Seattle Green Party Online meetup |

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 |

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

All are welcome, invite a friend!

Virtual Zoom meeting

Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 at 6:30 PM Pacific Time

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We acknowledge the first people of Seattle and the land itself as the rightful ancestral homelands of the Duwamish Tribe, past, present, and future. We honor and stand in gratitude to the land itself and the other living beings that make their home here.

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Green Party of Seattle | GPSEA.org 

EcoSocialist Leaders are needed now.

Membership: https://www.gp-wa.org/membership_gpwa

Discussion: https://www.loomio.org/gpwa-seattle-greens/

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

All are welcome, invite a friend!

Virtual Zoom meeting

October 19, 2022 at 6:30 PM Pacific Time

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdO2prj8qGtIDqzXB-I30r9Ptc88JjALt

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Agenda:

• Welcome and Intros
• Reactivating our local Seattle area Green Party chapter — bring your ideas!
• Ranked Choice Voting is on the ballot in Seattle this November!
• House our Neighbors update — Social Housing Initiative 135
• Whole Washington — Initiative for Universal Healthcare — Signature gathering underway until the end of December!
• Electoral Campaigns — Run for office with the Green Party!
  • Join us to discuss running and supporting Green Party candidates in local elections.
• Other upcoming events, plans, and actions — bring your ideas!

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We acknowledge the first people of Seattle and the land itself as the rightful ancestral homelands of the Duwamish Tribe, past, present, and future. We honor and stand in gratitude to the land itself and the other living beings that make their home here.

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Green Party of Seattle | GPSEA.org 

Seeking EcoSocialist Leaders!

Membership: https://www.gp-wa.org/membership_gpwa

Discussion: https://www.loomio.org/gpwa-seattle-greens/

Twitter: @seattlegreens

Facebook: @GreenPartyofSeattle

GET IN TOUCH …

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022 AT 1 PM

CAL ANDERSON PARK

The Republican Party and the Right are waging an all-out assault on the rights of women and LGBTQ people. The ultra-conservative majority on the Supreme Court opened the floodgates for Republican-dominated states to attack abortion rights. And they aren’t stopping there. Republicans are going after transgender rights, voting rights, workers’ rights, and more.

Just last month, 195 Republicans in the House voted against making access to contraception a federal law!  Additionally, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham introduced a NATIONAL ABORTION BAN BILL. And to top it off, the US Supreme Court’s new session starts this week, and one of the cases they’ll be ruling on addresses same-sex marriage.

We need to fight back!

To win bodily autonomy, abortion rights, and LGBTQ liberation, we need to build an independent multi-gendered, multi-racial, grassroots movement of everyday people and young people. That’s why it is so important that every organization and individual actively participates in this National Weekend of Action called by The Women’s March. We need a strong mass movement to beat back the Republicans and pressure Democrats to implement:

• The Women’s Health Protection Act (which would legalize abortion nationwide, overriding state bans)
• The end of the Senate filibuster
• Expansion of the Supreme Court with pro-choice judges
• Medicare for All, including:
  • Free, legal, safe abortions
  • Free contraception, birth control, & reproductive services
• Affordable universal childcare & paid family leave
• Living wages & affordable housing for all
• Free gender-affirming healthcare

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2022 AT 1 PM

CAL ANDERSON PARK

Spread the word! Invite friends and organizations to join us!

To endorse, collaborate, get flyers to use in your community, or volunteer: (206) 930-2010, [email protected]

Sponsored by Seattle Democratic Socialists of America

Endorsed by:
The Women’s March
Seattle Education Association
UNITE HERE Local 8
United Auto Workers Local 4121
SEIU 1199NW Staff Union
Real Change
​​Seattle Peace Chorus Action Ensemble
Labor for Black Lives
Puget Sound Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
Seattle Green Wave
Radical Women
Whole Washington
Socialist Alternative
Freedom Socialist Party
Seattle Revolutionary Socialists

Endorsed by the Green Party of Washington State and the Green Party of Seattle

https://www.facebook.com/events/s/defend-abortion-rights-nationa/567510858488134/

On July 30th, the Seattle March for #HealthcareJustice will take place on the 57th anniversary of the passage of Medicare!

You are invited to attend!

Please RSVP here.

Details are still being worked out, so be sure to RSVP to stay up to date.

There are so many reasons to march for healthcare justice this year:

• We are still deeply impacted by the COVID pandemic. A new study estimates that more than 330,000 lives could have been saved by universal healthcare.
• We just lost Roe v. Wade – now is the time to DEMAND universal healthcare with full coverage of abortion be passed immediately to remove all financial barriers to reproductive care.
• Medicare is currently under the attack of privatization through the REACH program – we need the Biden administration to know that we see what’s happening, and we won’t stand for it.
• We have a serious chance at getting statewide single-payer healthcare on the ballot for Washington state!
• The midterms are coming up soon and we need Medicare for All to be a non-negotiable electoral issue!

As with all marches, promotion and turnout are essential. Please share this action with as many people as possible and invite a friend or two to join you. We have just a few weeks before we march so this is an all-hands-on-deck moment!

This event is co-sponsored by Medicare for All EVERYWHERE, Whole Washington, the Seattle DSA Healthcare Working Group, and the Green Party of Seattle, and we expect this coalition to continue to grow. Last year’s event was an incredible success featuring fantastic speakers like Stephanie Gallardo, Nikkita Oliver, and Kshama Sawant!

We know that the community will come out again to march for healthcare justice! See you on the 30th!

Green Party of the United States

www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:

11/05/2021

Contact:

Michael O’Neil, Communications Manager, [email protected], 202-804-2758

Diana Brown, Co-chair, Media Committee, [email protected], 202-804-2758

Philena Farley, Co-chair, Media Committee,  [email protected], 202-804-2758

Greens Score at Least 17 Victories in November Elections

2 new city council representatives elected in the state of Maine

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 17 electoral victories declared since polls closed on Tuesday.

Trevorrow, who ran while holding an elected seat on Portland’s school board, credited her win to “a strong ground-campaign, in which I had 837 conversations with voters, promoting a vision for Portland that is accessible to the working class and enacts policy through an equity lens” in a post to social media. Since 2002, Greens have won two state house, eight city council, 12 school board and two water board seats in Portland.

Harriman pledged to represent his district “proudly and to the best of my ability on the City Council” in Lewiston, where he ran on supporting fully-funded public schools, equity in education and environmental health in the district.

In Minneapolis, MN, Green candidate Samantha Pree-Stinson became the first Black Woman to be elected to the city’s Board of Estimation & Taxation. The Green Party also faced a set-back in Minneapolis, with four-term city council representative Cam Gordon not winning re-election. Gordon faced a backlash for supporting replacing the city’s police department with a Department of Public Safety and a gauntlet of challengers backed by a flood of “money from outside of the ward,” according to his campaign team.

This week’s Green wins add to 19 electoral victories from earlier in the year.

November victories in races that have been called, so far,  include:

• Anna Trevorrow, City Council, District 1, Portland (Cumberland County) ME
• Scott Harriman, City Council, District 2, Lewiston, ME
• Dagmar Noll, Town Council, Willimantic (Windham County) CT
• Joseph Wetmore, Town Board, Lansing (Tompkins County) NY
• Megan Parks, School Committee, Lewiston Public Schools (Androscoggin County) ME
• Matthew Reitenhauer, School Board, Brandywine Heights, Topton (Berks County) PA
• Samantha Pree-Stinson, Board of Estimation and Taxation At-large, Minneapolis (Hennepin County) MN
• Charlie Krich,  At-large, Board of Directors, Willimantic Taxing District, Windham (Windham County) CT
• Cassandra Martineau, At-large, Board of Directors, Willimantic Taxing District, Windham (Windham County) CT
• Leif Smith, Constable, Redding (Fairfield County) CT
• Hugh Birdsall, Zoning Board of Appeals, Clinton (Middlesex County) CT
• Emery Ng, Zoning Board of Appeals Alternate, Windham (Windham County) CT
• Michael Westerfield, Board of Assessment Appeals, Windham (Windham County) CT
• Jay Sweeney, Auditor, Falls Township (Wyoming County) PA
• Abigail Hunter, Judge of Elections Ward 7, Precinct 8, Pittsburgh (Allegheny County) PA
• Jay Ting Walker, Judge of Elections, Ward 7, District 6, Pittsburgh (Allegheny County) PA
• Andrew Moses Yanez Oliva, Judge of Elections, Ward 15, District 6, Reading (Berks County) PA

Greens nationwide also hailed successful ballot measures to implement Ranked Choice Voting in Broomfield, Colorado; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Westbrook, Maine.

For a list of 2021 Green Party Candidates and Results as They Become Available, visit gp.org/2021_november_election_results.

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Are you a politically free thinking Seattle Ecosocialist interested in running Green in 2022? First look at the 10 Key Values to see if you are in alignment, then join Green Party of Washington and join the Loomio discussion group to get in touch with other Greens, learn the secret handshake, [kidding] and get on the mailing list for upcoming Seattle Chapter [GPSEA / “jip-SEE”] meetings.

The EcoAction Committee of the Green Party of the United States will hold an online webinar on Indigenous People’s Day this Monday.

Topics will include:

Indigenous Ecological Wisdom

Green New Deal and Green Economic Bill of Rights

Climate Change Science – IPCC WG Report

COP26

Rights of Nature

The Fight against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

Featured speakers include:

Tom Goldtooth, Dine’/DakotaExecutive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)Co-founder, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)

Howie Hawkins, Former GPUS Presidential CandidateAuthor 2010 Green New Deal

Mark Dunlea, Cochair, GPUS EcoAction CommitteeGreen Education and Legal Fund

Tom Goldtooth will share Indigenous wisdom including Rights of Nature, talk about climate and indigenous efforts against new fossil fuel Infrastructure.

Howie Hawkins will discuss the recent inaction and retreat by Congress on passing a green and social stimulus package. He will highlight the need for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal which includes strong environmental justice measures and an economic bill of rights.

Mark Dunlea will discuss the upcoming COP26 in November in Glasgow and the need for dramatic increase in funding from the US and other polluter nations to the Global South and developing countries for respond to risks from the climate crisis. He will also highlight the need for increased and binding emission reduction targets to keep global warming below 1.5 degree centigrade.

Register at:

https://www.gp.org/ecoaction_climate_webinar

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

#IndigenousSovereignty

#indigenous

#indigenouspeople

Volunteer with the Green Party!

Posted on October 8, 2021 by Green Party of Washington

The Green Party is governed by our principles and values, and unlike the corporate political parties, we do not accept — and are not influenced by — corporate cash. Our platform is based on our values of peace, sustainability, grassroots democracy, and justice for all. We aim to broaden the scope of political discourse and reshape the political process.

We are currently forming teams for each of the volunteer options in our recently updated Volunteer Form. We want to make good use of your skills, knowledge, interests, and time to support the Green Party at state and local levels.

Your efforts make a direct impact on the growth and success of our party, and we look forward to working with you!

Please complete or update our revised Volunteer Form available at https://www.gp-wa.org/volunteer – and contact us to suggest other volunteer options.

Jody Grage, Volunteer Coordinator

Become a GPWA member, check your membership status, or renew your membership today!

Keep up with us on Twitter and Facebook
Donations are always appreciated and put to good use!

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WASHINGTON — The Green Party’s Peace Action Committee (GPAX) has issued the following statement requesting public support “for the organization of a preliminary hearing to consider indictment of select i) U.S. political leaders; ii) U.S. military leaders; and iii) leaders of private U.S. arms manufacturers” for war crimes committed during the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
The announcement comes on the 20th anniversary of the invasion.

The entire statement follows:

Twenty years ago today – October 7, 2001 – the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom, a military invasion of Afghanistan that would prove to usher in the longest war in American history. The two-decade military occupation resulted in the death of over 47,000 Afghan civilians, 2,400 U.S. soldiers, 3,800 U.S. contractors, 66,000 Afghan soldiers, and 500 journalists and aid workers, while racking up a more than $2 trillion bill.The end result of these enormous expenditures and unconscionable human toll: Afghanistan lies in ruin, the Taliban is back in power and tens of thousands of people (military and civilian) have been physically or mentally disabled (a reality that will continue costing the U.S. government billions of dollars a year in healthcare costs for veterans for the foreseeable future).While representing a total strategic failure, the war also ignominiously represents one of the gravest acts of aggressive militarism of the 21st century. Many of its political architects in the U.S. remain in positions of power today and private arms manufacturers retain their massive ill-gotten profits. It is high time that the warmongering orthodoxy of public and private sector elites dominating the American foreign policy and national security establishments be held to account!


To this end, the Peace Action Committee of the Green Party of the United States (GPAX) is calling for the organization of a preliminary hearing to consider indictment of select
i) U.S. political leaders; ii) U.S. military leaders; and iii) leaders of private U.S. arms manufacturers on the following counts:Crimes of aggression in Afghanistan, as understood in accordance with Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute);War crimes in Afghanistan, as understood in accordance with Article 8 of the Rome Statute;Crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, as understood in accordance with Article 7 of the Rome Statute; andComplicity in commission of the above enumerated crimes in Afghanistan.We invite all interested organizations and individuals to assist us in convening this hearing, which should take place before the end of this calendar year. We anticipate this hearing constituting the basis of i) a recommendation to the International Criminal Court that investigation proceedings be initiated; and/or
ii) a People’s Inquiry into the War in Afghanistan, modeled on the People’s International War Crimes Tribunal organized by Bertrand Russell in 1966 inquiring into crimes committed by the United States in the war in Vietnam.
Please join us in this effort!
Interested parties should contact us at [email protected].”

MORE INFORMATION
October 9, 2001 Green Party statement rejecting military invasion as response to 9/11
Green Party statement following withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan
Green Party of the United States Peace Action Committee
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Vote for Nikkita Oliver for Seattle City Council Position 9. 

Both Nikkita Oliver’s [they/them] platform, as well as their qualifications, make them the Green Party of Seattle’s preferred candidate for Seattle City Council Position 9. 

As a Lawyer, an Educator, a Community Activist, and a Creative they are also the only candidate Greens know as actually equipped with the depth of understanding of all the moving parts necessary to grasp the controls of a future fluent Seattle.

Vote for Nikkita.

Demilitarize the Police, yes. Support youth and families so they may flourish, yes. Environmental Justice, yes. Racial and Economic Justice, yes. Universal Healthcare and Social Safety Nets, yes. Arts & Culture, yes. Quality of Life, yes.

All the things that make sense to Greens, yes!

Volunteer for Nikkita.

Think Globally, Vote Locally. Seattle Democracy Vouchers are increasing voter turnout because candidates now have an opportunity to run on grassroots funding, and this is a portal of entry into politics for individuals who represent us, our neighbors, friends, coworkers, and families. The real ones. 

Donate to Nikkita.

Progressive candidates can only move up on the political food chain if they are elected locally. On the local level, there is no electoral college, your vote is… your vote. Although Greens and other Alternative Party candidates are largely excluded from participation in national politics, our local elections matter because the Grassroots is where we live, where we can strengthen our community, and where regenerative solutions for a sustainable future can begin to take shape. 

Disclaimer: The Green Party of Washington is an Alternative Party. GPWA does not endorse candidates from the cartel parties of War and Wall Street. According to the Green Party of Seattle bylaws, GPSEA may evaluate local candidates based on our Green Party Ten Key Values. We choose to officially ‘prefer’ the candidate that best approximates our ‘Green’ values.

 Sustainability, no longer a fringe idea. Move ahead; forward motion defines a Progressive.