The Steering Committee of the Green Party (US) consists of 7 “co-chairs”, plus a Treasurer and a Secretary. Four of the seven co-chair positions are up for election with 10 days left in the discussion period before a seven day voting period begins.
The debate among the National Committee, which elects the Steering Committee, has [...]

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n the U.S., 22,000 people die every year due to lack of health care. Congressman Dennis Kucinich supports HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Bill because it will control costs, create jobs and boost the economy, and provide more choice for every American. Joining Kucinich will be several health care experts and advocates. [...]

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Utility PACs Generous to Key Lawmakers in Climate Debate
By ANNE C. MULKERN of Greenwire
Published: July 27, 2009
Large electric utilities that rely heavily on coal poured money into re-election campaigns as the House shaped and passed landmark climate legislation, a bill that helps those businesses partly sidestep its toughest provisions.
Employee-run committees for American Electric Power Co. [...]

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Why is Charlie Wilson Against the Energy Bill? Ask His Donors?
Why would Congressman Charlie Wilson (Ohio-6), a member of the House Science Committee, vote against the Energy Bill for alternative renewable energies? The answer is, ask his top donors for 2009:

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This is troubling news….

Unknown assailants have attacked an activist of Kyrgyzstan’s opposition Green Party and demanded that she withdraw documents she filed with the Central Election Commission, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
Gulmira Asylbekova was beaten during the attack, and has filed an official complaint to the local police urging them to investigate the assault.
A week earlier, [...]

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This is interesting….
PORTLAND — The Maine Green Independent Party announced Tuesday that it would support Republican efforts on a people’s veto of a tax package passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. John Baldacci in June.
Green leaders said they are against the tax restructuring because they believe it hurts lower-income Mainers and [...]

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I found this great op-ed piece by former VP Green candidate Pat LaMarche where she urges people to vote Green because of the Democrats’ repeated broken promises in spite of controlling both houses of Congress and the Presidency.
Here’s a snippet:
During the 2008 election cycle, the Democrats told us that we didn’t get health care reform [...]

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Okay. Pretend you come across some Green Party literature one afternoon and you are excited about their policies such as their support for single payer health care and equal marriage to name a few. You want to get involved with your local Green Party but to your dismay you discover there isn’t one in your [...]

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Posted on Green Party candidate for IL governor, Rich Whitney’s facebook
Dear Fellow Illinoisans,
Thanks to the utterly irresponsible budgetary decisions of the Democrats and Republicans in State government, our public sector workers – social service workers, transportation workers, correctional workers, child and family service workers, educators, park service workers and many more – are now facing [...]

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Matt Reichel, who ran on the Green Party line in the Special Election to fill Rahm’s seat in Congress earlier this Spring, is one of the first declared Green Party candidates for US House in 2010 and has hit the ground running.
As reported here two weeks ago, Matt Reichel declared his intention to run [...]

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Thank you to Kimberly Wilder for forwarding these write ups on the Rev. Billy Talen / Joan Baez event and other online coverage this week:
A Night With Reverend Billy (NY Press)
With his high pompadour and guerilla theatre tactics, it’s tempting to dismiss Reverend Billy as an entertainer with a few good points, but [...]

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Why Is Charlie Wilson against Health Reform? Check his donors…..
 
Why is Charlie Wilson (OH-6) dragging his feet on health care reform?
Could it be Charlie is influenced by his donors list this year?
 

Insurance

$5,000

$0

$5,000

Health Professionals

$3,750

$250

$3,500

Securities & Investment

$3,500

$0

$3,500

Lawyers/Law Firms

$2,550

$550

$2,000

Finance/Credit Companies

$2,000

$0

$2,000

Hospitals/Nursing Homes

$1,250

$250

$1,000

Charlie Wilson……His vote can be bought…..
 
Dennis Spisak
Mahoning Valley Green Party
Ohio Green Party
WWW.ohiogreens.org
www.votespisak.org/thinkgreen/
 

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Release from the Green Party (US):
Green Party wraps up its 2009 Annual National Meeting in Durham, NC; video clips of meeting highlights posted online
• Among the videos: a forum on health care reform, an address by Cynthia McKinney, and West Virginia’s Jesse Johnson speaking on mountaintop removal for coal
WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party [...]

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The Green Party of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania has announced that it is working with other progressive organizations to organize a demonstration and other activities in response to a meeting of the G-20 that will take place in Pittsburgh on September 24th and 25th this year. The Allegheny Greens write,
“The Group of Twenty (G-20) [...]

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In the German city of Stuttgart, the Greens recently won the largest vote total. In a city with more than 500,000 people, that’s a considerable feat for The Greens. Another interesting thing about this is that the electorate in Stuttgart skews conservative and middle class. As the following report will show, many citizens of Stuttgart [...]

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