GreenLine For June 9, 2022
Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed scenes of terrible
violence and reprehensible responses from our elected leaders and
government. It can be difficult to keep our outrage from turning to
despair.
At the same time, the month of June commemorates strength, progress
and courage as LGBTQ+ Pride Month. We can reconcile the gravity of
current events with the annual celebration of Pride by drawing on the
lessons of movements for LGBTQ+ liberation for hope and
inspiration.
Let's keep working together to make our communities safer for all,
in the spirit of love and solidarity!
—Michael O'Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party
Communications Manager
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Green Party Calls For
Real Systemic Solutions To Violence In Wake Of Uvalde Mass
Shooting
WASHINGTON – The Green Party of the United
States strongly condemns the murderous rampage at Robb Elementary in
Uvalde, Texas that took the lives of at least nineteen
elementary school children and two teachers and injured
seventeen. The Green Party sends their deepest sympathies
to all families affected by this senseless act of violence.
While media coverage has focused on the symptoms of this
problem, we must look at the broader issues around the epidemic of
violence in this country.
The United States ranks
second on the list of countries with the highest number
of gun deaths. In 2021, 45,011
Americans died of gunshot wounds and there were 692
mass shootings.
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Green Party US Statement: Protect and Expand Access to Abortion
Services
The Green Party of the United States urges people to join
actions nationwide to protect and expand access to abortion services.
We must stop the criminalization of abortions to permanently protect
all people's right to safe, legal, accessible, and confidential
healthcare. Reproductive rights are non-negotiable!
While Supreme Court Justice Alito's leaked draft opinion is not the
final Supreme Court decision, it claims the right to abortion is
unconstitutional and attacks the reproductive rights of women,
transgender people, and non-binary people. Lack of abortion access
will also impact both parents who may be mandated to pay for child
support of unwanted pregnancies.
Additionally, the repercussions of ending these reproductive rights
may lead to criminalizing the freedom to love and marry on the basis
of race or sexual preference.
Green Party US Statement
on Mass Shooting in Buffalo, NY
WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the
United States stands in coalition with all who seek to end the culture
of violence and politics of corruption that enable violent
extremists.
“The tragedy in Buffalo, NY on Saturday, May 14, is yet
another reminder that racist violence is a fact of life in the U.S.
This is not new – it has been happening for centuries. White
supremacist terrorism is part of a culture and governmental system
that violently oppresses Black people and other people of color at
every turn, whether through police killings or mass shootings." said
Philena Farley, National Black Caucus Media Co-Chair and Green Party
US Media Co-Chair.
This act of white supremacist terrorism is just the latest in
a long string of racist and fascist violence in the United States. A
direct product of the toxic rhetoric and fascistic delusion of a
“Great Replacement” conspiracy promoted by the so-called “alt-right,”
the Buffalo attack represents a perversely intersectional hatred
toward a staggeringly large and diverse array of people. Radical
solidarity is the surest way — the only way — to overcome such an
abhorrent movement.
Exciting News on Dr. Jill Stein's Court Case, Jill's Appearance on
Ryan Knight Podcast
Dr. Jill Stein had great news to report from her court case
appealing the FEC's demand that she personally repay over $175,000 in
public matching funds that Stein campaign used to get on the ballot in
2016.
In short, the FEC has been trying to withhold evidence in the
record that makes her case. This is the very financial information
(statements, receipts, expenditures etc.) proving she doesn't actually
owe this money.
Thanks to the heroic efforts of Attorney Oliver
Hall at the Center for Competitive
Democracy, who is leading the appeal, the court has now ruled
the FEC cannot exclude this critical evidence.
Dr. Stein also recently appeared on the podcast Unruly with
Ryan and Rob, co-hosted by Ryan Knight. Jill discussed "why
Democrats blame her for their party’s failure to deliver and a way
forward for the people who are in desperate need of a political system
that works for them, not against them."
2022 Green Party Annual National Meeting Registration is OPEN
The 2022 Green Party Annual
National Meeting (ANM) will be held virtually, as the world's recovery
from the COVID-19 pandemic was not yet ready to guarantee a safe,
in-person meeting during the planning process.
We will miss the opportunity to share space with Greens from across
the country but we can take this virtual gathering as an opportunity
for national work on some of the most pressing challenges for this
party. We hope you will join us from July 22-24.
Important information for ANM Participants:
All ANM Participants MUST REGISTER ONLINE to
receive instructions on how to convene with us online. Please
register by Friday, July 15th.
Matthew Hoh for US Senate Makes the Ballot in North Carolina! Plus
an Interview With Ron Placone
Grassroots petitioners, volunteers, and staff of the North Carolina
Green Party and the Matthew Hoh for Senate campaign have made history
by collecting almost 22,000 signatures in 96 counties to qualify the
Green Party for the ballot – the first successful ballot petition
drive since the founding of the North Carolina Green Party.
"I’m excited for this opportunity and grateful for the hard work
and effort of our campaign and party members who made this possible,
and the tens of thousands of people who have already supported us in a
multitude of ways, including each of the nearly 22,000 people who
signed our petition to get us on the ballot," said Hoh. "Now it’s time
to be a voice for millions of North Carolinians and disrupt the
political status quo that has been deadly, oppressive and limiting to
so many American families."
Matthew discussed the ballot petition, fighting US militarism and
more in his interview on Get Your News On With Ron,
hosted by comedian Ron Placone.
 News From the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts
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Zoom
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Green Party of NY Co-Chair Peter LaVenia Argues for Single
Transferrable Vote in the Daily News
The Democrats' attempted gerrymandering of congressional districts
in the state of New York presented an opportunity for GPNY Co-Chair
Peter LaVenia to promote the benefits of Single Transferrable Vote,
proportional representation in multi-member districts. Greens familiar
with STV know that it fosters greater voter choice and multi-party
democracy, but it's ability to eliminate the effectiveness of
gerrymandering is less well-known.
Read Peter's op-ed in the New York Daily News:
"Rather than elect one member from each district (single-member
districts), districts would contain several members. Voters would cast
a single ballot but rank their preferences for as many members as
there were open seats.
The problem with single-member districts (SMDs) is that they create
perverse incentives for gerrymandering, as only one candidate can win
in each district. Parties in power tend to draw lines to reduce party
competition and protect incumbents by placing as many of their voters
as possible in each district, and diluting opposition party voters
across several other districts. This is why gerrymandered districts
often have such odd shapes. SMDs reward this kind of anti-democratic
behavior.
If New York had multimember districts, those bizarre-looking maps
drawn for electoral advantage would be eliminated in favor of larger
districts that could be relatively compact, geographically contiguous,
and maintain communities of interest."
Pacific Green Party Candidates Focus on Campaign Reform, Ending
Wars
At the Pacific Green Party’s June 4 nominating convention,
conversations with U.S. Senate candidate Dan Pulju, US
Congress candidate Mike Beilstein, and candidate for Governor of
Oregon, Natalie Paravicini remind us that Pacific also means
“Peaceful.”
Mountain Party of West Virginia: How the Democrats Are Culpable in
the Erosion of Abortion Rights
With the Supreme Court due to overturn Roe v. Wade within
the coming months, the left has been berated by liberals with the
familiar talking point that in order to protect abortion rights we
must "vote blue." Predictably, liberals took to social media soon
after the leaked draft opinion was reported, blaming Susan Sarandon
and other third party voters for the upcoming Supreme Court decision,
while completely ignoring the Democratic Party's culpability in this
travesty.
While the Republican Party is the most vocal anti-choice party, the
Democrats are not blameless for this miscarriage of justice.
While the popular sentiment may be to "vote blue" to protect
abortion rights, this runs afoul of history. In 1974, then-Senator Joe
Biden stated in regards to Roe v. Wade, "I don't like the Supreme
Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far." He went on to
say, "I don't think that a woman has the sole right to say what should
happen to her body." A few years later in 1982, Biden was one of only
two Democratic lawmakers who supported a constitutional amendment that
allowed states to overturn Roe v. Wade and pass their own laws on
abortion. Just nine years later, Joe Biden would then be largely to
blame for the confirmation of anti-abortion Justice Clarence
Thomas.
Indiana Green Party's Sarah Dillon Talks Ranked Choice Voting on
Behalf of BetterBallotIN.org
In addition to serving on the Green Party National Committee since
2007 and being a foundress of the Vigo County Green Party, Indiana
Green Party Board Member Sarah Dillon is also the Live Outreach
coordinator for Better Ballot Indiana, which is fighting to implement
Ranked Choice Voting in that state.
On behalf of Better Ballot Indiana, Sarah appeared on the
Indianapolis-based Tracy Takes On to discuss with host Tracy
M. Carson how RCV empowers voters and makes for more equitable, less
toxic elections.
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