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Candidates Jill Stein for President of the U.S.A.

Richard L. Weiss Esq. for PA Attorney General

Leila Hazou for U.S. Senate

 

Jill Stein for President

Butch Ware for Vice President

https://www.jillstein2024.com/

 

Dr Jill Stein is a Harvard-educated doctor, a pioneering environmental health advocate, and an organizer for people, planet, and peace. She has helped lead initiatives to fight environmental racism, injustice, and pollution, to promote healthy communities, and to revitalize democracy. Born in Chicago and raised in Highland Park, Illinois, she graduated magna cum laude in 1973, and from Harvard Medical School in 1979.

https://www.jillstein2024.com/meet_jill

 

Professor Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. For the past two decades, Ware has put scholarship in service of the people, especially in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as the George Floyd murder in 2020. Butch was born in Washington DC and raised in Minneapolis. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1997, and completed his doctorate in 2004. With his Ph.D in history from the University of Pennsylvania, Ware is a leading academic authority on the U.S. Black Radical Tradition, Africa and Islam. Since 2004 Professor Ware has been a full faculty member at Northwestern, Michigan, and now UC Santa-Barbara, teaching in History, Black Studies, and Islamic Studies.

https://www.jillstein2024.com/meet_butch 

 

Jill Stein Accepts Green Party Presidential Nomination | CSPAN 

 

 

Richard Weiss Esq. for PA Attorney General

https://x.com/richardlweiss

 

"A lawyer from Allegheny County, Weiss supports criminal justice reforms that include ending cash bail, decriminalizing drug use and sex work, and establishing citizens' police review boards with strong police professionalism standards.

In a questionnaire to public radio station WPSU that he answered as a U.S. Senate candidate, Weiss said he believes nonviolent offenders should be diverted from incarceration to other programs. He said he favors using restorative justice — which he defined as a collaborative process involving repairing harm to victims and focusing on reintegrating perpetrators into the community — as an alternative to incarceration “as much as possible.”

He supports ending traffic stops; decriminalizing or legalizing cannabis; expunging past criminal records from cannabis convictions; releasing older and infirm inmates; and placing body cameras on officers and anyone arrested.

He also supports reinstating a ban on assault weapons, and legislation defining military and civilian-grade weapons."  

Credits https://www.spotlightpa.org

 

Richard Weiss, Green Party of Pennsylvania PCN Interview 

https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Weiss_(Pennsylvania)

Voter Guide (vote411.org)

 

 

Leila Hazou for U.S. Senate 

https://www.leilaforsenate.com/

 

Leila Hazou lives in Pike County and is a small business owner in Milford, PA. She received her undergraduate degree from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and attended graduate school in Baltimore, Boston and New York, receiving her MBA from Loyola College in 2005. Her career led her to become a project manager in New York City. 

As a Palestinian woman, she can no longer sit idly by and witness her country openly support the ongoing oppression funded by U.S. taxpayers. She will proudly defend human rights in Pennsylvania and around the world.

 

 

Leila Hazou, Green Party of Pennsylvania PCN Interview 

https://www.gp.org/leila_hazou_for_senate

https://www.isidewith.com/candidates/leila-hazou/policies

 

 

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Exciting news!!

Our newly elected presidential and veep candidates, Jill Stein and Butch Ware, will be in Bensalem THIS SUNDAY!

Join us for a dynamic and engaging meet and greet with Green Party candidates Dr. Jill Stein and Dr. Butch Ware. This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from these influential leaders about their vision for people, planet and peace. This is also an opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals in our local community. Light fare will be provided.

August 25, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Fishers Banquet Hall
1858 Street Rd,
Bensalem, PA 19020.

COME AND BRING FRIENDS!!!

Meet our candidates, ask questions, enjoy some nibbles, and hear more about how to support their campaigns, for justice, peace, and eco-socialism!

See https://www.jillstein2024.com/mg_8-25 for further specs.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sunday, April 7, 2024

 

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Chris Robinson, Communication Team Co-Leader

215-843-4256 and [email protected]

 

Activists Locked Out by PA Governor

By Doug Mason

Due to PA Governor Josh Shapiro’s stance on climate change many environmentalists were enthusiastic supporters and promoted his 2022 campaign for PA Governor. Now it appears that they have been fooled.

 

Shapiro claims that he has an open door policy. When two dozen protesters from Pennsylvania Action on Climate (PAC) went to his office in Harrisburg on March 19, the door was locked and surrounded by a dozen capital police and state troopers. PAC had tried to set up a meeting both in person and online with the governor to no avail.

During this attempted office visit, three members of PAC were arrested on the floor of the Capitol building: Rev. Tim Seitz Brown, a Lutheran pastor from York; Rachel “Renzy” Neffshade, a Pittsburgh climate activist; and Doug Mason, chair of the Sierra Club Moshannon Group and of the Green Party of Centre County. The Moshannon Group has 905 members from Pennsylvania’s central counties from Maryland to New York. The Green Party of Centre County is a chapter of the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA, https://www.gpofpa.org). These three leaders were protesting Shapiro’s acceptance of bribes from the fossil fuel industry, despite his claims to be a climate advocate.

The three protestors attempted to read a statement from PAC, but it was ripped out of their hands. They were then handcuffed and taken to the basement of the Capital Complex to be processed. After about two hours, they were released on their own recognizance.

 

“I’m a 73 year old climate dissident who took the personal risk of acting in civil resistance against state government policies, as well as the business-as-usual activities of industry, economic systems, and individuals that fail to take urgent action to reduce and eliminate carbon dioxide emissions caused by fossil fuel use,” said Mason. “The risks I incur from this action are a small sacrifice compared to the scale and urgency of the threats of climate change to our existence.”

“I claim my right under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution to conduct this nonviolent civil disobedience as an expression of my freedom of speech to petition to the government for redress of the extreme and manifest grievance caused by government policies and laws failing to effect carbon dioxide reduction or lacking in the power to enact necessary preventative and remedial actions to reverse the negative effects of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and to limit fossil fuel extraction and halt the increase of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere that are causing global heating and climate change,” concluded Mason.

The previous few weeks had been contentious between the governor and environmentalists. Maya van Rossum from the Delaware Riverkeeper Network,  concerned about hydrogen hubs, interrupted Shapiro at a Philadelphia union event, and a Dimock resident and disabled veteran, Ray Kemble, challenged him at another union event a few days later in Scranton over lax enforcement and water-supply losses.

Apparently the governor’s “open door” is not for people who are concerned about political corruption, hurt by fracking or want to comment on development of hydrogen hubs in PA. These three issues are connected because it is very likely that the way hydrogen is produced in PA will support the expansion of fracking.

 

The Green Party of PA, https://www.gpofpa.org, has opposed fracking since 2008, and it continues to represent the environmental movement in elections to this day. The Green Party of PA is an independent political party which stands in opposition to the two corporate parties. GPPA candidates promote public policy based on the Green Party’s Four Pillars: grassroots democracy, nonviolence, ecological wisdom, and social justice/equal opportunity. For further information about GPPA, please email [email protected]. Please follow GPPA on social media: Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/gpofpa/; Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/pagreenparty/; and Twitter, https://twitter.com/GreenPartyofPA.

 

For More Information

Pennsylvania Action on Climate, https://www.pennsylvaniaactiononclimate.org

“Climate Activists Trying to Meet with Gov. Shapiro Arrested After Refusing to Disburse,” Patriot News, March 19, 2024, https://www.pennlive.com/politics/2024/03/climate-activists-trying-to-meet-with-gov-shapiro-arrested-after-refusing-to-disperse.html

Marcellus Shale Resolution, Green Party of PA, April 2011, https://www.gpofpa.org/fracking 

 

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Green Party of Pennsylvania

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, April 5, 2024

 

CONTACT: 

Chris Robinson, Communication Team Co-Leader

215-843-4256 and [email protected]

 

Green Party Kicks Off PA Nomination Campaign

Getting Green Party candidates on the ballot will be extremely important this year in Pennsylvania because there will be vital issues which candidates from the two corporate parties will not touch. Clean water, public housing, rights during an eviction, reproductive rights, public transit, climate change, genocide, and neo-colonialism are all issues which will be addressed by Green Party candidates. Now is the time to get on the ballot candidates who have solutions for homelessness, mass incarceration, global wars, and rampant industrial pollution.

On April 3, the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA, https://www.gpofpa.org/) announced the kickoff for the 2024 nomination campaign. Nomination papers are now being distributed state-wide.

The GPPA nominated Dr. Jill Stein on March 10 to be their candidate for President of the U.S. She has the answers for the big questions facing the nation. Co-leader Alex Casper (Philadelphia) of the GPPA Green Wave Team, says, “Jill needs our help, and so do our PA Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidates. Please help Greens win in 2024 so that we can make big changes happen.”

“For the Green Party candidates to appear on the General Election ballot,” continued Casper, “we will have to gather nomination signatures from 10,000 registered voters. The Green Wave Team will be hosting petition trainings each Wednesday at 7:00 pm and Sunday at 3:00 pm. Please check the GPPA Calendar, gpofpa.org/calendar, to RSVP for the next petition training.” 

The Green Party of PA, https://www.gpofpa.org, is an independent political party which stands in opposition to the two corporate parties. GPPA candidates promote public policy based on the Green Party’s Four Pillars: grassroots democracy, nonviolence, ecological wisdom, and social justice/equal opportunity. For further information about GPPA, please email [email protected]. Please follow GPPA on social media: Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/gpofpa/; Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/pagreenparty/; and Twitter, https://twitter.com/GreenPartyofPA.

 

For more information:

 

“PA Greens Nomination Jill Stein for President of the U.S.” GPPA News Release, March 14, 2024, https://www.gpofpa.org/pa_greens_nominate_jill_stein_for_president_of_the_us  

 

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Green Party of Pennsylvania

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sunday, December 17, 2023

 

CONTACT: 

Chris Robinson, Communication Team Co-Leader

215-843-4256 and [email protected]

Green Party To Add Delegates to PA State Committee

At the State Committee meeting of the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA, www.gpofpa.org) on November 12, the 30 elected delegates voted by consensus to change the Rules (think “by-laws”) of the party to include more elected delegates from unorganized parts of the Commonwealth. Before this vote, around thirty percent of the GPPA’s 10,000 registered members lived in unorganized counties.

GPPA Co-Chair Jeremy Griffin (Delaware), explained, “The main reason this amendment had to be passed was to insure that we give a voice to unorganized Greens, no matter in which county they live. The amendment was discussed and approved by the Steering Committee, and I believe it will strengthen the GPPA’s democratic process at the state level.”

Green Party of Lancaster County Chair Tim Runkle, said: “The GPPA State Committee is both the governing body of the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) and the representation of Greens across our Commonwealth. Our Green Party rules had been built in a way which ensures local representation through organized county committees. The rules, however, have failed to provide the vast unorganized areas of the Commonwealth a voice on the State Committee. The rule change proposed by the delegation from Lancaster County intended to resolve that issue as well as to preserve the intent of local representation. This change permits any registered Green in PA to participate in the State Committee while holding true the Green Party's Four Pillars of grassroots democracy and the Ten Key Values of decentralization.”

GPPA Communication Team Co-chair Chris Robinson (Philadelphia) predicted, "This will be the first step in building new Green Party Chapters in our Commonwealth's 50 unorganized counties. With a presidential election in 2024, it will be important to give a voice to every Green Party member."

The Rules of the Green Party of Pennsylvania, Rule II State Committee, Section 2.b)  has been amended to read:

“All State Committee members shall be elected as determined by the rules of the County Committee of the county of their residence to one year terms, or a part thereof. Registered Greens who have no organized County Committee in their county of residence shall be elected by the State Committee during the first meeting of the calendar year. The number of members permitted for unorganized County members shall be no more than two per county.” 

The Green Party of PA, https://www.gpofpa.org, is an independent political party which stands in opposition to the two corporate parties. GPPA candidates promote public policy based on the Green Party’s Four Pillars: grassroots democracy, nonviolence, ecological wisdom, and social justice/equal opportunity. For further information about GPPA, please email [email protected]. Please follow GPPA on social media: Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/gpofpa/; Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/pagreenparty/; and Twitter, https://twitter.com/GreenPartyofPA.

For More Information Please see:

Ten Key Values, Green Party of the U.S., https://www.gp.org/ten_key_values 

The Rules of the Green Party of Pennsylvania, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1G4U0TsI0fzoQY4akq4TeRpsMmE9XQcIh 

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Working toward a future where people and planet are valued, and our government represents all of us.

 

September 2022

 

PA Greens File Nomination Petitions to Put Fracking, Healthcare, More on the Ballot

On Monday, August 1, the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA, https://www.gpofpa.org/) filed more than 500 petitions containing thousands of signatures from registered voters from across the state to qualify five candidates for ballot access in the November 2022 general election. This will put critical issues like fracking, climate change, healthcare, criminal justice modernization, corruption in government, and voting reforms on the ballot, giving voters a starkly different political vision than offered by Republicans and Democrats.

The Green Party candidates include Christina "PK" DiGiulio for PA Governor, Michael Bagdes-Canning for PA Lieutenant Governor, Richard L. Weiss for U.S. Senator, Jay Ting Walker for PA Representative District 23, and Queonia "Zarah" Livingston for PA Representative District 32.

These Green Party candidates call for a statewide ban on fracking; a just transition for workers and families to a renewable energy green economy to address climate change; a single-payer healthcare system that protects and expands abortion rights; decriminalization of cannabis and an end to cash bail; a gift ban to address legislative corruption; ranked choice voting and proportional representation for fair elections that end gerrymandering and better reflect constituencies; and more. Read the complete release here. 

More information about the candidates and the full GPPA platform is available at https://www.greenslate2022.com/

 

 

 

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PA Green News

By Chris Robinson

 

PA Green Party Calls for Community Based Economics

By Treasurer Joseph U. Murray, Green Party of Berks County

Housing, food and utilities are the basics for a human life. Yet in a nation with a $25 trillion economy, homelessness, hunger and poverty are steadily increasing as a recent letter from Habitat for Humanity stated: “17% of children in your home state of PA are living in poverty . . . . Secure housing provides a pathway to financial stability, safety for children and a healthy environment in which whole families can thrive.”

I paraphrased Habitat’s letter. They referred to home ownership, but the same applies to safe, affordable decent rental housing. The Green Party Platform warns, “State governments continue to weaken or preempt local rent control laws, while landlords who violate housing code requirements by failing to keep their property in habitable condition, are often tolerated or given lenient penalties. Housing discrimination also remains rampant against people of color, immigrants, disabled, single people, gays and lesbians, and families with children . . . .” 

Behind this lies record profits for the oil and gas industries and cash flows for the private equity firms that snapped up foreclosed homes after the Wall Street-caused financial crash of 2008. Since that time those same financial corporations have been buying rental housing from small landlords in hot markets and jacking up rents while evicting rent-subsidized tenants to maximize investment returns . . . . 

This system is fully supported by the Democratic and Republican Parties which are the political franchise of the Wall Street powers. They will tell you it’s the best system for the majority and those who don’t benefit from it are at fault. This is a well proven lie by our own history, by the results of the GI Bill and VA mortgages which were established after WW II veterans fought politically for them here at home.

The Green Party has a different vision of how our society should work. Compare our existing system to this Green Party Key Value:

COMMUNITY BASED ECONOMICS

“[The Green Party supports] redesigning our work structures to encourage employee ownership and workplace democracy. We support developing new economic activities and institutions that allow us to use technology in ways that are humane, freeing, ecological and responsive and accountable to communities. We support establishing a basic form of economic security open to all. We call for moving the narrow ‘job ethic’ to new definitions of work, jobs and income in a cooperative and democratic economy. We support restructuring our patterns of income distribution to reflect the wealth created by those outside the formal monetary economy – those who take responsibility for parenting, housekeeping, home gardens, community volunteer work and the like. We support restricting the size and concentrated power of corporations without discouraging superior efficiency or technological innovation.”

The Green Party Platform calls for renter/tenant’s rights, publicly elected local rent control boards, promotion of affordable housing policy as a national priority, and vigorous enforcement of fair housing laws. The focus of Green Party values is community, humanity and the Earth that sustains all life. If we continue with the present system of politics and economics you will witness human civilization devour itself and the Earth leaving only the mocking cries of scavengers as our legacy of existence. Story Here  

 

 

 

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 Campaign Updates

Edited by Chris Robinson

GENERAL ELECTION, November 8
The following Green Party candidates will be on the 2022 General Election Ballot.

 

Christina “PK” DiGiulio (Chester County) for Governor of Pennsylvania
Michael Bagdes-Canning (Butler County) for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania  

 

 

PA Green Gubernatorial Candidates Say “End Legalized Bribery!”

The Harrisburg Four were arrested inside the PA Capitol on June 13. They appeared in magisterial court on August 9, including Green Party candidate for PA Lt Governor Michael Bagdes-Canning. The Four were in the Capitol, appealing to all 203 members of the PA House of Representatives to support a gift ban. The Gift Ban, HB 1214, is a bill to ban lobbyist gifts to legislators. It has been supported by a number of organizations including March on Harrisburg and the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA, www.gpofpa.org).

 

All of the defendants used a necessity defense and were found not guilty of various charges including criminal trespass. The defendants’ arguments included citing a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which compiled the scientific findings from thousands of studies around the world.  The report made a stark case that climate change is accelerating, is caused by human development, and can only be halted by a rapid transition away from fossil fuels and carbon-intensive industry.

"The IPCC lays out the case for urgent action clearly in their recent report on climate change, and we're glad Judge O’Leary agreed," said Bagdes-Canning. "We're calling on all elected officials and candidates this year to pledge to uphold Article 1, Section 27, of the Pennsylvania Constitution demanding that we protect the environment for future generations, instead of taking lobbying gifts – sometimes called 'bribes' -- from fossil fuel companies which are destroying that future . . . .” 

"I find it disgusting that corruption is effectively legal in PA," said Green Party candidate for PA Governor Christina DiGiulio. "I support the Harrisburg Four's message. When elected PA Governor, I pledge to support a lobbying gift ban and to refuse bribes from lobbyists, especially fossil fuel interests. I promise to fight for a just transition that bans fracking statewide, while making sure no worker or family is left behind. I call on all candidates for PA Governor this year to make the same pledge and to declare a climate emergency," DiGiulio added. "Climate action cannot wait. We must act now." Story Here

 

 

It’s Time to Fix Things

Michael Bagdes-Canning (Butler County) for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania

...It sometimes seems to me that things are impossibly broken. The climate fight seems lost. The Supreme Court has rolled back protections for women, the environment, and voting rights. We’re in yet another war. It seems that there is a mass shooting every week. Our prisons are filled. We are faced with a housing crisis, a crisis at our border, and the pandemic still rolls on. There seems to be no way out of this, and many have given up . . . 

While organizing to stop fracking and climate change, one of the epiphanies I had occurred when I was working with folks in the struggle against mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining in WV. One of their organizers said, “You know, we’re fighting the same monster, it just has many heads.” When I looked around, I noticed that not only were fracking, climate, and MTR related, but the monster also had its dirty hands in crushing unions, destroying local economies, pitting people against people in another region. Once I saw that, I knew that the monster was also pitting us against each other

Running for PA Lt. Governor has given me another way to bring many movements together. I’ve come to believe that just showing up for each other is not enough. It is important for us each to see where our struggles intersect. We also have to overcome the divisions that artificially keep us apart. We have to come to know each other. I’ve seen this play out. My friends in the Green Party of Allegheny County (GPOAC) have done an amazing job of building the Green Party but also making connections with front-line struggles. GPOAC consistently shows up, and they get to know people who oppose injustice. They have helped build bridges between groups. They are a great example of what building strength looks like . . . 

We need to build solidarity across fights. We need to recognize that we are often fighting different heads of the same monster. That’s what my run for PA Lt. Governor is all about. I want to build bridges between the many organizations which oppose injustice. There’s lots that is broken. It is now time for us to fix things . . . Story Here

 

Richard L. Weiss, Esq. (Allegheny County) for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania 

Richard told GREEN STAR, “The U.S. has a higher incarceration rate than any other country in the world.  Conditions in prisons are human rights violations, with overcrowding and inadequate food and healthcare.  Prisoners are preyed upon with unreasonable charges to buy their own food and communicate with their family.  Many inmates of local jails are held without being convicted of any crime solely because they do not have enough money to pay cash bail.  Decriminalizing cannabis would have an immediate effect on reducing prison and jail populations. All current prisoners and inmates serving time solely for cannabis charges should be released and all past criminal records from cannabis convictions expunged.”

You may volunteer to get Richard on the ballot at[email protected].
You may follow Richard’s campaign here, Twitter: @RichardLWeiss. 

Jay Ting Walker (Allegheny County) for PA House District 23
      

 Zarah Livingston (Allegheny County) for PA House District 32

      

 

 

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‌National ‌Green‌ ‌News

Edited by Noah Alter

 

2022 Inflation Reduction Act Capitalizes on a World in Crisis

 

 

Last month, news media outlets across the U.S. and globe boasted of the ‘Inflation Reduction Act,’ which according to mainstream headlines, targets climate change; ever-increasing medical expenses, namely senior citizens’ medicine on Medicare; the creation of an abysmal 15% corporate tax rate; and an asinine multi-billion-dollar IRS investment, enabling the federal agency to hire nearly 87,000 agents over the course of the next decade.

 The name given to this piece of legislation is extremely illusory, and it does not address the pressing issues at hand, particularly the global climate emergency. Rather the legislation furthers climate change . . . . In response to the legislation, the Green Party of the United States warned that the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act overtly allows corporations to capitalize on a global crisis by expanding massive new oil and gas leasing in disproportionately impacted minority communities.

 This "climate deal" provides a relatively small number of renewable investments and further subsidizes oil, nuclear, natural gas, and carbon capture while requiring the U.S. Department of the Interior to offer at least 2 million acres of public lands and 60 million acres of offshore waters for oil and gas leasing each year. The bill also does not address the essential phase out of fossil fuels (i.e., coal). We must demand transparency within our government to ensure they put us, the people, and our planet before profit.

 President Biden and Congress have the moral obligation to immediately declare a climate emergency and pass effective, comprehensive climate change legislation, including a rapid ten-year transition to real zero emissions and 100% clean renewable energy. Moreover, Biden and Congress must urgently address inflation and the developing recession by passing legislation that benefits the working class of this country as it does not require 87,000 IRS agents to audit roughly 788 billionaires. Story Here

 

 

 

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Global Green News

Edited by Hal Brown

 

 

Green Party of U.K. Demands Action on Rising Air Pollution

The UK Green Party is asking for more investment in public transport as well as walking and cycling infrastructure. They also demand to implement the so-called Clean Air Zones, published in 2017 to address all sources of pollution and reduce public exposure to them. These strategies should accelerate the transition to a low emission economy, by setting emission standards and minimum requirements . . . Story Here

 

 

Italy: Snap Elections Push The Italian Greens To Find New Partners

 Italian President Sergio Mattarella dissolved parliament and announced new snap elections that will take place on September 25. This comes as Italy’s main coalition collapsed, pushing the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, to resign . . . .
The far-right in Italy is often associated with climate skepticism and preserving the status quo. Their ascension to power might threaten Italy and the European Union’s ability to face the climate crisis just as the continent faces record-breaking heat waves and wildfires . . . 
To counter the powerful right-wing coalition, the greens propose an alternative urging left-wing parties to form their partnership. “To put social justice and climate justice at the center,” the Italian Greens announced an alliance with Sinistra Italia (Italian Left), a small left-wing party with minor to moderate success in the country . . .Story Here

 

 

DR Congo: Plastic Pollution Causes Water Cuts

Thousands of bottles, cans and other rubbish thrown into Lake Kivu caused the shutdown of the Ruzizi dam facilities near the city of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), thus causing power cuts in several localities . . . .
It is extremely difficult to clean the thousands of plastic bottles and other debris which are attracted to the Ruzizi River dam at the end of the lake, which stretches over 90 km on the border between the DRC and Rwanda.
“All the waste we throw into the lake or the river ends up here, regardless of where it was thrown. Even in Goma, the waste dumped there is only a matter of time. As the lake flows towards the Ruzizi River, little by little, the waste comes and in the end, it will end up here,” notes Liévin Chizungu . . . Story Here

 

 

Asia-Pacific Greens Federation Support The People Of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has been in a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis because of President Gotabaya (Gota) Rajapaksa‘s mismanagement of the country. In May, Sri Lanka defaulted on foreign debt for the first time since their independence. This has created shortages of goods, sky-rocketed inflation, and pushed millions of people into poverty . . .. The people of Sri Lanka still want to see the new President step down. Wickremesinghe was installed by Rajapaksa and remains very close to his family. . .
On July 18, Wickremesinghe declared a state of emergency, giving security forces the power to arrest and detain any protester without probable cause. Next, the day after his inauguration, he continued the fight against protesters by sending the police and the military to disperse a peaceful protest site . . . 
The NGO Human Rights Watch as well as the Asia Pacific Greens Federation (APGF) urges the new president to listen to what his people want. Their non-violent protests show that they want to do no harm, but simply to have a democratic state with better living conditions. The APGF stands in support of the people of Sri Lanka. There is change to be brought to the country, and they are at the heart of it. Story Here

 

 

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GPPA Meeting Dates for 2022

 

All State Web Conferences will be 12 noon to 4pm.

September's meeting will be in-person in Bellefonte, PA.

You can now register for the September meeting Here

 

• Saturday, September 10, and
• Sunday, November 13

 

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Green Party of Pennsylvania

Communications Team

Issue Credits:

 

Editors: Noah Alter, Hal Brown, and Chris Robinson

Contributors: Michael Badges-Canning, Christine "PK" DiGuilio, Joseph O. Murray, and Chris Robinson

Layout: Hal Brown, Sherri Miller, and David Ochmanowicz Jr.

Graphic Arts: Kevin Richardson

 

 

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