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Friends--
February
2024 Elections are Upon Us
By Chris Robinson
 2024 will be an exciting election year
for the Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA). We will have a Green Party
candidate for President of the U.S., and there are many other offices
awaiting a candidate who supports the Green Ten Key Values.
This
month, GPPA will hold its first Presidential Primary for voters
registered with the Green Party. Balloting will begin on February 15
and conclude at the end of the month.
Then, on March 10, GPPA
delegates will endorse their candidates for U.S. Senate, PA Attorney
General, PA Auditor General and PA Treasurer. 2024 will also see
elections of half the PA Senate and all of the PA House of
Representatives. If you are interested in being nominated, please
contact [email protected]
[The
author is a Philadelphia delegate to the GPPA State Committee.]
PA Green News
Edited by Chris
Robinson
GPPA Elects 2024 Leaders
On January 7, delegates to the Green Party of Pennsylvania State
Committee elected new members to their 2024 Steering Committee:
Co-Chair Theron Gilliland Jr. (he/him) (Allegheny), Treasurer Jeff
Kondrich (Westmoreland) and Members at Large Alex Casper (they/them)
(Philadelphia), Tim Runkle (Lancaster), and Jay Ting Walker
(Allegheny). These five leaders will join incumbent Co–Chair Jeremy R.
Griffin (Philadelphia). State Committee members also elected their
delegates to committees of the Green Party of the U.S.
The first order of business for the 2024 GPPA Steering Committee
will be to appoint leaders for their four GPPA Teams.
GPPA Endorses March for Gaza
Thirty-seven GPPA delegates and friends, gathered on January 7 via
Zoom, voted by consensus to endorse the March on Washington for Gaza
scheduled for the following Saturday. Green Party members from around
the Commonwealth traveled to the White House from Allegheny, Berks,
Bucks, Lancaster, Luzerne and Philadelphia Counties. The demonstration
drew more than 100,000 people opposed to the Israeli/U.S. genocidal
war against Palestine. Among the many speakers were Dr. Jill Stein
(Green Party) and Dr. Cornel West (independent).
WATCH
JILL STEIN’S SPEECH ON JANUARY 13
Team Reports
Edited by Patrick O. McNally
 Communication Team
If you feel creative, please consider joining the GPPA ComTeam. If
you are ready to help us publicize Green Party candidates, the ComTeam
needs you. We will help you polish your draft and present it to the
media. Please contact [email protected] or join the
Communication Team right here,
www.gpofpa.org/team_communications_join
 Green Wave
Team
Our 2024 candidate endorsement process has already begun. County
locals are encouraged to reach out to potential candidates. The Green
Wave Team has been instrumental in designing and implementing the 2024
Green Party PA Presidential Primary, which begins on February 15. Our
next project will be getting Green Party candidates on the ballot by
circulating nomination papers. We need your help. Please join the
Green Wave Team right here.
www.gpofpa.org/team_greenwave_join
 Core Team
The Core Team has been reignited to grow as the spine of our
organization. The Core Team is about maintaining our Party’s basic
infrastructure and processes. Our weekly meetings will be designed to
maintain our fellowship in a remote world. In the first part of the
year, we will be running workshops to help people learn how to utilize
the tools within Nation Builder and to organize and grow our state and
local parties. Weekly meetings will be held to get us started. Please
join the Core Team right here.
https://www.gpofpa.org/team_core_join
National Green
News
Edited by David Ochmanowicz
Jr.
The Green Party of California Supports South
Africa's Genocide Convention Case
The Green Party of California has signed onto a letter calling on
states to support South Africa's Genocide Convention Case against
Israel at the International Court of Justice . . . . The Green Party
is strongly opposed to the positions taken by Washington, DC, which is
being run by the two “dinosaur” political parties and their
billionaire and corporate sponsors (owners). We are in steadfast
support of international justice and opposed to the violence and
destruction the U.S. government is perpetrating through its military
complicity and through funding and fueling wars and conflict around
the world...”
READ THE FULL STORY
HERE
Before No Labels, Green
Party tried and failed to block unwanted
candidates
A federal judge's ruling that
political parties can decide which offices their candidates run for
likely would've been welcome news to the Arizona Green Party, which
unsuccessfully challenged supposedly fraudulent candidates in
2010.
Context: U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi
ruled Tuesday that
it would violate the First Amendment free association rights of the No
Labels Party of Arizona if Secretary of State Adrian Fontes allowed
its candidates to run for offices the party didn't intend to
seek.
READ
THE FULL STORY HERE
Global Green
News
Edited by Hal
Brown
Indian Green Party (iGP) elected National
Executive Committee
Ms. Sarika Dabral is the new general
secretary of the Indian Green Party. Suresh Nautiyal will continue to
be the chief spokesperson, and Ms. Vinita Menon has been elected as
the new spokesperson. Ashish Thakuri will remain treasurer for two
more years. Ms. Ishpriya Kaur will also retain her position as
International Secretary. The National Convention has appointed former
co-chair Rajendra Minj and Bangalore-based activist Sandeep Anirudhan
as members of the advisory council.
READ THE FULL
STORY HERE
Gabon President Nguema has Authorized Killing
Elephants
Controversy remains lively in Gabon around elephant hunting after
the transitional president authorized populations to kill elephants
that are ravaging their fields or break up their huts. . . . “Without
elephants, the wealth of Gabonese forests would not be what it is
today. We therefore understand that the decision of the president of
the transition must be considered as one solution among many others to
significantly reduce the ongoing conflict,” said Alfred Ngomanda,
director of the National Center for Scientific and Technological
Research, who insisted on the contribution of elephants to forest
regeneration.
READ THE FULL STORY
HERE
To Fight Pollution, Pakistan Causes Artificial
Rain
Pakistan is the fourth most polluted
country in the world. According to the NGO Human Rights Watch, at
least 128,000 deaths are linked to air pollution each year. At the
beginning of December, the level of fine particles measured in the air
was so high that schools closed for four days to avoid exposing
children. To clean the air, the authorities decided to cause
artificial rain...
A scientific process that can work in the very
short term but which circumvents the initial problem...
To purify the air, rain generally has its
effect, because when it falls, the drops precipitate pollutants to the
ground and disperse them...
READ THE FULL STORY
HERE
England: The Green Party Presents its Plan for
2024
The Green Party of England and Wales has revealed its plans. Party
co-leader Carla Denyer remains optimistic about tackling the major
challenges facing the world today, namely war, the environment and the
cost of living. To achieve this, Ms. Denyer is counting on everyone’s
support...
“We will invest properly in our public services and in
the environment, transforming the tax system so that we end the
decades where the rich have got richer and have avoided their
responsibility to share their wealth. Our investments in people, in
nature and in action on the climate will mean we all do better. They
will build security for the future and create hundreds of thousands of
skilled and well-paid jobs across the country.”
READ THE FULL STORY
HERE
GPPA Meeting Date for 2024
All State Web Conferences will begin promptly at
noon.
Sunday,
March 10, via Zoom
Sunday, June
9, via Zoom
Sunday, September 22,
location to be announced
Sunday,
November 10, via Zoom
GPPA Communications
Team
Issue Credits
Editors: Hal Brown, Patrick O. McNally, David Ochmanowicz,
Jr. and Chris Robinson
Layout: Hal Brown, Sherri Miller, and David Ochmanowicz
Jr.
Graphic Arts: Kevin Richardson
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