Dear Friend,

Today, on this day that we focus on the power of oppressed and working people around the world, we hope you will join the Green Party in both voice and action in standing up for the rights of workers, immigrants, and the 99%.

The Green Party of the United States has long promoted Earth Day to May Day to highlight the deep connection between our environment and the various movements for social change. We will not win needed climate action without true systemic changes that address the racial, social, and economic injustices that continue to harm the earth, its people, and all the species that inhabit it.

Green Party activists are at the forefront of the movements for democracy and justice not only at home, but around the globe.

• We stand with oppressed people – from the Movement for Black Lives, to the fight for reproductive freedom, to the battle for LGBTQIA+ liberation, and beyond; the Green Party is there.
• We fight for justice – from the picket line to the ballot box, from the prisons to the schools, on the border and in the streets, the Green Party remains committed to abolishing the school to prison pipeline, promoting worker and immigrant rights, ending student debt, and addressing the injustice that surrounds our lives.
• We fight for the planet and the rights of nature – promoting sustainable food, water management, and renewable energy; while opposing dangerous and irresponsible tar-sands oil, fracking, nuclear power and more.

We have the solutions to build a sustainable world – what we lack is the political will to do so. The political leaders in our country are subservient to the military-industrial complex and the interests of Wall Street. We need to create a new democratic and ecological economy. We must define this economy with the rights of workers in mind, not only their right to collectively bargain, but their right to form and organize worker and community owned cooperatives where they receive the full value of their labor. The stranglehold of capitalism must be broken.

Our Ecosocialist Green New Deal, which we first called for back in 2010, requires the United States to reconstruct all economic sectors for ecological sustainability, from agriculture and manufacturing to housing and transportation. This means millions of new jobs in a democratized economy where public ownership and democratic control replace the drive to maximize profits for the 1%. The Green Party strongly criticizes attempts to co-opt, redirect, and water down that message with the recent reintroduction of the AOC-Markey resolution which will make no real strides in addressing the current climate crisis. We urge AOC and other leaders in congress to embrace the Green Party's Original Green New Deal.

Please consider making a special May Day contribution to the Green Party as a consistent voice in support of the rights of all individuals and in the creation of a different world based on the common good.

Earth Day Every Day and Solidarity Forever,

Mark Dunlea and DawnMarie Green

Eco Action Committee Co-Chairs

The Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org/

P.S. We always encourage folks to adopt practices that help reduce their carbon footprint. We have an excellent selection of sustainable and union-made goods available on our website shop, including sturdy and stylish reusable totes!