Chanan Suarez is running for Bellingham City Council Ward 5, a non-partisan office. Chanan is a former Green Party member and served on the GPWA Coordinating Council for a time. He is endorsed by the Green Party of Whatcom County, and we are supporting him as a Green Party of Washington State preferred candidate. Read […]
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Galloping Greens Newsletter – July 2019
Volume 2, Issue 4 – July 2019 Welcome to your Green Party of Washington State bi-monthly newsletter. If you have information to submit for the Newsletter, please send it to GPWAnewsletter@gmail.com. Our hope is that this newsletter is published every other month on the odd months. OUR NEWSLETTER NEEDS A NAME! Please email us your recommendations […]
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Galloping Greens Newsletter – May 2019
Volume 2, Issue 3 – May 2019 Welcome to your new Green Party of Washington State bi-monthly newsletter. If you have information to submit for the Newsletter, please send it to GPWANewsletter@gmail.com. SPRING GATHERING 2019 REPORT The day started with a warm welcome from Mary Ellen Knoop, our State Coordinating Council Co-Facilitator. Margot Faubion from Green Party […]
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Galloping Greens Newsletter – March 2019
Volume 2, Issue 2 – March 2019 Upcoming Events Spring Gathering of Greens Saturday, April 27, 2019 Stillaguamish Valley Pioneer Museum & Hall 20722- 67th Ave NE, Arlington, WA 98223 (see below for more info!) Welcome to your new Green Party of Washington State bi-monthly newsletter. If you have information to submit for the Newsletter, please […]
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Demand a Hearing for SB 5222 – Universal Healthcare for WA State!
Our current private/for-profit healthcare system is in crisis: 522,000 Washington State residents don’t have any healthcare coverage, many more are under-insured, and rates are going up 19% in our state this year. These stats represent real people and genuine hardship that requires urgent action. Healthcare is the number one concern of most voters, and there’s […]
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Contact your state legislators NOW to help pass RCV bill for Washington!
Cities and towns in Washington could soon have the freedom to choose better elections, thanks to bills filed in our legislature. HB 1722 and SB 5708 offer local jurisdictions the option to use ranked choice voting (RCV) for elections. RCV is engaging voters and invigorating democracy in the 22 cities and counties around the U.S. that have already adopted […]
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News from the Green Party of Washington – January 2019
Welcome to your new Green Party of Washington Newsletter! We’re still working on an easy way for people to submit news for the Newsletter. For now you can send it to GPWANewsletter@gmail.com Report from the Fall Gathering 2018 Saturday, November 10th 2018 GPWA Fall Gathering Review by Mary Ellen Knoop Our first Fall Gathering in several years went […]
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GPWA 2018 Fall Gathering Review
by Mary Ellen Knoop The Green Party of Washington held our Fall Gathering on November 10, 2018 at the Ellensburg Pasta Company. Everything went well. Although the attendance (17 people) was less that we had hoped, there was representation from most of the state, and it was well-worth the time to be there. The meeting […]
Continue readingSummary of Renata Rollins’ First Year on the Olympia City Council
Renata Rollins, Olympia City Council member, successfully ran for her position as a Green in 2017. This is what Green leadership looks like: Renata summed up the state of Olympia during her first year on the Olympia City Council as: “We’ve had hard times in the community, but a lot of good groundwork has been […]
Continue readingGreen Party Endorsements and Preferred Candidates for 2018
The Green Party of Washington State announces our endorsements and preferred candidates for 2018: ********************* Endorsed Candidate: Andrew Saturn, Green Party member and candidate for Thurston County Public Utility District Commissioner, District 1 (nonpartisan) ********************* Preferred Candidates: Sarah Smith, Democratic candidate for US House of Representatives in WA-9 Tye Menser, Democratic candidate for Thurston County Commissioner, […]
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