Meeting of the GPWA Coordinating Council
Green Party members are invited to join us on Loomio for the meeting link:
Meetings
Whatcom / Skagit Green Party Meeting – Online
Whatcom & Skagit Green Party – Online Organizing Meeting
March 20th, 2025, at 6:00 PM Pacific Time
Join our online discussion group:
for the Zoom meeting link.
Greens in Whatcom and Skagit County invite you to our weekly online meeting on Thursday evening!
Whole Washington Volunteer Retreat – Spokane
Whole Washington holds a full-day volunteer retreat every 6 months. These events have supported building, communicating, and implementing our strategic plan to win state-based universal single-payer healthcare here in Washington. By bill or by ballot.
This April, we are taking our retreat east of the mountains for the first time. It is critical that we organize in every community. This retreat is just one more opportunity to support volunteers all around the state, because we CAN win this, but we can’t do it without you.
Typically, these events run from about 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., depending on space availability. The date is set (4/27/2025). The location and time are TBD.
For now, save the date!
Green Party Webinar on Climate and the Military
An aerial photo showing the Sunnah of flames in the market of the Al-Arab neighborhood in the city of Omdurman, Sudan on June 2, 2023
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Monday, December 9 at 5 PM PT
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RSVP Here
On Monday, December 9, at 5 PM (PT) the EcoAction Committee and the Green Party Peace Action Committee are holding a webinar on the issue of the military and climate change. Speakers will include Haig Hovaness of GPAX; Prof. David Schwartzman of EcoAction; and Sue Ann Martinsen of End Military Madness Against the Earth. Pre-registration is required. RSVP Here.
The military impacts climate change in multiple ways. War and military conflicts are environmental and climate disasters. Severe weather events and global warming destabilize countries, especially those with already unstable governments and under-resourced infrastructure. The competition for land, water, and food, as well as dealing with potentially tens of millions of climate refugees (including many already coming to the US), increases the likelihood of military conflicts between countries.
The global military, with the Pentagon in the lead, has been the biggest greenhouse gas emissions of any institution on the planet, representing between 1 to 5% of annual emissions. The $2 trillion spent on the military worldwide diverts resources that could be spent on climate action instead. And many wars are fought over access to fossil fuels.
The Green Party Peace Action Committee (GPAX) works to strengthen the peace pillar of the USGP. GPAX supports peace actions, produces anti-war webinars, issues public statements, and assists GP candidates for political office. GPAX welcomes new members who wish to participate in this work. The EcoAction Committee promotes ecological wisdom, environmental justice, sustainability and responsible governmental stewardship of the Earth and its inhabitants.
Haig Hovaness is the Co-Chair of GPAX. He has written and spoken on defense issues and the danger of conflict escalation. Haig has a professional background in information technology. Videos of his GPAX presentations are available at the GPAX website, https://gpax.gpus.org/
Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) is a member-based organization whose mission is to oppose U.S. militarism and involvement in wars. WAMM challenges systems of harm, oppression and exploitation, and helps build movements of solidarity with others for peace and justice through education and action.
David Schwartzman is a member of the EcoAction Committee. He is a Professor Emeritus, Howard University (biogeochemist, environmental scientist, PhD, Brown University) and an active member of the DC Statehood Green Party/Green Party of the United States. He will focus on the need for the near future defeat of militarized fossil capital and its political instruments.
Workers Strike Back Organizing Conference: Fight the Two Parties of Genocide – Build a Working-Class Antiwar Movement!
We need to use our momentum from getting out the vote for Jill Stein’s antiwar pro-worker campaign to build massive working people’s movements, here and internationally. To end military aid for Israel, the genocide in Gaza, and the brutal occupation. To fight against racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression. To organize protests and strike actions to win a $25/hour minimum wage, Medicare for All, quality affordable housing, and good union jobs for all.
Both Democrats and Republicans are a dead end for workers, the union movement, and the antiwar struggle. We urgently need to build a bold, independent, antiwar, working-class party that can take on the billionaires & warmongers and BREAK the two-party system.
Register now for the Workers Strike Back February Organizing Conference on SATURDAY, Feb 22 @ 10 am PT!
More info and RSVP:
https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/feb-2025-organizing-conference
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@OnStrikeShow/streams
Seattle Watch Party – ELECTION NIGHT ANALYSIS LIVESTREAM
We’re days away from the November election, and Workers Strike Back is on the ground in Michigan getting out the vote for Jill Stein’s antiwar, pro-worker campaign. Join us for Election Night analysis livestream watch party in Seattle.
If you can’t make it in person, don’t miss the livestream.
RSVP:
https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/election-watch-party
End of Empire and the Future of Freedom – National Livestream
Revolutionary conference where music, education, and art chart the path to the future of freedom.
Chris Hedges
Saul Williams
Marc Lamont Hill
Briahna Joy Gray
Dr Jill Stein
Butch Ware
Claudia De la Cruz
Melina Abdullah
Greg J Stoker
Naley By Nature
Guy Christensen
Akil the MC
Chizabam
Anwar Hadid
Shylah Ray
Daisy Draper
+ many more
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@RudolphWare/streams
Sign up to be notified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPKssJXWBpE
More info: https://endofempire.xyz/
📣 Build the People’s Movement! Fight War, Repression, and Genocide! 📣
Join ILPS Seattle and community on Saturday, November 2 for a Peoples’ Platform Assembly so we can collectively raise our pressing concerns and unite to solve them together! Even before the election results are announced, we know that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats will bring real solutions to make meaningful change.
RSVP today! https://forms.gle/
Peoples’ Platform Assembly
Saturday, November 2nd: 10 am – 4 pm
Cherry Street Village (720 25th Ave, Seattle)
Together, we’ll discuss issues affecting our local communities – like school closures and attacks on education, migrants and housing crisis, mass incarceration and prisons conditions, US-Led war and genocide, and migrant workers’ fights for rights and livelihood.
All ages welcome!
We will put U.S. Imperialism on Trial with testimonies from:
- ILPS Seattle
- No Tech for Apartheid
The Peoples’ Assembly (aka all of us!) will hold the imperialists accountable by laying out the crisis. Together, we will finalize the Seattle Peoples’ Platform to synthesize our demands and solutions!
During the Assembly, you’ll have the opportunity to join a panel and discussion on the conditions of:
- Migrants’ survival and struggle for housing and dignity
- Youth prison conditions and fight for safety for youth and families
- Struggle for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide
- Students, educators and families fighting against school closures
- Fights for wages and working conditions of Filipino migrants
- Anti-war struggles against weapons corporations and war profiteering
There will be a Resource and Mutual Aid Fair where you can receive or offer resources through:
- Local Mutual Aid groups
- Serve the People projects
- Filipino Community Health Board
- and more!
In the program, you’ll be able to attend exceptional Workshops from:
- Song2Sea
- South Asians Resisting Imperialism
- All African Peoples Revolutionary Party
- Stop the Sweeps
- Half the Sky
(Workshop details and descriptions coming soon!)
We’re asking for a donation of $10-20 per person in order to support the costs of the venue and food, however we will not turn anyone away for lack of donations! As part of the assembly, we will together create an updated local People’s Platform and prepare to mobilize together after the elections, on Nov 9.
RSVP here! https://forms.gle/
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We invite you to join us in exposing the imperialist two-party system and fighting for a peoples’ platform! You can join a committee to help us agitate, organize, and mobilize against the imperialist false solutions and stay connected through the campaign by attending events and teach-ins, endorsing or engaging with the links below! Get Involved! Join us as we fight for genuine solutions and expose the imperialist two-party system!
The People’s Platform is a true alternative to the dangerous, ruling-class Democrat and Republican parties’ agendas. Following the election, we need to be prepared to continue the fight for our demands: for a free Palestine, ending war and policing, for better wages, for migrant justice, and so much more. To achieve these aspirations, we know we cannot simply ask for them; we must rally our communities together in struggle and fight for a better future! Join ILPS for a People’s Assembly and Mass Mobilization to put forward our communities’ demands and solutions, no matter who wins in November! |
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Workers Strike Back National Monthly Meeting
Join Workers Strike Back’s National Monthly Meeting on Sunday, March 9th!
RSVP: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/events/q226xb4xjbrfuxojy1q50zcsyya70w-fy67m
Seattle Workers Strike Back meeting
RSVP HERE!
JOIN Workers Strike Back for our March monthly meeting to talk about how we can build powerful movements, and to discuss lessons of how Kshama Sawant and working-class movements have WON historic victories like the Amazon Tax, landmark renters’ rights, and the first $15/hour minimum wage in any major city.