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GREENER TIMES
Issue 1. February 2012.
DRIVE LAUNCHED TO REGISTER 100,000 GREENS IN CA
Our goal is to register 100,000 Greens on Election Day...
PROMINENT PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT GOES GREEN
By Marcy Winograd
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I joined the Green Party because I embrace its platform and core values of peace and social justice and sustainable communities. We live during urgent times, under the threat of global warming and perpetual war, and we must meet that challenge with a new life-affirming vision that transcends the corporate-driven two party system. As power shifts from the federal to the local level, as the US empire crashes on the shores of rapacious greed, the Greens can play a crucial role in promoting local economies, worker-owned cooperatives, and participatory democracy. It's good to be home; it's great to be Green!
Before becoming a California Green Party activist, Marcy Winograd mobilized 41% of the vote in her Democratic Party primary challenge to war-profiteer Congresswoman Jane Harman.
YES, YOU CAN BE A GREEN AND VOTE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY?
There are no more partisan primaries for Congress, state or local elections any more in CA. You will see all of the candidates running from all parties on you June primary ballot. You can vote for the candidate you like best regardless of their party or your party. The top two candidates from the June 2012 primary will be on the ballot in November 2012.
10 KEY VALUES
Economic justice Ecological wisdom Social Justice Non-violence Grassroots democracy Respect for diversity Feminism Decentralization Future Focus Community based economics
GREENS V DEMOCRATS V REPUBLICANS
GREENS IN OFFICE
We have 34 CA Greens in office. The highest ranking Green elected officials are Mayor Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond, Mayor Bruce Delgado of Marina and Mayor Pam Hartwell-Herrero of Fairfax. Former Congressman Dan Hamburg now serves as Mendocino County Supervisor. In the November 2011 elections, 8 of our 12 candidates won re-election. It's a track record were prod of and hope to repeat in 2012 with even more Green Party candidates running for local office.
VOLUNTEER
Please volunteer for our voter registration drive. We will train you and pair you up, if possible, with a more experience voter registration volunteer. If your county isn't listed below, please contact Marnie Glickman at marnie@cagreens.org. You can also volunteer on our website at www.cagreens.org.
Alameda:
Contra Costa: Tim Laidman
Humboldt: Steve Luther
Lake:
Los Angeles
Marin: Marnie Glickman, marnie@cagreens.org
Monterey:
Napa: Alex Shantz, alexshantz@gmail.com
Nevada:
Orange: Ron Rodarte, rrodarte@cox.net
Riverside:
Sacramento:
San Diego: Masada Disenhouse (???)
San Francisco:
San Luis Obispo:
San Mateo:
Santa Clara:
Shasta: Mark Hansen, marquequark@yahoo.com
Solano: Sean Michael Dodd, sean.michael.dodd@gmail.com
Sonoma: Tim Smith, Rioryon@aol.com
Tulare:
CONNECT GREENS ONLINE
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