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Statewide Plenary
The Green Party of Santa Clara County is pleased to announce
that they will be hosting a plenary assembly of the Green Party of California
Saturday and Sunday March 6-th and 7-th
Aid To Gaza
2008 Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney was one of the passengers aboard the
Spirit of Humanity ship that was bringing humanitarian goods to the Gaza Strip.
The ship was stopped and boarded by Israeli military forces. Cynthia and 20
other passengers were arrested and taken to Israeli jails.
Cynthia was the Green Party candidate for president in 2008. More on the 2008 campaign below.
June 30 jailed
July 7 released
July 15 Cynthia enters Gaza as a member of the
caravan
led by British MP George Galloway
Here are a couple of related articles:
http://tinyurl.com/npmpkm
Campaign 2008
Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was nominated on the first ballot
and chose Rosa Clemente as her running mate at the Green Party National Convention in Chicago July 10-th to 13-th.
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| Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente |
The Presidential Debate Of The
Green Party Candidates
On Sunday January 13, 2008
at the
Herbst Theater in San Francisco
the Green Party Candidates who were on the Green Party ballot in California,
Jared Ball, Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, Ralph Nader,
and Kat Swift responded to questions on important issues such as
immigration, Iraq war, and tax policy posed by a panel of journalists.
Watch a KTVU video clip
View photos and read commentary from the fog city journal
Additional youtube and kpfa links.
Presidential Candidates
Green Party Candidates for Congress in Santa Clara County
Candidates for the Green Party County Council
COMMENTS and SUGGESTIONS
Post your suggestions to the Green Party of Santa Clara County
discussion list sosfbay-discuss@marla.cagreens.org
If you are not on the list yet, you can
subscribe now.
Monthly Meetings
we meet on the first Wednesday
of the month at the San Jose Peace Center at 7:30 pm with informal
discussions at 6:30 pm. The San Jose Peace Center is at 48 South 7-th
Street in San Jose between Santa Clara and San Fernando Streets.
Our next monthly meeting will be
We will be preparing for the statewide plenary we will be hosting in Santa Clara County Saturday and Sunday March 6-th and 7-th.
Bus Routes 22, 64,81, 522 serve Santa Clara Street and bus route 63
ends on 7-th Street diagonally across form the Peace Center.
Impeachment
On March 7th 2006, the Green Party of Santa Clara County, representing
more than 6,500 voters in the county, passed a resolution requesting
impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney, Donald
H. Rumsfeld, and Alberto Gonzalez.
The Green Party of Santa Clara County sent a cover letter and a copy of the resolution
to the 40 members of the Committee on the Judiciary, the four members
of the House of Representatives who represent Santa Clara County, and the two
Senators from California.
The letter requests the Committee on the Judiciary to initiate
the impeachment process. Text of letter and resolution
Peace Rallies
Members of the Green Party of Santa Clara County were present at the
Peace March and Rally in Palo Alto on March 18th 2006 and again on March 17th 2007
where Green Party
member Mike Fischetti spoke on behalf of the Green Party of
Santa Clara County.
Here is what he had to say
The Green Party of Santa Clara county was also present at the
rally in Backesto Park in San Jose where Fernando Suarez del Solar
and two mothers of soldiers who died in Iraq spoke after completing
a 15 mile march through Latino neighborhoods of San Jose.
email lists
The Green Party of Santa Clara County has two subscription email lists.
One for announcements and one for discussion of topics relevant
to the Green Party.
You can subscribe to the discussion
list and then post your messages and comments to the discussion list.
The announcement list is a low volume list that sends notices of
news and events to its subscribers.
You can subscribe to the announcement
list and then post your messages and comments to the announcement list.
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LETTER
March 24, 2006
Committee on the Judiciary
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Member of the Committee on the Judiciary,
On March 7th, the Green Party of Santa Clara
County, representing more than 6,500 voters in the county,
passed a resolution requesting
impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney,
Donald
H. Rumsfeld, and Alberto Gonzalez.
It is incumbent on the House Judicial Committee to initiate the impeachment
process when
such blatant violations of the United States Constitution are
carried out.
With grave concern for the future of our country,
Gerald S. Gras
Member of the County Council
Green Party of Santa Clara County
RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION OF THE GREEN PARTY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA
in defense of the Constitution of the
United States demanding the impeachment of George W.
Bush,
Richard B. Cheney and two complicit associates.
Whereas the Declaration of Independence declares
securing "unalienable Rights" including
"Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" to be the
purpose of government and
Whereas the Constitution of the United States
establishes the firm foundation for our rule of law
and its Bill of Rights provides for the precious
individual rights and freedoms guaranteed
to all
American citizens,
Whereas, in the conduct of their offices, President
George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales,
in violation of their
constitutional oaths to "preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution" and to
"take Care that the Laws be
faithfully executed," have committed any or all of the
following
"high Crimes and Misdemeanors:"
1. WARRANTLESS SEARCHES: ordering the National
Security Agency to conduct secret warrantless searches
and seizures of the private personal communications of
American citizens, without oversight by the
legislative or judicial branches of the government, in
violation of the 4th Amendment of the Constitution and
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of the
Congress (FISA 1978);
2. TORTURE: authorizing and permitting torture
against human beings, in violation of the Geneva
Conventions (1864-1949) and the United Nations?
Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman,
or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1985);
3. INDEFINITE DETENTION: depriving American citizens
of their constitutionally guaranteed rights regarding
unjust imprisonment and speedy and public trial, in
violation of their rights to guaranteed liberty and
due process of law in the 5th and 6th Amendments;
4. WAR OF AGGRESSION: launching an illegal, unjust
and undeclared war against the sovereign state of
Iraq, in violation of Article I, Section 8 of the
Constitution and Chapters 1, 6, and 7 of the Charter
of the United Nations (1945);
5. USE OF ILLEGAL WEAPONS: authorizing the use of
illegal chemical and radioactive weapons in military
campaigns, notably white phosphorous and depleted
uranium in Iraq, in violation of the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR 1948);
6. DELIBERATE DECEPTIONS: repeatedly, consciously,
and with forethought, lying to the American people and
the U.S. Congress by providing false and deceptive
rationales for an unjustified and illegal war in Iraq,
obstructing justice by destroying evidence, and
covering up the truth about the 9-11 attacks;
7. ATTACKING CIVILIANS: authorizing, ordering, and
condoning direct military attacks on civilians and
civilian homes and communities, thereby causing
widespread death, maiming and destruction in Iraq, in
violation of Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights; and
8. VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES: violating
and unilaterally abrogating lawful signatory treaties,
such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972)
between the United States and Russia, the Treaty of
Rome (1950) establishing the International Criminal
Court and the Geneva Conventions providing for humane
treatment of combatants and civilians, in violation of
Article VI of the Constitution acknowledging these
treaties to be "the Supreme Law of the Land."
Therefore, the Green Party of Santa Clara County
demands the impeachment and consequent removal from
office of the four aforementioned officials.
Be it further resolved that the Green Party of Santa
Clara County petitions the House of Representatives
of the U.S. Congress to initiate Impeachment
proceedings against all four identified officials.
Be it further resolved that copies of this
Resolution be sent to our Congressional
representatives.
(Adopted at the Monthly Meeting on March 7, 2006 in
Sunnyvale, California)
Text of Speech March 17, 2007
Iraq, assassinations, torture, domestic spying, over 700 overseas
military outposts, disgraceful care for returning soldiers ---
these are not the trappings of a peaceful democracy!
These are the consequences of an imperial policy.
In his book Nemesis - The Last Days Of The American Republic,
Chalmers Johnson reminds us,that, like empires before us, the
expenditure of resources overseas leads inevitably to
shortchanging domestic needs --like the victims of Katrina.
This undercuts democracy, in the end producing a military
dictatorship or its civilian equivalent.
And what do we have now? - we have an imperial presidency -
- with a cia and president beyond the control of a congress
beholden to big money
- with important institutions like the judiciary and the press
coopted and partisan
- with religion used as a battle cry justifying war and a clash
of civilizations
- with corporaations unfettered in their greed at the expense
of ordinary citizens
We are now seen by the world for what we are, an imperial
military empire that sets itself above international law and
whose self appointed moral superiority is seen as hypocracy.
Ford's pardon of Nixon set a precedent. The message to future
presidents was that you could break the law with impunity. Just
look at the collection of lawbreakers we have in the White House
today.
Bush and Cheney need to be impeached.
They need to be impeached
because they broke national and international law. And, equally
importantly, they need to be impeached to put the brakes on an
imperial presidency that fronts for our empire.
We may, like Britian, have to give up our empire to save our
democracy. Or like Rome, we may lose our way of life in a
futile attempt to save our empire.
The choice and challange is before us.
We are here today because we are ready for this fight.
We must prevail for the sake of our children and the children
of the world.
Text of Speech March 18, 2006
I am afraid our democracy is slipping away.
I am afraid of a regime of indefinite detentions and torture.
I am afraid of a militarism that ignores the needs of its people.
I am afraid of a mass media that is the propaganda arm of the government.
I am afraid that our children will not be free to worship as they please.
I am afraid of laws by polititians owned by special interests.
I am afraid of rising police power, of spying and the infiltration of
peace groups.
I am afraid of fixed elections.
I am afraid of the supression of free speach.
In sum I am afraid our democracy is morphing into fascism.
BUT I am NOT afraid to stand up with you here today to demand our
democray, our civil rights and our country back.
And I am NOT afraid to remind our government that we the people are
the power and the rulers.
And I am NOT afraid to proclaim the we who are against the war are
the majority in this country and we demand an end to this illegal,
immoral and murderous enterprise.
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Green Party Tables at March 20, 2005 Peace March
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