Misión Boricua: First Recovery Summit for Puerto Rico
The Green Party of Florida has been invited to be one of the co-hosting/sponsoring organizations for this summit along with the U.S. Green Party Latinx Caucus. Please contact our point person and Co-Chair Jennifer Sullivan if you wish to attend this event as a representative for the Green Party of Florida.
Misión Boricua will take place on Thursday, November 16, 2017 from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Additional information can be found on Facebook.
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Jacqui Deveneau wins award from Peace Action Maine
Earlier this week Jacqui Deveneau was awarded the Peace Action Maine Peace Worker's Award. Her prepared remarks are below.
I am very moved to receive this award. When I moved back to Maine in 2002 the first organization I signed up with was the Green Party which is no surprise to you all. But right after that I was walking down by Monument Square and ran into a group of Peace activists collecting signatures for Nuclear Disarmament that was a nation wide petition. I hung out with these folks the rest of their time there and at the end when it was time to leave, Greg Field, who I grew to know and admire greatly as the director of PAM at that point, turned to me and asked if I would be the one to take this on! And that is how I got involved with PAM. So many wonderful people, many are in this room worked with me back then.
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Black is Back 8th Annual Mobilization and Conference
The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations calls on all black people and freedom-loving people from throughout the U.S. to gather in Washington, D.C. to lay out our organized response to the war being waged against the peoples of the world and African people within the U.S.
The march and conference will be held in Washington, DC on November 4th & 5th.
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Green Party at Left Forum West Coast
Members of the Green Party of the United States will participate in two workshops at this weekend's Left Forum in Los Angeles.
David Cobb, Angelica Duenas and Mel Figueroa will help present Can the Green Party be a Multi-Racial Working Class Political Party?, while David Cobb and Sean Bohac will help present From Resistance To Running For Office: How Progressives Can Build Progressive Alliances to Win.
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DuPage Greens November Meeting
In these trying times with a neofascist takeover of the leadership of the most powerful nation in the world and an Illinois legislature passing budgets with regressive flat income tax increases that stick it to the working poor and middle class, it’s our duty to the 99% to provide a vigorous opposition to the two party tyranny, so…
Don’t Demoralize, Organize!
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Grow Green With Us – Become a Voting Member!
Did you know that the rank-and-file membership of the Illinois Green Party holds the highest decision-making authority in the party?
It's true! Members vote on the Platform, the Bylaws, their local candidate selection, and more. We have no structure of superdelegates, unelected party chiefs, or other top-down authority.
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Hartford County Greens to meet on November 1
Next Hartford County Chapter meeting of the Green Party of Connecticut will be held on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 6:30 pm for about 90 minutes.
PROPOSED AGENDAHartford county agenda items:Updates from our liaisons with other organizations with similar values: David Ionno, Veterans for Peace; etc.
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Are you serious about honest voting?
Election justice is a topic that has been circulating in public discussions as of late. Folks are unhappy with questionable practices on behalf of Election Inspectors such as using a waste can for votes in Ionia or huge discrepancies with vote totals in Detroit.
Jill Stein spearheaded a recount of last year's election. Michiganders across the state are calling for electoral reforms including an end to gerrymandering of voting districts.
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FREE Green Party Movie Night on Thursday in Pawtucket!
On Thursday, October 26 at 7 pm the Green Party of Rhode Island is hosting a free screening of Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War (dirs. Alice T. Day and Lincoln H. Day, 2008). Called "a surprisingly moving experience" by Barbara Jasny of Science magazine, the film examines how the military-industrial complex and perpetual war for perpetual peace is eroding the biosphere.
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Join the Wisconsin Greens Fall Gathering Nov. 11 in Muskego!
Please join us for the Wisconsin Green Party Fall Gathering, hosted by the Waukesha Greens on Saturday November 11th.
With 61% of Americans saying we need a new major party, now is a critical time to build the one party that puts people, planet and peace over profit.
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