Above: Bruce Dixon speaking at the March on the Pentagon, October 2018.
Note: Below is a tribute to Bruce Dixon, the co-chair of the Howie Hawkins 2020 Campaign who was a long-time activist and political commentator, upon his death. Bruce died last week and his loss is significant to many of us.… Read more ...
From Scott McLarty in CounterPunch, forwarded to me by the DC Statehood Green Party:
The question needs to be asked. What will Bernie Sanders’ supporters do when “We need a political revolution” inevitably turns into “We must vote for the lesser evil”?
It seems like bad manners to bring up the likelihood that Mr.… Read more ...
Bruce Dixon is a co-chair of the Georgia Green Party. The following article was linked on the front page of the Green Party website:
Did the Supreme Court kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act have to happen? Could black leadership have seen it coming and prevented it? Why didn’t they, and what can we do now?… Read more ...
The Green Party of Georgia has been making noise regarding the solitary confinement of 37 non-violent prison workers in 11 prisons across the state. Members of the Green Party have pledged to begin a hunger strike July 2nd if their demands have not been met.
… Read more ...On December 17th, 2010, in a meeting with representatives of over a dozen advocacy and community groups in Georgia, Timothy Ward, Facilities Director with the Department of Corrections acknowledged that 37 inmates had been subjected to ‘protective custody’ on suspicion of having served as instigators of the December 2010 strike, based on evidence that contraband cell phones had been confiscated from their personal property.
Via Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch
(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States)
http://georgiagreenparty.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
For further information, contact:
Bruce Dixon, 678-298-9463 x3
bdixon@GeorgiaGreenParty.org
Press Secretary, Georgia Green Party
Greens Demand Real Reductions in Incarceration Costs Reject Deal Reforms which Fail to Challenge Racist Impact
After last week praising Governor Deal’s expressed concern for the wasted lives, drained treasury and depleted workforce left in the wake of the nation’s war on drugs, Georgia Green Party leaders today rejected Deal’s specific proposals.… Read more ...
Via Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:
Greens Demand Real Reductions in Incarceration Costs
Reject Deal Reforms which Fail to Challenge Racist Impact
After last week praising Governor Deal’s expressed concern for the wasted lives, drained treasury and depleted workforce left in the wake of the nation’s war on drugs, Georgia Green Party leaders today rejected Deal’s specific proposals.… Read more ...
Excerpt from a press release posted at the website of the national Green Party:
Georgia Green Party
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
… Read more ...Georgia Greens Demand Answers on Inmate’s Brutal Treatment
Macon State inmate Transported to Atlanta Medical CenterIn a New Year’s Eve letter sent to Governors Sonny Perdue and Nathan Deal, officers of the Georgia Green Party asked why the Georgia Department of Corrections withheld from Terrance Dean’s family news of his condition and whereabouts.
Bruce Dixon is a member of the Green Party of Georgia State Committee. The article, excerpted below, appears on the website of Black Agenda Report where Dixon is a managing editor, and was republished on 12/24/2010 at San Francisco Bay View, a national black newspaper:
Community Coalition Meets With GA Corrections Officials, Visits First Prison.… Read more ...
A press release from the Green Party of Georgia, via the Green Party of the US:
Augusta resident arrested for showing sign to Governor
Ayman Fadel an Augusta based business owner was arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespass and was held pending the setting of bond by the Jenkins County Sheriff’s Department.… Read more ...
From the Green Party of Georgia, which has focused a lot of attention lately on the state’s prison system, via the Green Party of the US:
Georgia Green Party leadership today are urging that calls of concern be placed to the Georgia Department of Corrections urging negotiations with, not retribution against peaceful strikers in six Georgia prisons.… Read more ...