From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Thu Apr 8 21:40:27 2010 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:40:27 -0400 Subject: {news} GP RELEASE Greens: US must press Israel to end settlements; divestment urged as Israeli outrages continue Message-ID: <335BBEDD39944931850F3AB19CB2F3B5@JUSTINE> GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release: Thursday, April 8, 2010 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 Greens: President Obama must press Israel to end East Jerusalem settlements . Green Party urges divestment as Israeli outrages mount . Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on foreign policy http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-foreign-policy.php WASHINGTON, DC -- President Obama must put pressure on Israel immediately to stop the construction of settlements and displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, Green Party leaders and candidates said today. "President Obama should send Prime Minister Netanyahu a message: enough is enough. If Israel continues to violate Palestinian human rights, the US must cancel the $30 million military aid package pledged to Israel for 2009-2018. The plan to build 1,600 housing units for Israeli Jews in East Jerusalem is the latest outrage. Although a rumored US abstension from a possible UN Security Council resolution against the settlements would be an improvement over its usual veto on Israel's behalf, this would still be an act of moral cowardice," said Sanda Everette, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. (News story on the possible UN resolution: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/8591714.stm) "The White House's angry response to the East Jerusalem settlement announcement was a necessary first step, but it needs to be followed by concrete action, like support for a UN resolution against the settlements or actually withdrawing military aid. President Obama should show the kind of leadership that led Eisenhower to demand that Israel leave Sinai in 1955," said Ms. Everette. The Green Party has demanded that the US end military assistance to Israel, which has used such aid to displace Palestinians from their homes and farm lands, hold them in concentration camp conditions, maintain Bantustans in the style of apartheid-era South Africa, and launch illegal military assaults such as last year's bloody invasion of Gaza. "While the international community has been unable to deal with Israel's violations after decades of UN resolutions, civil society has increasingly endorsed BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) as a powerful nonviolent strategy to pressure Israel into ending the Palestinian occupation and guaranteeing equality for all in Israel-Palestine. In 2005, the Green Party endorsed a BDS resolution (http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_11_28.shtml) comparable to the one passed by the Senate of the Associated Students of UC Berkeley in March," said Derek Grigsby, Green candidate for State Representative in Michigan, District 7 (dereknjck at yahoo.com). The Berkeley students' bill calls on the university to divest its assets from two General Electric and United Technologies for "materially and militarily supporting the Israeli government's occupation of the Palestinian territories" and to advocate that the UC, with about $135 million invested in companies that profit from Israel's illegal actions in the Occupied Territories (http://blogs.asuc.org/2010/03/18/announcements/sb-118-amended-passed). Greens have urged the White House and Congress to reject the influence of AIPAC and to establish Middle East policy based on recognition that the rights of Palestinians must be equal to the rights of Israelis, on peaceful negotiation to resolve the conflict, and complete regional nuclear disarmament. Greens have noted the hypocrisy of applying sanctions against Iran for its alleged nuclear ambitions without insisting that Israel get rid of its nuclear weapons -- especially since Israel, unlike Iran, has launched military attacks on other countries. (See "Arab Leaders Call for Middle East Free of Nuclear Weapons" Earth Times March 28, 2010, http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/316159,arab-leaders-call-for-middle-east-free-of-nuclear-weapons.html#ixzz0jUbcWzVi) "We encourage Israeli and Palestinian leaders -- and President Obama -- to follow the lead of human rights activists like Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, organizer of the Wheels of Justice tour (http://justicewheels.org). In his embrace of nonviolent resistance as a tactic for justice, Dr. Qumsiyeh continues an often unrecognized history of Palestinian non-violent resistance and keeps alive the tradition of Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King. In response, the Israeli army has targeted him for arrest," said Tony Affigne, Rhode Island Green and member of the party's International Committee (http://www.gp.org/committees/intl). Dr. Qumsiyeh (http://qumsiyeh.org), former associate professor of genetics at the Yale University School of Medicine and a member of the Green Party of Connecticut before he moved back to Palestine, wrote about his experiences in a New Haven Register op-ed published on March 9, 2010 ("Peaceful protest in Israel can lead to arrest," http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/03/09/opinion/doc4b95ab40a3642160727871.txt). "The US's uncritical support for Israel and flow of military and financial aid endanger US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and threaten US security and global stability. Even Gen. Petraeus and VP Biden have admitted this," said Rodger Jennings, Green candidate for US Congress in Illinois, District 12 (http://www.rodgerjennings.org). (See "The Petraeus briefing: Biden's embarrassment is not the whole story," Foreign Policy, March 13, 2010, http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/03/14/the_petraeus_briefing_biden_s_embarrassment_is_not_the_whole_story). "The Gaza assault, which couldn't have happened without US weapons, was a major turning point for people worldwide, including many American Jews. Like the misery that continues for Gazans, the memory of that horrific assault lingers." Greens note that, until recently, a campaign to silence critics of Israeli policies and actions helped maintain unilateral support for Israel, especially in the US, and that censorship of such criticism has sustained the conflict. Many US Greens expressed alarm when the Heinrich Boell Foundation (http://www.boell.de), a legally independent political foundation affiliated with the German Green Party, canceled February speaking engagements in Germany by Dr. Norman Finkelstein, an American Jewish scholar, child of Holocaust survivors, and author of books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust (http://www.normanfinkelstein.com). "There is increasing recognition that the two-state solution is not viable. Israel-Palestine is already a de facto single state, mainly because of Israel's illegal settlement policies, with over 500,000 Israeli Jews living in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. It's time to consider the one-state solution -- one homeland for both peoples -- with a secular democracy that ensures full and equal rights regardless of religion or ethnicity, " said Farheen Hakeem, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. (See "Palestinians Increasingly Back 1-State," Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2010, http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=171559 and "Who's Afraid of a One-State Solution?" by Dmitry Reider, Foreign Policy, March 31, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/31/whos_afraid_of_a_one_state_solution) MORE INFORMATION Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN . Green candidate database and 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 . Green Party Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus "Ensure Israel arms curbs, say MPs" BBC News, March 30, 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8594402.stm "Open Letter to Berkeley Students on their Historic Israeli Divestment Bill" By Naomi Klein, Common Dreams, March 31, 2010 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/31-9 "Palestinians increasingly back 1-state" Jerusalem Post, March 22, 2010 http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=171559 "US Can't Afford Military Aid to Israel" Josh Ruebner, The Huffington Post, February 26, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-ruebner/us-cant-afford-military-a_b_478104.html "Evidence of misuse of US weapons in Gaza" Amnesty International, February 23, 2009 http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/20277 US Campaign to End the Occupation http://www.endtheoccupation.org Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the United States Winter 2010 issue now online http://gp.org/greenpages-blog ~ END ~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roseberry3 at cox.net Tue Apr 27 22:30:07 2010 From: roseberry3 at cox.net (B Barry) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:30:07 -0400 Subject: {news} 4-24-10 CTGP Annual Meeting results of the elections of candidates for: CTGP internal officers, CTGP representatives to GPUS and for GPUS National Committees Message-ID: <20100428023009.DNQG18026.eastrmmtao104.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> Red = elected. 3 positions for State Co-Chair 1st 2nd 3rd =Total Points(3x1st + 2x2nd + 1x3rd) Mike DeRosa 12 5 5 = 51 Richard Duffee 4 10 9 = 41 Jane Weston 4 7 7 = 33 ____________________________________________________________________________ ______ Write-ins Tim McKee 4 2 2 =18 Mary Anne Davis 1 0 0 = 3 Cliff Thornton 1 0 0 =3 Ken Krayeske 0 2 0 = 2 Secretary: elected by consensus: Barbara Barry no write in candidates Treasurer: elected by consensus: Christopher Reilly. no write-in candidates 5 positions for CTGP Rep to the GPUS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th =Total Points(5x1st + 4x2nd +3x3rd + 2x4th + 1x 5thplace) Charlie Pillsbury 17 3 2 0 1 104 Tim McKee 3 11 4 1 3 75 Mike DeRosa 6 6 3 2 2 68 G. Scott Deshefy 0 4 2 5 1 33 Jeffrey Russell 0 0 4 2 2 18 ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Amy Vas Nunes 0 0 2 0 0 6 Allan Brison 0 0 1 0 0 3 Write-in candidates for positions on the GPUS National Committees: 3 positions for International Committee 1st 2nd 3rd =Total Points (3x1st + 2x2nd + 1x3rd) Hector Lopez 11 4 3 =44 Justine McCabe 10 3 2 =38 Jeffrey Russell 1 7 3 =20 ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ G. Scott Deshefy 3 3 4 =19 S. Michael DeRosa 1 0 0 =3 Moses Boone 0 1 0 =2 Ken Krayeske 0 1 0 =2 Amy Vas Nunes 0 0 1 =1 3 positions on the Platform Committee 1st 2nd 3rd =Total Points(3x1st + 2x2nd + 1x3rd) Richard Duffee 6 7 0 =32 Jerry Martin 8 2 3 =31 Justine McCabe 4 4 4 =24 Rolf Maurer 2 3 3 =15 G. Scott Deshefy 1 0 0 =3 Jeffrey Russell 1 0 0 =3 Ben Wojan 1 0 0 =3 Gordan Adams 0 1 0 =2 Amy Vas Nunes 0 0 1 =1 3 positions for Merchandizing Committee 1st 2nd 3rd Total Points(3x1st + 2x2nd + 1x3rd) Rolf Maurer 1 0 0 =3 Ben Wojan 0 2 0 =2 The following uncontested candidates were elected by one or more write-in votes. Potential of 3 people per committee. 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URL: From allan.brison at gmail.com Fri Apr 30 17:19:15 2010 From: allan.brison at gmail.com (Allan Brison) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:19:15 -0400 Subject: {news} MAY DAY Celebration tomorow on the New Haven Green Message-ID: Greens, Tomorrow, Saturday May 1st, there will be the traditional May Day or, International Workers Day, celebration on the New Haven Green. This year May 1 falls on a Saturday and good weather is predicted so it should be a particularly well attended event. May Day is the largest celebration of politically progressive folks of the year in New Haven. As usual there will be live music, poetry readings, Speak Outs, art, theatre, dance, much food, and the traditional Maypole dance. There will be many organizations like the New Haven Greens that will be tabling. This is truly a family event. Come and say hello to us at the Green Party table. There will be a big banner making us hard to miss. It takes place on the New Haven Green from noon to 7pm. Proceeding it, for those who can make it, there will be an Immigrant Solidarity March that will go from Grand Ave. and Front Street in Fair Haven to the Green. Assemble for the march at Grand and Front at 10:30 -- Allan Brison 203-782-6808 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: