GreenLine For January 7, 2021
Our New Year's Resolution: To Keep You Informed About The Latest Green Party News
Happy New Year! We know it can be hard to keep up with email, so
you're invited to get
regular Green Party updates on campaigns, candidates and organizing
over text message.
Just
make sure we have your mobile number and you have opted into receiving
texts from us 🌻
Let's stay connected in 2022! Greens win when we work together.
—Michael O'Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party
Communications Manager
Green Party Member Matthew Hoh Appears on Matt Taibbi and Katie
Halper's "Useful Idiots" Podcast
Green Party peace organizers are likely to remember Matthew
Hoh's important contribution to our Biden's
Wars: The First 100 Days webinar.
Just before Christmas, Matthew brought his razor-sharp critique of
the U.S. empire and war machine (backed by his previous experience
serving in the Marines and the State Department) to the popular Left
podcast "Useful Idiots," hosted by Katie Halper and Matt Taibbi.
Matthew helps the crew contrast the vast, wasteful Pentagon budget
against the paltry social spending called for in Biden's "Build Back
Better" bill that has nevertheless been attacked by austerity
hawks.
Green Party's Black Caucus Hosting "Ethnicity: The 'Other'
Category in the Black Community - Perspectives of Afro-Latinos" Online
Panel on January 8
In the Black American Community and overall Diaspora, ethnicity has
always been a controversial and divisive topic — but should not
be.
Marginalization within blackness has continued to rise. In this
session, we are not only going to confront the problem but also pose
solutions in this panel discussion engaging Afro-Latino
perspectives.
This event is hosted and presented by the Green Party National
Black Caucus.
Jill Stein on Jordan Chariton's "Status Coup" Talking Slow-Moving
Execution of Assange/Upcoming Climate Apocalypse
Jordan Chariton's "Status Coup" show had Jill on for a full hour to
discuss how the U.S. government's persecution of Julian Assange has
moved beyond mere torture and into a slow-moving execution, why the
work of Assange, Wikileaks and whistleblowers are so important, and
how the corporate media and corporate parties collude to deprive
everyday people of real choices and a real voice.
Jill also speaks the truth on the severity of the climate crisis —
which is already here — and why we must fight for real solutions.
Make sure to support independent media that lift up Green
voices by sharing, "liking" and expressing your appreciation in the
comments!
Just click on the pic below to order your
merchandise today!
2022 State Conventions Are Being Scheduled!
Find out when Greens near you are convening to organize campaigns,
nominate candidates, build the party and much more!
The Green Party of Texas, Green Party of Washington, Green Party of
Utah and the Pacific Green Party of Oregon have posted dates, so far,
with more to come.
Green Party of Texas Updates
The Green Party of Texas (GPTX)
congratulates Delilah
Barrios for Governor & Hunter
Crow for Texas Railroad Commissioner for completing the
candidate
application process for the 2022 Green nomination, including
payment of filing fees to TX SOS. GPTX also received an application
from Alfred
Molison for Land Commissioner, in principle protest of money
as a barrier to political participation. GPTX thanks candidates for
standing as Greens in 2022, and encourage Texas Greens to connect with
and support their campaigns.
GPNY Says "State of the State" is dire re: climate, grassroots
democracy, social and economic justice in New York
Ahead of Governor Hochul's Wednesday State of the State Address,
Green Party of New York leaders put the
Democrats on notice as failing to deliver on the climate emergency,
grassroots democracy, and social and economic justice in New York,
despite years of state control.
"Real leadership from the governor's mansion would look like
helping passage of the New York Health Act by including it in
the 2022-23 budget, ensuring single-payer universal healthcare to all
New Yorkers," said Green Party of NY Co-Chair Gloria
Mattera. "That is the kind of agenda we will set in the 2022
elections with our statewide and state legislature candidates." Green
Party officers said they will also make an issue of reforming New York
to be the nation's gold standard for ballot access, reversing
the draconian restrictions put in place to sabotage
smaller parties during Andrew Cuomo's corrupt and abusive
administration.
Green Party Opposes Fossil Fuel Pipelines in Pennsylvania
"Many people who have worked or lived near the gas drilling and
fracking operations in the Marcellus Shale region and other U.S. areas
have experienced noise pollution, smog, poisoned drinking water wells,
skin rashes, constant headaches and body aches, respiratory problems,
cancers, other health problems, physical injuries and deaths.
Wildlife, livestock, and domesticated animals have also been seriously
sickened or killed by these fracking and drilling
operations.
Profits and wages for a few do not justify this
torment, and it seems more ridiculous to continue powering our
societies with these dirty and dangerous forms of energy when we can
satisfy all our energy needs through the combined use of improved
energy efficiency, wind power, solar power, small scale hydropower and
geothermal power that impose no health hazards on anyone."
— Jocolyn Bowser-Bostick, a former
member of the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) steering
committee
GPCA Presents "The History and Future of the Green Party" Webinar
Sunday, January 9
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Green Party in
California — and you are invited to discuss the GPCA's
history and future — both locally, statewide, and nationally!
This webinar will briefly review the events which led to GPCA
receiving official statewide recognition on January 21, 1992, starting
with the inspiration of European Greens being elected to their
national legislatures in the early 1980’s, the publication of the book
“Green Politics” by Charlene Spretnak and Fritjof
Capra in 1984, and the creation of the “Green Committees of Correspondence” and
state and local Green groups from the mid-1980’s onward — eventually
leading to the first U.S. Green state political parties in the early
1990’s.
Speakers include Laura Wells and Greg Jan.
|
