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GPBK September 12 Membership Meeting

By   September 6, 2016

Registered Greens (and the Green-curious!) in Brooklyn are welcome to our Fall Membership Meeting where we’ll be planning how GPBK can support the Stein/Baraka and Robin Laverne Wilson campaigns.

Brooklyn YWCA
30 Third Ave
Second Floor Gallery
Brooklyn, NY 11217

We’ll also have a guest speaker from Just Leadership USA, a group dedicated to cutting the US incarcerated population in half by 2030, while reducing crime.Learn about the upcoming September 24th march, rally and vigil to close Rikers Island, and JLUSA’s organizing and training programs.

If you’re passionate about ending mass incarceration in this country, please also check out this Friday’s prison strike solidarity action outside of the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center.

GPBK May 2nd Membership Meeting

By   April 15, 2016

Next GPBK general membership meeting is on Monday, May 2nd 7pm at May Day Space

We are currently accepting nominations for two female state committee reps. Self nominations welcome. Info@gpbk.org

We will also be voting on some party rules amendments and planning for spring events and actions.

The first draft of the 2016-2018 GPNYS platform is out for review. Visit our platform discussion group to check out the first version and give your feedback and platform submissions by 4/23.

SAVE THE DATE: GPNYS Presidential and Delegate nominating convention is Saturday June 11 in Troy.

Park Slope Greens Monthly Meeting – Monday June 8, 7PM

By   June 6, 2015

The past month has seen several big successes, from a packed house at the Cultural Tribute to the Black Lives Matter Movement, to an impressive Green Party   presence at Left Forum, and finally to a great statewide meeting yesterday afternoon.

Now it’s time to ramp up our local organizing. Jill Stein will launch her campaign for President in the coming weeks, and this summer and fall will see a huge coalition of grassroots groups plan to “Flood the System,” with a coordinated series of actions calling out our economic system as the root cause of the climate crisis, leading up to the November UN summit in Paris. Greens are planning to participate in the Climate Mobilization Teach-In next Sunday and we have decisions to make on the message we want to spread at upcoming street fairs.

On a related note – Sunday, June 21 we will be tabling at the Seventh Heaven Street Fair which is always a lot of fun and well attended. Please contact dani@gpbk.org to sign up to help.

Park Slope Greens meetings are held on the second Monday of each month at the Park Slope United Methodist Church at the corner of 6th Avenue and 8th Street (basement/garden entrance) in Park Slope.

 “F” train to 4th Ave/9th Street or 7th Avenue stops
“R” train to 4th Ave/9th Street stop.

Greens At Left Forum, Marching To Free Oscar López, And Howie With Kshama Sawant

By   May 25, 2015

Greens At Left Forum 2015

Green Party members and leaders will be featured on almost two dozen panels at this weekend’s Left Forum conference at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, speaking on climate change, the fight for better schools and services, independent political strategy and the nuts and bolts of running campaigns.

We will also have a table in the exhibition area, so please stop by! Can you volunteer to support our presence at Left Forum by helping to staff the table and promote our fantastic panels? Email us when you are available!

Marching to Free Oscar López, May 30 at 11am
If you are not presenting at Left Forum on Saturday morning (or are not attending Left Forum at all!) we ask you to please join the thousands who will be marching to demand the freedom of of Puerto Rican activist and icon Oscar López, a 72-year-old decorated Vietnam veteran who begins his 34th year in prison on May 29th despite having never been charged with any violent crime. He has served 12 of those years in complete, total isolation.

11am Saturday, May 30 2015: Assemble at 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd in Manhattan
The march will proceed to 106th Street and Lexington Avenue for a rally.
Email michael@greenpartynyc.org if you can march with your fellow Greens!
Fundraiser to Re-elect Kshama Sawant, with
Chris Hedges and Howie Hawkins, May 31 at 6pm

Kshama Sawant was elected to Seattle City Council in 2013 as an open socialist with over 90,000 votes. Since then, she has been an uncompromising fighter for working people and the oppressed, leading the way on the victory for a $15 minimum wage which has spread like wildfire throughout the country.

Support Kshama’s re-election this Sunday night at 6pm as she takes to the stage with Chris Hedges and Howie Hawkins to discuss the fight for independent political power, living wages and making the 1% pay!

Sunday, May 31 2015 at 6pm
All Souls Unitarian Church
1157 Lexington Ave (at E. 80th Street)
New York, New York 10075

$15 tickets available online
Spread the word about this event on Facebook and if you can’t make it, you can donate to the Sawant campaign online.
Reminder: Come to New Paltz For Our State Party Meeting on June 6th
RSVP online if you haven’t already! Registration for rank-and-file Greens will begin at noon, with workshops and networking starting at 1pm. The schedule for the day will be announced ASAP!

Want to support events like this, along with initiatives to support Green candidates? Registered Greens can become dues-paying Supporting Members today, and donations from Greens and allies are ALWAYS appreciated.