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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 of New York State candidate for US Senate Colia Clark  said:

The deadly assault on the Gaza Flotilla in International Waters off Gaza by Israeli forces must be protested. Our hearts bleed for the families and friends of the murdered members of this peaceful Flotilla. Our anger and rage mounts against the murderers who dare think they can commit this  egregious act and get away with it.

Americans must demand immediate action from President Obama, and the US Congress to halt all further assistance to Israel. Not another dime must be spent until Israel ends its assaults upon peaceful protesters and withdraws all of its troops from Gaza.

It is incumbent upon the United Nations to address this matter of grave  urgency. The UN Security Council and General Assembly have responsibility for protecting citizens of the world community including those who choose to protest what they see as violations of human rights. Its time that the UN demand sanctions against Israel including removing it from the UN body until such time that Israel can abide by decent standards of international law.

The International Court of Justice must bring immediate legal suit on behalf of the slain members of the Gaza Flotilla and the People of Gaza which suffer daily at the hands of Israeli armed forces.

The time for reason is quickly passing. No people can forever be cast beneath the hot iron feet without outcry for relief. While the world has yet time for reason, let the UN do its job.

Green Party of New York State candidate for US Senate Cecile Lawrence said:

On a day in the U.S. when we pause to remember the millions of Americans who have died in wars in foreign lands around the globe, Israel has committed yet another act of indifference to human life and liberty.

Members of the Israeli military, by invading a flotilla of ships in international waters carrying aid to Gaza, have participated in an international crime. Israel, by continuing to blockade Gaza, preventing the people living there from access to medicines and other humanitarian aid, persists in making clear to the world that it has completely lost its mind, as a friend of former Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney shared with her.

For decades, Israel has been regularly committing war crimes, because it has enjoyed absolute impunity from prosecution or sanctions. Israel is not held to account for its crimes against humanity, because the corporate party controlled United States Government has always been Israel’s accomplice “an accessory before, during and after the fact” in all of Israel’s crimes; which crimes are enabled by the American taxpayer provided annual “aid,” funding Israel’s international aggression.

We in the U.S. are complicit in this crime, as long as the U.S. persists in supporting Israel with our tax dollars, including money taken from the pockets of New Yorkers. Both the Democratic and the Republican parties and administrations in the U.S. have not let up for one minute their support of the actions of Israel against the Palestinians. The Green Party has, as a main plank in its platform, the end to all wars and the beginning of peace everywhere.

Today, Memorial Day, should be a day when we pledge firmly to end all wars, end all suffering, end all attacks on other people, other countries, anywhere in the world. Let us make today the day we say no more.

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