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If you are in Durham, North Carolina, or you can get there this weekend, you could attend the Green Party of the United States Annual National Meeting. If you cannot attend, there is live-streaming. I found it embedded at Independent Political Report: here. IPR has a very open comments section. – KW
National Committee Meeting – At about 1:30pm, Friday, July 24, 2009, the National Committee of the Green Party of the United States will be holding an official meeting.
After that, the workshops should start up again.
I received a copy from Roger Snyder -who is on the ground- of the workshop schedule handed out there.
Workshop Schedule –
Thursday 1:30 pm
-HyRail: Building a Sustainable Hydrogen Infrastructure through National Highspeed Rail with Jeff Sutton
-What Every Green Party Candidate Should Know/Campaign School
-How Information Services Can Serve Your Campaign
-Creating a National Network of Campus Green Party Chapters
-Platform Committee Meeting
-National Women’s Caucus Meeting
Thursday 3:15 pm
-Green Economics with Jack Ailey
-Fundraising To Build Green Parties
-Opportunities for Ball Access with Claudia Ellquist and Tom Yager
-Finance Committee Budget Debrief
Friday 9:00 am
-Democratizing the Electoral College with Asa Gordon
-Get Out The Vote/Campaign School
-The Green Party: Now More Than Ever with Christine Morshedi
-Constructive Critique of the Green Party with George Martin, John Rensenbrink, Scott McLarty and Kat Swift
-Ballot Access Meeting
Friday 10:45-12:15
-International Committee: GPUS and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanction Movement Against Israel
-Fundraising For Candidates/Campaign School
-Candidate Recruitment
-Towards Creating A National Sense of Community – Building a GP-US Outside Annual National Meetings…
-Celebrating Urban Living with Morning Sunday Hettleman
Friday at 1:30 pm National Committee Meeting
Saturday 1:15 pm
-Biofuels Production with Mark Dreyfor
-Green Party Black Caucus Workshop – Reparations 101: Repair and Transformation
-Toxic Sludge: The Dangers of Spraying Sewage on Agricultural Land with Sue Dayton, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
Sunday – time tba
Environmental Protection is a Spiritual Issue with presenter, Reverend Sunday Morning Hettleman.
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To Democratize the Electoral College . . .
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections.
The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes–that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
The National Popular Vote bill has passed 29 state legislative chambers, in small, medium-small, medium, and large states, including one house in Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon, and both houses in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The bill has been enacted by Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington. These five states possess 61 electoral votes — 23% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.
See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com