Green Party of Minnesota

The Green Party of MN Winter Membership Meeting will be held at North Regional Library, 1315 Lowry Avenue Northeast, Minneapolis.

All members are welcome to attend.
We'll have a very short business meeting, then we'll hear about energy storage technology and how it can help us transition to clean energy solutions, and also about the foreclosure crisis and what is happening with it.

More details will be made available as we get them.
[Apologies, we're working hard on caucuses right now]

The Green Party of Minnesota will hold Precinct Caucuses on Feb 2, at 6:30 pm, except for the 4th Congressional District (St. Paul and Eastern suburbs), which will be held at 7pm.

The following caucus locations have been canceled! Please double-check the following list!

• 01 A & B (Crookston)
• 03A (International Falls) - Nearest location is Cloquet (Cloquet Public Library, 320 14th St)
• 04A & B (Cass Lake) - Nearest location is St. Cloud (St. Cloud Public Library, 1300 W St Germain Street)
• 05 - 07 (Two Harbors) - Nearest location is Cloquet (Cloquet Public Library, 320 14th St)
• 09 B, 10 - 11 (Detroit Lakes, Douglas County) - Nearest location is St. Cloud (St. Cloud Public Library, 1300 W St Germain Street)
• 18 (Hutchinson)
• 22, 24 (Jackson County) - Nearest location is Mankato (Lincoln Community Center, 110 Fulton Street Rm 204)
• 27 (Austin) - Nearest location is Mankato (Lincoln Community Center, 110 Fulton Street Rm 204)
• 29 - 31 (Lanesboro) - Nearest location is Red Wing (Red Wing Public Library, 225 East Avenue)
• 60B (Linden Hills Neighborhood, Minneapolis) - Combine with 60A (Walker Library, 2880 Hennepin)

Cynthia McKinney will be the keynote speaker on Saturday, November 7, when Minnesota Greens gather at their fall membership meeting. McKinney is a former six-term Congresswoman from Georgia and the Green Party's candidate for president in 2008. She has been noted in the past year for her efforts to get medical supplies and other humanitarian aid into Gaza and for being jailed by the Israeli government.

The meeting, which will focus on Green Party electoral strategy in 2010, will be held in the Hennepin County Government Center at 300 So. 6th Street in downtown Minneapolis. McKinney will speak at 12:30. All members and friends of the Green Party are invited.

It's that time of year again!
As always, the Green Party of Minnesota will have its booth at the state fair on the second level in the grandstand.
Stop by, meet volunteers, get info about our campaigns and candidates.
Candidate Schedule:

Cam Gordon (Minneapolis Ward 2) -- August 27th -- 12pm - 3pm
Andy Exley (Minneapolis Ward 6) -- August 28th -- 9am - 3pm

(Updates as they come in)

The Green Party of Minnesota is outraged at the sudden vote on April 2 by which the state Senate seeks to bypass public debate and end the ban on licensing new nuclear reactors. The measure, already defeated in one House committee, was attached as an amendment to another energy bill on the floor of the Senate and passed by a vote of 42 to 24.

The Green Party of Minnesota condemns the ongoing bombing of the Palestinian territory of Gaza by the Israeli military. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, and many more are seriously wounded. There can be no justification for this violence.

It is with deep sadness that St. Paul Greens have seen our city become an armed camp during the past week. The presence of the RNC gave St. Paul an opportunity to set a shining example of a community where diversity of opinion and freedom of expression are welcomed and where civil disobedience is handled firmly but with restraint. The result would have been trust and respect for law officers and a long step toward realizing our vision of St. Paul as one of the world's greenest cities.

Thanks to hard work by volunteers and lots of signatures of regular Minnesotans, the Secretary of State has accepted our petition to put Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente on the ballot in November. To read more about the Green Party nominated candidates for president and vice president, check out our candidates page.

Greens have been among those targeted for harassment and intimidation by police in a wave of pre-emptive actions taken before the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.

On Saturday police surrounded the home of Michael Whelan, a long-time Green Party supporter, whose Arise Bookstore at one time housed the party's office. He was host to a group of independent journalists. The police broke down doors and subjected occupants to house arrest. "You figure this would be going on in South Africa, or Russia, not in St. Paul," Whelan said. "St. Paul is nice."

On Tuesday, August 26th, supporters of Cynthia McKinney delivered over 2,700 petition signatures to gain ballot access for the candidate and her running mate Rosa Clemente. A minimum of 2,000 certified signatures is required by the state of Minnesota in order to gain ballot access in the November 4th general election.