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Paid and Volunteer Job Opportunities |
Ballot
Access Drive * Local Organizing
* Presidential Campaigns
Platform
Development * Membership
Development * Editorial
Council
Green
Leaflet Brigade * Web Team *
Fundraising and Development
* National Committees
It takes alot a people to Party!
On this page you will find postings for volunteer and
occassional paid positions that are open to be filled. If a position
or need of ours doesn't match with what you've got to offer, just write
and make your offer. We could probably use whatever skill, energy
or time you have.
We have an immediate need to identify Greens who can help
us in the following capacities. If you're ready to get involved and
help us build this party, please write us at ggp@greens.org
or call 770/ 635-3496 or toll free from outside Atlanta 800/ 447-6694.
Thanks,
Hugh Esco
clerk, Georgia Green Party
Paid Positions:
Canvassers / Petition Circulators
(including vending Party merchandise)
Volunteer Positions:
Ballot Access Drive:
Canvassers / Petition Circulators
These positions are the same as the paid positions above
except for greater latitude in schedule and work expectations.
Local Organizing:
For more details, please read our Local
Affiliation Policy. It explains the role of our Affiliation
Committee in preparing applications for the consideration of the state
party council. This process governs how the Georgia Green Party delegates
its powers over state party affairs to County and campus party organizations.
The links here are to the application forms for these positions.
Essestially, we ask that people serve as a Local Contact to serve as a
public contact for the party and to help us build a database of Party supporters
in a County or on a campus. We also urge folks who are ready to take
on the responsibilities of organizing annual meetings, to consider serving
as a Local Convenors. Once the local starts meeting, it can elect
its own officers.
Forms Relevant to Local Organizing:
Petition
to Serve as a Local Contact * Petition
to Convene a Local
Local_Affiliation_Application
* Roster_of_Servants_Elected
by Our Local
Roles Serving Local Organizing:
Local Convenor * Local Clerk * Local Treasurer
Local Liaison on State Party Affairs * Convention Delegate
(or alternate)
Presidential Campaign:
As the Georgia Green Party, we are building the infrastructure to permit
Greens in Georgia to nominate candidates, access the ballot, adopt platforms
and conduct coordinated campaigns for advance our collective interests.
It is not up to our officers to name our candidates. That role properly
belongs to the delegates who participate in our annual state conventions.
Already Theresa Funicello, Stephen Gaskin, Joel Kovel, Winona LaDuke and
Ralph Nader have announced there willingness to seek our Nomination as
a part of our Presidential Slate in 2000. We urge you to work for
the candidate of your choice. To learn more, read this short article
on how to: Organize Georgia Candidate
Campaign Committees.
Committee on a National Green Party Platform:
Help prepare the input of Georgia Greens for the 2000 Americus Convention
which will instruct our state's delegates to the Presidential Nominating
Convention on our Party's position on the National Platform to be adopted
in Boulder Colorado. If you are interested in serving on this Committee,
please write to our ASGP
Delegates.
Membership Development:
Now that we are building a membership base, we will also need to develop
a membership services program. We already know that it will include
a subscription to a quarterly membership newsletter and our outreach newspaper,
plus access to the member-only areas of our website. We're seeking
volunteers to help staff a Membership Development Committee to help us
plan, develop and implement membership enrollment, services and renewal
efforts. If you are interested, please write our Membership
Development Coordinator.
Party Publications:
Editorial Council:
An Editorial Council is now forming to support the Party in its work of
producing a bi-annual public outreach newspaper and a quarterly membership
newsletter, which we have committed to publishing when we have enrolled
our first hundred members. We just recently defined a "member" and
started our membership drive a couple of months ago. And we're half
way there, already. We have an immediate need
for: editors, writers, graphic artists, layout crew, proof
readers, cartoonists, and an ad sales force. If you are interested
in joining this team, please contact our clerk.
The Web Team:
A related function is developing and maintaining our presence on the
internet. If you have experience with web site development, or would
like to learn more about the process, please join the Party's web team.
Just write our Web Clerk.
Green Leaflet Brigade:
A political party's primary activity is doing educational work in support
of its activities, positions, candidates and other campaigns. This
website will include a growing number of pdf files linked from appropriate
places in the text. These files may be read by any computer with
the free multi-platform Acrobat Reader. Download
Acrobat Reader here. As a campaign or event
of the Party appeals to you, please also download, then print, duplicate
and distribute the literature we make available here and help us build
this Party in your community. For more ideas on how to become an effective
member of our Green Leaflet Brigade, read: Leafletting
is a Tactic. As we build our publications,
especially the as yet unnamed outreach newspaper, you will be able to also
obtain and distribute those, too. Let us know you've joined the team
by dropping our Canvas Director a
line.
Green Fax Brigade:
A related function is using the email, phone and fax networks to spread
the word. Any Party press release posted here or on our news and
action email listserves are copy-lefted, meaning you are encouraged to
duplicate and distribute them in a way that respects the origional intention
of the material.
We also are building a statewide network of Party volunteers with fax
machines and/or fax-modems who will help us deliver our Party's press releases
to the local and regional media across the state. The long term goal
is to cover the entire state without paying any long-distance. If
you have a fax-modem you can let work all night while you sleep, or all
day while you are at work, you would make a great candidate for the Green
Fax Brigade. Let us know you want to join the team by dropping our
Canvas Director a line.
In the long term, as this network of Party supporters grows, we will
ask some fax team members to also distribute relevant Party literature
directly to members, contributors, volunteers and other supporters.
Fundraising:
Join the Fundraising Committee
Our state Party's 99-00 budget devotes the bulk of whatever resources our
Party can raise to achieving ballot access. Unless we pass the Voter
Choice Act, that will be a $100,000.00 project, most of that payroll
for a large crew of petition circulators. We're committed to Ballot
Access in 2000. No political party has achieved ballot access in
Georgia (which has the world's most restrictive ballot access laws) without
either hiring paid circulators or in the case of the Reform Party, spending
Perot's millions on a media campaign to enroll, motivate and support a
volunteer force large enough for the task.
If we are to achieve ballot access in 2000, we need your help to get
there. We have layed the groundwork among our Council to support
a wide range of fundraising activities by contracting with Kerrie Dickson
as our first Development Director and as our first staff person.
She will be coordinating a schedule of fundraising events and house parties
and providing oversight for a canvas team which will create a base to support
a broader volunteer effort to collect the ballot access signatures we need,
and to enroll members and vend our publications and logo items. We
have an immediate need for: Fundraising
Committee Members, Events Coordinators, Hosts and Teams, House Party
Coordinators, Hosts and Teams, Petition Circulators/ Party
Merchandise Vendors, Membership Development Team and an Advertising
Sales Force.
If one of these positions interests you, please contact the our Development
Director. Let her know what position you're interested in and what
interests and experience you bring to the job. Please include your
name, phone, fax, e-mail, or other ways of contacting you.
The FEC regulates limited public funding
for Presidential Campaigns through their Matching Funds program.
The Association of State Green Parties is coordinating
a national effort to comply with the minimum thresholds of the program
by raising in pledges or contributions the first $100,000.00. Once
we've done this, we'll be eligible for a match on the first $250.00 of
every individual contribution raised prior to the Presidential Nominating
Convention in Denver Colorado, June 24-25, 2000. If you want to contribute,
download this form (coming soon)
and mail in your contribution or pledge. If you would like to help
solicit pledges and contributions for this effort, write our Development
Director, Kerrie Dickson or the Campaign Committee for the Presidential
Candidate of your choice.
Association of State Green Parties
These Committees of the Association of
State Green Parties currently have vacancies and are seeking additional
Greens to help accomplish their charges. Most of the ASGP committees
are structured to permit as many as three members to be appointed by each
state. Our state Council has authorized our Party's delegates to
the Coordinating Committee of the ASGP to appoint members to these committees.
Occassionally, elections are held to seat certain Committees. There
will soon be an election to fill the Credentials Committee for the 2000
Presidential Nominating Convention. If you are interested in serving
on one of these committees, please write our ASGP
Delegates about your interest.