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	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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>

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		<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>Illinois Governor&#8217;s Race: Lackluster Democratic and Republican candidates present &#8216;an opening for Greens&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/08/illinois-governors-race-lackluster-democratic-and-republican-candidates-present-an-opening-for-greens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/08/illinois-governors-race-lackluster-democratic-and-republican-candidates-present-an-opening-for-greens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[State Party News]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Rich Whitney]]></category>

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From the News-Gazette in Illinois:
llinois Democrats have a gubernatorial candidate favored by only half the members of his own party, who faces a difficult budget battle this spring and – for now – is stuck with a running mate who is a political nightmare…
The Republican ticket has a gubernatorial candidate favored by 20 percent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Green Party candidate polling 8 point lead in Brighton</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/08/uk-green-party-candidate-polling-8-point-lead-in-brighton/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/08/uk-green-party-candidate-polling-8-point-lead-in-brighton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swest</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[International Greens]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Lucas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green Party of England and Wales]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Harris]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Next UK Parliamentary Election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The United Kingdom will hold a parliamentary election sometime between now and June 3.   Although the official date hasn&#8217;t been announced, candidates are up and running.  Green Party of England and Wales party leader Caroline Lucas represents South East England in the European Parliament.  She&#8217;s standing in the UK Parliamentary seat of Brighton Pavilion in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jill Stein to launch campaign for MA governor in Boston, Mon. 2/8</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/05/jill-stein-to-launch-campaign-for-ma-governor-in-boston-mon-28/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/05/jill-stein-to-launch-campaign-for-ma-governor-in-boston-mon-28/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[State Wide Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jill Stein]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Metrowest Daily News:


BOSTON — Dr. Jill Stein of Wayland will declare her candidacy for governor of Massachusetts on Monday, Feb. 8 at a rally in front of the State House. The event is scheduled for 11 a.m., across from the Robert Gould Shaw monument. A crowd of enthusiastic volunteers from across the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Green Party 20th anniversary celebration: Sat 2/6, Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/04/california-green-party-20th-anniversary-celebration-sat-26-berkeley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/04/california-green-party-20th-anniversary-celebration-sat-26-berkeley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[State Party News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Blong]]></category>

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

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

		<category><![CDATA[Charlene Spretnak]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Greg Jan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hank Chapot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joe Louis Hoffman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Garcia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Feinstein]]></category>

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

		<category><![CDATA[Regina Endrizzi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sara Amir]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[


Green Party of California: 1990 to the present


Celebrate Green History • Look Ahead


February 6th, 2010 • 12pm to 9pm • Berkeley



• 20 Years Anniversary of Founding of GPCA on February 4th, 1990
• 25 years since Charlene Spretnak&#8217;s &#8220;Green Politics: the Global Promise&#8220;
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street, at Bonita Avenue
Site of the East [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kirk, Giannoulias to face LeAlan Jones in IL Senate race</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/03/kirk-giannoulias-to-face-lealan-jones-in-il-senate-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/03/kirk-giannoulias-to-face-lealan-jones-in-il-senate-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Schwab</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Z. Say what???]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Democrat Alex Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk will face Green Party candidate LeAlan Jones in the 2010 Illinois US Senate race. Sen. Roland Burris, who was appointed to Barack Obama&#8217;s former seat by now-impeached Democratic governor Rod Blagojevich, will not seek reelection.
LeAlan Jones is an author and journalist known for documenting poverty and violence in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Primary Results</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/02/illinois-primary-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/02/illinois-primary-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Z. Say what???]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please refer to the Chicago Tribune and individual county clerk websites for results. Here is the cook county clerk&#8217;s website.
So far in the contested races:
2nd Congress with 80% reporting:
Williams - 100 - 59.5%
Mayden - 68 -   40.5%
5th Congress with 90% reporting:
Reichel - 177 - 47.6%
Williams - 122 - 32.8%
Gilghooly - 73 - 19.6%
9th Congress with [...]]]></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>Illinois Greens Participate In Its 2nd Statewide Primary</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/02/illinois-greens-participate-in-its-2nd-statewide-primary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/02/02/illinois-greens-participate-in-its-2nd-statewide-primary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Z. Say what???]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Voters in Illinois will be going to the polls tomorrow to select nominees for each of the respective established parties who will then go on to the general election this November. There are three established parties in Illinois: The Democrats, Republicans, and the Greens. Illinois has a semi-open primary system whereby voters must declare publicly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historian, activist, professor Howard Zinn dead at 87</title>
		<link>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/01/27/historian-activist-professor-howard-zinn-dead-at-87/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/01/27/historian-activist-professor-howard-zinn-dead-at-87/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregg Jocoy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Z. Say what???]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a story at The Boston Globe.
According to the story Zinn&#8217;s family reports that he was traveling in Santa Monica and suffered a heart attack.
The story includes this quote by linguist and activist contemporaries Noam Chomsky:
&#8220;His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation, and helped open new paths to understanding and its crucial [...]]]></description>
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