Barbara Dahlgren gave a presentation about Mass Surveillance in Milwaukee at the April Meeting. The talk will be available on our YouTube, and here is the link to the slides:
Greater Milwaukee Green Party 1st Annual Awards Ceremony
December 7th, 2024 at the Mitchell Street Library, the Greater Milwaukee Greens served lunch and honored Greens, coalition partners and community members. The membership voted to honor the following people and groups in the following categories. Congratulations to all of those honored. In the coming years we will continue uplifting Green activity for peace, justice, ecological wisdom, and democracy in our community.
New Member Award: Micah Leavitt
Representation in Wisconsin Green Party: Tiffany Anderson
Non-Member Community Activist: Samir Moukaddam
Coalition Partner: The Poor People’s Army
Green Party Liaison to a Coalition: Barb Eisenberg
Friendly Green: Rita Maniotis
Special Appreciation Award for Sharyl McFarland for her Courage and Persistence in running for Secretary of State. Without her efforts, our fight for ballot access this year would have been a significant struggle.
Again, thank you to all of the members building the Green Party, and all of the community members building a Greener Milwaukee
Micah Leavitt for Congress | WI CD4 | Green Party write-in
Micah is passionate about standing with working class families to end wealth inequality, to increase political accountability, for public servants to be responsive to constituents. He is working to stop the forever wars and restore the world to a just peace. Micah also fights to end the war on drugs and release those charged with petty drug crimes.
Goals
- slash the Pentagon budget by 75%
- immediate ceasefire in Gaza | #noceasefirenovote
- restore civil liberties: right to privacy; jury trials; right to protest outside of so called free speech zones
- support freedom of speech/press/Internet; whistleblowers
- global nuclear de-escalation
- abolish the CIA and military-industrial deep state
- restore state department diplomacy — make negotiating peace its main objective
- stop the war inflation
- reform big pharma: reform CDC, FDA, HHS, NIAID
- raise the minimum wage to $25/hour
- legalize marijuana; use tax revenue for free rehabilitation centers to attack the opioid crisis
- invest in renewable energy
- stop NATO expansion
- not one more penny for war in Ukraine
- address unacceptable wealth inequality
- End the Cuba blockade and take Cuba off the international terrorist list
Short Term Priorities
Top 3 short term priorities, voted in Jan 2018:
- Milwaukee Lead Pipe/Water Quality
- Black/Brown Lives Matter
- Local Economic Disparities