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Friends--
November
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].
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
https://www.alleghenygreens.org/donate
In Memory of Ed Cloonan (1947 –
2024
)
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.
FOR
MORE INFORMATION
Team Reports
Edited by Patrick O.
McNally
 Communication Team by Chris
Robinson
[Content/Annotation Here
Below]
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]. Thank
you.
INDEX
TO PAST ISSUES OF GPPA GREEN STAR
Please join the Communication Team right here.
www.gpofpa.org/team_communications_join
 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
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.
WATCH
GUY’S VIDEO HERE
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...
READ THE FULL STORY
HERE
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 – U.S. Senate from New
Jersey
khalilforsenate.com
Robin
Brownfield – U.S. House of Representatives from District 1, New
Jersey
www.robinbrownfield4congress2024.com
Robin
Lee Vargas – District 27,
Texas State Senate
https://www.txgreens.org/2024_candidates
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– Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner,
Cook County, Illinois
https://www.facebook.com/MyNameIsToneal/
Rita Ryan
– House of Representatives,
District 12, Hawaii
https://youtu.be/zTU51mEEwqA?feature=shared
Aqeela
J. El-Amin Bakheit – Lake
County Board of Education, Trustee Area 1,
California
https://www.gpelections.org/races/aqeela-j-el-amin-bakheit-runs-for-county-board-of-education-2024/
Marnie
Glickman – Portland City
Council, Oregon
https://www.marnieglickman.org
Moderator: Holly Hart, Secretary of the Green Party
U.S.
VIEW
THE VIDEO HERE
https://www.gp.org/green_women_candidates_running_in_2024
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
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
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
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
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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