{news} Fw: [USGP-ccc] Elaine Brown joined the Green Party!

[Tom Sevigny]

GREAT NEWS!!


> 
> Elaine Brown, former Chair of the Black Panther Party, and author of "A 
> Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story" announced at a speaking event
> last 
> night hosted by the Green Institute that she was going to affiliate with
> 
> the Green Party. This morning, she went to the national office and
> filled 
> out the Green Card form. She is technically an independent candidate for
> 
> mayor (a non-partisan position) in Brunswick, Georgia this year, but
> will 
> campaign as a Green. She will attend the Georgia Green Party endorsing 
> convention in June and ask for their endorsement.
> 
> Today, she participated in a panel at the Chesapeake Campaign School
> along 
> with Michelle and Rick Tingling-Clemmons and Joe Leonard entitled 
> "Organizing Communities of Color" and announced that she was a "card 
> carrying Green Party member." She also declared that she was not going
> to 
> create another Black Panther Party and that "the Green Party is viable,
> but 
> could be even more viable."
> 
> Her race for mayor in Brunswick is in a relatively small and poor town
> that 
> is host to a huge port with tens of billions of dollars in economic 
> activity each year, and so is of great interest because nothing goes in
> or 
> out of that port without passing through Brunswick.
> 
> Dean Myerson
> 
> 
> 
> 
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