Here are some excerpts regarding the founding of the California Green Party
The Green Party of California (GPCA) was founded on February 4th, 1990. It achieved ballot status as of January 1st, 1992. It has maintained ballot status ever since.
The Founding Meeting (February 1990)
The founding meeting of the GPCA occurred on February 4th 1990, at [...]
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Better late than never, we’ve put together the following Top 10 Green Party stories, taken from a combination of hits on Green Party Watch and other criteria to build a summary of the year. We have modeled this after our Top 10 Green Party Stories for 2010. We are well aware that there were [...]
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — On Tuesday, January 3, representatives of the Libertarian Party and the Green Party will join the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT*) — a national coalition of major Muslim organizations — and other civil liberties group leaders at a news conference in Iowa to express their opposition to the unconstitutional nature of the National Defense Authorization Act’s detention provisions.
This news conference is intended to convey a broad-based public response to President Obama’s signing into law of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that authorizes the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens suspected of terrorism without charge or trial.
2011 Green Party Election Wrap-up by the numbers
by Brent McMillan
104 green party candidates ran for election in 2011. By comparison 150 green party candidates ran for election in 2007, 277 green party candidates ran for election in 2003 and 96 green party candidates ran for election in 1999 (the year prior to the presidential election).
More [...]
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Green Party Candidates for President Jill Stein (MA) and Kent Mesplay (CA) will be appearing tonight in a Green Party Presidential Forum in Los Angeles, CA. The event will be Livestreamed by the Green Party, which you can watch there, or embedded here, “below the fold”.
The event begins at 7:30 PM PACIFIC, 9:30 PM [...]
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In Spain’s recent general election, which was marked by a victory for the conservative People’s Party, Spain’s young Green party (EQUO) doubled its vote from the previous election. From the European Green Party:
Votes for Green parties doubled in when compared to the last parliamentary election three years ago in Spain; however the absolute [...]
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Veterans Day, for many Americans, means parades, speeches, flags, and the usual political theatrical displays of patriotism. Those who have never experienced war itself can never truly understand the effect on the lives of those who have endured the horrors of warfare.
Since the advent of industrialized warfare in World War I, working people have too [...]
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Here are some initial results from some of Tuesday’s elections involving Green Party candidates:
St. Paul, MN: Greens posted strong results in all 3 city council races they contested, in the city’s first election using instant runoff voting. In Ward 1, Johnny Howard came in 2nd with 26%. In Ward 2, in a race with 5 [...]
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In addition to running for the highest office in the land, the presidential candidates of the Libertarian and Green parties are keeping busy with party-building activities closer to home. Here are some things they’ve been in the news for recently:
- RJ Harris is moving ahead with plans to get the Libertarian Party on the Oklahoma ballot for the first time since 2000 through a massive petition drive. He told the Muskogee Phoenix that the Oklahoma LP is hoping to collect more than 51,000 signatures by March 1.
- Roger Gary is campaigning for a seat on the San Antonio River Authority. Gary, who previously served on the Authority, told the San Antonio Express-News that his goal is to repeal the tax currently levied for the San Antonio River Improvements Project. The election is Tuesday, November 8.
- Kent Mesplay has applied to fill a vacancy on the Encinitas City Council. The writer for The Coast News notes that Mesplay “wants to protect community character,” but seems to think the Green Party presidential candidate will not be tapped for the seat.
The Wisconsin Green Party’s Fall Gathering and Membership Meeting is happening this Saturday (Nov 5, 2011) at Ripon College, hosted by the Ripon Campus Greens. The Campus Greens group have also arranged for a Presentation by Ben Manski at 3 PM on Youth & Activism. Ben Manski ran for State Assembly in Madison in 2010 [...]
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