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Local Peace Organization Endorses Green Party Candidates |
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For endorsement page: Broome County Peace Action
For news releases: release below.
For Immediate Release – July 14, 2010
Contact:
George Haeseler, 729-1044,
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Following a presentation by Cecile Lawrence, Green Party candidate for U.S, Senate, Broome County Peace Action voted to endorse her candidacy and that of Howie Hawkins, Green Party candidate for NYS Governor. It also urged its members to sign a petition being circulated which, if sufficient signatures are gained, would put the Green Party on the ballot in November. During her presentation, Dr. Lawrence stressed the following: Top four issues of concern:
- End foreign wars; end fossil fuel subsidies and extraction, especially hydrofracturing
- Advocates universal single payer; end for-profit health insurance
- Reform Wall Street; end corporate person-hood
- End large corn, wheat and soy subsidies, CAFOs, GM seeds, plants, fish, fowl, cattle
She said that "We need to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan now and return the troops home in early 2011…….. Corporations must be stripped of the artificial personhood granted them by an accident of the U.S. Supreme Court, resulting not in human personhood but in god-like status, since they never get sick, and can never die. Reform Wall Street, getting rid of the practices that led to the idea of ‘too big to fail."
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