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South Central Michigan Greens
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Calhoun, Hillsdale, and Jackson Counties Local
People and planet over profit.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 12, 2018
For more information:
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Monika Schwab, Local Contact/SCMiGreens
South Central Michigan Greens to Meet 1-3pm
Saturday, February 17 at Jackson Coffee Company
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The South Central Michigan Greens local will hold its monthly meeting
1-3pm on Saturday, February 17 at the downtown Jackson Coffee Company
(201 South Mechanic Street).
This will be the group's first meeting in Black History Month, so issues
of diversity and social justice for the African-American community will
be a focus.
The meeting will also be the last before the Green Party of Michigan
holds a statewide membership meeting Saturday, February 24 in Grand
Rapids in the training room on the lower level at Community Rebuilders,
1120 Monroe Ave NW. Business at this meeting will include election of
new state party officers.
Co-founder John Anthony La Pietra of Marshall will go over the status of
possible ballot questions for this year. He will also bring copies of
the 2016 state platform, which is due to be updated this year, and will
announce his own plans for a 2018 political campaign.
Calhoun, Hillsdale, and Jackson County members of the Green Party of
Michigan -- and others who agree with the party's values -- are invited
to come and discuss local and state issues needing to be addressed, the
results of last year's elections, and the opportunities for Green
candidates to run this fall.
The February meeting is an event on Facebook at:
The South Central Michigan Greens local was formed last March to bring
together Green Party members and supporters at monthly meetings held
around the three-county area. For more details and news about the
local, please visit its Facebook page:
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The Four Pillars of GPMI:
Grassroots Democracy
Social Justice
Ecological Wisdom
Non-Violence
For our Ten Key Values, add:
Community-Based Economics
Decentralization
Feminism
Future Focus/Sustainability
Personal and Global Responsibility
Respect for Diversity
