http://www.gpofpa.org/ Green Party of Pennsylvania en-us http://www.gpofpa.org/images/logo.gif http://www.gpofpa.org/ webmaster@gpofpa.org http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=293 Green Party of Pennsylvania Elects New Steering Committee Group to focus on candidates for State and Federal offices Monroeville, PA – On Feb. 21, 2010, the Green Party of Pennsylvania elected a new Steering Committee for 2010. I.K. Samways and Katrina Brabham of Pittsburgh were elected as Chair and Secretary, respectively, while Vivek Ananthan of Philadelphia was retained as party Treasurer. Mr. Samways had been serving as interim Secretary since April 2009, and follows in the footsteps of Hillary Kane of Philadelphia, who stepped down as Chair after three years of service. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=292 Green Party Nominates Packer for U.S. Senate Bortz to run for Congress D'Agostino, Giordano, Farrington and Sweeney for State Rep. Monroeville, PA – On Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010, the Green Party of Pennsylvania approved nominations for six candidates to compete in the November general election. Long-time peace activist Mel Packer will be at the top of the ticket as the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=291 Some Tea Partiers are in the wrong party, say Greens • "A real Tea Party movement would look like the Green Party": Greens urge Americans to reject corporate royalists and faux populists like Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin, citing Jefferson's warning about "the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations" • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on health care reform, democracy, corporate power, and related issues: http://www.gp.org/speakers WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders and candidates said that many Tea Party activists might be in the wrong party and urged them to consider going Green. "Not all Tea Party members are befuddled rightwingers screeching that President Obama is a socialist, fascist, pro-terrorist, or all of the above. Many Tea Partiers have legitimate concerns about how the Democratic Party's health care reform plans will reduce Medicare and about trillion-dollar taxpayer-funded giveaways to Wall Street firms. They are as outraged as Greens are about how both Democrats and Republicans are coddling CEOs, major stockholders, and other wealthy elites while preaching sacrifice for the rest of us," said Carl Romanelli, former Green candidate for the US Senate and a member of Health Care for All Pennsylvania (http://healthcare4allpa.org). http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=290 Latest issue of Green Pages is now-online The cover story of the latest issue of Green Pages details how the Florida Greens are working with other anti-nuclear activists to prevent the licensing of three new reactors. With a pro-nuclear President in the White House, it’s critical that Greens work with activists around the country to defeat the idea that the answer to climate change is additional nuclear reactors. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=289 Greens call for an end to the "bipartisan economic war" on Blacks and Latinos/as, who suffer the brunt of the subprime crisis and economic meltdown • Green Party urges a program for millions of new public works jobs and financial security for Americans instead of Wall Street handouts • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on economic policy, racial justice, and related issues: http://www.gp.org/speakers WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders said today that Democratic and Republican politicians are pursuing fiscal agenda, including responses to the subprime mortgage crisis, that amount to an "economic war" on Black and Latino/a people across the US. Greens especially criticized President Obama, whose bailouts for Wall Street firms have done little to provide economic security for those who were among his most enthusiastic supporters in the 2008 election. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=288 Green Party of PA Meets to Nominate Candidates • The Green Party of PA will hold its nomination convention Feb. 20-21 in Monroeville • Events include nomination of statewide candidates, Campaign School, and special dinner with Senate hopeful Mel Packer. GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA http://www.gpofpa.org This weekend the Green Party of Pennsylvania will hold its biennial nominating convention at the Holiday Inn Monroeville just east of Pittsburgh. Green Party leaders from across the Commonwealth will nominate candidates for public office including statewide offices such as U.S. Senate. The Green Party is also expected to formally announce candidates for U.S. Congress and State Representative as well. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=287 Greens call President Obama's resurrection of nuclear power and handout for Georgia nuclear reactors his "worst idea yet" • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on energy policy, climate change, and related issues: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-energy.php WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders and candidates are calling President Obama's resurrection of nuclear power with a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer-funded subsidy for a Georgia plant his "worst idea yet" and warned about serious public health threats posed by mining, waste transportation, and waste storage. The Green Party disputes the myths that nuclear power is 'green energy' or a solution to the advance of climate change. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=286 Greens congratulate Cynthia McKinney, recipient of the 'Peace through Conscience' award from the Munich American Peace Committee • McKinney will accept the award at a peace conference in the same city as NATO's Munich Security Conference, which will address the war on Afghanistan; Greens contrast McKinney's 'deserved' award with Obama's Nobel Peace Prize • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on peace, foreign policy, and other related issues: http://www.gp.org/speakers WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States congratulated former US Representative Cynthia McKinney after an announcement that she will receive the 'Peace through Conscience' award from the Munich American Peace Committee (MAPC / http://www.mapc-web.de). Ms. McKinney was the Green Party's 2008 nominee for President of the United States. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=285 GREENS CALL PRESS CONFERENCE FOR THE START OF VEON TRIAL TO ADDRESS PENNSYLVANIA'S CULTURE OF CORRUPTION • Party and its 2006 US Senate candidate were the object of Bonusgate abuses • Encourages deeper investigation by Attorney General and media. The Green Party of Pennsylvania has called a press conference for today, Monday, February 1, at noon in the lobby area outside of Courtroom 1 at the Dauphin County Courthouse. The conference is set to coincide with the first day of the trial of former Democratic State Representative, Michael Veon, and three legislative staffers. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=284 GREEN PARTY PRESS CONFERENCE ON BONUSGATE At the Dauphin County Courthouse at noon on Monday, February 1, Green Party of PA member Carl Romanelli, along with Steve Baker and Blyden Potts, spoke to members of the press about the implications of the bonusgate scandal for Romanelli's case and ballot access generally. The event was timed to coincide with opening arguments in the bonusgate trial of Former Democratic Party Whip Mike Veon and his staffers. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=283 Greens: Obama, in his State of the Union speech, must reverse his failed policies on health, war, climate change, fiscal responsibility, jobs • Online (audio/video) Green Party discussion and response to Obama's State of the Union speech TONIGHT, featuring 2008 Green presidential nominee and former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Green candidates, and Green Party leaders, 6 pm to 9 pm PT, 9 pm to midnight ET: http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on various issues: http://www.gp.org/speakers WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party candidates and leaders called on President Obama to announce a reversal in his administration's current actions and policies when he delivers his 2010 State of the Union address on Wednesday, January 27. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=282 Greens: Make peace, political self-determination, and economic self-sufficiency part of the US aid for post-earthquake Haiti Green Party leaders assert that aid to Haiti must not be delivered under the barrel of a US machine gun; Greens thank Obama for granting long overdue Temporary Protected Status to Haitians in the US Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on peace, human rights, foreign policy, and other related issues: http://www.gp.org/speakers Green Party Black Caucus contacts: http://www.gp.org/committees/black WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders expressed sympathy and solidarity with the people of Haiti in the wake of Tuesday's catastrophic earthquake, and urged President Obama to make peace, political self-determination, and economic self-sufficiency part of US relief efforts for Haiti. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=281 Today the Green Party of Pennsylvania learned that the League of Women Voters of Lackawanna County added a pro-environment speaker to its line-up for Wednesday's panel on gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. A member of Damascus Citizens, a noted anti-drilling group, has been invited to send a representative to the event scheduled to take place at the University of Scranton. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=280 Green Party notes pro-drilling stance of Shale panel Asks League of Women Voters to invite real environmental proponents and people from affected communities • The League of Women Voters of Lackawanna County is hosting a forum on Marcellus Share, Wednesday, January 20 at the University of Scranton • All three panelists are known to support natural gas extraction The League of Women Voters, in partnership with Scranton University's Task Force on Sustainability, invited speakers from the natural gas industry, the state Department of Environmental Protection (sic) and Penn-Future. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=279 Oral arguments for Green leader's Electoral College Mal-Apportionment civil action (Gordon v. Biden), earlier set for Jan. 14, have been canceled Greens support Asa Gordon's action, calling it a demand for fair elections, voters' rights, and racial justice Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on electoral reform and democracy: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-democratic.php WASHINGTON, DC -- Oral arguments for a major voting rights civil action filed by Green Party leader Asa Gordon, originally scheduled to take place in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (No. 09-5142) on Thursday, January 14, 2010, has been canceled. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=278 Mel Packer, long-time peace activist, and member of the Green Party of Allegheny County, will be in Philadelphia the weekend of January 16-17. We have invited him to give a brief talk to the Green Party of Philadelphia about the future of the peace movement in the age of Obama. Save the date! http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=277 Green Party leaders: US negotiators at the Copenhagen summit helped kill necessary measures against global warming, replacing them with vague vows on greenhouse gas emissions • Green Party Speakers Bureau: US Greens available to speak on ecological sustainability and global warming http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-ecological.php WASHINGTON, DC -- US Green Party leaders expressed their dismay with the failure of the UN summit in Copenhagen to reach an agreement on international action to curb climate change. Greens have been especially critical of the grossly inadequate emissions reduction proposals that the US and other rich countries brought to Copenhagen, the lockout of NGOs from the Bella Center while oil company executives were welcomed, the brutal treatment of protesters in Copenhagen, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's announcement by that concrete measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be replaced by vows of transparency and good intentions. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=276 Oral arguments for Green leader's Electoral College Mal-Apportionment civil action (Gordon v. Biden) to be heard in court on Jan. 14, 2010 • Greens call Asa Gordon's action a demand for fair elections, voters' rights, and racial justice • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on electoral reform and democracy: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-democratic.php WASHINGTON, DC -- A major voting rights civil action filed by Green Party leader Asa Gordon is scheduled for oral argument in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (No. 09-5142) on Thursday, January 14, 2010. The civil action seeks enforcement of the US Constitution's 'Mal-Apportionment Penalty' (14th Amendment, Section 2), which mandates a reduction of a state's presidential electors and congressional representatives ("the basis of representation therein shall be reduced") if "the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States... is denied... or in any way abridged." http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=275 Green Party Endorses House Bill 1994 to Outlaw Juvenile Life Sentences without Parole • Eight other states already ban juvenile life sentences without parole • Pennsylvania has highest number of juveniles serving life sentences without parole in nation Last night, the Steering Committee of the Green Party of Pennsylvania votes to endorse PA House Bill 1994 to outlaw juvenile life sentences without parole. This comes as a follow-up to its earlier call for an investigation into the privatization of juvenile detention facilities (http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=209). Eight other States have already prohibited the sentencing of minors without parole, including Alaska, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico, New York and West Virginia in addition to the District of Columbia. With House Bill 1994, Pennsylvania could add its proud name to this growing list. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=274 (Distributed by the Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org) Global Greens call for honest, scientifically sound climate agreement GLOBAL GREENS Media release: Copenhagen, Sunday 13 December 2009 Posted: 06:50AM Published: 12.14.2009 As the Copenhagen COP enters its second week, the Global Greens today called for an honest climate agreement, based on science not tricky accounting. The Global Greens are concerned that rich nations are building loopholes into the agreement to give the appearance of strong targets without the reality. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=273 (Forwarded by the DC Statehood Green Party (http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org). End US Wars is a nonpartisan coalition.) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE End US Wars http://www.enduswars.org "No You Can't!" Rally at the White House on December 12 Unity among Peace Movement Groups against Obama War Escalation -- Warning of Reprisals to Troop Surge WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 12, 11 am to 4 pm WHERE: Lafayette Park in Washington, DC CONTACT: Laurie Dobson, 207-604-8988, contact@enduswars.org http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=272 Want to get involved with community media? There's a new chance to start two community radio stations in north central PA! http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=271 Green Party opposes escalation, urges Obama to announce US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in his Dec. 1 speech • 2008 Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and 2010 Maine Green gubernatorial candidate Lynne Williams will speak at Dec. 12 Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally outside the White House (http://www.enduswars.org) • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on foreign policy and peace: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php / http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-peace.php 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. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=269 Greens blast the anti-choice Stupak Amendment in the Democrats' health care bill, predict voter anger and defections from the Democratic Party over the amendment • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on women's rights: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-womens-rights.php / on health care reform: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-health-care.php WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders today called the Stupak Amendment in the recently passed US House bill on health care reform a disaster for women's reproductive rights and a betrayal of the Democrats' stated support for women's rights and well-being. Many Greens foresee growing anger among Democratic voters, especially women, and possible defections from the Democratic Party over the amendment. http://www.gpofpa.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=268 Greens urge defeat of the Democrats' "insurance industry life-support" bill in the US Senate and call for a rally of efforts to enact Single-Payer/Medicare For All • The US House bill passed on Saturday favors the insurance industry over Americans who need medical care; no heath care reform bill should be enacted that doesn't allow states to enact Single-Payer, say Greens, who slam House Democrats for killing a vote on Single-Payer last week • Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on health care reform: http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-health-care.php WASHINGTON, DC -- In the wake of a US House vote passing a Democratic health care bill (HR 3962), Green Party leaders and health care activists are calling for a defeat of the bill, calling it little more than a program to subsidize the insurance industry. Greens are urging supporters of real universal health care to intensify efforts to win Capitol Hill support for Single-Payer/Medicare For All national health care.