Detroit Greens a local of the Green Party of Michigan

Hey friends, help spread the word to 20,000 people about Detroit!

5 EASY WAYS TO GET INVOLVED:

1. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS VIA FACEBOOK & the 'event' page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111695722194402

(click "Invite People to Come" to the right under the poster graphic). Also 'share' this Note to your status & favorite groups and encourage friends to do the same!

2. REGISTER ONLINE NOW
Head to www.USSF2010.org and click on the big register button. This is step #1 and gets you in the mix.

3. POST FLYERS & SHARE VIDEOS/AUDIO/PHOTOS/WRITING
Check out www.USSF2010.org/outreachmaterials for flyer downloads, online badges/banners, blogging ideas & ways to hit the streets & spread the news.

4. TWEET (@ussf)
"#USSF2010. June 22-26 - Another World is Possible at the US SOCIAL FORUM in Detroit. Register now and bring your 20,000 closest friends!"

5. GET INVOLVED BY ORGANIZING LOCALLY
Check out www.USSF2010.org/get-involved for ideas on organizing info sessions, assemblies, brigades, caravans & delegations. Or join a National Working Group for ways to support the heavy lifting - from communications to logistics to outreach to program and culture.

If folks want to do work towards the forum that isn’t necessarily part of the official process, they can form a committee and do their thing- we'll see you there for sure.

SEE YOU IN DETROIT!

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Green Party of Michigan Update - April 13, 2010

1. Registration for 2010 Annual National Meeting in Detroit Now Open!
2. Workshop registration for US Social Forum open until April 20
3. State & Local Meetings and Events
4. GPUS News

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1. Registration for 2010 ANM Now Open!

Delegates!

Please join us in Detroit, Michigan, June 24-27, for the 2010 Green Party
Annual National Meeting!

President Obama must put pressure on Israel immediately to stop the construction of settlements and displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, Green Party leaders and candidates said today.

"President Obama should send Prime Minister Netanyahu a message: enough is enough. If Israel continues to violate Palestinian human rights, the US must cancel the $30 million military aid package pledged to Israel for 2009-2018. The plan to build 1,600 housing units for Israeli Jews in East Jerusalem is the latest outrage. Although a rumored US abstension from a possible UN Security Council resolution against the settlements would be an improvement over its usual veto on Israel's behalf, this would still be an act of moral cowardice," said Sanda Everette, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. (News story on the possible UN resolution: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/8591714.stm)

more at: http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=307

As Demolitions Begin, Community Activists See Detroit Urban Renewal Plan as Land-Grab

Mass Closures of Public Schools, Promotion of Charters Raise Fears of Privatized Detroit Education System

Detroit Activist, Philosopher Grace Lee Boggs: “The Only Way to Survive is By Taking Care of One Another”

Adrienne Maree Brown, executive director of the Ruckus Society, a National Coordinator of the U.S. Social Forum and a board member of Allied Media.

Al Williams, Detroit business owner, left, helps Kalise Powell, 6, granddaughter of laid off Detroit Water Department worker, with a bullhorn during a protest before the speech at the State of the City address by Mayor Dave Bing (Robin Buckson / The Detroit News)

Darren A. Nichols and Leonard N. Fleming / The Detroit News

Detroit -- About 120 city employees are protesting Mayor Dave Bing's first State of the City speech over his calls for a 10 percent wage cut and benefits concessions.

With chants of "no closings, no cuts, Detroit won't go to the back of the bus," the union members marched about a block away from the Max M. Fisher Music Center in advance of Bing's 7 p.m. speech.

It's been proven that these cuts are not going to solve the problems," said Henry Gaffney, president of the Amalgamated Transit Unit Local 26. "We are not going to continue to sit back and accept what he is going to do."

From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100323/METRO/3230446/Workers-protest-be...

Do you want to do one thing to protect our right to water? Stop drinking bottled water.

http://takebackthetap.org/

http://www.detroitgreens.org/node/240

http://www.flowforwater.org/index.html

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/world-water/world-water-day/

Several Green candidates have launched campaigns in their states' races for governor in 2010.

The Green Party of California will have a contested primary election for the gubernatorial race, with Laura Wells and Deacon Alexander competing for the nomination, to be decided on June 8.

In recent years, gubernatorial races in some states have given Green Parties high enough percentages to achieve or maintain ballot status and determine the outcome of the election.

In 2006, Rich Whitney and his fellow Greens overcame an attempt by Gov. Rod Blagojevich to keep the Green Party off the Illinois ballot. Gov. Blagojevich spent about $800,000 to block the Green Party. Mr. Whitney drew over 10% of the vote on Election Day 2006 and will be on the ballot in 2010.

more at http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=305

http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/comments/

March 20 is the 7th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq

WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party candidates, leaders, and other members will participate in the 'US Out of Afghanistan and Iraq Now' march in Washington, DC, on Saturday, March 20.

Greens will join hundreds of thousands of others to demand an end to the wars and occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Haiti and threats of war against Iran. March 20 is the seventh anniversary of the invasion launched by the Bush-Cheney Administration against Iraq, in which hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died and tens of thousands of US troops have been killed or been maimed.

For more information on the march, which has been organized by the ANSWER Coalition, visit March20.org (http://www.march20.org).

Related events will take place in Washington throughout the week leading up to the March 20 march: see the Washington Peace Center's 'Iraq Anniversary Special Alert' (http://washingtonpeacecenter.org/node/2756).

The Green Party of the United States opposed the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan from the very beginning, and more recently criticized President Obama for expanding the Afghanistan War into Pakistan and for his announcement of 30,000 additional US troops to be sent to Afghanistan (http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=267).