A Green Party of NY State Committee meeting will be held Saturday, Jan. 28, in Rensselaer, NY, at the First Presbyterian Church, 34 Broadway. All enrolled Green Party members are welcome to attend and will have a chance to address the State Committee members during the morning enrollee speak out. Contact chair@gpny.org for more information. (Read more for agenda and directions.) read more »
On Wednesday January 25th, one day after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein broadcast her own speech entitled “The People’s State of the Union: A Green New Deal for America”. In the speech, Dr. Stein spoke on the problems facing America and the solutions that she is proposing in her campaign. Watch the video here or at Vimeo:
Roseanne Barr has taken several steps to make it possible for her to seek the Green Party presidential nomination. She filed with the Federal Election Commission on January 25, and she has fulfilled the requirements of the Green Party to seek the nomination. She is a registered Green Party member in California, although she also has a home in Hawaii.
Dr. Jill Stein, a Green Party candidate for President of the United States, will be presenting her People’s State of the Union address tonight, Wednesday Jan 25, 8:30 PM Eastern, live on her website.
Dozens of House Parties have also been organized and scheduled around the country, there are 29 of them publicly listed (and mapped) here.
Jill Stein and Kent Mesplay both appeared on the Green Party of the US Livestream last night to provide responses to President Obama’s State of the Union, rebroadcast of that may be viewed here.
The Livestream broadcast will feature Green presidential candidates Jill Stein and Kent Mesplay; viewers can participate in the chat and phone in with questions
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party presidential candidates will participate in an online discussion immediately following President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Jan. 24. During the show, to be broadcast on the Green Party’s Livestream channel (http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus), viewers can call in with questions for the candidates.
Viewers can also join in an online chat that will take place simultaneously with the State of the Union broadcast, which will be visible on the Livestream page. The public is invited to participate.
The two candidates competing for the Green presidential nomination are Kent Mesplay (http://www.mesplay.org) and Jill Stein (http://www.jillstein.org). Dr. Mesplay and Dr. Stein will be on the Livestream broadcast via remote webcam. Craig Seeman and Starlene Rankin are producing the show and will serve as hosts. read more »
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party candidates and leaders said today that the US must avoid a military confrontation with Iran by diplomacy based on the goal of ridding the Middle East and Asia of nuclear weapons, including Israel, Pakistan, and India.
The Green Party strongly opposes a military attack on Iran, a country that poses no threat to the US. Greens compared the deceptive rhetoric now being used to vilify Iran with the Bush Administration’s fraudulent justifications for a war on Iraq nearly ten years ago, with unconfirmed allegations about Iran’s plans for nuclear arms taking the place of Iraqi WMDs.
On Tuesday, Jan. 24, the Green Party’s presidential contenders will discuss foreign policy and other topics in a live online chat with viewer participation during President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address, to be aired on the Green Party’s Livestream channel (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=471).
Jill Stein, candidate for the Green Party’s 2012 presidential nomination (http://www.jillstein.org): “The threats of an assault on Iran by Israel or the U.S., or both, are igniting tensions that could erupt into a larger conflict. If we object to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the first step in resolving these tensions is to recognize that no nation has a ‘right’ to possess nuclear weapons. The possession of such weapons by any country in the region is a motivation for other countries to obtain them as well, and Iran has unfriendly nuclear nations on either side, being Israel and Pakistan. The United States should press Iran’s neighbors to divest themselves of their nuclear arsenals and to use such pressure as the basis for good-faith negotiation with Iran.” read more »
HELSINKI — The conservative favorite easily won the first round of Finland’s presidential election Sunday, setting up a runoff against an environmentalist leader who is the first openly gay candidate to run for head of state in the Nordic country…
With all votes counted, Pekka Haavisto, of the Greens party, was second with 18.8 percent, securing his place in the Feb. 5 runoff. read more »
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was in Washington DC with Move to Amend for Occupy the Courts, a weekend of actions to protest the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that gave corporations license to spend unlimited amounts of cash on elections. Watch Dr. Stein’s speech to Occupy the Courts here:
The Wisconsin Green Party’s Ben Manski was recently on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss the Occupy Movement, the drive to recall WI Governor Scott Walker, and Jill Stein’s presidential campaign. Manski is an accomplished democracy advocate, campaign manager for Jill Stein for President 2012, and an experienced candidate himself – in 2010 he took 31% of the vote in a WI State Rep race, and may well have done better if not for straight-ticket voting.
Watch Ben Manski on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann:
Tens of thousands of Americans in over 130 cities gather today at federal courthouses and in public squares, nearly the two-year anniversary of Citizens United v. FEC, to reject the doctrines of corporate personhood and money is speech. Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, is a lead speaker today in Washington, D.C., where she joins protestors on the steps of the court building of the Supreme Court of the United States. Dr. Stein joins leading members of the Move to Amend coalition, as well as Thom Hartmann, Medea Benjamin, and others in this role.
“Since 1996, the Green Party has called for a constitutional amendment to abolish the doctrine of corporate personhood,” said Stein. “Greens have been ahead of the curve, but today, the curve has caught up with us, and now this movement for a constitution that serves we, the people, has gathered a historic momentum.” read more »
Secretary of State Mark Martin said the Green Party gathered sufficient signatures to qualify for a party slot on the Arkansas election ballot this year. The party must hold a nominating convention by May 22.
The Arkansas Greens’ Jim Lendall joined the discussion to offer details about the road ahead: read more »
Al Jazeera English has covered Jill Stein’s Green Party presidential campaign in an article entitled “The ‘other’ political parties of the US”. From the article:
“I joined [the Green Party] in 2000, around the time of the Nader run … I had not been a member of a party or really politically active until that time. I was never inspired to have been a part of the Democrats to start with.
“I was one of those people who was just off-put by political parties in general, and I didn’t really come to see them as a necessary thing essential for political and economic change. It took me ten years of participating in the policy process to understand why we need political parties.
“Our hope is to qualify in enough states to give [the Green Party] access to 90 per cent or more of the Electoral College. That means at least 40 states … We currently have access in something like 17 states … and can relatively easily get enough to bring us up to a total of 30 or 35. read more »
On 5 January the good news arrived that the Greens of Belarus, Bielaruskaja Partyja “Zialonye”, have been accepted as a legally recognised party by the state Ministry of Justice, after the Ministry accepted the outcomes of the congress of the party in November 2011. Now that the party is recognised, it can participate in the upcoming elections this April. Aleh Novikau will lead the party into the election after he was re-elected as the party’s Chairman for the next 4 years. read more »
Hat tip to Independent Political Report for this news:
Ballot Access News reports that Marcy Winograd has changed her registration to the Green Party. Winograd challenged Democratic Congressmember Jane Harman in Democratic primaries, receiving 37.5% in 2006 and 41% in 2010 (she also ran in a 2011 special election). (Read more at Independent Political Report)
Dr. Jill Stein, a Green Party candidate for President of the United States, will be presenting her People’s State of the Union address tonight, Wednesday Jan 25, 8:30 PM Eastern, 
