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Georgia Green Party Endorses Call to Lift Sanctions on Venezuela and End Other USA Crimes Against its People

Georgia Green Party Endorses Call to Lift Sanctions on Venezuela and End Other USA Crimes Against its People

To: Womens Human Rights Campaign

It is my distinct privilege and pleasure to report the action of the state committee of the Georgia Green Party on its phone conference this evening, to endorse the Declaration on the Sex-Based Rights of Women.

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In the last meeting of the state committee, called by Bruce Dixon in his capacity as Co-Chair of the Georgia Green Party, its members were unanimously agreed in his absence, on the adoption of a Dixon resolution to call this year’s annual meeting of the party. By the time we gathered a quorum of the state committee to hear the proposal, Bruce had been sedated for two days, and would make his departure early the next afternoon.

Greens from across the state are urged to gather, Saturday, August 17th, from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm at the Arts Xchange in East Point Georgia, 2148 Newnan Street; 30344. We will meet in the Ebon Dooley Studio, elect members of the state committee and our national delegation and consider proposed changes to the state party bylaws and the platforms of the state and national parties.

Claudia Ellquist, a delegate to the National Committee and two time Green Party candidate for County Attorney in Pima County Arizona, died Sunday, November 18th, 2018 at the age of 70. Party activists were alerted by a forwarded email from her husband of twenty-four years, John Yoakum.

She is remembered by her colleagues among the national party leadership as thoughtful, as ‘a great leader, penetrating in her analysis, caring about others, and a pillar of strength for the Green Party’, as ‘(o)ne of the wisest, (most) intelligent and compassionate people I have had the opportunity to know’, as ‘a voice of reason and kindness (who) will be missed by all’, for ‘her personal calm’ and reasonableness, for her insight and compassion.

Claudia Ellquist was a member of the National Women’s Caucus of the Green Party of the United States, and served as a Delegate for the Arizona Green Party to the Green National Committee. She served at the time of her death, as the First Vice Chair of the Arizona Green Party.  Ellquist ran four times for Pima County Attorney, twice as a Green, in 2004 receiving 23,028 votes for 7.64% of the total vote and in 2008 earning 22,747 votes for 6.31% of the total. Her campaigns supported her work to abolish the death penalty.

She led the host committee which brought the Annual Meeting of the Green Party of the United States to Tuscon Arizona in 2006. During the event she organized a tour of her church which was a center for organizing in solidarity with immigrants risking a desert crossing on their journey North. She described the battles between her congregation, which stages in the desert, water for migrants and the vigilantes who would poison the water or just as deadly, puncture the containers, wasting the water into the desert sand.

Writing of Kavanaugh, in a recent op-ed (and here) meant to convey the appreciation of the National Women’s Caucus of the Green Party of the United States for the testimony before the Senate Judiciary by Professor Christine Blasey Ford, Claudia Ellquist wrote:

“If he had Come to Jesus decades ago, confessing himself — not waiting, closeted, for an accusation — about what he almost did, and, as significantly, what he did. Then he would have had time to turn his life around, to see women as real human beings, and to see fear and hurt and harm for what they are. But our society abandoned him too, not teaching him to take responsibility, or even believe that there was responsibility to take.”

Delegates to the Green National Committee from both Delaware and Kansas report that this quote of Claudia, hangs on their walls.

“People who disagree with you are not your enemies. Only people who try to dominate you are your enemies. Learning the difference can make us all so much more effective.”

– Claudia Ellquist

Quoting from her obituary, “(Claudia Ellquist) was born in Duluth, Minnesota . . . then mov(ed) extensively with her military family to numerous places including Japan. She moved to Tucson (Arizona) in 1962.  Claudia graduated from Palo Verde High School, University of Arizona and University of Arizona Law School in 1976. That time included a two year church stay in San Francisco for a Lutheran and Episcopal church mission. Claudia spent a brief time practicing law and 40+ years on community activism, including church activities, women’s organization and the Green Party. . . . She ran for Pima County Attorney four times in order to highlight the elimination of the death penalty as a public issue. . . . She organized NOW chapters at the city, county and state levels and served on the national board of directors for NOW.  Claudia was an original member of the Arizona Clean Elections Commission, first appointed by the Arizona Legislature in 1999. She has worked tirelessly with Church Women United (CWU), Disciples Women’s Fellowship, and First Christian Church. She has received a cash award from the Tucson Festival of Books or her writing in the category of non-fiction memoir. She successfully organized the county-wide effort to recall the Pima County Tax Assessor in 1994. Claudia subsequently organized volunteer efforts to pass Healthy Arizona I (Prop 203) and Healthy Arizona II (Prop 204) which successfully brought Medicaid to the state after 30 years without it.  .  .  .  In lieu of flowers, people are encouraged to work for passage of the ERA or (to make) a charitable donation to NOW or to the charity of their choice.   A memorial Service will be held at First Christian Church, 740 E Speedway, on Saturday, December 1st at 11am.”

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.

Congratulations to Jimmy Cooper are in order for an excellent write-in showing. He showed stronger results than our entire 1998 slate, or if memory serves, any other of our candidates except Nan Garrett and our Presidential slates.

http://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/2018_votes_cast_for_certified_write-in_candidates

‘Legislated off the ballot’, as Party Chairman Bruce Dixon often puts it, the Georgia Green Party was left to run the two candidates of its 2018 slate as write-ins. John Fortuin turned his attention elsewhere, to media work and research (see his report on cronyism in Georgia election policy, mentioned in the previous issue). But Jimmy Cooper was undeterred by the ballot access barriers and proceeded with his Fall campaign. His work was visible in the results.

To summarize, the Secretary certified results including a total of 564 votes for Green Party nominee Jimmy Cooper for Georgia’s 8th Congressional District. Those numbers include: 244 votes from Bibb County, 108 votes from Lowndes County, 134 votes from Houston County and 78 votes from the other nineteen counties combined.

Only one write-in candidate showed a stronger finish in this year’s results, Emily Leslie delivered 600 write-ins in her bid for House District #106.

2020 is a Presidential Election year, and the Georgia Green Party will have the opportunity to nominate 16 candidates for the Electoral College. But to do so it must deliver 54,431 valid signatures.  Signature collection can begin on April 15th 2019, three and a half months from now.

Contested primaries build parties.

If we had 100 Green candidates across the state contesting for sixteen seats in the Electoral College, each committed to collecting 1,000 signatures before December 31st, 2019, we’d have secured the ability of our state party’s 2020 convention to nominate its candidates for statewide office by convention; and geared up to work for the ballot access of a slate of local candidates starting January 9th, 2020. A successful petition drive will also permit us to nominate candidates in the state-wide US Senate and PSC races scheduled for 2020.

If you’d be interested in participating in this ballot access strategy, to put Green candidates for public office on Georgia’s ballot in 2020, please let our state party officers know, by writing the address below, and watch for announcements of upcoming materials and programs designed to support those actions you take to create a visible presence for the Green Party in your own community.

Please write: ggp@georgiagreenparty.org