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Campaign Updates

By Chris Robinson

Pennsylvania elections are organized around an annual calendar: odd years are devoted to local elections, while even years are devoted to the election of candidates for state and national offices. During 2025 PA voters will elect local officials, while they will elect state and national officials in 2026.

Offices to be elected during 2025 will include city, borough and township offices such as mayor, supervisor, auditor, sheriff and tax collector. Also county offices such as commissioner and auditor.  

Offices to be elected during 2026 will include a new PA governor, auditor general and treasurer. Also 18 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as 25 PA Senators and 203 members of the PA House of Representatives.

The primary election each year is only used by the Republican and Democratic Parties to choose their candidates. Members of other parties (Green Party, Libertarians, Constitution, etc.) and non-party members (aka “independents”) may not vote in the Primary Election. The Green Party’s chance to run candidates takes place each year in the general election in November.

Green Party candidates who plan to run in 2025 and 2026 are welcome to contact GREEN STAR at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

2024 GPPA Candidates

PA STATE-WIDE

In the 2024 General Election on November 5, the Green Party of Pennsylvania has the following candidates on the ballot for state-wide office. In the December GREEN STAR, we will let you know how well each of them did.

Dr. Jill Stein for President of the U.S. and Dr. Rudolph “Butch” T. Ware for Vice President.

Leila Hazou for U.S. Senate from PA. The candidate is from Pike County.



Richard L. Weiss, Esq. for PA Attorney General.

PA Green News

Edited by Chris Robinson

Building Allegheny Greens

The Green Party of Allegheny County (GPOAC) has continued building their chapter with several tabling events at Bloomfield Saturday Market and Squirrel Hill Market. They have also hosted bi-month, open house socials. The GPOAC Halloween Social was held on October 15 at their new office in Oakland. To help with GPOAC organizing, please donate here [link removed] <[link removed]>

In Memory of Ed Cloonan (1947 – 2024

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It was with great sadness that the Green Party of Allegheny County (GPOAC) shared that longtime Green Party member, activist, and friend Ed Cloonan of Munhall, PA, passed away on October 11. According to his friends and family, it was a very peaceful transition, and Ed looked calm. Ed had recently been a part of a "Catholicism and Communism" podcast on Spotify. Ed spent his entire career as a union leader in Pennsylvania, and he was staunchly committed to the anti-war effort.
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Team Reports

Edited by Patrick O. McNally

Communication Team by Chris Robinson

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This is not really the 95th issue of GPPA’s GREEN STAR newsletter. If you look at the index to back issues, it incorrectly appears that our first GREEN STAR was published in the Summer, 2008. The national Green Party had just completed its annual convention in Chicago, where Greens had nominated Cynthia McKinney for President and Rosa Clemente for Vice President.
Unfortunately, that is not really correct because there were some earlier issues which have never been digitized. The first GREEN STAR in our index claims to be Volume 6, Issue 3, which puts the first GREEN STAR sometime in 2003. 
If you have any of those hard-copy GREEN STARS, please contact [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Thank you.
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Please join the Communication Team right here.
www.gpofpa.org/team_communications_join <[link removed]>

Green Wave Team

At the team’s October 18 mobilization meeting, the team discussed short- and long-term goals to build the GPPA’s strength and support for future campaigns. 

One short term goal is getting the GPPA to the status of Minor Party, to gain more flexibility, including the ability to run in special elections. These are a great opportunity for GPPA candidates, and are typically held when an elected official resigns or otherwise leaves office before the end of their term. To get minor party status in Pennsylvania, we need to get 2% of the largest candidate vote in at least ten counties and also state-wide. Greenwave looked at the data from past elections to select which ten counties would be of particular focus in our get-out-the-vote, campaign signage, and phone banking efforts in light of this 2% requirement. 

The busy weeks before November 5 have seen an outpouring of support from volunteers from all over the state and beyond, showing what is possible when we join our efforts. We are energized! Our message of People, Planet and Peace has particularly resonated with all who are rightly horrified by the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and unflinching Democrat and Republican support for it. Volunteers from the Muslim community are helping immensely in getting the message out, distributing fliers and signs, talking with friends and family about the issues, and always finding new opportunities for outreach and advocacy.

The Team’s long term goal is to maintain momentum beyond the election, to be organized around the issues, and to recruit and support local and state GPPA candidates to successfully run campaigns and get elected. Join the Green Wave Team’s next meeting to build power for a better world.

Please join the Green Wave Team right here.
www.gpofpa.org/team_greenwave_join <[link removed]>

National ‌Green‌ ‌News

Edited by David Ochmanowicz Jr.

Media Collusion with Smear Campaigns



Who are Voters of Tomorrow? Apparently they’re an organization that claims to speak for Gen Z and prop up the anti-Democratic Party. But they’re not particularly popular with Gen Z or anyone else, judging by the fact that their posts and videos get very few views, shares and likes. Guy Christensen, well-known on social media as Your Favorite Guy, has some thoughts on the matter. Guy is also Gen Z, and his videos are wildly popular with young people because he’s lending his powerful voice to their righteous anger over the genocide in Gaza which the Biden-Harris administration has been funding to the tune of billions of dollars and massive weapon transfers to Israel for over a year.
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Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Praises Maine Voting System



By Emma Davis.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said the days of voting against one’s conscience are numbered because states like Maine are adopting ranked choice voting. “If you also want to cast a lesser evil vote — if you can figure out who the lesser evil is — you can have whatever kind of vote you want,” Stein said, “but just ensure that your number one vote is to stop genocide.”
Stein described a vote for either of the major party candidates — Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump — as a vote for genocide during a panel discussion at the University of Southern Maine in Portland on Monday, which marked one year since Hamas militants launched an attack on Israel...
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Green Women Candidates Running in 2024

On October 2, the Green Party presented a live web stream featuring Green Women Candidates running in 2024.

Segment 1: Candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate 

Christina Khalil <khalilforsenate.com> – U.S. Senate from New Jersey
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Robin Brownfield <[link removed]>– U.S. House of Representatives from District 1, New Jersey
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Robin Lee Vargas <[link removed]> – District 27, Texas State Senate
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Moderator: Margaret Elisabeth, former co-chair of the Green Party U.S., former Green candidate for Seattle City Council, co-chair of the Lavender Green Caucus

Segment 2: Candidates for state, county, and local office 

Toneal M. Jackson <[link removed]>– Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner, Cook County, Illinois
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Rita Ryan <[link removed] >– House of Representatives, District 12, Hawaii
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Aqeela J. El-Amin Bakheit <[link removed] >– Lake County Board of Education, Trustee Area 1, California
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Marnie Glickman <[link removed]>– Portland City Council, Oregon

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Moderator: Holly Hart, Secretary of the Green Party U.S.
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Global Green News

Edited by Hal Brown

Floods in Nepal Leave at Least 170 Dead, 42 Missing

Large parts of the eastern and central parts of the Himalayan country have been flooded. Rivers have experienced flash floods, causing widespread damage and loss of life. FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>

Southern Africa: Five Countries in State of Disaster

“The World Food Programme is appealing for help today,” says Tomson Phiri, WFP spokesperson for Southern Africa. He insists, “We must prevent this situation from becoming a regional humanitarian catastrophe.” WFP estimates that 27 million people are currently affected by the food crisis, including 21 million children who are malnourished. October marks the start of the lean season and, according to WFP, “each month will be worse than the last, until next spring.” FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>

Columbia: Amazon River Reduced by 90%

“The water level has decreased by 80 to 90% in the last three months due to the drought caused by climate change in the country,” said the National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD). According to the UNGRD, “the low level of the Amazon River affects the food supply and navigability of indigenous communities in the department” of the same name in Colombia. At least 7,400 people are affected by this drop in water levels, in a region where indigenous local communities travel mainly by boat. FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>

Climate Crisis: Where is the energy transition in the world less than a month before COP29 in Azerbaijan?For the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Fatih Birol, humanity is opening a new chapter in its energy history.  The current transition phase “will define the global energy system in the future and will be increasingly based on clean sources of electricity,” he predicts in the introduction to the organization’s annual report on the world energy outlook published on Wednesday, October 16 . . . . 
“Clean electricity is the future, and one of the striking conclusions of this report is the speed with which electricity demand will increase,” insists Fatih Birol. According to the head of the IEA, “the equivalent of the electricity consumption of the ten largest cities in the world [is added] to global demand every year.” FULL STORY HERE <[link removed]>



GPPA Meeting Date for 2024

All State Committee Meetings will begin promptly at noon.
Sunday, November 10, via Zoom

Proposed Meeting Dates for 2025
January 12,
March 9,
June 8,
September 7, and
November 9. 



GPPA Communications Team
Issue Credits

Editors: Hal Brown, Patrick O. McNally, David Ochmanowicz, Jr. and Chris Robinson

Contributors: Theron Gilliland Jr, Chris Robinson and Jay Ting Walker

Layout: Hal Brown, Sherri Miller, and David Ochmanowicz Jr.

Graphic Arts: Kevin Richardson



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