Greenline: October 2009
Greens Need Your Help to Get Elected Next Week
Next Tuesday is Election Day in many cities, counties and states. Over 150 Green Party candidates are running for city boards, county commissions, and many other local and county positions. With every Green elected to local office we get one step closer to elected Greens as Governor, state representative, and members of the United States Congress. They need your help in the last few days of the campaign!
Please visit our comprehensive elections database to find a candidate in your area. Call them up and offer a few hours of your time this weekend to make some phone calls on their behalf, pass out literature in your neighborhood, wave a campaign sign on busy street corner, or write a last-minute letter to the editor on behalf of your local Green Party candidate. On Wednesday, search our candidate database for 2010 candidates in your area and volunteer to help them start campaigning for next year's election now!
Connect With Greens On-Line
According to recent polls, just under half of all Americans are using Facebook to stay in touch with their friends and neighbors, and approximately 20% of American are using Twitter to send their friends constant updates of their daily activities. The Green Party of the United States is staying connected with its members through these social networks and we want you to join us! If you are already on Facebook or Twitter (or right after you sign up) connect with the Green Party at our Facebook page and our Twitter feed.
Don't forget that social networks are a great place to ask your friends to make a financial contribution to the Green Party. Forward them the following link - http://bit.ly/gp-fb-donate - and if they make a contribution, we will know they found their way to us through a social networking site. Stay connected and help build a strong, financially sustainable Green Party!
New On-Line Issue of Green Pages Available
Green Pages, the national newsletter of the Green Party, is releasing new content regularly through our on-line edition. Check out the Fall 2009 edition here.
The newest issue features articles on Green Party activists at the recent protests of the international G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, PA, a Green analysis of the Congressional debate over health care reform, Green Party activism on election reform in Connecticut and Illinois, and much more. You can post articles from this latest edition on your local and state party websites, blogs, and your Facebook and Twitter pages, or print articles to distribute at events or local meetings.
If you would like a full edition to hand out to new members or at local tabling events, the Summer 2009 edition is still available for sale in our online store. Most of this edition was written to stay relevant for the rest of the year, so order today!
Sunflower T-Shirts Still on Sale
Visit our online store now to pick up some new Green Party items. Because of your demand, we now carry long-sleeve Green Party logo t-shirts. Perfect for winter! These shirts, like all of our apparel, are union-made in the USA.
Our olive green Sunflower t-shirts are still on sale! For only $15, pick up a thick cotton t-shirt with a bright yellow Sunflower logo and "gp.org" on the front. The back features the Four Pillars of the Green Party - Non-Violence, Grassroots Democracy, Ecological Wisdom, and Social Justice in Spanish.
Help Us Reach Our Sustainer Goal
Help us reach the goal we set at our national meeting of funding our operations with the help of 500 sustainers giving $10,000 a month by the end of 2009. Sustaining pledges of $10 or $20 a month from everyone who reads this message will let us do so much more to support campaigns, candidates, state Green Parties, and our own national outreach efforts. Click here to become a sustaining donor to the Green Party today!
If you are unable to give a monthly gift please donate what you can today to strengthen our voice so that we can make our vision a reality. With your help we can provide support for candidates, spread the Green message and work for a more just and sustainable world. If you have given recently, please consider giving more. And, if you haven't given in some time, please consider making today the day you give.
The Green Party takes no money from private health insurance providers or pharmaceutical lobbyists. In fact, we don't take any corporate money because we think corporate money in politics is wrong. If you agree, please help us today. Your donation to the Green Party will help make sure we have a strong Green party today and into the future.
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