Upcoming Meetings of Georgia Green Party

 The Georgia Green Party's by-laws provide for an annual Convention where we can adopt or amend a platform, adopt budgets and strategies, elect internal leadership and nominate candidates. The '98 election year is here. The Coordinating Council has published a Call for a Nominating Convention. If you affirm the values and political principles of the Greens, we'd like for you to join us as a delegate on June 6th in Wrightsville Georgia. Delegates can be designated by a person who collects a sufficient number of signatures on a petition or by a local in an organized jurisdiction or a caucus in an unorganized jurisdiction. Please write and include your address, email, phone, fax and communities. We'll help you get started on collecting the necessary signatures or organize or connect with a local affiliate which can send a delegation to the Convention.
 
 

An informal discussion was held the evening of Wednesday, July 23, 1997 at 5:00 pm in Wrightsville Georgia. This was one in a series of evolving strategy discussions which Green activists in Georgia have been holding throughout the state, sometimes as part of a Green caucus at existing gatherings. This discussion was a stand-alone event where we discussed two questions:
 

  • Can a feminist, historically pro-choice and Lesbian/Bi/Gay/Trans friendly political party build an activist base in Georgia's African-American community (or the white community, for that matter)?
  • Can a political party committed to social justice and to addressing the role of racism in the global and local crisis build an activist base in Georgia's white community?
    •  Essentially, inside of these two questions, we were discussing whether we are together in our commitment to addressing the social injustices of our times in a wholistic way; whether we are prepared to take on the hard questions that have traditionally been used by corporate powers to divide the movement for justice.