Hello Greens and Green friends!
Our annual Green Party Caucus is set for May 17th at 1:30 in the big room at Village Hall. This is the time to help shape the direction of the most progressive party in New Paltz for another year. All registered Greens are welcome to attend with their ideas, hopes, wishes, and dreams. We will also be electing party officers, so please come to vote and run for office.
It's an election year, and the national debate seems to be between a white woman (yay for a woman president!) and an African-American man (yay for a person of color for president!) - too bad the platforms of these candidates are not nearly as revolutionary as their gender and skin color. If you want to support a truly progressive party not beholden to corporate interests, not ignoring the giant problems facing working people today, not trusting the problem of global warming to the free market - the Green Party is your party.
Plus, Cynthia McKinney, an African-American woman, is running for the nomination for president for the national Green Party. Talk about a party that has it all.
If you can't come to the caucus, please consider making a one-time or recurring donation to ensure that the most progressive party in New Paltz can continue doing the vital work of keeping our community healthy and strong and leftist!
New Paltz is green.
The New Paltz Green Party was formed in 1996 and has run candidates
for local, county and state office consistently since then. In 2008 it was determined that, proportionally, Greens in New Paltz vote in larger numbers than Democrats and Republicans. We're making a difference!
In 2003, New Paltz elected the first Green Party members to public office in New York State when Jason West was elected Mayor and Rebecca Rotzler elected Village Trustee. Since then, half a dozen more Greens have won elected office around the state, from School Board to Mayor of Cobleskill.
Here at home, over two dozen Greens serve in local government,
including Edgar Rodriguez, who is on the New Paltz School Board, and Margaret Human, who is on the New Paltz Town Planning Board. Other
Greens serve as members of the Planning Board, Fire Department,
Environmental Commission, and student government at SUNY.
The New Paltz Green Party has focused our work on protecting the
environment, promoting affordable housing and economic justice and
fighting institutional racism in our schools and police department.
The New Paltz Green Party holds regular meetings on the 2nd Wednesday
and 4th Tuesdays of every month, at 7:30 PM, at Village Hall.
To find out more about the New Paltz Green Party, come to a meeting,
read through our website here, or contact us.
We recently ran a wonderful campaign for Town Council.
Click here to read all about it.
