Call for Candidates
The Green Party of Texas (GPTX) is now recruiting Green candidates who support our ten key values for the 2020 general election ballot. For detailed information on running as a Green, please review our Candidate FAQ.
GPTX is committed to maintaining a ballot line to advocate for the people's issues as articulated in our platform. For this reason, GPTX has joined with other parties, candidates, and voters in filing a lawsuit to challenge Texas' unconstitutionally burdensome ballot access requirements.
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We're looking for the right person
Help Wanted: Candidate to Run for U.S. Senate!
The Illinois Green Party is looking for a well-qualified candidate to run for U.S. Senate in 2020.
Instead of waiting for someone to come to us and then seeing if that person is a good fit, we have decided to set out our qualifications first, and then see if you, or anyone you know, would like to apply for the role.
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Venezuelan Embassy Protectors Defense Committee calls on Trump Administration to drop all charges against defenders
The newly formed Embassy Protectors Defense Committee created in response to the arrest and bogus charges leveled by the Trump Administration against the last four remaining activists of the Embassy Protective Collective that occupied the Venezuela Embassy for 37 days, has launched an international campaign to demand that the Trump administration drop all Federal charges against the protectors.
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Homeless take over public library, in movie and in real life
In a case of art imitates life imitates art, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is taking a page from a Hollywood film released earlier this year, "The Public," and is occupying the Philadelphia Free Library at 1901 Vine St. These anti-poverty advocates are demanding affordable housing and welfare for people in Pennsylvania and across the country. They will stay in the library until the City of Philadelphia or Pennsylvania provides an affordable housing option for one of their members, Tanya, who is representative of so many people who were pushed out of shelters and had their general assistance cut. The movie, "The Public," was written and directed by Emilio Estevez, and portrays the takeover of a library by homeless people in Cincinnati, OH.
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Photographs from our ANM in Salem
Photographs from the 2019 Annual National Meeting held in Salem, Massachusetts can now be viewed on our Flickr album.
Meleiza Figueroa on tonight's A Green Way Forward
Please join us on A Green Way Forward on Monday, August 19 at 5:00 p.m. pacific, 8:00 p.m. eastern when our guest will be Meleiza Figueroa, Press Director for the 2016 Stein/Baraka campaign.
Mel is worker-owner at The Cooperative New School for Urban Studies and Environmental Justice and serves on the steering committee of the Campus Antifascist Network, a national organization representing over two thousand students, faculty, and staff on hundreds of campus communities around the country.
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Green Party of Nassau County will discuss why the Nassau County Correctional Center is a human rights catastrophe
Nassau County, NY – The next meeting of the Green Party of Nassau County is scheduled for this coming Monday, August 19, 2019, 7:30 p.m. at the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 West Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520.
Our meeting this month will feature a presentation on the prison-industrial complex. All are invited, including the general public. A description of the presentation follows.
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Greenish Reading Group discusses Climate Change & Post-Capitalism
ST LOUIS – At our next reading group we will be discussing the first chapters 4, 5 & 6 of Daniel Tanuro’s book, Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work.
This is part of the ongoing reading group of several Green Party members interested in socialism and environmentalism.
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Black Community Leader / City Council Candidate brutalized and falsely arrested for recording brutality by the NYPD
BROOKLYN, NY – Community Leader, City Council Candidate and Leader of the Brooklyn Sector of Copwatch Patrol Unit, Anthony Beckford, was brutalized, falsely arrested and had his constitutional rights violated by the NYPD on Friday August 10, 2019 during a Rally in Times Square commemorating the 5th year anniversary of the murder of Mike Brown by police. Mr. Beckford was trying to record an incident of brutality by the NYPD against a protestor, when he became a victim of severe brutality himself by the NYPD and was falsely arrested and charged.
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Young Ecosocialists conference call tonight!
Come and learn about the Young Ecosocialists and how you can get involved!
Monday, August 12, 2019 at 9:15 p.m. EDT / 6:15 p.m. PDT
TO JOIN THE CALL:
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