days and was wondering if you would be interested in organizing
a small last minute event or know of a bike shop/cafe or bookstore that might.
Even a small event at a local cafe or bookstore would be appreciated. I'm
travelling with a two-month all you can travel Greyhound pass so travel costs
have already been spent.

Below is the about the book, blurbs and some reviews.

Thanks
Yves
http://stopsigns.fairtrademedia.com/

Here are 5 recent Stop Signs reviews from Canada's largest circulation daily,
US based counterpunch.org and dissidentvoice.org as well as Canada's widest
read left-wing website and Carbusters magazine

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/994312--salutin-rob-ford-versus-the-anti-carriors


http://www.counterpunch.org/thomson05202011.html
http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2011/05/stop-signs-cars-and-capitalism
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/05/steering-away-from-car-culture/
http://carbusters.org/2011/05/30/stop-signs-cars-and-capitalism/

In North America, human beings have become enthralled by the automobile: A
quarter of our working lives are spent paying for them; communities fight each
other for the right to build more of them; our cities have been torn down,
remade and planned with their needs as the overriding concern; wars are fought
to keep their fuel tanks filled; songs are written to praise them; cathedrals
are built to worship them. In Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to
Economic, Social and Ecological Decay, authors Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi
argue that the automobile's ascendance is inextricably linked to capitalism
and involved corporate malfeasance, political intrigue, backroom payoffs,
media manipulation, racism, academic corruption, third world coups, secret
armies, environmental destruction and war. An anti-car, road-trip story, Stop
Signs is a unique must-read for all those who wish to escape the clutches of
auto insanity.

"Mugyenyi and Engler's Stop Signs is at one and the same time an entertaining,
fact-filled anthropological tour of the land of Homo Automomotivis, and the
first all-out global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction.
Not since Jane Holtz Kay's Asphalt Nation has a book appeared that so clearly
exposed the auto-irrationality of the most car-dependent country on earth."
John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review and co-author, The Ecological Rift

"This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the impact of the
private automobile on our urban transportation options."
David Cadman, Vancouver City Councillor, International President ICLEI-Local
Governments for Sustainability

"In Stop Signs, Mugyenyi and Engler take readers on an insightful, fact-filled
journey through the primary habitat of the car-dominated species they call
Homo automotivis. With wit and originality, they weave travel tales into a
convincing argument against the auto economy, culminating with a fresh call to
leave car culture behind."
Katie Alvord, Author, Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
"Mugyenyi and Engler illustrate the relationship between cars and suburban
living. You come away shaken, but ready to roll up your sleeves and
contribute, however modestly, to constructing a new world in the twenty-first
century."
Richard Bergeron, Montreal city councilor, urban planner and author

Yves Engler has four published books including The Black Book of Canadian
Foreign Policy (Shortlisted for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non Fiction in the
Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards)

Bianca Mugyenyi was born in Uganda in 1980 and came to Canada as a child.
Mugyenyi spent parts of her youth in Swaziland, Kenya and England. She is the
former chair of the Canadian Federation of Students- Quebec and coordinates
campaigns at Concordia University's Centre for Gender Advocacy


From updates at cagreens.org  Wed Jun  8 19:18:36 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:18:36 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Greens urge Obama to reverse decision to
 shun Durban III antiracism conference
Message-ID: <4DF02D7C.2020801@greens.org>








GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, June 8, 2011



Greens urge Obama to reverse decision to shun the third World Conference
against Racism

? US Greens will attend the conference


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders urged President Obama to reverse his
decision to withdraw from participation in the third World Conference against
Racism ("Durban III").

The conference, sponsored by the United Nations, will take place in New York
City on September 22, 2011, marking the tenth anniversary of the first World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related
Intolerance in 2001, which was held in Durban, South Africa.  The Obama
Administration has cited widespread anger against Israel and the US at past
conferences, perceived to be antisemitic and anti-American, as the reason for
the withdrawal.

"2011 is both the International Year of Afrodescendants and the 150th
anniversary of the beginning of the US Civil War.  As such, it is vitally
important the United States of America have an official presence at Durban
III, to join an open discussion with the rest of the world on racism and how
to end it; racism here in the USA, as well as in other countries," said Marian
Douglas-Ungaro, co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee
(http://www.gp.org/committees/intl/) and a member of the Green Party Black
Caucus (http://www.gp.org/caucuses/black/index.php).

"Any statement expressing religious or ethnic intolerance or incitement to
hatred against the Jewish people deserves swift condemnation. But the U.S. and
other western countries have often interpreted legitimate criticism of the
state of Israel, which has maintained its brutal and illegal occupation of
Palestinian lands and internal apartheid, as 'antisemitic'.  They've used this
thinly-veiled excuse to withdraw from the Durban conferences to avoid
situations where certain rights-violating policies would face scrutiny and
criticism on the world stage," said Muhammed Malik, Co-Chair of the Miami-Dade
Green Party (http://miamidadegreenparty.org/) and former Racial Justice and
Voting Rights Projects Associate at the ACLU Florida.  Mr. Malik recently
spoke about racial justice as a panelist on the opening plenary of the Rights
Working Group's Southeastern Regional Conference and is organizing a rally at
the Israeli Consulate in Miami in support of
  Palestinian rights and the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza (http://ustogaza.org).

Greens said that the White House has avoided the Durban conferences also
because of the failure of the US to address internal racial inequality,
including continuing economic disparities and disadvantages suffered by people
of color (such as the disproportionate loss of black families' homes during
the recent sub-prime mortgage crisis), the unaddressed call for reparations
for the descendants of slavery, harassment and deportation of undocumented
immigrants, the targeting of people of color in the War on Drugs, and record
incarceration rates, with black, brown, poor, and young people locked up to
feed the for-profit private prison industry.

Referring to Attorney General Eric Holder's recent announcement that he will
authorize the release of 5,500 federal prisoners to begin correcting
sentencing disparities between crack and cocaine offenders, Green Party
co-chair Theresa El-Amin said, "In this International Year of People of
African Descent it's beyond disappointing that the Obama Administration lifts
a release of [only] 5,500 for nonviolent drug offenses when there are 2.4
million incarcerated in the United States.  The fact that the majority of the
2.4 million are people of color makes the 5,500 release a non-event. The US is
number one in the whole world in incarceration rates.  China, which is four
times more populous than the US, is a distant second with 1.6 million people
in prison.  The US pulling out of the Durban process is simply unacceptable."

Ms. El-Amin, who plans to attend Durban III, was one of several human rights
activists who participated in a special White House conference call briefing
on Thursday, June 2.  During the briefing, White House official Samantha
Powers explained that the US delegation to the UN would withdraw from Durban
III and cited "Israel" when asked why, drawing several statements of
disappointment by other participants before the White House abruptly
terminated the call.

Greens, including 2008 Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney, have
participated in the first World Conference against Racism in 2001 and the
second meeting ("Durban Review Conference") in Geneva in 2009, both of which
the US shunned.  On August 8, 2001, the Green Party issued a strongly worded
resolution on the withdrawal (http://www.gp.org/press/pr_08_13_01.html).


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

UN: One-day plenary event on the 10th anniversary of the World Conference
against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intorelance
http://www.un.org/events/calendar/Edetail.asp?EventID=1976&BeginDate=9/22/2011

2001 World Conference against Racism (UN site)
http://www.un.org/WCAR/

US Human Rights Network
http://www.ushrnetwork.org

'GreenStream Wednesday': News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream
channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~



From updates at cagreens.org  Sat Jun 11 19:20:42 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:20:42 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] LIVE: Kent Mesplay,
 1st announced Green Pres. Candidate, Monday, June 13 on GreenStream (fwd)
Message-ID: <4DF4227A.2040506@greens.org>









LIVE Video - GreenStream GPUS-TV
Kent Mesplay the 1st announced Green Party Presidential Candidate
Monday June 13, 9pm EDT

Link to watch the live interview on Monday
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

You'll be able live text chat with each other and ask questions of the candidate.

Please Tweet, post on Facebook, post on your webpages and blogs, forward this
email to fellow activists.

Starlene Rankin and Craig Seeman
Green Party of the US - GreenStream Producers

Facebook announcement: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156864317717558
Dr. Kent P. Mesplay, Green Power to The People 2012 Presidential Campaign
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_215329371832240

Dr. Kent P. Mesplay's bio

WASHINGTON, DC ? The Green Party?s online livestream show ?GreenStream? will
feature Dr. Kent P. Mesplay, the party?s first announced presidential
candidate for 2012 Monday evening, June 13, 9:00 pm ET, 6:00 pm PT. Native
American, Biological Engineering Scientist and Green Party leader Dr. Mesplay
will focus on the key issues he plans to bring to his Green Power to The
People, including liberating America from the Corporationists, Sustainability
equals Security and Civil Rights for All, including native peoples and
immigrants. He writes he is running for so many of the common people he's met
and that ?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, the one-hour show will present Green news, interviews,
video clips, and viewer participation.

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 GP 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
including Wisconsin Green Party actions against Gov. Scott Walker?s outrages,
Green responses to the Bin Laden assasination, Aftermath of the BP Ecodisaster
in the Gulf and Rachel Treichler on the harmful process of  Hydrofracking.




From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Jun 16 19:36:27 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:36:27 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP ADVISORY Green Party's 2011 Annual National
 Meeting: Aug. 5-7 at Green Fest in Alfred, NY
Message-ID: <4DFABDAB.7040803@greens.org>









GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org
Hillary Kane, co-chair of the Annual National Meeting Committee, 267-971-3559,
hillarya at pobox.upenn.edu


Green Party to hold its 2011 Annual National Meeting August 5-7 at Green Fest
in Alfred, western New York

? Greens begin planning for the 2012 elections, including the presidential race

? Theme of the meeting: "Building a Green Economy -- No War. No Coal. No Gas.
No Nukes."


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States will hold its 2011
Annual National Meeting at Alfred University in Alfred in western New York,
from Friday, August 5 to Sunday, August 7.

The meeting will take place at the fourth bienniel New York Green Fest, "a
gathering of folks interested in exploring the politics and practices that
will help enable us to live in a sustainable world, and sharing a weekend of
good discussions, good food, and good music" (http://nygreenfest.org).

"We look forward to meeting in New York, where the Green Party of New York
State regained ballot status in 2010 with Howie Hawkin's Green campaign for
governor," said Jason Nabewaniec, co-chair of the Green Party of the United
States and a New York Green.

Green Party leaders will begin organizing for the 2012 election season,
including the presidential race.  The party will nominate a candidate for the
White House at its 2012 national convention.  The 2011 meeting in Alfred will
also feature Green Party panels, workshops, meetings of the Green National
Committee, and other events.

The meeting is open to the media and public.  Press conferences will feature
Green candidates for public office from across the US, with a special press
conference on Friday, August 6, for women candidates hosted by the party's
Women Caucus (http://www.gp.org/caucuses/women/index.php).

Alfred is about 80 miles from Rochester and 90 miles from Buffalo.  For
directions to Alfred University and Green Fest, see this web page:
http://nygreenfest.org/directions.html

More information about the Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting will be
announced in the coming weeks.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting / New York Green Fest
http://nygreenfest.org
? Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-Green-Fest/71141014224
? Alfred University http://www.alfred.edu
? Green Party of New York State http://www.web.gpnys.com
? Directions http://nygreenfest.org/directions.html
? Green Party Annual National Meeting Committee
http://www.gp.org/committees/anmc/index.php

GreenStream Live: News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~



From updates at cagreens.org  Wed Jun 22 19:19:53 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:19:53 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Greens: US must support the Gaza-bound
 Freedom Flotilla aid boats, press Israel to end blockade
Message-ID: <4E02A2C9.5020704@greens.org>







GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, June 22, 2011


Green Party: The US must support the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla aid boats,
press Israel to end the blockade

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on foreign policy and
peace
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-peace.php

? Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting / New York Green Fest, Aug. 5-7
in Alfred, New York http://nygreenfest.org


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders today called on the US State Department
to support the Gaza Aid Flotilla, and to cease defending and assisting
Israel's maritime blockade.

"The US should end its shameful complicity in the brutal siege on Gaza and
pressure Israel to end its illegal collective punishment which has cost
thousands of civilian lives in Gaza.  The U.S. State Department should
denounce the Israeli Navy's threat to use snipers and attack dogs against the
'Audacity of Hope' and other Freedom Flotilla II aid boats as intimidation
tactics which clearly signal Israel's willingness to, once again, violate
human rights and humanitarian law," said Muhammed Malik, co-chair of
Miami-Dade Green Party (http://miamidadegreenparty.org) and a member of the
Green Party's International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl).
Mr. Malik recently co-organized a rally near the Israeli Consulate in Miami in
support of Palestinian rights and the Freedom Flotilla II.

The Green Party of the United States has supported the Freedom Flotillas to
Gaza (http://ustogaza.org), including the May 2010 fleet of humanitarian aid
ships that were attacked by Israel in international waters near Cyprus which
left 9 human rights activists dead and at least 50 wounded
(http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=321).  In July 2009, Cynthia
McKinney, a former US Representative from Georgia and the Green Party's 2008
presidential nominee, was one of 21 human rights activists on board the Free
Gaza relief boat seized by the Israeli navy in international waters when it
tried to deliver medical and other humanitarian aid to Gaza in June 2009, in
the wake of Israel's invasion of Gaza.  Ms. McKinney and the other activists
were held in an Israeli jail for several days.

The flotilla will begin its next voyage on or around June 24 with
approximately 60 passengers, including Alice Walker, author of 'The Color
Purple'; Col. Ann Wright, who resigned from the State Dept. in 2003 in protest
of President Bush's invasion of Iraq; Hedy Epstein, a Holocaust survivor; many
other peace activists and journalists.

"The State Department has called the Gaza aid boats 'provocative' -- and this
is entirely correct.  By delivering humanitarian aid to Gazans, the Freedom
Flotilla is undertaking a nonviolent, courageous, and justifiable act of
defiance to provoke international outrage over Israel's actions in Gaza.  The
aid boats are calling attention to Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian
lands, murderous treatment of Palestinian people, displacement of Palestinian
families from their homes, and internal apartheid.  The US must cut off all
military aid to Israel until the Israeli government reverses its current
policies," said Justine McCabe, co-chair of the Green Party's International
Committee.

The Green Party of the US has called for boycott, divestment, and sanctions
against Israel until it complies with international law and UN directives,
ends the occupation of Palestinian lands, and observes full and equal human
rights for Palestinians, including the right of return.

Greens leaders have urged support for Palestinian and Israeli peace groups and
called for an end to all violence targeted at unarmed civilians, insisting
that regional stability and security for all the people of Israel and
Palestine are not possible until peaceful negotiation resolves the conflict.

The Green Party has condemned Israel's persecution of Palestinian peace
activists, including the 2011 arrest of Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh
(http://qumsiyeh.org), former associate professor of genetics at Yale
University and member of the Green Party of Connecticut before he moved back
to Palestine (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=307).

Greens expressed fear that peaceful resolution may be less likely after
Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that Palestinians recognize
Israel as a "Jewish state"
(http://www.haaretz.com/news/netanyahu-demands-palestinians-recognize-jewish-state-1.274207),
which drew no protest from the White House.  Contrary to Mr. Netanyahu's
demand and President Obama's uncritical support for it, Israel-Palestine has
always been multicultural, with Palestinians currently making up 20-plus
percent of the population.

"We're very concerned that Israel will interpret the Obama Administration's
refusal to criticize the attacks on peaceful aid boats as permission for even
worse attacks on future flotillas.  We urge the President to do the right
thing -- to defend the Freedom Flotilla and see it as the equivalent of
nonviolent civil disobedience by activists during the US Civil Rights
struggle.  We are embarrassed that Mr. Obama doesn't seem to understand this
comparison," said Carl Romanelli, former Green US Senate candidate from
Pennsylvania and member of the party's International Committee.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

US Campaign to End the Occupation
http://www.endtheoccupation.org

Free Gaza Movement
http://www.freegaza.org

"Peaceful protest in Israel can lead to arrest"
By Dr. Mazin Qumsiyah, March 9, 2010, The New Haven Register
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/03/09/opinion/doc4b95ab40a3642160727871.txt

Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting / New York Green Fest
http://nygreenfest.org
? Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-Green-Fest/71141014224
? Alfred University http://www.alfred.edu
? Green Party of New York State http://www.web.gpnys.com
? Directions http://nygreenfest.org/directions.html
? Green Party Annual National Meeting Committee
http://www.gp.org/committees/anmc/index.php
? Media Credentialing http://www.gp.org/committees/media/kit.shtml

GreenStream Live: News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Jul  5 16:04:44 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:04:44 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] August 20, 21,
	2011 -- GPCA Strategy Gathering in Ventura
Message-ID: <4E13988C.3030603@greens.org>








*************************
Reminder: PLEASE RSVP to earthworks_works at yahoo.com if you have not already!
SAVE THE DATES !!

August 20, 21, 2011 -- GPCA Strategy Gathering in Ventura, CA
All California registered Greens are welcome!!

Join us in beautiful Ventura, on California's central coast, for a weekend of
fun, inspiration, information and activation!.

We have a lovely venue - the Theatre Gallery Community Room at The WAV -
www.wavartists.com <http://www.wavartists.com/>

Hosts: Kendra Gonzales, Adrienne Prince and the Ventura County Green Party.
We will post travel & lodging info shortly. Please visit: www.cagreens.org
For more info on Ventura itself, please visit:

www.totallylocalvc.com <http://www.totallylocalvc.com/>

This Gathering's format uses the Open Workshop model.
Agenda and topics will be determined by participants on the spot.
This is an easy process - giving all an equal access to agenda creation
All presentations and discussions will be peer-led.
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* Now is the time to consider leading a discussion, panel presentation or
information session! *

Is there a topic you would like to see discussed, or want to learn more about?
What is your area of expertise? How can it help other Greens live well and
organize in their communities?

Pre-registration begins now,
Suggested $25 per person payable *at the door* (includes 2 meals, coffee, tea,
and snacks throughout)

The creation of the agenda will occur during the first hour of the Gathering.
You will be asked to offer and weigh various proposals to guide the discussion
for the weekend, using the IRV method.

*Because this first hour is so crucial, we created a timetable that would
ensure the most people could be present, even if traveling from a distance.*

*Timetable: *(approximate and open to change)*

Saturday, August 20*
11:30 - 1:00 - Lunch (provided by hosts)
1:00 - 2:00 - Group facilitation: Setting the day's agenda
(presenters, offerings and time slots using IRV process)
2:15 - 4:45 - Peer-led presentations/discussions (2.5 hours)
5:00 - 7:00 - Peer-led part II (2 hours)
7:00 - Break for Dinner - participants find their own - explore Ventura!
8:30 - Optional evening program
(A guest musician, guest speaker, film or activity. *Your suggestions are
welcome!*)

*Sunday, August 21*
8:30 - 10:00 - Breakfast (provided by hosts)
10:00 - 11:00 - Creating the Strategic Plan Outline
11:00 - 12:00- Strategic Plan Content
12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch (explore downtown Ventura)
1:00 - 2:00 - Polishing up Strategic Plan Document
2::00 - 2:30 - Closing

*TO RSVP: EMAIL earthworks_works at yahoo.com <mailto:earthworks_works at yahoo.com>
and feel free to ask questions, offer comments. We will send more reminder
emails and updates via www.cagreens.org, and Facebook on-going.

Thank you!

Kendra Gonzales & Adrienne Prince
Ventura County Green Party




From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Jul 12 19:37:10 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:37:10 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Greens urge national protest & voters'
 revolt over deal by Obama & GOP to cut Social Security & Medicare
Message-ID: <4E1D04D6.9000902@greens.org>







GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, July 12, 2011



Greens: Obama has joined the GOP war against working people with his announced
intention to roll back Social Security and Medicare

? Agreement with Republicans would gut key protections for Americans, push
retirement savings in the Wall Street casino, and will mean "work till you
die" for many working people; it's time for the 'Green New Deal' and a voters'
revolt against both parties, say Green Party leaders

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on economic justice,
budget policy, and sustainability
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-economic-justice.php
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-economic-sustainability.php

? Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting / New York Green Fest, Aug. 5-7
in Alfred, New York  http://nygreenfest.org


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders warned that President Obama and
Democratic leaders will betray the American people if they agree with
Republicans to cut Social Security and Medicare, and demanded that such cuts
be taken off the table.

The Green Party has challenged bipartisan claims that the deficit, rather than
the recession and job crisis, is the major economic problem facing the US.
Green candidates and leaders have promoted a 'Green New Deal' with an array of
positive solutions for the economy and employment
(http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/08/11/62-green-candidates-endorse-green-new-deal).

? Holly Hart, secretary of the Green Party of the United States: "There are
ways other than cutting Social Security and Medicare to end the federal
deficit -- ending the three wars, sharply reducing the military budget,
raising taxes on the wealthy.  A modest raise in the contribution cap for the
highest income brackets would keep Social Security solvent.  Social Security
and Medicare are accounts separate from the federal budget -- they play no
part in the deficit crisis.  But President Obama, compromising with
congressional Republicans and fulfilling his own ambition to 'restructure
entitlements', has signaled his willingness to roll back the protections that
his party passed in the 1930s and 1960s to give working Americans their
financial security and prosperity since the mid 20th century, saving millions
of people from financial destitution.  The President's deal, which we can
count on Democratic leaders in Congress to support, may compel
  people to gamble their retirement savings in the Wall Street casino.  And
pushing back the eligibility age will be a 'work till you die' sentence for
many Americans, including Black people, the poor, and others with
statistically shorter life spans."

? Jason Nabewaniec, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States: "It's
time for a voters' revolt against both Democrats and Republicans.  President
Obama's compromise shows he has joined the GOP war against working people.
There is no longer any reason to make excuses for Mr. Obama and his fellow
Democrats.  There is no reason to vote for 'the lesser of two evils' if the
lesser evil is so willing to cooperate with the greater evil against the rest
of us.  Two-party politics is more than a flaw in our democracy.  It's a
disaster that can only be solved by removing Democrats and Republicans from
office and replacing them with Green candidates.  Greens accept no corporate
money and are committed to maintaining and strengthening Social Security, and
to expanding Medicare to cover everyone.  Mr. Obama's likely
Social-Security/Medicare deal with the GOP is proof that the Green Party is an
imperative for the 21st century.  If the deal is
  accepted, it will be time for people to gather in protest in Washington, DC,
and throughout the US just as people protested in Wisconsin when Gov. Walker
threatened public sector workers and union organizing rights."

? Farheen Hakeem, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States: "It's no
longer accurate to say we have two parties running the country.  We have a
single party with an extremist wing called the Republican Party and a slightly
less extremist wing called the Democratic Party, both of which have made
service to Wall Street and other powerful corporate elites their top
priority.  Most Americans don't want to see Social Security or Medicare
reduced -- but most Americans don't contribute huge campaign checks.  Unlike
corporations, thanks to the Supreme Court's 'Citizens' United' decision, most
Americans don't run endless campaign ads."

? Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for Common Councillor of Syracuse, New York
and 2010 Green candidate for Governor of New York: "If MoveOn.org and
environmental activist Van Jones believe that America's future should be in
the hands of Democrats, they're as deluded as Tea Partiers who want a
Republican future.  President Obama's planned raid on Social Security and
Medicare tops off the list of capitulations and betrayals since taking office:
escalation of the Afghanistan War and air assaults on Pakistan; a third war,
on Libya, in violation of the War Powers Act; continued warrantless
wiretapping of US citizens, harassment of whistleblowers, and other legal
abuses; plans to build more nuclear power plants, with taxpayers' money, even
in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan; plans for more offshore oil
drilling despite the BP disaster; a health care reform bill designed mainly to
enrich insurance companies, with mandates to purchase private
  coverage and no reductions in medical costs; embrace of the myth of 'clean
coal' and no interference in destructive, poisonous mountaintop removal
mining...  The list goes on and on, even surpassing President Clinton's
fulfillment of GOP agenda."

? George Carlin, nonpartisan comedian and social critic (1937-2008): "The word
bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting / New York Green Fest
http://nygreenfest.org
? Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-Green-Fest/71141014224
? Alfred University http://www.alfred.edu
? Green Party of New York State http://www.web.gpnys.com
? Directions http://nygreenfest.org/directions.html
? Green Party Annual National Meeting Committee
http://www.gp.org/committees/anmc/index.php

"Trumka: Social Security Cuts Should Not Be on the Table"
AFL-CIO Blog, July 7, 2011
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/07/07/trumka-social-security-cuts-should-not-be-on-the-table/

"Breaking Point: Obama and the Death of the Democratic Party"
By Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake, July 8, 2011
http://firedoglake.com/2011/07/07/the-breaking-point/
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/08-3

GreenStream Live: News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~




From updates at cagreens.org  Wed Jul 13 19:26:02 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:26:02 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP ADVISORY Green Party nat'l meeting in Alfred, NY,
 Aug. 5-7, to feature candidates, anti-hydrofracking activists,
 many other guest speakers
Message-ID: <4E1E53BA.7070001@greens.org>







GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty at greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org
Hillary Kane, co-chair of the Annual National Meeting Committee, 267-971-3559,
hillarya at pobox.upenn.edu
In New York: Rachel Treichler, Green Fest Planning Committee, 607-569-2114,
rachel at ecobooks.com


The Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting will feature Green candidates
from New York and other states, as well as anti-hydrofracking leaders and
other Green activists

? The meeting will take place August 5-7 at Green Fest in Alfred, western New
York; Greens will begin planning for the 2012 elections, including the
presidential race; Elizabeth May, Canadian Green member of Parliament, and
economist David C. Korten to speak via Skype

? Theme of the meeting: "Building a Green Economy -- No War. No Coal. No Gas.
No Nukes."

? Media credentialing page: http://www.gp.org/forms/media (also linked here:
http://www.gp.org/committees/media/kit.shtml)


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States will feature an array
of candidates and guest speakers at its 2011 Annual National Meeting at Alfred
University in Alfred in western New York, from Friday, August 5 to Sunday,
August 7.

The meeting will take place at the fourth biennial New York Green Fest, "a
gathering of folks interested in exploring the politics and practices that
will help enable us to live in a sustainable world, and sharing a weekend of
good discussions, good food, and good music" (http://nygreenfest.org).

Among the speakers will be leaders in the campaign to ban hydrofracking
(hydraulic fracturing), an environmentally destructive and dangerous technique
for accessing gas in the Marcellus Shale beneath Pennsylvania, New York, and
other states (see
http://nygreenfest.blogspot.com/2011/07/hydrofracking-activists-join-green.html and
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog/?p=2440).  David Cobb, 2004 Green nominee for
President, will speak on the need to abolish corporate 'personhood' and
restrict the political power of corporations (see http://www.movetoamend.org).

Elizabeth May, Canada's first elected Green Party member of Parliament, will
speak to Greens at the meeting by Skype.  David C. Korten, economist,
co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, and author of 'When Corporations
Rule the World' and other books (http://livingeconomiesforum.org/author-bio),
will also address the meeting by Skype.

"There are many people throughout the US, including Green elected officials
and community activists, who are thinking, talking, planning, and working for
a sustainable energy economy despite lack of broader government engagement,"
said Peter LaVenia, co-chair of the Green Party of New York State
(http://www.web.gpnys.com).  "Many of them will be coming to the meeting in
Alfred or will speak to meeting participants via Skype.  Alfred is the perfect
place for Green Fest (http://www.alfred.edu/campus/going-green.cfm)."

Several Green candidates from New York and other states will attend the
meeting, speak at press conferences, and be available for interview.  At least
one candidate for the Green presidential nomination, Kent Mesplay, will be
present.  A preliminary list of candidates who plan to attend the meeting is
appended below.

David Doonan, Green Party member and mayor of Greenwich, New York, will also
be at the meeting.

For a list of presenters and other speakers at the meeting, with short bios,
visit: http://nygreenfest.org/presenterbios11.html

For a draft schedule of panels and forums, see
http://nygreenfest.org/detailedschedule.html

Green Party leaders at the meeting will begin organizing for the 2012 election
season, including the presidential race.  The party will nominate a candidate
for the White House at its 2012 national convention.  The 2011 meeting in
Alfred will also feature Green Party panels, workshops, meetings of the Green
National Committee, and other events.

The meeting is open to the media and public.  Press conferences will feature
Green candidates for public office from across the US, with a special press
conference on Friday, August 6, for women candidates hosted by the party's
Women Caucus (http://www.gp.org/caucuses/women/index.php).  Journalists are
encouraged to register ahead of time, at the Green Party's media credentialing
page (http://www.gp.org/forms/media).  Registration for media will also take
place on site during the meeting.

Alfred is about 80 miles from Rochester and 90 miles from Buffalo.  For
directions to Alfred University and Green Fest, see:
http://nygreenfest.org/directions.html


GREEN CANDIDATES at the Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting

? Mike Bernhard, for Town Board member in Afton, New York.

? Audrey Clement, for Arlington County Board, Virginia, in the 2011 general
election (http://www.AudreyClement.org).  Ms. Clement is a member of the Green
Party's national steering committee.

? Joe Duffy, for Alderman in Hornell, New York.  Mr. Duffy is chair of the
Steuben County Green Party.

? Howie Hawkins for Common Councillor of Syracuse, New York.  The Green Party
of New York State regained ballot status in 2010 as a result of Mr. Hawkin's
Green campaign for Governor.

? Cheri Honkala, for Sheriff of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(http://www.cherihonkala.com) in the 2011 general election.  Ms. Honkala
founded the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and the national Poor Peoples
Economic Human Rights Campaign.  She was included in Philadelphia Magazine?s
list of 100 Most Powerful Philadelphians and was named Philadelphia Weekly?s
?Woman of the Year? in 1997.

? Cecile Lawrence, candidate for the Tioga County Legislature (District 3),
New York, , in the 2011 general election.  Ms. Lawrence, who will conduct a
workshop at the meeting, was the Green Party's candidate for US Senate from
New York in 2010.  A member of Tioga Peace and Justice, she testified at
hearings towards the passage of the New York State Managed Care Bill of Rights.

? Kent Mesplay, candidate for the Green Party's nomination for President
(http://www.mesplay.org).  Dr. Mesplay also sought the nomination in 2008.

? Anita Rios, candidate for City Council in Toledo (District 4), Ohio, in the
2011 general election. Ms. Rios ran for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio in 2006
and 2010 and is former of the Green Party's national steering committee.

? Jay Sweeney, for Supervisor in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, in the 2011
general election (http://www.jaysweeney.org).  Mr. Sweeney currently serves as
Auditor in Falls Township.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting / New York Green Fest
http://nygreenfest.org
? Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-Green-Fest/71141014224
? Alfred University http://www.alfred.edu
? Green Party of New York State http://www.web.gpnys.com
? Directions http://nygreenfest.org/directions.html
? Green Party Annual National Meeting Committee
http://www.gp.org/committees/anmc/index.php

GreenStream Live: News and discussion on the Green Party's Livestream channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Fall 2010 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~




From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Jul 19 19:20:28 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:20:28 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] Reminder -- RSVP for the GPCA Gathering Aug 20 & 21
	in Ventura
In-Reply-To: <4E26365C.605@greens.org>
References: <4E26365C.605@greens.org>
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GPCA Summer Strategic Gathering at www.wavartists.com
175 S. Ventura Avenue x Thompson in Downtown Ventura
Saturday August 20th 11:30 - 1pm Lunch provided - Session starts at 1pm
Sunday August 21st 8:30 to 10am Breakfast provided - Session starts at 10am
Closing at 2pm.

Please remember to RSVP to earthworks_works at yahoo.com.

Important questions to answer:

Are you able to pay $25? (for 2 meals and on-going coffee/tea/snacks)
This amount is to make sure we can cover costs. If not, we'll work with you.

Are you staying for both Saturday & Sunday?
If so, what type of lodging do you prefer?. motel, hotel, camping?
(I can work on a group rate)

If you are only attending Saturday, can you donate $15?

You can pre-pay via check:

"Green Party of Ventura County"
PO Box 487
Ventura, CA 93002
memo: Gathering Aug 2011

What city/county are you coming from?
Do you need a ride-share?

We may be able to do a group rate on the train or bus.

We have a FaceBook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183310835058247

Here are some links for more details re travel / lodging:

http://www.maps.google.com (175 S. Ventura Avenue, Ventura)

http://www.ventura-usa.com (Visitors Bureau - lots of great info)

http://www.ventura-usa.com/includes/media/docs/Go-Green-with-Mass-Transit-Opportunities-Ventura.pdf



http://www.goventura.org (local county transit)

AGENDA:

Attendees will submit ideas for a workshop Saturday at 1pm. We take an hour to
sort and match similar workshop ideas. The goal is to fill 9 slots each
lasting 1/2 hour. We can use IRV if needed. We are all in 1 big room, so
everyone attends all the workshops. On Sunday we "put on paper" what comes
from Saturday.

This is a real grass-roots approach to agenda setting. Its makes this very
topical and completely organic.
Come prepared that if you suggest a topic, you should present on it, or at
least facilitate a discussion for that 1/2 an hour. We will take copious notes
and transfer those in to a draft Strategic Plan outline for further review and
edit at the next Plenary!.

The goal here is to put, in writing, what Greens think are the most important
steps to take for the future of our Party.

Please email me your RSVP if you haven't already at earthworks_works at yahoo.com
Please answer the questions above to help us organize an easy and fun summer
gathering.

We are very excited to see all of you in August! (25 RSVPS so far)

Kendra Gonzales & Adrienne Prince - Ventura Greens
<http://www.vccool.org/>



From updates at cagreens.org  Fri Aug  5 17:52:52 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:52:52 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] BAY AREA GREEN EVENT: Green "tea party" Rally to
 Protest Tea Party Express National Kick off Tour in Napa!
In-Reply-To: <CAM2xY9szTw+-qDsSFgyiJ8SnY0MhS-8o43piWs1u8napXkEfrQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAM2xY9szTw+-qDsSFgyiJ8SnY0MhS-8o43piWs1u8napXkEfrQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Green ?Tea Party?

(Please distribute far and wide)


The Napa County Green Party invites you to participate in a momentous and
historic Green ?tea party" on Saturday, August 27, 2011, at 10:30 AM in
Veterans Memorial Park at the corner of Main and Third streets in downtown
Napa. Come help us unwelcome the Tea Party Express to Napa and instead show
the public a positive Green Party alternative.


This Green Party counter-rally is being held simultaneously with the Tea
Party's kick-off of its national tour.  The Tea Party has steered our nation
further toward the reactionary right, undermining workers' collective
bargaining rights, attacking human rights such as access to health care,
damaging our environment through attacks on regulation, and fostering an
anti-diversity agenda that scapegoats Muslims, immigrants, and the LGBT community.


As the dominant parties acquiesce to this reactionary current, the Green Party
stands apart as the healthiest alternative to the corrupt two-party system; a
?duopoly? that has given rise to this right-wing shift. The Green Party's
platform is based on 10 Key Values, and unlike its corporate-controlled
Democratic and Republican counterparts, the Green Party refuses to accept any
corporate financing.  The Green Party holds dear to a core set of humanitarian
and ecological values essential to building a sustainable society that honors
the needs of struggling blue and white collar workers and the Earth as a whole.


This Green ?tea party" will be a chance for Green Party members and our
progressive allies from across the state to unite in opposition to the
negative Tea Party agenda by affirming positive Green Party values such as
grassroots democracy, social justice, respect for diversity, nonviolence,
community-based economics, and sustainability.


Our Green ?tea party? will feature prominent Green speakers, such as Green
Party mayor of Fairfaix Larry Bragman and Green Party gubernatorial  candidate
Laura Wells. Other features will include progressive speakers and cultural
highlights such as live entertainment, fun information booths, iced green tea,
and vegetarian cuisine from Food Not Bombs of Santa Rosa. In line with our
Green Party values of ecological wisdom and personal and global
responsibility, this will be a zero waste event, and we ask that participants
bring canned food items to the rally for donation to the Napa Food Bank.  In
addition, please wear a green shirt to show your support for the Green Party
and/or our Green values.


Event participants should be advised that the Napa authorities may consider
this peaceful assembly of citizens to be an act of civil disobedience. Despite
the ongoing efforts of the Napa County Green Party to work in good faith to
obtain a permit, the City appears intransigent.


Our rally will culminate in a progressive solidarity march from Veterans Park
to the Napa Valley Expo Fairgrounds just across the river to protest the Tea
Party Express event being held there.


Please join us on Saturday, August 27th at 10:30 AM in Veterans Park for this
historic Green ?tea party.? Let?s come together to stand up against the Tea
Party and affirm the rights and needs of a society that empowers the majority
of Americans and heals and nurtures the Earth.

For more information, please email
napacountygreenparty at gmail.com <mailto:napacountygreenparty at google.com>,
or join us on Facebook: Napa County Green Party.




From updates at cagreens.org  Sun Aug  7 12:18:34 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:18:34 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP VIDEO RELEASE Greens at party meeting in NY: Debt
 deal is a good reason to bolt the Dem & Repub parties in 2012
In-Reply-To: <1312681360.62258.YahooMailClassic@web120005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References: <1312681360.62258.YahooMailClassic@web120005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Sunday, August 7, 2011



The debt deal is a good reason for voters to give up on the Democratic and
Republican parties in 2012, say Green leaders at the party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY

? Video: Laura Wells, former Green candidate for the Governor of California,
on the deficit fiasco http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfIcz6s-OY

? Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's national
meeting, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's Livestream Channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus / More information on the meeting and
Green Fest: http://nygreenfest.org


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party candidates, officeholders, leaders, and state
delegates meeting at the party's 2011 Annual National Meeting in Alfred, New
York, said that the Budget Control Act of 2011 should be the final straw for
many voters, and encouraged Democrats and Republicans angry at their parties
to vote Green in the 2012 election.

Greens attending the meeting called the budget deal a surrender by Democratic
and Republican Party leaders to the most extreme elements of the GOP.

? Howie Hawkins, Green Common Councillor of Syracuse, NY; 2010 Green candidate
for Governor of New York: "The budget debate should have been about how to
create more jobs and financial stability for Americans suffering through the
recession.  Greens have promoted the Green New Deal, with a plan to create new
Green jobs with public works programs in conservation, new energy
technologies, reengineering towns and cities and retrofitting homes and
buildings for energy efficiency, and expanding public transportation.  FDR put
millions of people back to work with his New Deal.  Republican presidents like
Eisenhower once understood that public sector projects would generate
prosperity for the middle class.  Instead of 1950s projects like building the
interstate highway system, Cold War defense, and the space program, we have
new priorities in the 21st century -- we need Green jobs in a Green economy."
(More on the Green New Deal:
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/08/11/62-green-candidates-endorse-green-new-deal)

? David Doonan, Mayor of Greenwich, NY (Green): "The focus on the deficit has
eclipsed more immediate problems: job loss, the widening gap between rich and
poor, home foreclosures, huge handouts and tax cuts for favored corporations,
and multiple endless wars that have cost $3.7 trillion without the raise in
taxes necessary to pay for them.  When Congress and the White House called it
a deficit crisis and talked about the debt ceiling and cutting Social Security
and Medicare, they gave Tea Party extremists the upper hand.  A new,
unconstitutional joint committee -- a 'Super Congress' -- will determine the
target of $1.5 trillion in budget reductions to valuable social services.  The
result will be further job loss and deepening economic insecurity for working
Americans, and more economic and political power for corporate elites.
Electing Greens, who take no corporate contributions, will be the first step
in changing the direction of our country.  We
  look forward to 2012 as the year we place some Greens in Congress."

? David Strand, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States: "It's unfair
and immoral to ask ordinary Americans to suffer cuts to services and loss of
jobs while the rich and top corporations get to keep their tax cuts.  The
radical rightwing of the Republican Party proved that they're bent on shutting
down the infrastructure of our republic.  Moderate Republicans and Democratic
leaders proved they're ready to appease the rightwing at every step.
President Obama satisfied the demands of his top financial sector
contributors, the powerful Wall Street and Big Insurance lobbies that want the
White House and Congress to privatize Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
  We need to make the budget deal the final chapter in the history of two-party
rule, a history littered with wrongheaded bipartisan agreements: endless wars,
the USA Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind, warrantless surveillance of US
citizens, the Wall Street bailout, monster military
  budgets, the War on Drugs and record incarceration."
(See "Twelve Corporations Pay Effective Tax Rate of Negative 1.5% on $171
Billion in Profits; Reap $62.4 Billion in Tax Subsidies," Citizens for Tax
Justice, June 1, 2011,
http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2011/06/twelve_corporations_pay_effective_tax_rate_of_negative_15_on_171_billion_in_profits_reap_624_billion.php
and "The Fed Audit," report on $16 trillion in financial subsidies for top
financial institutions and corporations in the US and foreign countries,
revealed in a GAO audit of the Federal Reserve, Bernie Sanders, US Senator for
Vermont (Ind.), August 5, 2011,
http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-62060dcbb3c3)

? Anita Rios, Green candidate for City Council in Toledo, Ohio: "Medicare is
the solution, not the problem.  Medicare for All, with 3% overhead, would save
$400 billion a year compared to the current system, in which private health
insurance overhead at 31% is one of the major drivers of skyrocketing health
care costs. Cutting Medicare is fiscally irresponsible, Medicare For All is
fiscally responsible.  The Green Party supports Medicare For All.  Blacks and
Latinos have been hit especially hard by the economic downturn, with loss of
jobs and health care that have pushed many of us out of the middle class.  The
budget deal and attacks on Medicare and other programs have only made the
situation worse -- and enraged many people against President Obama's readiness
to abandon us."

? Tamar Yager, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States, 2011 Annual
National Meeting coordinator: "The bipartisan deal was a vicious defeat for
working people.  We encourage voters to learn about the Green New Deal and
compare Green Party ideas to the Democrats' capitulations and the Republicans'
descent into irrationality and fraud.  The job-killing austerity program in
the debt deal will make future deficits and debts worse, because the stagnant
economy caused by the deal will generate smaller tax revenues.  The two
established parties offer no vision of how they will restore financial
economic security for Americans.  Let 2012 be the year voters wake up and go
Green."


MORE INFORMATION

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202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Green Party's 2011 Annual National Meeting / New York Green Fest
http://nygreenfest.org
? Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-Green-Fest/71141014224
? Alfred University http://www.alfred.edu
? Green Party of New York State http://www.web.gpnys.com
? Green Party Annual National Meeting Committee
http://www.gp.org/committees/anmc/index.php

Press conferences, forums, and other events, broadcast and archived on the
Green Party's Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Aug 23 20:04:44 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:04:44 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE - Green Party: US/NATO must withdraw from
 Libya, back African Union efforts to broker a resolution
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, August 22, 2011



The Green Party urges US/NATO to withdraw from Libya and support African Union
efforts to broker a resolution

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on foreign policy:
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders urged an immediate US/NATO withdrawal
from Libya after the advance of rebel forces into Tripoli, and called on
President Obama to support a political solution to the crisis in Libya through
diplomacy, with the involvement of the African Union, Arab League, and United
Nations.

"The African Union's mediation committee offered a positive outline for an
immediate ceasefire, followed by negotiation without preconditions and
democratic elections in Libya.  This is the perfect moment for President
Obama, NATO, and the UN to support the efforts of the African Union to broker
a resolution.  All elements of Libyan society must be invited to the table to
determine the country's new direction.  The Libyan people must be allowed to
decide their own future," said Romi Elnagar, member of the Green Party of
Louisiana and the Green Party's International Committee
(http://www.gp.org/committees/intl).

"If US and NATO forces prolong military action and attempt an occupation to
stabilize Libya, the result will be more civilian lives lost and a disaster
similar to the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the evaporation of
hopes for freedom and democratic self-determination for the Libyan people,"
Ms. Elnagar added.

See "African Union Statement on the NATO Invasion of Libya: It's Time to End
the Bombing and Find a Political Solution in Libya" by Dr Ruhakana Rugunda,
Uganda's Permanent Representative to the UN, New Vision (Uganda), June 17,
2011 (http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/757904).  According to the statement,
"Gadaffi accepted dialogue when the AU mediation Committee visited Tripoli on
April 10, 2011.  Any war activities after that have been provocation for
Africa.  It is an unnecessary war."

The Green Party opposed the US/NATO assault on Libya from the beginning
(http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=399) and Greens have strongly
criticized President Obama for public statements, after the beginning of the
attack, in which he changed the goal from "humanitarian intervention" for the
protection of Libyan civilians to ousting Gaddafi.  Attacking a country to
remove its leadership is a violation of international law.  The Libyan war was
also conducted without congressional approval, even after the US House in June
voted against authorizing continued military operations in Libya for one year.

The Green Party supports nonviolent resistance to oppression, as most
Palestinians have practiced for decades and Egyptians more recently, and
deplores the killing of unarmed civilians.

"The severity of bombing raids over the past few months suggests that Gaddafi
himself has been and may still be the target.  The bombing inevitably turned
indiscriminate and led to widespread civilian death and injury.  NATO's claim
of protecting civilian lives has become increasingly implausible.
Unfortunately, Secretary of State Clinton's refusal to grant the Libyan UN
ambassador a visa has censored Libya's own collected statistics on civilian
casualties resulting from the raids," said Farheen Hakeem, co-chair of the
Green Party of the United States.

Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party's 2008 presidential nominee, recently
conducted a fact-finding tour of Libya and reported on NATO's bombing of
civilians at Al Fateh University, Campus B, in Tripoli on June 9 in her blog
at Black Agenda Report
(http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/more-nato-humanitarian-interventionthe-bombing-al-fateh-university-campus-b).

Green Party leaders noted that, while attacking Libya in the name of democracy
and liberation, the US has withheld criticism of violent repression of popular
movements for democracy in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Palestinian
territories occupied by Israel, which are US allies.

Greens have agreed with the call by the United National Antiwar Committee "for
an immediate halt to US intervention in regions and countries where mass
mobilizations are challenging oppressive regimes" (Statement on Libya,
http://nepajac.org/libya.htm) and warned against US efforts to co-opt
movements for democracy in African countries and force them to accept Africom
(United States Africa Command), a program to impose US military presence and
strategic objectives in African countries.

"The unprovoked assault on Libya has constituted a third war, with US troops
still occupying Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan, against the government of a
majority Muslim nation.  It has opened a dangerous new front in a wider
unending US war that is at least in part motivated by a desire to control the
planet's largest oil reserves in the coming decades.  These policies, unless
reversed, may eventually ignite a global conflict in this century of dwindling
oil resources and advancing climate change.  Already, the US has spent $3.7
trillion on wars during the past decade, draining sorely needed funds from
public services and other domestic necessities and aggravating the current
fiscal crisis.  It's time to retire the Bush-Cheney-Obama policy of military
aggression," said Muhammed Malik, co-chair of the Miami-Dade Green Party
(http://www.miamidadegreenparty.org) and a member of the Green Party's
International Committee.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Green Party International Committee http://www.gp.org/committees/intl/

"Libyan Deaths, Media Silence: Were Dozens Killed in Majer NATO Airstrikes?"
FAIR media advisory, August 18, 2011
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4379

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Sep  6 19:38:16 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:38:16 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Greens blast Obama's capitulation to GOP
 & oil lobbies on tar sands pipeline, EPA smog regulations
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, September 6, 2011



Green Party leaders blast President Obama's approval of the tar sands pipeline
and withdrawal of EPA smog regulations, calling White House policies a
capitulation to Republicans and corporate lobbies

? Greens promote Green New Deal: real action to curb global warming and end
oil addiction, create new jobs in energy conservation, alternate energy
development, and public transportation

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on global
warming and other ecological issues:
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-ecological.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders strongly criticized President Obama's
recent decisions on the controversial tar sands pipeline and EPA smog
regulations, calling his support for the Keystone XL Pipeline and withdrawal
of smog standards reckless and dangerous to public health and the environment.

"More respiratory disease, more dependence on fossil fuels, more greenhouse
gases released into the atmosphere -- these will be the results of President
Obama's latest capitulations to the oil industry and Republicans.  The
President is trying to appease anti-regulation ideologues and climate-change
deniers in the GOP and corporate lobbies that place profits ahead of public
safety," said Audrey Clement, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States
and a member of the party's Eco-Action Committee
(http://www.gp.org/committees/ecoaction/index.php).

Greens noted that President Obama alone, without approval from Congress, has
the power to approve or reject the tar sands pipeline from Alberta, Canada.
Party leaders expressed admiration and gratitude to the protestors arrested
during the White House demonstrations against approval of the tar sands
pipeline (http://www.tarsandsaction.org).

?The courageous actions at the White House represent the voice of conscience
confronting the dark forces of environmental destruction," said Jill Stein,
co-chair of the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts
(http://www.massgreens.org).  "I am so proud to see that America has so many
people willing to put themselves on the front line of the battle to save our
future.  This action is a defining moment.  It is the point at which the
environmental community stops accepting inaction and excuses, and starts
insisting that our government do the right thing.  That courage to speak up
clearly and not be silenced is critical for starting to save our imperiled
planet.?

NASA's Dr. James Hansen, one of the nation's top climate scientists, said that
development of tar sands in Alberta, Canada, would be "game over" for efforts
to curb climate change
(http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/idUS257590805720110829).  Mining
oil from tar sands creates three times more carbon emissions than conventional
oil extraction, and the oil will be transported by the hazardous 1,700-mile
long Keystone XL Pipeline to refineries in Texas.  Despite such warnings, the
State Department gave the project a green light in its environmental impact
statement, dismissing the threat of sharp increases in carbon emissions.

Greens said that President Obama's concern for the revenues of oil companies
and the financial burden created by anti-smog regulations reflected an
administration that measures the health of the US economy by corporate profits
rather than by how many new jobs are created, how many Americans move out of
unemployment and poverty, and how the US is meeting the challenges of global
warming.

"Green candidates have called for a 'Green New Deal' with a plan to create
millions of new jobs in conservation and conversion to safe, clean energy, the
promotion of technologies to reduce air pollution -- such as anti-smog devices
-- and expansion of public transportation to reduce car traffic.  Such
measures will help the US recover from the 2008 economic meltdown.
Unfortunately, President Obama has retreated from his 2008 nomination speech
promise that during his presidency the 'rise of the oceans will begin to slow,
and the planet begin to heal.'  He has capitulated to the corporate myth that
environmental standards are job killers. In fact, they are job creators
because they spur innovation and investment in cleaner technologies," said
Howie Hawkins, co-chair of the Green Party of New York State
(http://www.web.gpnys.com) and candidate for Common Councilor of Syracuse.

"Obama is ignoring the tar sands pipeline protesters and the whole movement to
stop global warming.  Street protests alone without a political alternative to
vote for will just leave the protesters taken for granted by Obama and the
Democrats again.  We can multiply the power of the protests by mounting an
electoral insurgency behind the political party that is dedicated to
preserving the planet -- the Green Party," Mr. Hawkins added.  (More on the
Green New Deal:
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/08/11/62-green-candidates-endorse-green-new-deal)

Greens cited numerous other Obama Administration environmental retreats and
capitulations: an industry-coddling response to the Deepwater Horizon oil
spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico; paralysis in global climate
protection negotiations and promotion of emissions-trading schemes that will
grant polluting industries licenses to continue polluting; refusal to ban
mountaintop removal mining; endorsement of 'clean coal'; approval of new
nuclear power plants (despite the Fukushima disaster in March 2011) paid for
by taxpayers for the benefit of energy companies that don't want to assume the
high cost and high liability; plans to expand off-shore drilling with new
operations in Atlantic coastal waters.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

"The Tar Sands Action (smile)"
By Ted Glick, September 5, 2011
http://www.tedglick.com/columns/102.html

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Sat Sep 10 18:25:13 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:25:13 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE     Greens, responding to Obama's speech,
 call Green New Deal the key to job creation
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Friday, September 9, 2011



Green Party, responding to President Obama's Sept. 8 address, calls 'Green New
Deal' the key to job creation

? Greens urge public works programs to provide millions of jobs and help
convert America to a secure green economy

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on economic issues
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-economic-sustainability.php
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-economic-justice.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- Responding to President Obama's speech Thursday night, the
Green Party today called for a 'Green New Deal' to put Americans back to work
while helping the US transition to a carbon-free green economy.

"We need a Green New Deal that will put all of the unemployed to work
rebuilding America on the basis of an economically and ecologically
sustainable prosperity.  The green in the Green New Deal means we must go
beyond the old New Deal and bring an environmental focus to our public
investments, including clean manufacturing processes, to not only address the
crisis of climate change but to build the foundation of a sustainable green
economy," said Jill Stein, co-chair of the Green-Rainbow Party of
Massachusetts (http://www.massgreens.org) and author of "Jobs for All with a
Green New Deal" (Green Papers, September 5, 2011,
http://www.greenpapers.net/?p=164).

"Other countries are already making major investments to position themselves
for this future carbon-free economy.  America needs to catch up.  A Green New
Deal offers the opportunity to revive and reinvent American manufacturing, so
we can have good jobs by making the solar panels and wind towers and transit
cars right here in America," added Dr. Stein.

More on the Green New Deal:
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/08/11/62-green-candidates-endorse-green-new-deal

Green Party leaders said that President Obama's new jobs proposal will fall
far short of finding enough jobs for the 25 million Americans who need
employment.  They sharply criticized the president for failing to call for
revenue measures needed to finance a robust jobs creation program, including
taxes on Wall Street speculation, off-shore tax havens, millionaires and
multimillion dollar estates, as well as a 30% reduction in the trillion-dollar
bloated military-industrial-security complex budget.

"President Obama refused to address the massive problem of income inequality,
a major cause of the economic recession.  The wealthiest 1% of Americans now
take home 24% of the national income, up from 9% in 1976.  The last time the
US had such massive income inequality was in 1927, which pushed the country
into the Great Depression because of the loss of consumer spending," said
Laura Wells, Green candidate for the 2010 governor?s race in California.

Green leaders said that a payroll tax cut for working Americans will at best
provide a modest economic stimulus, but agreed with President Obama's support
for extended unemployment benefits.

Greens have long advocated the establishment of an infrastructure bank, noting
that North Dakota's successful public banks have granted cheaper and easier
access to credit to small businesses, nonprofits, and local governments.

"The path to full employment in America lies in building a green economy, not
in caving to polluters as the Obama administration has done recently.  The New
York Times reports that the recent surge of the Green Party in many European
countries was due to the recognition that building a green economy is the key
to job creation
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/world/europe/02greens.html).  Politicians
in the US love to campaign on a green jobs agenda, but once elected, its back
to pushing more tax cuts and handouts for large corporations," said Starlene
Rankin, co-chair of the Green Party's national Lavender Green Caucus.

"A Green New Deal will establish government's responsibility to guarantee the
right to a job for every American willing and able to work.  Let's turn the
unemployment office into the employment office.  If the private sector fails
to provide you a job, you go down to the employment office to get work.  We
need to build ecologically sustainable energy and transportation
infrastructure and production systems -- clean renewable energy generation,
retrofitting buildings and homes and other projects for energy efficiency,
intra-city mass transit and inter-city railroads, 'complete streets' that
encourage bikes and pedestrians, regional food systems based on sustainable
organic agriculture, and clean manufacturing of the goods needed  to support a
sustainable economy," said Howie Hawkins, co-chair of the Green Party of New
York State and Green candidate for Common Councilor in Syracuse, New York.

Green leaders noted that the White House launched several successful public
works programs since the 1930s.  The Works Progress Administration (WPA) in
the 1930s and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in the 1970s
employed millions to provide necessary public infrastructure and public
services like education, health, child care, elder care, youth programs, and
arts and cultural projects.

The net cost of a WPA-style jobs program to create 25 million new jobs would
be $666 billion, only about 50% more than the $447 billion President Obama
proposes and less than the $825 billion in the 2009 stimulus -- and miniscule
compared to the trillions in Wall Street bailouts in 2008 and 2009.  (See
"Learning from the New Deal" (draft) by Philip Harvey, Professor of Law and
Economics at Rutgers School of Law,
http://www.njfac.org/HarveyLearningND.pdf).  Assuming that a public jobs
program would stimulate about one private job for every two public jobs
created, we would need about 17.5 million public jobs the first year.  With
pay between $14 to $17 per hour, plus benefits, the net cost per job would be
only $28,600, compared to $228,055 per job cost of Obama's initial 2009
stimulus, which mainly consisted of tax incentives.

Greens warned that Obama's proposals also fail to provide enough relief from
housing foreclosures. A July 2010 report from the International Monetary Fund
shows that the foreclosure crisis account for more than 10% of the
unemployment rate (http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2010/cr10248.pdf).
  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-run mortgage companies, must
aggressively reduce the principal balances on underwater loans and make
refinancing easier for underwater borrowers.

The cost of a Green New Deal jobs program would be covered through a
combination of carbon taxes to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increased
taxes on the wealthy and Wall Street, and major cuts in the military budget.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the top four contributors to the
federal deficit are (in order of importance) the Bush tax cuts, reduced
revenues in the wake of the 2008 economic meltdown, bank bailouts, and the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Defending America doesn't require a globally deployed military, with bases in
over 100 countries and full-scale occupations and wars on several fronts.  The
military budget has doubled over the last decade. The US spends over $1
trillion a year on the military-industrial complex.  If we cut military
spending by two-thirds to fully fund an Employment Assurance program in the
depths of the current Great Recession, we would still spend three times more
than China, the world's next biggest military spender, China," said Mark
Dunlea, New York Green and chair of the Green Educational Legal Fund, Inc.


MORE INFORMATION

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202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

"Critics Still Wrong on What?s Driving Deficits in Coming Years: Economic
Downturn, Financial Rescues, and Bush-Era Policies Drive the Numbers"
By Kathy Ruffing and James R. Horney, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
June 28, 2010
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3036

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Wed Sep 14 19:24:07 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:24:07 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP ADVISORY: US Greens endorse Sept. 15 rally at UN
 demanding self-determination for Palestinians
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011




The Green Party of the United States endorses the Sept. 15 rally at the UN
demanding self-determination for Palestinians

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on foreign
policy: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States has endorsed the
Thursday, September 15 Palestine Rally at the United Nations, in support of
the right of self-determination for Palestinians.

The march and rally
(http://al-awdany.org/2011/07/sept-15-palestine-rally-at-the-united-nations),
scheduled to take place in advance of a UN vote on recognition of Palestinian
statehood, are sponsored by the Palestine UN Solidarity Coalition.

Participants will call for the US to cut off aid for Israel, for Israel to end
its occupation of the Palestinian territories, and for national and
international boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel until it
complies with numerous resolutions promising Palestinians their basic rights.
  The Green Party has consistently supported these goals and spoken out
publicly for sovereignty, equality, and the right of return for Palestinians,
including an end to apartheid inside Israel.

"For too many decades, Palestinian rights have been delayed.  The protests
that are taking place in various cities this week will communicate an
important message: delaying rights is effectively denying rights.  The time to
recognize and implement rights is now," said Muhammed Malik, member of the
Green Party's International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl) and
co-chair of Miami-Dade Green Party.  Mr. Malik will be speaking at the South
Florida Palestinian Self-Determination Rally on September 15
(http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217314961638622).

Marchers in New York City will gather at Times Square at 4:30 pm and march to
Grand Central and then continue on to the UN at 5:30 pm.  Greens plan to
participate and march under the party's banner.  For events in Washington, DC
and other cities, visit "September 15: Real Democracy, Not Hypocrisy"
(http://www.september15.org and
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219805248070924).

"The UN vote alone won't solve the Middle East conflict and ensure
Palestinians their human rights," said Justine McCabe, co-chair of the
International Committee.  "That's why the demands of the September 15 rally
remain important.  We must place pressure on Israel and push the US to reverse
its policy of unquestioning support for Israel's criminal actions, such as the
2009 invasion of Gaza, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and internal
apartheid."

The Green Party has called for a negotiated, peaceful resolution to the
conflict that establishes full rights and security for all Israelis and
Palestinians, with an immediate end to all violence directed at unarmed civilians.

Green Party leaders view the two-state solution as a half-measure, intended at
best to end Israel's military occupation in some parts of the West Bank, while
not addressing the heart of the conflict -- the dispossession since 1948 of
the majority native population of historic Palestine and Israel's refusal to
allow Palestinian refugees to return home.  Greens have advocated the
one-state solution, in which all citizens enjoy full citizenship and rights
regardless of ethnicity or religion, and have warned that the two-state
solution will result in ongoing conflict and violence, while the formation of
a single democratic state would bring greater possibility for sustainable peace.

Greens supported the Gaza-bound flotillas that faced blockades and assaults by
the Israeli Navy when they carried food and humanitarian aid to besieged
Palestinians (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=431).


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Sun Sep 18 12:35:43 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:35:43 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP ADVISORY Green Party members speak out to stop
 execution of Troy Davis in Ga., urge end of the death penalty
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Friday, September 16, 2011



Green Party members speak out to stop execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, urge
abolition of the death penalty

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on criminal
justice and the death penalty: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-criminal.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States today called for a halt
to the impending execution of Troy Davis, scheduled for September 21 in
Georgia, and cited the case an example of why the death penalty must be abolished.

Green Party members will participate in public events urging the Georgia Board
of Pardons and Parole to stop the execution when the board meets on Monday,
September 19.

"Supporters of capital punishment insist that it should only used when no
doubt remains about the guilt of the accused.  The Troy Davis case shows that
death-row inmates are facing execution even when significant doubts emerge.
We know that racial disparities in sentencing and abuses by prosecutors such
as the withholding of exculpatory evidence have led to wrongful sentencing.
The only way to prevent erroneous executions is to end capital punishment
altogether," said Leenie Halbert, co-chair of the Green Party of the United
States and formerly active in Angels of Mercy in Louisiana and a volunteer
with Sr. Helen Prejean's Moratorium 2000 campaign.

Mounting doubts about the evidence against Troy Davis include seven of the
nine witnesses recanting their testimony and the statements by several of the
witnesses that they were pressured by the police to identify Troy Davis as the
murderer of off-duty police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989.  Of the two
remaining witnesses, one is the initial suspect.

Theresa El-Amin, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States, has
arranged for a bus from Columbus to Atlanta on Friday afternoon, September 16,
for Greens and others to participate in a "Too Much Doubt to Execute!" march
and prayer service at Ebenezer Baptist Church with national and local civil
rights, faith, and community leaders.  The event is sponsored by Georgians for
an Alternative to the Death Penalty, NAACP, and Amnesty International.

Greens noted that the Supreme Court's McClesky v. Kemp ruling (1987) upheld
the death penalty despite evidence of racial discrepancies in sentencing,
which amounted to approval by the nation's highest court for racism in the
application of capital punishment.  (Mr. Davis is Black.)  See "United States
of America: Death by Discrimination -- The Continuing Role of Race in Capital
Cases," Amnesty International, April 23, 2003
(http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/046/2003/en).

Furthermore, the Supreme Court, in Herrera v. Collins (1993), ruled that the
Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment does not prohibit the
execution of a person known to be innocent, if he or she has already been
tried and sentenced to death.  Greens have called this decision a license for
the state to murder the innocent.

The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, signed into law by
President Clinton, has imposed roadblocks, in the name of combatting
terrorism, that have made it more difficult for death-row inmates to get new
trials.

The Green Party Platform's section on criminal justice endorses abolition of
the death penalty
(http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/social-justice.php#1001998).

"We urge all states to follow the example of Gov. George Ryan of Illinois, who
imposed a moratorium on executions in his state in 2000 because of the number
of inmates whose sentences were overturned because of the flawed and biased
justice system.  Capital punishment is not only irreversible, it's barbaric
and inhumane and a violation of human rights that calls into question all
death penalty case convictions.  Capital punishment does not deter crime, but
instead has been used to exterminate the poor and people of color who are
consistently treated unfairly in the justice system," said Rev. Darryl! LC
Moch of Inner Light Ministries, co-chair of the DC Statehood Green Party and a
member of the Green Party Black Caucus
(http://www.gp.org/caucuses/black/index.php).


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Mon Sep 26 19:24:06 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:24:06 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE: US Green Party mourns Wangari Maathai,
 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kenyan Green Party founder
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, September 26, 2011



US Greens mourn Dr. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Kenyan Green
Party founder and leader


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States is mourning the passing
of Dr. Wangari Maathai and celebrating the life of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize
laureate and founder of the Mazingira Green Party and the Green Belt Movement
(http://www.greenbeltmovement.org) in Kenya.

In 2002, Dr. Maathai was elected to the Kenyan Parliament on the Green Party
ticket in the first free elections held in the country in decades and later
appointed Kenyan Deputy Environment Minister.  She was a close friend to
Greens in the US and throughout the world and in May 2008 hosted an Global
Greens conference in Nairobi
(http://www.gp.org/greenpages/content/volume11/issue1/world4.php).

Dr. Maathai and the women-based Green Belt Movement, which planted more than
30 million trees, received numerous awards, including the Petra Kelly Prize
for Environment, named for the founder of the first Green Party in Germany.
  The first environmentalist and first African woman to be awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize, she was jailed in 1991 for working to stop deforestation in Kenya.

African Greens (Coalition of Green Parties and political movements in Africa)
released this statement today: http://africangreens.org/spip.php?article61

? Theresa El-Amin, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States: "I heard
Dr. Maathai speak at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, two years
ago. Her influence was reflected on the campus with the planting of four trees
in her honor.  She was beautiful in her African dress as she told wonderful
stories of her childhood and the awakening she experienced on how all life is
interdependent.  Several members of the North Carolina Green Party, along with
students from all over the state, attended the special lecture."

? Marian Douglas-Ungaro, co-chair of the International Committee
(http://www.gp.org/committees/intl), member of the Green Party Black Caucus
(http://www.gp.org/caucuses/black/index.php), and DC Statehood Green:  "I was
in contact with Dr. Maathai when I lived in Kenya, 2001-2004.  Almost everyday
I drove past the Greenbelt Movement billboard in the Muthaiga neighborhood
that inspired people to action.  Black Greens will continue to work to
encourage many more African and Afrodescendant women, men, and youth to
continue the social and environmental work which Dr. Maathai both started and
inspired."

? Morgen D'Arc, co-founder of the Green Party National Women's Caucus
(http://www.gp.org/caucuses/women/index.php), recalling Dr. Maathai's 2002
visit to Maine as featured speaker for the Maine Green Independent Party: "At
the time, I was working statewide with Women in Green Politics, an
organization I had founded the year before.  Dr. Maathai opened my eyes.  Her
courage, determination, focus on women, poverty and the environment, what she
had accomplished and at the same time her gentleness, patience and warmth
really reached me.  The inspiration I gained from Dr. Maathai's visit was with
me for years, as I first co-founded and then organized and led the National
Women's Caucus.  When I learned yesterday that she was gone, it was as if a
gaping hole opened in front of me.  It's just way too soon.  She will not be
forgotten and will no doubt continue to inspire many, as she did me."

? Thomas Muhammad, co-chair of the Green Party Black Caucus: "The Green Party
Black Caucus joins the whole world, particularly African Greens, in their loss
of such a giant sister like Wangari Maathai.  Her words should serve as a wake
up call for all political parties the world over.  She said, 'As long as there
is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource
distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service.'
  We will miss you deeply, soft-spoken sister."

? Greg Gerritt, Green Party of Rhode Island and International Committee
member: "Dr Maathai's work on the reforestation of Africa has ben one of the
more hopeful activities on the planet, a key to both ecological and economic
revival."

? Audrey Clement, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States and
candidate for Arlington County Board in Virginia
(http://www.audreyclement.org): "Women around the world are bereft of a great
leader in Wangari Maathai.  In drawing a connection between the environment
and the power and rights of women throughout the world, Dr. Maathai altered
the way we think about both.  Wangari Maathai will be remembered as a
visionary leader, like Rachel Carson, whose actions saved our planet."

? John Rensenbrink, Maine Green Independent Party and International Committee
member: "Wangari Maathai was our keynote speaker at the Bowdoin College
conference in February 2002 on Race, Justice, and the Environment.  Having
organized that three-day conference connecting social justice, race, and
ecology,  I was bowled over by her magic and warmth, her natural eloguence,
and her powerful commitment to a new way to live on this earth.  The day after
the conference she stayed to address a special meeting of the the Maine Green
Independent Party and thrilled everyone.  And when, a few years later, she was
awarded the Nobel Peace Price, I lost track of her but was told by those who
knew her that she received her fame with poise and humor, threw herself into
the often dangerous pit of Kenya politics, and continued to speak out and act
for the land, the trees, and for justice.  She is sorely missed."

? Dr. Wangari Maathai, 1992:  ?We have come a long way from ignorance to deep
insight, from fear to courage and from the streets to Parliament.  We moved
from self to others, from 'my issue' to 'our issues', from home to
communities, from national level to global.  Now we embrace the concepts of
our common home and future." ("Wangari Maathai?s quotable quotes," Agence
France Presse, September 26, 2011,
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2011/09/26/wangari-maathai%E2%80%99s-quotable-quotes)


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

"Wangari Maathai, Founder of the Kenyan Green Party, Wins Nobel Peace Prize"
Green Party press release, October 9, 2004
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_10_08_04.html

"Press Misses Big Story, As Green Party Member Beats Bush and Blair -- for the
Nobel Peace Prize"
Green Party press release, October 19, 2004
http://www.gp.org/press/pr_10_19_04.html

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Sun Oct  9 19:23:27 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:23:27 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP VIDEO RELEASE Green Party to pro-Democrat groups:
 The message of the Wall St. protests is not Vote Democrat
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Sunday, October 9, 2011



Green Party to Democratic apologists: The message of the Wall Street
protests is not 'Vote Democrat'

? Video and Livestreaming:
Green Party Occupy America http://www.gp.org/campaigns/occupy-america/index.php
Cheri Honkala, Green candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, visits
Occupy Wall Street  http://vimeo.com/29997382
Cheri Honkala speaks at Occupy DC  http://www.vimeo.com/30200014
Interview with New York Green Mark Dunlea at Occupy Wall Street
http://www.gp.org/video/display.php?ID=59
Interview with Michael O'Neil, Secretary of the Green Party of New
York State, Occupy Wall Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcQYUyfUyY


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders sharply criticized Democratic
Party supporters online and in the media who have tried to turn the
ongoing Occupy Wall Street, Occupy America, and October 2011
demonstrations across America into an appeal to vote Democrat and
reelect President Obama in 2012.

Many of the protesters have expressed their disgust with two-party
politics
(http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wall-street-protesters-disgusted-parties-14687840)
and the influence of corporate money.  Organizers have rejected
attempts to shoehorn the movement into any party and assert that the
protesters come from diverse political persuasions.

Greens, who are participating in the protests and among the
organizers, have pointed to the Green Party's alternative vision for
America, as expressed in the Green New Deal
(http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/08/11/62-green-candidates-endorse-green-new-deal)
and on the party's web site (http://www.gp.org).

The Green Party offers a platform for peace, economic security for
working people, millions of new green jobs in conservation and clean
energy development, an end to fossil fuel addiction, real steps for
curbing global climate change and restoring the health of the planet,
universal health care (Medicare For All), and reforms that would limit
the power of corporations and restore the promise of participatory
democracy and fair elections.  Green candidates do not accept
corporate money.

? Mark Dunlea, co-founder of the Green Party of New York State: "The
Democratic Party does not speak for the Occupy Wall Street, Occupy
America, and October 2011 protesters.  No political party speaks for
the protesters, not even the Green Party.  The protesters speak for
themselves.  The Green Party has endorsed and joined the demos because
we share the same frustration and anger as the other protesters.
Greens are there because we bring alternative ideas like the Green New
Deal.  And we're there because we encourage the 99 percent -- We The
People -- to organize, end pro-corporate two-party rule, and replace
the politicians in public office who enabled Wall Street's theft of
America's future.  This can only happen through an independent
alliance with the same diversity we're seeing at the protests: labor
activists, Greens, progressives, anarchists, libertarians, nonvoters,
disappointed Democrats and Republicans, and all others who want real
change."

? Sanda Everette, co-coordinator of the Coordinating Committee of the
Green Party of California: "If pro-Democrat web sites and the media
believe that the message of the protests is 'Vote Democrat' and
'Reelect Obama' in 2012, they've missed the point.  The current
demonstrations became necessary after Election Day 2008, when too many
liberal, progressive, and antiwar Democrats declared 'Mission
Accomplished' with Barack Obama's election victory.  The Democratic
Party has proved itself as dedicated to Wall Street as the GOP.  We
look forward to more protests and direct action as the election season
unfolds, especially during the 2012 Democratic and Republican
conventions."

? Farheen Hakeem, Green candidate for the Minnesota State Senate in
District 61 (http://www.farheenhakeem.org) and co-chair of the Green
Party of the United States: "Say no to the parties of war and
corporate money!  That's our message to all Americans who are worried
about the dangerous direction that the two Titanic Parties have
steered our country.  If the field of presidential candidates is
limited to incumbent Obama and the Republican nominee after the
primaries, then everything the Wall Street protesters are talking
about will be erased from the election season debate and from the
media.  Hopes for a progressive challenge in the Democratic primaries
are unrealistic.  The challenger will inevitably be defeated by the
Obama campaign juggernaut, which is already loaded with corporate
campaign checks, and the challenger's supporters will find themselves
muzzled, with the expectation that they'll vote Democrat."

? Terry Baum, Green candidate for Mayor of San Francisco
(http://terryjoanbaum.com): "Barack Obama received more Wall Street
money than any other candidate in US history.  Instead of change, the
Obama Administration gave us Phase 2 of the Bush-Cheney agenda: more
Wall Street bailouts, more endless war, more offshore oil drilling and
the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline, more mountaintop detonation
mining.  Instead of financial security for Americans, we got plans to
slash Social Security and Medicare.  We got minimal assistance for
people facing home foreclosures and more crushing debt for college
students.  We got silence about the racist death penalty and
record-high mass incarceration of young black, brown, and poor people
in a greedy private prison system.  We got a health care bill with
mandates that are a direct public subsidy for the insurance industry
(originally a Republican proposal), but no universal health care or
controls for skyrocketing medical costs.  We got impunity for Bush
officials who authorized torture and other war crimes -- and more
extraordinary rendition, more warrantless surveillance of US citizens,
more erosion of due process, more persecution of whistleblowers, and
even a secret presidential hit list of Americans targeted for
assassination."

? Cheri Honkala, Green candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia
(http://www.cherihonkala.com) running on an anti-foreclosure platform,
speaking at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC on October 6: "What I'm
doing is not symbolic.  It's concrete and Bill and Aida and Glenn
who's here with me today, like millions of people across this country
are gonna lose their homes... unless you take this seriously and not
just march about it, pray about it, and sing about it but help me fill
every damn poll in Philadelphia where there's a birthplace of
revolution and change...  We can do this again in this country and
take our country back!"

See also:

? "Green Party of the US endorses, joins 'October 2011' protest
against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and 2012 austerity budget"
Green Party media advisory, September 27, 2011
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=450

? October 2011 http://october2011.org

? Occupy Wall Street http://www.occupywallst.org

? Occupy Together: events across the US and in other countries in
solidarity with Occupy Wall Street http://www.occupytogether.org

? Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
NYC General Assembly: The Official Website of the GA at #OccupyWallStreet
http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occupation-of-new-york-city

? It's Our Economy http://itsoureconomy.us


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011
Annual National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the
Green Party's Livestream Channel
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of
the United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Wed Oct 19 14:41:24 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:41:24 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] ADVISORY Jill Stein to launch Green presidential
	campaign
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Jill Stein for President
http://www.jillstein.org

Media Advisory



Jill Stein will launch her Presidential Campaign Monday, Oct. 24 at
12:30 pm at the State House in Boston, MA.

She vows to end unemployment in America and to stop the Wall Street
robbery of Main Street.

DATE OF EVENT: Monday Oct 24
TIME: 12:30 pm
LOCATION:  State  House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston (outside)


Dr. Jill Stein, the recent Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Governor
of Massachusetts, will announce her candidacy for President of the
United States on Monday October 24 on the steps of the State House in
Boston at 12:30 PM.

A key focus on Stein's campaign will be a Green New Deal to end
unemployment in America and jump start a real recovery from the
Bush/Obama  recession. The Green New Deal will provide public jobs to
the 16% of Americans  who need one, including green jobs that will
transition America to a secure, green economy for the 21st Century.

Dr. Stein seeks to reverse the growing concentration of power and
wealth in the hands of the top 1%, an increasingly urgent problem
given the rising problems of unemployment, poverty and economic
distress afflicting vast numbers  of Americans.

Stein charges that President Obama has betrayed the voting blocs that
came together to elect him in 2008, raising hope for change, but
simply continuing  the policies of George Bush once elected:
escalating the wars in the Middle  East; extending the Bush tax cuts
while largely ignoring the unemployment  crisis; and failing to take
action on climate change.

As a medical doctor who ran against Mitt Romney in the 2002 Governor?s
race, Stein has been a critic of ?Romneycare? that was the model for
?Obamacare?.  She wants to make health care a universal right and
supports  the adoption of a single payer, improved Medicare for All
program as the only financially affordable path to quality health care
for all.

Dr. Stein will seek the Presidential nomination of the Green Party.
She expects to qualify for the ballot in at least 40 states. She also
expects to qualify for Presidential primary matching funds.

Dr. Jill Stein is a mother, housewife, physician, longtime teacher of
internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate. Dr.
Stein graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1973, and from
Harvard Medical School in 1979. She is the co-author of In Harm's Way:
Toxic Threats to Child  Development, and Environmental Threats to
Healthy Aging.

http://www.jillstein.org

Paid for by Jill Stein for President.



From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Oct 20 15:50:41 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:50:41 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP VIDEO RELEASE Greens gain key endorsements in
 2011 races across the US; 2 Greens seek pres. nomination so far
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, October 20, 2011


Green Party candidates pick up key endorsements in 2011 state and local races
across the US

? Two candidates so far will seek the Green presidential nomination

? Green Party elections and candidates http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml  /
  http://www.gp.org/elections/GOTV.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party candidates have received key endorsements in
local races across the US in the 2011 election.

The Green Party now has two contenders for the presidential nomination, Dr.
Kent Mesplay (http://www.mesplay.org) and Dr. Jill Stein, who will make her
formal declaration in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday, October 24
(http://www.jillstein.org).  The nomination will take place at the Green
Party's 2012 national convention next summer, details to be announced.

On the ballot in the November 8, 2011 general election:

? In a press conference on October 1, the Philadelphia chapter of NOW
announced its endorsement of Cheri Honkala for Sheriff of Philadelphia (video:
http://www.cherihonkala.com/?p=1121).  Ms. Honkala is running on an
anti-eviction platform and, as sheriff, will not cooperate with banks
attempted to foreclose on homeowners (http://www.cherihonkala.com).
Video of Ms. Honkala at Occupy DC: http://www.cherihonkala.com/?p=1146
Video of Ms. Honkala at Occupy Wall Street:
http://www.cherihonkala.com/?p=1134
Interview in Yes! Magazine
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/the-no-evictions-sheriff

? Rick Purcell, Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Holyoke City
Council in Ward 3, has been endorsed by United Auto Workers
(http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2011/10/07/uaw-endorses-green-for-city-council-in-holyoke-ma).
This is the UAW?s second recent endorsement of a Green in Massachusetts, after
its endorsement of Mark Miller for State Representative.  More information:
http://www.facebook.com/RickPurcellForHolyoke

? The Marin Independent Journal has endorsed Larry Bragman (incumbent) and
Ryan O'Neil for Fairfax Town Council
(http://www.marinij.com/opinion/ci_19083673).  The five-member Town Council
already has a Green majority.
More information, videos: http://www.bragmanforfairfax.com
Video: Mayor Larry Bragman On What Tea Partiers can Gain from Greens
http://vimeo.com/30821248

? Howie Hawkins has been endorsed by UNITE HERE Local 150 and the Greater
Syracuse Labor Council in his campaign for Common Councillor in Syracuse, New
York (http://www.howiehawkins.com/2011).  Mr. Hawkins was a featured speaker
in the 'No Nukes Tour' of several southern states, October 3-10.  More
information: http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=451
Article:
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/09/activist-encourages-opposition-to-nukes/

More Green campaign news and links:

? "San Francisco Mayoral Candidate Questionnaire: Terry Baum," The Huffington
Post, October 10, 2011
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/san-francisco-mayoral-candidate-terry-baum_n_1004231.html
Ms. Baum's campaign site, with videos: http://terryjoanbaum.com
Ms. Baum at Occupy San Francisco: http://terryjoanbaum.com/category/blog

? "Vote Local! Vote Green! A Grassroots Campaign" by Jack Wagner, Free
Independent Sun, October 5, 2011
http://freeindependentsun.com/republic/vote-local-vote-green-a-grassroots-campaign/

? More campaign news at Green Party Watch http://www.greenpartywatch.org

Updates from October 18 special legislative elections:

? Farheen Hakeem, running for Minnnesota State Senator in District 61
(http://www.farheenhakeem.org), placed second, ahead of the Republican. Ms.
Hakeem had been endorsed by the Minnesota chapter of NOW and also by Socialist
Alternative, the first time the latter group has ever endorsed a local
candidate.  Ms. Hakeem is a co-chair of the Green Party of the United States.

? Mark Miller, running for Massachusetts State Representative in the 3rd
District (Berkshire), also came in second, one or two percentage points behind
the Democratic winner. Mr. Miller had been endorsed by Planned Parenthood and
Mass Alliance, a statewide coalition for progressive political and advocacy
organizations (http://massalliance.org).  More information on Mr. Miller's
campaign: http://markmiller2011.org/home.html

More on the results of both races:
http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/10/18/greens-almost-win-massachusetts-legislative-seat/


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Oct 27 14:33:12 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:33:12 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE    Green Party campaign news,
 more endorsements for Green candidates in 2011 races across the US
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

http://www.gp.org/

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, October 27, 2011



Campaign news and more endorsements for Green Party candidates running in the
Nov. 8, 2011 general election

? List of endorsements for Green Party candidates:
http://www.gp.org/candidates/endorsements-2011.php

? Green Party elections and candidates http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml /
http://www.gp.org/elections/GOTV.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party candidates have continued to receive
endorsements in local races across the US.

59 Greens will be on ballots in the November 8, 2011 general election. Ten
Greens have been elected to public office in elections held earlier this year,
out of 34 candidates who competed.

Green candidates in St. Paul, Minnesota, received several endorsements. For
the first time, St. Paul will use Ranked Choice Voting (also called Instant
Runofff Voting) in City Council elections, which will increase the chances of
a Green election victory.

? TakeAction Minnesota, a progressive grassroots coalition, has endorsed Jim
Ivey for Ward 2 (http://iveyforsaintpaul.org) and Bee Kevin Xiong
(http://xiongforsaintpaul.org) for Ward 6 in City Council races.
http://www.takeactionminnesota.org/_assets/document/St._Paul_City_Council_Endorsements.pdf
http://iveyforsaintpaul.org/news/jim-ivey-endorsed-takeaction-mn

? United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1189 has also endorsed Mr. Ivey and
Mr. Xiong.
http://www.ufcw789.org/newsletter/vol2issue5.pdf
http://iveyforsaintpaul.org/news/united-food-and-commercial-workers-endorse-jim

? The St. Paul Area Association of Realtors has endorsed Mr. Xiong and Johnny
Howard, candidate for Ward 1 member of City Council (http://www.johnnyhoward.org).

Josephine Okot has been endorsed by the Maine League of Young Voters in her
campaign for At-Large member of the Portland School Board in Maine
(http://josephineokot.blogspot.com).  "I am the candidate for all voters
concerned with improving our public schools and making the real changes needed
for our children. My time in Portland schools prepared me for life and I want
to make sure all of our students can attend schools without fear of bullying,
have caring mentors who can prepare them for life after graduation and can get
to and from school safely and quickly using as much public transportation as
possible," said Ms. Okot. More on the endorsement:
http://josephineokot.blogspot.com/2011/10/josephine-receives-endorsement-from.html

Update: Terry O'Neill, national president of NOW, visited Philadelphia for a
press conference announcing NOW's endorsement of Cheri Honkala for Sheriff of
Philadelphia (video: http://www.cherihonkala.com/?p=1121). Ms. Honkala is
running on an anti-eviction platform and, as sheriff, will not cooperate with
banks attempted to foreclose on homeowners (http://www.cherihonkala.com).
Video of Ms. Honkala at Occupy DC: http://www.cherihonkala.com/?p=1146
Video of Ms. Honkala at Occupy Wall Street: http://www.cherihonkala.com/?p=1134

More Green election news:

? The Illinois Green Party and congressional candidate Laurel Lambert Schmidt
(http://www.laurel4congress.org) filed a law suit on Monday, October 24,
against the State Board of Elections over the latter's interpretation of the
"established party" statute. The board determined that the Green Party does
not retain established party status in areas of the state where Green
candidates exceeded the required 5% of the vote in 2010, claiming that since
the old districts no longer exist due to decennial redistricting, the 5% rule
does not apply in the new districts. Illinois Greens say that the board erred
in its decision and called the redistricting that led to the decision an
example of "sugarplum gerrymandering." More:
http://www.ilgp.org/news/press-releases/ilgp-schmidt-file-suit-against-state-board-of-elections

? New video clips:
Terry Baum, Green candidate for Mayor of San Francisco, at Occupy San
Francisco http://www.gp.org/video/display.php?ID=67 (campaign site:
http://terryjoanbaum.com)
Audrey Clement, Green candidate for Arlington, Virginia, County Board:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYIBqsv7zdE (campaign site:
http://www.audreyclement.org)

? "Howie Hawkins: Perennial power to the people" (on Mr. Hawkins' campaign for
4th District Councilor in Syracuse, New York)
By Ken Jackson, Urban CNY, Eagle News, October 5, 2011
http://www.eaglenewsonline.com/news/2011/oct/07/howie-hawkins-perennial-power-people/
Campaign site: http://howiehawkins.com/2011

? "Green Party candidates pick up key endorsements in 2011 state and local
races across the US"
Green Party press release, October 20, 2011
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=456

? Green Party Watch http://www.greenpartywatch.org


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php
? Green Papers http://www.greenpapers.net

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Nov  3 19:29:33 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:29:33 -0700
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Green Party urges nationwide halt on home
	foreclosures
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, November 3, 2011



Green Party calls for a nationwide moratorium on home foreclosures

? Greens urge Obama, Congress to halt further bank foreclosures: Wall Street
firms should suffer 'austerity' for the economic crisis they caused, not the
American people

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on economics:
http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-economic-justice.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States called for an immediate
nationwide moratorium on foreclosures and urged President Obama and Congress
to take steps to halt further actions by banks to foreclose on the homes of
Americans in the continuing economic recession.

"An order barring lenders from evicting people from their homes would be a
powerful first step towards restoring financial stability and easing the fears
of middle- and low-income working Americans," said John Eder, Green candidate
for Mayor of Portland, Maine (http://www.johneder.org) and former State
Representative in Maine.  "The economy might be thriving again for the one
percent, but for most Americans, the Subprime Mortgage Crisis and 2008
recession are not over.  Millions of families face the loss of their homes,
millions are without a job or only semi-employed, millions have no health
coverage or inadequate coverage."

Green Party candidate Cheri Honkala, running for Sheriff of Philadelphia in
the 2011 election, has pledged not to cooperate with banks attempting to evict
residents from their homes (http://www.cherihonkala.com).  Ms. Honkala is a
long-time housing activist and founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.

Victims of the subprime scam and Americans facing the loss of their homes
deserve assistance instead of eviction (Green Party Platform on housing:
http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/social-justice.php#1002699).  The
suspension on foreclosures should continue at least until a determination can
be made about which would-be homeowners were offered subprime mortgages by
banks with insufficient regard for the ability of the borrower to make good on
payments or get refinancing.

Greens across the US are participating in Occupy movements against the greed,
recklessness, criminality, and unchecked political power of banks, Wall Street
firms, and other corporate elites.

Green Party leaders said that major banks and other financial institutions
made billions of dollars by defrauding people who were unlikely to make good
on payments into taking out adjustable-rate mortgages, pooling the high-risk
mortgages into collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), giving the toxic
securities high ratings, and taking taxpayer-funded bailouts when the house of
cards collapsed.  The banks then began to foreclose on homes, often filing
fraudulent paperwork for eviction of families.

Democratic and Republican politicians, including Presidents Clinton and Bush,
supported the deregulation that made these actions possible and presided over
the failure of regulatory agencies to use existing laws against the abuses.
  President Clinton played signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (repealing the
Glass-Steagall Act) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which
deregulated derivatives, CDOs, credit default swaps, and other complex
securities, both of which helped trigger the crisis.

"If the federal government can bail out Wall Street firms that caused the
crisis, it can act now to protect Americans faced with the loss of their
homes," said Terry Baum, Green candidate for Mayor of San Francisco
(http://www.terryjoanbaum.com).  "When Democratic and Republican politicians
talk about austerity, funding cuts for social services, plans to slash Social
Security and Medicare, and similar steps to fix the economy, what they mean is
that working people must suffer for the irresponsibility and crimes of Wall
Street.  As the SEC's slap on the wrist penalty for Citigroup's sale of toxic
mortgage-backed securities proves, this austerity is one-sided.  CEOs and
other top staff whose behavior caused the meltdown continue to rake in
millions in salaries and bonuses."  (See "Judge questions SEC settlement with
Citigroup," The Washington Post, Oct. 27,
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/judge-questions-sec-settlement-with-citigroup/2011/10/27/gIQAe2D3MM_story.html)

Greens said that President Obama, despite his expressions of sympathy for
people facing lost homes and jobs, remains on the side of Wall Street.  Recent
news stories confirm that he is seeking and receiving fat campaign checks from
corporate contributors
(http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/era-occupy-wall-street-obama-relies-wall-street-fund-his-re-election).
  Mr. Obama received more financial industry contributions than any politician
in US history in 2008.  During this campign, he endorsed President Bush's
bailout for Wall Street.  After taking office, he stacked his administration
with Wall Street insiders like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, economics
advisor Larry Summers, and Chief of Staff Billy Daley.

"President Obama has offered window dressing instead of relief for Americans
hurt by the crisis.  He won't risk offending the banks by stopping the
foreclosures -- especially in an election season in which his campaign is
desperate for stacks of campaign checks from the 'one percent' contributors.
  He won't consider making systematic changes in how the financial industry
operates, such as restoring Glass-Steagall safeguards and breaking up the 'too
big to fail' banks.  President Obama's token steps toward change have been
matched with real steps backward -- the President's recent minimalist jobs
proposal coincided with his job-killing free-trade agreement with Korea,
Colombia, and Panama.  In contrast to the President's lip service about
change, Greens are calling for concrete solutions, starting with a moratorium
on foreclosures right now," said Mark Dunlea, former Chair of Green Party of
New York State and Executive Director of a statewide
  anti-poverty organization in New York.

"Most Republican and Democratic politicians judge the US economy according to
Dow Jones, profit margins of top corporations, the GDP, i.e., how much the
rich are getting richer.  Greens judge the economy by how many Americans have
living-wage jobs with benefits, are safe in their homes, enjoy financial
security and good health care, are moving out of poverty, and how well the
environment is protected, now and for future generations.  Those are the
priorities of the secure green economy we are committed to creating," said Mr.
Dunlea.


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php
? Green Papers http://www.greenpapers.net

"Why inequality in America is even worse than you thought: A new study shows
economic and social conditions in the U.S. rank near the bottom of the
developed nations"
By Justin Elliott, Salon.com, October 29, 2011
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/29/why_inequality_in_america_is_even_worse_than_you_thought/

"Cheat Sheet: What?s Happened to the Big Players in the Financial Crisis"
By Braden Goyette, ProPublica, October 26, 2011
http://www.propublica.org/article/cheat-sheet-whats-happened-to-the-big-players-in-the-financial-crisis

2011 Endorsements for Green Party Candidates
http://www.gp.org/candidates/endorsements-2011.php

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


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From updates at cagreens.org  Wed Nov 16 13:06:33 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:06:33 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE -  Jill Stein,
 Green for President: Keystone Delay Shows Need for More Action
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(Forwarded)

November 14, 2011

Jill Stein for President
http://www.jillstein.org
Media Release

For more info: Marnie Glickman, 415-259-7121, marnie.glickman at gmail.com
Gloria Mattera, 917-886-4538, gmattera at gmail.com


Praising Activist's Victory on Keystone Pipeline,
Stein calls Obama delay a ploy, and urges continued pressure


Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein congratulated climate change
activists for forcing the Obama Administration to back away from quick
approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

"Only six weeks ago it was clear that the Obama Administration was willing to
open the door to a measure that spelled climate disaster. What changed was not
a sudden outbreak of environmental concern in the Administration, but a cold
political calculation that approval could cost the President votes if taken
before the 2012 presidential election."

As part of her comprehensive plan to combat climate change, Stein has proposed
a "Green New Deal" that would create millions of green jobs through investment
in weatherization, renewable energy, clean manufacturing, sustainable
agriculture, public transportation and reforestation.

The Green New Deal, according to Stein, would be paid for by redirecting
trillions of dollars being squandered on wars for oil, Wall Street bailouts,
and tax breaks for the wealthy. She says she will also end the Obama
Administration's subsidies for "clean coal" schemes.

"Climate change is a ticking time bomb. But instead of taking decisive action
to protect us against the danger, the Obama Administration is studying which
route to take on the way to the destruction of our climate. The political
pressure that stayed Obama's hand this week is exactly what we need to stop
all the climate-destroying schemes being supported by the Administration and
instead put people to work building a carbon-free, secure, and sustainable
energy future."

Stein noted that "Thursday's statement from the State Department makes it
clear that the sticking point in their minds is the route of the pipeline.
This fails utterly to address the critical issue - which is the amount of
carbon that will be exhausted into the atmosphere from the Canadian tar sands.
No matter which route is taken, this pipeline is a disaster for the planet. No
further study is needed to come to this conclusion."

Stein expressed the belief, shared by many climate activists, that Obama's
delay is basically a ploy to avoid inciting the outrage of climate activists
before the election. "If there is anything we have learned, it is that
President Obama is skilled at articulating environmental concerns and then
betraying our hopes," she said.

As examples of tough talk followed by capitulation, Stein cited Obama's
permitting of mountaintop removal by coal companies in Appalachia and the
resumption of offshore oil leases following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in
the Gulf of Mexico.

As signs that the battle is not over, Stein noted statements from Keystone XL
developer Transcanada saying that they remained confident that the pipeline
will eventually be approved. She also noted that another pipeline company is
planning to import oil from tar sands using a pipeline that will not need
State Department approval.

Three weeks ago Stein launched her campaign by announcing plans to be on the
ballot in over 40 states. She said she hoped her candidacy would provide extra
leverage for climate activists seeking to halt destructive projects.
"President Obama's campaign strategists now realize that environmental voters
can't be taken for granted because the Green Party is going to provide those
voters with a truly green alternative. That creates a dynamic that makes
environmental lobbying much more effective."

###

Paid for and authorized by Jill Stein for President




From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Nov 17 15:16:16 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:16:16 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE - Six Green mayors sign letter from over
 100 mayors opposing Keystone XL pipeline
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, November 17, 2011



Six Green mayors sign on to letter from over 100 mayors opposing Keystone XL
tar sands pipeline

? Green Party Speakers Bureau: Green leaders available to speak on energy
policy http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-energy.php

? Green Party Election Results for November 2011
Green Party Watch
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2011/11/09/green-party-election-results-november-2011
Election Results Feed http://www.gp.org/elections/results-2011.php


WASHINGTON, DC -- Six Green mayors have signed on to a joint letter to
President Obama from more than 100 mayors expressing grave concerns about the
proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

The mayors, representing communities across the US, voiced relief at President
Obama's decision to postpone the decision, as well as hope that the permit for
the pipeline will be rejected when it comes up for review after the
presidential election.

A summary of the letter, a link to the text, and a list of the mayors can be
found online here:
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/sclefkowitz/over_100_mayors_voice_concern.html

The Green mayors who signed the letter are Larry Bragman (Fairfax, Calif.),
Bruce Delgado (Marina, Calif.), David Doonan (Greenwich, NY), Gayle McLaughlin
(Richmond, Calif.), Jim Sullivan (Victory, NY), and Jason West (New Paltz,
NY).  (Mayor Bragman signed after the web site was published.)

"The delay in the Keystone XL decision is a victory for all those who
protested and spoke out about the dangers of the pipeline," said David Doonan.
  "The small number of jobs created by the pipeline do not justify the health
risks of a pipeline carrying tar sands crude oil from Canada to the Gulf.  We
can create far more jobs through a national public works program that includes
conversion to safe, clean energy technology.  Besides the Keystone XL
pipeline, the Green Party has called for a ban on hydrofracking, mountaintop
removal mining, and offshore oil drilling, all of which increase fossil fuel
addiction and represent serious public health risks."

Richmond, with a population of about 103,000, is the largest US city with a
Green mayor.  Mayor Gayle McLaughlin made news recently when she
enthusiastically welcomed Occupy protests to Richmond
(http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2011/11/09/one-bay-area-mayor-welcomes-occupy-protests-to-her-city).

Mayor Jason West made national news in 2003 when he solemnized same-sex
weddings as mayor in defiance of state law, drawing 19 misdemeanor counts
(later dismissed) and a restraining order.  Same-sex marriage was legalized in
New York in July, 2011.

See also:

Tar Sands Pipelines Safety Risks
National Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/energy/tarsandssafetyrisks.asp

"Beyond Fossil Fuels"
By Cecile Lawrence, PhD, JD, New York Green Party candidate for US Senate in 2010
Green Papers, January 25, 2011
http://www.greenpapers.net/?p=58


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php
? Green Papers http://www.greenpapers.net

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~



From updates at cagreens.org  Wed Nov 23 16:29:18 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:29:18 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] Two Green Party parties in Bay Area
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Green Friends --

7 of our 11 Green Party candidates won their campaigns for local office this
month.

Now is the time to celebrate and prepare for even more victories in 2012.

*Please join me at two Green Party parties next week.*

*Green Party PARTY in Oakland, CA*
*Wednesday, November 30
6pm - 8pm*

Meet Jill Stein, candidate for the Green Party presidential nomination.

Listen to the fabulous Eliza Rickman
<http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elizarickman.com%2F&utm_campaign=fairfax_oakland&n=1&e=b29e383de7322ca3690ff576b987bc77c18c8d74&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email>,
an indie musician.

RSVP: http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/green_party_party_in_oakland
<http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/green_party_party_in_oakland?e=b29e383de7322ca3690ff576b987bc77c18c8d74&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fairfax_oakland&n=2>

*Green Party PARTY in Fairfax, the only majority Green Party town in the US
**Thursday, December 1*
*6pm - 8pm*

Meet Jill Stein, candidate for the Green Party presidential nomination, Green
Party Mayor Larry Bragman and Green Party Vice Mayor Pam Hartwell-Herrero.

Listen to the fabulous Eliza Rickman
<http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elizarickman.com%2F&utm_campaign=fairfax_oakland&n=3&e=b29e383de7322ca3690ff576b987bc77c18c8d74&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email>,

an indie musician.

RSVP: http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/green_party_party_in_fairfax
<http://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/green_party_party_in_fairfax?e=b29e383de7322ca3690ff576b987bc77c18c8d74&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fairfax_oakland&n=4>

*Can't make it? *

Please donate $5 (or more) at https://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/donate
<https://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/donate?e=b29e383de7322ca3690ff576b987bc77c18c8d74&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fairfax_oakland&n=5>.

*No spare change? *

Please volunteer 1 hour (or more) at
https://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/volunteerdetail
<https://cagreens.nationbuilder.com/volunteerdetail?e=b29e383de7322ca3690ff576b987bc77c18c8d74&utm_source=cagreens&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fairfax_oakland&n=6>.

Please contact me at any time if you have ideas for our 2012 campaign.

Best wishes,

Marnie Glickman
Managing Director
Green Party of California
www.cagreens.org
415.259.7121
marnie at cagreens.org



From updates at cagreens.org  Fri Dec  9 13:12:27 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:12:27 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Green pres. candidate Stein blasts White
 House blockade of Durban climate progress
In-Reply-To: <1323282593.28717.YahooMailNeo@web120018.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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Jill Stein for President
Media Release
http://www.jillstein.org

For Immediate Release: December 6, 2011


Stein condemns White House blockade of Durban climate progress


Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, criticized the White House
today for effectively killing a legally binding global agreement at the UN
Climate Change meeting in Durban. The meeting concludes on December 9th. Stein
has called for a Green New Deal to create jobs while reducing climate change.

"I condemn the White House's inaction in the face of a global emergency," said
Stein. "The U.S.' and other rich countries' inaction on climate change is not
only inexcusable. U.S. and global emissions continue to rise and national
legislation to reduce emissions is nowhere in sight. Even when the Democrats
controlled both the House and the Senate in 2009-10, efforts to pass even weak
legislation to reduce emissions were completely unsuccessful due to the
powerful influence of Big Oil and Big Coal on both of the establishment
political parties."

The White House's global position reflects the influence of the fossil fuel
companies that continue to dominate the energy agenda of both the Democrats
and the Republicans. President Obama has himself supported offshore drilling,
including granting permits to exploit the pristine environment of the Arctic,
expanding nuclear power, and promoting the unproven technique of Carbon
Capture and Storage (CCS).

"Climate change is the biggest threat facing the U.S. and the planet. We don't
need a nice sounding but meaningless statement coming out of Durban. The White
House continues to block the creation of binding agreements for developed
countries to reduce their greenhouse emissions and provide financial upport
for developing countries to transition to carbon-free economies," stated Dr.
Stein.

As part of her aggressive plan to combat climate change, Stein has proposed a
Green New Deal, "that would create millions of green jobs through investment
in weatherization, renewable energy, clean manufacturing, sustainable
agriculture, public transportation and reforestation. The Green New Deal,
according to Stein, would be paid for by redirecting trillions of dollars
being squandered on wars for oil, Wall Street bailouts, and tax breaks for the
wealthy. She says she will also end the White House's subsidies for "clean
coal" schemes.

The emission reduction targets of the Kyoto Protocol, the only binding
international agreement on greenhouse gases, expire in 2012. Despite the
weakness of the Protocol, the U.S. has failed to ratify the agreement under
both Democratic and Republican presidents. The United States and some other
industrialized nations say they will adopt emissions limits only if rising
powers like China, India, and Brazil (which were excluded from the original
1997 goals) also commit to matching reductions, which, according to Stein,
"has been a formula for stalemate. The U.S. and a few other developed
countries are responsible for releasing the vast majority of the global
warming pollution that's in the atmosphere. It is appropriate that we take the
lead in reducing the emissions."

"Global warming is already having a serious impact on the United States and
the rest of the world. The year 2011 has been a year of extreme weather events
marked by record rainfall and flooding, forest fires, and deadly tornadoes,
and severe hurricane activity. These events have taken a huge toll on the
lives and livelihoods of many thousands of U.S. residents. The global picture
is one of growing climate instability and ever rising emissions. Yet the
developed countries have made it clear that a new global agreement will not be
in effect until 2020 at the earliest. U.S. leadership is desperately needed to
galvanize a new world treaty to rescue the climate and our future economy that
depends on it."

Since the disastrous UN climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, the White House
has worked to undermine the chances of a rules-based global agreement along
the lines of the Kyoto Protocol. The Administration's support for ineffective
voluntary commitments to reduce emissions in the form of a so-called "pledge
and review" system has brought the UN process to the brink of collapse, as
other major emitters have followed the U.S. and lowered their own already
inadequate emissions reductions targets.

"This isn't leadership" said Stein. "It's an abdication of responsibility to
the future that we can no longer tolerate."

- 30 -

Paid for and authorized by Jill Stein for President

# # #




From updates at cagreens.org  Mon Dec 12 18:02:19 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:02:19 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Greens urge Obama to condemn police
 brutality against Occupy protesters
In-Reply-To: <1323679077.52402.YahooMailNeo@web120005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References: <1323679077.52402.YahooMailNeo@web120005.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4EE6B22B.8060101@greens.org>






GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, December 12, 2011



Greens urge President Obama to condemn police brutality against Occupy protesters


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders called for strong national condemnation
of the brutal actions of police forces in their treatment of Occupy Movement
protesters in several cities.

"We encourage political leaders, beginning with President Obama, to express
revulsion and anger at the violent and destructive behavior of police in their
handling of nonviolent protesters, and to take whatever action they can to
prevent such brutality.  We urge all Americans to understand that police
forces that use military tactics and are unaccountable for their actions
represent a threat to our freedoms," said Howie Hawkins, co-chair of the Green
Party of New York State.

Greens cited the use of pepper-spray, tear gas, batons, and other weapons, as
well as violent manhandling, handcuffs locked tight enough to cause nerve
damage, and other tactics that inflict severe pain and injury on peaceful
protesters.  Incidents like the use of pepper-spray on the faces of sitting
protesters by police at the University of California, Davis constitute torture
and deserve aggressive investigation and prosecution, said Green leaders.

Greens also called for a probe of the alleged role of the FBI and Homeland
Security Department in the suppression of protest, which if may implicate the
Obama Administration in the police brutality
(http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/occupy-crackdown-legal.html).

Greens have participated in Occupy demonstrations throughout the US, in many
cases helping to organize protests and speaking at rallies.

"While protesters face shocking brutality in some cities, the Wall Street
executives who committed crimes to enrich themselves and wrecked the US
economy have gone unpunished.  Peddling adjustable-rate subprime mortgages to
borrowers unlikely to be able to pay, bundling these high-risk loans into
toxic securities, assigning the securities top ratings -- these are acts of
malfeasance and fraud.  It's shameful that nonviolent protesters face billy
clubs, pepper spray, tear gas, and jail, while the Wall Street perpetrators
get to enjoy their bailouts and bonuses with impunity.  President Obama has
expressed sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street protesters, but his
administration still acts like it's on the side of the criminal plutocrats,"
said Tamar Yager, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States.

Green candidates, including contenders for the Green presidential nomination,
have been outspoken in their support for and participation in Occupy events.
  Presidential candidate Jill Stein has remained active in Occupy Boston
(http://www.jillstein.org/what_it_means_to_support_occupy_wall_street_movement) and
initiated the "First Amendment Pledge of Non-Cooperation with Police
Repression" (http://www.jillstein.org/sign_the_first_amendment_pledge).  Kent
Mesplay (http://www.mesplay.org) is also running for the Green nomination;
more candidates may declare soon.

Greens compared the more brutal actions by police with the atrocious treatment
of Civil Rights Movement participants by law enforcement, under orders from
notorious public officials, police chiefs, and sheriffs like Birmingham Public
Safety Commissioner Bull Connor during the 1950s and 1960s, and noted that, in
too many places, such abuses have continued against Blacks, Latinos, and
others up to the present time, usually outside of the media spotlight.

"The Occupy Movement has pulled a culture of violence in many police
departments out into the open.  The same policy of unaccountability is behind
the recent Defense Authorization bill passed in the US Senate that would allow
our military to detain US citizens on American soil indefinitely on suspicion
of terrorism, without constitutionally guaranteed due process and habeas
corpus.  If such trends continue without interruption, we'll soon find
ourselves living in a police state," said Leenie Halbert, co-chair of the
Green Party of the United States.

"Police officers themselves, like other public employees, are bearing the
burden of reductions in benefits, job security, and workers' rights in the
public sector, as part of the 'austerity' that Americans are being asked to
tolerate because of Wall Street's criminal actions.  They should be on the
side of the protesters," said Ms. Halbert.

See also:

Green Party press releases

? "As some Occupy Movement participants turn to electoral activism, the Green
Party send them an invitation" (Nov. 15, 2011)
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=460

? "Green Party calls for a nationwide moratorium on home foreclosures" (Nov.
3, 2011)
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=458

? "Green Party to Democratic apologists: The message of the Wall Street
protests is not 'Vote Democrat'" (Oct. 9, 2011)
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=453

"My Occupy LA Arrest"
By Patrick Meighan, Dec. 6, 2011
http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-occupy-la-arrest-by-patrick-meighan.html

"One Bay Area mayor WELCOMES Occupy protests to her city"
("At least one Bay Area mayor is actually welcoming the Occupy Wall Street
movement to her city: [Green] Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin.")
By Joe Garofoli, Politics Blog, San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 2011
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2011/11/09/one-bay-area-mayor-welcomes-occupy-protests-to-her-city/


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php
? Green Papers http://www.greenpapers.net

2012 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention
July 12-15, 2012 in Baltimore, Md.
http://www.gpconvention2012.com

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~


From updates at cagreens.org  Sat Dec 17 13:26:00 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:26:00 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] Walk to Free Leonard Peltier
In-Reply-To: <4EED087C.9060203@greens.org>
References: <4EED087C.9060203@greens.org>
Message-ID: <4EED08E8.3010808@greens.org>






~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

                                     ** PLEASE CIRCULATE **


Dear Green Party Members,

As a member of the California Free Leonard Peltier Caucus, I'm writing to
inform the Green Party membership that on Dec. 18 the Native Americans are
starting their spiritual walk for awareness of their situation and history
including the unfair imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.   The walk will take
them across the country to end in Washington, DC in May.

This is a golden opportunity for the Greens to practice their values and aid
in this endeavor.The Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee has a list of
the many cities they will be stopping at across the country. They also have a
list of volunteer opportunities. Their contact is 
<http://whoisleonardpeltier.info>.

In these days of 99% awareness it is most imperative that the Green Party
become more visible and more viable to those most in need of our values.
Besides volunteering for this event the causus is soliciting signatures on a
petition for presidential pardon for Leonard Peltier.  That petition can be
signed on line at  <http://www.petitiononline.org/greens/petition.html> or for a
downloadable copy go to  <http://cagreens.org/caucuses/free-peltier>.

We need our Green members to be active as never before to save what's left of
this democracy. Let's get going before it's really too late.

Ever Green,

Dorothy Kemeny
Coordinator, GPCA Free Leonard Peltier Caucus



From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Dec 20 11:06:56 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:06:56 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] GP RELEASE Green Party welcomes news of troop
 withdrawal from Iraq, urges further steps for peace
In-Reply-To: <1324288470.67987.YahooMailNeo@web120001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References: <1324288470.67987.YahooMailNeo@web120001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, December 19, 2011

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614,
mclarty at greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org


Green Party welcomes news of troop withdrawal from Iraq, urges further steps
for peace


WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders welcomed the news of the withdrawal of
US troops from Iraq by the end of December, calling the presidential order
more than eight years overdue.  Greens urged President Obama to let the troops
come home to be with their families for the holiday, rather than stationed or
redeployed elsewhere.

"We're glad that President Obama is calling all US military personnel home
from Iraq and has ignored Republican demands to prolong the occupation.  The
President is honoring a binding Status of Forces Agreement between the United
States and Iraq that President Bush signed.  The US must make every effort now
to help US troops return to their civilian lives, especially those who've been
wounded or have suffered psychological trauma because of the war.  We owe the
troops a great debt and an apology for sending them to fight in a war based on
deception and cooked intelligence," said Carl Romanelli, Pennsylvania Green
and member of the party's International Committee
(http://www.gp.org/committees/intl).

Greens noted that the withdrawal is the result of the Iraqi government's
insistence and that the Obama Administration was initially reluctant to comply
with the agreement
(http://www.nationaljournal.com/u-s-troop-withdrawal-motivated-by-iraqi-insistence-not-u-s-choice-20111021).

The Green Party opposed the invasion of Iraq since its inception in March 2003
and demanded withdrawal afterwards.  Greens blamed both Democrats and
Republicans for transferring congressional war powers to the White House in
Oct. 2002 despite uncertainty about WMD allegations (later revealed to have
been the product of manipulated intelligence), forged evidence of nuclear
weaponry, and implausible claims of cooperation between Saddam Hussein and
Al-Qaeda.

Greens participated in protests throughout the US against the Iraq War, and --
unlike many Democrats who claimed to oppose the war -- continued to protest
after President Obama's election.

The Green Party called on President Obama to take further steps to ensure peace:

? The Obama Administration must also withdraw remaining personnel from private
US security firms, whose presence in Iraq would constitute a low-level
military occupation. These include thousands of State Department security
contractors, despite the abuses and fraud in Iraq by firms like KBR and Xe
(formerly Blackwater), which are not subject to the same restrictions and
public scrutiny as US  military personnel.  (See "Out of Iraq: What Will the
War Service Industry Do Now?" by Dina Rasor, Truthout, Oct. 26,
http://www.truth-out.org/out-iraq-what-will-war-service-industry-do-now/1319637699)

? The US owes Iraq billions of dollars in reparations for the loss of hundreds
of thousands of civilian lives, many more wounded and displaced, and
destruction of the country's infrastruction in an unnecessary war.

? The US should cease pressing Iraq to transfer control over much of the
country's oil resources to US and UK energy companies, such as the hydrocarbon
law still stalled in the Iraqi Parliament.  The Iraqi people have consistently
opposed the deal and prefer that their country's oil be developed and produced
by Iraqi state-owned companies.

? The Obama Administration must withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, end air
strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, and other countries, and
cancel funding for Israel's military assaults on Palestinians.  The continuing
US military action in these countries remains a threat to peace in the region.

? Congress must reduce the bloated military budget and reject the
Bush-Cheney-Obama policy of warfare for preemptive and aggressive purposes,
such as ousting other heads of state.  The cost of the Iraq War for the US has
surpassed three trillion dollars, an economic loss that aggravated the current
economic crisis.  The human cost includes nearly 4,500 lost American lives and
over 32,000 seriously wounded.  (More information: Costs of War,
http://costsofwar.org)


MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191
? Green candidate database and campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
? News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
? Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
? Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/ballotstatus
? Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php
? Green Papers http://www.greenpapers.net

2012 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention
July 12-15, 2012 in Baltimore, Md.
http://www.gpconvention2012.com

Occupy America: Voices of Green Party Activists
http://www.gp.org/ows

Press conferences, forums, and other events at the Green Party's 2011 Annual
National Meeting in Alfred, NY, broadcast and archived on the Green Party's
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
? 2011 Annual National Meeting http://nygreenfest.org

Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the
United States (Summer 2011 issue now online)
http://gp.org/greenpages-blog


~ END ~



From updates at cagreens.org  Tue Dec 20 17:09:18 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:09:18 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] ACTION ALERT - Occupy vs JP Morgan
In-Reply-To: <959643812.722435238@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com>
References: <959643812.722435238@wfc.wfcDB.mail.democracyinaction.com>
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The following message is a request for people to email JP Morgan about not 
foreclosing on homes at Christmas and to pursue mortgage modifications.


This was received by the GPCA unsolicited, but they think we can help. We have 
endorsed the Occupy movement but do not have an affiliation with ReFund 
California or ACCE. This action is in line with the issues raised by Occupy. 
Please act on this if you feel moved to do so.

Jim Stauffer
GPCA Clearinghouse



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Update: Gayla & Arturo still #occupying
Date: 	Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:50:28 -0500 (EST)
From: 	Peggy Mears, ReFund California & ACCE <reply at calorganize.org>
Reply-To: 	reply at calorganize.org
To: 	gpca at greens.org



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Dear Brent,

/
Twas the week before Christmas
and all through the land
The people were preparing
to make a real stand..../

We all know how the real poem goes, complete with happy ending. To achieve
that happy ending we need you to take a moment from your busy holiday schedule
to send an email to one of 35 JP Morgan Chase Bank executives telling them to
modify these loans and give the people their homes for the holidays.

A few weeks ago we introduced you to Gayla Newsome of Oakland and Arturo de
los Santos of Riverside, both of whom are pursuing mortgage modifications from
JP Morgan Chase Bank.

Gayla has now been at home for two weeks and has stood firm in her decision to
not leave. Likewise, Arturo has moved back into his home and refuses to leave.
With your help, they have been talking to community leaders, friends and
family and keeping the pressure on JP Morgan Chase Bank to give them fair and
permanent mortgage modifications.

Gayla and Arturo can't do this alone. They still need your help. Please email
JP Morgan Chase and tell them that everyone deserves to have their home for
the holidays and that they need to work with Gayla, Arturo and the thousands
like them around the country to give them fair and permanent mortgage
modifications.
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Thank you for all you do and may your holidays be enriched by knowing that
you're helping others to celebrate their holidays in their own homes.

Happy Holidays!

Peggy Mears, ReFund California and ACCE



From updates at cagreens.org  Thu Dec 22 18:41:30 2011
From: updates at cagreens.org (Green Party of California Updates)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:41:30 -0800
Subject: [GPCA Updates] RELEASE Green pres. candidate Stein blasts Obama
 Admin. blocking of Morning After Pill
In-Reply-To: <1324577958.86245.YahooMailNeo@web120006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References: <1324577958.86245.YahooMailNeo@web120006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4EF3EA5A.3020000@greens.org>








Jill Stein for President
Media Release
http://www.jillstein.org

For Immediate Release: December 20, 2011


Obama White House is a danger to women's health

Stein Opposes HHS Decision Blocking Expanded Access to Morning After Pill


Dr. Jill Stein, MD, the Green Party presidential candidate, has strongly
criticized an action by Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen
Sebelius taking the unprecedented step of overruling the Food and Drug
Administration's decision to expand access to the Morning After Pill (MAP).

"The Obama administration is clearly more concerned about political battle
over access to contraceptives during an election year than the health of
millions of women in the U.S.," said Stein, a graduate of and former faculty
member at Harvard Medical School.

"This decision should have been based on science and women's right to health
care, not appeasement of birth control opponents. Once again, the Obama
Administration has shown its willingness to sacrifice principle for political
expediency, and the result is a further restriction on the right of women to
control our own bodies," added Stein.

The FDA's review of the scientific evidence and 60 national medical groups
recommended that MAP be available without a prescription. Women in more than
46 other countries can get MAP without a prescription.

Experts says there is no medical basis for refusing women access to MAP based
on age. The Morning-After Pill is a safe and effective form of contraception
that can prevent pregnancy after sex. It can be taken within 5 days of sex, is
most effective when taken within 24 hours and can reduce the risk of
unintended pregnancy by up to 89% percent, according to www.not-2-late.com.

On December 7, 2011, the FDA decided that the prescription requirement for
women under 17 should be removed. This meant that millions of young women
could get the pill over-the-counter without going through a doctor. This
change would benefit all women - the pill would no longer be stuck
"behind-the-counter."

"The fight for accessing emergency contraceptives is a fight to access health
care, something Democrats and Republicans alike restrict by refusing to
implement a national, publicly-funded universal health care system," added
Stein, a long-time advocate for a single payer, expanded and improved Medicare
for All program.

Stein also took aim at the threatened Obama decision to restrict coverage of
basic birth control under the Affordable Care Act. "It is astounding that the
President is considering expansion of a sweeping refusal clause that allows
predominantly secular colleges and hospitals with religious affiliations to
deny birth control coverage for students and employees. This would take
reproductive health back into the 19th Century."

Stein noted that the new health law already restricts access to private health
insurance policies that cover abortion. If the new law is fully implemented,
it will be impossible for some women to choose a health insurance plan that
covers abortion without paying an additional fee, and some companies can
refuse to offer plans that cover abortion completely.

Stein pointed out that the opposition by both the Obama White House and both
parties in Congress to making health care a universal right -- like the rest
of the industrialized world -- actually contributes to a higher rate of
abortion. Abortions are obviously unnecessary when women have unimpeded access
to birth control and can prevent unintended pregnancy in the first place. In
countries with single payer health care for all programs, where family
planning and abortion services are free and more accessible than in America,
abortion rates are actually significantly lower than in the United States.


Paid for and authorized by Jill Stein for President