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Friends--
Greenstar Newsletter from GPPA
 The Green Star is the official
newsletter of the Green Party of Pennsylvania.
April 2023
PA Green News
By Chris
Robinson
Green Party Candidate Announces Bid For
PA House of Representatives District 113
Richard Maopolski of Scranton, PA, has
officially declared himself a Green Party candidate in the 2024
electoral race for Pennsylvania State Representative District 113. The
District is in Lackawanna County, and is composed of most of Scranton.
Maopolski will run as a Green because he says, "The Republicans have
forgotten fiscal responsibility, but it's the Democrats in power who
have forgotten why we fight." He will caucus with neither party and
looks to build a coalition of sharp-as-auditors fiscal representatives
with a group of progressives who haven't forgotten to get into "good
trouble."
READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
PA Greens Elect Co-Chair
 County delegates to the Green
Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) had a busy meeting on March 12. The 26
delegates and friends from 11 counties endorsed the National Peace
March on the White House scheduled for March 18.
The delegates
also elected by consensus a second GPPA co-chair. Jeremy R. Griffin
(he/him), the new co-chair of GPPA, is a podcaster, public speaker,
educator, researcher, geographer and Kutztown University alum. He
played a paramount role in gathering petitions for two Green Party
candidates: Paul Glover for PA Governor and Glenn C. Davis for PA
House District 190 in 2014. Griffin also played an outreach role for
Kearni Warren, who ran as a Green Party candidate for Chester City
Council in 2021.
Allegheny Greens Picket on International Women’s
Day
Members and friends of the Green Party of
Allegheny County (GPOAC) joined a picket in front of a fake abortion
center on March 8, International Women’s Day. The event was hosted by
the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Demonstrators demanded funding
for women’s and LGBTQ people’s healthcare, not fake abortion
clinics. READ THE FULL STORY
HERE
Campaign Updates
Edited by Chris Robinson
GREEN STAR has heard that some Green Party members
are considering a run for local office in November 2023. Well, folks,
NOW is the time to make up your mind, organize your campaign
committee, and request authorization from your county Green Party. The
best way to get on the ballot will be to gather signatures on your
nomination papers outside polling places during the May 18 Primary
Election.
Below are the two candidates who have already contacted
GREEN STAR at [email protected]
2023 Election
Tara Yaney for Re-Election to Edgewood Borough
Council
Allegheny
County
Tara tells GREEN STAR that she has
a BS in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and directs the
Pittsburgh Concert Orchestra Junior Wind Ensemble. Tara will run for
re-election this year. You might donate to her campaign via her
website, https://taraforedgewood.com/
2024 Election
Richard Maopolski for PA Representative District
113
Lackawanna County
Richard tells GREEN STAR that he
plans to help rebuild the Green Party of Lackawanna County, and to
then ask the Green Party of PA to authorize his candidacy. Richard is
a life-long resident of Lackawanna County. He says he “has a proven
track record of following his principles, volunteering in the
community, and being able to accomplish some of the most difficult of
things.” To volunteer for his campaign committee, please contact
Richard at, [email protected]
Team Reports
Edited by Patrick O. McNally
The Green Party of
Pennsylvania has four Action Teams. Here are reports from two of those
teams:
 Communication
Team by Chris Robinson and David Ochmanowicz Jr.
This month, the ComTeam has published a
fantastic April GREEN STAR, and we sure can use your help in getting
out the May GREEN STAR. We are now working on several draft news
releases for the media. If you find publicity and outreach exciting,
please let us know at [email protected]
Oh yeah, we really need jpg photos of Greens being Green. Thanks!
Please join the Communication Team right here www.gpofpa.org/team_communications_join
 Finance Team by Tre
Schumacher
The GPPA Finance Team’s
goals for 2023 include the hosting of two in-person fundraisers and
six phone banks to urge Greens to become dues-paying members. The
Finance Team does not meet on a regular basis, but rather on an ad hoc
basis. If you would like to participate on the Finance Team by
fundraising, organizing a phonebanking drive, or assisting in duties
such as managing Green Party merchandise, drafting our annual budget,
bookkeeping, or compliance and reporting, please sign up at the
following link.
Join
the Finance Team
National Green News
Edited by David Ochmanowicz Jr.
Thousands March in Washington, DC, to Launch New
Movement Against U.S. Empire
 Jill Stein of the
Green Party warned about the nuclear threat posed by escalation
between nuclear powers: “These are not like the Hiroshima bombs of
decades ago. These are a thousand times stronger. It only takes a
handful to basically create nuclear winter that will starve billions
of people. Anyone who thinks that the nuclear war happens ‘over there,
don’t worry about it,’ you’ve got another thing to learn. The nuclear
war happens to all of us.” READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
Green and Libertarian Parties
Petition NY Supreme Court Over Restrictive Ballot
Access
The third parties think the new ballot restrictions meet no
legitimate state interest besides guaranteeing Democrat and Republican
hold on government.
READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
Left in New York Join the Green Transformation
Jack Baldwin has been a Green Party
member and an activist since 2000. He has belonged to various antiwar
groups as well as Occupy the Pipeline, and currently he is a member of
The Manhattan Project, a New York-based anti-nuclear group, and
Extinction Rebellion NYC, the New York branch of the worldwide
environmental organization. He joins us from New York to discuss the
March 25 meeting, Join the Green Transformation, a Green Party of NY
County effort to mobilize left voter
LISTEN
TO THIS INTERVIEW HERE
Global Green News
Edited by Hal Brown
Zambia: Green Party President Faces
Threats and Intimidation
 The Green Party of Zambia expresses concern for the safety
and security of its President. He accuses the outgoing UPND Kwacha
deputy, Charles Abel Mulenga, of being among the instigators of these
threats. According to the Green Party, Mulenga claimed that [Green
Party] President [Peter] Sinkamba wanted his election nullified by the
Constitutional Court. READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
Turkish Green Party Wins Case Against Interior
Ministry
During the first week in March,] the court ruled in favor of the
Turkish Green Party. A court in Ankara found the Interior Ministry
guilty of trying to prevent the establishment of the Green Party by
not providing the necessary documents. Ankara’s 8th Administrative
Court ruled that the Interior Ministry had committed an “unfair act”
against the Green Party on the grounds that the former had “actually
prevented the establishment of the party by not issuing receipts for
documents required for its establishment.”
READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
Malta’s Green Party Presents Candidates for the European
Parliament
European elections will take place in
2024...Malta’s Green Party ADPD is, for its part, already in battle
order to take an active part in these elections...Ralph Cassar, Sandra
Gauci and Mina Jack Tolu are therefore the three candidates who will
represent the party in these elections. They have been validly
approved by the executive of the Green Party ADPD...Malta’s Green
Party ADPD is a progressive political party, born from the merger of
Alternattiva Demokratika and Partit Demokratiku. Together, these two
small parties won under 3% of the vote in the 2017 general
election. READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
GPPA Meeting Dates for 2023
All State Web Conferences will begin promptly at
noon.
Saturday
and Sunday, June 10 and 11, location to be
announced.
Saturday and Sunday,
September 9 and 10, location to be announced.
Sunday, November 12, via
Zoom.
GPPA Communications
Team
Issue Credits
Editors: Hal Brown, Patrick O. McNally, David Ochmanowicz
Jr. and Chris Robinson
Contributors: Richard Maopolski, David Ochmanowicz Jr.,
Chris Robinson, Tre Schumacher and Tara Yaney
Layout: Hal Brown, Sherri Miller and David Ochmanowicz
Jr.
Graphic Arts: Kevin Richardson
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2023.
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