Spring Into The 2021 Annual National Meeting! July 15-18: Registration
Now OPEN
Online Annual National Meeting Will Focus on Anti-Oppression and
Anti-Racism Training
The 2021 Green Party Annual National Meeting (ANM) will be held
online, as the world's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet
ready to guarantee a safe, in-person meeting.
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 join us from July
15-July 18 in the spirit of this year's theme,
"Dismantling Oppression, Building Solidarity: A Green Party
For Everyone."
Our
registration form is now online. Registration fees will
cover comprehensive training on anti-racism, anti-oppression and
solidarity necessary for building our party as a powerful, equitable
force for the liberation of all. Your fees also provide for the
infrastructure and staff necessary to produce an online national
meeting from multiple locations, plus online workshops, news
conferences and more.
We will also dedicate resources to accessibility assistance, such
as for the vision-impaired, hearing-impaired and lack of access to a
computer or Internet connection.
Financial assistance in the form of a reduced or waived
registration fee is available on
the registration form. The Green Party
strives to allow any Green to attend our national meetings. As the
only political party that refuses corporate donations, we acknowledge
a registration fee can be a financial burden for some Greens.
Therefore, we never turn anyone away because of the cost of
registration.
Do you or someone you know have expertise in Anti-Racism and
Anti-Oppression Training?
Deadline For Participant-Submitted Workshops Extended to April
16
Working with expert facilitators in the area of Anti-Racism and
Anti-Oppression training means reduced program time for
participant-submitted workshops. However, in recognition of the
importance of these as part of our ANMs, some
time will be allocated for workshops. Any topic on Green
Party work may
be submitted with the requirement that Anti-Oppression
content is embedded in the workshop presentation.
Submit
your workshop online by April 16.
—Michael O'Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party
Communications Manager
Earth Day to May Day: Ten Days of Action For Ecological and
Economic Justice
The Green Party Eco-Action Committee is calling on
all Green Party state parties, locals and supporters to participate in
ten days of events on climate change, environmental and social justice
and labor issues from April 22 through May 1. Many of these actions
can be online and educational events. However, safely-conducted
outdoor actions are also highly encouraged, wherever possible.
Giving the Power to the
People
Our theme for this
nationally-coordinated series of actions will be Giving the
Power to the People: Stop Climate Chaos and End the War on Workers and
the Poor. This theme encompasses dire environmental
topics, and celebrates worker resistance to corporate power.
We want to focus on events that are organized by Greens to build
focus and support for the Green Party as the only national party that
does not compromise on issues of life or death. We will be calling on
greater public and local control of energy and polluter industries. We
will also support cross-sectional issues such as living wages for
essential workers and a comprehensive economic plan that addresses
unemployment, enacts a national healthcare service, and puts people to
work in jobs that will combat both climate catastrophe and living
standard insecurity.
LEARN MORE AND SIGN UP FOR AN
EVENT
New Candidate and Campaign Training Video Online! "Early
Campaign Development"
The Green Party's Coordinated Campaign Committee holds FREE monthly
trainings for current and aspiring campaign teams and candidates.
Learn the fundamentals of running for office from their free,
extensive, on-demand training archive!
The CCC's February webinar focused on the early stages of building
a campaign, which is when many campaigns are won or lost. This webinar
covers:
- Setting goals for your campaign
- Assessing your resources
- Assembling a campaign team
- Planning kick-off events
- Developing a budget
WATCH
ON DEMAND
Just click on the pic below to order your
merchandise today!
Green Party Takes On HR1/S1 Poison Pills, Fights For
Voter Choice
HR 1, also known as the “For The
People Act,” is sold as a way to get money out of politics and to
protect voters, but
it contains several
poison pills for democracy
and opposition parties like the Green Party. Most
alarmingly, HR1 quintuples the amount of money Green presidential
campaigns will be required to raise to qualify for federal matching
funds: from $5,000 in each of 20 states to $25,000 per state.
The Green Party stands opposed to
the anti-democracy poison pills in HR 1, a package that is sold as a
“voting rights” bill but would actually undermine everyone's right to
organize electorally against the parties of War and Wall Street.
In a recent Gallup poll, a record 62%
of US voters said we need a new major
party.
Webinar Video on Demand: The Green Party, Past and
Future
What should we learn from three decades of Green organizing and how
can the Greens make a real difference in "the decisive decade" of the
2020s?
Hosted by the Fairfax County (VA) Green Party and presented by Dr.
Ben Manski, Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Mason
University where he specializes in political sociology, social
movements, and environmental sociology.
Dr. Manski has been a Green since 1990. Over the years he served as
national co-chair of the Green Party, Midwest Field Director for Nader
2000, Campaign Manager of Jill Stein for President in 2012 and in many
other party roles. Manski is the founder of the Liberty Tree
Foundation for Democratic Revolution, a Next System Project Research
Fellow and an Associate Fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies
in Washington D.C.
Watch
the Video On Demand
WI Green Party 2021 Spring Gathering —April 17, 2021
The Wisconsin Green Party 2021 Spring Gathering state membership
meeting will be held on Saturday April 17, 2021. The theme of the
gathering will be "A Party for Working People" and we're excited to
welcome special guest speaker Howie Hawkins, union worker, lifelong
activist, Green Party co-founder and 2020 Green Presidential
nominee.
Due to the ongoing pandemic this gathering will be
held virtually via Zoom. Members will be sent information about how to
join the gathering online after they RSVP.
REGISTER ONLINE...
Green Party of Pennsylvania Stands with #BAmazon Workers
[These remarks were given on March 20, 2021, by Hillary Kane,
Green Party of Philadelphia Treasurer, at a rally in support of Amazon
workers trying to unionize in Bessemer, AL.]
Thank you to the organizers of today’s march and rally for allowing
me to speak. I represent the Green Party, an independent political
party. The Green Party often co-sponsors rallies such as these,
joining in the fight for better working conditions, but we rarely get
invited to share the podium because of deep seated fears of
independent politics. Politics that doesn’t go along with the status
quo - the two-party system, or in this city, let’s be real -- a
one-party system.
You may know the Green Party as an
environmental party and we are. But we are also a party rooted in
social justice. We were founded over 30 years ago to give political
voice to people’s movements – like this one against corporate greed
and corruption. That same corporate greed is killing both the planet
and the people. The Green Party links the ecological crisis with the
economic crisis of people not having enough to provide basic
necessities for themselves and their families. This is why we
developed ideas like the Green New Deal – putting people and planet
together over profit. Putting people to work, in living wage jobs –
jobs that repair and restore our environment rather than use it up and
spit it out. Howie Hawkins, our most recent Presidential candidate
and himself a retired Teamster, was the first to run on the Green New
Deal back in 2010. The real Green New Deal funded by deep cuts to the
military.
READ MORE...
North Carolina Green Party Joins #BAmazon Solidarity Actions at
Amazon Facilities
On Saturday, February 20, several NCGP members participated in
#BAmazon Solidarity actions coordinated by the Southern Workers
Assembly outside of Amazon warehouses in Charlotte, Kernersville (Triad), Raleigh, Durham and elsewhere. They held signs and
participated in distributing flyers to Amazon workers about the
Bessemer warehouse vote during their shift change. In general, the
Amazon employees who stopped to take flyers were extremely receptive,
and many were unaware of such unionization efforts, particularly in
the South.
You may know the Green Party as an environmental
party and we are. But we are also a party rooted in social justice.
We were founded over 30 years ago to give political voice to people’s
movements – like this one against corporate greed and corruption.
That same corporate greed is killing both the planet and the people.
The Green Party links the ecological crisis with the economic crisis
of people not having enough to provide basic necessities for
themselves and their families. This is why we developed ideas like
the Green New Deal – putting people and planet together over profit.
Putting people to work, in living wage jobs – jobs that repair and
restore our environment rather than use it up and spit it out. Howie
Hawkins, our most recent Presidential candidate and himself a retired
Teamster, was the first to run on the Green New Deal back in 2010. The
real Green New Deal funded by deep cuts to the military.
READ MORE...
Re-Elect Cam Gordon! Minneapolis Green Party City Council
Representative Needs Your Support
Visit
camgordon.org/join to endorse the United States'
preeminent elected Green official and find other ways to support Cam's
re-election!
From Cam:
This year has been the hardest
Minneapolis has seen in a long time. The murder of George Floyd, the
unrest and destruction that tragedy ignited, the pandemic and economic
recession it caused, the ongoing housing crisis. The crises we’ve
faced in 2020 have been traumatic for us all, and the impact of these
crises has fallen hardest on our poor and BIPOC neighbors. But it has
also shown us all something powerful: we care for each other.
CONTINUE READING...
Green Party Leaders, Organizers Join Prominent Progressives as
Panelists at "The Post-Capitalism Conference: Building a Solidarity
Economy"
Kick off Earth Day by joining Green Party leaders and organizers
like David Cobb, Gloria Mattera, Margaret Kimberly, Melezia Figueroa,
and Rich Whitney who will be presenting at The
Post Capitalism Conference: Building a Solidarity Economy to be held
online April 22-25.
They will be joined by many prominent progressive luminaries Rick
Wolff (Democracy at Work), Emily Kawano, (US Solidarity Economy
Network), Chase Iron Eyes (Last Real Indians), Nati Linares (New
Economy Coalition), Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson), Kaitlin Reed
(Humboldt State), David Korten (Yes! Magazine), Margaret Kimberly
(Black Agenda Report), Mike Strode (Koala Nut Collaborative), Trinity
Tran (Public Banking Alliance), Ramon Tores (Cooperativa Tierra y
Libertad), ) and many more!
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER...
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