Archive for March, 2010

Support Hugh Giordano at Two Events

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Green Party candidate for State Representative (194th District) Hugh Giordano has two upcoming events.

Public Forum for all candidates sponsored by the Roxborough Development Corporation

Wednesday April 7, 2010 – 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
6148 Ridge Avenue

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Dinner event on gas drilling in Marcellus Shale

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Jay Sweeney, long-time Green Party activist and candidate for State Representative (111th District), will be in Philadelphia to give a brief talk to the Green Party of Philadelphia about natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. He will speak about how drilling in northeastern PA affects our water here in the Delaware Valley.

When: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:00 PM
Where: Singapore Vegetarian Restaurant, 1006 Race Street

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Greens: Close Erie Coke Plant

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

ERIE COKE CORPORATION’S “FLAGRANT DISREGARD” OF ENVIRONMENT SPURS GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA TO CALL FOR TEMPORARY INJUNCTION TO CLOSE PLANT

On March 10, Erie residents were horrified by the release of a noxious cloud of coke oven gases and fine black particles as it spread across the city in an industrial “upset” from the beleaguered eastside Erie Coke Corporation.

If this situation were not bad enough, Erie Coke’s revelation in the past month that it has spewed toxic pollutants not previously measured by either the EPA or DEP was described by Freda Tarbell, the DEP’s spokesperson, as “documentation that DEP and EPA didn’t have earlier.”

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March Membership Meeting

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Just a reminder, the regular monthly membership meeting will be:

Thursday, March 25, 6:30 PM

at LAVA, 4134 Lancaster Avenue

All registered Green Party members and other interested folks are welcome.

Agenda will include:

- updates on Hugh Giordano’s campaign for state representative

- statewide petitioning to get U.S. Senate candidate Mel Packer on the ballot

- Earth Day demonstration at the DEP Office in Norristown

- Singapore Dinner with Jay Sweeney about Marcellus Shale on April 10.

Film: Crude: The Real Price of Oil

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Delaware County Greens present Crude;  The Real Price of Oil (2009)

The Delaware County Green Party will present the only Delco area showing of Crude; The Real Price of Oil (2009).  They will be showing this at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Avenue on Saturday, March 27th at 7pm. This is part of a nationwide week of showings of this movie, sponsored by RAN (The Rainforest Action Network). More information at http://ran.org

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Get Hugh on the Ballot!

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Petition Drive Kick-Off

To get

Hugh Giordano & Mel Packer on the ballot

Green Party candidates

Saturday, March 20, 11 AM

Meet at Crossroads Coffee at 6156 Ridge Ave.

Dress for the outdoors and wear comfortable shoes!

Grassroots Democracy * Nonviolence

Ecology * Social Justice

Giordano Kick-Off a Huge Success

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Giordano Kick-Off a Huge Success
Campaign off to an excellent start

Philadelphia, PA – Friday night, friends and supporters packed into the Holy Smoke Bar and Restaurant to help kick off Hugh Giordano’s campaign for State Representative.  Giordano, the Green Party candidate, told the crowd why he should be the 194th District’s next Representative in Harrisburg.

“I care about working people and will fight for workers’ rights,” said Giordano.  “I have seen three generations of poverty living in the same house – that’s almost 90 years of poverty among hard-working people, people who worked in factories and never took a dime from the system.  There’s something wrong with that picture,” said Giordano.

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