Pacific Green Party of Oregon

Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

Jun 19, 2020

Juneteenth Day is an opening for the American Republic to honor promises made years ago. It celebrates the day a Federal General announced that slavery was over in the Union at Galveston, Texas in June 1865 at the end of the Civil War.

Martin Luther King recognized that the way forward must include economic justice. The great injustice of the Civil War, besides the many lives lost, is that the white slave owners were compensated for the economic losses of the war, but the formerly enslaved African Amercans were not given the promised 40 acres and a mule; we are long past the time to rectify this injustice. The Pacific Green Party calls on the federal government to pass a Reparations Act and make Juneteenth a national holiday.

A crucial link in enabling police violence, “qualified immunity,” as a legal defense for oppressive and violent police practices, enables

modern day lynchings. The nation is haunted by Jim Crow every time a black person is killed. Now white Americans are marching in solidarity with African Americans and other people of color demanding justice.

Pacific Greens call for a renewal of justice by making law enforcement fully accountable in both civil and criminal law for their actions.

"E Puribus Unum: from many comes one nation; but for the African American community this Latin motto is thin as the copper coating on a modern penny, a hollow claim of national solidarity," said Charles Newlin, Pacific Green press contact

Pacific Greens denounce CARES ACT; support solidarity with workers; call for General Strike

Apr 29, 2020

The Pacific Green Party of Oregon issued a May Day statement declaring solidarity with working people of America.

Salem, Oregon –

"As we approach May Day, 2020, Pacific Greens of Oregon stand in solidarity with workers of the world, unionized and not, and invite us all, we the people, to envision a world that dignifies all people, without the extreme class divide which locks many into a permanent state of poverty. The Pacific Green Party supports workers’ rights to organize, to earn a living wage, to have medical care and affordable housing,” declares the open statement for May Day celebration.

Feb 1st 2017 Save The Elliott Forest UO Event

Jan 31, 2017

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

Mar 12, 2016

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.

Jill Stein to file suit against Commission on Presidential Debates

Sep 16, 2015

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.