This is a portion of a forum/debate between DC Statehood Green Party candidate Lino Stracuzzi and Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton from August 9, 2010.
Stracuzzi’s Facebook page
WASHINGTON, DC — In honor of Thomas Jefferson’s 267th birthday, the Green Party of Florida and the People’s Lobby Coalition for Public Funding Only of All Elections will hold a forum on the influence of corporate lobbies on US elections. The forum will take place at the National Press Club (http://npc.press.org) in Washington, DC, at 7 pm on Tuesday, April 13, 2010.
The speakers will discuss ‘Money Morality’ and the effect of corporate money on health care, energy, the economy, treatment of the poor, and other major issues, with an analysis of military expenditures in light of campaign contributions from defense contractors.
“We’ll talk about the correlation between the influence of the 13,000 special interest lobbyists and our elected officials’ voting trends in relation to these issues. And we’ll propose necessary changes to our election system to restore democracy,” said Jennifer Sullivan, organizer of the event.
The event is open to the public, with doors opening at 7 pm. Admission is free for all members of the media with proper ID. General admission is a suggested donation of $10.00 or $15.00 per couple; no one will be turned away.
Refreshments will be served, with a variety of selected hors d’oeuvres, house specialty dips, gourmet chips, beverages, and a cash bar.
Guest speakers at the forum:
• Dr. Margaret Flowers, Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program (http://www.pnhp.org), advocate for single-payer national health care, from Maryland
• Jesse Johnson, chair of the West Virginia Mountain Party (http://www.mtparty.org), twice-nominated candidate for the US Senate, the only third-party candidate to receive an endorsement from the Sierra Club in his 2008 race for Governor of West Virginia, and filmmaker (http://www.mtparty.org/nominations/2004/jesse/bio.html)
• Pat LaMarche, weekly columnist for the Bangor Daily News (http://www.bangordailynews.com), 2004 vice-presidential nominee of the Green Party of the United States, and advocate for the homeless
• Head-Roc, Hip-Hop artist and community organizer (http://www.head-roc.com), from Washington, DC
• Jennifer Sullivan, regional representative of the Green Party of Florida (http://www.floridagreens.org) and coordinator of The People’s Lobby
More speakers will be announced soon.
WHAT: The People’s Lobby: Forum on the influence of corporate special interest money on public policy and the erosion of US democracy, Tuesday, April 13 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC
WHEN: Tuesday, April 13, at 7 pm
WHERE: 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC (map: http://www.press.org/directions.cfm)
REFRESHMENTS will be served
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 leaders.
Rally organizers are calling for the left wing to end its support for Obama if he declares a surge in troops, and for condemnation of Obama’s war policy by his own party faithful. In addition, efforts will begin to cut short his term in office, along with Congress; and protests will intensify against U.S. war involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq and any other countries.
Speakers include Green Party members Cynthia McKinney, Lynne Williams, Marian Douglas and others including Sen. Mike Gravel, Kathy Kelly, Chris Hedges, David Swanson, Phyllis Bennis, Rev. Graylan Hagler, Coy McKinney, Debra Sweet, Brian Becker, Mathis Chiroux, Hon. Betty Hall, Elaine Brower, Michael Knox, Ralph Lopez, Ron Fisher, and statements from Col. Ann Wright, Stephen Zunes and Granny D. read more »
From VoteRevBilly.org:
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:00pmReverend Billy and the Life After Bloomberg Gospel Choir
Busboys and Poets: 5th and K Street, Washington DC
Tuesday Sept 29, 8 PMMedea Benjamin, Code Pink co-founder, hosts the fundraising part of the evening.
Rev Billy Talen is the Green Party candidate for mayor.Admission is free — we appreciate your on-site donations to support our campaign!
Received from Brent McMillan, the Green Party Black Caucus will be involved with a WPFW Radio Interview tomorrow (webcast live), and a number of other events over the next several days in the DC area. Check it out below:
WPFW RADIO INTERVIEW:
Thurs, Sept 24 – tomorrow – GP BLACK CAUCUS on WPFW, 11:30-NOON: DC Statehood Greens member brother Naji Muhajid will talk with CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, North Carolina Green Party state co-chair (Ms.) GEORGE FRIDAY, and Green Party Black Caucus national co-chair BETTY DAVIS. Health care, reparations, the U.S. Green Party and building the Progressive Movement…
This will be LIVECAST @ http://www.wpfw.org
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The U.S. Green Party Black Caucus and DC Greens are hosting and participating in several events this week during the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference at DC Convention Center.
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Sent by John Judge:
*RELEASE THE FREE GAZA 14*
*A DAILY VIGIL 5:00 – 6:00 PM*
*SATURDAY, JULY 4 – CORNER OF 14^TH AND INDEPENDENCE AVE, NW*
*SUNDAY, JULY 5 – FOUNTAIN AT DUPONT CIRCLE, NW*
*MONDAY, JULY 6 – CORNER OF VAN NESS AND CONNECTICUT AVES. NW*
*AND DAILY UNTL THEY ARE RELEASED FROM ISRAELI PRISON*
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Green Party Media Coordinator Scott McLarty writes an editorial about single payer healthcare, comparing our modern health insurance based health care system to the way we once approached fire protection.
Imagine that you needed a special insurance policy before calling the fire department in an emergency, or you’d have to pay thousands of dollars out-of-pocket for the firefighters to put out the fire.
So why do we tolerate a health care system that’s run the same way?
McLarty goes on to explain exactly where the savings in single payer healthcare comes from, the profits and overhead of corporate for-profit systems that add cost, but no value.
The overhead for Medicare, based on administrative costs but without the demand for profit, is about 3%. Why not convert to a public system, expanding Medicare to cover all Americans, perhaps saving us a third of the cost by eliminating the insurance and HMO middlemen — a system comparable to our public fire departments?
McLarty goes on to ask why we don’t have single payer healthcare today, and answers
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the amount of such (political) contributions (from HMOs and Insurance interests) was over $46 million in 2008
Do yourself a favor and read the article and Digg it a bit higher if you enjoy the article.
Thanks to Lou Novak for Digging this article first.
On Monday, the Washington Post published an article on Cynthia McKinney in the “Style” section entitled: “Stealth Candidacy“. While media coverage of the Green Party is rare from news publications such as the Washington Post, when it happens it is usually a wee bit negative. This article starts: “Spies. They’re probably in the room, she says ominously.” You can imagine the direction this is going to take from that start (or read it yourself).
Adding further insult to injury, the Washington Post chose to omit Cynthia McKinney from their Presidential Candidates web page, choosing instead to stick with Barack Obama and his three leading white male opponents (Chuck Baldwin was left off as well, as proof that it wasn’t a conspiracy against women).
The DC Greens have responded with the following release and well written response to the “Stealth Candidacy” article:
WASHINGTON, DC — The following response to an October 27 Washington Post article on Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney was prepared with the intent of submitting as a guest column.
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Press Release from the Green Party of the United States:
Greens call military-style police measures and violation of citizens’ rights a “breakdown of law”
Greens condemn curfews, anti-constitutional police harassment of innocent citizens in Arkansas and DC, and the War on Drugs as “self-defeating” in efforts to eliminate crime
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party candidates and leaders called the 24-hour curfew imposed on the city of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, a gross violation of the rights of local citizens and a symptom of the rapid growth of unrestrained police power over the past two decades.
Politicians and law enforcement officials have justified such measures as part of the war on drugs. Greens have endorsed an immediate end to the drug war, calling it a catastrophic failure.
“A city that hands its police force a license to trash the constitutional rights of its citizens is not a city that is upholding law and order and protecting its citizens. On the contrary, unlimited police power is a complete breakdown of the law,” said Joshua Drake, Arkansas Green Party nominee for Congress (4th District).
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Today was “Green Party Day” at the Washington Post, where they posted two stories (one tongue in cheek) in response to a small protest in front of the Post building. The Greens were protesting the lack of coverage the Washington Post provides toward the Green Party, which in DC is virtually the second party after the Democrats.
A group of about 15 protestors and candidates from a Certain Political Party That Will Go Unnamed gathered outside the Washington Post building today to protest their belief that the company “routinely ignores or marginalizes the party’s candidates.”
However another article with less wit was also posted:
The protest was partially inspired by a May 29 online discussion with Post congressional reporter Paul Kane, in which he said, “We don’t have enough resources to cover [the Green Party].”
The Post’s executive editor, Leonard Downie Jr., said Kane isn’t the one who makes those decisions.
“What we’ve been covering up until now is the nomination process of the two major parties,” Downie said. Future coverage of third-party candidates, he said, “would be based on the past performance of those candidates, and how much interest we think our readers have in them.”
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