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Friends--
November 
Green Party Seeking 2026
Candidates
Pennsylvania elections are organized
around an annual calendar: even years are devoted to the election of
candidates for state and national offices while odd years are devoted
to local elections. During 2026 PA voters will elect state and
national officials, while they will elect local and county officials
in 2027.
Offices to be elected during 2026 will
include a PA governor, auditor general and treasurer. Also 17 members
of the U.S. House of Representatives will be elected, as well as 25 PA
Senators and 203 members of the PA House of Representatives.
Offices to be elected during 2027 will
include city, borough and township offices such as mayor, supervisor,
auditor, sheriff and tax collector. Also county officials will be
elected, such as commissioner and auditor.
The primary election each year is only
used by the Republican and Democratic Parties to choose their
candidates. Members of other parties (Green Party, Libertarian,
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.
Former Chair of GPPA Beth Scroggin
(Chester County) once said, “If you would like to see Green Party
values represented in your town, in our state, and in the conversation
surrounding election season, we implore you to consider running for
office as a Green Party candidate . . . . You may run locally for the
PA General Assembly or for a state-wide office, including Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, or U.S. Representative. Running strong candidates
is the most important work of the Green Party. I am grateful for all
who have run with us and am eager for you to join us.”
The Green Party is seeking party members
who are interested in becoming candidates for electoral office in 2026
and 2027. For more information, please contact GREEN STAR at [email protected]
PA Green News
Edited by Chris
Robinson
Attend PA State Committee, November
9
Elected delegates to the Green Party of Pennsylvania State
Committee will meet virtually on November 9 at noon. Delegates will
elect a new GPPA Secretary. All are welcomed to observe, but only
delegates may vote. To receive the Zoom link, please register here,
https://www.gpofpa.org/20251109_state_committee
Allegheny Greens
Hold Halloween Open House
The Green
Party of Allegheny County held a Halloween Open House at The Loft on
October 21. This event was part of GPOACs regular socials which take
place monthly on the third Tuesday. Costumes were optional.
Green Party Steering Committee Endorses Labor
Struggles
On October 18, the Green Party of Pennsylvania Steering Committee
endorsed the following labor struggles:
- OPEIU Local 153 Resident Assistants Contract Negotiations with
Temple Hospital
- UNITE HERE Local 274 Hotel Workers Strike
- Teamsters Local 776 Rise Cannabis Workers Strike
- SEIU Nursing Home Workers Negotiations with Valley West
- LiUNA Local 1357 Decision to Strike Pace Industries
- Iron Workers International Union's Negotiations with Greco Steel
Products
- American Federation of Government Employees Decisions to Rally
Federal Workers
- Graduate Employees Together University of Pennsylvania (GET
UP)workers Decision to Picket Against Discrimination
The Steering Committee also voted to endorse PA House Bill 145
Providing Unemployment Compensation to Striking Workers as it moves to
the PA Senate.
Campaign
Updates
Edited by Chris
Robinson
Three candidates have been nominated by the Green Part to
run for local office this year. Other Green Party candidates who plan
to run in 2026 are welcome to contact GREEN STAR at [email protected]
The results of these three elections will be reported in
the December GREEN STAR.
November 4, 2025, General
Election
Michael Bagdes-Canning for
Re-Election to Mayor of Cherry Valley
Borough
Butler County
Tony Dastra for Mayor of
Lancaster City and for Lancaster City
Council
Lancaster
County
You may follow Tony Dastra’s campaign here,
Website - https://www.tonydastraformayor.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dastraforlancaster
Alexander Noyle for Election
to Auditor of East Norriton
Township
Montgomery
County
You may follow Alex
Noyle’s campaign here,
Website - https://www.facebook.com/Alex4Auditor
Team Reports
 Communication Team
The ComTeam invites you to become a page editor for GREEN
STAR. We would like to recruit new editors for these two pages:
Campaign Updates and PA Green News. Please apply via email to [email protected]
Please join the Communication Team right here.
www.gpofpa.org/team_communications_join
National Green
News
Edited by David
Ochmanowicz
We Must Draw The Line!
The Illinois Green Party says, “What
happens in Gaza doesn't stay in Gaza. We've witnessed two full years
of the most brutal tactics imaginable bent on the complete
annihilation of over two million people. And now the wolves are on our
own doorstep. Our rights are being systematically stripped away by the
same people who brought us a genocide.” STORY
HERE
Fascism American Style
Weekly GreenLivestream podcast from the Illinois Green
Party on Wednesdays at 8:00 pm ET.
We've Got The Power!
All is not lost – if we keep up the pressure on the
fascists in charge and keep using our power for the good of all. We
can do this. Free Palestine! Free yourselves! THE REVOLUTION
CONTINUES!
GREEN
LIVESTREAM HERE
Watch Stopping Genocide
Watch an important webinar recently
produced by the Green
Party Peace Action Committee (GPAX) and the nascent National Arab
American and Muslim American Green Party Caucus (still
forming) with Dr. Jill Stein, Mark Elbourno, Wissam Charafeddine,
Haig Hovaness, and Madelyn Hoffman to turn outrage into organized aid
and political pressure. WEBINAR HERE
Dr. Butch Ware at Redneck Gone
Green
Dr. Butch
Ware joined David Cobb and Shane Knight at Redneck Gone Green to
discuss his work that bridges African history, Islam, and movements
for justice and liberation.
STORY HERE
Global Green
News
Edited by Hal
Brown
Senator from Green Party of Mexico calls for
Dignified Treatment of Physicians
Senator Rocío Corona Nakamura of the
Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), called for actions to protect
the physical and emotional integrity of resident physicians in the
face of the pressure, grueling schedules, and even undignified
treatment they sometimes suffer in the practice of their profession.
STORY
HERE
Mexican Green Party Representative Denies
Detention in U.S.
Representative Mario López Hernández of the Green Ecologist Party
of Mexico (PVEM) and former mayor of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, denied
reports that he was detained by U.S. authorities at the
Matamoros-Brownsville International Bridge.
STORY HERE
2025 Saw the Third Warmest September Ever
Recorded
The year 2025 saw the third warmest September ever recorded on
Earth with high temperatures near the poles and in Eastern Europe,
according to data released Thursday, October 9, by the European
Copernicus Observatory . . . . It thus ranks behind the record set in
2023 and the second-hottest September in 2024. The year 2025 also saw
the third-hottest July and August on record. STORY
HERE
Green Alliance Party in Columbia Reaffirms
Leadership in Animal Rights
The meeting, held in Bogotá, was attended by Green Party senators .
. . as well as representatives, councilors, and animal rights leaders
from across the country . . . . With this event, the Green Alliance
Party demonstrates that politics can also be an act of empathy. That
building a country means caring for life in all its forms. And that
Colombia’s future will only be truly green if it is also deeply
animal-friendly. STORY
HERE
GPPA Meeting Dates for 2025
All State Committee Meetings will begin at
noon
Sunday, November 9, Register
here,
https://www.gpofpa.org/20251109_state_committee
GPPA Communications
Team
Issue Credits
Editors: Hal Brown, Patrick O. McNally, David Ochmanowicz,
Jr. and Chris Robinson
Contributors: Michael Bagdes-Canning, Alex Casper, Tony
Dastra, Alex Noyle, Chris Robinson and Beth Scroggin and Jay Ting
Walker
Layout: Hal Brown, Sherri Miller, and David Ochmanowicz
Jr.
Graphic Arts: Kevin Richardson
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Key Values. If you
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Join
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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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