The Green Party of New York State released a statement about Governor Cuomo’s plan to change New York State ballot law. The Green Party said that the proposals by Governor Cuomo and the IDC [Independent Democratic Conference of the NY State Senate] to allow non-party members to petition their way into other parties’ primaries is unconstitutional, a violation of their first amendment rights.

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May 17, 2013 Department of Education, Democracy Branch The Green Shadow Cabinet’s Department of Education expresses our strong support for the students at Cooper Union who have been peacefully occupying their campus President‘s office since Wednesday, May 8, in protest of the college’s recent decision to end the policy of free education for all students. [...]

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GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org Release online at http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=618 For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 16, 2013 Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org Green Party calls Monsanto a top risk to public health and the environment, urges a moratorium on genetically modified food crops • March Against [...]

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On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Green News DC wrote: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Green Shadow Cabinet http://greenshadowcabinet.us http://greenshadowcabinet.us/news/release-cabinet-urges-obama-respect-voters-and-allow-taxation-and-regulation-marijuana Cabinet urges Obama to respect voters and allow taxation and regulation of marijuana • Report Recommends Four Steps Toward Ending the Marijuana Quagmire Obama Can Take Without Congressional Action • Urges Department of Justice [...]

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Published on RGJ.com on May 6th:  Lynn Chapman of the Independent American Party (CP affiliate): Lynn Chapman, Washoe County chairman of the Independent American Party, talks about why she joined the party and what makes it different from other parties. David Gibson of the Green Party of Nevada: David Gibson is co-chairman of the Green [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Contact:  Erika McDonald, San Francisco Green Party Media Coordinator 415-337-1499, Erika@dolorespark.org Contact: Starlene Rankin, Lavender Green Caucus Co-chair, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org San Francisco — Green Party members, already outraged by the continuing prosecution of whistle-blower PFC Bradley Manning, are joining a growing chorus of individuals and organizations supporting Manning as a [...]

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The following statements and notices of the Green Shadow Cabinet are available online here. They may be republished with attribution and a link back to their original web locations. Statements and Notices of the Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States                                          ~ Week of May 5, 2013 ~ JILL STEIN: Obama betrays country by appointing [...]

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From a May 8th, 2013 post on the Punk Patriot blog:  The Maine Green Independent Party held its annual state conventionSunday, in Belfast. Jill Stein, 2012 presidential candidate, delivered the keynote address. While many of the looming threats Stein outlined in her speech are dire (economic collapse, exploding student debt, a permanent low-wage economy, environmental crisis), she [...]

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The following was posted on Green Party Watch on May 10th, 2013:  2012 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Cheri Honkala and the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, together with Shut the Chamber and organizer Carl Gibson, will march with long-term unemployed Americans from Philadelphia to Washington DC from May 18-24 to demand investment in [...]

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Perennial candidate and Green Party activist Rhett Smith finished second in the nonpartisan race for San Antonio mayor on Saturday.  Incumbent mayor Julian Castro, the keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, won re-election to a third term with 67 percent of the total vote. Smith received 13 percent, placing him above five other challengers to [...]

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The  Green Party issued the following statement yesterday asking that the U.S. not involve itself in the Syrian uprising. Green Party leaders today called on President Obama and Congress to cancel proposed military aid to Syrian rebels and press Israel to cease its attacks on Syria immediately, or risk an escalated conflict in the Middle [...]

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Rebecca Rotzler, a Green Party activist, won a seat on the New Paltz Village Board with a write-in campaign.

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