Proposal from Connecticut and Rhode Island to change the name of
the ASGP.
The Green Party of the United States Contacts:
Nancy Allen, Media Coordinator 207-326-4576, nallen@acadia.net
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, scottmclarty@yahoo.com
WHEREAS, global ecological, political, and social
environments are rapidly approaching a catastrophe which threatens the
world's peace, democracy, prosperity, and very survival, and
WHEREAS, the desperate state of the nation, and
the world, demand a strong and vibrant Green party in the United
States, to work alongside existing Green parties in more than 90 other
countries, and
WHEREAS, the Green parties of various states have
reached a new stage of development, flourishing in nearly every one of
the fifty states and the District of Columbia -- but have not taken
the final legal steps toward establishing the Green Party of the
United States, and
WHEREAS, twenty-nine state Green parties have
already affiliated with, and eight others are in the process of
joining, the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP), and
WHEREAS, creating the Green Party of the United
States requires that a Green Party National Committee be officially
registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC),
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Green Party of
Rhode Island calls on all fellow Green parties to support, endorse,
and authorize ASGP's filing with the FEC, as soon as practical,
subsequent to the July meeting of the ASGP Coordinating Committee in
Santa Barbara, California, to move forward with the creation of the
Green Party of the United States as the legally constituted national
Green Party in the United States.
Whereas the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP)
has grown and developed to the point where it is appropriate to form a
Green Party National Committee, and Whereas it is appropriate that the
Green Party National Committee be named the Green Party of the United
States, and
Whereas the committees, rules, and structure of
the ASGP are in alignment with what the Green Party National Committee
should have as its structure, rules and committees.
Therefore, be it resolved, that the ASGP shall
transform its name into the GPUS, while carrying forward its rules,
structure, and officers, and shall file with the FEC using the rules
and structure brought forward from the ASGP.
