Pinal County Greens Pass Resolution Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year and a Greener, Safer, More Sustainable and Prosperous Planet in 2012

Apache Junction, Ariz., Dec. 30 -

Today the Pinal County Greens, members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County, passed a resolution wishing everyone in Pinal County, the state of Arizona, the United States of America and other nations of the earth a happy new year.

"We hope 2012 will bring a greener, safer, more sustainable and prosperous planet," said Richard Grayson, Pinal County Greens co-chair.

Pinal County Greens Pass Resolution Wishing Everyone a Merry Christmas

APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz., Dec. 24 -

The Pinal County Greens today passed an emergency resolution wishing all Arizonans, Green Party members and normal people a very merry Christmas.

"We hope everyone will have a good holiday," said Richard Grayson, Pinal County Greens co-chair. The Pinal County Greens are members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County.

Pinal County Greens Still at Zuccotti Park, Vow to Continue to Support Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Movement in Arizona

New York, Nov. 20 -

Pinal County Greens Co-Chair Richard Grayson reported that few protesters from Occupy Wall Street were left at a heavily guarded, heavily barricaded Zuccotti Park this morning in Manhattan's Financial District.

"The Occupy movement will go on," Grayson said, "in New York and Phoenix and Tucson and all over America. The 99% will continue their campaign to address the issues of income inequality and the unfair influence of money on the political system."

The Pinal County Greens are members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County.

As David Carr wrote in the New York Times:

Occupy Wall Street is animated by a central, galvanizing idea — that the distribution of wealth is unfair. That struck a very live nerve, grabbing something that was in the air and turning it into simple math: 1 percent should not live at the expense of the other 99 percent.

Still, Occupy Wall Street left many all revved up with no place to go. In addition to the 5 W’s — who, what, when, where and why — the media are obsessed with a sixth: what’s next? Occupy Wall Street, for all its appeal as a story, is very hard to roll forward.

But if Occupy Wall Street seems inchoate and short on answers, it has plenty of company. The president has primed the pump over and over with borrowed federal largess and still jobs refuse to flow. The myriad Republican debates have become a kind of random gaffe generator with little in the way of serious public proposals.

And by the way, there’s another term for a gathering of politically committed people who make a lot of speeches and argue endlessly over process without producing much in the way of solutions: Congress.

Witness the Congressional supercommittee charged with reducing the nation’s debt, which has spun its wheels to little end as it confronts a partisan divide so wide it would have daunted Evel Knievel.

The country has reached the point where things feel so fundamentally wrong that every suggested remedy seems like a media exercise, a kind of nationwide spin cycle.

Occupy Wall Street may not have the answers, but we all are coming to realize that no one else does either.

Pinal County Greens Join Occupy Wall Street Day of Action in New York City

New York, Nov. 17 -

The Pinal County Greens were represented at Occupy Wall Street's November 17th Day of Action demonstrations in New York City on the two-month anniversary of the protest that has galvanized progressives across the country. Pinal County Greens Co-Chair Richard Grayson took these photos at this afternoon's student strike rally at Union Square.

Pinal County Greens Pass Resolution Urging Jill Stein to Run for President

Apache Junction, Ariz., Oct. 12 -

The Pinal County Greens today passed a resolution urging Jill Stein to run for President.

The resolution asked Stein, a physician, educator, housewife, environmental health care advocate and former Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Massachusetts governor and secretary of state, to consider seeking the Green Party nomination for President because of her "proven experience, sharp intelligence, extraordinary political abilities, exemplary positions on issues, and her commitment to economic democracy as shown by her support for the Green New Deal and her recent activism on behalf of Occupy Boston."

The Pinal County Greens, member of the Arizona Green Party in America's second-fastest-growing county, noted that they had not yet made an endorsement in the Green Party presidential nomination race. But Pinal County Greens Co-Chair Richard Grayson said, "We are so impressed with Dr. Stein's credentials and character that we are enthusiastic about her potential campaign for President."

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.