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2022-07-28 Call President Biden, Thursday July 28 – Tell Him to Declare a Climate Emergency and Implement ClimatePresident.org
President Biden: 202-456-1111 (between 11 AM to 3 PM ET) or via internet https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Message: It is time for President Biden to act on the climate crisis before it is too late. He should declare a climate emergency and issue critical executive orders as outlined in ClimatePresident.org. He also needs to stop all new fossil fuels and enact a comprehensive Green New Deal with a 10 year timeline to get to zero emissions combined with a strong Economic Bill of Rights.
Tweet: We need @JoeBiden to declare a #ClimateEmergency and issue Executive Orders (ClimatePresident.org). It is time for the Democrats to say No to fossil fuels and their campaign donations. We need an ecosocialist #GreenNewDeal. (http://www.gp.org/green_new_deal)
Background: Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity. At our present rate of greenhouse gas emissions, we will exceed the 1.5 degree C threshold within 7 years. For the last decade, the various Green Party presidential candidates have pledged to take executive action on climate on their first day in office. Green Party candidates first called for a Green New Deal back in 2010.
President Biden promised voters he would take at least some action on climate. Yet he has violated his campaign pledges. For instance, he has increased the number of permits for fossil fuels on federal land despite saying he would end them. He has stood idly by while Senator Manchin, heavily invested in coal, has blocked action of his inadequate and ever shrinking Build Back Better climate budget initiative.
Last week, Biden overruled his own staff and at the last moment refused to declare a climate emergency and take essential executive action on climate. He said after decades in the Senate and the White House that he still needed more time to “study” the issue. Yet is was clear even before Biden took office that a divided Congress owned by the fossil fuel industry was never going to enact any climate legislation and that even the more limited budget reconciliation process was going to be difficult.
For More Info: gp.org/ecoaction_committee
2022-06-22 President’s gas holiday of 18 cents/gallon will only accelerate the ravaging of our climate and ecosystems.
And so it has come to this. Today, President Joe Biden called on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes amounting to 18 cents/gallon for three months. He urged states to take similar action.
The past months’ gas prices have been painful for everyday people like us. Had Democrats and Republicans listened to the last 12 years of warnings from Greens and others calling for a Green New Deal — that dependence on fossil fuels was becoming increasingly environmentally and financially unsustainable — we might be in a very different place than we are today.
Instead of accounting for the true cost of dirty energy, pricing it accurately and using that revenue to build a system of 100% clean, renewable, public power, elites in government either obstructed reasonable carbon pricing or did nothing at all. Now, we are paying high prices at the pump and gaining no benefit. The only benefits go to Big Oil’s tyrants and profiteers.
It’s tempting to call this a lack of leadership from Biden, the Democrats and our government. But that would be a mistake. Biden is expertly distracting us from solutions that would empower everyday people, bust up fossil fuel industry collusion, make corporations and the 1% pay a fair share from their windfall profits, and provide a Just Transition away from dirty energy.
Rather than recognize this moment as a giant red flag warning the consequences of dirty energy are rapidly escalating, Biden is recommending we effectively subsidize fossils fuels through this tax “holiday.” His solution to our addiction to oil is to double down. And there is nothing to stop oil companies from offsetting this tax “relief” by increasing their prices!
At the same time, we’ll bleed even more funding away from our shamefully-neglected infrastructure. All for what is, at best, a gimmick to win votes. Abolishing student debt, for which we have long advocated, would alleviate immense stress on the households of everyday people without sending a single puff of additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Elites treat this idea with scorn.
A gas holiday of 18 cents/gallon will only accelerate the ravaging of our climate and ecosystems.
The Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org/
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2022-06-15 Green Party VP Nominees Cheri Honkala and Ajamu Baraka Team Up to Center Opposition to War in the Fight to End Poverty
On June 16th at 10:00am EST, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) and the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) will co-sponsor a press conference on “Thinking Beyond Ukraine: Their War is not our War.”
The online press event will feature 2012 Green Party VP Nominee Cheri Honkala and 2016 VP Nominee Ajamu Baraka. These groups are coming together in the spirit of Martin Luther King’s famous Riverside Speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence” where he took a bold, visionary, and necessary stance against the Vietnam War in order to advance economic justice. Read more…
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2022-06-12 Rising prices for the necessities of life are hurting everyday people.
And while many of us are still reeling from the pandemic and related economic crash, our government’s response is to drive down wages, raise interest rates, and make sure it’s not too easy for working people to find employment.
That’s because they think it’s just fine for the wealth of billionaires to skyrocket during a global health crisis, but everyday people gaining a tiny bit of leverage against their employers can only be regarded as a problem that must corrected.
Meanwhile, state legislatures have subjected us to a disgusting display of partisan gerrymandering to make your vote worth less and ensure the security of incumbents who have sworn fealty to the corporate state.
The parties of war and Wall Street will miss no opportunity to drive down the value of your take-home pay, drive down the power of your vote, and drive down the number of choices you have on election day.
People like us have to step up and fight back against this economic and electoral squeeze. There are solutions to inflation that don’t place the burden solely on working people. There are ways to vote that don’t trap us between two wings of a corporate oligarchy.
In solidarity, The Green Party of the United States www.gp.org
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Left Unity Strategy Pays Off for California’s Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party
PRESS RELEASE
June 10, 2022, Sacramento, CA – California’s Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party are pointing to major electoral advances after Tuesday’s primary election that ensured both parties ballot status until 2026 – they credit historic cooperation between the two parties in creating the first-ever “Left Unity Slate” of statewide candidates that resulted in significantly higher-than-usual vote totals.
In October of 2021, the Green Party and the Peace and Freedom Party endorsed a statewide “Left Unity Slate” of Green and, Peace and Freedom candidates for the 2022 June primary and did not officially compete for the same offices.
“Those who crafted the Top Two Primary scheme did so with the intention of freezing us out,” said Kevin Akin, State Chair of the Peace and Freedom Party, adding, “Today, as a result of forming the ‘Left Unity Slate,’ most of our statewide candidates received more than 2 percent of the vote, enough to ensure ballot status for both parties for another four years.” Some “Left Unity Slate” candidates did even better than that overall, and in some parts of the state garnered nearly 10 percent. Continue Reading
Green Party of California, gpca@cagreens.org, 916.448.3437
Peace and Freedom Party, kevinakin1950@hotmail.com, 951.787.0318
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2022-06-01 Green Party Calls for Real Systemic Solutions to Violence in Wake of Uvalde Mass Shooting
WASHINGTON — The Green Party of the United States strongly condemns the murderous rampage at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas that took the lives of at least nineteen elementary school children and two teachers and injured seventeen. The Green Party sends their deepest sympathies to all families affected by this senseless act of violence. CONTINUE READING
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2022-05-31 Protect and Expand Access to Abortion Services
The Green Party of the United States urges people to join actions nationwide to protect and expand access to abortion services. We must stop the criminalization of abortions to permanently protect all people’s right to safe, legal, accessible, and confidential healthcare. Reproductive rights are non-negotiable! While Supreme Court Justice Alito’s leaked draft opinion is not the final Supreme Court decision, it claims the right to abortion is unconstitutional and attacks the reproductive rights of women, transgender people, and non-binary people. Lack of abortion access will also impact both parents who may be mandated to pay for child support of unwanted pregnancies. Additionally, the repercussions of ending these reproductive rights may lead to criminalizing the freedom to love and marry on the basis of race or sexual preference. CONTINUE READING
2022-05-24 Green New Deal
The Green Party first began calling for a Green New Deal in the United States in 2010. It combined a 10-year timeline for a transition to 100% clean, renewable energy and zero emissions, with an Economic Bill of Rights focused on a guaranteed living wage job, universal health care (expanded and Improved Medicare for All), housing, and education.
Call President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer today to demand a true Green New Deal. (If you can’t make the call today, contact them any day you want!)
President Biden: 202-456-1111 (between 11 AM to 3 PM ET) or via internet https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Senator Schumer: (202) 224-6542 or via the internet https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/email-chuck
Message: We need bold action now on climate change.
- Enact the Green Party’s original ecosocialist Green New Deal with an immediate halt to new fossil fuels
- a rapid ten-year transition to real zero emissions and 100% clean renewable energy
- several trillion dollars annually for an Economic Bill of Rights
- funds need to be targeted for a Just Transition and environmental justice
More for President Biden: We need the White House to declare a climate emergency and issue executive orders on climate as outlined in climatepresident.org
Don’t leave the climate — and our future — hanging! Make the call today.
In solidarity,
The Green Party of the United States
www.gp.org
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2022-05-19 Green Party US Statement on Mass Shooting in Buffalo, NY
WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States stands in coalition with all who seek to end the culture of violence and politics of corruption that enable violent extremists. CONTINUE READING
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2022-05-12 $40 billion worth of arms to pour gasoline on the already-raging inferno in Ukraine
Can you believe it? $40 billion worth of arms to pour gasoline on the already-raging inferno in Ukraine.
Every. Single. House. Democrat voted in favor, sending this bill to the Senate.
Meanwhile? Parents in this country are struggling to afford (or even find!) baby formula to feed their infants. Baby formula. COVID relief is “languishing,” according to Common Dreams. The cost of living is skyrocketing.
Enough is enough, Michael. We have two parties prioritizing war and Wall Street at the expense of everyone else and no one looking out for the people and our planet.
Here are some of the Green Party’s priorities:
- We need an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and an international commitment to diplomacy and negotiations. The killing must stop and all parties must end the cycle of escalation and violence.
- We need an ecosocialist Green New Deal at home to invest in our communities’ healthcare, education and jobs while saving our planet from the climate crisis.
- We need to finally democratize our elections through measures like proportional representation, ranked choice voting, fair ballot access and public campaign finance to end the tyranny of elites over women, LGBTQ+ people and BIPOC communities.
At home, they’re making war on the right to an abortion.
People power can elect more Greens and win a Green Agenda while in office. People power can transform our system and end these travesties.
In solidarity,
The Green Party of the United States
www.gp.org
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2022-05-08 Happy Mother’s Day
The origins of Mother’s Day has values that speak to the Green values of today. Women of the time organized for peace, fighting poverty and alleviating unsanitary living conditions for poor women and children.
The Green Party stands against wars and imperialism that brutalize, displace and traumatize women and children. Our 10 Key Values resonate with the early iterations of a “Mother’s Day” that had peace, equal rights and access to child care as its focus.
What does Mother’s Day 2022 offer the over 17 million U.S. women and their children living in poverty today? The Democrats have failed to renew the Child Tax Credit that provided critical assistance during the pandemic. In the long term, neither corporate political party has prioritized a national initiative to eliminate poverty and hunger in the richest country in the world. In fact, their positions on war, climate and health care contribute to the loss of life in our most vulnerable communities.
On this Mother’s Day let’s honor the women who nurture us by building a political movement that promotes peace and non-violence here and abroad. Cutting billions from the bloated military budget will give the gift of improved Medicare-For-All, food security and universal, federally funded child care to all families. It takes a political party like the Green Party to replace aggression and occupation with disarmament and diplomacy and we need your support to promote that project for peace.
—Michael O’Neil, GreenLine Editor and Green Party Communications Manager
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2022-05-08 Leaked Supreme Court Roe v. Wade Decision Could Mean Massive Danger to Reproductive Healthcare, Invasion of Privacy
WASHINGTON – The Green Party of the United States has expressed alarm and calls to organize for the right to safe, legal and confidential access to abortions, following reports of a leaked draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
“This is an extremely disturbing decision from the Supreme Court,” said Green Party National Women’s Caucus Spokesperson Holly Hart. “It would overturn decades of understanding and policy that protected women’s privacy and health. If access to safe abortion is handed to state legislatures, we will see a greater erosion of access throughout the country. Tragically, some of the most severe limitations and hardships will fall on poor women, and women with health problems. Denying access to safe abortions in the past has done little or nothing to reduce their number. Instead, we can expect to see ‘destination clinics’ where women will have to travel. Those without resources will resort to ‘back-alley’ abortion providers,” said Hart. Read more…
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2022-0508 National Women’s Caucus Petition on Roe v. Wade: Email Congress
The Women’s Caucus of the Green Party of the United States stands firmly on the right of choice for women everywhere — always!
We hope that you will take this stand with us. There are lots of ways to do this. One that is easy enough to do right now is to send your Representatives this message asking them to represent the rights of all women, not just the rights of those who are anti-abortion. Email Congress through our online action tool…
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2022-05-08 National Lavender Greens Caucus Statement on Leaked Draft SCOTUS Opinion
The National Lavender Green Caucus unequivocally denounces this assault on the bodily autonomy of those who can become pregnant. The leaked draft US Supreme Court opinion first circulated by Politico, if finalized, would throw out nearly five decades of protection for an individual’s right to a safe and legal abortion. The draft decision also makes it abundantly clear that the conservative majority on our nation’s highest court is setting up future challenges to LGBTQIA+ rights.
Justice Alito’s reasoning for overturning Roe v. Wade could be applied to existing case law in cases such as Obergefell v. Hodges (marriage equality), Lawrence v. Texas (sexual equality) and even Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage). While the opinion attempts to dismiss these concerns, those statements ring hollow. Put simply, this decision sets the stage for the eventual erosion of the fundamental protections that queer people have been fighting for in the country for generations. Time and time again we see the people in power in both the big parties using our bodies, our safety, and our pleas for justice as rallying cries for votes and donations, only to abandon us once elected. Read more…
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2022-05-03 Leaked Supreme Court Roe v. Wade Decision Could Mean Massive Danger to Reproductive Healthcare, Invasion of Privacy
The Green Party of the United States has expressed alarm and calls to organize for the right to safe, legal and confidential access to abortions, following reports of a leaked draft Supreme Court majority opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. CONTINUE READING
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2022-04-25 Green Party says U.S. complicit in Yemen humanitarian crisis; arms sales to Saudis must end
WASHINGTON – Green Party leaders called on President Biden to take advantage of the April 2nd cease-fire among warring parties in Yemen, to follow through on his promise to end support for all offensive operations, to end weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and to help end the blockade of Saudi warships off the coast of Yemen to allow humanitarian aid to enter the country. The war between the Saudi-led coalition and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has led to one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history. CONTINUE READING
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2022-04-19 Green Party Co-sponsors Earth Day Strike 2022, Calls for Gas Boycott April 22
The National Committee of the Green Party of the United States voted on March 27 to endorse and co-sponsor the Earth Day Strike 2022 and Gas Boycott. The Green Party joins the coalition of citizen activist groups calling for a Gas Boycott as part of a ten-day program of nonviolent action to advance the causes of peace, environmental protection, and social justice from Earth Day, April 22, through May Day. CONTINUE READING
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2022-04-18 Green Party US Condemns Attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque
WASHINGTON, DC – Green Party leaders strongly condemned the April 15, 2022, attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem by Israeli Defense Forces. The IDF conducted an early morning raid on the mosque as thousands of worshippers were gathering for morning prayers, injuring over 100. The mosque is an Islamic holy site. The IDF has previously attacked Al Aqsa as an intimidation effort. This was done last June, following protests against forced evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. CONTINUE READING
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2022-04-07 Green Party on IPCC Report: US Must Halt Fossil Fuel Emissions, Enact a Green New Deal
The Green Party of the United States said today that world leaders must interpret the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as highlighting the need to immediately halt the burning of fossil fuels. CONTINUE READING
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2022-03-04 Green Party SOTU rebuttal: parties of war and Wall Street place profits before people
The Green Party rebuttal to the State of the Union, given by North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Matthew Hoh, is available for viewing on the Matthew Hoh for Senate website. The full rebuttal is just under 30 minutes. Excerpts are posted below. CONTINUE READING
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2022-02-25 Green Party Calls for Ceasefire and Diplomatic Solution to Ukraine Crisis
Greens stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and Russia who oppose the invasion The Green Party is calling on the leaders of the United States, NATO and Russia to immediately initiate diplomatic talks together with Ukrainian leadership to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a ground-and-air invasion throughout Ukraine, including the capital city of Kyiv. CONTINUE READING
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2022-02-02 Stop the Saber-Rattling! Greens Call for Immediate Diplomacy to Resolve Ukraine Crisis
WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders called on the Biden administration to immediately cease escalating military tensions and pursue a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. CONTINUE READING
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2022-01-25 Fed Bails Out Wall Street, Ignores Main Street (Again)
Statement from the Green Party of the United States WASHINGTON — The Green Party of the United States (Green Party US) and the Green Party’s Banking and Monetary Reform Committee (BMRC) have released the following statement in light of recent reports that banks including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup received $4.5 trillion in potentially illegal repurchase agreement loans (“repo loans”) from the Federal Reserve in the final quarter of 2019: CONTINUE READING
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2022-01-18 Biden Must Issue Executive Orders on Climate, Halt Fossil Fuels
WASHINGTON, DC — The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the United States (Green Party US) condemns President Biden’s year of climate negligence and renews the call to pressure the president to declare a climate emergency and issue a comprehensive series of related Executive Orders, as described on ClimatePresident.org. CONTINUE READING
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2021-12-08 Statement From Green Party US Steering Committee on COVID-19 Vaccines and Mandates
[Note: While I do support the view that Covid-19 has exposed the need to abandon for-profit healthcare in favor of a Medicare for All healthcare system, I do not agree in total with the Green Party on Covid. I do not support vaccine mandates and my research indicates there has actually been no pandemic from Covid-19. See my candidate statement on Covid-19 for a more detailed explanation! And my research on Covid-19! It is my hope that the Green Party leadership will take a more critical review of this massive wealth transfer under the ruse of a fake pandemic that was merely a serious illness for those with existing life-threatening morbidities! I have serious concerns about the safety of the vaccines themselves. I have strong reason to believe that “Long Covid” is actually “Long Vaccine”! Michael E. Kerr]
WASHINGTON — The Green Party of the United States Steering Committee strongly supports the use of vaccines, vaccine mandates and quarantines as part of a comprehensive public health effort to curb and eradicate the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has swept the globe since early 2020. CONTINUE READING
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2021-11-22 Greens’ Elections Observer in Venezuela Impressed by “Advanced,” “Fair and Democratic” Process
Report from Green Party of the United States National Co-Chair Ahmed Eltouny as the Green Party’s onsite observer at the November 21 Venezuelan elections CONTINUE READING
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2021-11-16 COP26 Agreements Will Lead to Climate Collapse, Says Green Party
Greens rebuke false solutions from world leaders, call for a Global Green New Deal WASHINGTON — The Green Party of the United States said today that the COP26 world climate summit in Glasgow failed to produce the radical action scientists say is needed to avoid climate collapse, and that the only way for humanity to prevent catastrophe for life on Earth is a global Green New Deal. CONTINUE READING
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2021-11-05 Greens Score at Least 22 Victories in November Elections
WASHINGTON — Maine Green Independent Party candidates Anna Trevorrow and Scott Harriman winning city council races in Portland and Lewiston (the state’s first- and second-most populous cities, respectively) are highlights among the national party’s 22 electoral victories declared since polls closed on Tuesday. CONTINUE READING
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