The Georgia Green Party

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  • Greening Georgia’s Future: The Georgia Green Party Platform

    Platform: a declaration of the principles on which a group of persons stands

    The Platform Committee of the Georgia Green Party invites the public to a monthly virtual examination of sections of its platform. Registration is required.

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  • The Georgia Green Party urges Support for the Stop Cop City Initiative

    Atlanta Referendum!

    We — all of us — need your help to put the “Stop the Atlanta Safety Training Facility Public (aka Stop Cop City) referendum on the up-coming November 7 Atlanta ballot.

    We need all registered Atlanta voters — including your friends, neighbors and even peeps that you don’t like — to sign the ballot-access petition before the August 14th deadline. If you are not registered to vote, please do so. You can sign the petition the next day. Then please put the Tuesday November 7th election day on your calendar and vote !

    This referendum is more than militarization of much-needed green space, more than the execution-murder of a peaceful protester in a public DeKalb park, more than the heavy political hands of Atlanta’s mayor and Georgia’s governor and attorney general, more than behind-the-scenes power plays of Atlanta’s corporate businesses, more than the back-door politics of the Democratic and Republican Parties, more than the corrupt influence of the Atlanta Police Foundation, more than the pollution of South River and Intrenchment Creek, more than . . . .

    This referendum is about our promised democracy, is about necessary over-sight and accountability of Atlanta’s decision-makers, is about making Atlanta’s governance listen to us, is about two public comment sessions (the first in September 2021 and the second just this last June 5th) where speakers were over-whelmingly against the proposed “Cop City.”

    We are a political party that is always looking for good people to run for elective office, including for Atlanta City Council. Your help is needed, whether it’s collecting petition signatures, educating your neighbors, spreading the word on Social media, helping us build a campaign for law enforcement to be accountable to the people and civilian authorities, and perhaps running for office on these and other issues.

  • Georgia Green Party 2023 Annual Meeting, Sat., July 29th

    Notice is given of, and Greens from across Georgia are urged to gather for, the 2023 Annual Convention of the Georgia Green Party. We will convene on Saturday, July 29th, at 10am, with plans to adjourn at 4pm that afternoon. This annual meeting is our opportunity to amend the state party’s state Platfform. Green Party members and others registered to participate in the Convention are invited to show up at 10am to caucus for the purpose of naming delegates from their county to the 2023 Annual Convention of the Georgia Green Party. This virtual event will be hosted on an online conferencing platform and pre-registration is required.

    This meeting will consider nominations for internal party offices, including eight two-year seats and two one-year seats on the state committee, plus two two-year seats and two one-year seats on the state party’s Delegation on National Green Party Affairs. The Annual Meeting will also consider proposed amendments to the state party platform and proposed changes to the bylaws as such may have been previously reviewed by the state committee.

  • Georgia Green Party Coordinating Council 2023

    Our coordinating council reflects an election conducted among party delegates assembled as the state convention on September 23-24, 2022. The members of the Quick Decision Council were selected in the new council’s initial meeting on October 2, 2022.

    The year in parentheses indicates expiration date of a member’s term. A full term is two years. Officers’ roles on the Quick Decision Council last one year.

    Quick Decision Council (2023)

    • Steve Carr,  co-chair, (2023), 678.886.8666 [no email]
    • Ayman Fadel, treasurer, (2024)
    • Hugh Esco, secretary, (2024), email, 912-571-1833

    Additional members of the state committee:

    • + James Cooper (2024), jimmy.cooper@georgiagreenparty.org
    • John Fortuin (2024), email
    • + David Josue, (2024), david.josue@georgiagreenparty.org
    • Pierre Louis (2023)
    • J. Kweku Lumumba, (2023), kweku.lumumba@georgiagreenparty.org
    • Jereme Sharpe (2023)
    • Bradley Smith (2023)
    • Denice Traina, (2024), email

    + signifies members of the Delegation on National Green Party Affairs

    Previous State Committees

    Georgia Green Party Coordinating Council 2022

    Georgia Green Party Coordinating Council 2022

    Georgia Green Party Coordinating Council 2019-2021

    Georgia Green Party Coordinating Council 2019-2021

  • Join

    Your Membership Builds the Georgia Green Party

    We are working to build a future worthy of our grandchildren. The roots we put down now will bear fruit for generations to come.

    Twenty dollars a day will permit our Party to communicate with ourselves and the world and fund a bare-bones infrastructure for an organizing campaign.

    Eighty-three dollars a day will hire a part-time staff to coordinate the next phase of building our state-wide political party.

    Whether you can participate in our Dollar-a-Day sustaining pledge program, or make a one time financial contribution, with your support, with your candidacy, your volunteer energy, your time and your money, we can offer the next generation more hope than we face now.

    Please give generously.

    Use your credit or debit card to create either a monthly or annual payment of dues to the Georgia Green Party. The minimum dues are 10 USD monthly or 120 USD annually.

    Single payments by credit card in any amount can be made at this link using Stripe. If you prefer to use PayPal, use this link or click the button below.


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    Georgia Green Party
    P.O. Box 1936
    Decatur GA 30031

    Please include a completed contribution form so that we can fulfill our disclosure reporting requirements.

  • Ending Men’s Violence against Women with this Generation (in 13 short episodes)

    The first two episodes are now out! Watch for the first ten episodes to be published at roughly daily intervals; and for the final three episodes by the beginning of the year.

    On the evening of December 15th, 2020, the Georgia Green Party hosted a forum and panel discussion entitled:

    Ending Men’s Violence Against Women with this Generation

    The event was organized in recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of all Violence Against Women, as recognized by the United Nations.

    The forum was moderated by Denice Traina, the immediate past co-chair of the Georgia Green Party, with panelists including: Vednita Carter, Robert Jensen and Hilla Kerner.

    Vednita Carter is the founder of Breaking Free, a Minneapolis based program providing exit services for women victimized by commercial sexual exploitation, including its John’s School for men arrested for pandering.

    Robert Jensen is a professor retired from the University of Texas and the author of multiple books including: the 2007 examination of pornography called “Getting Off: The End of Masculinity” and the 2017 book, “The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men”.

    Hilla Kerner is a long time member of the Vancouver Rape Relief Collective who serves as their spokesperson working with their public education efforts.

    In an hour and a half, the panelists discussed a range of issues including the popular narratives which have cast sexual exploitation as female empowerment, the role of trauma as a predictor for participation in prostitution, the role pornography plays in men’s violence, the role that law enforcement and our schools should be playing to address men’s violence, whether and how perpetrators of men’s violence against women can be rehabilitated, the Moment of Truth Statement on mass incarceration, the misogyny of the political left, the role of race in efforts to protect women from men’s violence, public policy responses by the epidemic of violence and more.

    In recognition of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the Sixteen Days of Action we are called upon to take towards that goal, the Georgia Green Party is now proud to release for the first time, a series of video episodes derived from the recording of our December 2020 event.

    Please watch, like, subscribe and share.
    Please take action on what you learn from this event.

    Please support, join and help us build the Georgia Green Party committed to feminism and justice as key values to inform our work.

    With our sincere appreciation to our panel:

    Denice Traina, Moderator
    Vednita Carter
    Robert Jensen
    Hilla Kerner

    to the thousands of women on at least four continents who turned a chant developed for a protest against gendered violence in Santiago Chile into a global Feminist Anthem;

    to the collective wisdom of the radical feminist perspective on men’s violence;

    to Vancouver Rape Relief
    to Vednita Carter Ministries

    to the important contributions made by

    Robert Jensen

    and many others of the pro-feminist men’s movement;

    to our cohost:

    Los Altos Institute

    and to our party Secretary, Hugh Esco, who provided pre-production planning and with YMD Production Services, post production services which have made the release of this series possible.

  • Growing Up Targeted: the Expose COINTELPRO Education Series

    Growing Up Targeted, postponed due to death in family
    An episode of our Expose COINTELPRO Education Series

    The Georgia Green Party is a founding member of the COINTELPRO Full Disclosure Coalition to pass HR-2998.

    This event features a panel including the now grown children of former political prisoners Fulani Sunni-Ali (may she be well rewarded for her many contributions) and Georgia resident, Baba Bilal Sunni-Ali who survived Sr. Fulani’s untimely death, perhaps six or eight years ago now. Sr. Fulani for many years co-hosted with Sulaiman Mahdi, (who was himself a founding member of the Georgia Green Party, may he too be long remembered and well rewarded), a weekly program on Radio Free Georgia (WRFG-89.3FM).

    Please mark your calendar and plan to attend this event. Use this link to RSVP your intentions and to register with the zoom platform for connection credentials.

    COINTELPRO is not just about history, but about the police state tactics which continue to be used by law enforcement to undermine the Constitutionally protected activities which constitute legitimate political organizing in service of our communities.
    We will know neither democracy nor justice so long as political dissent is criminalized. We will never know freedom when the police powers of the state constrain acceptable political opinions or the boundaries of debate on matters of public policy, when it is acceptable that they neutralize effective organizing. The First Amendment is empty under the chill of law enforcement surveillance of political debate in public fora.
    The Church Commission may have advanced this work. Yet we now live in an age of the PATRIOT Act, with the FBI targeting ‘black identity extremists’, and operating a countering violent extremism program which targets muslims gathered for prayer while ignoring white supremacist organizing. Our public fora are hosted by a corporate surveillance state. There remains much work we have left to do.
    We hope to see Greens from across Georgia and beyond on the call this coming Sunday afternoon!

  • Georgia Green Party 2022 Additional Annual Meeting, September 23rd and 24th

    Notice is given of, and Greens from across Georgia are urged to gather for, the 2022 Additional Annual Convention of the Georgia Green Party. We will convene on Friday, September 23rd, at 7pm for two hours; then again on Saturday, September 24th at 10am, with plans to adjourn at 4pm that afternoon. Please ignore notice of an earlier August date for this event.  The July 17th meeting of the state committee were agreed to roll back the dates to allow more time for platform work in advance of this annual opportunity to amend the state party’s governing policy document.  Green Party members and others registered to participate in the Convention are invited to schedule at one hour intervals, opportunities for Greens from their counties to caucus for the purpose of naming delegates from their county to the additional Annual Convention for 2020 of the Georgia Green Party.  This virtual event will be hosted on an online conferencing platform and pre-registration is required.

    This meeting will consider nominations for internal party offices, including eight two year seats and two one year seats on the state committee, plus two two year seats on the state party’s Delegation on National Green Party Affairs.  The Annual Meeting will also consider proposed amendments to the state party platform and proposed changes to the bylaws as such may have been previously reviewed by the state committee.

    Our Party has traditionally held its nominating convention on the first Saturday of June in each election year. But the 2017 session adopted HB-268 ignoring case law finding that an early qualifying deadline for emerging political parties is unconstitutional in order to align for the convenience of the office of the Secretary of State, the qualifying period for candidates of a political body (like the Green Party, who nominate by convention and petition) with the qualifying period for candidates of the political parties (Republicans and Democrats which nominate by Primary). This calendar change has cost our party 130 days or more for its candidate recruitment efforts. The officers of the Georgia Green Party welcome queries from Georgia attorneys willing to help us litigate this and other issues related to ballot access for Green Party candidates in Georgia.

    In March of this year, our slate of two candidates for the Georgia General Assembly qualified with the Secretary of State.  They are busy finalizing their ballot access petitioning efforts to secure their place on the ballot.  Bradley Smith in Georgia 106th District and Jimmy Cooper from Georgia’s 145th District are each expected to attend.  Party officers remain eager to speak with you about opportunities to run in subsequent election cycles for public office in your community as well.

  • Georgia Green Party condemns corruption of Biden Administration and State Department to overturn the democratic will of the citizens of Pakistan


     

     

    IDB #2022-5:3
    as adopted, April 17 th , 2022

    A Resolution of the
    Coordinating Committee of the
    Georgia Green Party

    Whereas, in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 9th, 2022, Pakistan’s National Assembly in Islamabad, adopted with a narrow majority, a motion expressing no-confidence in the Coalition government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan; and

    Whereas, as a result of this vote, Imran Khan lost his seat as Prime Minister and caused to be scheduled for the following Tuesday, an parliamentary election to name a new Prime Minister; and

    Whereas, it was broadly speculated that Shebaz Sharif was expected to assume the role as the Prime Minister; and

    Whereas, Sharif is the younger brother of a former Prime Minister of Pakistan prohibited by judicial order from assuming political office due to his past convictions for public corruption; and

    Whereas, Khan’s Coalition government consistently pursued foreign policies seeking independence from the Washingon Consensus of imperial agression around the world, refusing the use of Pakistan bases for US CIA operations in Afhanistan and seeking closer trade relationships with China and Russia; and

    Whereas, in the midst of the Ramadan fast, millions of supporters rallied and marched in cities, large and small, across the South Asian nation; and

    Whereas, it is common knowledge among Pakistanis, though under reported in the Western media, that:

    • members of the coalition organizing the vote of no-confidence, including specifically Shebaz Sharif, were facing imminent corruption convictions in prosecutions now largely suspended following the ouster of Prime Minister Khan;
    • the ascendacy of Shebaz Sharif as Prime Minister provides him immunity, as a matter of law, from prosecution for the charges he faced until his election;
    • that the Biden Administration had used economic incentives and heavy handed threats of U.S. retaliation in the event that the Parliament in Islamabad failed to overthrow the Khan Coalition government; and
    • that large sums of U.S. dollars and foreign policy incentives were used to grease palms to build support for the no-confidence vote.

    Resolved, that the Georgia Green Party condemns as despicable, the actions of the Biden Administration to interfere in the democratically elected government of yet another sovereign nation.

    Resolved, that the Georgia Green Party calls on Congress to investigate the corrupt practices of the Biden Administration and its State Department to overturn the democratic will of the citizens of Pakistan to form their own government and to pursue public policies in the best interests of the Pakistani people.

    idb2022-5.3–GaGP_condemns_Biden_Administration_interference_in_Pakistan


    In the midst of the Ramadan fast, Imran Khan, Member of Parliament recently ousted
    as Prime Minister in a U.S. State Department financed coup, has drawn crowds of millions
    at political rallies held after taraweeh prayers observed late at night during the Muslim fast.

     

  • Georgia Green Party endorses BLM Joint Statement on Ukraine

    The state committee of the party has agreed to endorse the Black Liberation Movement Joint Statement on Ukraine. 

    US War Record -- 6m dead, no sanctions
    US War Record — 6m dead, no sanctions

    Ms. Binta:

    Ramadan Mubarak. I pray this finds you and your family doing well.

    It is my privilege to report, that on a conference call of its state committee, held this evening, April 2nd, 2022, the Georgia Green Party was agreed, without objection, and with one member standing aside, to endorse the Black Liberation Movement Joint Statement on Ukraine. We do so with a single caveat that our existing platform gives us no authority to speak in support of ‘universal childcare’, but that otherwise the foreign and domestic policy aims advanced by this statement are well within the framework of the existing policy of the party. Further, the historical analysis of this paper is in keeping with our perspective on the U.S. imperial aggression driving this conflict with potential nuclear consequences.

    Thank you for this initiative by the NBLM National Unity Initiative.

    In your publicity, please identify our support as:

    Georgia Green Party
    Kweku Lumumba and David Josue, co-chairs

    Please be sure to advise us of how we might support the promotion of this statement and the policy goals it outlines.

    Yours sincerely,
    — Hugh Esco, Secretary
    Georgia Green Party