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Georgia Green Party announces 2012 State Nominating Convention

Plans are being finalized for the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Georgia Green Party, scheduled for Saturday, June 2nd, 2012. State Party officers announced their intention to publish the legal notice necessary to permit the Party to nominate candidates in this year's partisan races for public office.

This year's Nominating Convention will take place at the Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Public Library (5234 LaVista Road; Tucker, GA 30084), with business starting promptly at 10:00 am and adjournment anticipated for 4:30 pm Delegates will be seated consistent with the Nominating Convention Rules, on file with the Secretary of State and accessible online at: http://www.greens.org/georgia.static/pdf/GvrnDocs/GGP-NC-Rules.pdf. The Convention is empowered by the Party Rules to consider proposed amendments to the state Party Platform and bylaws, the election of internal Party officers and Delegates to the National Committee, the consideration of candidates seeking the endorsement or nomination of the Party, and other business. The public is welcome.

Georgia Green Party Urges a NO vote on July 31 One Cent Sales Tax Referendum to Bail Out the Beltline

In its action to update its state Party platform during the recently completed revision process, the Georgia Green Party tempered its support for "communities that put housing, workplaces and shopping all within walking and bicycling distance," by adding:

"Even so, the Georgia Green Party unequivocally opposes the greenwashed, gentrifying real estate and bond scam that the corporate media and our elected officials call the beltline. Borrowing billions of dollars at loan shark interest rates to benefit well-connected developers intent on displacing Atlanta residents and taxpayers for new housing stock they could never afford, is not the way to go. The job creation numbers fronted by beltLine advocates are outrageous and unsubstantiated. The beltline budgets vitally depend on federal money of which there is no guarantee. The streetcar lines seem more focused on selling imagery to tourists than serving the woefully underserved yet real needs of Atlanta transit riders. The beltLine proposes to pay the bond issue back with hundreds of millions of dollars that would otherwise go to the Atlanta Public Schools, where our teachers subsidize their meager materials budgets from their own small paychecks. We reject the notion that Greening our cities must take place at the expense of the very residents our governments are elected to serve. The corruptions of public resources and public institutions for private profit is apparent in the beltline proposal, which constitutes another piece of manifest criminal malfeasance."

In the article which follows, state Party Press Secretary, and managing editor of Black Agenda Report Bruce Dixon makes a compelling case against what can only be construed as another transfer of wealth from workers to bankers. We hope you will read this, give it your consideration, the 1% sales tax your NO vote and the NO vote of everyone you can touch.

http://www.georgiagreenparty.org/content/will-atlanta-bail-out-beltline-july-31-one-cent-sales-tax-referendum

Barr calls Georgia a 'key state', pledging her support to ballot access in peach state

Greens demand urgent action by Upson County Sheriff

Alerted to the issue by a family member of an inmate in the Upson County Jail near Thomaston Georgia, Green Party activists have called for urgent action to investigate a possible outbreak of a highly contagious flesh eating bacteria, MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus).

"We've collected testimony across the state from inmates whose urgent medical care needs have been neglected," said Hugh Esco, Secretary of the Georgia Green Party. "But the stories we heard last week point to a very clear dereliction of duty by the Upson County Sheriff and with the health care providers with whom they contract. Ignored we fear this outbreak threatens serious public health consequences."

While many staph infections are routinely treated with antibiotics, some strains of staph -- like MRSA -- have become resistant to antibiotics that once destroyed it. MRSA was first discovered in 1961. It's now resistant to methicillin, amoxicillin, penicillin, oxacillin, and many other antibiotics.

How To Waste Your Vote In 2012

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

A vote is a terrible thing to waste, they say. But exactly when are votes wasted? Are they thrown away when cast for the least of multiple evils. Are they squandered when cast for what people really need and want, even if that means a Democrat might not win? Are they lost when people with few or no good choices stay home? Or have voters already been robbed when the menu is limited to corporate-funded Republicans vs. corporate-funded Democrats?

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