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The only way that the Green Party can regain ballot status in NY is to get 50,000 votes for their Governor candidate in 2010. This opportunity comes only once every four years, and it only applies to the Governor’s race. Gaining ballot status will enable the Green Party to run more peace candidates, more single-payer candidates, more anti-fracking candidates, and more sustainable energy candidates. The last time that the Green Party of New York State had ballot status it set the record for running the most Green candidates of any state.

Green Party Governor candidate Hawkins and U.S. Senate candidate Lawrence  to visit Broome County

On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Green Party U.S. Senate Candidate, Cecile Lawrence, and Governor Candidate, Howie Hawkins will visit Broome County. There will be 6pm speaking event at the Vestal Public Library, 320 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal, NY 13850. Light refreshments will be served.

Dr. Cecile Lawrence has been active in health care reform for over 15 years. She’s published on the topic of racism in medical research and health care. She has a PhD in Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture from Binghamton University (S.U.N.Y.) and is a graduate of the University at Buffalo (S.U.N.Y.) Law School. A resident of Tioga County, she’s been a board member of local civic organizations such as the YWCA and the Southern Tier Independence Center, and is currently a member of Tioga Peace and Justice. She has worked in college administration and in non-profit administration.

Lawrence said, “We need to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan now and return the troops home in early 2011. The U.S. must cease its drive for empire and domination of the planet including the embeddedness of its military forces with corporations whose drive for access to the resources of other countries lead to the destruction of their environmental and socio-economic health. Corporations must be stripped of the artificial personhood granted them by an accident of the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting not in human personhood but in god-like status, since they never get sick, and can never die. Reform Wall Street, getting rid of the practices that led to the idea of ‘too big to fail.”

Howie Hawkins has been active in movements for peace, justice, and the environment since the late 1960s. He co-founded the U.S. Green Party in 1984. After attending Dartmouth College, Hawkins has worked as a carpenter, a developer of cooperative businesses, and a truck unloader. He is a member of Teamsters Local 317 and lives in Syracuse. He received 55,469 votes for US Senate in the November 2006 election.

“The people of New York need someone in Albany who will stand up for Main Street and Martin Luther King Blvd., rather than someone bought and controlled by Wall Street. A million New Yorkers need living wage jobs now. My campaign will show how we can fast track their creation,” said Hawkins.

At the national level, the Green Party has opposed from the start the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and supports the immediate withdrawal of American troops. It advocates for a massive cut in the military budget to free up funds to help local and state governments resolve their budget crisis, and to invest in domestic programs such as child nutrition, renewable energy, education, affordable housing and job creation.

The Greens opposed the recent Democratic health insurance mandate bill as a huge public subsidy for private health insurance companies and continue to call to make health care a right through a ‘single payer expanded and improved Medicare for All type program.’ The Greens have long called for an end to the war on drugs and to curtail the prison industrial complex that now imprisons more than 2 million Americas, overwhelmingly low-income individuals and people of color.

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