Dee Taylor, National Women’s Caucus Co-Chair

On August 26, 1920 — 100 years ago from this very day — the federal government officially ratified the 19th amendment and granted women the right to vote. Even as we celebrate that hard-fought victory, however, we must remember many women were not able to exercise that right because of a pernicious web of laws and regulations designed to disenfranchise voters based on race and country of origin. A series of reforms through the following decades gradually expanded the right to vote to citizens of all races and nationalities, culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. With our foundational commitment to the pillars Grassroots Democracy and Social Justice, the Green Party has always fought for more just participation and representation for all people. Please give to the Green Party today so we can keep winning victories in this multi-generational struggle, which is actively obscured by the Parties of War and Wall Street and their mouthpieces in the media. Your gift today will help us run candidates and win victories to ensure more people can vote while fighting to ensure people’s votes mean more through transformative reforms like Ranked Choice Voting, Proportional Representation and Fully-Public Campaign Finance.

In Solidarity, Dee Taylor National Women’s Caucus Co-Chair Green Party of the United States P.S. A mountain of evidence shows Ranked Choice Voting and Proportional Representation elects more equitable and diverse governments along the lines of gender, ethnicity and other dimensions of historical repreression. Become a Green Party monthly sustainer today so we can win RCV and PR across this country and ensure 100 more years of expanded Voting Justice. Grassroots, multi-party democracy is necessary to winning Real Solutions That Can’t Wait!

Donate to the Green Party’s Ballot Access Committee

Last week we were subjected to the muted spectacle of the DNC’s convention. Promises were made even as previous promises — such as ending subsidies for fossil fuels — were dropped.

All they have to do to scare you in line is compare themselves to Trump, right?

But the parties of War and Wall Street, together, led us to Trump. Their two-party cartel poisoned our democracy over decades and paved the way for a racist, sexist, corrupt demagogue.

And even as the Democrats crown themselves as our democracy’s saviors, they are still poisoning our elections, fighting tooth and nail to keep Green Party candidates off the ballot across the country.

That’s why we need you to donate to the Green Party’s Ballot Access Committee today. Your gift will be earmarked for getting Greens on the ballot by whatever means available: we petition on the streets, we fight in the courts, we fight for your right to choose.

We need support for all Green candidates

In 2020, Green candidates for President/Vice President, Congress, the state legislature, and local offices in New York are standing up with one voice for systemic change that puts everyday people and planet over entrenched power and profits. 

From the top of the ticket on down, Green candidates are truly independent and advocate for innovative ideas that are the necessary choice that New York voters need. They are united behind the Green Party’s Four Pillars of Peace, Ecology, Social Justice, and Democracy -- and the original authentic Green New Deal! This includes:

• Conversion to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2030 with a public employment program to rebuild a more sustainable infrastructure in energy, waste, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and housing.
• Loans and grants issued to develop local cooperative businesses and provide assistance for poor communities and workers displaced by the conversion.
• Research focused on sustainable practices and technology with a carbon tax, a stock transfer tax, an end to fossil fuel subsidies, and a minimum 50% cut in the military budget to fund it. 

In order to enact this change, we need voters to support all of the Green candidates running in New York this year. The campaign platforms of each of them is a reflection of this unified message as it is applied to every local community in the state. Just as the candidates are united by this message, voters need to be united in their support to ensure that the future we want in this state can actually happen. 

Big, Green 🎉Congratulations🎉

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who supported our Presidential Nominating Convention in July. Thanks to the workshop presenters, the guest speakers and the many volunteers who pulled together this event during challenging circumstances.

And we wish a Big, Green 🎉Congratulations🎉 to our nominees for President and Vice President, Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker!

Now is the time for Greens and allies to pull together and put these transformative candidates on the ballot across the country.

GUEST: Ed Haffmans, local peace and environmental activist

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Ed Haffmans, local peace and environmental activist who has spent decades living well without fossil fuels, talks about the growing consensus for renewable energy, and Michael Moore's new documentary, "Planet of the Humans."      https://oracle.newpaltz.edu/op-ed-by-ed-haffmans/

Activist Radio is broadcast: Thursdays 5-6 pm from WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM. It will also be posted on the ClassWars website for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

Thanks,

Fred

Activist Radio

https://www.classwars.org

Help stop a new fracked gas power plant facility

Help stop a new fracked gas power plant facility:

"It’s Call Cuomo Monday again! We generated 211 calls last week about turning down National Grid’s fossil fuel scheme in favor of a “no infrastructure” option.

This week we’re highlighting the Gowanus fracked gas power plant proposal. Thank you to New York Communities for Change and their Sunset Park chapter for their work on this. 

Please share and call! 

And if you live in NYC, please come to the action outside the power plant this Wednesday, July 29^th! "(from Laura@F&WW & F&WA)

Call Cuomo Monday:
Stop the Gowanus Power Plant in Sunset Park, Brooklyn

877-235-6537

We need your help

Good news: the NYS State Legislature is convening the week of July 20 – providing the opportunity to nudge the fracking waste bill over the finish line. But we need your help calling for bringing the bill to a vote. In April, over 120 organizations sent a letter to the legislature urging passage of the bill, which would eliminate a loophole exempting oil and gas waste from being regulated as hazardous waste.

The legislation, S.. 3392 / A. 2655, was introduced in the Senate by Rachel May and in the Assembly by Steve Englebright.

Despite our ban on fracking, New York still accepts fracking waste from Pennsylvania, which is dumped into landfills, and oil and gas waste has even been used for de-icing or dust suppression on roads. This waste can be highly toxic and radioactive, containing cancer-causing chemicals such as benzene, toluene, and formaldehyde, along with heavy metals and radioactive materials. Read the horrifying details ( America's Radioactive Secret ).

We’re requesting you send a letter in support of the bill to legislative staff – cc’ing both me and our lobbyist, Stacie Orell (sorell@malkinross.com).

ASSEMBLY

• Steve Liss (Assembly Member Englebright's legislative counsel): lisss@nyassembly.gov
• Maria Hoffman (Assembly Member Englebright's chief of staff): hoffmanm@nyassembly.gov
• Michelle Milot (program analyst for the Environmental Conservation Committee): milotm@nyassembly.gov

SENATE

• Kristin Williams (Senator May's chief of staff): kmwillia@nysenate.gov
• Lonnie Threatte (assistant deputy director of counsel program): threatte@nysenate.gov

Please let me or my colleague Alex Beauchamp (abeauchamp@fwwatch.org) know if you have any questions or need more information.

Thank you.

-- Eric
Eric Weltman
Senior Organizer

Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action