GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614,
mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org

Greens, after the nomination of the McKinney-Clemente ticket at the
Chicago convention, begin aggressive ballot access effort

• Links to speeches by presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney and VP
nominee Rosa Clemente below

• McKinney ‘Power to the People’ campaign site, with media contact
information: http://www.runcynthiarun.org
Clemente site: http://www.rosaclemente.com
Extensive information, media coverage, blogging on the convention on
the Green Party’s home page http://www.gp.org

WASHINGTON, DC — Green leaders, after the party’s successful national
convention last weekend in Chicago, have turned their attention
towards placing nominees Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente on the
ballot in every state.

Greens are also organizing efforts to demand that Ms. McKinney be
allowed to participate in the presidential debates beginning in
September.

To contact Ms. McKinney and Ms. Clemente for interviews and other
media requests, visit the campaign web site:
http://www.runcynthiarun.org

“We have 22 state ballot lines, and are aiming to have Cynthia
McKinney and Rosa Clemente on as many ballot lines as possible on
Election Day,” said Cliff Thornton, co-chair of the Green Party of the
United States. “Greens in states with secure ballot lines are
assisting other states with petition circulating, organizing, and
fundraising.”

Cynthia McKinney, a former Democrat who served six terms in the US
House and has since converted to Green, competed with Jesse Johnson,
Kent Mesplay, and Kat Swift for the presidential nomination. Ms.
McKinney won with 324 votes out of 542 cast by delegates after one
round of voting in the Chicago Symphony Center, the convention site,
on Saturday, July 12
(http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/2008-Presidential-Ballots_1.htm).

Jesse Johnson will continue to participate in the 2008 election — as
the Mountain Party’s nominee for Governor of West Virginia
(http://www.jesse4wvgov.org). The Mountain Party is the West Virginia
affiliate of the Green Party of the United States.

Green Party leaders noted that unprecedented radio, video, and
Internet coverage made it possible for viewers and listeners to follow
the unfolding of the Chicago convention and the nomination.

“We thank the Illinois Green Party, Cook County Greens in particular,
and the people of Chicago for hosting the convention,” said Jill
Bussiere, who was elected co-chair of the Green Party during the
Chicago convention. “We’re especially grateful to the convention
organizers, with Lynne Serpe of New York and Ruth Weill of Milwaukee
at the top of the list.”

The Green Party’s home page (http://www.gp.org) displays links to
information, media coverage, and blogging on the convention.

Links to convention speeches and press conferences:

• Pre-nomination speeches by Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, July
12 (choice of low, medium, HD viewing)
http://exposureroom.com/members/cseeman.aspx/assets/e257ce0e6da7472c9df4e5f9532d2a6e/
YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzXB98dp9xM

• Ms. Clemente’s nomination speech, July 12, shot by MoonSunProductions
http://exposureroom.com/members/cseeman.aspx/assets/2d6fee03b7c841b2bc94d8e114966b64/

• Ms. McKinney’s nomination speech, July 12, shot by MoonSunProductions
http://exposureroom.com/members/cseeman.aspx/assets/49f535df8477457c9c9423b3b3237128/
The first few minutes are missing from this clip, but can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14HYcopWEU (recorded by C-SPAN)

• Press conference with Ms. McKinney and Ms. Clemente after the
nomination, July 12
http://exposureroom.com/members/cseeman.aspx/assets/6dd27d9142484bc598a3860cc610d0d0/

• Extensive C-SPAN footage of the convention, including nominees’
complete speeches
rtsp://video1.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_071208_greens.rm
(Linked also on the Green Party’s home page, http://www.gp.org)

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
• Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
• Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
• Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
• Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections

2008 Green National Convention, July 10-13 in Chicago, Illinois
http://www.greenparty2008.org

GREEN PARTY USA CONVENTION CHICAGO ILLINOIS

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATEShttp://www.gp.org/2008-elections

http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:

Friday, July 11, 2008

Contacts:

Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org

Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org

Ruth Weill, National Convention Coordinator, 414-350-2107, ruthweill@gmail.com

Patrick Kelly, Illinois Green Party Media Coordinator, 773-203-9631, media@ilgp.org

 

News and highlights from the Green Party’s 2008 National Convention in Chicago

 

Key links:

• Green Party web site, with updated links to news articles on the convention http://www.gp.org

• 2008 Green National Convention: Live Green, Vote Green http://www.greenparty2008.org

• Media credentialing http://www.gp.org/forms/media

• Video of Green presidential candidates http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php

• Links to Green Presidential Candidates’ web sites http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml

• Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml

• Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml

• Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers

• Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections

 

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Green Party of the United States opened its 2008 national convention at the Palmer House Hilton in downtown Chicago on Thursday, July 10 and continued with numerous meetings on Friday.

Greens are also preparing for the party’s presidential nomination, which will take place on Saturday, July 12, at the Chicago Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue.

Reporters, bloggers, and others covering the convention may register on site on Saturday, or may fill out the media credentialing form (http://www.gp.org/forms/media) in advance. The Saturday schedule is appended below.

On Friday evening, the four candidates for the Green presidential nomination — Jesse Johnson, Kent Mesplay, Cynthia McKinney, and Kat Swift — participated in a forum moderated by 2006 Illinois gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney, who drew over 10% of the vote. The forum, titled “A Presidential Debate That Matters,” took place at the Palmer House Hilton, where Greens have been meeting since Thursday morning.

Some highlights of the Green National Convention so far:

Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has announced her running mate, Hip-Hop activist and journalist Rosa Clemente:

Statement by Ms. Clemente: http://www.runcynthiarun.org/node/296

Ms. Clemente’s web site: http://www.rosaclemente.com

The Green Party’s Black Caucus accredited Ms. McKinney’s parents, Billy and Leola, as delegates in order to allow them to enter all four of the Caucus’s votes for their daughter during the voting process for the nomination.

Press conferences on Thursday and Friday featured dozens of candidates for public office. Among them:

• Jesse Johnson is seeking the presidential nomination but has won the Mountain Party’s nomination for Governor of West Virginia. He spoke Friday morning about the West Virginia’s environmentally disastrous mountaintop removal, in which the state’s pristine landscapes have been blasted to access to coal, in the process spoiling nearly half of the nation’s headwaters and exacerbating droughts in the South. Mr. Johnson called West Virginia ‘ground zero’ in the energy crisis and in the advance of global warming.

http://www.jesse4wvgov.org

http://www.jesse08.org

• Farheed Hakeem talked about her growing involvement in the Green Party and decision to run for public office as a Green. A former Green mayoral candidate and currently a candidate for Minnesota State Representative (District 61B), Ms. Hakeem has rebuffed Democratic Party efforts to recruit her, saying that her Green Party membership gives her the leeway to pursue ideals that would not be possible in the either of the two established parties.

• Omar Lopez, running for Illinois District 4 member of the US House of Representatives, discussed his role organizing for the March 10, 2006 march for immigrants’ right in Chicago, the model for the national May Day marches and rallies across the US a few months later.

 

Schedule for SATURDAY, JULY 12: Green presidential nomination

Location: Chicago Symphony Center, 220 S Michigan Avenue

Media Check-In: Mezzanine

The Media Registration table hours: 8 am – 5 pm (flexible)

Press Conference Room: Grainger Ballroom, Mezzanine Level

• 9 am: Press briefing and news conference with Green presidential candidates; on-stage program begins

• 9:30 am: Keynote speaker Cliff Thornton

• 9:45 am: Adoption of the 2008 Green Party Platform

• 10:45 am: Keynote speakers Kathy Kelly, Malik Rahim

• 11:15 am: Speeches by the four Presidential Candidates

• 12 noon: Lunch

• 1 pm: Keynote speakers Omar López, Dr. Jill Stein

• 1:30 pm: Voting, state roll call

(Times for events after this are tentative, depending on how long it takes to complete the nomination process)

• 2:30 pm: Vice Presidential acceptance speech (nominee will be introduced by Pat LaMarche, 2004 Green nominee for Vice President)

• 3 pm: Presidential acceptance speech (nominee will be introduced by David Cobb, 2004 Green nominee for President), followed by photo op for all Green candidates and the nominees

• 4 pm: Press conference featuring Green nominees for President and Vice President

 

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org

202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN

Fax 202-319-7193

• 2008 Green National Convention: Live Green, Vote Green http://www.greenparty2008.org

• Media credentialing http://www.gp.org/forms/media

• Video of Green presidential candidates http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php

• Links to Green Presidential Candidates’ web sites http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml

• Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml

• Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml

• Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers

• Green Party ballot access page

Green Party Presidential Candidates debate the issues on BlogTalkRadio

Listen to all four Green Party Presidential Candidates debate the issues on BlogTalkRadio
Saturday, June 21st from 8-9:30 PM (ET)
Check it out: www.blogtalkradio.com/millerpolitics

Green Party USA Convention from July 10 2008 to July 13 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

 

 

http://www.gp.org

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Contacts:

Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org

Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org

Ruth Weill, National Convention Coordinator, 414-350-2107, ruthweill@gmail.com

 

Updated information on the Green Party’s 2008 National Nominating Convention in Chicago, July 10-13

• Schedule of news conferences and other media events, media credentialing, bios of featured speakers, and other essential details

• Green presidential candidates debate, Saturday, June 21, 8 pm, to be broadcast on Miller Politics Radio (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/millerpolitics)

• Media credential page for the convention: http://www.gp.org/forms/media

 

WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States has released an updated schedule for the party’s national nominating convention, at which the Green presidential ticket will be chosen by Green delegates.

The convention, titled “Live Green, Vote Green,” will take place July 10-13 in Chicago (http://www.greenparty2008.org). The schedule of news conferences and other media events and a list of guest speakers are appended below. The nomination will take place on Saturday, July 12 at the Chicago Symphony Center.

The four candidates for the 2008 Green nomination will participate in a debate on Saturday, June 21, to be broadcast online. The debate, featuring Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kat Swift, and Kent Mesplay, will air at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/millerpolitics beginning at 8 pm ET and will run for 90 minutes. Ben Miller of Miller Politics Radio will host.

Phone lines will be open for call-in questions; questions from listeners can also be sent in via the BlogYalkRadio webchat or in advance by email (millerpolitics@gmail.com).

 

MORE CONVENTION INFORMATION

• Organizers of the Green Party’s 2008 National Nominating Convention are encouraging journalists who intend to cover the event to register at the Media Credentialing web page: http://www.gp.org/forms/media (onsite registration is also possible, but pre-convention registration is encouraged)

• Local contact for the convention: Patrick Kelly, Illinois Green Party Media Coordinator, 773-203-9631, media@ilgp.org

• Further information, including details on lodging at the Palmer House Hilton: http://www.greenparty2008.org

 

The Green Party encourages live blogging from the convention. Both convention sites, the Palmer House Hilton and the Chicago Symphony Center, will provide Internet access for registered media.

Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, and Kat Swift are the four contenders for the Green presidential nomination. Information on the apportionment of the party’s 836 state and caucus delegates is being compiled at “2008 Green Party Presidential Nomination Delegate Count” (http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/Delegate-Vote-Count.php).

• Video clips of Green presidential candidates: http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php

• Links to Green Presidential Candidates’ web sites: http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml

Jesse Johnson http://www.jesse08.org

Cynthia McKinney http://www.runcynthiarun.org

Kent Mesplay http://www.mesplay.org

Kat Swift http://www.voteswift.org

• More on 2008 Green candidates:

http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml

http://www.gp.org/elections/candidates/index.php

 

MEDIA EVENTS

Schedule for the Chicago Convention, July 10-13 (subject to change)

THURSDAY, JULY 10

Location: Palmer House Hiilton

• 4 pm: Introductory news conference

• 6 pm: Welcome reception featuring international Greens

• 9 pm: Reception hosted by Rich Whitney, 2006 Green candidate for Governor of Illinois

FRIDAY, JULY 11

Location: Palmer House Hilton

• 9 am: News conference featuring elected Greens

• 11 am: News conference featuring Green presidential candidates

• 1 pm: News conference featuring candidates for other offices

• 7-9 pm: Presidential Candidates’ Forum (moderator: Rich Whitney, 2006 candidate for Governor of Illinois)

• 8 pm: Presidential campaign events, if any; other receptions to be announced

SATURDAY, JULY 12

Location: Chicago Symphony Center

• 8 am: Chicago Symphony Center doors open; media check-in continues

• 9 am: Press briefing and news conference with Green presidential candidates; on-stage program begins

• 9:30 am: Keynote speaker Cliff Thornton

• 9:45 am: Adoption of 2008 Party Platform

• 10:45 am: Keynote speakers Kathy Kelly, Malik Rahim

• 11:15 am: Speeches by four Presidential Candidates

• 12 noon: Lunch

• 1 pm: Keynote speakers Omar López, Dr. Jill Stein

• 1:30 pm: Voting, state roll call

• 2:30 pm: Vice Presidential acceptance speech (nominee will be introduced by Pat LaMarche, 2004 Green nominee for Vice President)

• 3 pm: Presidential acceptance speech (nominee will be introduced by David Cobb, 2004 Green nominee for President), followed by photo op for all Green candidates and the nominees

• 4 pm: Press conference featuring Green nominees for President and Vice President

 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

• Malik Rahim, former Black Panther and Green Party candidate, co-founder of Common Ground Collective/Relief, an organization that provides short-term relief to victims of hurricane disasters in the gulf region. Visit http://www.commongroundrelief.org

• Kathy Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, an organization that worked to end sanctions in Iraq beginning in 1996. Visit http://www.vcnv.org

• Omar López, teacher and Green candidate for the US House in Illinois’ 4th District, principal convenor and leader of the historic mega-marches of March 10 and May 1, 2006, in defense of the rights of undocumented immigrant workers and constitutional rights under attack by the Sensenbrenner House Bill 4437. Mr. López has co-founded numerous labor, tenant, immigrants’ rights, and bilingual education organizations, and is director of C.A.L.O.R., which provides services to Latinos affected by HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Visit http://www.omarlopez2008.org

• Dr. Jill Stein, physician and founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities. Dr. Stein ran for Secretary of the Commonwealth in 2006 with the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party, garnering 351,495 votes (18%). Visit http://www.masschc.org

• Cliff Thornton, Jr., a long-time social justice and drug policy reform activist and Green candidate for Governor of Connecticut in 2006. Mr. Thornton is co-founder of Efficacy, which works for the reform of drug laws and criminal justice policies. Visit http://www.efficacy-online.org

Candidates from Illinois and across the US will also be on hand for interviews.

Updated information will be published regularly as the convention approaches.

 

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org

202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN

Fax 202-319-7193

• 2008 Green National Convention: Live Green, Vote Green http://www.greenparty2008.org

• Media credentialing http://www.gp.org/forms/media

• Video of Green presidential candidates http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php

• Links to Green Presidential Candidates’ web sites http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml

• Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml

• Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml

• Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers

• Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections

 

Cynthia Mc Kinney: Impeach Bush

Monday, June 16th, 2008

For further information, contact:
John Judge, 202-584-1021, press-secretary@runcynthiarun.org

McKinney Says People Must ‘Flip the Script” Again Urges Mass
Mobilization Supporting Impeachment

In a prepared statement released today, six-term former Georgia
Congresswoman and candidate for the 2008 Green Party Presidential
Nomination urged the broad and diverse Coalition forming around her
campaign to “take any and all steps necessary” to build support for
action on H.Res. 1258, the Kucinich resolution to impeach President
George Bush.

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, on Monday, June 9th, spent five
hours on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, reading
thirty-five Articles of Impeachment laying out the case that George
Bush ought to be removed from office for ‘high crimes and
misdemeanors’. In her statement, Ms. McKinney extends her
appreciation to her former colleague “for his courage and tenacity,
for the comprehensiveness of his research, and for the leadership he
exhibited to press forward the democratic demands of the People for
accountability and justice.” On the Ohio Congressman’s motion, his
Impeachment Resolution was then referred to the House Committee on
Judiciary in a recorded 251-166 vote.

Ms. McKinney became the first Member of Congress to introduce Articles
of Impeachment against the Bush Administration, naming Bush, Vice
President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in
charges which she introduced during the 109th Congress. McKinney
parted ways with the Democrat Party partly for their failure to
fulfill their Constitutional responsibilities, when House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi took impeachment ‘off the table’.

Ms. McKinney drew particular attention to the Kucinich Resolution’s
charges related to ‘Tampering with Free and Fair Elections’ (Article
28), ‘Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965′ (Article
29) and ‘Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of
Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency’ (Article
31). She called on “the forces of the Black movement nationwide –
whether they currently support my presidential bid or the candidacy of
Senator Obama — along with all my Green and Reconstructionist
supporters, Katrina survivors and their supporters, the election
protection movement, and all progressive forces, to organize a mass
mobilization” to demand action from the House Judiciary to hold
hearings, build an evidentiary record and send this resolution back to
the Floor of the Congress for action.

“We have seen in this very election cycle how the mobilized masses,
with Black America as their indispensable animating force, can ‘flip
the script’ on the Powers That Be,” wrote Ms. McKinney, who stressed
the timeliness of action pointing out that the Administration’s crimes
are ongoing. “The time is now for us to do it again.”

– 30 –

McKinney’s Call to Action on Impeachment
http://www.runcynthiarun.org/Impeachment/CallToAction
http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/Impeachment/CallToAction

Text of Kucinich Impeachment Resolution
http://www.runcynthiarun.org/Impeachment/HRes1258

Recorded vote on Kucinich Motion to Refer H. Res. 1258
to House Committee on Judiciary
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll401.xml

Text of McKinney Impeachment Resolution, 109th Congress
http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com/I_text14.pdf

El Partido Verde

El Partido Verde de los EEUU invita al publico con derecho de voto en los EEUU para donar a la campa~na electoral. El Partido Verde como el Partido Libertario no recibe fondos de la Junta Electoral de los EEUU y son sometidos a la discriminacion electoral. http://gp.org

Partido Libertario y Partido Verde: Democratas VS EEUU

Segun las paginas oficiales del Partido Libertario, los Democratas quieren estancar las leyes para aliviar al consumidor del precio del petroleo. Mientras tanto, El Partido Verde de los EEUU emitio una declaracion de Obama apoyando una invasion de Iran por los EEUU. Hay que parar la locura de los Republicanos y Democratas votando Libertario o Verde.

Green Party USA: Obama Supports US Attack on Iran

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Thursday, June 12, 2008

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org

Greens: Obama’s AIPAC speech reveals he has embraced Bush propaganda on Iran, may support an attack

• Greens at the party’s National Convention in Chicago (July 10-13) will challenge voters to vote Green instead of the ‘bipartisan war machine’

• US goals in the Middle East must include multilateral disarmament and an end to US political and military domination over the region, assert Greens

• The Maine Green Independent Party urges towns and cities throughout the state to pass resolutions opposing war with Iran unless authorized by Congress, asks party members to initiate and support such efforts; visit http://www.mainegreens.org/index.php?sectionID=260&mode=

WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders and candidates expressed alarm that presumed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has joined President Bush in threatening a US attack on Iran

In a speech last week before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Sen. Obama said, “I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything in my power. Everything.” The speech confirmed Sen. Obama’s earlier claim that the Iranian government is “a threat to all of us” and “we should take no option, including military action, off the table.”

“Barack Obama’s language implies that, instead of repudiating the neo-con doctrine of ‘preemptive’ invasion, he may be ready to endorse a US attack on Iran for the same reason the Bush White House is making such threats,” said Candace Caveny, Michigan Green Party candidate for Congress (10th District).

“It also shows that Sen. Obama has swallowed the Bush-Cheney line about Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, when Iran has said over and over it seeks nuclear power solely for peaceful purposes. President Bush — and Sen. Obama, apparently — are ignoring the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program, and have concocted a scenario in which Iran is about to manufacture nuclear bombs and drop them on Israel. The irony is that Israel — not Iran — possesses a nuclear arsenal,” said Ms. Caveny.

Greens noted that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who also spoke before AIPAC last week, seeks US support in preparing for an assault on Iran. Mr. Olmert called not only for sanctions but for “more drastic and robust measures” against Iran.

Green leaders, preparing for the party’s National Convention in Chicago July 10-13 (http://www.greenparty2008.org), are urging antiwar voters to vote Green on Election Day 2008 in light of Sen. Obama’s positions on Iran and Israel and his vague and contradictory promise to end the Iraq occupation while keeping US military personnel and contractors in Iraq and surrounding nations. Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, and Kat Swift are seeking the Green Party’s presidential nomination.

“The deceptions now being used to justify an attack on Iran recall the fraudulent claims of WMDs and a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda conspiracy that got us into the current war. The rest of the world — especially Middle Eastern nations — understands that the real goals are US domination in the region, control over the Middle East oil spigot, and aid for Israel’s strategic military objectives,” said Rodger Jennings, Green candidate for US Congress in Illinois’ 12th District (http://www.rodgerjennings.org).

“Americans should be concerned that, despite his emphasis on diplomacy, Barack Obama’s Iran posture shows that he might be as ready as George W. Bush to initiate World War III. We cannot leave the future of the world to two powerful US political parties, both of which endorse military aggression in the name of preemption,” added Mr. Jennings.

Greens said that even if the current threats from President Bush, Sen. Obama, and Republican presidential candidate John McCain are just hawkish bluster to convince Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, the effect will be encouragement for Iran and other countries in the region to gain nuclear weapons as a deterrence against an attack by the US or Israel.

“The only resolution to growing Middle and Near East tensions is multilateral nuclear disarmament, combined with a complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and pressure on Israel to observe human rights and UN directives to end the occupation of Palestinian territories,” said Jason Wallace, Green candidate for Illinois (11th District) (http://www.electwallace.us) . “Unfortunately, Barack Obama’s speech before AIPAC signals that his administration would make no such demands on Israel, and he has shown disregard for international law and for UN Security Council resolutions stating that the acquisition of territory by force is illegitimate.”

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
• 2008 Green National Convention: Live Green, Vote Green http://www.greenparty2008.org
• Media credentialing http://www.gp.org/forms/media
• Video of Green presidential candidates http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php
• Links to Green Presidential Candidates’ web sites http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml
• Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
• Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
• Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
• Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections

Partido Verde

El Partido Verde de los EEUU invita al publico con derecho de voto en los EEUU para donar a la campa~na electoral. El Partido Verde como el Partido Libertario no recibe fondos de la Junta Electoral de los EEUU y son sometidos a la discriminacion electoral. http://gp.org

Green Party News

We need YOUR help for our Green Presidential candidates to receive primary matching funds from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) in 2008. In order to receive primary matching funds, a candidate must raise a minimum of $5,000 each from at least 20 states before the Green Party makes its Presidential nomination on July 12. Candidates raising the money needed will be eligible to apply for $100,000 in Federal Matching Funds. This money can be used to help the Green Party succeed in its Presidential petition drives.

So far, donations from Greens all across the country have been vital in getting us on the ballot in Arkansas, Arizona, and Hawaii! Arizona was a particularly difficult state; we needed 20,449 valid signatures to get on the ballot. With generous donations of money and volunteer time, the Green Party of Arizona was able to collect 22,570 valid signatures!

Over the next two to three months, we have the chance to get our Presidential nominee on the ballot in as many as 46 states. Your donations to our candidates will help us with challenging petition drives in Connecticut (7,500 signatures), Idaho (5,984 signatures), Kansas (5,000 signatures), New York (15,000 signatures), Pennsylvania (24,666 signatures), and Virginia (10,000 signatures).

Every $1 that we can put into our petition drives gets us one signature closer to getting on the ballot. If everyone on the Green Line mailing list gives as little as $5 to each candidate, all four candidates could receive matching funds! We could have as much as $400,000 to get on the ballot and give the American people the chance to vote to bring all troops home from Iraq, to fight global warming, and to provide health care for all. The sooner that our candidates raise the money needed the sooner that they will get matching funds from the FEC, and the more time we will have to run strong petition drives. Read more about our Presidential candidates and visit their websites to make a donation.

Meet our candidates:

Jesse Johnson is the co-chair of the Mountain Party of West Virginia, which became affiliated with the Green Party of the United States at the national meeting in Reading last July. He produced, directed, and acted in many plays and films, and founded Talkback, Children Respond to Violence in the Media, which uses the arts to teach inner-city elementary school students how to combat violence. He was the Mountain Party’s candidate for Governor in 2004, and for U.S. Senate in 2006. http://www.jesse08.org/

Cynthia McKinney was elected to the Georgia state legislature as a Democrat in 1988, and to Congress in 1992. She was the first African-American woman from Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving in Congress from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007. She filed the first resolution to impeach Bush, Cheney and Rice; has pursued meaningful answers on 9-11; has advocated for those displaced by our government in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and for the millions of voters disenfranchised in both the 2000 and 2004 elections. Last year, she left the Democratic Party and registered as a Green. http://www.runcynthiarun.org/

Kent Mesplay has been a registered Green in California since 1995, serving as one of his state’s delegates to the Green National Committee since 2004. He has worked as a substitute teacher and an Air Quality Inspector at the Air Pollution Control District, San Diego. He also served as the president of Turtle Island Institute. In 2004, he ran in the Green presidential primaries and caucuses,
and in 2006, in the Green primary for U.S. Senate. http://www.mesplay.org/

Kat Swift is a member of the Green Party of Texas, having served on her state party’s Executive Committee, and as co-spokesperson for the national party’s Women’s Caucus. She has served as a facilitator for the Green Party and for several other organizations, groups,
and coalitions, including Clean Money San Antonio and SA Democracy Now. She currently works as an accountant. In 2007, she became the first Green to run for the City Council of San Antonio. http://www.voteswift.org/

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