In honor of Thanksgiving, The Green Party of the United States sent around a message of thanks, and a request for support. Excerpt below:
Today we give thanks …
This Thanksgiving Day, Greens have much to be thankful for and much to celebrate, as well as much to prepare for and work toward in the coming year. We thank you for staying in touch with us and forming the backbone of our support. Because we do not depend on corporations, PACs or special interest funds, you are our sole means of support. If you have given a contribution to the Green party this year or have decided to soon, we thank you.
We thank over 350 candidates who represented the Green Party in local, state, and federal elections this year, winning some huge victories for the party. We thank Howie Hawkins in New York, Ed Lindsay in Texas, and Nat Fortune in Massachusetts for their campaigns, which helped win ballot status in those states. Because of these great campaigns, we know today that during the next national election the Green Party will be on the ballot in the four most populous states in the country for the first time since 2000.
We thank our many other new and current officeholders, including Gayle McLaughlin and Dan Hamburg in California, John Anton in Maine, and Richard Hervey and Michael Beilstein in Oregon. These elected Green mayors and city or county council members show that Greens can get elected and lead their communities effectively.
We thank the many Greens who – known or unknown – worked on these great campaigns and continue to work even after the election has passed…
Whoops… wrong link above.
Correct link to Green Party’s Dany below
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-226144-103-cohn-bendit-pm-erdogan-says-state-should-defend-everyones-rights.html
My Green Party buddy Dany Cohn-Bendit was in Turkey today talking with the Prime Minister.
Dany is the President of the Green Party faction in the European Parliament.
When I was in Freiburg, Germany this week I talked with Dany’s Co- President Rebecca Harms. At mention of Dany, Rebecca laughed. Dany is a joyous and eternally optimistic fellow.
Here’s the story on Dany and the Prime Minister from Turkey…
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhum
Kazumi Inamura Elected First Green Mayor in Japan
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/2010/11/23/kazumi-inamura-elected-first-green-mayor-in-japan/
Matt Reichel Running for Chicago Alder
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/
Germany’s resurgent Greens eye Berlin city hall
http://www.expatica.com/de/news/german-news/germany-s-resurgent-greens-eye-berlin-city-hall_108705.html
Green Party – Leading Greens Sign up to Anti-nuclear Coalition
http://www.newsonnews.net/politics/5738-green-party-leading-greens-sign-up-to-anti-nuclear-coalition.html
Agnew: I want to lead Green Party
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/community-telegraph/north-down/news/agnew-i-want-to-lead-green-party-15014546.html
From radical opposition to mainstream party: The rise of the Greens
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6236876,00.html
Green party leaders Claudia Roth and Cem Oezdemir have been reelected as the party’s joint leaders ahead of key regional elections in 2011.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6252024,00.html
Green Party – Leader Calls for Major Overhaul of Parliament
http://www.newsonnews.net/politics/5732-green-party-leader-calls-for-major-overhaul-of-parliament.html
Katarina Witt hopes German Greens have change of heart
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AP4SW20101126
Green Party Co-Chairs relected..
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jb898_cByBgQSklcYCWRa7Glghbg?docId=CNG.00686f4ad896bf682a75eaefa3baeb5f.d71
The Green Party has a record number of party members according to this article today from die Welt newspaper.
http://www.welt.de/print/welt_kompakt/print_politik/article11227028/Die-Gruenen-verzeichnen-einen-Mitgliederrekord.html
Got that Green Party email, as somebody who has donated from time to time.
It was a nice Green Party Thanksgiving message, gracious and kind to the many candidates, and many people leading and helping grow Green Party.
Here are some fun pictures from the Green Party convention this week in Freiburg
http://www.votejoinrun.us/id48.html
Here’s comprhensive video coverage from German TV
http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/11/0,3672,8143083,00.html