Feb 1st 2017 Save The Elliott Forest UO Event

Held in U of O Straub Hall Room 145 starting at 6 p.m. Details listed in the Facebook event posting. This presentation will provide you with background on the Elliott State Forest and the sale process that is underway -- as well as give you the latest developments and provide practical ways you can be involved in keeping the Elliott State Forest in public ownership. Hosted by the Lane Greens Chapter of the Pacific Green Party.

 

Important Message for Bernie Supporters

Bernie_Pledge_2016.png   If you are a Pacific Green Party member who has changed your voter registration to Democrat in order to vote for Bernie Sanders in the May 2016 primary, please protect grassroots democracy in Oregon and make a pledge to re-register with the Pacific Green Party after the primary.  The number of voters we have registered in our party is vital to our ability to place Green Party candidates on your ballot.
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Jill Stein to file suit against Commission on Presidential Debates

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The Green Party, presidential candidate Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party, and others will file suit in U.S. District Court in Washington on September 29 alleging “that the Commission on Presidential Debates is in violation of the venerable old anti-trust laws, the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act.  

Full article is available here: Ballot Access Newsreports.

Help the Benton Food Freedom Campaign

Final_Jan_Logo_Text.png   This week we're organizing a Lawn Sign Canvass Blitz right before the ballots are mailed out on April 30th -- just 5 days away, and we need everyone's help! If you can spare a few hours of your time, please sign up for a volunteer shift this week and help us cover Benton County in YES on 2-89!
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Help Elect Michael Sonnleitner

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Help Michael Sonnleitner win the May 2015 election for Portland Community College Board of Directors (Zone 3).  ELECT a PCC teacher to the PCC Board for the first time! To find out more about Michael's campaign, visit his campaign sites:

Zone 3 PCC  and Facebook Page

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Lane County Chapter Monthly meetups

GREEN_CIRCLE1.PNG   2nd Wednesday of each month the Lane County Chapter has a gathering at the Grower's Market conference room, located across from the Amtrak station, starting at 7 p.m.

Linn-Benton Monthly Chapter Meetings

GREEN_CIRCLE1.PNG    The Linn-Benton chapter of the PGP meets regularly on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7 PM at Westminster House in Corvallis on the corner of 23rd and Monroe Avenue.

A View From Oregon

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Commentary by Blair Bobier, cofounder of the Pacific Green Party.

 

I feel sorry for John Kitzhaber—the soon to be ex-Governor of Oregon.  He’s accomplished a lot, he loves this great state of ours and he seems like a decent enough guy ...

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Oppose Jordan Cove LNG Project

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Multinational energy interests have plans for a massive fossil fuel infrastructure project called Jordan Cove to send fracked gas from Canada and the Rockies through southern Oregon to the north spit of Coos Bay for export by ships bound for Asia. 

Sign Oregon Wild's petition to stop the Jordan Cove LNG Project.

 

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Oregon needs a New Vision

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By Brian Setzler, MBA, CPA.

The old vision, the one this country was founded on, doesn’t work. The human race is having a lethal impact upon the world. Lakes are dying, seas are dying, forests are dying, the land itself is dying – for reasons directly traceable to our activities. As many as a hundred and forty species are vanishing every day—for reasons directly traceable to our activities.

The old vision, grow.

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