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Hi Greens!
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! I
hope you all get to relax and enjoy time with your family and friends.
For my opening message this month, I thought I'd share this poem that
comes from the Green Party of the UK:
 "Twas the night before Christmas, when
all through the land
Division and conflict, red lines in the
sand.
War and racism with no sense or reason.
It’s hard to feel
merry come this Christmas season.
While children were nestled all snug in their beds,
Elsewhere
young lives had been torn into shreds
With mum in detention, dad
taken away,
Held without cause for a long winter's stay.
Then out in the Arctic there arose a wildfire,
It spread through
the trees as the smoke billowed higher.
When, what in the
thundering sky should appear,
But a sweltering sleigh, and eight
tired reindeer,
With a little old driver, exhausted and sick,
Still alive for
the moment, it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than missiles the
reindeer came flying,
He took off their gas masks and checked they
weren’t dying.
And out in the distance the borders shut tight,
Refugees
stranded, no cot for the night.
Compassionate voices to kindness
beholden,
Drowned out by the haters the papers emboldened.
For so many obstacles, who was to blame?
He grumbled and shouted
and called them by name;
“Out Theresa! Out Boris! Your words
highfalutin!
Bolsanero! Erdogan! Out Donald and Putin!”
He was dressed all in red, from his head to his foot,
But his
clothes were all tarnished with carbon and soot;
So past the
landfill the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys
that’d end up there too.
He looked at his list of both naughty and nice,
But this year
the naughty side reached to new heights!
And wiping a tear from
aside of his nose,
He thought “Please be grateful if you’re one of
those
Who’ll have a nice Christmas with family and friends,
But never
forget to help those who depend
On the actions of others to conquer
their plight.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!”
- Starlene Rankin, GreenLine Editor and Green Party
Staff Member
 The Green Party’s Banking and Monetary Reform
Committee (BMRC) wishes to be a resource for all 2020
Green Party candidates seeking a deeper and more critical
understanding of the current Federal Reserve monetary system. We
believe understanding monetary policy is essential to understanding
many of the nation’s (and the world’s) problems – social,
environmental and economic.
We encourage you to read our
committee website, GreensForMonetaryReform.org.
This site explains simply the problem with our current monetary system
and the solution, “Greening
the Dollar”, found in our national platform.
Money is a form of power. The 1%
have money and therefore power. They rule. How did they get all this
money and power?
The 99% have lots of debt, which
can be an oppressive burden. They do not rule. How were we burdened
with so much debt? CONTINUE
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 A site map
for www.gp.org has been added and can be found at https://www.gp.org/site_map.
It was created as a supplement to the search page ( https://www.gp.org/search) in an effort to make it
easier to find what you’re looking for. The site map includes direct
links to multiple donate page, a link to the individual ballot access
pages for states and territories, as well as a listing of all of the
locations for current and past press releases.
Just click on the pic below to order your
merchandise today!
The newest items to become available in our store for 2019
are the individual caucus buttons.
Created by the Merchandise Committee, we are earmarking
portions of the proceeds to benefit the caucus directly.
 PA
Greens support formation of Federal Renewable Energy Commission
(FREC) On December 1, the Steering Committee of the Green
Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) endorsed the formation of a Federal
Renewable Energy Commission (FREC). This newly created national agency
would have the mission of organizing the Green New Deal and creating a
sustainable energy structure for the U.S.
"The creation of FREC has been demanded by Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE), an
activist organization, to replace the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC)," reported GPPA Co-chair Sheri
Miller of Adams County. "For the last
forty years, FERC has been under the thumb of the fossil fuel
industry. With the current climate crisis, we must sweep out the old
structure which has brought the world to the brink of destruction. The
GPPA Steering Committee recognizes that Green New Deal proposals are
not enough; we also need a new governing structure." CONTINUE
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 The
Pacific Green Party announces it's winter state
convention The Pacific Green Party will be holding it's
2020 Winter State Convention in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, January
11, 2020. Join us at the Gresham Public Library from 10:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. for a day of organizing and campaign planning. Registrations
are now being accepted. Please indicate your needs for housing,
transportation or other accommodations (special foods, translation,
etc.) CONTINUE
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 This
is no time to sit back and watch As the Wisconsin Green
Party (WIGP) gears up for a successful Fall and 2020 election cycle,
we hope to see you out at our events and in the many exciting
movements we are a part of. We have a lot of great opportunities for
Greens to get involved including our fantastic commitiees which are
always in need of writers, designers, communicators, tech savvy
people, organizers and more. In addition, we will elect a new
coordinating council at our Fall Gathering, and we would like to
empower all Greens to think about nominating themselves or others to
lead the charge as a secretary, treasurer, CD representative, at-large
member, or even as a co-chair. CONTINUE
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 Greens stand with students at
#freezethefuels climate strike Green candidate arrested
MILWAUKEE – Friday, December 6th, 2019 hundreds of students and other
local activists rallied in Zeidler Union Square Park to demand action
against global warming. Students from all walks of life joined the
strike including elementary and college students. North Division High
School brought student speakers and a drumline which led the march.
Among the speakers was Cheyanne Rupert (Sunrise Milwaukee
Coordinator), and prior Wisconsin Green Party mayoral candidate for
Racine, Fabi Maldonado (who currently serves on the Racine County
Board). The climate strikers marched to Wells Fargo to demand their
divestment of fossil fuel companies and their executives, as they
chanted "people over profit" and "planet over profit." They also
demanded the bank invests, instead, in green infrastructure and energy
as well as fair labor practices. Though the Wells Fargo building was
the focal point for the march, JP Morgan Chase was another bank the
from which the protesters demanded action these actions. CONTINUE
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 DEC 06, 2019 Green
Party says strengthen the Paris Agreement, shut down
NATO The Green Party of the United States today called
for NATO to be shut down and for an expansion of measures in the Paris
Climate Agreement in light of the deepening global crisis. The NATO
summit and 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) are
both taking place this week. Dismantling NATO and redirecting military
spending towards a Green New Deal would result both in honoring the
US's pledge not to expand NATO and help to drastically reduce the U.S.
military's carbon footprint, said Green Party leaders.
Greens noted that the 2015 Paris Climate Treaty is
inadequate to address the climate change crisis. 195 nations pledged
to reduce greenhouse gases. However, the pledges are not mandatory,
the treaty does not require a phase-out of fossil fuels, and it delays
higher aid levels for poorer nations until 2025.
"What is the point of trusting the governments who sign up to this
agreement with one hand while investing ever more in fossil fuel
extraction, combustion and consumption with the other? The Green
Party's platform demands legally binding commitments for reducing
greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2020 and a 95% reduction
by 2030 over 1990 levels," said Tina
Rockett, delegate from Virginia to the Green National
Committee. CONTINUE
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 DEC 19, 2019 Green
Party launches ballot line initiative for 2020
elections The Green Party has launched an initiative to
get ballot lines for all 50 states and DC and the U.S. territories in
2020. Green Party leaders said that increasingly restrictive ballot
requirements were setting the stage in an attempt to eliminate all
competition against the Democratic and Republican candidates in the
2020 presidential election. Greens said that voters deserve the
right to vote on a ballot that gives them a choice of more than two
candidates on Election Day and that limiting the choice to two is a
severe blow to fair and open democratic elections.
“An overwhelming majority of
citizens support the building of a new major political party,
and more choices on their November ballot,”
said Brendan Phillips, co-chair of the
Green Party Ballot Access Committee. “Unfortunately, in most states,
the two major parties have created terribly restrictive ballot access
laws designed specifically to keep third parties and independent
candidates off the ballot, furthering the two-party
stranglehold.”
“Restrictive ballot access laws
severely limit voter choice and democratic participation. The Green
Party of the United States calls for reasonable ballot access
thresholds and debate requirements, both of which would
help to provide a more informed and participatory electorate,” said
Phillips. CONTINUE
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