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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 Green Party activist, Marcy Winograd, a resident of Santa Monica, mobilized 41% of the vote in her Democratic Party primary challenge to war-profiteer Congresswoman Jane Harman.
CAN I VOTE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY?
There are no more partisan primaries for Congress, state or local elections any more in CA. In June 2012, you will see all of the candidates running for the office from all parties. You can vote for the candidate you like best regardless of their 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
TOP 10 REASONS TO REGISTER GREEN
1. Join a party that shares your values. 2. Tell Democrats that you won't compromise so much on peace, justice, democracy and the planet. 3. Greens want to end corporate personhood and ban corporate financing of elections. 4. Greens oppose nuclear power and support immediate closure of our nuclear power plants. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
GREENS IN OFFICE
We have # CA Greens in office. Their accomplishments are:
VOLUNTEER
If your county isn't listed below, please contact Marnie Glickman.
Alameda:
Contra Costa: Tim Laidman (???)
Humboldt: Steve Luther
Lake:
Los Angeles
Marin: Marnie Glickman, marnie@cagreens.org
Monterey:
Napa: Alex Shantz
Nevada:
Orange: Ron Rodarte
Riverside:
Sacramento:
San Diego: Masada Disenhouse (???)
San Francisco:
San Luis Obispo:
San Mateo:
Santa Clara:
Shasta: Mark Hansen (???)
Solano: Sean Michael Dodd
Sonoma:
Tulare:
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