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Locals - Organizing and Affiliated
  • Clarke County Greens - organizing. 
    • this local held its most recent meeting on Sept. 2, 1999. 
  • Grady County - Folks are talking about convening a meeting in Fall 1999.
  • Every County should have one!  Organize One of Your Own!
Local Contacts: 
We just created a Local Contact program.  This gives Green activists who aren't ready to take on the responsibilities of organizing a local an opportunity to make a public and meaningful contribution to organizing the Party in their otherwise unorganized county.  Already, applicants are considering  completing this form and going to work in these counties: 

Bulloch County • Coweta County • Fulton County • Gwinnett County
Johnson County • Oglethorpe County • Richmond County 

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    • If you live in one of these counties, these folks need your help. 
    If you live in an unorganized county, we all need your help. 
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  • Former Green Locals in Georgia
  • The Atlanta Greens - no meetings since late 1997 municipal election activity
    • anyone wishing to organize a Fulton or DeKalb County local is urged to do so 
    • Lists exist.  Years of networking and community building.  Much support for the right person with initiative. 
  • From the pre- www days of the early to mid 90's, 
  • there were other locals in Georgia: 
  • West Georgia College Campus Greens 
  • Savannah Greens 
  • an earlier incarnation of the Athens Greens 
    • How to Organize a Local Affiliate 
    of the Georgia Green Party 
    Our by-laws provide that we may seat delegates at our annual convention who were named by local affiliates of the Georgia Green Party. 

    Our Affiliation Committee accepts Petitions to Serve as a Local Contact.  A Green Party member in Georgia may be appointed as a Local Contact for their county or campus when they permit their names and contact information to be published by our Party, commit to build a database of local Green Party supporters, to cooperate with the officers of the state party  and with any local convenors appointed on local organizing efforts and to represent the party responsibly. 

    To affiliate, we ask, two or more residents of a County (or participants in a campus community) to file a Petition to Convene a Local Affiliate.  After the granting of this Petition by our Affiliation Committee and with the support of party activists from around the state, local Convenors are  asked to hold one Annual Meeting each year to 1) elect local leadership (including delegates to the state Convention), 2) consider input on the platform, 3) consider fielding candidates for local office and 4) conducting other business relevant to local organizing. 

    Once this meeting is held, the local leadership may complete a Local Affiliation Application.  This application is submitted to the Affiliation Committee who rules on the application's compliance with the state Affiliation Policy and reports its findings and recommendation to the Coordinating Council of the Georgia Green Party who places the Application on its next agenda for action. 

    If you want your county 
    to be represented 
    at our Party's Conventions, 
    check out these documents: 

    Petition to Serve as a Local Contact -- coming soon. 
    Petition to Convene a Local Affiliate
    Local Affiliation Application
    Local Affiliation Policy
    Handling the paperwork to become an affiliate is much easier than doing the work to build a local base for the Party. 

    Building the Party involves creating visibility  for the Party in your community and reaching out beyond your community to touch every person who shares Green values throughout  your county or campus.  It involves breaking through the color line to build principled alliances that can transform the racism of our culture into our vision of justice.  It involves hosting events for the Party, fundraisers, campaign events, volunteer work days for our candidates, our Party and its campaigns, coalitions and other initiatives.  It involves being involved in the pressing issues before our community, and being a visible Green presence in solidarity with local progressive organizing. 

    Fortunately, we don't have to do all this work ourselves.  Work is what happens when there are not enough people around to make it fun.  We call it a Party for a reason.  It starts when one person talks to another and together they agree to do something.  The Party gets built by the actions, not the talking, even though many of the actions are to have a conversation with the next person.  The actions build on one another.  The relationships get knitted together around common work.  The networks get built, the candidates are identified, trained and supported and we begin the process of inserting Green Values into public policy making simply by taking the next step and inviting others to join us and help, however they can. 

    In the future, this page will include links to books, articles and trainings designed to develop the community organizers our movement and Party need.  Please check back. 
     
    The Ten Key Values:
    Ecological Wisdom • Grassroots Democracy • Social Justice • Peace and Non-Violence • Decentralization • Community-Based Economics • Feminism • 
    Respect for Diversity • Personal & Global Responsibility • Future Focus on Sustainability
    Georgia Green Party
    P.O. Box 5332; Atlanta, GA 31107 
    (800) 447-6694 (vm & fax) * ggp@greens.org