WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party candidates, leaders, and other members will participate in the ‘US Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now’ march in Washington, DC, on Saturday, March 20.
Greens will join hundreds of thousands of others to demand an end to the wars and occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Haiti and threats of war [...]

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Over 100 leading peace activists have announced an ‘Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally’ at the White House on December 12, from 11a.m. to 4 p.m., to reject President Obama’s planned military escalation in Afghanistan. The rally is organized by End US Wars, a newly formed coalition of national and grass-roots antiwar organizations, with endorsements from leading peace [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders called on President Obama to reverse his Afghanistan policy by pledging an immediate cease-fire in the Afghanistan war and a complete withdrawal of US troops and military contractors, when he addresses the nation on Tuesday, December 1.
During the speech, President Obama will announce his intention to send 30,000 more [...]

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Appearing at the War Crimes Conference and Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney delivered a 17 minute address to the delegates. The speech, broken into two pieces to accommodate YouTube limitations is under the fold. Hat Tip to Black Agenda Report.

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WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders expressed puzzlement and outrage over the decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize, and urged widespread demonstrations against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to take place in Oslo, Washington, and other cities on the day Mr. Obama picks up his prize in Oslo.
“The chief difference between [...]

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In a message today, the Reverend Billy Talen, who is running for Mayor of New York City on the Green Party line, had this to say about Barack Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize:

Now we have to change all our words around.
I never thought of Peace as a word that was moveable. All [...]

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From Green Change:
This morning, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Nobel Committee said.
Why?
Did Obama bring peace to Iraq?
No. He has retained 124,000 U.S. troops there, with tens of thousands deployed perhaps indefinitely.
Did he bring peace to [...]

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U.S. President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”
Obama joins Wangari Muta Maathai, founder of Africa’s Green Belt Movement and Kenya’s Green Party. Hopefully Obama will find opportunities to discuss future steps in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan with [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders, activists, and members across the US plan to participate in mass rallies, marches, coordinated local and regional demonstrations, and other forms of protest to take place on and around Saturday, October 17 calling for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The National Assembly to End the Afghanistan [...]

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Green Party candidate for NYC Mayor Rev. Billy Talen recently made national news by rallying protesters at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. His post-G20 reflection is well worth a read:

September 26, 2009

We’re flying home for a labor rally in front of Goldman Sachs as G-20 continues Friday afternoon. The last 24 hours in Pittsburgh leave [...]

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From GPUS:
Today members of the Green Party of the United States and our state Green
Parties reflect on a number of personal tragedies resulting from the events of September 11, 2001, and continue to work to prevent further tragedies resulting from these events.
We note the importance of remembering those who died eight years ago [...]

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I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who said “When I make my enemy into my friend, have I not destroyed my enemy utterly?” I may have that more than a bit off, but I think it’s fairly close.
If the Green Party is to grow into a force capable of electing enough people to reverse [...]

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Elston McCowan, a Baptist minister and SEIU union official who ran for mayor of St. Louis in 2009 on the Green Party line, was attacked at an 8/6 town hall forum on healthcare reform outside St. Louis in Mehlville, MO. As reported by Patrick M. O’Connell of the St. Louis Dispatch, both tea party protesters [...]

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There are 29 percent of Democrats who expressed a strong belief in non-violence in this poll. They aren’t being represented well by their own political party. We need to woo these Democrats, not assault them with generalizations that they know aren’t true. They know that there’s a difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, and they also know that there is a great deal of diversity within the Democratic Party.

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The Mahoning Valley Green Party (Youngstown, Ohio) will be participating in the National Night Out 2009 Movement by parading around Wick Park In Youngstown, Ohio to speak out against crime and drugs. “It’s our way of reaching out to the inner city that the Green Party is the alternative party for inner city residents,” said [...]

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