Pinal County Greens Pass Resolution Wishing Arizona Residents a Happy Simchat Torah

Apache Junction, Ariz. & New York, N.Y., Oct. 20 -

The Pinal County Greens tonight passed a resolution wishing all Arizonans a happy and joyful Simchat Torah.

In New York's Zuccotti Park to show support for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, Pinal County Greens Co-Chair Richard Grayson said, "Simchat Torah is a holiday of rejoicing with the Torah, when Jews end the yearly cycle of reading the Torah and begin anew. It's appropriate that across Arizona and here with Occupy Wall Street and the other Occupy movements around the country, we celebrate our own and our nation's renewal."

The Pinal County Greens are members of the Arizona Green Party in the nation's second-fastest-growing county.

Pinal County Greens March With #Occupy Wall Street

(Photos by Richard Grayson)
New York, Oct. 14 -

The Pinal County Greens today participated in a march with Occupy Wall Street, whose protest the group supports wholeheartedly. Here is a brief report from Pinal County Greens Co-Chair Richard Grayson:

At 7:20 a.m., we came out of the 5 train at Wall Street to join the march of Occupy Wall Street protestors through the Financial District. An hour earlier, the city postponed the cleanup of Zuccotti Park and so averted a a feared showdown between the police and demonstrators who had vowed to resist any efforts to evict them from their encampment.

The crowd chanted various slogans, including "The Whole World Is Watching."



It was pretty peaceful and mostly celebratory, given that there would be no eviction from Zuccotti Park (renamed Liberty Square by #OWS) today.







However, we did see people arrested as we wound our way through the streets of the Financial District. One man, wrestled to the ground by police, had a bloody gash on his face and others were piled into a paddy wagon at Maiden Lane and Water Street.



Eventually we all returned to Zuccotti Park.



We ran into our friends, Brooklyn City Council members Jumaane Williams and Letitia James, who were instrumental, along with other elected officials, in convincing Brookfield Properties to postpone today's cleanup and avoid any real serious confrontation.






We're learning a lot from other people here at Occupy Wall Street.




The Pinal County Greens are members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County, the nation's second-fastest-growing county.

Pinal County Greens in New York to Support "Occupy Wall Street" Protestors in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park

(Photos by Richard Grayson)
(Posters by Occupy Together)

New York, Oct. 2, 2011 -

Early this morning, Pinal County Greens Co-Chair Richard Grayson arrived at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan's Financial District to lend the Pinal County Greens' support to Occupy Wall Street, the protest now going into its third week.


"The Pinal Couty Greens wanted to express their solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and to make a small contribution to their effort. Their fight is our fight," said Grayson, the 2010 Green Party candidate for Congress in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District. "We also want to see a society where Americans other than those in the top one percent of income and wealth also have an opportunity to have our voices heard."


The Pinal County Greens are members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County, America's second-fastest-growing county according to the 2010 census.














The Pinal County Greens endorse this statement by Mark Dunlea, co-founder of the Green Party of New York State:

The Democratic Party does not speak for the Occupy Wall Street, Occupy America, and October 2011 protesters. No political party speaks for the protesters, not even the Green Party.

The protesters speak for themselves. The Green Party has endorsed and joined the demos because we share the same frustration and anger as the other protesters. Greens are there because we bring alternative ideas like the Green New Deal.

And we're there because we encourage the 99 percent -- We The People -- to organize, end pro-corporate two-party rule, and replace the politicians in public office who enabled Wall Street's theft of America's future.

This can only happen through an independent alliance with the same diversity we're seeing at the protests: labor activists, Greens, progressives, anarchists, libertarians, nonvoters, disappointed Democrats and Republicans, and all others who want real change.