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Green Senatorial Campaign Committee

Greens,

A few weeks ago, the Green Party became the first alternative political party in history to register a national senatorial campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission. The eight-member Green Senatorial Campaign Committee chaired by Teresa Keane, a former Green Senate candidate from Oregon, was created to promote the campaigns of Green Party candidates running for the United States Senate.
The committee’s main goal for the 2006 election cycle is to support as many qualified Green campaigns as possible. The Green Party has nominated 14 senate candidates for 2006 and a key issue in their races is the Iraq War. Green candidates call for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. With your personal investment we will help Green campaigns get their message out – a message that America wants to hear. To raise those voices – we need to raise some money.

Please send your donation to:

Green Senatorial Campaign Committee
PO Box 8845
Minneapolis, MN 55408

Georgia Green speaks at Congresswoman McKinney’s Press Conference

My Green Colleague from Georgia, Nan Garrett (also co-chair of the GPUS Women’s Caucus) recently spoke at a Press Conference hosted by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Nan has also declared her intentions to seek the Green Party nomination for President of the United States.

Read the text of her speech.

GPUS Proposal 244 (California-Texas) on Utah Fails

Earlier this month I wrote a post on the Proposal to the GPUS by California and Texas to “objectively” investigate the 2004 debacle in Utah’s Green Party. The proposal was far from objective or impartial, with an erroneous background (setting the tone for the proposal) and with the portion that would form a “settlement” committee, in part made up of representatives from the two Utah groups.

The proposal failed. Voting ended last night.

It was tough because the other Utah group lobbied heavily to all the delegates. I received copies of emails from delegates from other states to that effect. The emails contained false information. Luckily, some of those recipients of the emails were smart enough to call me and others to find out for themselves the facts.

While Texas will likely generate another proposal (again) to conduct an independent investigation (without the formation of an internal settelement committee), I hope the GPUS can now continue to work on real issues and not continue to generate proposals that interfere in the affairs of state parties and stall the important work at the national level.

California’s Proposal to the GPUS -UPDATE

Since the last time I wrote about The Proposal by California to the GPUS on Utah, there have been changes and amendments. The proposal has now been amended to include Texas, which withdrew its single proposal to counter the CA proposal and then joined forces with CA to provide a proposal for an “independent” investigation.

The proposal is FAR from proposing an “independent” investigation, by virtue of the fact that it calls for a “resolution committee” to examine the results of such an “independent” investigation, including members from “both sides” of the Utah split. Additionally, the background information continues to remain erroneous.

Here is the text of the Formation Of An Independent Investigative Committee Regarding the Affiliated GPU Amended:
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Camp Democracy photos – 5- Around and About


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Camp Democracy photos – 4- Speakers

Whistleblowing 101:

Karen Kwiatkowski, retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel; Ray McGovern, retired CIA analyst;Halliburton Watch

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Camp Democracy photos – 3 – Chain Gang

Perhaps the highlight of our experience at Camp Democracy was becoming involved with the Bush Chain Gang. I’ve done street theater before but never like this. Tom and I both dressed up in costume multiple times and did actions. I was Donald Rumsfeld the times I was in costume and Tom alternated between Cheney and Rumsfeld. We walked around the mall at various times and we did an action at the White House. We were like magnets – people flocked to us for photos.

Bill Moyer(not to be confused with Bill Moyers with an “s”), the creator of the Chain Gang, was there leading our actions. He is the person dressed as a cop in the photos below.

We took the chain gang to “Busboys and Poets” restaurant on Saturday. What a great activist restaurant. We were a hit!

While en route to the White House we were asked by a Park Police officer where we were headed. Being truthful, we told her. As anticipated we were greeted by the secret service who let us in to the “White House Viewing Area” after collecting identification. While there a couple who had just been married had their photo taken with us – the first ever wedding photo with the Bush Chain Gang.

After the White House action we took the Chain Gang out to dinner and then went bar hopping. What a hit the Chain Gang was in these establishments!

What I discovered is the barrier that is broken for diaolguing with this medium. People were much more interested in talking about Bush’s war crimes than if I just walked up to them and handed them literature.

Watch for the Bush Chain Gang hitting the streets in Salt Lake sometime this fall…….



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Camp Democracy photos – 2 – Making Freeway Banners

At Camp Democracy we learned a new way of making banners for holding over freeways on overpasses. This is one we brought home with us:

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Camp Democracy photos – 1 – Political Art

Here are photos of artwork at Camp Democracy:

Chain Gang Puppets
(More on our involvement with these in a subsequent post….)

The next 7 photos are of artwork from Skip Rohde, a political artist, at Camp Democracy:
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Camp Democracy photos and posts

I’ll be posting photos and accounts of my Camp Democracy experience very soon. As a teaser, watch for photos of me and Tom in costume, photos of speakers like Ray McGovern,Arun Ghandi,Kevin Zeese and Lester Brown; banner making; lots of messages about the Bush regime; and some great political art. I’ll also be describing the arrest action of the “Pentagon Five” on Saturday. That one will leave you shaking your head in disbelief.

I hope to also post some sound files of some of the speakers we were able to record.

I’m swamped at my school this week with our move into our new building and our opening and no computers yet, so my blogging will be sporadic, but I’ll get the photos up as soon as I can.