2002 State Convention

Minutes of the convention.

Saturday April 27th
Bunker Hill Community College
Charlestown, Boston

At this years state convention, the Massachusetts Green Party will for the first time nominate candidates for statewide offices! Be a part of history by participating in the nomination of our candidates for Governor, Lt. Governor, and State Tresurer. We will also be voting on several changes to join forces with the Rainbow Coalition Party including changing the name of the party to the Green-Rainbow Party.

The registration fee is a sliding scale from $25 to $50 (based on what you can afford to pay). Fee reductions and waivers are available to those who need it. Please give more if you can, as we want to make this accessible to all. Registration includes lunch.

Schedule

The agenda is:

• Opening & presentation of meeting rules
• Decision on Participation of Rainbow Party Members at Convention
• Nominations of statewide candidates
• Ratification of changes to Bylaws Section 8 State Committee
• Decision on changing the party name to Green-Rainbow
• (break for lunch)
• Election of AdCom and GPUS reps
• Ratification of changes to Bylaws Section 9 Administration Committee
• Ratification of adding Rainbow Coalition's platform to the Green Platform

Directions

Directions to the Charlestown campus of Bunker Hill Community College are available here.

Proposals and Nominations

• Proposals submitted for the State Convention (now frozen).
• Nominate people for Administrative Committee and Representative to the Green Party of the US positions here (now frozen).

Bylaws

The MGP Bylaws were recently modified to account for our weakness in explicity working towards diversity within the party structure and at the same time moving the State Committee structure to be in compliance with state law, which must take place by 2004. These bylaws changes were adopted by the State Committee and represent the rewarding and hard work of many people from both the Green Party and the Rainbow Coalition Party working together in the Green-Rainbow Committee. The Green-Rainbow Committee is the committee that has been working on the Greens joining forces with the Rainbow Coalition Party since the last MGP Congress in 2001, where by consensus, the members of MGP decided to move ahead with efforts to join forces with the Rainbow Coalition Party.

You can read the latest Bylaws, an extract of the changes to the bylaws that were passed at the last State Committe meeting on 3/23/02, and the Addendum A, a document titled "Consensus Seeking Process" that describes the consensus seeking decision making process that the MGP will be using at all conventions, congresses, and State Committee meetings.