GPRI Letter addressing March 2nd Primary discrepancies:
November 2003 Thanksgiving Sleepout for Awareness: Money for People, Not for Occupation!
November 2003 GPRI support Sierra Club Public Transportation initiative
October 2003 Rising Sun negotiations improve due to community action
June 2003 GPRI State meeting will be held on Saturday June 14 at 10 AM at CCRI in Warwick. We shall be in the formal dining room, and there will be signs directing you once you get to the building. The Guest Speaker will be Morgen D'arc, Maine Green party representative to the national committee.
May 2003 Attend an Election Reform Hearing in Your Area!
March 2003 Miguel Luna, David Segel: Why Providence Needs a Living Wage Ordinance Providence Journal 3/25/03
Richard Walton (Warwick) joins USGP International Committee
Robert Hanson (Wakefield) joins USGP Media Committee
Katherine Fisher (Brown Greens) joins USGP Platform Committee
Jim Bray (Providence) joins USGP Platform Committee
Green Party of Rhode Island Joins Rally for Peace at Rhode Island Statehouse March 16 2003
Rally for Peace: "Support Our Troops - Bring Them Home Now!"
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Join the campaign.
The Sierra Club is pulling together a coalition of groups and individuals concerned about the cuts RIPTA is facing. RIPTA is facing the biggest service cutbacks contemplated in more than 20 years. You may have read in the Providence Journal that the Sierra Club called on Governor Carcieri to create a Blue Ribbon Commission to look at what transit service the state of Rhode Island needs. The Sierra Club is concerned with the way the state is looking at transit. Every year, the state looks to close the funding gap but never looks beyond that.
We must pull together to be a unified voice to save transit now for all Rhode Islanders that need to get to work, go to the doctor, visit their families and run errands. Our coalition will also need to look beyond the cuts that are currently facing us and be able to advocate for a Blue Ribbon Commission that includes representatives from RI state/city government, business, environment, elderly and low-income. We must decide as a state what transit service we need to have in place in order to protect the environment, foster economic development, serve low-income residents and the elderly.
Please consider joining this campaign --- KEEP RIPTA ON THE RHODE! Please respond to this e-mail with your information so that we can include you in all our efforts to save RIPTA now and in the future. We hope to be an information source for all groups and individuals concerned with RIPTA. We will pull together press conferences, organize testimony at hearings, and let the media know about our efforts as a coalition to save RIPTA.
Thanks! Look forward to hearing from you!
Alicia Karpick
Chapter Director
Sierra Club Rhode Island Chapter
21 Meeting Street Providence, RI 02903
[401]521-4734 fax: [401]521-4001
http://www.sierraclubri.org/
Attend an Election Reform Hearing in Your Area!
Jeff Toste, Co-Chair GPRI, has been working on the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) RI, which is having PUBLIC HEARINGS to take comments and suggestions on the first draft of the State Plan [HAVA].
In an effort to encourage Secretary of State Matt Brown to go beyond HAVA, we encourage Greens to raise the issues of: Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) - allowing voters to rank candidates in order of preference (not part of HAVA; Automatic return of voter rights to former felons (not part of HAVA); Same day voter registration (not part of HAVA) etc; Election Day as holiday (not part of HAVA, etc.
Contact: Jeff (jefftoste@hotmail.com) or Riana for more information.
We would like to see at least one person bringing up these important
electoral reform issues at each of the six regional meetings.
As we are committed to having someone at each of these meetings, if I don't hear back from people, I will be making calls to ask folks if they can attend. Please save me the time by contacting me in the first place! If you chose to participate, we will gladly give you a short briefing before you attend.
Riana
Richard Walton Appointed Delegate to the USGP International Committee
RICHARD WALTON (Warwick), Rhode Island Green Party of Rhode Island Delegate to the USGP International Committee
Richard Walton is a founding member of the Green Party of Rhode Island, who has served two terms as Rhode Island's delegate to the national Coordinating Committee. The author of nine books on U.S. foreign policy, and a former Voice of America UN correspondent, Richard has also written for The New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, The New Republic, and the Village Voice. He has visited and worked in more than 50 countries.
A longtime peace and social justice activist, Richard is well known in Rhode Island for tireless work on behalf of the state's homeless families. His annual birthday cookouts have raised thousands of dollars for the Amos House soup kitchen and shelter, and for Providence's Sister City project in Niqhinhomo, Nicaragua. An electoral as well as issue activist, Richard was a candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1984, as Sonia Johnson's Citizens Party running mate. In 1982 he was campaign manager for Hilary Salk's Citizens Party campaign for Rhode Island governor, and took on the same role again in 1986, for Tony Affigne's gubernatorial campaign. Richard is currently an alternate delegate to the Green Party of the United States Coordinating Committee, representing the Green Party of Rhode Island.
Robert E. Hanson - Delegate to the USGP Media Committee
ROBERT E HANSON Wakefield, Rhode Island Green Party of Rhode Island Delegate to the USGP Media Committee
Bob Hanson is a student leader and journalist at the University of Rhode Island. A longtime member of the Green Party of Rhode Island, Hanson is a native of Wakefield, and was an activist at South Kingstown High School. He serves as vice president of URI's Model United Nations, and is a writer for The Good Five-Cent Cigar, URI's student newspaper. He's helped create The Rhode Island Green, a Green party webzine, as well as the campaign website for Green Stevens, the 2002 Green candidate for lieutenant governor. Bob has held media internships with the South County Independent newspaper, and in the office of Congressman Jim Langevin (2nd Dist.-RI). Bob plans to graduate from URI in 2006 as with a degree in political science.
Katherine Fisher - GPRI Delegate to USGP Platform Committee
KATHERINE FISHER Providence, Rhode Island Green Party of Rhode Island Delegate to the USGP Platform Committee
Katherine Fisher is a former national co-chair of Campus Greens, and a member of the State Committee of the Green Party of Rhode Island. An environmental science major at Brown University, Katherine is an original member of the Green Party at Brown, and serves on the GPRI events and fundraising committee. She is currently active in Rhode Island's anti-war movement, and spent several months last year with the Indigenous Women's Network in Texas. On the USGP Platform Committee, she will specialize in environmental issues, particularly as they relate to social justice.
Jim Bray - GPRI Delegate to USGP Platform Committee
JIM BRAY (Providence), Rhode Island Green Party of Rhode Island Delegate to the USGP Platform Committee
Jim Bray is a long-time Rhode Island resident who has also lived in Western North Carolina, working as a computer programmer and river guide. Jim has been an activist since 1980, heavily involved in the anti-intervention movement thru the 80s. He was arrested in a protest at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on April 27th 1987. He has been to Nicaragua, serving as a volunteer election monitor in 1984. He has traveled widely in Europe, taking part in protests there, and lived briefly in Denmark. His primary issue interest is the development of a Green foreign and security policy.
GREEN PARTY OF RHODE ISLAND
PO BOX 1151
Providence RI 02901
401-331-0529
Mr Larry Flynn
Board of Canvassers
City Hall
Providence RI 02903
Dear Mr Flynn,
This letter is my follow up from the discussion we had the day after the primary, March 3, 2004 in regards to the problem with Greens in Providence being listed as Unaffiliated on the lists at the polls.
We appreciate the Board of Canvassers swiftly recognizing the problem and being willing to respond appropriately. First and foremost was the recognition that any Green who did not actually disaffiliate at the primary would continue to be recognized as a Green. The Board of Canvassers also agreed to provide to the Green Party of RI a list of all previously registered Greens matched by a list of the currently registered Greens, a list of all those who voted in the Green primary, and a list of those who affiliated with another political party on primary day. Legally those who switched registration should not have had that option on primary day, but the GPRI recognizes that these people did affiliate with another party that day and that they can not automatically be reestablished as Greens. The Board of Canvassers also agreed to write a letter to each of the people who disaffiliated telling them what happened and offering them an opportunity to reestablish membership in the Green Party. We would expect to be informed if any of these people reaffiliated with the Green Party
The Green Party of RI would like to have the appropriate lists as soon as reasonably possible, on a mutually agreed to time table, and would like to also see the time table for sending the letters out to the disaffiliated Greens.
Again, thank you for your cooperation in this manner, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Greg Gerritt
Secretary: Green Party of Rhode Island
PO Box 1151
Providence RI 02901
331-0529
cc: Robert Fontaine Board of Elections
