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The Clippings

2011

  • Fairfax named best town in Marin County (Pacific Sun)
  • Green Jan Shriner tries to get her Marina Coast Water District Board to televise its meetings(link)
  • Republicans vote to nominate candidates by mail to sidestep 'top-two primary' system (LA Times)
  • Gavin Glynn in the Mid City Press (link)
  • Matt Gonzalez Named SF Public Defender's Chief Attorney (link)
  • CNN story on "leak" sites (link)
  • Graphic presentation on income inequality (blog)
  • Announcement on Prop 14 lawsuit (link)
  • Fairfax local currency (link)
  • Two Candidates Prevented to Run in 4th District Assembly Race in California (newsblaze)
  • California's Humpty-Dumpty Law, Gautam Dutta, (Huffington Post)
  • Mr. or Ms. Smith goes to Washington...Locals consider a run for Congress (Pacific Sun)
  • Governor Brown Protects The Wealthy and Threatens California's Poor (newsblaze)
  • Green Party of California's 2011 New Year's Resolutions (newsblaze)
  • Derek Iversen interviewed (video)
  • Prop 14 and the District 28 race (link)

2010

  • Green activist Dave Wass passes away at the age of 82 (link)
  • Prop 14: some positive developments in our case (link).
  • How Ranked Choice Voting worked in a close race for supervisor in SF, Steven Hill (link)
  • British student invents a solar-powered refrigerator (link)
  • The new politics of ranked-choice elections, Steven Hill (link)
  • Richmond California's Green Victory, David Helvarg, President, Blue Frontier Campaign (link)
  • Laura Wells TV spot (youtube)
  • Independent parties' gubernatorial candidates (Sacramento Bee)
  • Coverage of Gayle McLaughlin's re-election (Richmond Confidential)
  • Jimi Castillo in the news (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
  • H Hawkins release on State Bank in New York (link)
  • More from Cal Watchdog - on third parties in general (link)
  • Sympathetic coverage of Laura's arrest on Cal Watchdog - a conservative blog site (link)
  • 108 Green Party candidates call for end of corporate personhood (greenchange)
  • Video: No on 23 (link)
  • Statewide and National Organizations Join Coalition in Support of Prop 19, to Legalize Cannabis in California (freeandequal.org)
  • Green candidates call for free tuition at public universities (GreenChange)
  • Ben Emery for Congress television spots (link and link)
  • Video: Green is the color of love (link)
  • Linda Piera-Avila interviewed in Ventura County Star
  • Laura's arrest (Pacific Sun)
  • Laura's arrest (Firedog Lake)
  • Laura discusses her arrest (Oakland North)
  • Linda Piera-Avila interviewed (Agoura365)
  • Illinois ballot names fiasco (Sun Times)
  • Campaign Video From NY - Hawkins for Gov (youtube)
  • Laura Wells arrest (Tribune)
  • Laura on Democracy Now (link)
  • Laura and her arrest on Comedy Central
  • Comment on Laura's arrest (treehugger.com)
  • Another look at Tuesday's Whitman-Brown debate; Larry Bragman and Laura Wells covered (Pleasanton Weekly)
  • Video of Laura's arrest on YouTube
  • Coverage, including Green candidate, of the CA Treasurer's Race (KQED)
  • Laura Wells arrest (Newsblaze)
  • Laura Wells arrest (Mercury News)
  • Laura Wells arrest (SF Gate)
  • Laura Wells arrest (Marin Independent Journal)
  • Laura Wells arrest (Fog City Journal)
  • Laura Wells arrest (SF Appeal)
  • Laura Wells arrest - video (KCRA)
  • Laura Wells arrest (CNN)
  • Laura Wells arrest (NBC News)
  • Laura Wells arrest (Sacramento Bee)
  • Laura Wells arrest (LA Times)
  • Exclusion of Alternative Gubernatorial Candidates from Debates Sparks Protest at Dominican University of California. (freeandequal.org)
  • Green Assembly candidate Cynthia Santiago in the Daily Breeze (link)
  • Third-party candidates say they were unfairly excluded from the Boxer-Fiorina debate (Pasadena Weekly)
  • Laura Wells on KQED (link)
  • Free & Equal releases footage from California Proposition 19 press conference (link)
  • The Whitman Waffle: Former eBay CEO opposes both Prop 23 and AB 32 (Climate Progress)
  • Two Greens advance to final 60 in CA redistricitng commission (Rose Institute)
  • All But One California Attorney General Candidate Not "fully Qualified" (newsblaze)
  • California Nurses Video on "Queen Meg & Princess Carly" (video)
  • California Superior Court Judge Upheld Key Parts of State Senate Bill 6, Maintaining Voter Disenfranchisement (freeandequal.org)
  • Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate dies after being hit by SUV (link)
  • Newsblaze picks up our Propositions press release (link)
  • Anti-corporate donations protest (at a Target store) (video)
  • Duane Roberts challenges Boxer, Fiorina (link)
  • Linda Piera-Avila Op/Ed on Climate Change: Changing the Political Climate (Santa Monica Daily Press)
  • Laura Wells' "There are solutions!" (video)
  • Jill Stein (candidate for Governor of MA) on exclusion from debates (link)
  • Richmond's Green Mayor Faces Formidable Challenge (The Bay Citizen)
  • Duane Roberts statement on Prop 19 (link)
  • Big Oil's Prop. 23 should fail; opinion by Steve Lopez (LA Times)
  • Duane Roberts interviewed (KPFA)
  • L.A. mayor, Latino activists take on oil companies over Proposition 23 (LA Times)
  • Prop 19: National Black Police Association Endorses Marijuana Legalization (link)
  • StopTopTwo.org's Christina Tobin Tells Governor Schwarzenegger to Chill Out (link)
  • San Francisco Green Party Opposes Biodiesel, Arguing It's Not Eco-Friendly (SF Weekly)
  • Money behind Prop 23 (LA Times)
  • 69 Green Candidates Call for "Green New Deal" to Change the Course of our Nation by Gary Ruskin at Green Change (link)
  • "Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado May Need An Intervention" - press release from The Free and Equal Elections Foundation (link)
  • California candidates support 'Green New Deal' (Business Week)
  • "Why People Hate Politics" by Gautam Dutta (Huffington Post - blog entry)
  • Prop 14 coverage; with quotes from M Feinstein (Culver City News)
  • Oil Industry behind Prop 23(Los Angeles Times)
  • Highlights of the Illinois Green Party convention (video link)
  • Mike Feinstein op-ed (LA Times)
  • Politicians, analysts question new open primary system (LA Times)
  • Public Radio in Sacramento: Green Party and Prop 14 (link (w/audio))
  • Laura Wells on KPFK (audio)
  • Lisa A. Green, 53rd Assembly District Candidates Forum; June 1, 2010 in Mar Vista, CA (youtube)
  • Proposition 14 TV spot (youtube)
  • Proposition 14 editorial (Marin Independent Journal)
  • Proposition 14 Debate: Feinstein vs. Gesicki (link)
  • Ann Menasche editorial (East County Magazine) against Prop 14 (link)
  • Blog post arguing in favor of supporting Green candidates (link)
  • Video of union actions against Dick Blum, from Hank Chapot (video)
  • Various video taken at the San Jose plenary (Laura Wells, Deacon Alexander, Deacon Alexander, Deacon Alexander, Laura and Deacon)
  • Derek Iverson on Uprising Radio (audio)
  • Laura Wells profiled on CAIVN (link)
  • "Creating a State Bank in Calfornia based on the North Dakota model" with Ellen Brown, Laura Wells, and Larry Bragman. (audio)
  • "Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama" by Chris Hedges (link)
  • Don Manro in the Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register (link)
  • "Don't Mourn, Go Green", an argument in favor of Green Party by Don Santina on Counterpunch (link)
  • Jimi Castillo covered in Indian County Today (link)
  • Hank Chapot interviewed in re budget cuts and recycling on the UC Berkeley campus (link)
  • KPFA covers the anniversary event in Berkeley (audio)
  • Coverage of Laura Wells Campaign kickoff (link)
  • Laura Wells interviewed on KPIX (video)
  • David Cobb on the Thom Hartman Show (link)
  • Deacon Alexander announces his candidacy for Governor (link)
  • Green Party's California gubernatorial candidate steps up (Laura Wells, Sacramento Bee)
  • Are Californians ready to go Green in 2010? (link)
  • Green Party Slams Governor's Budget as Hit on Children (link)
  • Green Party Says Governor Threatens California's Environment (newsblaze)
  • LA Times coverage of special election includes Green Jane Rands (link)
  • Jane Rands profiled in the Orange County Register (link)

2009

2008

  • San Francisco Chronicle endorses two Greens (link)
  • Linda Piera-Avila on development, climate change, homelessness (video)
  • Linda Piera-Avila is "another candidate to watch": Santa Monica Daily Press (pdf link)
  • Linda Piera-Avila in the Santa Monica Daily Press candidate forum (video)
  • Mike Feinstein on the "Exploding The Myth of The Two Party System". (Green Pages)
  • Linda Piera-Avila interviewed (pdf link)
  • Carol Brouillet in the Santa Cruz Sentinel (link)
  • McKinney/Clemente campaign remark on alleged mass-murder cover-up in Louisiana after Katrina (video)
  • Cynthia McKinney on feministing.com (link)
  • Interview with Green Party Speaker Laura Wells at Credit Unions Online (link)
  • Spend the night with Cynthia and Rosanne (link)
  • Green Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi speaks at a rally for the San Francisco Clean Energy Act on July 22, 2008. Video by Bob Brigham for FogCityJournal.com.
  • Green Party Board of Education member Jane Kim speaks at the kick-off party for Green Party Board of Education President Mark Sanchez's campaign for District 9 Supervisor (video).
  • Cynthia McKinney speaks at International Institute in Detroit, Michigan August 30th - critiques Critiques Nancy Pelosi, John Conyers, and a Democratic Party that won't address the impeachment of George W. Bush (video)
  • Cynthia McKinney speaks to the GPCA General Assembly (video)
  • Cynthia McKinney in the Orange County Register site (link)
  • Cynthia McKinney: "McKinney On The Record" (link)
  • Sebastopol: Planning for Energy Decline (video)
  • Mark Sanchez opens campaign office (Fog City Journal)
  • Mark Sanchez: JROTC is not a choice (link)
  • Santa Monica City Council candidates focus on tree issues (Santa Monica Daily Press)
  • Rose Clemente and Matt Gonzalez on KPFA (audio)
  • Conversation with GP Veep, Rosa Clemente on uprisingradio.org (audio)
  • Greens Pick McKinney for President. GUEST: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator of the Green Party. (audio)
  • Audio files from the Pacifica Radio coverage of the national convention (each file is approximately an hour long). (hour 1, hour 2, hour 3)
  • Green Party national convention coverage (link)
  • Cynthia's nomination (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  • Cynthia's nomination (Reuters)
  • Cynthia's nomination (CNN)
  • Cynthia's nomination (IndyBay)
  • Coverage of Cynthia McKinney (LA Times)
  • Sanda Everett quoted in re GP nomination (link)
  • Progressives lead a unified school board (link)
  • McKinney Joins Forces with Sheehan to Unseat Pelosi (link)
  • Plastic Bag Ban, introduced by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, wins reader poll for San Francisco magazine as the best eco trend (link)
  • Hank Chapot on the history of tree-sitting (link)
  • Susan King interviewed, Hank Chapot quoted, on Governor's drought plans. KPFA evening news (@ 40 min, 18 sec into the stream)
  • Alex Walker post on race (LA Times)
  • Ross Mirkarimi, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, speaks about actions he's taken on the municipal level to deal with climate change (YouTube)
  • Greens on the front page of the anti-WalMart effort (Brentwood Press)
  • Cynthia McKinney, Danny Glover and Cindy Sheehan among featured speakers at "No Peace, No Work" mobilization in San Francisco on May 1st (link)
  • LA City Greens have booth at car free Earth Day event--shutting down Wilshire Blvd for 4 blocks (link)
  • Cynthia McKinney for President - Impeach Bush Administration (video)
  • Green Party of California Press Conference, April 5th, 2008 (video)
  • Mirkarimi authors resolution to oppose aerial chemical spraying (link)
  • Green Party Nominee Rallies to Reduce Military Spending (link)
  • Laura Wells (for Controller 2002) offers Green persectives on government spending, priorities and accountability (video)
  • Tom Lash coverage (link)
  • The Governator appoints a Green (link)
  • Steve Loebs on financial issues, and developing GP economic policy, at Green Commons
  • Los Angeles Greens hold fund raiser in early April, see this page for details
  • Social justice central to Hermanson's run (link)
  • Coverage of Barry Hermanson in the Fog City Journal
  • Green Party presidentail candidates in Arizona (link to GP AZ)
  • Press release from Mark Sanchez (San Francisco District 9) (link)
  • Ross Mirkarimi honors Fillmore documentary photographer (link)
  • "Mark Sanchez Spurred by Recent Gains" from BeyondChron.org (link)
  • Jason West (former Green mayor of New Paultz, NY) featured in the New York Times (link)
  • An insightful personal conversation with Cynthia McKinney, Green Presidential hopeful. (link)
  • Daniel B quoted in an Al Jezeera story on CA environmental issues (link)
  • Coverage of Cynthia McKinney in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (link)
  • Newsblaze: Nader, McKinney, 5 others on crowded Green Party Presidential ballot (link)
  • Commentary by Hank Chapot in the Berkeley Daily Planet in re the recently released report entitled, "Failing California's Communities" and how UC's low wages affect surrounding communities. (link)
  • Daniel B interviewed on KPFK (link)
  • "Greens connect ecology with democracy" in National Catholic Reporter (link)
  • Wes Rolley: using a pending crisis in world wide water supplies to underscore the need for a presidential Science Debate in 2008 (link)
  • San Francisco Bay Guardian published "Shut Down the Zoo", by SF Green Party County Concil member Marc Salomon, in the wake of an escaped tiger's deadly mauling (link)
  • FogCityJournal publishes "Deconstructing Polls" by SF Green Party County Council member Sue Vaughan (link)
  • Wes Rolley: comments on the ongoing institutionalized racism in our government and supporting several Indian tribal issues (link)

2007

  • A 'Green' look at 2007 on NewsBlaze (link)
  • Rose Parade, Faux News interviews Peter Thottam (YouTube)
  • Hopedance - an online magazine published by a Green. Issue #66 has many articles on impeachment (link)
  • CBS mentions the Green Party twice (link)
  • Rose Parade coverage (link)
  • News clip mentioning that Peter Thottam is a former GP candidate for Assembly. KTLA's news segment on the White Rose Coalition (YouTube)
  • Google search of comments/articles/blogs on Green presidential candidates (webmaster warning: not all of this is flattering; some is outright lies). (link)
  • Wes Rolley's open letter to the League of Conservation Voters (link)
  • Martin Zehr comments on the lack of progressive opposition to the corporate Democrats in the primaries. (link)
  • An interview with Dr. Kent Mesplay, 2008 Presidential Candidate. From Lifted Magazine
  • Video of official announcement by Cynthia McKinney that she's seeking the Green Party Nomination for (video link)
  • California Green Mike Feinstein comments on the US Governmental delegation position after attending their press conference at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Bali, Indonesia. December 13th, 2007 (video link)
  • McKinney speaks to students in Carbondale, Illinois. Coverage in the The Southern Illinoisan
  • McKinney, Nader Among Those on Green Party Presidential Ballot (link)
  • FogCityJournal covers Green Mark Sanchez's fundraiser for his race for San Fransicso District 9 Supervisor (November 2008). Matt Gonzalez hosted (link)
  • Daniele Erville on NPR's "All Things Considered" in re the SF Bay oil spill (link)
  • Cynthia McKinney's challenge to the war parties (link)
  • Green Rebecca Tobias quoted-Cal State Northridge panel on ways to end war in Iraq (link)
  • Curry carries the VP banner for the Greens (link)
  • Erika McDonald quoted in a story about the Mayor Of San Francisco (link)
  • Young LA Green, Raam Kaur, speaks to NAACP State Convention (link)
  • Sonoma County stands up to end the Iraq occupation and impeach the president (link)
  • Heal the Bay founder Dorothy Green addresses LA Greens on "Sustainable Water Future for CA" (link)
  • Aimee Alison interviews Cynthia McKinney (mp3 from KPFA radio)
  • Former Congresswoman Considers Run for President on Green Party (link)
  • Former congresswoman calls out Bush for 9/11 response (link)
  • Greens Nancy Kent and Peter Thottam, and Green Party are noted in an article about a recent Pasadena/Congressman Schiff meeting with LANIC (link)
  • Ex-Congresswoman urges third-party support at Green Party event in Wilkes-Barre; Cynthia McKinney says black voters should review options (link)
  • City of San Fernando impeachment resolution picked up by Michael Moore's website and by the Atlanta Free Press
  • Brezenoff receives 5.4% in Congressional Special Election (results page)
  • "Army of None" (Aimee Allison) released and now available from Seven Stories Press (page)
  • San Francisco Green Supervisor Matt Gonzalez gives a wide ranging talk about electoral reform, the 'spoiler' dynamic, Instant Run-off voting, Ralph Nader, the Patriot Act, the Congressional Black Caucus and Green Party (video)
  • Waxman Says He Will Keep an Open Mind on Impeachment. Greens are mentioned (page)
  • The Black Agenda Report on Greens and justice (link)
  • Hank Chapot interviewed by East Bay Monthly (link)
  • Hank Chapot sounds off about carbon credits (link)
  • Erika McDonald in the Fog City Journal (link)
  • Letters to the LA Times editor defending Ralph Nader (link)
  • Erika McDonald responds to an author slamming Greens (link)
  • CBS covers a Huntington Beach impeachment rally (story link, slideshow link)
  • Beverly (Hills, that is) Press coverage of LANIC (link)
  • SF Chronicle covers Richmond (Contra Costa) shoreline efforts (link)
  • It's not easy being Green (link)
  • City hopes to add second major party convention in 2008 (link)
  • Maxine Waters at inauguration of the L.A. National Impeachment Center (LANIC), July 4 (video)
  • Peter Thottam welcomes folks at LANIC, July 7 (video)
  • Byron at first volunteer work session at LANIC, July 7 (video)
  • Byron DeLear's interview on Uprising on KPFK (link)
  • Greens blogging on impeachment (link and link)
  • DeLear quoted on impeachment (link)
  • Westside (LA) greens mentioned (link)
  • Green Congressional candidate Daniel Brezenoff speaks at campaign rally at the Viento y Agua Cafe, Long Beach, CA. June 23rd, 2007 (video)
  • Details of Laura Richardson (CA 37th) fund-raising and campaign contributors (link, link, link)
  • Opinion piece by Orange County Green, Vern Nelson, taking on State Sen. Tam Harman's trashing of "Sicko" (link).
  • The L.A. Times on 37th CD race (link).
  • Press release from Daniel Brezenoff (link)
  • San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi introduces plastic bag reduction ordinance. March 27th, 2007 (video)
  • Camejo's response to The State of the State (from KPFK Evening News)
  • Progressives Must Look Ahead to 2008 and Leave No District Behind (link)
  • Green Mark Sanchez elect SFUSD BOE President (link)

2006

Last updated: 04/16/2011 (BH)