Posted by David Doonan at the Green Pages Facebook page.
Dear Greens,
Its indeed been a terrible day, the man who started the shouting and threw chairs, we have established that he is an Ex-Soldier and a former employee of Military Intelligence, the other three people who joined him, one of them had something like [...]
Entries from October 2009
Update from Rwanda
October 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: International Greens · Z. Say what???
Western US has 15 Green candidates in Fall 2009 elections
October 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments
ARIZONA:
Mary DeCamp - Tucson - City Council, Ward 3
CALIFORNIA:
Curtis Robinson - Marin County - Board of Education Trustee, Area 6
Dana Silvernale - Northern Humboldt Union High School District - School Board
Jane Rands - District 72 - State Assembly (special election on 11/17)
Jeremy Cloward - District 10 - US House of Representatives
Jim Harvey - Montara - [...]
Tags: Congressional Campaigns · Local Elections
No Green Party banner over Rwanda; Broken Bones and Arrests instead
October 30th, 2009 · 8 Comments
This should tell the world what Rwanda, the U.S.A.’s closest ally in Africa, and its President Paul Kagame are:
The Rwandan Democratic Greens tried, for the fourth time, to hold their founding convention in Kigali, but this time the police came instead.
I just spoke to Frank Habineza, interim Rwandan Green Party leader, who is in a [...]
Tags: International Greens
Green Party highlights candidates to watch on Election Day 2009
October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment
WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party highlighted several Green candidates running strong campaigns in the 2009 races, with some likely victories on Election Day, November 3.
158 Green Party candidates have announced runs in local and state races. Below are profiles of some of the more promising and prominent candidates, with campaign web site links and [...]
Tags: Local Elections · National Greens · Press Release
Matt Reichel: Democratic shame on health care
October 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Today, the single-payer health care community learned of its bitter defeat in the fight for the only just and workable solution to this nation’s health care crisis: expanded and improved medicare for all Americans.
We had been advocating two amendments to the health care bill (HB 3200), both of which were removed from consideration by the [...]
Tags: Congressional Campaigns
38 Green candidates in NJ, NY, and PA for Fall 2009
October 27th, 2009 · 10 Comments
NEW JERSEY:
Jason Koralja - Surf City - Borough Council, At-Large
Steven Welzer - General Assembly, District 12
NEW YORK:
Allen Carstensen - Ulysses - Town Supervisor
Bill Talen - New York City - Mayor
Cesar Malaga - Suffolk County - County Legislature, District 14
Darin Robbins - Corning - Alderman, Ward 7
David Pechefsky - New York City - City Council, District [...]
Tags: Local Elections · Z. Say what???
Green Party Website Hacked (Google Innocent)
October 26th, 2009 · 12 Comments
In a follow up to the mystery of the missing Green Party website on Google searches, an email to Green Party Watch from Google states that the Green Party (US) website gp.org had been removed from the Google index because it had been hacked. Hundreds of hidden links to websites selling prescription drugs is buried [...]
Tags: National Greens
Ross Mirkarimi, Green San Francisco Supervisor, fires up the 350 crowd
October 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Ross Mirkarimi is a Green Party member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The film was posted to You Tube by Polidoc Productions’ Babbette Hogan. Polidoc’s website can be found here.
Tags: Z. Say what???
Is Google trying to subvert the Green Party?
October 25th, 2009 · 29 Comments
**EDITORS NOTE This story is updated here. In short, the Green Party national website, gp.org, was hacked. Google removed the site from their search results because of hidden links at the site put there by unauthorized people. According to software engineers at Google, the same person or people did this to [...]
Tags: National Greens
Rev. Billy Talen: NYC uses too much rainforest timber
October 25th, 2009 · No Comments
In a message to supporters, Green Party candidate for mayor of New York CityRev. Billy Talen writes that New York City is the nation’s biggest consumer of rain forest timber.
This Tuesday Oct 27th Reverend Billy joins with RainForest Relief, NYC Climate Action Group and Friends of Brad Will for a parade through Washington Square Park [...]
Tags: Local Elections · Z. Say what???
Old email
October 25th, 2009 · No Comments
In looking over email messages I came across one sent out in late September. It addresses Marina Silva’s possible presidential run in Brazil. Silva is an internationally known activist for the Amazon, and the people who live there. She recently joined the Brazilian Green Party.
Marina Silva, the charismatic rubber tapper who went [...]
Tags: International Greens
More 350 climate change videos
October 24th, 2009 · No Comments
To avoid filling the entire front page with videos, they are “below the fold”. One is from New Zealand, and the rest are from Chicago. All feature Green Party leaders. To watch the videos just click this article’s headline, or the “Read more” link at the bottom of this post.
Tags: Z. Say what???
Tom Tresser and climate change
October 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Z. Say what???
News Blaze: California Greens Suggest ‘Rational’ Plan for Water
October 24th, 2009 · No Comments
NewsBlaze covers the Green Party of California release on California’s water problems:
Governor Stumbles Over Water Dilemma; Greens Suggest ‘Rational’ Plan
California Greens today said Governor Arnold Shwarzenegger has “stumbled” over the State’s water issues. They say the recent rains don’t fix the problems, because the problems are long-terms and deep-seated.
The following statement came directly from [...]
Tags: Ecological Wisdom & the Environment · State Party News
LeAlan Jones to Speak in Rockford Oct 25
October 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Green Part Senate candidate LeAlan Jones will be speaking in Rockford, IL at JustGoods, 201 Seventh St on Oct 25 at 2pm.
“This is the only thing I can do to have peace of mind,” is Jones’ response when asked why he is running for office. “I am looking at a community that is suffering because [...]
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