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Oh, what a difference a month makes.
March saw the COVID-19 pandemic sweep across this nation and
transform daily life for millions of people. Many have lost their jobs
while others are being coerced to work in dangerous circumstances.
Brave workers in multiple sectors are boldly pushing back. People are
trying to keep it together when, for the sake of safety, we are asked
to remain physically apart.
Of course the system failed us, and not
just President Trump. Decades of cutting public services, suppressing
Medicare-For-All and squeezing workers — all for the benefit of
corporate profits — have let us with scandalously threadbare
protections against a crisis of this scale.
We must figure out how — even in these unique and alienating
circumstances — to support each other and to organize
to build the power necessary to hold the bi-partisan system
accountable for its failures.
That is why we must keep fighting to build the Green Party as a
home for everyday people who have been all but
forsaken by the two-party cartel and their Wall Street
paymasters.
Read on and learn about how that work continues and how you
can be part of the change we need.
—Michael O'Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party
Communications Manager
 Green Party US and State Parties Respond to
COVID-19 Pandemic, Implications for Communities and Candidates
In addition to the government's unjust
bailouts for corporations while leaving working people with the barest
assistance, we are also dealing with the consequences of
how "social distancing" to contain the pandemic could have the effect
of killing grassroots candidates' chances of getting on the ballot
this year.
Use our action center to email
your governor today and demand that candidates be granted emergency
relief from normal petitioning requirements.
We should not be asked to sacrifice democratic participation in
elections when officials can readily grant the exceptions necessary to
keep communities safe and allow candidates the
opportunity to serve those communities in public office.
Learn more about how state Green Parties and
candidates are responding to COVID-19
 Save the date: July 9-12,
2020 Green Party
Presidential Nominating Convention
The Annual National Meeting (ANM) Committee is exploring a range of
possibilities to convene our Presidential Nominating Committee (PNC)
with Wayne State University (WSU), including different virtual
options. We appreciate that WSU is working with us and giving us time
to evaluate options as conditions develop.
We have some folks gathering information from state parties to
ensure any adapted convention we may have meets their ballot access
requirements. We expect to reach a decision no later than mid-May, if
not sooner, on how to proceed, so please keep looking for
announcements.
We
are still accepting (and encouraging) registration to cover convention
costs, regardless of format. But we have paused
registration for meals and housing, at this time. Register online here.
Dee Taylor and Tamar Yager
Annual National Committee
Co-Chairs
Just click on the pic below to order your
merchandise today!
 A Green Puerto Rico
Report from Darlene Elias on her February visit
to the first national congress of Estado Nacional Soberano de Borinken
(National Sovereign State of Puerto Rico)
I think a lot about the future of Puerto Rico. Especially
after the hurricanes and recent earthquakes. Puerto Rico has been in a
recession the last twelve years. It also has been plagued by
corruption and the imposition of the Junta (financial control board)
has just made matters worse.
People are leaving Puerto Rico by the thousands in search for
a better life. Now the amount of Puerto Ricans living in the United
States has surpassed the number on the island. The population of
Puerto Ricans continues to decrease with every major calamity.
Something that has concerned me since I first learned about the forced
sterilization of Puerto Rican women. My thoughts always bring me to
the question of what can be done to improve the outlook of Puerto
Rico. The answer I always arrive at is the United States has to cut
with the purse strings and set Puerto Rico free.
CONTINUE READING...
Keep Up To Date With
The Green Party Presidential Primary Candidates
Lisa
Savage For US Senate (ME) Calls for Immediate Rent and Mortgage
Relief
Lisa Savage, Independent Green candidate
for U.S. Senate from Solon, launched
a Congressional petition this week, calling for
legislation to enact forgiveness of rent payments for all residential
renters and abatement of all mortgages on residential buildings with
five dwelling units or fewer. While the legislation should be enacted
immediately, she said, any eventual legislation should be retroactive
to April 1 and last one month past any local, state, or federal
declaration of emergency, shelter in place order, or widespread social
distancing order that keeps a significant portion of the populace out
of work.
"Countless people have lost some or all of their income in the
pandemic and are worried about how to pay their rent or make their
mortgage payments coming due on April 1st," said Savage.
CONTINUE READING...
 Green Party of Minnesota Takes on
COVID-19, Duopoly Corruption, Keeps Celebrating and Organizing in the
Community
Green Party of Pennsylvania Holds Virtual State Meeting In
Lieu of Convention, Models Virtual Meetings for Other
States
GPPA
cancelled their March 21-22 state convention in accordance with social
distancing but held a virtual conference on the 22nd so
the state committee could conduct necessary business.
The meeting had Green Party guests from Florida and Michigan to see
how GPPA holds productive and secure meetings online!
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