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Green PNC Keynote Speaker: Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimperely, executive editor and senior columnist of Black Agenda Report, will be the keynote speaker at the Green Party's Presidential Nominating Convention, which will take place online from Thursday, August 15 to Saturday, August 18. Ms. Kimberley will speak on Saturday, August 17, before Green delegates nominate the party's presidential candidate . . . .
"The Green Party is again proving itself to be indispensable as the duopoly parties collude on austerity, war, and ecological assaults," said Margaret Kimberley. "The people are told to support massive defense budgets, genocides, their own immiseration, cop cities, and climate change caused by fossil fuel production. Only the Green Party provides voters with a pathway for change and for the very survival of humanity." READ THE FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>
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PA Green News
Edited by Chris Robinson
Imagine Bilbo Baggins Refusing to Give up the Ring of Power. That's Joe Biden
Dianne Carroll (Allegheny) says, “So they replace the doddering old guy with someone who's going to continue the same genocidal, environmentally destructive, dgaf about poor people policies. Makes no difference to me. I'll still be voting for Jill Stein.” READ MORE HERE <[link removed]>
U.S. Congress Owes $270,000 to Jill Stein
“Democrats and Republicans in Congress stole taxpayer donations for grassroots presidential campaigns to fund the Secret Service and now won't pay [the Green Party]. They did this quietly with the $1.2 trillion bill to avoid government shutdown. When you do your taxes, you can check a box to donate $3 for the Presidential Matching Fund. To help grassroots political movements, Congress has a Presidential Matching Fund to allow taxpayers to opt into matching the donations that Presidential candidates receive...If you checked the $3 box, you should be upset right now.”
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National Green News
Edited by David Ochmanowicz Jr.
Green Party Celebrates Assange's Release, says Journalists Still at Risk
The Green Party of the United States welcomes the news of Julian Assange's release from Belmarsh maximum security prison in London and return to Australia . . . . "The charges against Assange not only threatened press freedom everywhere, they gave license to tyrants like Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to brag about their war crimes and to target journalists," said Jason Call, candidate for the US House of Representatives from Washington's 2nd Congressional District. READ THE FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>
Dems for Democracy — But Only if You Vote for Them
With polls showing that Americans aren’t enamored of the Biden administration’s failed immigration and economic policies, Democrats have opted to direct attention to Donald Trump and his supposed danger to “democracy.” Fair enough, but while progressives repeatedly tout the virtues of “democracy” — apparently unaware that the nation was founded as a democratic republic, not a pure democracy — they also fight persistently to limit the choices available to voters. In Nevada last week, the [Democratic] Party filed suit in Carson City to prevent the Green Party <[link removed]> from placing a candidate, likely Jill Stein <[link removed]>, on the state’s November presidential ballot. Nationally, Democrats also aggressively tried to keep a possible No Labels candidate from appearing before voters and have made efforts in various states to block Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from ballots. Apparently, democracy can be saved only by curtailing democracy.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>
Biden: "We beat Medicare." Green Party: "Enact Medicare For All now."
In the wake of President Joe Biden's inexplicable "We beat Medicare" during the CNN debate on Thursday, June 27, the Green Party of the U.S. reiterated its support for single-payer universal health care . . . . OpenSecrets, which tracks financial contributions to political parties and candidates, reports millions of dollars from insurance companies and the private health sector for Democrats and Republicans, with Democrats receiving more. The Green Party and Green candidates accept no contributions from corporations or PACs. Green congressional candidates will work to enact expanded and improved Medicare For All if elected and also repair deficiencies in current proposed legislation such as the role for private insurance companies, which Greens would eliminate.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>
Global Green News
Edited by Hal Brown
At 2024 Olympic Games New Tool to Measure Air Quality
This new air quality measurement and forecast tool makes it possible to know pollution rates street by street. Users will therefore be able to obtain information in real time on the concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere, particularly at the Olympic sites...The idea...is to make information and also recommendations more accessible in the event of an episode of increased pollution.
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UN commits to Fight Sand and Dust Storms
The United Nations has declared 2025-2034 the Sandstorm Decade. This initiative...involves “revegetation” in order to “keep a maximum level of humidity on the surface: if you add relief or plants, trees in particular, you will obviously reduce the impact of these winds on the surface.” READ THE FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>
Green Party of Mexico: Initiative to Prohibit Exhibition of Wild Animals
Mexican Greens are protesting against anyone who exposes wild animals for commercial purposes and in unauthorized places. They are demanding severe sanctions against offenders who will have to pay fines of five thousand to five million pesos...“Animals are living beings, so it is unacceptable that in the 21st century society maintains practices that threaten their wellbeing and the balance of nature in general, such as the exhibition and handling of wild animals in the streets or in small establishments,” concluded [Senator Alejandra Lagunes]. READ THE FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>
Low Snow on Himalayas Threatens Water Security
The snow and ice of the Himalayas provide an essential source of water for the 240 million people living in mountainous regions and another 1.65 billion people living in valleys in several countries. In a report published last week, scientists from the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (Icimod)...warn: these millions of people who depend on melting Himalayan snow for their water supply face a risk of shortage this year.
READ THE FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>
GPPA Meeting Date for 2024
All State Web Conferences will begin promptly at noon.
Sunday, September 8, in McKean County
Sunday, November 10, via Zoom
GPPA Communications Team
Issue Credits
Editors: Hal Brown, Patrick O. McNally, David Ochmanowicz, Jr. and Chris Robinson
Contributor: Dianne Carroll
Layout: Hal Brown, Sherri Miller, and David Ochmanowicz Jr.
Graphic Arts: Kevin Richardson
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