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The following locations have been confirmed for Green Party caucuses. We will be updating these in the coming week, so be sure to check back if you don't see a location in your area! You can also call the Green Party office at 651-288-2820, or visit the Secretary of State's caucus finder at http://caucusfinder.sos.state.mn.us/.
Northfield Public Library
210 Washington Street
6-8 p.m., Meeting Room
Northfield 55057
Seth Kuhl-Stennes, convener
SD25B, 26B
St. Cloud State University
Atwood Memorial Center
720 4th Ave. S., Oak Room
St. Cloud 56301
Garner Moffat, convener
SD14, 15
Lincoln Community Center
110 Fulton Street Room 204
Mankato 56001
Tom Marks, convener
SD21B, 23, 24, 25A, 26A
Red Wing High School
2451 Eagle Ridge Drive
L100
Red Wing 55066
Hank Brummer, convener
SD28
Mayo High School Auditorium
1420 11th Ave SE
Rochester 55904
Becki Smith, convener
SD29
Edina Community Center
5701 Normandale Rd
Room 350
Edina 55424
David VanDongen, convener
SD41
Plymouth City Hall
3400 Plymouth Blvd
Medicine Lake Room
Plymouth 55447
David Strand, convener
SD43
Brookdale Public Library
6125 Shingle Creek Pkwy
Study Room 1
Brooklyn Center 55430
Allan Hancock, convener
SD46
Champlin Public Library, 6:30-8:00
12154 Ensign Ave N
Champlin Meeting Room
Champlin 55316
Will Chapoton, convener
SD47
St. Paul Central High School
275 Lexington Pkwy. N.
Room #1202
St. Paul 55102
Roger Meyer, convener
CD4
Edison High School
700 22nd Ave. NE
Minneapoli 55418
Small Gym
Megan Kuhl-Stennes & Tori Johnston, conveners
SD50, 51, 54, 58, 59
Washburn High School
201 West 49th Street
Minneapolis 55419
Media Center
Holle Brian & Sue Leskela, conveners
SD60, 62, 63
Wilder Building
3345 Chicago Ave.
Minneapolis 55407
Farheen Hakeem, convener
SD61
Rockford Road Library
6401 42nd Ave. N.
Crystal 55427
Rockford Road Conference Room
Laura Libby & Stacy Arland, conveners
SD44, 45
Lake Elmo Elementary School
11030 Stillwater Blvd N
Lake Elmo 55042
Bob Schmitz, convener
SD56
Glencoe-Silver Lake High School
1825 16th St E, Room 300
Glencoe 55336
Jared Schwab, convener
SD18A
Brainerd Public Library
416 S. 5th Street
large meeting room
Brainerd
Marcia Thurmer, convener
SD12
Bemidji Public Library
509 America Ave NW
Bemidji 56601
Aaron Tank, convener
SD4
Cambridge Isanti High School
430 NW 8th Ave, Room 119 (Lounge)
Cambridge 55008
Leroy Schaffer, convener
SD17A
If you are filling out a Minnesota income tax form or Minnesota property tax refund or renter's refund form, be sure to check the box for the Green Party under the State Elections Campaign Fund section. It doesn't cost you anything and the Green Party benefits by receiving public funds based on how many people designate a contribution.
Green Party caucus locations are now listed on the Secretary of State's website. Go to http://caucusfinder.sos.state.mn.us/ and enter your zip code or county and street address to find your GP caucus.
We are working to confirm more locations around the state, so if you don't see a caucus for your area, check back again before February 7.
The 2012 campaign strategy committee will be meeting biweekly at the GPMN office conference room, 180 5th St. E. in Saint Paul. All GP members and supporters are welcome to participate! We are working on campaign messaging, candidate support and recruitment. This is a good opportunity to find out more about the GP and how to run for office as a Green.
Sunday, Feb. 5, 2-4 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 19, 6-8 p.m.
The GPMN campaign strategy committee has been working on a platform to help build a message for this year's state candidates. We would welcome your input and would like you to fill out and return a ballot with your top priorities. The ballot can be found at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dbFcifASCaitpYCqfsJT-JjYAq5tTb8df2f1... (Platform Issues Ballot.doc)
Please email your ballot to skuhlstennes@gmail.com by Sunday, January 15.
All Green Party members and supporters are invited to participate. Note that this is a work in progress and will continue to be developed with your help.
GP members and supporters are also welcome to attend the campaign strategy committee meeting this Sunday, January 8 from 6-8 p.m. at the GPMN conference room, 180 5th St. E. in Saint Paul. Future meetings are planned for Jan. 22nd, Feb. 5th, and Feb. 19th.
Thanks and go Greens!
The Green Party of Minnesota stands in solidarity with the 99% -- those people in America who do not have the power and privilege of owning 40% of the nation's wealth.
We support the efforts of OccupyMN and the peaceful encampment on the People's Plaza in Minneapolis, as well as similar occupations nationwide.
We support the "one demand" of Occupied Wall Street:
Ending capital punishment is our one demand.
Ending wealth inequality is our one demand.
Ending police intimidation is our one demand.
Ending corporate censorship is our one demand.
Ending the modern gilded age is our one demand.
Ending political corruption is our one demand.
Ending joblessness is our one demand.
Ending poverty is our one demand.
Ending health-profiteering is our one demand.
Ending American imperialism is our one demand.
Ending war is our one demand.
These demands are consistent with the Green Party's four pillars of Ecological Wisdom, Nonviolence, Social and Economic Justice and Grassroots Democracy. Together let us build a just and sustainable society where people live in harmony with each other and with nature.
The Republican dominated Minnesota State Legislature, in the face of the majority of their constituents’ acceptance of the right of Gays and Lesbians to marry, have voted to put a proposal for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage on the ballot in November 2012. With a law prohibiting same- sex marriage already on the books as the so-called Defense of Marriage Act of 1997, there is no legal justification for such an action and we can only conclude that conservative legislators are once again basing decisions that affect all citizens on their narrow personal moral and religious beliefs. We believe that this clearly contradicts the core principle of separation of church and state held sacred by the very founding fathers these lawmakers claim as role models.
While some Democrats, including Governor Mark Dayton and senator Scott Dibble, who is gay, did speak out publicly against the amendment, there were only 3 ½ hours of debate before the measure passed in the Senate. Once again the two party system has failed to give Minnesotans a voice in fighting the domination of Minnesota politics by officials who are more beholden to special interest groups that to the citizens they were elected to represent.
Since its founding in 1994, the Green Party of Minnesota has supported legalizing marriage for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and trans-gendered people by applying the same standards, requirements, privileges, and responsibilities as applied to different-sexed couples. We urge all Minnesotans to speak out and help Minnesota Greens and other organizations concerned with civil liberties to let their congress people know what a travesty of justice this amendment would represent and to join us in voting “NO” in November 2012. With New York now joining the five other states, Washington, D.C., and the Coquille Indian Tribe in Oregon where gay marriage is legal, and with abolishment of the military policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” we are hopeful that the tide is turning toward full protection of the civil rights of LGBT citizens.
The recent stalemate between the Democratic Governor and Republican controlled legislature in not being able to reach agreement on closing the State’s $5 billion budget deficit is yet another example of the failure of two parties funded by corporate and special interest dollars to represent the people of Minnesota. The Republicans continue to carry forward the failed policies of former governor, Tim Pawlenty, cutting tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for already beleaguered social service, education, and environmental programs, as well as essential local government services, and offering no options for new revenue to replace the resulting losses in consumer discretionary income. At the same time, these policies have filled corporate coffers and continue to contribute to the quadrupling of executive salaries that began in the mid-seventies, compared with a net loss in real income for middle and working class families during the same period.
Instead of putting forward strong progressive policies that give jobs and dollars back to the citizens of Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton and the Democratic minority have compromised away any opportunity for real economic growth for working and middle-class people by only offering in the 11th hour before the July 1st deadline a paltry $700 million dollar tax increase on the state’s 7,700 millionaires, which doesn’t begin to address the inequities in salaries and benefits for hardworking Minnesotans. Subsequently, the Republican rejection of even this inconsequential attempt to generate a small portion of the revenue required to balance the budget, brought about the shameful state government shutdown that occurred on July 1, 2011. This shutdown was clearly the result of two-party politics as usual that treats ideology as more important than the needs of the people as thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of revenue in both private and state sectors disappeared every day that the two parties played chicken with people’s livelihoods at stake.
The Minnesota Green Party stands for a state economy in which wealth and economic power is distributed fairly among all citizens rather than being concentrated in the hands of its wealthiest, as is the case under the current economic models offered by both Republicans and Democrats. Certainly excesses in spending exist and must be cut; this can be done through rigorously and impartially evaluating all expenditures to assure measurable, demonstrated results. At the same time, most reputable economists recognize that new revenue is also necessary to sustain a balanced budget, and that can be accomplished in part through a progressive tax structure, relying on income and inheritance taxes, that eliminates loopholes that benefit corporations and punish the people who furnish the labor that produces their profits. As is being demonstrated in more progressive states and countries across the world, additional revenue can also be generated by an investment in green energy, education, health care, and transportation infrastructure, money that can be put back into the state budget to create a sustainable surplus for years to come.
The Green Party of Minnesota will be holding caucuses statewide to consider GP presidential candidates (see http://www.gp.org/candidates/index.php) and resolutions. Watch for a mailing listing your caucus location, or visit this website for more information. All GPMN members and supporters are encouraged to attend!
The GPMN campaign strategy committee has been working on a platform to help build a message for this year's state candidates. We would welcome your input and would like you to fill out and return a ballot with your top priorities. The ballot can be found at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dbFcifASCaitpYCqfsJT-JjYAq5tTb8df2f1... (Platform Issues Ballot.doc)
Please email your ballot to skuhlstennes@gmail.com by Sunday, January 15.
The GP campaign strategy committee will be meeting Sunday, Jan. 8, from 6-8 p.m. at the GPMN office conference room. We are working on a 2012 platform for GP candidates -- please join us! All Green Party members and supporters are welcome. If you are thinking about running for office in 2012, this is a good place to get information and get acquainted with the Green Party!
Green Party campaign strategy meeting
Sunday, January 8
6-8 p.m.
GPMN conference room
180 5th St E, Saint Paul, MN 55101
The Green Party of Minnesota will be holding caucuses statewide to consider GP presidential candidates (see http://www.gp.org/candidates/index.php) and resolutions. Watch for a mailing listing your caucus location, or visit this website for more information. All GPMN members and supporters are encouraged to attend!
Former Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb will be the special guest at a house party to raise funds for Move To Amend, www.movetoamend.org. Refreshments and discussion will be featured.
The party will be held at the Superior Street Cottages community room in St. Paul, between 161 and 163 Erie Street.
Directions: Go two blocks north from St. Clair on Erie. Signage says Dead End and Private Drive ahead, but residents and guests are permitted. Parking is free and usually open on Erie and Superior Streets.
David Cobb is currently on staff at Democracy Unlimited and a spokesperson for Move To Amend, a national coalition calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish “Corporate Personhood,” which is the legal doctrine that allows corporations to overturn democratically enacted laws seeking to protect citizens from corporate harm and abuse.
David will be a guest speaker at the GPMN State Meeting on November 12. GPMN members are also planning a house party for David on Friday evening, November 11, location tba.
Green Party of Minnesota State Membership Meeting
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Minneapolis City Hall, Room 319
350 South Fifth Street, Minneapolis
Special guests: Coleen Rowley and David Cobb
Agenda includes:
1:00-1:30 Registration
1:30-2:30 GPMN updates
2:30-3:00 GPUS updates
3:00-4:30 March to Peoples Plaza
Speakers include Coleen Rowley and David Cobb
4:30-5:00 Back to City Hall to clean up and leave
For more info about David Cobb visit www.movetoamend.org
For more info about Coleen Rowley visit www.coleenrowley.com
The Green Party of Minnesota stands in solidarity with the 99% -- those people in America who do not have the power and privilege of owning 40% of the nation's wealth.
We support the efforts of OccupyMN and the peaceful encampment on the People's Plaza in Minneapolis, as well as similar occupations nationwide.
We support the "one demand" of Occupied Wall Street:
Ending capital punishment is our one demand.
Ending wealth inequality is our one demand.
Ending police intimidation is our one demand.
Ending corporate censorship is our one demand.
Ending the modern gilded age is our one demand.
Ending political corruption is our one demand.
Ending joblessness is our one demand.
Ending poverty is our one demand.
Ending health-profiteering is our one demand.
Ending American imperialism is our one demand.
Ending war is our one demand.
These demands are consistent with the Green Party's four pillars of Ecological Wisdom, Nonviolence, Social and Economic Justice and Grassroots Democracy. Together let us build a just and sustainable society where people live in harmony with each other and with nature.
