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Friends--
August 
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
All Presidential Nominating
Convention (PNC) Delegates and Annual National Meeting (ANM)
participants MUST REGISTER to receive instructions on how to convene
with us online. Please register as soon as possible, https://www.gp.org/2024_anm
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
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.”
READ
MORE HERE
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
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 from placing a candidate, likely Jill
Stein, 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
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
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.
READ THE FULL STORY
HERE
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
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
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
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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