GreenLine For June 15, 2022
This week's GreenLine includes news of ballot access victory in
California and heartbreak in New York.
As Greens across the country continue to organize and campaign
under this country's inherently unjust electoral power structure,
let's celebrate those breaking through and support those struggling to
overcome the duopoly's latest crackdown.
Keep fighting for the better world we all deserve!
—Michael O'Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party
Communications Manager
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Green Party VP Nominees
Cheri Honkala and Ajamu Baraka Team Up to Center Opposition to War in
the Fight to End Poverty
On June 16th at 10:00am EST, the Poor People's Economic Human
Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) and the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) will
co-sponsor a press conference on "Thinking Beyond Ukraine: Their War
is not our War."
The online press event will feature 2012 Green Party VP Nominee
Cheri Honkala and 2016 VP Nominee Ajamu Baraka. These groups are
coming together in the spirit of Martin Luther King’s famous Riverside
Speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence” where he took a
bold, visionary, and necessary stance against the Vietnam War in order
to advance economic justice.
Just click on the pic below to order your
merchandise today!
Green Party US Poor People's Caucus (forming) Email Listserv and
Facebook Discussion Group Online
The Poor People's Caucus (in Formation) invites members to join
their listserv and Facebook Group to discuss organizing moving the
caucus toward official recognition.
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.
GPCA Retains Ballot Line With Left Unity Slate
California's Green Party and Peace
and Freedom Party are pointing to major electoral advances
after Tuesday's primary election that ensured both parties
ballot status until 2026 – they credit historic cooperation
between the two parties in creating the first-ever “Left Unity Slate”
of statewide candidates that resulted in significantly
higher-than-usual vote totals.
“Our left unity approach is needed now more than ever, when the
majority of voters are realizing that corporate parties have not, and
will not meet the needs of our communities,” said Laura
Wells, of the Green Party of California’s Coordinating
Committee, adding, “we will continue to build together so we can put
real choices on the California ballot.”
US Senate Candidate Matthew Hoh Interviewed on Sabrina Salvati
Podcast
Green Party of North Carolina US Senate Candidate Matthew Hoh spoke
to Sabrina Salvati about GPNC's successful fight to get on the ballot,
why Matt is challenging the parties of War and Wall Street, the need
for improved Medicare For All, Wall Street's attacks on housing, and
much, much more!
Sabby's show is a part of the Revolutionary Blackout Network.
Green Party of Florida Annual General Membership Meeting on June
25-26, 2022
Annual Green Party of Florida Meeting
2022
Saturday. June 25 Start 10:00 am | Sunday June 26 10:00
am
Register for the meeting
Register as Green Party of Florida voter
active member
GPNY Damns Democrat Elites for Anti-Democratic Assault on Ballot
Access
The Green Party of New York gubernatorial
ticket has decried the objections filed by Democrats against their
independent nominating petition.
“We are not surprised that the objections were filed by Nassau
County minions of the chair of the Nassau County and State Democratic
committees, Jay Jacobs. Jacobs has been on a crusade to wipe the Green
Party off of New York ballots. I don’t want to hear anymore
hypocritical crocodile tears from anti-democratic Democrats like
Jacobs about Republican attacks on voting rights. Party suppression is
a form of voter suppression. It’s what authoritarian governments do.
It is what Jacobs and the Democratic Party are doing,” said Howie
Hawkins, the GPNY candidate for Governor.
Bloom for Chesapeake School Board Stands Up for Community
Involvement in Textbook Review Process
On Monday, May 23rd, the Chesapeake School Board presented for the
first reading a revision to existing policy regarding controversial
materials. One of the major proposed changes would seize power from
school principles to establish review committees, instead centralizing
it under the City’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction.
Furthermore, any decisions made on materials are applied to the
entire district, regardless of nuanced differences between each school
from demographics to grade levels.
School Board Candidate Blaizen Buckshot Bloom condemned this new
policy stating, “In a time when parents and other stakeholders are
clamoring for more democracy in our school system, this centralization
of power is a slap in the face.” Bloom then added, “What we instead
should be working towards is democratizing our schools, ensuring that
there are more outlets for parents and teachers to be involved in the
school process at all levels.”
David Wetterer, Ballot Access Champion, Announces Run for
Secretary of State
David Wetterer has announced his
candidacy as a write-in candidate for Indiana Secretary of State for
the upcoming November 2022 Elections.
David is a part of a coalition of democracy supporters that filed a
lawsuit in the US District Court of the Southern District of Indiana
against incumbent Indiana Secretary of State, Holli Sullivan,
challenging Indiana’s very outdated and extremely draconian ballot
access laws.
- Needing a large amount of canvassers to collect a minimum of
45,000 certified signatures, and collecting double that amount to
prepare for any challenges. (Major party politicians only need to
collect 500 signatures or less.)
- Having to go to each county clerk's office around the state to get
signatures certified
- The cost, $465K-$565K for a successful ballot access drive, is a
prohibitive barrier for most Hoosiers unless incredibly wealthy.
Register TODAY for the the Green Party of California's July
General Assembly
The Green Party of California will hold a
General Assembly on Saturday and Sunday, July 9 and 10. This General
Assembly will be held by video teleconference, and all Greens are
invited to attend. Early registration will end on July 4th.
Join GPCA and help welcome the Green Party's 2016 Presidential
nominee, Dr. Jill Stein, and long-time Green Party of
NY activist and journalist Margaret Kimberley. They
will discuss how Greens can play a pivotal role in building the
people's movement that we need to save our world. Hear updates from
county representatives, engage in discussions, and much more.
 
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