Hello Friend,

Four dead in Ohio. 54 years ago. I still remember that day all too clearly. It was my first day of resistance.

As a middle schooler I was already speaking out against the Vietnam War but not really participating in any protests. Older brothers of friends were being drafted, moving to Canada, going to jail. Campuses were rising up but the idea of college to me was dorm life, debate, hanging out on the quad. Then four students were murdered on their campus by young men their age, militarized by the U.S. war machine at home.

I was horrified and angry. With homemade black armbands I organized a walk-out the next day. My first suspension for political organizing in public school. No surprise my path led me to 20+ years of organizing in the only political party that stands unwaveringly for peace - the Green Party.

On this 54th anniversary of the murders at Kent State, a day of shame, we need to recognize the commitment and bravery of students around the country today as they have risked diplomas, scholarships and possibly career opportunities by organizing encampments in opposition to genocide and the complicity of their universities in funding it. An increasingly militarized police force has violently arrested and assaulted students and staff on campuses in the last several days. Its heart wrenching to see.

Green Party candidates and organizers around the country have been standing arm in arm with these students risking arrests alongside them or providing support and supplies for the encampments. We stand in solidarity with the students’ right to protest and their demands which include a permanent ceasefire and an end to military funding to Israel.

Your monthly donation to the Green Party fuels our advocacy and helps our principled anti-war candidates with ballot access and outreach. Can you chip in today?

In solidarity,

Gloria Mattera, Fundraising Committee Co-Chair

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

P.S. Check out YES Stands with Gaza College Encampments, a statement from The Young Ecosocialists, the youth caucus of the Green Party of the United States.