DONATE TODAY!—TO SOMEBODY ELSE
My quixotic campaign for US Senate came to an end on 19 August 2020...and was reborn on 15 September! But as of now, we're still not accepting contributions or spending money.
If you are itching to help some Green candidates with your money or time, I have some suggestions:
Hawkins/Walker 2020 is getting federal matching funds for all donations up to $250 through 27 August.
Lisa Savage is running as a Green Independent for the US Senate seat currently occupied by Susan Collins; Maine has Ranked Choice Voting for elections at all levels.
Two Green candidates in Texas actually paid the newly required filing fees when they applied last December to run for office.
2020 GREEN PARTY SENATORIAL NOMINEE
Thank you, delegates to the Green Party of Texas convention, for confirming my nomination on 18 April. This nomination comes with a major asterisk: I submitted my application to run without the $5,000 filing fee (or 5,000 signatures in lieu thereof). A federal lawsuit currently pending may overturn the new filing fee provision. On 15 September 2020, the State Supreme Court reversed an Appeals Court ruling that had knocked a few of our candidates off the ballot. As of now, Tom, kat, and I are back in the running!
I was also the GPTX nominee for US Senate in 2012 and the Harris County Greens' nominee for County Judge in 2014. More importantly, over the past 30-plus years, I have participated in various activities with dozens of groups established to promote peace, social justice, economic justice, and environmentally sound policies. Most of my activist work has been within the Green Parties of Texas and Harris County. Currently, I am serving as co-chair of a new organization, Green Party Houston, which focuses on spreading the Green Movement throughout the Houston metropolitan area.
As a practicing Green, I am painfully aware that these ideals of peace, justice, and ecology are connected. We need an intersectional, big-picture approach to retool our society to serve actual humans, not corporate "persons."
The Preamble to the Constitution implies that our government's main purpose is to protect the People from stupidity and greed. Unfortunately, the forces of stupidity and greed have bought the government, and they will not allow our elected representatives to legislate them back into Pandora's box. Perpetual war, gross social injustices, and fossil fuel foolishness continue because they are profitable for the wealthiest 1%. The only way restore power to the People is through revolution, preferably by nonviolent means.
My quixotic campaign for US Senate came to an end on 19 August 2020...and was reborn on 15 September! But as of now, we're still not accepting contributions or spending money.
If you are itching to help some Green candidates with your money or time, I have some suggestions:
Hawkins/Walker 2020 is getting federal matching funds for all donations up to $250 through 27 August.
Lisa Savage is running as a Green Independent for the US Senate seat currently occupied by Susan Collins; Maine has Ranked Choice Voting for elections at all levels.
Two Green candidates in Texas actually paid the newly required filing fees when they applied last December to run for office.
- Hal J. Ridley, Jr., US House TX-36 doesn't have a Donate page on his site.
- Brody Mulligan, Texas House District 92, totally does.
2020 GREEN PARTY SENATORIAL NOMINEE
Thank you, delegates to the Green Party of Texas convention, for confirming my nomination on 18 April. This nomination comes with a major asterisk: I submitted my application to run without the $5,000 filing fee (or 5,000 signatures in lieu thereof). A federal lawsuit currently pending may overturn the new filing fee provision. On 15 September 2020, the State Supreme Court reversed an Appeals Court ruling that had knocked a few of our candidates off the ballot. As of now, Tom, kat, and I are back in the running!
I was also the GPTX nominee for US Senate in 2012 and the Harris County Greens' nominee for County Judge in 2014. More importantly, over the past 30-plus years, I have participated in various activities with dozens of groups established to promote peace, social justice, economic justice, and environmentally sound policies. Most of my activist work has been within the Green Parties of Texas and Harris County. Currently, I am serving as co-chair of a new organization, Green Party Houston, which focuses on spreading the Green Movement throughout the Houston metropolitan area.
As a practicing Green, I am painfully aware that these ideals of peace, justice, and ecology are connected. We need an intersectional, big-picture approach to retool our society to serve actual humans, not corporate "persons."
The Preamble to the Constitution implies that our government's main purpose is to protect the People from stupidity and greed. Unfortunately, the forces of stupidity and greed have bought the government, and they will not allow our elected representatives to legislate them back into Pandora's box. Perpetual war, gross social injustices, and fossil fuel foolishness continue because they are profitable for the wealthiest 1%. The only way restore power to the People is through revolution, preferably by nonviolent means.
AUTHOR
...of three novels: Eastern Daylight—1997, in its original format, as a free online novel! You can also download each chapter as a separate PDF.
Most of the productive or meaningful writing I have done since 2015 has been in my blog.
...of three novels: Eastern Daylight—1997, in its original format, as a free online novel! You can also download each chapter as a separate PDF.
Most of the productive or meaningful writing I have done since 2015 has been in my blog.