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Next Steuben Greens MeetingThe Steuben Greens meet on the 3rd Monday of the month by conference call or in person.Our next meeting, Mon., May 20 is our annual meeting. We will gather at 6:30 pm at 90 West Market St., 2d Fl., in Corning. For info about the meeting, email info@steubengreens.org or call 607-569-2114.Join the Steuben Greens on FacebookCurrent Projects of the Steuben GreensBan on FrackingJoin the Steuben Greens in calling for a ban on hydro-fracking in New York and across the nation.Join the Don't Frack Steuben County Facebook page.Occupy Corning/ElmiraJoin the Occupy Corning/Elmira Facebook pageDarin Robbins speaking about the Occupy Movement in Bath, NY, Oct. 6, 2012 |
Green Party NewsCurrent News about the Green Party and Green Party CandidatesVisit the Steuben Greens Facebook page and the Green Party of NYS Facebook page for current news about the Green Party and coverage of Green issues. Getting on the Ballot in 2013The New York State Board of Elections released the 2013 Political Calendar on April 30, 2013. It is time to start planning your petition drive for getting on the ballot!
For information about how to collect petition signatures, check out our petitioning guidelines. Darin Robbins for Mayor of CorningDarin Robbins has announced his candidacy for mayor of Corning as the Green Party candidate in 2013. Darin is running to give the Corning community a new direction. "The first step in this direction is to acknowledge that the residents of Corning are co-owners of this city, each person who lives here is a stakeholder that has the right to participate fully in the public life of our city, and any new policy must reflect this basic premise," Darin said in his press release on Feb. 21, 2013. In a recent letter to the editor published in the Corning Leader, but not posted on their website, Darin says: "As a candidate for mayor, I know that the most direct way to protect Corning from the fracking process is to go beyond the containment process that is only making appeals to state regulatory agencies and to exercise the majority rights of our community over the minority rights of corporations. That is why my first action as mayor, if elected, is to introduce a community Bill Of Rights patterned after the work of the Democracy School seminars conducted by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. This Bill Of Rights would set the legal foundation that the power of the city is inherent in its people, that corporate rights do not subordinate citizens’ rights, and that the citizens have a right to clean land, air, and water. This would set the precedent for a local ban on fracking. For our own self-determination, we need to exercise this democratic process to protect our community." For more information about Darin's campaign, click here. System Change Not Climate ChangeGreen Party of New York State members and banner in Washington DC on Feb. 17, 2013.
Join the Steuben Greens in calling for a ban on hydro-fracking in New York and across the nation. Join the Don't Frack Steuben County Facebook page. Occupy Corning/ElmiraThe Steuben Greens support the Occupy movement. Click here to read our statement in support. A number of our members in the Corning area are participating in the Occupy Corning/Elmira general assemblies. Get updates about Occupy Corning/Elmira activities on the group's Facebook page. Click here for a video of Darin Robbins, a Green in Corning, speaking about the Occupy movement. Participatory Democracy Petitions for the City of CorningDarin Robbins has developed two petitions for referenda for amendments to the Corning City Charter. The first petition is for a referendum to set up a participatory budgeting process. The second petition, which grows out of the work on the budgeting referendum, is for a referendum to add a formal referendum process to the City Charter. To sign the referendum process petition online, click here. To sign the participatory budgeting petition online, click here. Click here to download a PDF of the participatory budgeting petition. Click here to download a PDF of the referendum process petition. Return completed petitions to Darin Robbins, 78 Sterling Street, Corning, NY 14830. State and National Green Party CandidatesMembers of the Steuben County Green Party worked in 2012 for Jill Stein's campaign for President of the United State and Colia Clark's campaign for US Senate from New York. In Memoriam: Charles F. RolaWe mourn the passing of one of our most dedicated members, Charles F. Rola of Savona in September 2012. His daughter Calen wrote a very nice obituary that appeared in the September 21, 2012, Corning Leader, but only a notice is online. 2012 Annual Meeting At the Annual Meeting of the Steuben County Green Party on Sat., May 5, 2012, new
officers were elected: Colia Clark for US Senate from New York in Corning May 1
Colia Clark, the Green Party candidate for US Senate from New York came to Corning on May 1 and spoke at three Occupy events. The events received widespread press coverage, including: WENY (ABC affiliate), WETM (NBC affiliate), the Corning Leader, the Elmira Star-Gazette and YNN, most of which featured Colia's participation. A long time civil rights, peace and women's rights activist, Colia received GPNYS's nomination as the party's 2012 US Senate candidate in March. Colia was the Green Party nominee for U.S. Senate in 2010 for the seat presently held by Chuck Schumer. She is a chair of Grandmothers for the Release of Mumia Abu Jamal. During the Civil Rights era, Colia was a Special Assistant to Medgar W. Evers, field Secretary for the NAACP. She later joined the Mississippi Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) doing voter registration work. Now a resident of Manhattan, Colia was the founder and Coordinator for Poor Women Against Vietnam War, and the former coordinator of the Social Justice Center in Albany. Preparing a Steuben County Green Party PlatformWe are working to prepare a Green Party platform for Steuben County. Please email info@steubengreens.org if you would like to contribute your ideas. 2011 Election ResultsThe Steuben Greens endorsed Joe Duffy's campaign for 10 Ward Alderman in the City of Hornell. Joe received 36% of the vote in a two way race. Good coverage of the race in the Hornell Tribune, Carbone, Duffy running for 10th ward alderman position. Area Greens Host GP-US Annual Meeting at NY Green Fest 2011NY Green Fest 2011 was held in conjunction with the annual national meeting of the Green Party of the United States. Both events were held Aug. 5-7, 2011, at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. NY Green Fest was organized by the Allegany and Steuben County Green parties. Steuben Greens Darin Robbins and Joe Duffy spoke at the event. Darin spoke on Courting the Anarchist Vote: Finding the Common Denominator of Autonomy, and Joe spoke at the press conference of Green candidates. The Green Fest program included more than 30 workshops on politics, energy, media and ecology, four forums and great music on our solar stage. Many of these programs are available on videos posted on the Green Fest website. Presenters included Elizabeth May, Canada's first elected Green Party member of Parliament, David Korten, author of Corporations will Rule the World and co-founder of YES! Magazine, Tina Clarke from the Transition Towns Movement, David Cobb, 2004 Green nominee for President, Virginia Rasmussen from the Program for Corporations Law and Democracy (POCLAD), Gay Nicholson from Sustainable Tompkins, and Richard Grossman from Frack Free Catskills. NY State Green Party Wins 2010 Victory, Reclaims Ballot LineThe more than 58,000 votes cast for Howie Hawkins and Gloria Mattera have secured the Green Party a ballot line for the next four years. Support for all the Green candidates was strong. Unofficial figures show Comptroller candidate Julia Willebrand receiving almost 98,000 votes, and US Senate candidates Colia Clarke and Cecile Lawrence receiving about 40,000 and 34,000 votes respectively. Each of our candidates came in third in their races.. "This is the best showing ever for statewide Green Party candidates. It is the culmination of months of hard work on the part of many party members, and the candidates themselves. Voters are fed up with Democrats and Republicans taking their votes for granted, and are open to hearing ideas from a party not beholden to Wall St. and special interests. Howie Hawkins campaigned tirelessly to promote the idea of a Green New Deal, funded by progressive taxation on the wealthy, and using the stock transfer tax we already collect to fill the budget gap. Voters who heard the message understood that Howie's platform made sense, and that it's the austerity plans of Cuomo and Paladino that are nonsense," said Peter LaVenia, co-chair of the NY State Green Party. "This is a building block for the future. We are going to use this victory to elect Greens statewide, starting at the local level and moving on up to the state," stated Eric Jones, co-chair of the NYS Green Party. Howie Hawkins on the Economics of Hydrofracking
Howie Hawkins, the 2010 Green Party candidate for governor of New York spoke at Pollywogg Holler in Allegany County on August. 8, 2010, about hydrofracking and his campaign. Greens at the 2010 EPA Hearing in BinghamtonSusan Donderewicz from the Steuben Greens at the anti-drilling rally outside the EPA hearings in Binghamton on Sept. 15, 2010, with Green gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins and hydrofracking activists from across the state. Photos by Joe Armstrong.
Green Party Candidates Call for Ban on Hydrofracking"We're for a ban on hydrofracking because there are better options for energy. What this really does is privatize the cost and socialize the risk," said Howie Hawkins, Green Party Candidate for Governor said in Vestal on June 30. Cecile Lawrence, Green Party candidate for US Senate, said organizing for a ban on hydrofracking is a key issue for her campaign. Click for link to WICZ Video. Greens Nominate Hawkins, Mattera, Clark, Lawrence and WillebrandSyracuse labor activist Howie Hawkins was nominated for Governor and Gloria Mattera, a long time peace activist from Brooklyn, was nominated for Lt. Governor at the Green Party state convention in Albany May 15, 2010. Colia Clark was nominated for the US Senate seat presently held by Chuck Schumer. Cecile Lawrence was picked to fill out the Senate seat previously held by Hillary Clinton. Julia Willebrand from Manhattan, who received amost 118,000 votes for Comptroller four years ago, was chosen to run for comptroller again. Videos of the nominating speeches of the candidates are at www.gpnys.org. Steuben Greens support Gas Drilling Moratorium LegislationThe Steuben County Green Party has issued a memorandum in support of the Englebright (A10490)/Addabbo (S7592) bill that would establish a moratorium on conducting hydraulic fracturing for the extraction of natural gas or oil in New York State until 120 days after the EPA finalizes a report on the effects of hydraulic fracturing on groundwater and freshwater supplies. Click here to read our memorandum. Steuben Greens on YouTubeMeet members of the Steuben Greens on YouTube talking about politics and the Green
Party. Recorded at our April 28, 2010 meeting in Bath. Susan Donderewicz from Savona on the Paralysis
of Convenience Steuben County Green Party Joins Call for Gas Drilling Ban
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On March 16, 2009, the Steuben Greens and the Hornell Alfred Unitarian Universalist Society sponsored a presentation in Hornell by Dr. Ismail Mehr about his recent humanitarian mission to Gaza. Dr. Mehr led a team of 9 physicians and 2 non-medical personnel on a ten day medical mission to Gaza in February 2009. Dr. Mehr is an anesthesiologist at St. James Mercy Hospital in Hornell. The trip was sponsored by the Islamic Medical Association of North America. It was the first US medical mission to Gaza this year. Photo from the Buffalo News. For more information about Dr. Mehr's trip, visit www.ammgaza.com
Showing of Rural Impact
On Nov. 5, 2008, the Steuben Greens joined with the Bath Peace and Justice Group to sponsor a showing of a documentary film on the impacts of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in Colorado by Two Cent Films and Crestone Media. The documentary features Dr. Theo Colborn, an environmental health analyst who has studied the chemicals used by drilling companies in their drilling and hydraulic fracturing fluids. Dr. Colborn's website, http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/, gives the results of her studies of the health effects of the products and chemicals used in drilling, fracturing (frac'ing, or stimulation), recovery and delivery of natural gas. She has analyzed chemicals used by gas drilling companies in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming. Her research provides a glimpse at the patterns of possible health hazards for those living in proximity to gas development.
Building Bath’s Local Economy
On Thursday, May 29, 2008, the Steuben Greens sponsored a panel discussion on grassroots strategies for building Bath’s local economy. Three Green Party members from the Bath-Corning area, Susan Donderewicz, Darin Robbins and Rachel Treichler, discussed how developing a more community-based, decentralized local economy could change Bath. The speakers looked at Bath’s economy today and showed how a micro-lending program, a local currency, local food production, promotion of local businesses, removing regulatory barriers and alternative healthcare, schooling and transportation systems could create more sustainable ways to live in Bath as the world economy changes.
Citizen Power Alliance
The Steuben Greens have joined the Citizen Power Alliance. The Citizen Power Alliance is a coalition of independent groups organized to promote sound energy and environmental policy. The mission of CPA is to hold public officials and regulators accountable, while seeking the protection of the public interest. The group belives that ecological preservation requires fiscal responsibility and viable technological solutions.
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