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Join other New York State Greens at the Oakwood Community Center, 313 10th St., Troy, NY  (map) on May 19th, 9AM-6:30PM, for NY’s 2012 Green Party Presidential State Nominating Convention! This is your chance to vote for your preferred presidential candidate to represent the Green Party in 2012, in addition to voting for New York State delegates to the Green Party National Convention in Baltimore, MD this coming July.

Voting in this nominating convention is open to NY State registered Greens who would have been eligible to vote in a state-run primary. Use the  NY State voter lookup service if you are unsure of your current registration.

If you are unable to attend the May 19th Convention in Troy, NY then you may print, notarize and mail in a ballot to vote your presidential preference (PDF). Please follow all directions carefully! Only notarized ballots from registered NY State Greens will be counted. Ballots must be received at the Secretary’s address by May 18th, 2012 in order to be counted at the State Convention.

Please note the mail-in ballot applies to presidential preference only. In order to vote for NY State delegates to the GP National Convention you must attend the May 19th meeting.

Email secretary@gpny.org if you have any questions, or if you are interested in running for one of NY State’s delegate positions to the national convention. All NY State registered Greens are eligible.

So far, presidential candidates Roseanne Barr and Jill Stein are scheduled to address the convention live over Skype. We’re also happy to feature a panel including Stanley Aronowitz on the future of the Green Party NY State, followed by a special guest performance.

The time and agenda for the day will be announced shortly!

The Green Party of New York State announces it Supporting Members Program. This is your chance to say “I’m proud to be a Green” while helping to grow the Green Party in New York State. Because the Green Party refuses all corporate contributions, dues-paying participants in our Supporting Members Program will play a vital part in making sure our State and County Green organizations have the resources needed to build the party. Plus, Supporting Members count toward your county’s representation on the State Committee. This is your party, so sign up today!

Supporting Members Program

Good government groups and Asian-American advocacy organizations are going to be hosting a candidate forum in a week and a half for New York’s 6th Congressional District, and one name on the flier stands out a little: Green Party candidate Evergreen Chou.

The Green Party of NY State questioned President Obama’s campaign swing through Albany, NY today, asking the President “where are the jobs?” With the U-6 unemployment rate, a fairer measure of unemployed and discouraged workers, at 14.3% in New York State, the Green Party believes President Obama’s economic plans have after three years proven to be bankrupt. Instead, the Green Party proposes a Green New Deal with massive investment in public works and renewable energy with a target of full employment, raising taxes on the wealthy and collecting the stock transfer tax on Wall St., and closing tax loopholes so U.S. corporations actually carry their share of the burden.

“Obama came to New York promoting his economic plan. In the last 4 years we have a national jobs deficit of nearly 10 million – 6 million lost and 4 million not created – according to the Economic Policy Institute. Obama’s policies outlined today, largely the same trickle-down austerity that Gov. Cuomo has been pushing, are a mix of tax credits and empty rhetoric that will do nothing to reverse the dire situation many Americans find themselves in today. The Green Party proposes that instead of giving corporations that don’t pay any taxes more tax breaks, we create living-wage, unionized public jobs to build and install renewables, retrofit houses, upgrade infrastructure and revitalize public services with a stated goal of full employment and cutting carbon emissions to net zero by 2025. The Nanotech facility at SUNY Albany and those like it will never create enough jobs to fully employ New Yorkers. We know from our history that WPA-style public jobs programs can employ millions to produce needed public goods and services and that the Obama, Cuomo, and Romney policies of public budget austerity and private tax cuts for the rich just prolongs economic stagnation.”, said party co-chair Howie Hawkins.

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WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party members will participate in the May 1 General Strike organized by the Occupy Movement and the May 1 Coalition and will join thousands of union members, students, immigrants, and others across the US in the first national strike in the nation’s history, with simultaneous strikes in other countries.

Rallies, marches, and picket lines are planned for over 115 cities to assert the rights of working people and democracy, in the face of growing power of financial elites over government and the lives of the”99 percent” and the threat this represents to the future of the US.

“The Occupy Movement is nonpartisan and is not affiliated with any political party, including the Green Party. But the presence of Greens in Occupy protests, including the May Day strike, is a reminder that the demands of the Occupy Movement will be represented on the ballot on Election Day. They won’t be represented by the Wall Street candidates — Republicans and Democrats — but by Green candidates,who accept no money from corporate PACs,” said Ursula Rozum, peace activist and organizer in Syracuse, NY, and Green Party candidate for Congress in New York’s 24th Congressional district.

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