Tonight: 8pm ET/5pm PT on Zoom and Facebook Live
How To Build Back Fossil Free For An Eco-Socialist Green New
Deal
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to join on Zoom or Watch
live on Facebook.
The Green Party's Eco-Action Committee will hold a one-hour webinar
tonight, Feb. 10 at 8 PM ET (5 PM PT) to help promote this week's
actions to push the Biden administration to Build Back Fossil
Free.
Panelists, including 2020 Green Party Presidential Nominee Howie
Hawkins and 2004 Green Party Presidential Nominee David Cobb, will
explain what an Eco-Socialist Green New Deal might look like, why all
new fossil fuel infrastructure (including fracking) must be banned and
how the Greens can support this week's actions, in addition to
organizing actions from Earth Day to May Day.
We hope you'll join us tonight and get FIRED UP for Climate Justice
in 2021!
—Michael O'Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party
Communications Manager
Feb. 20 Exclusive Screening Hosted by Green Party National Women's
Caucus: CODED BIAS, a Groundbreaking Exposé on Implicit Bias in
Artificial Intelligence
You are invited to an
exclusive screening on Saturday, February 20 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m.
ET of Coded Bias, a
groundbreaking exposé on implicit bias in artificial intelligence.
This event is a fundraiser for the Green Party National Women’s Caucus. Buy
your tickets today!
$20
tickets available online. For sliding scale on donation
amount contact [email protected].
More about the film:
A film by Shalini
Kantayya
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers
that most facial-recognition software misidentifies women and
darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread
bias in algorithms.
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Save The Date For The Green Party Annual National
Meeting! "Dismantling Oppression, Building Solidarity: A Green Party
For Everyone" July 15th-18th
The 2021 Green Party Annual National Meeting (ANM) will be held
online, as the world's recovery from COVID-19 pandemic is too
precarious to count on being able to safely meet in-person.
We will miss the opportunity to share space with Greens from across
the country but we can take this online gathering as
an opportunity for truly national work on some of the most pressing
challenges for this party. We hope you will save the date to join us
from July 15-July 18 in the spirit of the working title for this
year's theme, "Dismantling Oppression, Building Solidarity: A Green
Party For Everyone."
Keep an eye out for registration links, programs and workshops and
more in the weeks ahead!
Just click on the pic below to order your
merchandise today!
2004 Green Party Presidential Nominee David Cobb
Presenting at Artists Dismantling Capitalism Online Conference
February 26-28
What if we used the power of creativity and art to imagine positive
transformation for our communities?
What if there was a way to imagine our way to a just, compassionate
and beautiful future?
Artists
Dismantling Capitalism is a free symposium featuring 17
participatory online sessions facilitated by artists and other
community members. 2004 Green Party Presidential nominee David Cobb is
one of the key organizers of the entire symposium, and part of the
Opening Session happening on Friday, Feb 26 at 9PM ET, 6pm PT. He will
also co-facilitate a session on "Art, Electoral Politics and
Solidarity Economics" on Saturday, February 27 at 7:30PM ET, 4:30PM
PT.
Cobb will be joined by Eureka City Council member Leslie Castellano
(who championed the winning Ranked Choice Voting campaign in Eureka)
and Shambe Jones (community organizer and artist at Cooperation
Jackson).
If you are an artist, culture worker, social change agent, or
anyone who can dream, come be a part of the fourth annual Artists
Dismantling Capitalism.
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National Black Caucus Co-Sponsors Breonna Taylor
Inauguration Day Reparations & Police Accountability Rally
The National Black Caucus of the Green Party of the United States
joined a dozen organizations to commemorate Breonna Taylor with an
“Inauguration Day Reparations and Police Accountability Rally” on
Wednesday, January 20th.
“We demand settlement of the United States debt of reparations to
the descendants of American (as of 1776) chattel slavery, beginning
with multi-generational direct cash payments, tax-exempt status, the
elimination of the mean Black-White wealth gap and the elimination of
healthcare outcome disparities,” said Trahern Crews, Green Party
National Co-Chair and Chair of the party’s Reparations Working Group,
in the lead-up to the event.
“The Green Party platform calls for the creation of a claim of
action and a right to recover inherited wealth and other profits
accumulated from the slave trade for the benefit of a reparations
trust fund.”
As Black Women and Girls Go Missing, and the Media and the Police
Do Little, a National Task Force is Required to Address the Issue
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Green Party of the United States National
Women’s Caucus released a statement in January calling for a national
task force to focus on solving the disappearances of black women and
girls.
Caucus spokesperson Monica James said, “As Black women and girls go
missing, and the media hardly gives coverage and the police do very
little to solve their cases, the GPUS Women’s Caucus believes a
national task force is required to address this issue. As the Caucus
spokesperson, this topic of the invisible, unknown numbers of missing
Black women and girls has touched me personally and many of us the
hardest. Some have never heard these stories, but in the Black
communities, it’s the silent wishes of family and friends, exhausted,
crying for help, that these women be acknowledged and found.”
The task force would accurately collect and share data on
missing Black women and girls and provide financial and logistical
support to local government agencies in solving the disappearances,
among other goals.
Green Party 2020 vice-presidential nominee
Angela Walker said, “The epidemic of missing Black girls and women
(both cisgender and transgender) in the United States has been
underreported for far too long. It is unacceptable that these
disappearances are not prioritized, and this disregard only highlights
the fact that this country does not protect or respect Black girls and
women. It is past time for a task force that focuses on this national
tragedy and brings aid to the families affected. As a Black woman,
parent and grandparent, this is personal to me.”
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COVID-19 “Rubs Salt in the Open Wound” of Longstanding Housing
Crisis, Says Green Party. Nationwide Petition Campaign Demands
Permanent Solutions
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Green Party of the United States announced a
congressional petition campaign in January for party members,
candidates and allies to demand a permanent solution to the housing
crisis. Greens say the COVID-19 pandemic threatening
40 million people with eviction severely aggravates a longstanding
housing crisis. They are asking the country to hold Congress to
account for their failure to take meaningful action to keep people in
their homes, even as lawmakers underwrite corporate debt with taxpayer
money.
The January stimulus package passed by Congress included $25
billion for rental assistance but extended the national eviction
moratorium only to the end of the month.
"This housing crisis has been an open wound in our society for
generations. Job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic has poured salt in
that wound, putting 40 million people in danger of eviction,” said
Green Party National Co-Chair Kristin Combs. “Stopgap measures will
not address the underlying issue: Our country lacks any cohesive plan
to address the housing crisis.”
“Twenty-five billion dollars amounts to $650 per person —
that doesn’t even cover one month’s rent for the
average one-bedroom apartment in the U.S.” said Green
Party National Co-Chair Anita Rios. “We must change the system to
ensure housing as a human right to prevent millions of people from
losing their homes.”
Greens point out how, even before the pandemic, 20 million
households were paying a disproportionate share of their income for
rent, with some paying 70% of their income toward housing.
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WI Green Party Hosts Online Campaign School, Recording Available
Now
The
Wisconsin Green Party hosted a one-day virtual Green Campaign
School in December for anyone interested in running for
office as a Green, working on a Green campaign, or learning more about
grassroots campaigning.
Topics included:
- Candidate and campaign manager roles
- Platform and message
- Organizing Your Campaign & Goal Setting
- Resources: Money & Volunteers
- Social media
- Campaigning in a pandemic
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Green Party of Missouri Hosts "Suppression of Small Party
Candidates: Why it Matters" Online Panel, Watch Today
The United States has a unique set of barriers to prevent operation
of minor political parties. The Green Party of Missouri hosted a panel
in January discussing small party registration, ballot access, access
to media coverage, exclusion from debates and legal challenges.
Panelists also discussed the role and benefits to democracy, as well
as offering solutions.
With:
- Betsey Mitchell: Betsey Mitchell ran for County Executive as a
candidate for St. Louis County in the recent 2020 elections. She is a
former educator and business owner. She earned her undergraduate and
graduate degrees from Harris Stowe University and Maryville
University.
- Oliver Hall: author of “Death by a Thousand Signatures: The Rise
of Restrictive Ballot Access Laws and the Decline of Electoral
Competition in the United States.”, He writes for Counterpunch and The
Philadelphia Inquirer.
- Richard Winger: American political activist and analyst. He is the
publisher and editor of Ballot Access News. He is on the editorial
board of the Election Law Journal. Winger publishes analysis,
statistics and legal information and supports expanded access to the
ballot for minor parties.
- Howie Hawkins: Hawkins is environmental activist and a co-founder
of the Green Party of the United States. Howie was the nominee from
his party in the 2020 presidential election. He works to build a
viable, independent working-class political and social movement in
opposition to the Democratic and Republican parties.
- Carol Jackson, Green Party of St. Louis, moderator.
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