Greenbelt
Greens
(participating in the Prince George's federation of
Greens)
A Local Chapter of the Maryland Green Party
Meetings | 2006 Petition Drive | Listserv | Links | Contact Information
The Greenbelt Greens normally hold their monthly business meeting at 7:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month, in the community meeting room in the Greenbelt Police Station building on Ridge Road in Greenbelt (the first turn off Crescent Road from the intersection of Crescent Road and Kenilworth Route 201). Refreshments are served. Please call Bob Auerbach (202-722-4303) or Anja Bull at (301-486-0744) for information about the Agenda of the next meeting, or to arrange carpooling.
The Greenbelt Greens also meet informally, each Tuesday evening at 7:00 p.m., at the New Deal Café in Roosevelt Center (Centerway Road) in Old Greenbelt. When the weather permits, the meeting is often outside the New Deal Café. When we meet inside, we usually meet in the recently opened back room of the New Deal Café.
Special Nominating Meeting for 2006 Statewide Offices
Monday, May 15, 2006
For the four statewide offices up for election in November 2006 (Governor/Lt. Gov; Attorney General; Comptroller; U.S. Senate), the Greenbelt Greens (like each other Green Local in Maryland) will be conducting a special nominating meeting in May, prior to the statewide Green Assembly on June 3, 2006, in Towson. Official ballots will be used for voting and will be tabulated at the statewide Assembly on Saturday, June 3, 2006. To vote in person, attend the meeting on May 15. Any Green wishing to vote on any statewide nomination by absentee ballot should contact Bob Auerbach, at 202-722-4303.
Where: Community Meeting Room in the Greenbelt Police Station building on Ridge Road in Greenbelt (first turn off Crescent Road from the intersection of Crescent Road and Kenilworth Route 201)
What: Special Nominating Meeting for certain offices for 2006
Want More Information? Call Bob at 202-722-4303
A candidate seeking the Maryland Green Party nomination for one of the four offices in 2006 to be voted on statewide must be take the following steps:
(1) Appear in person to file a declaration of intent with the State Board of Elections in Annapolis, no later than the close of business at the Board Monday, May 1, 2006; and
(2) Notify the Maryland Green Party Electoral Committee via the MGP's candidate application form. http://www.mdgreens.org/electoral/MGPCandyApple.doc ; which should be sent to alzear7@mindspring.com, no later than midnight, Monday, May 1, 2006.
In the event any of those four offices is not filled once the votes are tabulated at the June 3 Assembly in Towson, and for all other offices (U.S. House of Representatives; Maryland Senate; Maryland House of Delegates; County Council; etc.), Green Party candidates for 2006 will be recruited up to the State Board's deadline for filing declarations of candidate intent (July 3, 2006).
2006 Petition Drive
The Maryland Green Party has successfully completed two petition drives to gain recognition as a political party in the State of Maryland: in August 2000 and again in December 2002. The time has now come when need to renew our official party status, by successfully completing another petition drive this year (2006). Please call 202-722-4303 or 301-441-3298 if you want to volunteer to circulate a petition, or to let us know about an event that might be good for petitioning, or for Green voter registration. Maryland. We are now pursuing a Green Party voter registration drive. Please e-mail Mark Miller at civic@greenbelt.com or call at 301-441-3298 if you want to volunteer or to let us know about an event that might be good for Green voter registration.
The Greenbelt Greens have a listserv that provides discussion and information of Green Party activities and events in Prince George's County through e-mail. To subscribe to this listserv, e-mail join-pg_greens@mail.folkriver.com
Local Links
Anacostia/Rock Creek Earth First! Stop the Inter-County Connector!--A highly successful group of activists has been mobilizing opposition to ill-conceived highway-building projects (especially the proposed "ICC" between Gaithersburg and Laurel, a piece of the environmentally disastrous Outer Beltway scheme), and has been educating the public and public officials about the unacceptable consequences of sprawl.
Audubon Naturalist Society --"Conserving our Region's Nature Since 1897"
Citizens to Conserve and Restore Indian Creek (CCRIC)--Struggle by residents of Greenbelt, Berwyn Heights, College Park, Beltsville, and other communities in the Anacostia Watershed, to protect this invaluable unchannelized portion of the wooded Indian Creek floodplain from a proposed "Metroland" development project.
EDOPT News --An independent environmental local newspaper.
Prince George's County Government
Prince George's Board of Elections
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