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The Truth About Gas Prices
Posted by: Andy on Monday, June 16, 2008 - 08:48 AM
news

I've come across a lot of conservatives yelling about how we "liberal tree-huggers" are the cause of the high gas prices because we won't let them drill more wells in Alaska or off the southern coast on the US. But the truth is actually a bit different.

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Memorial Day Five Years into the Debacle in Iraq
Posted by: thom.adcogp on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 01:04 PM
news

Hello all,

I have been quite busy travelling around cheering people on in their work towards achieving Local Food Security, as well as trying to keep our farm above water in this abnormally wet Spring. I will pause, though, to write a few words about currently serving service people, as well as veterans.

I am in the fourth generation of veterans in my family who served this country, and my son is in the fifth. We lost a few in WW2 and Vietnam. But I have to say, I am glad my son got out before he had to get involved in this mis-begotten Iraquagmire of a war. He is, though, working as a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Counsellor for returning Marines. He says this war is probably worse for front-line troops than other wars, due to continued deployments, and due to the troops knowing they are being poorly led by our politicians and their generals.

So, even if you hate this war as much as I do, think about the Americans serving over there, and hope they will be back soon.

Thom Marti
Member - Veterans for Peace, and Editor for ADCOGP News

PS: Plant a "Peace Garden" in your back yard; plus,it won't hurt your personal food supply in the coming crash coming on because of this war bankrupting our nation.

Andy Johnson for State Senate Candidacy Announcement
Posted by: Andy on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 08:11 AM
news

I am pleased to announce that I shall be running as the Green Party candidate for State Senate District 33, with the full endorsement of the Adams County Green Party. I am a life-long resident of the district, very recently relocated to Waynesboro in Franklin County from Hamilton Township, Adams County, where I resided for the past seven years.

My platform is based on substance, not slogans. I propose to eliminate half the property tax burden on state residents by two highly-targeted sales taxes on high-sugar drinks and certain plastic products. This should generate $3 billion towards property tax relief, far more than the casinos.

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ADCOGP Meeting & Caucus Results
Posted by: thom.adcogp on Monday, April 21, 2008 - 08:56 AM
GreenHappenings

Hello All,

Yesterday 5 ADCO Greens and an observer met to caucus and hold their Spring Meeting. The Coon Road clean-up, in Menallen Twp was very successful, delivering a truckload of recyclabe steel to the Township Clean-up Day. Heavy rains cancelled the schedule Old Harrisburg Rd. Earth Day roadside clean-up; two summer and 2 fall clean-ups will be scheduled.

All five caucus participants voted that GP-US should run no presidential candidate in 2008.

The membership decided to work locally, holding more events, like the recent successful movie night, to promote "Sustainability". It feels that expending scarce member time and resources on national issues in not warrented, seeing the
limited success such campaigns have produced. Adams Greens will not collect nominating paper signatures, and will support the candidates of their choice.

ADCOGP endorsed Andy Johnson's write-in campaign for State Senate 33. ADCOGP will probably not get 5% of the highest ADCO candidate's vote total on Election Day, and will cease to be a "minor political party" (the only one currently in Pa.)in November. This organization will then go into abeyance, and continue to function as Adams County Greens." The web site will be kept up, and local environmental events will continue to be held, when this informal group meets. Adams Greens will be the trash and recyclable Monitors for the September 20th Heritage Fest, which is where their next meeting will be held.

Thom Marti
Sec'y ADCOGP

700,000 Page Visits - 700,00 "Thank Yous"
Posted by: thom.adcogp on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 08:00 AM
GreenHappenings

Hello to all of you our visitors,

Wow! It seems like just yesterday that I wrote the article thanking you for making 400,000 page visits to our site. Actually I recorded that milestone on June 30, 2007. Up to that point, our daily record of visitors was 3200. I just checked our 'stats' and was amazed to see that on January, 21, 2008, that 22690 page visits were recorded (this one day surpassed our total visits in our first year and a half on line), and that our tally has now surpassed 700,000.

I am truly surprised that so many of you are checking into the news from this small local green party, in a very conservative small county in SC Pa. All I can say is "Thank You". We have been having trouble recruiting new active members (all third parties are struggling agains Pa's draconian ballot access laws), and your interest is a bright spot in our lives.

So again, thank you!

Thom Marti
News Editor, and Sec'y, ADCOGP

Adams County Green Party Caucus
Posted by: thom.adcogp on Sunday, April 06, 2008 - 09:48 AM
GreenHappenings

Hello ADCO Registered Greens.
I FWD this Caucus notice from the GPPA website:
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Green Party Presidential Caucus

The Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA) sends you this newsletter because you are an active Registered Green Party Voter. We invite you to participate in our upcoming caucus to help determine who, if anyone, will be our 2008 Green Party Presidential Candidate. Please see the schedule that shows when your local Green Party caucus will occur, sometime in late April and early May.

What if my county doesn’t have a caucus or the date is inconvenient for me?

If you live in a county that does not have a caucus, or if the scheduled date is inconvenient, you may opt to participate in a caucus of a nearby county.

Will there be absentee ballots?

There are no provisions for absentee voting.

What is a caucus? How does it work?

A caucus is a meeting at which registered Green voters discuss the options for Presidential nominee and then vote on who the nominee should be. These votes are used by GPPA to determine how (and whether) GPPA delegates to the Green Party of the United States (GPUS) nominating convention in July, in Chicago, should vote.

The caucuses will consist of some discussion, after which each caucus attendee will indicate their Green Party Presidential nominee preferences in rank order. The principal options are listed below. The caucus is not limited to these options.

Each attendee will also be asked whether the GPPA should support the GPUS candidate, as we usually do, in which case the preferences will determine how our GPPA delegation votes at the GPUS nominating convention in Chicago July 10-13, or conversely, whether GPPA should forego the GPUS nomination process and instead support the winner of the GPPA caucus.

Do I have to have backup choices and rank order my preferences?

No. You must vote for at least one preference (e.g. a candidate, ‘No Candidate’, Uncommitted, etc.). You may list as many or few additional choices (2nd, 3rd, etc) as you desire.

Who are the candidates?

Candidates seeking GPUS Presidential nomination:

Jesse Johnson – http://www.jesse08.org

Cynthia McKinney – http://www.runcynthiarun.org

Kent Mesplay – http://www.mesplay.org

Kat Swift – http://www.bexargreens.org/katforprez

Other options:

Ralph Nader – http://www.votenader.org

‘No Candidate’

Uncommitted

Write-In candidates

Where can I get more information about the candidates and/or the caucus?

The GPPA website www.gpofpa.org

The GPUS website www.gp.org

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You may have received a mailing from GPPA that also gives you these instructions. ADCOGP will hold our caucus at our Spring Meeting, at noon Sunday April 20th, at Courtney Wege's house at 315 N. Stratton, Gettysburg. For info you can call me at 677-4131. You must be a registered Green to participate.

We will follow the caucus with our spring Roadside Clean-Up.

Thank You Thom Marti Sec'y ADCOGP

Renewable Energy Talk at Gettysburg College, etc.
Posted by: thom.adcogp on Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 05:23 PM
community

Hello All,
Courtney Wege, Chair of ADCOGP. asked me to invite you to a talk by Tess Barton, on Renewable Energy. This event will be held at noon, Thursday April 3rd, at rm 360 in the CUB. A free lunch will be provided, bring a cup!
{This event segues with our April 10th screening of "A Crude Awakening"; refer to previous posts for time and date.}
Since we are talking about energy and movies, permit me to editorialize a bit. Last year at this time we watched "No Way Out" which details the FUBAR that our national leaders created in Iraq. We just watched it again yesterday (as Iraq erupts into another spasm of mass insurrection), and I really felt a sense of deja vu. How long must this agony go on?

Thank You,
Thom Marti,
ADCOGP News Editor

Charlie Emmon's Review of "Crude Awakening"
Posted by: thom.adcogp on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 07:15 PM
GreenHappenings

Hello All,
Here is a movie review that Charlie Emmons put together about the movie he has selected for the Green Movie Night, described in the previous ADCOGP news story:

"A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash," 2007 documentary by Basil Gelpke and
Ray McCormack, is a sobering look at "peak oil," the point we have now
reached at which oil consumption exceeds oil discovery. Without cheap oil
(if you think gas is expensive now...) the world economy and technology as
we know them are in greater jeopardy than most of us would want to
contemplate. The filmmakers doubt that alternative energy sources can make
up the difference. I suspect that they may be wrong, but the stakes are too
great to ignore this excellent, grim documentary. - Charles F. Emmons

See you at the film on Thursday, April 10th, at 7PM, at Gettysburg College!!

Thom Marti
Sec'y ADCOGP

Free Movie Night with ADCO Greens, and More!
Posted by: thom.adcogp on Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 08:38 AM
GreenHappenings

Hello All,
Forgive me for not writing more often,but I have been been writing my biography/family history, and have been stuck in the past. It has also been a long and hard winter out on the farm,and I've been stuck in the mud, too. We are so glad to see the Localvore Movement which was given such a boost by Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, and Miracle". ADCO Greens have been involved in the Local Foods movement since 2002. I have a few ADCO Green Happenings to announce:

First, Charlie Emmons has arranged the following event at Gettysburg College:
“A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash”, a documentary film by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack (2007, 85 minutes) will be shown in Joseph Theater (Room 201 Breidenbaugh Hall), Gettysburg College, Thursday, April 10, 7-9 p.m., admission free. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Gettysburg College and by the Adams County Green Party Committee. See you there!

Second, we will be having our next ADCOGP meeting and roadside clean-up at noon, Sunday, April 20th, at Courtney Wege's house, at 315 N. Stratton St., Gettysburg. Wear boots and sturdy clothes! For info, call me at 717-677-4131.

Third, we are excited about two political announcements; 1) that Ralph Nader, Matt Gonzalez, and Marakay Rogers are running for President, VP, and PA. Attorney General respectively, and 2) that our own Andy Johnson is running for State Senate District 23 (Adams, Franklin, and York). I urge you to read Andy's Announcement of Candidacy, the preceding post on this site. He needs your help to get on the ballot; Pennsylvania has the most unfair ballot access laws in the nation!

Thank You
Thom Marti
Sec'y ADCOGP

The Road Ahead - 2008
Posted by: Andy on Monday, March 03, 2008 - 03:11 PM
GreenHappenings

To all those who have visited our website over the past year, we thank you. For all those who will visit in the year to come, welcome and we hope you will be inspired enough this year to get active for the sake of our county, our state, and our nation.

There's nothing but more rough time ahead with the Democrats and Republicans in charge, but the people are fast awaking to it. Congress has an 11% approval rating. They refuse to stop the war, they are all working for lobbyists and corporate profit margins, and they think they have us all conned into total obedience with their pet mudpit media. And they still get an 11% rating.

We expect people to leave both parties in droves this election, disgusted with the corruption, torture and callous disregard for human life the Dems and Repubs are putting out. People will either elect to stay home, go independent, or join a minor party. We appeal to you, do not stay home November 4th, there's far too much at stake here. Stand up for what is right, stand by your family and their future, and vote your conscience. This has become a war of good versus evil and every vote counts, especially yours.

If you're not yet a Green and have been thinking of joining, we'll be getting up a link for registration very soon. If you're from an adjoining county or a student in the district, please feel free to register as well. Get the card with the G on it.

For those of you who think the Green Party is a bunch of militant vegetarians with long hair and bongo drums who want to free the cows, ban cars and make everyone eat trees, that's not who we are. We don't quote Marx, unless perhaps Groucho. We're farmers, teachers, workers, common folk like anyone else. Just concerned citizens who see that things can be run better. If you'd like to meet or join us, come to our next meeting or volunteer for a day with our signature gathering campaign. We're always in need of new voices and ideas.

It's going to be an exciting year for the Adams County Green Party in 2008. Not only will we working to expand our membership and register more Greens in Adams County, we'll also be running a candidate for State Senate District 33, comprising Adams, Franklin, and a small part of west York Counties.

Our State Senate candidate is me, Andy Johnson. I'm a life-long resident of the district, 40 years old, work in IT for the cable company, currenty live in Hamilton Township, Adams County, and I'm engaged to a wonderful woman from Waynesboro. My education is primarily informal, I have no degrees but my personal readings would count for a PhD in history at least, with bachelors in both military science and liberal arts thrown in. I am a hunter, a fisherman, and an amateur astronomer. My political heros are Guiseppe Garibaldi, William Penn, and Benjamin Franklin.

Since this is a State Senate race, I want to run on primarily state issues, like the Turnpike, out-of-state garbage, property tax reform by two targeted consumption taxes, banning rBGH-treated milk and other such issues. I will also try to put together a "Peace Alliance" of minor party candidates, all pledging to put in legislation demanding an end to Pennsylvania involvement in Iraq. Websites coming very soon.

Should be moving to Franklin County in about three months. Looking forward to getting a Franklin County Green Party started once I get settled in. If there's any registered or non-registered Greens from Franklin who read this post, please contact me if you want to help get a new county Green party on the move.

We'll be needing volunteers for signature gathering, especially on Apr 22nd, Primary Day. We'll need 2000 total out of the entire season, but Primary Day is our big push. We'll need all hands on deck, especially in the big polling centers, Chambersburg, Gettysburg, and Waynesboro. We'll be organizing a training session before Primary Day, so first-timers need not feel scared. More on that coming very soon, as well.

So, keep an eye on the site, we'll keep adding more news, links, and other information. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Please, remember to register Green, if you haven't already. Let's hear from you registered Greens out there, we want to meet you.

Peace to you all,

Andy Johnson
Politics Cmte
johnsonfor33@comcast.net