Public meeting! Saturday April 28th 10am-12pm City of Fairfax Regional Library

Hello Northern Virginians!

We will be having a public meeting at 10am on Saturday, April 28th at the City of Fairfax Regional Library (10360 North Street, Fairfax).

On the agenda will be:

Ways to support Joe Galdo - Green candidate for Congress 11th district

Ways to support Jill Stein - candidate for the Green Party presidential nomination.

Current issues: ALEC, Move To Amend, and more!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Who is writing all the right wing legislation moving through state legislatures?

Across the country, and right here in Virginia, state legislatures have been passing out favors to big corporations, gutting the rights of workers to organize unions, erecting barrier after barrier to letting people cast their ballot, and rolling back environmental protections. Where does this legislation and expertise come from? The answer is: ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. Funded by big business and wealthy right-wing foundations, it's goal is turning the legislature of a given state into the lapdog of big business. The NY Times has an excellent piece on it.

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Moving forward - The Green Party is building the ideas that fuel the economy of the future

What is the new normal as it applies to the economy? There is no answer to that question, but the ideas are coming together in a new political reality. Cooperative economics, based on ideas, connections, relationships between business, community, consumers, stakeholders, and the environment - these are all Green Party ideas that we can all work on. The change in our economy that can benefit all of us, and make our communities wealthier will not come from Wall Street, it will come from main street.

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CANCELLATION - Today's meeting has been cancelled.

Today's meeting of the Northern Virginia Green Party, at the George Mason Regional Library, has been canceled. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.

The meeting will be rescheduled and an announcement will go out within the next few days.

Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential Candidate to release People's State Of the Union 8:30pm EST

Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, called today for a Green New Deal to counter the "trickle down economic agenda" laid out by President Obama last night in his State of the Union address.Stein plans to release her alternative at 8:30pm Eastern Time in a "People's State of the Union: A Green New Deal for America" that will be given via her campaign website: http://www.JillStein.org After viewing President Obama's address, Stein commented that "It is startling how the candidate who four years ago promised to be an agent of change has morphed into the candidate of more of the same. The key features of the President's State of the Union address were drawn from the centrist Republican agenda. He's glorifying militarism, calling for more business tax cuts, promoting offshore oil drilling and hydrofracking, pushing trillions in cuts to discretionary Federal spending, promising cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and putting American workers into a struggle for survival in a global economy dominated by big corporations."

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