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	<title>Green Party Watch &#187; Grassroots Democracy</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Blogger: Third Parties are critical for an informed public</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/03/02/blogger-third-parties-are-critical-for-an-informed-public/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/03/02/blogger-third-parties-are-critical-for-an-informed-public/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Wide Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[D. Bene Tleilax]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Laura Wells]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/?p=1735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Citizen Tleilax recently blogged about his reasons for writing the California League of Conservation Voters to request that they include Green Party candidate for California Governor Laura Wells in their website &#8220;GreenGov2010&#8243;. Activism to support Green inclusion in media, debates, voter guides, etc. is extremely valuable, as I wrote in a reply that I&#8217;ll post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arkansas Green Campaign School now showing on Green Party US livestream</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/23/arkansas-green-campaign-school-now-showing-on-green-party-us-livestream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/23/arkansas-green-campaign-school-now-showing-on-green-party-us-livestream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Greens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Party News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brent McMillan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ken Adler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Campaign School event hosted by the Arkansas Green Party in Little Rock, with presentations by Green Party political director Brent McMillan, is now running on Green Party US livestream in a loop.
Green Party Campaign Schools consist of workshops on all aspects of political campaign organizing for candidates, campaign staff, &#38; GP organizers.
Thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One more week to submit amendments to Green Party platform</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/08/one-more-week-to-submit-amendments-to-green-party-platform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/08/one-more-week-to-submit-amendments-to-green-party-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Greens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/?p=1699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Green Party US is attempting to amend its platform in 2010. February 15th is the deadline for Green Party members to submit platform amendments to the state parties and caucuses to which they belong.
Both GP.org and GreenChange.org have posted the current platform as a launching point for comments, discussions and proposed amendments.
Helping to work on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can help rewrite the Green Party Platform for 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/02/you-can-help-rewrite-the-green-party-platform-for-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/02/you-can-help-rewrite-the-green-party-platform-for-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Greens]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GreenChange.org]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/?p=1690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Green friends,
I&#8217;d like to invite you to an experiment in online democracy.
The Green Party of the United States is amending its platform. I volunteered to serve as the co-chair of the Platform Committee.
We&#8217;re asking you to help update the Green platform in an open, collaborative process on GreenChange.org and GP.org, the website of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nader 2000 campaign manager publishes article on discriminatory ballot access laws</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/12/14/nader-2000-campaign-manager-publishes-article-on-discriminatory-ballot-access-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/12/14/nader-2000-campaign-manager-publishes-article-on-discriminatory-ballot-access-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Z. Say what???]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ballot Access]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Theresa Amato]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/?p=1636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Theresa Amato, who served as campaign manager for Ralph Nader&#8217;s 2000 Green and 2004 independent runs for president, has an opinion piece in the Harvard Law Record entitled &#8220;The Two Party Ballot Suppresses Third Party Change&#8221;. She notes that although Nader wrote a piece on discriminatory ballot access laws for the same publication in 1958, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois: Kairis Defeats Democratic Party Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/12/11/illinois-kairis-defeats-democratic-party-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/12/11/illinois-kairis-defeats-democratic-party-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Hardy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Congressional Campaigns]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ballot Access]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dan Kairis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/?p=1633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sent in today (Dan Kairis website)
Dan Kairis, long-time resident of South Elgin, IL and Green Party candidate for the 14th Congressional District, defeated the Democratic Party&#8217;s attempt to remove him from the February 2, 2010 primary election ballot.  Kairis was represented by Andy Finko, an attorney who helped a number of other Green Party [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asa Gordon Oral Argument on Democratizing the Electoral College</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/12/09/asa-gordon-oral-argument-on-democratizing-the-electoral-college/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/12/09/asa-gordon-oral-argument-on-democratizing-the-electoral-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Hardy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Asa Gordon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DC Statehood Green Party]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Electoral College]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/?p=1630</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Independent Political Report: 
Asa Gordon is Chair of the DC Statehood Green Party Electoral College Task Force and Executive Director of Douglass Institute for Government. Gordon’s civil suit concerning reform of the Electoral College will have oral arguments in the United States Court of Appeals on January 14, 2010. The lawsuit, Gordon v. Biden, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii and Arizona Green Party Petition Drives</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/11/26/hawaii-and-arizona-green-party-petition-drives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/11/26/hawaii-and-arizona-green-party-petition-drives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Hardy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Party News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ballot Access]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hawai'i]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/?p=1618</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two State Green Parties are currently working on petition drives to maintain ballot access. 
The Green Party of Hawaii, which has had continuous ballot status since 1992, needs 663 signatures to retain ballot access for 2010. They recently got press for this effort here and here 
The Arizona Green Party has a stiffer requirement but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday is the first Green Change day of blog action</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/11/23/tuesday-is-the-first-green-change-day-of-blog-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/11/23/tuesday-is-the-first-green-change-day-of-blog-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green Change]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/?p=1614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the global day of blog action on climate change, Green Change is holding its own blog action day. The topic is local action.
We’re organizing Green bloggers to write about local action this Tuesday. Want to share an idea for local action? Have you run for local office or worked on a campaign? Publish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Paul voters approve instant runoff voting</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/11/11/st-paul-voters-approve-instant-runoff-voting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2009/11/11/st-paul-voters-approve-instant-runoff-voting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[instant runoff voting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[St. Paul]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greenpartywatch.org/?p=1601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 3rd, voters in St. Paul, MN followed in the footsteps of their Minneapolis neighbors by approving the use of instant runoff voting in municipal elections by a vote of roughly 52%-48%. The St. Paul Green Party supported the measure, which faced organized opposition from a group called the Minnesota Voter&#8217;s Alliance. St. Paul&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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