The Caucus will organize and act to advance Women's rights and concerns within the Party and in the country at large with the ultimate goals of maximizing the Women's vote for the Green Party, participation of Women at all levels of the Party and a voter, activist, leadership, candidate and officeholder base of Women that is reflective of the great diversity of this nation.
Adopted January 20, 2004
National Women's Caucus General Inquiries: | The Green Party nominates, not one, but two women for its presidential ticket, Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente.
Here are their acceptance speeches as recorded by C-Span with introductions by 2004 Green Party candidates. National Women's Caucus member and former Spokesperson, Kat Swift, presidential candidate
Kat is from Texas, one of the states with truly oppressive ballot access laws. See her as Wonder Woman talking to people to gather signatures. On YouTube, you can also hear many amazing speeches including at the January 2008 Green PartyPresidential debates in San Francisco and on the eve of the convention in Chicago.
With apologies from a webmaster who is wearing too many hats, this page was not updated for a long time, but these are previous announcements:January 10, 2007 - Richmond became the largest city in the nation with a member of the Green Party as its elected mayor Tuesday when Gayle McLaughlin was sworn in during an emotional inaugural ceremony at City Hall. NWC announces election of new officers. Green Women Elected in NovemberGreens were elected to office in November 2006. More Green successes are reflected by campaigns that though they did not get candidated elected, they did get ballot status for their states. Of the 66 Greens who were elected this year, 20 were women. Perhaps our biggest win in the November election was that of Gayle McLaughlin as mayor of Richmond, CA. According to a Green Party of CA press release, Richmond, a working class suburb of San Francisco with a population of about 104,000, becomes the biggest city in the U.S. where at Green is at the helm, and the first in California where a Green was directly elected as mayor. National Women's Caucus Endorses CandidatesKatey Culver, running for US House Rep in Tennessee, and Rae Vogler, running for US Senate in Wisconsin, were formally endorsed by the National Women's Caucus. View the Press Releases for Rae and Katey's Endorsements. Green Party National Meeting in TucsonWe had good local press coverage of the recent national meeting. One local TV story began with a quote from our own Katey Culver. Katey is running for congress from Tennessee. There were also several articles in the local press. According to a GP press release, there were several press conferences scheduled during the meeting including one that the NWC sponsored for woman candidates with video of several of our woman candiates. Some of the interviews are available separately. Nan Garrett, one of the NWC officers, has thrown her hat into the ring to run for president, as has Kat Swift, who can be seen speaking and moderating, along with Nan, on the NWC press conference video. Kathleen Culver participated in another press conference for congressional candidates. Also find links to movies and candidate websites on our web page listing women candidates for local and state offices. Thanks so much to JT at Sound and Fury TV for providing videotaping of these press conferences. Selected Press ReleasesArticle from the Detroit Free Press QUESTIONS WITH ...: Campaigns for House, Senate to Watch in 2006-Monday, May 15, 2006 National Women's Caucus Demands Equal Rights-March 14, 2006 National Women's Caucus Elects New Officers-February 8, 2006 Greens Pay Tribute to Rosa Parks-Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Greens Mark International Women's Day, March 08. - March 7, 2005 "The rights and conditions of women, which have never been good, are declining worldwide," said Morgen D'Arc, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Green Party's National Women's Caucus. "Without the most basic rights protections, the decline will continue. The U.S. has never passed ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], and is one of just a few countries that refuses to ratify CEDAW [Convention to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women]. We must create the pressure necessary to get them passed." Continued... Greens Replace Dems as Party for Abortion Rights. - January 3, 2005 Green Party Accredits Women's Caucus -- November 23, 2004 Medea Benjamin to be a Keynote Speaker at the 2004 Green NationalConvention. The Women's Caucus of the Green Party will hold its Third Annual Meeting during the convention. - June 18, 2004
It was a very long process to get our by-laws amended. In our original by-laws, we required 2/3 of our members to vote to complete this process and voting needed to stay open until that number was met. "Amendments required by the GPUS NC were adopted November 6, 2005. Full results will be posted soon. The amended bylaws will be posted as soon as the substantial amended content is integrated. Please be patient."
The National Women's Caucus knows it has lots of important work in front of it which we can soon begin to discuss since our by-law amendments are now approved. We will have a variety of projects addressing a variety of concerns. ....and we need to get on with our work on the issues of peace and the many others important to all of us as described in the portion of the Green Party platform plank relating to women's rights and to the GPUS 10 Key Values.
"Members of the National Women's Caucus and other Greens hoist the party banner at the March for Women's Lives held April 25, 2004 in Washington, D.C. NWC members are from left, Annie Goeke, Emily Citowski, 4th from left and Susan Dridi, sixth from left."
To join us, please fill out the first portion of the application; then forward it to your state Green Party chair or co-chairs, national Green Party delegates, or membership secretary, and ask them to complete the second portion (as the GPUS National Women's Caucus requires verification from your state that you are a Green Party member) and then forward your application to natlwomens-caucus@gp-us.org. GPUS Delegates are automatically verified, but we still need your reply with the information requested below in Part I of the form and in part II state that you are a delegate. The application can be downloaded here as a pdf file or, if that is not available, printed from another web page in this site. |
