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Voter Guides for this year
March 5th Primary Election
November 5th General Election

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California Green Slate Sets New Records in November 2002 elections
December 2002
By Larry Shoup

The November 5, 2002 election saw record results for the seven candidates of the statewide Green Party slate, continuing the steady upward trend in Green electoral results since 1998. Each matched or came in well above the previous record for a California statewide race (3.9% to 5.8%), with vote totals ranging from about 275,000 to 417,100. Laura Wells, running for Controller, was the highest vote getter with 5.8%. Since the Greens have just over 155,000 registered voters, not all of whom voted, it is clear that hundreds of thousands of Californians who are not registered Green liked what we had to offer. In contrast, Democrats have about 6.5 million voters, but their highest vote getter got just over 3.5 million votes... Whole Article

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Greens Help Oakland Tenants Win Major Victory
December 2002
By Greg Jan

Oakland's Measure EE, Just Cause Eviction Protection, was narrowly approved by voters on November 5 -- 51% to 49%. Measure EE had been the top local electoral priority for Oakland Greens, who turned out scores of volunteers to work on the campaign. It's good that we (and many other organizations) worked so hard on the campaign -- given the closeness of the election, it's clear that every contribution which was made to the effort was critical!... Whole Article

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Weak Turnout Wins Election For Wozniak
December 2002
By Jaime Rossman

On December 3rd, the results of a run-off election in Berkeley for the 8th District City Council seat were announced. Gordon Wozniak, a research scientist and long time area resident, defeated his opponent, student Andy Katz by a healthy sixteen point margin. Wozniak, who had the endorsement of outgoing council member Polly Armstrong, nearly avoided the need for a run-off, falling only 36 votes shy of the 45% needed for an outright victory in the four way race... Whole Article

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Berkeley Fair Trade Initiative Loses
December 2002
By Suzanne Baker

Berkeley's Measure O, which the Alameda County Greens endorsed, would have required cafés to served only Fair Trade certified brewed coffee. Passage of this measure would have put Berkeley once again in the forefront of economic justice issues. However, the measure lost big -- gaining only 29.5% of the vote... Whole Article

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Green Election Highlights from November 2002
December 2002
By Suzanne Baker

Thirty-two California Greens were elected or re-elected to office in 2002. Sixty-two California Greens are now in office, a nation-wide record, and Greens won 50% of the local races for which they ran. A long-standing emphasis on running for local offices has been paying off and should encourage more Greens to run in their communities... Whole Article

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Homeland Security Update
December 2002

From Salon.com: "Art dealer Doug Stuber, who ran Ralph Nader's Green party presidential campaign in North Carolina in 2000, was barred last month from getting on a flight to Hamburg, Germany, where he was going on businessŠ 'They took me into a room and questioned me all about my politics,' Stuber recalls. 'They were very up on Green party politics, too.' ...Particularly ominous, he says, was a loose-leaf binder held by the Secret Service agents...'It had a long list of organizations, and I was able to recognize the Green Party, Greenpeace, Amnesty International..." Read the full article

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Reclaiming the Holidays
December 2002
By Jayne Kaszynski

Throughout the country's malls this week, hordes of holiday shoppers move in a frantic tide between brand name clothing stores in hallways decked with plastic garlands. Their eyes -- if they are anything like myself -- have clouded over after the first twenty minutes of sensory overload. Each one is lugging a variety of shopping bags, possibly with a small child in tow begging for an ice cream cone or hamburger. The economic doomsayers have predicted a vicious fall from glory if Americans donıt turn out in numbers -- their credit cards in hand -- to root for the countryıs home team and defeat the terrorism, but even those people crowding the local superstore have reasons other than economic for celebrating... Whole Article

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Why I Became A Green
December 2002
By Gene B. Herman

Why did I become a green...
Better yet...how did I become a green!
Was it acid rain killing lakes in the Adirondacks when I was living in upstate New York... Whole Article

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The Green Party of California Nader SuperRally
October 8, 2002 in Berkeley