GreenLine For December 6, 2021
Happy Holidays! Did You Grab Your Green Party Giving Tuesday
Gifts?
For this year's #GivingTuesday we wanted to show our appreciation
to you by giving you something. If you didn't have a
moment to visit our Giving Tuesday Gift Page to download
these Green Party goods to make your day and work a little more fun
and a little easier, now's
your chance:
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Pillars & Values Coloring Pages | Set 1 — 10
pages sharing Green Party values in a fun and interactive way for
friends, family, community events, or your own contemplative coloring.
Print on standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper in grayscale. (A special thank you
to artist Linda Cree.)
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We Are Green Coloring Pages | Set 2 — 10 more
coloring pages, beautifully illustrating Green Party values to share
or color on your own.
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GP Meeting Minutes & Agenda Log — This download
is for organizers, meeting chairs and secretaries to capture important
information and next actions for the movement you're building!
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Green New Deal Poster — What is the *real* Green New
Deal? This leave-behind piece is great for hanging up around town,
tabling events and knocking doors. The file will print in large format
as well as on standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper, in color or grayscale.
And you can find more Green Party digital goods at our
online store. Thank you for supporting the Green Party,
our candidates and campaigns in 2021 and we look forward to building
with you in 2022!
—Michael O'Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party
Communications Manager
Attention Climate Organizers! EcoAction Committee Hosting 12/15
Webinar on "Real Zero Carbon Emissions vs. Net Zero: The Difference
Means Everything"
The EcoAction Committee of the Green
Party of the United States will hold a webinar why we most organize
for the goal of Real Zero greenhouse gas emissions rather than Net
Zero. The webinar will be on Wednesday, December 15 on zoom at 8 PM
ET. (Registration required)
Featured speakers will be David Schwartzman and
Mike Ewall. David Schwartzman, a member of the
DC Statehood Green Party, is a professor
emeritus of biology at Howard University and the author of Life,
Temperature, and the Earth. David and his older son Peter
Schwartzman (Mayor of Galesburg, IL and member of the
Illinois Green Party) just published a
paper entitled "Can the 1.5 °C warming target be met in a global
transition to 100% renewable energy?" Their book website is theearthisnotforsale.org.
Mike Ewall is the founder and director of Energy Justice Network, a national
support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy
and waste industry facilities.
Big Polluters’ idea of “net zero” is part of their agenda to
protect deeply unjust global systems, distract from taking real
climate action, and evade responsibility for the climate while
continuing to pollute.
At Least 22 Greens Win Office in November Elections, Over 40
Victories for 2021
Congratulations to all Greens who won elected office last month,
including Maine Green Independent Party candidates Anna
Trevorrow and Scott Harriman winning city council races in
Portland and Lewiston (the state’s first- and second-most populous
cities, respectively).
Trevorrow, who ran while holding an elected seat on Portland’s
school board, credited her win to “a strong ground-campaign, in which
I had 837 conversations with voters, promoting a vision for Portland
that is accessible to the working class and enacts policy through an
equity lens." Harriman pledged to represent his district “proudly and
to the best of my ability on the City Council” in Lewiston, where he
ran on supporting fully-funded public schools, equity in education and
environmental health in the district.
In Minneapolis, MN, Green
candidate Samantha Pree-Stinson became the first
Black Woman to be elected to the city’s Board of Estimation &
Taxation.
We feel overwhelming gratitude for all of our 2021 Green
candidates! We will support those in elected office in the vital work
of representing their communities while putting Green policies into
action. We hope those who did not win office will lend their
experiences and skills to future campaigns and organizing.
COP26 Agreements Will Lead to Climate Collapse
Greens rebuke false solutions from world leaders, call for a
Global Green New Deal
The Green Party of the United States said that the COP26 world
climate summit in Glasgow failed to produce the radical action
scientists say is needed to avoid climate collapse, and that the only
way for humanity to prevent catastrophe for life on Earth is a global
Green New Deal.
“The world’s political leaders in Glasgow paid lip service to the
need for effective climate action while working behind closed doors to
protect the profits of fossil fuel companies and their own campaign
contributions. Led by President Biden, the industrial polluters most
responsible for the climate crisis continued to refuse to accept their
responsibility for climate reparations to the countries most damaged
by burning fossil fuels. The U.S. worked with China and India to
weaken the language related to moving away from coal plants and
subsidies for fossil fuels,” said Green Party National
Co-Chair Chris Stella.
With over 25 years of COP gatherings failing to produce real
climate solutions, the Green Party said direct action by climate
organizers is needed to halt fossil fuel use. “We have no reason to
believe corporate-funded politicians — especially from the U.S. — will
voluntarily act to provide future generations with a chance for decent
lives,” said Green Party National Co-Chair Margaret
Elisabeth.
Greens’ Elections Observer in Venezuela Impressed by “Advanced,”
“Fair and Democratic” Process
Reporting from Venezuela as an on-site elections observer in
Caracas, Green Party of the United States National Co-Chair
Ahmed Eltouny has attested to a technologically impressive
and rigorously secure exercise in democracy. Eltouny, in addition to
observers from the European Union (EU), was present during regional
elections for state governors, mayors and city councils, which were
conducted nationwide.
The Maduro Government invited international observers from
throughout the world to witness how Venezuelan elections are
conducted. Eltouny agrees with former President Jimmy Carter’s praise
for the advanced technical features of Venezuela’s voting process,
including:
- a fingerprint identification scan to help minimize fraud
- immediately after casting their ballot via voting machine, voters
receive a paper receipt, which they then deposit in a secure box at
the polling station
- after a polling station closes, the paper receipts are then
hand-counted in a process that is open to the public to observe
- this hand count must match exactly to the machine-counted
vote
“There’s really very, very small risk in terms of any kind of foul
play in these elections and I am very impressed with what I have seen
so far,” said Eltouny, who observed the voting process at three
different polling sites. “Despite the massive sanctions that Venezuela
must deal with, it is amazing that they are able to utilize advanced
technologies and anti-fraud measures that we can’t come close to in
the U.S.”
WATCH: "Nonviolence in a Violent World" With Dr. Jill
Stein, Ajamu Baraka and More
Make sure you check out the video on demand of this amazing panel
discussion with insights on nonviolent resistance in the struggles for
peace, labor and climate justice.
With speakers:
- Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace
- Allen McGonagill, Extinction Rebellion
- Christopher Velazquez, Veterans for Peace
- Henry Stoever, PeaceWorks Kansas City
- Haeden Wright, UMWA Auxiliary Locals #2368/#2245 President, Union
Supporter
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North Carolina Green Party Members Support Walmart
Worker Black Friday Action
On Black Friday, several workers from the Walmart Neighborhood
Market in Mooresville, NC clocked out, submitted a petition for
better working conditions and benefits to their management and walked
out chanting. They were joined by other coworkers, several NC Green
Party members, and support from NC RaiseUp, IWW, PSL and other
organizations.
Footage from the walk out action received surprisingly good press
coverage and social media coverage went viral all across the country
with a reach of hundreds of thousands. The walk-out was one of a
record number of Black Friday labor actions as part of a wave of
strikes which have rocked the globe in recent months in the wake of
soaring prices when the world's richest people have seen their wealth
skyrocket since the beginning of the pandemic.
WATCH: Gateway Greens in Missouri Host "Agriculture as a Weapon of
Domination" Panel Discussion
Featuring Speakers:
Wisconsin Green Party Co-Chair Calls Rittenhouse Verdict "Bright
Green Light For Vigilantism"
Wisconsin Green Party (WIGP) Co-Chair Jo’Nathan Kingfisher said the
not-guilty verdict in the homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse “is a
bright green light that it is open season on political targets.”
Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in the shooting deaths of
Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and the wounding of Gaige
Grosskreutz, now 28.
The verdict “is a clear message for political vigilantes to go
intimidate and instigate, trying to get a reaction and try to kill in
the name of self-defense,” Kingfisher said.
Rittenhouse’s “transformation”
After accepting millions of dollars for his defense from
right-wingers, law enforcement officials, and gun rights activists,
then rushing to give multiple post-verdict interviews to Fox News
pundits, Rittenhouse now wants you to believe that he supports Black
Lives Matter.
PA Green Party Endorses Shut Down of Berks County Detention
Center
Meeting virtually on November 14, elected delegates to the Green
Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) unanimously endorsed the Shut Down Berks
Coalition. The coalition is a group of organizations and individuals
demanding the closure of the Berks County Family Detention Center
(BCRC) in PA and an end to the practice of imprisoning immigrant
families in the U.S.
The endorsement was requested by Jay Walker (Allegheny County), a
member of the GPPA Steering Committee.
Henry Conoly (Montgomery County), who is seeking GPPA endorsement
for U.S. Congress District 1, said, "The inhumane and destructive
detention and separation of children from their families must be
stopped. These detention centers are known for their horrid conditions
which leave children and families at risk of contracting disease,
suffering from malnourishment, and potentially loss of life. We must
close these facilities, and begin to bring these families back
together while giving them access to our country."
Banking and Monetary Reform Committee Publishes November Edition
of "Greening The Dollar" Newsletter
From the Newsletter:
“While the Covid-19 pandemic devastated
large chunks of the economy & put millions out of work,
extraordinary government measures aimed at mitigating the economic
blow have also boosted the fortunes of the wealthy by pushing down
interest rates & driving a massive stock market rally. Global
financial wealth soared to a record high of $250 TRILLION in 2020."
—Reuter’s News Service: 10-15-21.
And we know where the lion's share of
that went, to the owners of BlackRock and Vanguard.
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