Contact:   English – Jeff Winder (434) 906-0421 jeff@thepeopleunited.org                 Spanish – Sue Frankel-Streit (540) 717-1051littleflowercw@wildmail.com1/28/09 Farmville, VA – As reported in today’s New York Times,immigrant detainees in Farmville’s Piedmont Regional Jail have comeforward to expose conditions of medical neglect that contributed todeath of Guido Newborough in November of last year. Eyewitnessesreport that Newborough was in intense pain for two weeks, frequentlyasking for medical attention. They maintain that he never receivedthat attention, but was instead knocked to the floor by guards anddragged on his back to the isolation unit where he remained until hesuffered the massive heart attack and stroke that led to his death.Jeff Winder of regional advocacy group The People United was contactedby several detainees for help in getting the truth out. “They wereoutraged when they saw the statement from ICE in the local newspaper,”Winder said. “They are afraid of repercussions by ICE or by the jailguards because they are speaking out, but were so moved by GuidoNewborough’s death that they felt compelled to take the risk andexpose the conditions that exist in Piedmont.”The People United and other groups have been working in opposition toplans by Farmville and the private company Immigration Centers ofAmerica (ICA) to construct a new 1,000 bed, for-profit immigrantdetention center in Farmville. Despite the fact that ICA has noexperience in managing detention centers, Farmville town ManagerGerald Spates has assured The People United that all is well because”They plan to bring in key staff from the Piedmont Regional Jail.”Advocacy groups are not reassured by this assertion. “The medicalneglect in Piedmont Regional Jail is unconscionable,” said SueFrankel-Streit, another organizer with the People United. “This is thesecond time in two years that a detainee has died here amidstallegations of medical neglect,” she continued referring to anotherNew York Times article which reported that in 2006, detainee AbdouliSall died in the jail while huddled against a clothes dryer for warmthafter being denied his prescription medication.News of the planned detention center has fueled the fear growing amongVirginia’s immigrant families in the wake of increased ICE jobsiteraids over the past year.  ”Immigrants are here looking for work inorder to feed their children,” Said Margarita Gonzales, a native ofMexico, as she addressed the Farmville Town Council last month. “It’snot necessary to put us in jail.  .  . We hope that you will leave usto live in peace. We’re only trying to create secure lives forourselves, just as you are.”ICA has promised a windfall to Farmville’s economy, but advocates warnthis may not pan out. “Last month, ICE cancelled its contract with adetention center in Wyatt, RI after a scandal surrounding a deathsimilar to Guido Newborough’s erupted there,” said Winder. “Farmvillecould find itself in the same situation - with a brand-new jail thatsits empty and the reputation of a prison town where suspicious deathshave occurred.”Interviews are available with Piedmont detainees as well as immigrantsand citizens working against the proposed detention center from theirown communities of Tidewater, Richmond, Northern VA, Fredericksburg,Charlottesville, Louisa, Harrisonburg and Lynchburg.For more information visit http://www.thepeopleunited.org.

Dear President Obama:

Underneath many of our country’s economic problems is the thirty-year collapse of consumer protection-both of the regulatory kind and of the self-help kind known as proper access to justice.

Last month major consumer groups sent you a letter proposing action to rein in exploitation of consumers as debtors, as buyers of oil, gas and electricity, as patients needing health insurance and as eaters wanting safe goods.

Under the Bush regime, the words “consumer protection” were rarely uttered and the Bush administration almost never initiated any pro-consumer efforts, even with massive evidence before it, such as predatory lending and credit card abuses.

You need to recognize and elevate the GDP significance of fair consumer policies along with their moral and just attributes at a time of worsening recession.

I suggest you focus on the state of the poorest consumers in the urban and rural ghettos. As you know from your days with the New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG) and as a community organizer in Chicago, the consumers in these areas are the most gouged and least protected. That the “poor pay more” has been extensively documented by civic, official and academic studies, and numerous local newspaper and television news reports.

Unfortunately, neither Congress nor the Executive branch have paid adequate attention to the tens of millions of people who lose at least 25 percent of their consumer dollars to multiple frauds and shoddy merchandise. You should establish special task forces in the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission on their plight and on the many proven but unused remedies to assure a fair marketplace with effective enforcement and grievance procedures.

Working with and galvanizing local and state agencies to enlarge their capacity and staff-with stimulus monies-can produce a triple-header-making the federal effort more effective, providing valuable jobs and freeing up billions of consumer dollars from the financial sink-hole of commercial crimes.

It requires the visibility and eloquence of your personal leadership to launch this long-overdue defense of poor people.

A second area of action is simply to update major areas of regulatory health and safety that have been frozen for thirty years. These include modernizing standards for auto and tire safety, food safety, aviation and railroad safety and occupational health and trauma protection.

New knowledge, new marketing forays, and new technologies have accumulated during this period without application. It is the obsolescence of so many safety standards hailing from the fifties, sixties and seventies that permits the tricky, corporate advertising claims that products “exceed federal safety standards.”

Note for example that the SEC has never come close to regulating the recent explosion of myriad collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). The massive speculation in this area is destabilizing the national and world economies.

Third, you need to articulate and provide a high profile to what western Europeans have long called “social consumerism.” Citizens are consumers of government services for which they pay as taxpayers. In return they are entitled to prompt, accurate and courteous responses to their inquiries and to their perceived needs as embraced by the authorizing statutes.

To begin with, Americans need to be able to get through to their government agencies and departments. Being put on hold interminably with automated messages to nowhere, not receiving replies of any kind to their letters, and generally getting the brush-off even with the deadlines explicated in the Freedom of Information Act have been a bi-partisan failure.

However, under the Bush regime, not answering serious letters from dedicated individuals and groups on time-sensitive matters of policy and action-as with the Iraq war and occupation-became standard operating procedure-starting with President Bush himself.

This stonewalling has turned people off so much that they do not even bother to “ask their government” for assistance and that includes an astonishingly unresponsive Congress (other than for ministerial requests such as locating lost VA or social security checks.)

As you shape the Obama White House, bear in mind that the “change you can believe in” is one of kind, not just degree.

Sincerely yours,

Ralph Nader

 From Liberty Underground: Amnesty International has said it is “undeniable” that Israel used white phosphorus in crowded civilian areas, contrary to international law, charging that this amounted to a war crime.   Accusing Israel of using excessive force, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has demanded that those responsible for bombing UN buildings in the Palestinian territory be made accountable.   Eight Israeli human rights groups have called on the Israeli government to investigate the scale of the casualties, describing  the number of dead women and children as “terrifying.” But it is clear the Israeli government is in all-out cover-up mode.  Yesterday, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, said  ”The commanders and soldiers sent to Gaza need to know that they are completely safe from different tribunals and Israel will help and protect them.” We hope we’re wrong on this, but expect the Obama regime to veto any effort in the UN Security Council to bring charges against Olmert so that he may be tried in the World Court.  So far, President Obama has pretended not to notice the human rights horror.

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Dear Green Party friend,The financial crisis has created a political stampede to stimulate the economy, and as usual the Conservative government is using a crisis as a cover. It is planning to dismantle Canada’s environmental protection legislation. Transport Minister John Baird said recently that the plan to speed up infrastructure spending is being held up by 100-year-old rules. This is the same man who gave us a climate change plan designed to accomplish nothing other than media hits.He was referring to the Navigable Waters Protection Act, a law that has enabled the federal government to protect lakes and rivers for a century. It, along with the Environmental Assessment Act and the Environmental Protection Act, gives the federal government both the right and the responsibility to preserve Canada’s natural heritage. Last Thursday, environmental groups released evidence that the government plans to gut the Environmental Assessment Act.These environmental laws were written so that the environmental implications of projects are considered before construction begins. They are of fundamental importance to protecting our wildlife, our air, and our water.Too many times in the past we have ignored the environment in our rush to go faster only to learn, once it was too late, that the environment was at risk.The Green Party advocates stimulating the green economy to create jobs and secure our children’s future, but we cannot let the financial crisis cloud our judgment. We must see it as an opportunity to make the right kinds of decisions, to preserve our environmental protections, and to invest in the green economy.The budget will come on January 27th, and all the attention will be focused on the billions being spent and the huge deficit. We can’t let the Conservative government use the budget and the crisis tocover up the dismantling of Canada’s environmental protection legislation.Please join us in raising the alarm. Voice your concern! Contact the Hon. Jim Prentice, Minister of Environment, to let him know we are watching. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper. Make a donation to help us in our fight against these changes. Chère amie, Cher ami du Parti Vert,La crise économique a provoqué un stampede politique pour redresser l’économie et, comme à son habitude, le gouvernement conservateur se sert de la crise comme prétexte. Cette fois, il prévoitdémolir les dispositions législatives en matière de protection de l’environnement. Le ministre des Transports John Baird a annoncé récemment que le plan de son gouvernement pour accélérer les investissements en infrastructure était contrecarré par des règlements vieux de cent ans. C’est le même homme qui, alors qu’il était ministre de l’Environnement, nous a donné un plan sur les changements climatiques conçu pour ne rien faire du tout sinon épater les médias.Il faisait notamment référence à la Loi sur la protection des eaux navigables, une loi qui a permis au gouvernement fédéral d’assurer pendant plus d’un siècle la protection des lacs et des rivières. Cette dernière, combinée à la Loi canadienne sur l’évaluation environnementale (LCEE) et à la Loi canadienne sur la protection de l’environnement (LCPE), donne au gouvernement fédéral le droit et la responsabilité de préserver le patrimoine naturel du Canada. Mardi dernier, des groupes écologistes ont publié des informations selon lesquelles le gouvernement prévoyait donner un grand coup de massue dans la LCEE Ces dispositions environnementales ont été conçues pour que les projets d’infrastructure tiennent compte des impacts sur l’environnement avant le début de la construction. Elles jouent un rôle crucial dans la protection de la faune et de la qualité de l’air et de l’eau.Trop souvent par le passé, nous avons relégué l’environnement au second plan dans notre précipitation, pour découvrir après coup que nous avions causé des torts irréparables à l’environnement.Le Parti Vert prône la mise en œuvre d’un plan de relance de l’économie verte, afin de créer des emplois et d’assurer l’avenir de nos enfants. Nous ne pouvons pas laisser la crise économique affecter notre jugement. Nous devons  considérer cette crise comme l’occasion de prendre les bonnes décisions, de conserver les dispositions législatives qui protègent notre environnement, et d’investir dans une économie verte.Le budget sera dévoilé le mardi 27 janvier, alors que toute l’attention sera tournée vers les milliards de dollars dépensés et l’énorme déficit. Nous ne pouvons pas laisser le gouvernement conservateur se servir du budget pour dissimuler le démantèlement des dispositions législatives environnementales du Canada.Joignez-vous à nous pour sonner l’alarme et faites part de vos préoccupations! Communiquez avec l’honorable Jim Prentice, ministre de l’Environnement, pour lui rappeler que nous l’avons à l’œil. Écrivez une lettre à la rédaction de votre journal local. Faites un don pour soutenir notre lutte contre ces changements.

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http://www.gp.orgFor Immediate Release:Friday, January 23, 2009Contacts:Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.orgStarlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.orgWASHINGTON, DC — Rosa Clemente, the Green Party’s 2008 candidate for Vice President of the United States, has announced a national speaking tour with a focus on Hip Hop conferences, symposiums, town hall meetings, and many other public events, as well as Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and Latino Heritage Month.Know Thy Self Productions LLC is organizing the tour, which is titled ‘The Path of Most Resistance Tour 2009.’ Ms. Clemente can be reached at clementerosa@gmail.com and at 347-489-9738.”The tour will be a chance to continue speaking about the important themes we raised in the McKinney-Clemente campaign,” said Ms. Clemente. “While while many in this country, particularly the Hip-Hop generation, have high hopes for the Obama Administration, now is not the time to be silent. The first few months are critical — we must make our voices heard, if we want to see a real change in the direction of the United States.”Rosa Alicia Clemente is a community organizer, radio journalist (WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City), Hip-Hop activist, and the first Latina in US history to run for Vice President. She was the running mate of former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Ms. Clemente was recently commissioned by the Green Institute (http://www.greeninstitute.net) to write four articles describing her experiences on the 2008 campaign trail. Her first piece, “Why President Elect Barack Obama is not the first Hip Hop President,” has already been posted on the site (http://www.greeninstitute.net/clemente_obama). She has been featured on Pacifica, BET, Air America, CNN, MSNBC, Al-jazeera, and other networks. Before the vice-presidential campaign, Ms. Clemente participated in several other speaking tours, including the Hip Hop for President Tour with Rebel Diaz, Speak Truth to Power Tour, ACLU College Freedom Tour, and Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win.Ms. Clemente has delivered workshops, lectures, and commentary for over fifteen years. In 1995, she developed Know Thy Self Productions, a people of color speakers’ bureau. Seeing a need for young people of color to be heard and taken seriously, she began presenting workshops and lectures at universities, high schools, community centers, and prisons. She has presented at over 400 colleges, conferences, town halls, rallies, and international conferences. Know Thy Self Productions includes an expanded college speakers bureau which has produced four major Hip-Hop activism tours and consults on issues of media justice, voter engagement amongst youth, and youth development.Born and raised in the South Bronx and Elmsford, New York, Rosa Alicia Clemente is a graduate of the University of Albany and Cornell University. Ms. Clemente’s academic work has covered national liberation struggles in the US, with a specific focus on the Young Lords Party, the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, Afro-Latino identity and politics, media justice, and African-American and Latino relations.While a student at the University of Albany (SUNY), she was the first Puerto Rican woman to serve as president of the Albany State University Black Alliance (ASUBA). She was appointed Director of Multicultural Affairs for the Student Association during her senior year. At Cornell Ms. Clemente was a founding member of La Voz Boriken, a social political organization dedicated to supporting Puerto Rican political prisoners and Puerto Rican independence movements. In 2001, she was a youth representative at the United Nations World Conference against Xenophobia, Racism and Related Intolerance in South Africa and in 2002 was named by Red Eye Magazine as one of the top 50 Hip-Hop Activists to look out for.In 2003, Ms. Clemente co-founded and coordinated the first ever National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC), which drew over 3000 activists who created and implemented a national political agenda for the Hip-Hop generation. In 2005 she co-founded the R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop Coalition, a Hip-Hop generation-based media justice organization. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged the Gulf Coast, Rosa Clemente traveled as an independent journalist to the devastated areas; her on-the-ground reports were distributed all over the world.MORE INFORMATIONGreen Party of the United States http://www.gp.org202-319-7191, 866-41GREENFax 202-319-7193Tally of Green election victories http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/election-results.htmlGreen candidate news http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.phpGreen candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtmlGreen Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtmlGreen Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakersGreen Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-electionsRosa Clemente http://www.rosaclemente.org~ END ~

The Virginia SWCS compiles legislative updates on issues in the Virginia General Assembly of relevance to members of the various Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Districts. Since there has been talk amongst GPVA members about running for SWCD seats, I thought this might be relevant. It details bill names, numbers, status, sponsors and brief descriptions. The following link is an HTML document created from the original MS Word update mailed out by the VASWCS.

Click here for Legislative tracking report #2

The VASWCS legislative policy update page can be accessed here

Not to add insult to injury for Land America’s fired workers, but is anyone that surprised that the house of cards has fallen? After all, its CEO was giving money to Congressman Cantor. If you recall, Cantor also received money from Enron, but to be fair, so did many Congressional figures. Just remember, Congress has already given itself its own stimulus.

From Liberty Underground News:A French news report begins this morning “US-led coalition forces Saturday said they killed 15 armed militants in eastern Afghanistan, but local legislators say the casualties were civilians including women and children.” And al Jazeera reports ”At least 19 people have been killed in two missile attacks by suspected US drones flying over northwest Pakistan” yesterday.  French news reports “including three children and at least four civilians.”  This is a clear violation of international law and officially condemned by the government of Pakistan. “As you know I am not going to comment on those matters,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters despite being repeatedly pressed to discuss the reports.  This is our new free and open government, change we can believe in.  No change in the bombing practices. 

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATEShttp://www.gp.orgFor Immediate Release:Monday, January 19, 2009Contacts:Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.orgStarlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.orgMounting Israeli atrocities require immediate US pressure on Israel, say Greens in a challenge to President-elect ObamaThe key to peace: ensuring democracy, equality, and human rights for all in Israel-PalestineWASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders said today that President Obama must press Israel to end the occupation as part of any lasting truce in the siege of Gaza.”For a truce to hold, Israel must not only end the siege of Gaza but also take steps to end the occupation of Palestinian lands, obey international law, and ensure the safety of every Palestinian and Israeli civilians. But Israel is unlikely to take these steps without pressure from the US. President Obama, after his inauguration, has the power to persuade Israel to abandon its military goals and guarantee human rights and equality,” said Hajja Romi Elnagar, a member of the Green Party of Louisiana.The Green Party has called for a halt in US military assistance to Israel. The party also urges boycott and divestment until Israel observes international law, ends the illegal 42-year occupation and systematic destruction of Palestinian civil society, and abolishes its apartheid-like system within Israel as well as in the occupied territories (http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_11_28.shtml).Greens noted that Israel has barred Palestinian-Israeli candidates from upcoming elections because their parties opposed the Gaza operation and advocate changing Israel from a Jewish state to a state for all its citizens. Over 20% of Israel’s population are non-Jews.”The main burden of any ceasefire must fall on Israel, a nuclear power with one of the most powerful armies in the world that has enjoyed billions in aid from the US. Over 1,200 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza invasion from bombings in heavily populated areas that have hit civilian buildings. Under two dozen Israelis have been killed, most of whom are soldiers. Israel has subjected Palestinian areas to concentration-camp conditions and daily brutality, bulldozed homes and farms, and evicted Palestinians to make way for Israeli Jewish settlers,” said Rosa Clemente, the Green Party’s 2008 candidate for Vice President of the United States (http://www.rosaclemente.com).Greens pointed to reports that the Israeli Defense Force is using illegal white phosphorus bombs in Gaza.and is testing experimental US weapons systems in the assault (”Is Israel Using Illegal Weapons in Its Offensive on Gaza? by Amira Hass, Ha’aretz, January 16, http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1055927.html). The IDF has dropped bombs on civilian targets (including a UN school, shelters, and supply storage centers) despite the fact that it was given coordinates to their locations to prevent such strikes (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056258.html).Israel has also blocked journalists, human rights organizations, food deliveries, medical personnel, and medical supplies from entering Gaza, cut off water and electricity, and bombed a sewage plant. 2008 Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney participated in an effort to deliver medical supplies until the delivery boat she was traveling on was surrounded by Israeli gunboats and rammed by one of them (http://www.gp.org/cynthia/index.shtml).The Green Party of the United States supports an immediate UN-sponsored, multinational peacekeeping force to protect civilians and to oversee implementation of all UN resolutions and the dismantling of the occupation (http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/democracy.html#307394).”The worst that Barack Obama can do is to maintain the Middle East policies of previous Democratic and Republican administrations. If Mr. Obama embraces the rule of international law and redirects funding from aid to Israel to support for a peacekeeping force, ensuring the provision of medical and other supplies to the occupied Palestinian territories, and rebuilding Palestinian infrastructure, he’ll go down in history as a peacemaker,” said Jill Bussiere, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States.MORE INFORMATIONGreen Party of the United States http://www.gp.org202-319-7191, 866-41GREENFax 202-319-7193Tally of Green election victories http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/election-results.htmlGreen candidate news http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.phpGreen candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtmlGreen Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtmlGreen Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakersGreen Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections~ END ~

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATEShttp://www.gp.orgFor Immediate Release:Monday, January 19, 2009Contacts:Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.orgStarlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.orgVideo clips and short essays from Green Party leaders and candidates: http://www.gp.org/first100WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party has asked Green leaders from all over the US to tell America what a Green President of the United States would do during the ‘First 100 Days’ of his or her administration.Green candidates and members of the Green Party’s Speakers Bureau (http://www.gp.org/speakers) submitted video clips and short essays to describe what actions Greens would take do if elected to the White House and what Green steps President Obama should take to resolve the nation’s problems.”This is our Inauguration Day gift to Barack Obama and to America. We celebrate the landmark election of America’s first African American president, but we’re worried that Barack Obama will retreat from his promises of change, especially given some of his Cabinet appointments. That’s why we’ve collected these recommendations from prominent Green Party members — to support vital change,” said Sanda Everett, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States.Readers and viewers are encouraged to post their comments in responses to the videos and essays. More ‘First 100 Days’ videos and essays will be added to the site in the coming weeks.FIRST 100 DAYS of a Green Presidential Administrationhttp://www.gp.org/first100/VIDEO CLIPSCynthia McKinney, 2008 Green candidate for President of the United StatesPalestine, Israel, and Ms. McKinney’s recent trip on a relief boat destined for Gazahttp://www.gp.org/first100/?p=93http://www.vimeo.com/2861110This clip is also posted on the Green Party’s home page, http://www.gp.orgSee also ‘Cynthia McKinney on Gaza’: http://www.gp.org/cynthia/index.shtmlPete Van, Jr., 2006 Green Party Candidate for the Michigan State House of Representatives/District 88 (Allegan County)The Economy: The First 100 Days of my administration, will leave many people green with envyhttp://www.gp.org/first100/?p=4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3-GAYaP8PMLaura Wells, 2002 and 2006 Green Party candidate for State Controller, CaliforniaTo understand what is happening in Washington, follow the moneyhttp://www.gp.org/first100/?p=22http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=batTYrLqsqwSHORT ESSAYSBrian Czech, Ph.D. ecologist and Certified Wildlife Biologist; President, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State EconomyThe First Hundred Days: A Precedent for the Next Hundred Yearshttp://www.gp.org/first100/?p=12Morgen D’Arc, Co-Founder, Co-Spokesperson and Former Co-Chair, National Women’s Caucus; Chair, Cumberland (Maine) County Green Party; 2002 Candidate for Cumberland County Register of DeedsWomen: Rights, Issues and Conditions. A Breakthrough Agendahttp://www.gp.org/first100/?p=101Kathy Dopp, M.S. Mathematics, Executive Director, National Election Data Archive, UtahEstablish Public Oversight over Election Integrityhttp://www.gp.org/first100/?p=17Ron Forthofer, 2002 Green Party candidate for Governor of Colorado, 2000 candidate for Congress, ColoradoPeace in the Middle Easthttp://www.gp.org/first100/?p=9Deeana Taylor, Co-Coordinator, Desert Greens Green Party of Utah, 2006 Green Party candidate for Salt Lake County CouncilSingle Payer Health Carehttp://www.gp.org/first100/?p=48MORE INFORMATIONGreen Party of the United States http://www.gp.org202-319-7191, 866-41GREENFax 202-319-7193Tally of Green election victories http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/election-results.htmlGreen candidate news http://www.gp.org/2008-elections/candidate-news.phpGreen candidate database for 2008 and other campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtmlGreen Party News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtmlGreen Party Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakersGreen Party ballot access page http://www.gp.org/2008-elections~ END ~