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Dear Friend:
We have lots of news this month from the North Carolina Green
Party. Check out our events coming up soon, how to volunteer for the
Hawkins/Walker presidential campaign, and some of our recent
activism!
“Why the Democrats Are a Dead End for People of Color”
Event with Angela Walker
Register
for the Zoom event: Wednesday, September 2, 8:00–9:30
p.m.
Join Green Party / Socialist Party
2020 candidate for vice president, Angela
Walker, and a panel of
other organizers as we discuss how both parties of Wall Street have proven time and time again over the
last century that they’re a dead-end trap for People of Color and for
any substantial change toward our collective survival.
For decades the Democrats have
faked left and moved right. They talk about inclusion to get our votes
and then they consistently betray us. This is because the Democrats
and Republicans are owned by big business nationally and corporate
developer money locally and have no intention on changing that. They
rule us by buying our political misleadership class, by scaring us
away from alternative options, and by keeping us afraid of our own
power. But they will never include us in decision-making and certainly
never give us power. This is slavery by another means: we need
freedom!
This two-party capitalist system is
destroying our planet and our communities. We need truly revolutionary
change to stop it! In order to fight for real revolutionary change we
must organize independently of Wall Street corporate bosses and
big-money grants and donors. Register for the Zoom
event: Wednesday,
September 2, 8:00–9:30 p.m.
View and share this event on Facebook.
Left Unity Study Group: Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the
Earth
Register
for the Zoom event: Thursday, September 3, 8:30–10:00
p.m.
The North Carolina Green Party and
the Northern Piedmont Chapter of the Socialist Party-USA invite you to
join our study group on the writings of revolutionary authors and
their contributions to the practice of freeing ourselves from the
forces of ecocide, genocide, poverty, war, and imperialism.
Our goal is to develop a better
understanding of how we should act in response to these forces,
building on the work of those who have trod these paths before us.
Collectively, we face both problems that have been charted
historically and new problems that arise from the ravages and crises
of capitalism and its effects in our time.
Our first work will be Frantz
Fanon’s Wretched of the
Earth. Please register for
the Zoom meeting at this link. In this work, Fanon addresses the
psychological and physical effects of colonization on the indigenous
inhabitants of colonized areas and the response of the colonized
peoples to these effects.
Using Fanon’s description of
struggle for self-determination in French-controlled Algeria, we’ll
explore what the indigenous of Algeria felt during this struggle and
if Fanon's insights can be extended to the struggles of humanity today
to achieve a better life for all. Specifically, what practices were
engaged in to achieve independence for the people of Algeria? Are
those practices relevant to current struggles? What new practices
might be deduced from the history of African colonial struggles?
Register for the Zoom event: Thursday,
September 3, 8:30–10:00 p.m.
Join our Left
Unity Study Group to view this and more political education events
on Facebook.
Volunteer with NC Greens for the Hawkins/Walker 2020
Presidential Campaign
NC Greens we are ramping up our get
out the vote effort for the Green Party nominees for president and
vice president: Howie Hawkins and Angela
Walker! Can you help? We
need volunteers to phonebank, textbank, design graphics, write letters
to the editors in support of our candidates, canvass, flyer, and place
signs. Most important, we need volunteer coordinators across the
state. Please visit www.ncgreenparty.org/h20
to sign up as a volunteer!
Better Ballot NC Ranked-Choice Voting Effort
A new group, Better Ballot North
Carolina, has formed in North Carolina to pursue the implementation of
Ranked-Choice Voting in our state. You are invited to the statewide
launch September 12. Ranked-Choice Voting, which has
different counting methods for different types of elections (e.g.
multi-candidate single-winner or multi-candidate multi-winner races)
allows voters to rank their candidates in order of preference. The
value of RCV is that it eliminates the argument that a voter’s true
preference must be sacrificed in favor of an undesirable but
"lesser-evil" candidate. With RCV, if the voter’s first choice does
not win in the first round of vote tabulation, or even if the choice
is eliminated in the first round, the voter’s second choice then
transfers to that candidate, who has lost nothing by being a second
choice.
Better Ballot North Carolina is
composed of members from a number of different organizations and
political proclivities, including North Carolina Greens. Registered in
NC as a nonprofit, the group’s goal is to educate North Carolinians
about the value of Ranked-Choice Voting in offering more candidates
with diverse views and ideas. Visit the group at www.betterballotnc.org, and sign up to attend the statewide launch
meeting on September 12.
NCGP members Keenen Altic, Matthew Skolar, and Tony Ndege
protesting at Resist RNC
Resist RNC: Rally & Protest in Charlotte Aug.
24
Several NCGP members including
Cochairs Tommie James and Tony Ndege and 2018 Green candidate Keenen
Altic were present at the recent RNC protests. We heard several strong
speakers and advertised upcoming NCGP events. Many protesters were
very receptive to our call for independent power from both parties of
Wall Street. One member was arrested and is out on bail, marking the
second arrest of an NCGP member in the past month for
protesting.
Become a Member!
The North Carolina Green Party
refuses all corporate contributions, so dues-paying members play a
vital role ensuring our state and local organizations have the
resources needed to build an independent party for people and planet
free from the influence of the 1 percent.
Who can Become a Member of the North Carolina Green Party? North
Carolina residents who are registered to vote as “Green” are eligible
to become members of the NCGP after they have affirmed Green Party
principles (see our 10 Key Values and platform), set their own dues rate using a budget-friendly sliding
scale, and initiated payment of those dues. You choose your own dues
level on the honor system, based on what you can pay. Note: Residents
who are ineligible to vote due to state disenfranchisement (including
but not limited to reasons such as age, criminal record, or
noncitizen/undocumented status) may also become members. Email the
NCGP secretary at [email protected]
if you feel you are ineligible to vote due to state
disenfranchisement. All NCGP members, with the exception of
noncitizens, shall pay modest annual dues.
Find Us on Social Media
Like and follow our NCGP Facebook Page.
Follow us on NCGP
Twitter.
Join our statewide and regional
NCGP Facebook groups to connect with Greens:
North Carolina Green Party
Charlotte
Area Green Party
Triangle Area Green Party
Triad Area Green Party
Eastern NC Green Party
Western NC Green Party
In
solidarity with people and planet against profits,
The
North Carolina Green Party
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