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Hi Greens!
So...how was your first month of 2020? Whew!
We've had a big start to a big year: opposing Trump's reckless
aggression against Iran and Iraq, setting the stage for our 2020
presidential campaign and fighting back against an early fusillade of
smears from the corporate party power structure. Our
appreciation and support goes out to all of the Greens braving the
winter cold to gather at peace demonstrations, rally for the climate,
and doing early field work for campaigns. Campaigns are won through
preparation!  And speaking of preparation, it's never
too early to prepare for the 2020 Green Party Annual National Meeting and
Presidential Nominating Convention! This year's gathering
will take place in Detroit, Michigan at Wayne State University from
July 9-12 — mark your calendars now and keep an eye
on this
page for February announcements about registration,
lodging, workshops and more! The theme for this year
is Climate Justice, Social Justice, Economic
Democracy — three principles that are essential to both
finding solutions to the crises we face and overcoming the power
structure that blocks the reforms we need. We must be bold in
our thinking and fierce in our campaigning, for the two-party cartel
is as desperate as it is vulnerable — it will use the nightmare of
Trump to constrain political possibilities as much as we let them. We
must keep fighting for multi-party democracy as the first step toward
Grassroots Democracy! Fight smart, keep training and lift each
other up. We got this!
- Michael O'Neil, GreenLine
Editor and Green Party Communications Manager
 Before we get to our national convention, however,
we need to have state conventions! After all, our affiliated state
Green Parties need to choose who will represent them as delegates to
the national convention.
Thanks to Green Party national Web Manager David Doonan, you can
see state convention dates as they're announced at gp.org/2020_state_conventions.
Don't see your state listed there? Send a note to [email protected].Washington
has already held theirs, and Ohio and Illinois have conventions
scheduled for February. Greens Assemble!
 Can't wait until then? Well, you can also gather
with Greens online this Tuesday night during our "Green Party Watch
Party" of Trump's (🤢) State of the Union Address. We'll simulcast the address on our Facebook
Page while looking for your LIVE comments and ripostes to
the president's repugnant propaganda talking
points. Then we'll livestream a response from
Greens to cut through the evening's lies and break down the REAL state
of the union and what we need to do about it. So ditch the
corporate media "spin rooms" and duopoly party talking heads and make
a night of it with your Green fam 📺!
Just click on the pic below to order your
merchandise today!
Individual caucus buttons are the newest
items.
Created by the Merchandise Committee, we are earmarking
portions of the proceeds to benefit the caucus directly.
Greens In Wisconsin and Maine Make the News by Speaking
Out Against War With Iran
 WORT — Madison, WI radio: "Protesters say, 'No War in
Iran'"
...Dave Schwab,
a member of the Green Party, says that Trump was aided by members of
both parties who, quote, “handed him a loaded gun with the safety off”
by passing a $738 billion defense spending bill for 2020 without
restricting the use of military force in Iran.
“I think that most Americans are
against these wars, and yet they’re stuck in a two-party trap which
gives them no other option, and people just accept that, but I think
people need to demand more and say, ‘If you’re going to continue
giving trillions of dollars to kill people in the Middle East, then
we’re just not going to vote for you’,” Schwab says.
In July, the House voted to pass
an amendment from California Congressman Ro Khanna to the National
Defense Authorization Act.
CONTINUED...
 WGME
— Portland, ME: Maine protestors voice concern following air strike in
Iraq
The protesters created signs and stood
on the corner waving to drivers passing by on Congress Street.
U.S. Senate Green candidate Lisa Savage attended the
protest.
She says the tension between the U.S,
Iran and Iraq have gone on for decades, under multiple presidents, and
that there needs to be a check in power.
"Congress has for the past 20 years or
so has not been doing their duty of overseeing the war making powers
of the executive branch of government," said Savage.
CONTINUED...
GPNY Leaders Connect With Youth Leadership on
Climate
Jim McCabe, Green Party of New York secretary and Gloria Mattera,
GPNY & Green Party National Co-chair joined Alexandria
Villaseñor (co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and founder of Earth
Uprising) on a chilly January morning at her weekly School
Strike 4 Climate Friday. Alexandria has taken time from school every
Friday morning since December 2018 as part of the world-wide student
movement Fridays4Future.
 Baltimore
Sun Publishes Green's Call For Democracy in Filling Vacant Elected
Offices
"Shortly after Congressman Elijah Cummings passed away, Gov.
Larry Hogan announced a special election to fill the remainder of his
term. In the United States House of Representatives, all members must
be elected by the voters. It is inconceivable that we would simply
allow Democratic Party insiders to choose Mr. Cummings’
replacement.
It should be
equally inconceivable to allow party appointments to the Maryland
House of Delegates. The unfortunate reality, however, is that
nearly 20% of the members of the General Assembly were appointed by
their party when they first took office. This number will
increase in the very near future..."
 Frida
Berrigan on New London, CT campaign: "Sometimes We Make Our Own
Hope"
"On Tuesday, November 7th, when the polls opened at six in the
morning, it was cold and clear. It rained hard through the middle of
the day. When those polls closed at eight that night, it was warmer
and humid, but no longer raining. I was outside all day, rain or (not
quite) shine, moving between the three polling stations with my
friends and our signs and our cards that explained how to “Write In
Frida for Mayor.”
That’s right: I wasn’t just running as a third-party candidate in a
Democratic town, but as one not even on the ballot. The state had lost
my paperwork. The Green Party hired a lawyer and sued, but the judge
ruled against us and declined to order the secretary of state to put
my name on the ballot. That setback made an uphill campaign into an
Everest. I embraced the climb. Being a pacifist and an activist means
that lost causes are par for the course for me and, as a Catholic, I
believe hard work is its own reward."
 JAN 06, 2020 Greens
Speak in the streets and to Congress: No War With Iran, Troops Out of
Iraq, Repeal the War Powers Act
The Green Party of the United States has joined allies in the
peace movement throughout the country in vigorous opposition to a U.S.
war with Iran, participating in public protests on Saturday and
launching an online drive to demand Congress prevent Trump from
further hostilities against Iran and its people.
The Green Party’s online campaign to call Congress can be
found at gp.org/iran-action,
where allies can find contact information for their congressional
representatives and assistance on what to say.
Greens joined demonstrations in at least 80 cities in 38
states over the weekend in response to the assassination of Iranian
Major General Qassim Suleimani on Iraqi soil, which the Green Party
has called an act of war and an unconscionable escalation of
hostilities in a region where the U.S. has already wreaked immense
devastation over decades. CONTINUE
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