Green Party of Santa Clara February Newsletter
We have arrived at the month of LOVE and our government is sharing no love with the seven countries we continue wage war and occupation in. We are dedicating February to PEACE, one of the four pillars of the Green Party, and we are gearing up for our Divestment Community Forum and many anti-war street rallies for peace. What we need in our world is more peacemongers, so we are getting our community engaged in the PEACE MOVEMENT. Please join us at our events and help put People, Planet and Peace Over Profit.
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February Newsletter – Convention Details!
January was an active month for the Green Party of Texas. We filed with TX SOS to seek 2018 ballot access. Many Greens across Texas participated in the national Women's March activities including the Harris County Green Party with the Houston Women’s March. Many Greens across the country spoke to our Green vision and platform at Greens speak out on the State of the Union. This series offers good insight into what it means to be Green. The Green Party nationally offered it's response to Trump’s State of the Union.
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Green Star News and Events from the Green Party of Pennsylvania
15 Elected Greens in PA Office!
We had great results for election year 2017. We're gearing up for 2018, including several special elections. If you want to get involved and work with us directly on these efforts, consider volunteering or joining a committee.
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Green Party of Brooklyn February meeting
The Green Party of Brooklyn is looking forward to a lively discussion of what is important to you as a Green Party member, and how we can organize and engage around those important issues.
Nominations and vote for GPBK State Committee representative. Our county delegation has a vacancy due to one of our representatives moving away from Brooklyn. Nominations for the empty seat will be taken at the meeting. If you are interested in being nominated or nominating someone else, please contact [email protected]. You must be registered Green Party in Brooklyn to be eligible.
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Strategic Planning & Challenging Corporate Rule meetings in New Orleans
Join us on Tuesday, January 30 at 2018's first meeting of the Green Party of New Orleans. Our focus will be on strategic planning.
The meeting will start at 6:00 PM at the Mid-City Branch Library in New Orleans (4140 Canal Street). The prospective agenda for the meeting below can be found below.
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Resisting Militarism, McCarthyism, Deportations
Please join me in Boston this Sunday January 28 at Building Power in Boston & Beyond: Resisting Militarism, McCarthyism, Austerity, Deportations & more.
The American empire is teetering at the brink, abroad and at home, where nearly half of Americans are in or near poverty, and 75% are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling in the face of austerity created by a military budget that knows no bounds. Decades of US military and economic domination have generated failed states, worse terrorist threats, and waves of mass migration.
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Illinois Greens Fundraising for Takeover Attempt in Cook County
The Green Party doesn't often get a chance to run for majority control of an elected body in a single electoral cycle—but that's exactly how the Illinois Green Party is positioned for the November 2018 election in Cook County.
With five of the nine seats on Cook County's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board of Commissioners on the ballot in November, majority control of the billion-dollar, taxpayer-funded agency is suddenly in play. And as the only opposition party with five candidates filed for those five seats, the Green Party has a compelling case that voters tired of decades-long one-party rule by the Democrats should rally behind the Green flag in November.
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ICE wants to deport man days after winning award
Just days after winning the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award from the Highland Park, New Jersey Human Relations Commission, ICE agents showed up at the home of Harry Pangemanan. He won the award for helping restore 209 houses damaged during Super Storm Sandy. See below for a 2016 report about Pangemanan's volunteer work.
Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale, the former Green Gubernatorial candidate, was on hand to document ICE agents knocking on Pangemanan's front door.
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The Passing of Annie Young
It is with a heavy heart that we have learned of the passing of former Green Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner Annie Young.
Annie had always been a pioneering and visionary activist in all the fields she endeavored to enter. Politics was certainly no exception. Annie was one of the very first Green Party elected officials in the state of Minnesota. She had recently retired as one of the longest-serving Green Party elected officials in the entire country.
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Progress has always come from the streets
Remarks by Illinois Green Party Secretary Geoffrey Cubbage at the March to Shut Down Racism, War & Bigotry, January 21, 2018
"We are here today because we are a party that believes social progress has never come from the halls of power. Progress has always come from the streets. The people who need change most are the people who make change.
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