by John Rensenbrink The eyes of the Green world will be on Maine the weekend of October 3rd to 5th. Delegates from 20 member state parties of the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) will assemble in the Grange Hall in Topsham, a coastal town ìdown eastî thirty miles from Portland. Additional state Green parties considering joining will also be in attendance, as will kindred Green movement organizations. The theme is ìBuilding a Party of a Different Kindî. It will…

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Steve Schmidt, New Mexico State Board of Education Steve Schmidt, the NM Green Party candidate for Lt. Governor in 1994, and platform chair and principal drafter of the NM Green Platform, has been a member of the State Board of Education (SBE) since í95 when he was confirmed by the State Senate after extensive hearings.í Schmidt has taken on the constitutional responsibility of educational policy and oversight of around 1/2 of NMís state budget. MNM has had an ìequalization formulaî…

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A movement continues to grow by Mike Feinstein On the heals of the Green Partyís first-ever presidential campaign in 1996, 1997 will feature a record number of Greens running in an odd-numbered year. This follows a general Green growth trend in the 90ís and specifically is a measure of energy and growth the Nader/LaDuke campaign has helped bring about. At least 72 Greens are running in ë97. More than half of them – forty – are running for city, town…

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By Keiko Bonk, two-term County Councilmember, Island of Hawaiíi Keiko Bonk was elected in 1992 to the Hawaiíi County Council, the first (and still only) US Green to be elected in a partisan race. In 1994 she was re-elected with 60% of the vote. In 1995, she became chair of the County Council, the first and only US Green to chair such a council or board. During her four years on the Council, Bonk championed the environment, local small business,…

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