Welcome to the August 2016 issue of the Sunflower Seed! In this issue you will find out how to become a sustaining donor, get a report from the Green Party National Convention, read more about Jill Stein making ballot access and her visit to Minnesota, more on local candidates, and how to get involved at the Minnesota State Fair! Enjoy!

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Every year the Green Party of Minnesota reaches thousands of our neighbors at the Great Minnesota Get Together.  This year we have a great opportunity to promote our Presidential candidate Dr Jill Stein, as well as our local candidates, but we can't do it without you!

Please join your fellow Greens at the booth between August 25th and September 5th, Labor Day.

Thanks to all the hard work of our volunteers and a dramatic influx of completed petitions over the weekend and Monday, we have now significantly surpassed the number required to put Jill Stein on the ballot in Minnesota with over 4,675 signatures turned in so far!

Now it's time to file these signatures with the Secretary of State! Below is information on how you can turn in any signatures you still have:

Welcome to the July 2016 issue of the Sunflower Seed! In this issue you will find out how to become a sustaining donor, read about the explosion of interest in the Greens, Green activism, Green endorsed candidates, the Green Party Presidential race, and Green successes in Spain. Enjoy!

We need YOU to become a sustaining donor!

It's never too late to become a monthly sustaining donor. Giving as little as $5 monthly, or as much as you can, helps grow our Party and allows us to provide principled political alternatives. Anything helps! 

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Congratulations are in order to 15 Now Minnesota, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha,  MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) and all the organizers and volunteers of the minimum wage ballot initiative for the incredible job they did collecting and submitting nearly 20,000, as well as to the City Clerk's office staff for the thorough job they did validating the signatures. 

Why? Because this morning the City Clerk informed the Council and announced to the public, that the petition has a sufficient number of valid signatures to put the minimum wage Charter amendment proposal on the ballot this November.

 I am quite horrified by mainstream media reports that read like police department public relations pieces and Saint Paul DFL Mayor Chris Coleman's victim blaming this morning over last night's #i94shutdown.

I was there, unlike Coleman, and heard protesters (I was one of them) beg police to let children out before they were hit with gas and concussion grenades.

Welcome to the June 2016 issue of the Sunflower Seed! In this issue you will find out how to become a sustaining donor, read about the first Green elected President, our recent Biennial Convention, Green endorsed candidates, and Green Presidential ballot access in Minnesota!

We need YOU to become a sustaining donor!

It's never too late to become a monthly sustaining donor. Giving as little as $5 monthly, or as much as you can, helps grow our Party and allows us to provide principled political alternatives. Anything helps!

Sign up here: Become a Sustaining Donor

In light of the recent outrageous and even hateful reports related to how transgender people are being treated by some units of government, it was particularly moving and, I hope, significant that our local City Council passed a resolution yesterday that will commit the city to 3 things: 

Welcome to the May 2016 issue of the Sunflower Seed! In this issue you will find out how to become a sustaining donor, read about Green successes all over the UK and in the US presidential election, find out about our new and upcoming Green candidate endorsements, and get updates on exciting upcoming events! Enjoy! 

We need YOU to become a sustaining donor!

It's never too late to become a monthly sustaining donor. Giving as little as $5 monthly, or as much as you can, helps grow our Party and allows us to provide principled political alternatives. Anything helps!

Sign up here: Become a Sustaining Donor