{news} GP RELEASE Greens at Chicago convention to gather, donate items to homeless shelters

Tue Jul 1 08:32:06 EDT 2008

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From: "Scott McLarty"
To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org
Subject: [usgp-dx] GP RELEASE Greens at Chicago convention to gather,
donate items to homeless shelters
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:12:26 +0000

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614,
mclarty at greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene at gp.org
Ruth Weill, National Convention Coordinator, 414-350-2107,
ruthweill at gmail.com

Greens at the Chicago convention, July 10-13, to collect and donate
items to homeless shelters

• Media credentialing page for the Green National Convention:
http://www.gp.org/forms/media
Updated convention information and schedule:
http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=68
Convention press kit: http://www.gp.org/committees/media/kit.shtml
General information on the convention: http://www.greenparty2008.org
Green Presidential Candidates:
http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml

WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party members attending the Green National
Convention in Chicago, July 10-13, will bring donations for area
shelters.

The collection is a project organized by Pat LaMarche, the Green
Party's vice presidential nominee in 2004. During her 2004
campaign, Ms. LaMarche, who ran with presidential nominee David
Cobb, went on a two-week cross country tour of urban homeless
shelters, staying overnight at many of them or sleeping along side
the homeless in the street in an effort to bring attention to
veterans issues, the need for a living wage, affordable housing,
and universal access to health care.

"I would like for folks with less agreeable resting places for
their heads to know that Greens came to town and that we did not
forget them," said Ms. LaMarche, who wrote a book about her 2004
experiences, 'Left Out in America, the State of Homelessness in the
United States' (Portland, Maine: upalaPress, 2006).

"The last time I stayed in Chicago was in 2004 at a shelter for
women and their children. There's a big difference between where
I'll be staying this time and where the homeless folks like the
ones I met last time will be staying," added Ms. LaMarche.

Ms. LaMarche has already contacted food suppliers in her home state
of Maine. Wyman's Blueberries of Cherryfield, Maine, has led the
way by committing donations of canned berries to the shelter in
Chicago. Greens from around the country who will not be attending
the convention have begun food drives to support their local
shelters in solidarity with the collection efforts in Chicago, with
satellite shelter drives confirmed in Utah, Pennsylvania, and Maine.

"As in the 'Left Out' tour we undertook in 2004, we want to bring
the plight of the poor and the need to restore the social safety
net into the election year debate," said Ms. LaMarche. "The Green
Party calls adequate housing and health care a human right. As our
economy falters, as this winter's heating costs soar, as the gap
between the rich and the poor grows ever wider, and as our middle
class recedes to join the ranks of the poor, it is no less
important today than four years ago that we focus on the issues of
poverty."

Pat LaMarche can be reached at 207-671-0190.

During the convention, hundreds of delegates from Green Parties in
nearly every state will choose the Green nominees for President and
Vice President of the United States. The nomination process will
take place on Saturday, July 12, at the Chicago Symphony Center.

The four candidates -- Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent
Mesplay, and Kat Swift -- will participate in a forum Friday, July
11, at the Palmer House Hilton beginning at 7 pm. Other
candidates, including Green congressional hopefuls, will be
featured during press conferences and other events throughout the
weekend.

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
• 2008 Green National Convention: Live Green, Vote Green
http://www.greenparty2008.org
• Media credentialing http://www.gp.org/forms/media
• Video of Green presidential candidates
http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/presidential-videos.php
• Links to Green Presidential Candidates' web sites
http://www.gp.org/committees/pcsc/index.shtml
• Green candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information:
http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
• Green Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
• Green Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
• Green Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections

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