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—Michael O'Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party
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Mourning Founder John
Rensenbrink
The Green Party of the United
States mourns the passing of one of its esteemed founding members and
leaders, John Rensenbrink. He passed away peacefully
surrounded by his family in hospice on July 30, 2022. He was 93 and
transitioned one month before his 94th birthday.
Greens are remembering John
Rensenbrink for his role as prime mover and leader of an independent
political party dedicated to ecology, social and economic justice,
democracy, and nonviolence and for the intellectual weight he gave the
Green Party movement as a global imperative as awareness of the
climate crisis emerged.
Rensenbrink was a highly respected
political scientist, philosopher, author, journalist, educational
innovator, and conservationist by trade. In 1965, he began teaching
political philosophy and history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick,
Maine. After semi-retirement in 1989, he continued teaching at Bowdoin
for several years, creating an interdisciplinary seminar for majors in
Black, Women's, and Environmental Studies.
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2022 Inflation
Reduction Act Capitalizes On A World In Crisis
The 2022
Inflation Reduction Act
allows corporations to capitalize on a world in crisis by
expanding massive new oil and gas leasing in
disproportionately impacted Indigenous, Black and People of Color
communities. We need bold action targeted at a just transition,
environmental justice, and to immediately halt fossil fuel projects to
address the climate emergency by 2030.
On July 27, Senators Manchin and
Schumer agreed to reduce carbon emissions 40% by 2030 with $369.75
billion for Energy Security and Climate Change programs over the next
ten years and extend Affordable Care Act subsidies for 3 years but
this is far lower than the $4.2 trillion per year needed to cut carbon
emissions by 2030. This "climate deal" provides a relatively small
renewable investment and subsidizes gas, nukes, fossil fuel-sourced
hydrogen, and carbon capture while requiring the Interior Department
to offer at least 2 million acres of public lands and 60 million acres
of offshore waters in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska for oil and gas
leasing each year. The bill also doesn't actually address phasing out
fossil fuels, and negotiations hint that President Biden has promised
to loosen pipeline restrictions in exchange for Manchin's
vote.
Federal District Judge Rules In Favor of NC Green Party and
Matthew Hoh for U.S. Senate
Issues strong rebuke of State Board of Elections and
Democrats
The North Carolina Green Party (NCGP)
applauds the court order which comprehensively vindicates the Green
Party, which has only functioned transparently and in full accordance
within the statutes of state law. This important legal victory comes
on the heels of unprecedented voter intimidation, harassment and fraud
perpetrated by well-financed partisan operatives to to suppress ballot
access.
Green Party of Pennsylvania files nomination petitions to put
fracking, healthcare, more on ballot
On Monday, August 1, the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) filed
more than 500 petitions containing thousands of signatures from
registered voters from across the state to qualify five candidates for
ballot access in the November 2022 general election. This will put
critical issues like fracking, climate change, healthcare, criminal
justice modernization, corruption in government, and voting reforms on
the ballot, giving voters a starkly different political vision than
offered by Republicans and Democrats.
The Green Party candidates include Christina "PK"
DiGiulio for PA Governor, Michael Bagdes-Canning for
PA Lieutenant Governor, Richard L. Weiss for U.S.
Senator, Jay Ting Walker for PA Representative
District 23, and Queonia "Zarah" Livingston for PA
Representative District 32.
Green Party of Tennessee upcoming elections
The Green Party of Tennessee’s annual meeting
will take place August 27, 2022 at 2:00 pm C.S.T. The meeting will
establish the ballot for the vacant positions on the Coordinating
Committee.
Click
here to register for the GPTN Annual Meeting.
 
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