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Friends--
June 
Celebrate Pride Month in PA
Pride Month has always been about protest as much as celebration,
but with the LGBTQ+
community under attack from the Trump administration and conservative
politicians all over America, it is more important than ever to stand
together, show strength, fight back against an oppressive government,
celebrate collective queer
joy, and party the night away. Yes, we need to
fight, but Pride Month is also about coming together in community to
have fun together and to forget worries for a while, surrounded by
other queer people. So let’s come together in solidarity, demand civil
rights, and celebrate with a month-long party!
June 1,
Philadelphia Pride March, https://phillypride365.org/pride-weekend
June 1, Pittsburgh Pride March & Parade, https://pittsburghpride.com/marchandparade/
June 7, State College Pride Festival, https://www.centrelgbtplus.org/pride-festival
June 8, Scranton Stride for Pride, https://runsignup.com/Race/PA/Scranton/StrideforPridePA
June 22, NEPA PrideFest Parade, Wilkes-Barre, https://rainbowalliance.org/pridefest/
June 28, Lancaster Pride Festival, Lancaster, https://www.lancasterpride.org/
June 28, Pride on the Green, Milford, https://www.milfordctpride.org/milford-pride-on-the-green-2025
June 29, Bucks-Mont Pride Festival, Jenkintown, https://www.bucksmontpride.com/event-details
June 29, NWPA Pride Parade, Erie, https://www.nwpapride.org/events/nwpa-pride-parade-2025
July 20, Berks Pride Fest, Reading, http://www.readingpridecelebration.org/
July 26, Pride Festival of Central PA, Harrisburg, https://centralpapride.org/events/
PA Green News
Edited by Chris
Robinson
Build the Green Party and Run for Local
Office
 By Michael
Bagdes-Canning
I am a Green running for re-election as
Mayor of Cherry Valley Borough in northern Butler County. I have asked
the Green Party of Pennsylvania to endorse my candidacy at their next
State Committee meeting. I became a Green after 42 years of settling
for less as a Democrat. I have remained a Green these last 15 years
because I want to be part of a party that stands for something.
As a Green Mayor of a tiny borough, I
have worked hard to build trust with my neighbors. Our rural borough
has watched for the last 50 years as jobs have left the region and our
children have followed. We have been ignored and ridiculed by the
Democrats and patronized and hoodwinked by the Republicans. Both
corporate parties do the bidding of the plutocrats and spit on the
people who elect them...
I am a Green because of our 4 Pillars and
10 Key Values. Everything I do is shaped by that framework. However,
we need to remember that we don’t win with ideas; we win with
relationships. We need to think of ourselves as organizers first. We
aren’t working to win elections; we are working to build power. Green
values are meaningless if they are divorced from relationship building
and Green action...
I have asked the Green Party of
Pennsylvania to endorse my candidacy, and I call on Greens across the
state to work at building the Party by engaging in the work of
organizing. Talk with your neighbors, build the movement, be seen
being Green. When the time is right, run for office in your town or
borough.
STORY HERE
Green Party Has
"Hands On" World Peace
By Erin King (Centre
County)
Steering Committee, Green
Party of Pennsylvania
Following the massive "Hands Off"
demonstration on April 5, the Green Party asked its leaders to
describe what the Green Party had its "Hands On.
Although I was a lifelong Democrat until
2024, I'd had my doubts about some Democrats in office. For the most
part, I held my faith that many of them were determined to uplift the
working class and remain on the right side of history...I knew even
prior to 2024 that I would never again vote for Joe Biden. I also did
not feel any better about the prospect of voting for Kamala
Harris...Once I decided to shut out all the ignorant screeching from
the neoliberals and started to research the Green Party on my own, I
discovered that this is where I need to be.
One stance on which the Green Party is
clearly "Hands-On" is that of being for World Peace, which resonates
with me like never before. The Green Party truly cares about the
American people and wants to create a country that works the way it's
supposed to for all Americans and not just the billionaire class .The
Green Party is against the money-torching, soul-crushing war machine
that has taken over our economy for an eternity. Instead of rebuilding
our infrastructures, investing in more modern, reliable public
transportation across the country on a grander scale (similar to what
exists in Europe), increasing funding for education, hospitals,
healthcare, affordable housing, and mental healthcare, the vast
majority of our taxes fund the U.S. military and endless, pointless
wars and genocide...
STORY
HERE
I believe in the Green Party and in its strong, overall
message of "Hands On" inclusion, fairness and justice for
all.
- The Green Party has "Hands On" world peace.
- The Green Party has "Hands On" an end to settler
colonialism and the international crime of apartheid.
- The Green Party has "Hands On" a 50 percent cut in the
Pentagon budget.
- The Green Party has "Hands On" closing more than 700
Pentagon bases abroad.
- The Green Party has "Hands On" ending U.S. arms sales to
other nations.
- The Green Party has "Hands On" the U.S. ratification of
the Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear
GPPA State Committee Meets on Saturday, June
7
County Delegates will hold their Green Party of Pennsylvania State
Committee Meeting on Saturday, June 7, at 2:00 pm. The meeting will be
held at the Quaker Meeting House - Harrisburg Friends, 1100 North 6th
Street, Harrisburg, PA. Delegates will consider the endorsement of
local candidates for elected office and discuss reports from their
four Teams. The meeting will be open to the public, but only elected
delegates will be permitted to vote. A web-based option will be
available for remote participation. To receive further information,
please RSVP,
https://www.gpofpa.org/20250607_state_committee
Campaign Updates
Edited by Chris
Robinson
One Green Party candidate has been approved to run for
local office this year. Other Green Party candidates who plan to run
in 2025 or 2026 are welcome to contact GREEN STAR at [email protected].
Alex Noyle for Election to Auditor of East Norriton
Township
Montgomery
County
Alex Noyle told GREEN
STAR, “I have never been more proud of Montco Greens.
I want to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who
volunteered for my campaign. This Primary Election Day, the Alex for
Auditor Campaign surpassed our highest expectations. We started the
day with 0 nomination signatures and ended it with 77, which is above
the threshold we needed to get on the ballot! With over two months
remaining to collect extra signatures to avoid a challenge, our
position on the ballot for East Norriton Auditor on November 4 is near
certain. My gratitude is too great to put into words. Onward to
Victory!”
Volunteers may email [email protected]
or send a message on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alex4Auditor
Global Green
News
Edited by Hal
Brown
Greens Deplore Belgian
Parliament’s Repeal of Nuclear Phase-Out
The Belgian Federal Parliament adopted in
plenary session the bill repealing the 2003 law on the nuclear
phase-out. The text received broad support. Only Ecolo-Groen (Green
Party]) voted against. The Socialist Party and the French Liberal
Party abstained . . . . For Samuel Cogolati . . . the co-president of
the Ecolo Party, the problem lies in what [they] are not doing: “Still
no National Energy and Climate Plan, even though Europe is waiting for
one. They are abandoning subsidies for green hydrogen, even though
it’s the future for heavy industry. And even in Wallonia, they are
cutting insulation subsidies, even though the cheapest energy is the
one we don’t consume.” STORY
HERE
Portugal: People Call for
Green Representation in Parliament
To ensure that the Greens speak out
decisively and consistently in Parliament in favor of environmental
and social justice, more than a hundred people gathered to sign a
petition . . . . When the Green Party ceased to be represented in
Parliament, environmental and sustainable development issues lost
their place on the parliamentary agenda and were no longer regularly
addressed in the Assembly of the Republic. Portugal’s Green Party
(Partido Ecologista Os Verdes) has always been a driving force for
debate and proposals that clearly reflect the urgency of ecological
responses and has always championed the grievances and aspirations of
the population—a coherent effort to promote environmental and social
justice. STORY
HERE
GPPA Meeting Dates for 2025
State Committee
Meetings
Saturday, June 7, in
Harrisburg, PA, at 2:00
pm
Sunday, September
14, online at
noon
Sunday, November 9, online
at noon
GPPA Communications
Team
Issue Credits
Editors: Hal Brown, Patrick O. McNally, David Ochmanowicz,
Jr. and Chris Robinson
Contributors: Michael Bagdes-Canning, Erin King, Alex Noyle
and Chris Robinson
Layout: Hal Brown, Sherri Miller, and David Ochmanowicz
Jr.
Graphic Arts: Kevin Richardson
Everything we do is based on our
Four
Pillars and
Ten Key Values. If you find that you share these ideals,
come and join the movement.
Join
us and help bring
about a future where people and planet are valued over profits. We
have a new, tiered membership structure that allows you to determine
your level of commitment and support. And if you want to get more
directly involved, consider joining
an action team Work with other committed progressives and activists in
activities such as planning events, developing media content, or
helping with campaigns.
The GREEN STAR is an official publication of the Green
Party of Pennsylvania Communications Team * 2025.
Green Party of Pennsylvania
https://www.gpofpa.org/
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