{news} Fwd: More Green Candidates hit the Campaign Trail

Sat Jul 8 11:50:28 EDT 2006

Green Party of the United States <Greens at mail.democracyinaction.com> wrote:  Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:34:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Green Party of the United States <Greens at mail.democracyinaction.com>
To: greenpartyct at yahoo.com
Subject: More Green Candidates hit the Campaign Trail

                      June 2006

                    News Headlines

    LA Greens are Hot        

    Former Pasadena mayor Bill Paparian is well supported in his bid to become the first Green to be elected to US Congress in California’s 29th district. The Los Angeles Sentinel, the oldest African American newspaper in California, has endorsed Paparian, as has actor Ed Begley, Jr.
  Paparian has made the war in Iraq his top campaign issue, calling to “Bring the Troops Home Now,” in stark contrast to the competition, pro-war Democrat Adam Schiff.

Supporter Ed Begly, jr. with Green Candidate Bill Paparian - Photo by Catherine Bauknight   
            Sarah Knopp, a public school teacher from LA, came close to forcing a runoff election in the California election for Superintendent of Public Education. Knopp received over 569,000 votes, the most ever for a Green in a statewide race in CA, and came in second place out of five contenders. With a war chest of over $1 million the incumbent, Jack O’Connell, received just over 50% of the vote.
  Knopp was in the best position to take advantage of the public’s anti-incumbent sentiment because of her opposition to standardized testing, saying it threatened to turn public schools into "teach-to-the-test drill camps" that "suck the joy out of education."
    Michael Berg Receives Wings of Justice Award  It’s not just Greens who are incredibly proud of and inspired by Michael Berg, Green Party Congressional Candidate in DE. It looks like a lot of other people are as well. Last week, following a series of interviews on national networks, Buzzflash gave Berg its “Wings of Justice Award”: Michael Berg, like Cindy Sheehan and the 9/11 widows, has had to grievously suffer twice: first losing a loved one to terrorism and war, and secondly to then endure the slanderous attacks of the entrenched Republican Taliban faction.

  Nick Berg, Michael Berg's son, was hideously beheaded, allegedly by al-Zarqawi or one of his followers. The beheading was shamelessly used by the Bush Administration for propaganda purposes to justify the war with Iraq. But al-Zarqawi wasn't able to freely operate in Iraq until Bush invaded the nation
 But instead of turning his grief into supporting Bush's downward spiral of inciting more violence, Berg became an apostle of peace. 
  In a CNN interview, Michael Berg noted: "Iraq did not have al Qaeda in it. Al Qaeda supposedly killed my son. Under Saddam Hussein, no al Qaeda. Under George Bush, al Qaeda. Under Saddam Hussein, relative stability. Under George Bush, instability. Under Saddam Hussein, about 30,000 deaths a year. Under George Bush, about 60,000 deaths a year."

  Michael Berg has emerged the wiser and more courageous man. He is a most worthy recipient of this week's BuzzFlash "Wings of Justice Award."

    DC Statehood Greens Help Organize Annual Juneteenth Celebration and Music Festival         
Photo by Badia AlBanna    For the second year in a row, DC Statehood Greens helped organize the District’s Juneteenth Celebration. Juneteenth commemorates the anniversary of the day, June 19, 1865, when Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, to establish the Emancipation Proclamation as law in the last state of Confederate rebellion—two years after the date of the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863).
  Statehood Greens have called the movement for D.C. statehood a continuation of the struggle for emancipation and civil rights for African Americans. The party supports the D.C. Juneteenth Celebration as an example of grassroots democratic cooperation by District artists and activists, representing what DC residents can accomplish by working together.

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  · Entertainment: Border issues dinner on Friday night, hosted by the Pima Greens. Great live music Saturday night! 

  · Network with Greens from across the country.
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