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On May 24, 2025, the Georgia Green Party is convening its 2025 Annual Convention. Full details are now available here: https://georgiagreenparty.org/register-for-the-2025-annual-convention/

Two days ago, a two-plus decade long supporter of our efforts to build a new political party in Georgia called me with a great deal of anger and fear for another Trump administration to argue that ‘now is not the time’ for us to put at risk the chances for the Party of Genocide to retain the White House.

Yet, every election cycle is an opportunity to build political power independent of the corporate duopoly parties.  Any election cycle not used for that purpose is wasted and sets back whatever progress we have made in previous election cycles.  To demur at this time is to shrink from the challenge put before us.  No one else will build this party but us.

When we registered on May 8th, 1996 with the Secretary of State as a political organization in Georgia, we said in our registration statement that our Party “is being organized to provide an electoral tool for the grassroots movement for social justice, peace and non-violence, participatory democracy and ecological sustainability”.  In this year, the movement for peace and opposed to genocide has rallied around the campaign we mount as a vehicle vital to the expression of their political aspirations for this country.  It would be a tragic abdication were we, at this late date, to withdraw from the field, to decline to participate or to deny the peace movement an opportunity to use the party we have built as a vehicle for their efforts.

We are hearing from the muslim supporters of our campaign that this is a time for sacrifice; that the sacrifices we are asked to make pale in comparison to the sacrifices being endured by our neighbors in Gaza and Palestine, in Syria and Libya and Yemen.  They are urging us to take the risks demanded by our desire for change.  We are listening as muslim advocates for the the Stein-Ware 2024 campaign push back against the bullying by democrats who express entitlement to our votes, reminding our communities that now is the time that we must play the long-game.

If our muslim neighbors are willing to risk another Trump administration, with its muslim bans and moving the US embassy to the contested city of Jerusalem and the heightened islamophobic rhetoric, certainly we can share that risk.  Solidarity requires that we overcome the fear, that we share the sacrifice, that we face threats together.

And ultimately we can push back against the blue team’s bully tactics with a show stopping question of our own:  what evil could possibly be greater than genocide?

The following was authored by a coastal Texan active with the Abandon Harris campaign.

Is Trump really worse?

In August 2024, just DAYS after Kamala announced she was running for President, the State Department, under Biden/Kamala, announced that the U.S. had approved another $20 billion weapons package to Israel to kill more innocent children and elders, to be sent to Isreal over the next 3-5 years

Again… how much of this money could be used here in America for homelessness, healthcare, education, and more domestically?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/08/13/politics/us-military-sale-israel-20-billion-fighter-jets

‼️Kamala is in office as VP and just announced she’s running for President and has no influence over her own President and state department, and somehow expects to influence others after the election…

If she wants us to vote for her, influence her own President to overturn this before the election

‼️ Listen to the hypocrisy in Kamala’s speech at the Presidential debate

“Hamas, a terrorist organization, slaughtered 1,200 Israelis. Many of them young people who were simply attending a concert. Women were horribly raped…*.

Compared to when she followed within minutes with…
“far too many innocent Palestinians have been KILLED” …

In which case

1) she had no mention of the numbers…let’s do the math…I believe 30,000+ far exceeds 1200 based on what I learned in kindergarten so I would expect the shock and awe to be around the larger #… and let’s not even start with the Hannibal Directive that was issued which caused who knows how many of the 1200 Isreali deaths…

(May God have mercy on all those who have been martyred on all sides, as not a single civilian death is acceptable)

2) She had no mention of murdered or slaughtered or bombed when she referred to the Palestinian deaths in her speech, whereas minutes earlier she personally chose to use the word “slaughtered’ in reference to the Israeli deaths (God have mercy on all)

3) No mention of proven rape of Palestinian prisoners, while she chose to emphasize the unfounded allegations of Israelis who were as she said “horribly raped”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-sexual-abuse-palestinian-prisoners-rcna165811

‼️At the DNC, Kamala and the Democratic party chose NOT to give equal rights to a Palestinian to speak while they allowed an Israeli to speak

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/22/dnc-palestinian-american-speech-denied
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On top of that…

‼️ In Dec 2023, Biden bypassed Congress twice to sell arms to Isreal (which Israel paid for with the annual $3.8 Billion in aid we’ve been sending every year)…

Had Trump done this, we would have all gone wild saying there was a fascist dictator in office but we stayed quiet since Biden was a Democrat

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna131661

While in Congress, Senator Bernie Sanders resolution to investigate bombing

NEWS: Sanders Introduces Resolution to Investigate Israel’s Indiscriminate Bombing Campaign in Gaza

In March 2024 Biden banned UNRWA funding, UN’s main Palestinian relief agency…

https://m.jpost.com/international/article-793359

While yet Congress members fought to overturn this…

Senator Van Hollen calls to reinstate UNRWA funding
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-decries-prohibition-of-unrwa-funding-calls-on-administration-to-release-remaining-funds

Senator Bernie Sanders call to restore UNRWA funding
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/senate/4439290-sanders-calls-on-u-s-to-restore-funding-to-un-agency-linked-to-hamas-attacks/

Democrat President Obama, just as he was leaving office, signed an MOU granting “Israel $38 billion in military assistance over the next decade, the largest such aid package in U.S. history, under landmark agreement”

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-israel-sign-38-billion-military-aid-package-idUSKCN11K2CI/

‼️*Obama averaged a bomb ???? EVERY 20 MINUTES* in 2016 while he was President

‼️We don’t say a word when Dems cause evil, and then when the Republicans do it, we yell and scream…

I definitely hate Trump and have always, but after learning about the hypocrisy of the Democrats in the executive branch (not necessarily the case with Congress etc), I’m having trouble seeing what makes them “the lesser of 2 evils” when the evils are as horrible as they are…

“whoever slays a soul… it is as though he slew all mankind” Quran 5:32

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

For further information, please contact:
press-secretary@georgiagreenparty.org

Abandon Harris to Launch Georgia Campaign
Georgia Green Party welcomes national effort, endorsement

A Media Advisory

Event:  Press Conference
Date/Time:  Thursday, October 17th, 2024 at 11:30 am
Place:  Martin Luther King Center; 449 Auburn Avenue; Atlanta GA 30312

As their website puts it, “The Abandon Harris Campaign (formerly the Abandon Biden Campaign) seeks to empower people of conscience to leverage their vote for the US presidency and, consequently, effect moral change in the United States and around the world.” The strategy is simple: encourage voters to reject Harris and Trump, and any party complicit in war and genocide, by supporting candidates like Dr. Jill Stein who stand firmly against these atrocities.  Last week, Abandon Harris officially endorsed Dr. Stein.

This endorsement reflects a significant shift, showing that people of conscience are moving away from traditional party lines to support leaders who align with their principles against genocide. Polling among Muslim voters shows that the non-Trump vote among Muslims is evenly split between Harris (D) and Stein (G). Dr. Rudolph (Butch) Ware, Dr. Jill Stein’s Vice-Presidential running mate, noted, “The Democrats have lost the Muslim vote. And we are never coming back”.

The Muslim vote in Georgia is estimated as at least 6 or 8 times the margin of victory which gave Biden the Georgia electoral college votes over Trump in 2020.

Dr. Hassan Abdel Salam, founder of the Abandon Harris effort, is expected to travel from Michigan to join this press conference in Atlanta.

The Georgia Green Party, since 1996, has been dedicated to building a political alternative that opposes imperial aggression, supports critical election reforms, demands universal healthcare access, addresses the climate crisis, and tackles the wide range of crises facing Georgia communities.

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For background, please link to:

Abandon Harris

Abandon Harris: Our Statement to Donald Trump

Vote Against Genocide
https://www.voteagainstgenocide.org/

Georgia Green Party
https://georgiagreenparty.org/

ISPU: Winning Muslim Votes
https://ispu.org/winning-muslim-votes/

CAIR: Swing State Data Shows Muslim Vote up for Grabs
https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-swing-state-data-shows-muslim-voters-hold-diverse
-preferences-still-up-for-grabs-in-2024/

Understanding Stein campaign hostility to Georgia Green Party

From press releases published by the
Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights

National Green Party Sacrifices Credibility for Gender Cult
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/media_pr/2024/08/National_Green_Party_Sacrifices_Credibility_for_Gender_Cult

Georgia Green Party Rejects Platform Challenge to Support for Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/media_pr/2024/06/Georgia_Green_Party_Rejects_Platform_Challenge_to_Support_for_Declaration_on_Womens_Sex-Based_Rights

Stein Campaign Platform Doubles Down for the Gender Cult
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/media_pr/2024/06/Stein_Campaign_Platform_Doubles_Down_for_the_Gender_Cult

Stein Campaign Confirms its Capture by Gender Ideologists
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/media_pr/2024/04/Stein_Campaign_Confirms_its_Capture_by_Gender_Ideologists

For background on the conflict which led to the expulsion of the
Georgia Green Party by gender ideologists who have captured the
Green Party of the United States, please review the following links:

The Minority Report of Accreditation Committee
Opposing referral to national committee of complaint seeking Georgia party’s expulsion
https://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/nlc-vs-ggp/pleadings/Minority_Report_of_the_Accreditation_Committee_on_GNC1062

Defense Pleadings of Georgia Party ignored by Accreditation Committee
https://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/nlc-vs-ggp/pleadings/Defense_Pleadings

Our complaint related to notification failures of Accreditation Committee
https://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/nlc-vs-ggp/pleadings/request_notice_of_proceedings

Our written response to Lavender Caucus Complaint
http://georgiagreenparty.org/download/1687/
https://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/Documents/Georgia_Party_Responds_to_Lavender_Caucus_Complaint_Seeking_to_Purge_Georgia_Party–FULL_TEXT

Our state party declines struggle session invitation
over wrong think accusation on questions of public policy
https://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/documents/Georgia_Party_Responds_to_Invitation_from_Lavender_Caucus

The Georgia Platform Amendment cited as source of conflict:
https://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/documents/GaGP_Adopts_Platform_Am_HR3–Endorse_the_Declaration_on_Womens_Sex_Based_Rights

 

The overseas ballots have been mailed.  Clock is ticking.  What have you done today, to deliver the vote for the slate of the Georgia Green Party? Have you contributed yet financially to helping us do so?

 

For Immediate Release
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024

For further information, please contact:
press-secretary@georgiagreenparty.org

Georgia Green Party Prepared to Appeal Judge Malihi Order
Legal options still open to Georgia Green ballot access efforts
Party remains ready to offer ballot qualified opposition to war and genocide

In a series of rulings adverse to the cause of political independence Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi found reason to support each of the ballot qualification challenges filed by Democrat voters.  Those Democrats seek to deny Georgia voters inclined to vote for Green and independent candidates an opportunity to see their candidates of choice on the Georgia ballot.

Among those adverse rulings, in the case Pigg et al vs Carr et al (the Georgia Green Party slate for Presidential Electors), Judge Malihi rejected every contention of challengers but one.  The Court found that the Georgia Green Party is a registered political body in Georgia and is in compliance with respect to how its Conventions were publicized and conducted, and how its slate of candidates for Presidential Electors was qualified.  The Judge found that the one shortcoming was in the party’s ability to document its place on the ballot in twenty other states under a new statute adopted this past Spring.

“One cannot produce documents which do not yet exist”, said Hugh Esco, Secretary of the Georgia Green Party and the sole witness called in the case.  “As our testimony made clear, Secretary Raffensberger has asked us to produce documents, many of which do not need to be filed in other states until up to three weeks after his early deadline for our filing with his office here in Georgia.  This deadline undermines the intention of the General Assembly and the early date imposed serves no compelling governmental interest.”

Party officers were not surprised by the ruling given the limits imposed by the administrative procedures act which prohibit the consideration of Constitutional concerns by Administrative Law Judges.  Judge Malihi’s Initial Order is now sent to the Secretary of State to inform their final determination.

“We hope though that the Secretary’s office will collaborate with us in recognition of the obvious Constitutional issues raised by the early deadline and save us all the trouble of an appeal to Fulton Superior Court,” said Craig Webster, counsel for Georgia Green Party respondents.

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Executive Summary and Table of Contents
for Supporting Documents for Georgia Green Party’s  21-2-172(g) Affidavit
Supporting_Documentation–executive_summary–toc

Decision of Judge Michael Malihi
Initial_Order–Pigg-v-Carr–2502871–20240826

Georgia Green Party
https://georgiagreenparty.org/

For Immediate Release
Saturday, August 24th, 2024

For further information, please contact:
press-secretary@georgiagreenparty.org

Georgia Green Party files ballot access paperwork
ready to offer ballot qualified opposition to war and genocide
while fending off Democrats intent on excluding Jill Stein from the ballot

On Friday, August 23rd, 2024, with a 3:33pm timestamp, the Elections Division accepted a Presidential Elector Nomination Affidavit, signed by Chairwoman Kristin Zebrowski, on behalf of the Georgia Green Party.  This is the first time this

new process for getting on the ballot has ever been used in Georgia.  It was created by an act of the most recent term of the Georgia General Assembly.

 

While preparing for Friday’s filing deadline, the party faced a challenge mounted by Democrat voters seeking to deny Green voters an opportunity to vote for their candidate of choice.  They have raised a shifting array of arguments each intending that the Georgia Green Party not be able to offer Jill Stein and Rudolph Ware as its Presidential Slate to Georgia voters in the upcoming general election.

The Affidavit was delivered, along with 299 pages of supporting documents by Hugh Esco, Secretary of the Party.  As a witness at Thursday’s hearing Esco told the court,

“I think it’s pretty clear that the Assembly wanted to make it possible for new political bodies, new political parties that have some base of support across the nation to participate in our presidential elections.  I think that that’s a good thing and it ought to be applauded.”

Additional pleadings are expected from both parties by noon, Monday.  The Judge has asked for language for his proposed decisions.  He also offered to consider additional arguments related to new issues not previously briefed and new exhibits offered without notice by petitioners.

Blake Evans, Director of the Elections Division told Esco that he expected a determination by the end of next week.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 22d, 2024

For further information, please contact:
press-secretary@georgiagreenparty.org

Green Party calls Frivolous, Candidate Qualification Challenges
Filed on behalf of Biden-aligned SuperPAC
Corporate Interests Choose our Candidates
Before Voters Choose our Elected Officials

In a July 12th complaint filed with the Secretary of State of Georgia, Bondurant, Mixon and Elmore, a corporate law firm in Midtown Atlanta, has challenged the qualifications of the Georgia Green Party to nominate candidates for public office, and particularly in the Presidential race. They filed this action on behalf of Craig Louis Pigg, Catherine Smith, and Mary Lou Waymer. A hearing on the matter is expected before the Office of State Administrative Hearings.

Support is collapsing in key demographics^{1 2} traditionally depended on by the Democrat Presidential bid. The mental competency of their presumptive nominee is being widely questioned, and rumors are flying that Article XXV is under discussion and that next month’s convention in Chicago will, again, toss out the primary results only this time to conduct an open nominating process. In 2016 they ignored Primary voters’ support for Bernie Sanders so that DNC Super Delegates could nominate Clinton^{3 4 5 6}. In 2024, it looks like Biden could be replaced by his party, after they excluded all internal challenges for their nomination from the process.

Biden won by the narrowest of margins in 2020. It is in this context that a super PAC supporting the Biden campaign is funding legal challenges across the nation to ensure that the Democrats face no ballot-qualified opposition competing for the ‘Anyone but Trump’ vote.

“The Clear Choice PAC intends to choose our candidates, and limit voters options before we have an opportunity to choose our elected officials,” said Hugh Esco, Secretary of the Georgia Green Party who for six years chaired the Georgia Voter Choice Coalition. “The corporations have traditionally used the wealth primary for exactly this purpose, and have managed to foreclose policy reforms from within their parties. We know they pitch their sock puppets against one another as a circus to distract voters. Here they seek to also exclude the party we built to represent the interests of working people. And most insulting of all, they fraudulently claim the mantle of democracy as they limit our choices.”

Bondurant, Mixon and Elmore describe themselves as “an elite group of highly-qualified litigators dedicated to winning high-stakes business disputes”. They operate out of a suite of offices on the 39th Floor of One Atlantic Center on Peachtree Street.

Their ballot qualifications challenge relies on the failure of these ‘elite litigators’ to craft an open records request which would elicit the documents they claim do not exist.

The Georgia Green Party first filed its registration as required by law in May 1996. The state political body has subsequently updated after every convention its registration to reflect the changing membership of its state committee and officers. The party’s governing documents, including its Nominating Convention Rules were included in that initial May 1996 filing. Those rules have been subsequently amended more than a dozen times. The latest change was made on November 7th, 2021, and certified to the Secretary’s office shortly thereafter.

“Biden has already been implicated in a campaign of ethnic cleansing acknowledged by the International Court of Justice as a probable genocide. Trump urges that we ‘finish the job’,” said Esco, Secretary of the Georgia Green Party. “If this dark money assault on the democratic rights of Georgia voters is not defeated, Georgia voters will be denied a ballot-qualified slate expressing our opposition to genocide. It’s time we stopped pretending we can export democracy by way of weapons sales and Pentagon deployments and started learning what democracy could look like at home.”

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The Georgia Green Party
https://georgiagreenparty.org/

 

1. ‘Not Beholden To Any Party’: Here’s Why Teamsters Union Boss Sean O’Brien Spoke At RNC
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/07/16/not-beholden-to-any-party-what-to-know-about-teamsters-union-chief-sean-obrien-who-spoke-at-rnc/

2. Democrats see 31% drop in support among black women
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4777137-black-women-biden-support/

3. Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders
https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

4. Democrats rigged the 2016 primary for Hillary Clinton, claims former DNC chair
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-dnc-primary-rigged-bernie-sanders-a8034716.html

5. The DNC owes Bernie Sanders and all Dems an apology
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/358389-the-dnc-owes-bernie-sanders-and-all-dems-an-apology/

6. Former DNC chair torches Clinton in new book
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/donna-brazile-dnc-book/index.html

The Georgia Green Party Platform Committee invites the public to attend a hearing Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 4PM Eastern Time on HR02 – Remove Endorsement of Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, a proposal to amend the platform. The May 18, 2024 Additional Nominating Convention is scheduled to consider all such platform revisions.

The hearing is scheduled for the purpose of taking the testimony of Jamie Reed, who authored the affidavit which instigated an investigation by the Missouri Attorney General of the St. Louis Transgender Clinic where Ms. Reed was employed for four years.  The story broke in the Free Press, (February 2023) which recently (New Years Eve 2023) revisited her narrative with this.

The teleconference hearing uses the Zoom platform. Registration is required. Use this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkfu2sqjgoGNNT4phwK1b-B_R0KPOSLxcY

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

After Ms. Reed’s opening statement, participants may ask questions. Priority will be given to Platform Committee members, Georgia Green Party State Committee members, then other party members, then residents of the State of Georgia and then others. You may also submit questions in writing to the Platform Committee.