Green Party of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area
Serving Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia counties
Vegan-friendly potluck at six. Meet Matt Dodson, gubernatorial candidate. Meeting/Convention will start around 6:30 or a little later. Officer elections, delegate selection, and other business.
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Bruce Gagnon Veteran Peace Thinker/Activist addresses the Ukraine War for our VFP Chapter
Time: Mar 14, 2022, 05:30 PM Mountain Time
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Women, girls, and their rights remain under attack. Locally, join the Rally for Abortion Rights at the UNM Bookstore Plaza, 2301 Central Ave. NE in ABQ (intersection of Central & Cornell), on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 5:00 p. m.
There will be Greens there, including gubernatorial hopeful, Matt Dodson.
Green Party US declares solidarity with Russians who oppose the invasion, often at great personal cost, and joins peace activists in Russia, Ukraine and around the world in demanding a negotiated solution.
Read the full statement.
“…we choose another side—the people—and condemn the decades-long policies of US, NATO, Russian, and Ukrainian leaders that have led to this point.”
Matthew Hoh on Russian invasion of Ukraine
Long-time Green John D. Lockridge passed away this month. If we all emulated his gentle nature and dedication to peace, the world would be very different.
Another video from Mistahi Corkill from spring 2023: Palestine
Here is another video from Mistahi Corkill that he first published in March of 2021.
We are sharing a video with you that has been distributed to Green Parties by the creator. We think it presents the interrelatedness of the Four Pillars. Enjoy.
UPDATE: City of Albuquerque Redistricting Process well underway. Two public meetings of Redistricting Committee remain: June 8 and June 29 on Zoom. https://www.cabq.gov/council/projects/current-projects/2022-city-council-redistricting-process
FYI: The letter to the editor was published in the December 7th edition of the Albuquerque Journal.
Post-census redistricting has begun. There is a somewhat hierarchical list of requirements for good redistricting: population balance (one person, one vote), protection and representation of under-represented and oppressed groups, district contiguity and compactness, party and incumbent neutrality, and representation for communities of interest. A former, long-time state representative once said that politics is about the division or distribution of resources. Basically, who gets what and how much. It is important for the breadth of diversity of a state, county, or city to be represented in the decision makers. With these concepts in mind, a coalition of groups (including GPAMA and GPNM), led by Fair Districts New Mexico, supports the adoption of redistricting maps from the sets of maps adopted by the Citizen Redistricting Committee. We strongly encourage you to write letters to the editor of your local newspapers, print and electronic, and to contact your legislators directly to encourage adoption of one of the CRC maps for Congress, State Senate, State House, and Public Education Commission.
Let’s not forget counties, cities, and school districts. Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties are nearing the end of their adoption processes with the Sandoval County Commission generating controversy by considering a party-centered map. Cities, towns, and school districts–with odd-numbered year elections–will undertake redistricting in 2022.
GPAMA sent a letter to the editors of news publications in Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, and Valencia Counties. Read or download it below.
The GPAX webinar on November 18, 2021, should contain lots of insight and useful information for how proponents of peace move forward in a violent world. Check out this list of speakers!
Register below:
October 31-November 12, 2021, Glasgow, Scotland
As indicated in the primer below, the rise of global corporate power may be the greatest obstacle to saving the planet. In the name of profit, international corporations have led a destructive campaign of misinformation to undermine science, and governments have chosen to protect corporate profits rather than their citizens.
Greens need to press to roll-back the supremacy of corporate rights over those of nation states, humanity and nature itself.
Elizabeth May, Green MP, Canada
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