Friend --

Our featured volunteer, Wayne Turner, is the NC Green Party Treasurer and has served as our State Cochair as well as in many other invaluable capacities. Wayne is also one of the main coordinators of our Thursday political education series. This week, Wayne has been representing the NC Green Party at our booth at the Carolina Classic Fair in Winston-Salem (continuing through Sunday) and is now volunteering at our tent booth at the Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival (through Sunday). These booths are often fairly expensive for a growing grassroots party. However, these are some of the few venues where we can reach lots of people every day in a relatively safe and less stressful way, in particular during the ongoing pandemic. A lot of preparation and materials go into having a successful booth and we need your support to continue to have them! 

Because many anticipated events and festivals have been canceled due to the pandemic, it is extremely important that we have your support, at whatever level you can give, so that we can collect the necessary 19,000 pre-certified signatures to get back on the ballot! More funds means that NC Green Party can afford to contact and activate more supporters and volunteers, some of whom we can help to compensate. More funds afford to do mailers and other critical tasks to reach out to recently registered Greens and potential new members.

In recent years, there has been an unprecedented coordinated assault on ballot access for independent parties in candidates across the nation - in particular on Greens - in states such as New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arkansas, and elsewhere. Neither of the two Wall Street parties want us to bring our message of ending the war on drugs and the poor at home and senseless wars for profit abroad, a comprehensive national health service, and systemic transformation - positions that threaten the dominance of their corporate donors and bosses. This is why it is so important to ignore the present detractors and attacks on our message disguised as pragmatism and support our platform for political independence today! 

Help us to pay for the event tables and supplies like the ones we have had at Shakori Hills Festival, National Folk Festivals, etc, by becoming an official NCGP Dues Paying Member or one-time donor.  Your support is absolutely critical for us to plan and to reach out to volunteers - please do not wait until tomorrow. 

We also need as many NCGP supporters as possible to help us as volunteer petitioners! If everyone who reads this email submits only a few signatures, we would likely qualify to run candidates on the ballot in a short time! Do you have time to collect more signatures or just a few signatures each week? Just spending an hour or less a week, most every week could absolutely be the difference in whether we make it on the ballot in 2022 or not! We have literally seen state parties and candidates denied ballot access due to a few hundred signatures being challenged by major parties and elections bureaucrats. By the way, if you are interested in modest compensation, please contact us about the possibility of being paid $1 a signature or working 3-6 hours a week on campuses for a steady rate at [email protected]. 

Where can I help NCGP to  get petition signatures? You can typically go to public properties such as parks, street corners with a lot of foot traffic, campuses, especially during lunch and dinner rush, some farmer’s markets, etc. Please print several sheets (at least 20) because as they are about to sign you need to have them sign on the right - only one county per page written at the top and single-sided please. Visit our petition landing page and print out several petitions from this link all original petition signatures with a cover sheet/note with your basic contact information as soon as possible to:

NCGP Petition Drive

PO Box 6022

Cary, NC 27519

Please support our friend and mentor, Wayne Turner, and our entire party in any way you can by joining, donating and/or pledging here to collect signatures today! 

Warmest Regards and Solidarity,

NC Green Party
http://www.ncgreenparty.org/