This information was posted in the comment section of onthewilderside.com, by my co-blogger there, Ian Wilder, who is a Green Party member:
… Read more ...The Convention is May 15th, so there is no decision yet about who is running.
Sander Hicks, Jeff Peress, and Bob Gumbs have announced their intentions to seek the Senate nominations.
Matthew Wootton, a member of the Green Party of England and Whales, recently addressed the State Committee of the Green Party of NYS. At the Daily Planet, Wootton reflected on his experience and the state of the party in the US and worldwide. Some excerpts:
… Read more ...Recently I was lucky enough to attend and speak at a State Committee meeting for the New York state Green Party.
A post by Ian Wilder at onthewilderside.com, based on a GPNYS press release:
… Read more ...The Green Party of New York State (GPNYS) stated today that it opposed the ethics reform deal announced earlier this week as being too late, too late, an attempt at damage control rather than the real reform New York taxpayers deserve.
h/t to my co-blogger Ian Wilder at www.onthewilderside.com
excerpt from a GPNYS Press Release:
Green Party of New York State Decries NY Senate Coup and Calls for Grassroots Resistance
… Read more ...The Green Party of New York State (GPNYS) decries the latest power play in the NY State Senate. The leadership coup on Monday night by the Republican Party and at least two Democrats, one under investigation for fraud and the other for physical assault, is the newest in a serious of undemocratic and disgraceful acts that have earned the State Legislature the title of most undemocratic and “Stalinist” from the Brennan Center for Law and Justice.
excerpt from
A Green State of Mind: A Green Theoretical Journal (hosted by the Green Party of New York State)
The Rise of the Populist-Progressive
by Darin Robbins [member of the GPNYS State Committee] May 22, 2009
The populist and progressive movements need each other, both historically and now, in order to present a real political alternative to the the interlocking system of militarism, religious fundamentalism, and corporations.… Read more ...