The Green Party of Connecticut

A unity of local Green Party chapters, the CTGP is committed to grassroots democracy, social justice, non-violence and ecological wisdom. These are the Four Pillars of all Green parties worldwide and are the first four principles of the Ten Key Values of the Green Party.

Join us as we build a grassroots effort to take back our government from corporate power brokers. We do not accept contributions from corporate PACs so we need your donations of time and money.

Green Party of CT Spring Fundraiser

This will be a fun night with live music by Paddy Whack and Post-Traumatic Jazz Disorder, as well as a silent auction!  The CT Green Party needs to raise funds to support our ballot access drive this year, to get our Presidential and US Senate candidates on the CT ballot.  There is a pot luck for a few supplies and sides, but we will have catered entrees, including gluten-free and vegan options.  RSVP here.

NEW DATE: Friday, APRIL 19, 2024 Time: 6:00-9:30pm Location: deKoven House, 27 Washington St, Middletown, CT

Donate to Our Federal Campaign

Help us get candidates on the Connecticut ballot for President and U.S. Senate! This will not only provide voters more choices in November, but also enable us to gain recognition as a statewide political party and ensure voters the right to register as "Green Party."

Donate to the Connecticut Green Party

You can now donate online with a debit or credit card.

Or you can send a personal check and some basic personal information* to

Green Party of Connecticut
PO BOX 330922
Hartford, CT 06133

Make Checks Payable to: "Green Party of Connecticut" (with "Federal" in the memo).

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Contributions to the Green Party of Connecticut are NOT tax deductible.

State Committee Meeting

• Usually the 3rd Wednesday of the month, 7:00 PM

(online)

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The Green Party of Connecticut invites you to a virtual forum on a critically important topic

Deliberate Indifference:

Pandemic, Public Health, and High Risk Populations

Sunday, March 13, 2022, 4:00pm

Speakers:
Kathy Flaherty, Executive Director, Connecticut Legal Rights Project, is a disability rights activist and attorney
Alex Marie is an immunocompromised person active in local disability rights work
Alicia Hernandez Strong is a founder of the New Britain Racial Justice Coalition

On the two year anniversary of Governor Lamont’s first executive order on Covid-19, join us for a discussion of the pandemic’s impact on high risk groups - including disabled people, people with compromised immune systems, and people in prisons and other institutions.

We will examine the deadly failure of ableist public health policy, and consider what might have been done and what still must be done to create policies that protect the well-being of everyone in the community.

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We Support Mandatory Covid-19 Public Health Measures

The Green Party of Connecticut has a long history advocating for a safe and healthy environment. After a year and a half of disastrous policies by both Republican and Democratic politicians, we say that the protection of the public health demands emergency action and mandatory measures to contain the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Like many people in the US, we are concerned about the ways that coercive government action can infringe on individual freedoms. We also recognize that in the Black and Indigenous communities, vaccine hesitancy is the product of intergenerational trauma inflicted by a racist medical establishment. Moreover, the major contributors to the current crisis are the long term failure of the Republican and Democratic parties to create a national health care system like those of every other industrialized nation, the corporate pillaging of the nation’s public health infrastructure, and the US government’s hostility toward the World Health Organization and other nations attempting to address the lack of healthcare in developing countries.

This is a crisis that, if not entirely avoidable, could have been managed in a way that would have made coercive measures unnecessary. If in 2020 public health policy had been driven by concern for the most vulnerable, including low wage frontline workers, seniors, and people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, the advent of vaccines in 2021 might have isolated and effectively extinguished the virus. Instead, politicians gave away 3 trillion dollars to big business under the guise of “pandemic relief,” pushed to “re-open” the economy prematurely to protect corporate profits, and promoted the introduction of patent-protected proprietary vaccines as a voluntary “cure all.” Government mis-leadership has failed to slow the spread of Covid-19 and may have even helped the spread of new variants of the virus.

Because of the dramatic failure of government policies over the last eighteen months, we now face a grave threat to the health and well-being of millions of people in the US and hundreds of millions in the world. Swift and decisive action is needed for the preservation of human life and the protection of the public health. In the long run, the people of the United States need and deserve universal, free health care. In the long run, the best way to prevent a health crisis is to ensure that an informed public has ongoing, trusting relationships with their medical professionals. In the long run, public trust in our institutions of public health must be strengthened with demonstrated transparency, expertise, and de-politicization. Today, however, immediate action is necessary.

We believe mandatory measures are needed to protect the public health. These measures must address the needs of ordinary people who are understandably confused and frustrated with government action and inaction. Measures that we believe should be taken immediately by federal, state, and local governments include:

  • Masking requirements for all indoor public spaces immediately. The focus for enforcement, however, should be on high profile politicians, celebrities, and other elites who we see in the media at gala social events without masks or social distancing.
  • The number of students already being quarantined this school year alone demonstrates the continued need for remote learning options. Such options must be accompanied by financial support for families in which parents lose work time because of remote learning.
  • Hazard pay to frontline workers, including store clerks, waitstaff, bus drivers, and other public-facing employees.
  • Free public access to frequent Covid-19 testing.
  • Robust pro-vaccine public education campaigns with leadership inclusive of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people and that acknowledges the medical establishment’s history of racism.
  • Mandatory vaccination timetables for these populations:
    • Faculty, staff, and students over age 12 in all schools;
    • Staff and residents in all medical and mental health facilities;
    • Staff and inmates in all prisons;
    • Police officers;
    • Public employees, prioritizing those with public-facing jobs.
  • Free, individual medical consultations with a doctor to determine if a medical exemption is appropriate. Medical exemptions for Covid-19 survivors who are documented to have comparable antibodies to vaccine recipients. Persons medically exempted from vaccination should be provided free weekly testing.
  • An end to religious exemptions for Covid-19 vaccination; religion has no business interfering in a public health crisis.
  • The US government must take responsibility for its role in the global pandemic not only by waiving patent protections for vaccines that received billions in funding from the US for their development, but also by ensuring the mass production and free distribution of one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Hartford, CT – August 11 – The culmination of three months’ diligent effort, the Green Party of Connecticut has just amassed between 14,000 and 15,000 signatures of voters in order to secure Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s place on the Constitution State’s ballot.

The final batch of signatures were collected on 1,212 petition sheets, originally distributed throughout the state by over 400 party volunteers, independent activists and paid petitioners working though the non-profit Free & Equal, delivered Wednesday, August 10, to the Secretary of State’s office by CTGP co-chair and State Senatorial candidate, 1st District, Barbara Barry.

Current state law stipulates petitioners must gather 7,500 valid signatures of registered voters in support of a third-party candidate in order to appear on the state’s presidential ballot line in November. According to fellow co-chair Mike DeRosa, the near 100 percent additional names provides a firm safety margin against signatures deemed unqualified by the Secretary of State, Denise Merrill, "barring any irregularities with how they are evaluated."

In a tempestuous presidential election year where the reaction of a growing number of voters to both major party candidates ranges from disappointment and fear to outrage, both the opportunity and necessity for real choices in the race for the Oval Office, representing new thinking and practical, constructive solutions, is more crucial than ever.

Adds DeRosa, who, as candidate for U.S. Representative in the 1st District, has made more democratic third-party ballot access a long-standing focus with the state Green Party, "We now have to wait about two weeks until we know if Stein has made it."

 

About the Green Party of Connecticut and Jill Stein

A unity of local Green Party chapters, the CTGP (www.ctgreenparty.org) is committed to grassroots democracy, social justice, non-violence and ecological wisdom. These are the Four Pillars of all Green parties worldwide and are the first four principles of the Ten Key Values of the Green Party (including decentralization, community-based economics, feminism and gender equity, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, future focus and sustainability). We do not accept contributions from corporate PACs.

Dr. Jill Stein (www.jill2016.com) was the Green Party’s 2012 candidate for President and holds the record for most votes ever received by a woman candidate for President of the United States in the general election. She is a mother, physician, and pioneering environmental-health advocate and has helped lead initiatives to fight environmental racism, strengthen local green economies and revitalize democracy. She has helped win victories in campaign finance reform, racially-just redistricting, green jobs and power plant toxic remediation. She was an organizer for the Global Climate Convergence for People, Planet and Peace over Profit.

 

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