Green-Rainbow Party membership director, Lee Scott Laugenour, throwing his hat into the ring for the Select Board of Lenox, MA

Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 16, 2009

Contacts: Jill Stein, 781-674-1377, 617-852-4727, jillstein1@gmail.com, GRP co-chair

Nat Fortune, 413-774-1950, 413-665-6739, nat.fortune@comcast.net, former GRP co-chair & current Whately School Committee Member.

Today the Green-Rainbow Party called for Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner's committee chairmanships to be restored and for the FBI bribery charges against Turner to be dropped. The Party also called for an investigation into the targeting practices of the FBI to determine if the powers of the FBI have been used for political ends. The statement released by the Party's incoming co-chairs follows.

Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, December 2, 2008

Contacts: Incoming co-chairs: Jill Stein, 781-674-1377, jillstein1@gmail.com and Eli Beckerman, 617-821-1453, elibeck@gmail.com

This morning, Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, a Green-Rainbow Party member and longtime champion of his under-served community, was arrested in connection to an FBI sting operation. Please see the press release below, and also share your experiences with Chuck's tireless activism here:

http://community.green-rainbow.org/?q=node/57

Visit http://supportchuckturner.com for more information

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 12, 2008 CONTACTS: GRP Co-chairs Nat Fortune (413-665-6739) and Merelice (617-277-1757) GRP Comm. Director Eli Beckerman, communications.director@green-rainbow.org

On Tuesday, November 4th, while voters focused on big-name and big-money campaigns, there was a strong cross-current developing in Massachusetts that sent waves across the Commonwealth.

Green-Rainbow Party member John Leonard, of Hingham, along with Scott Mortimer and Maddy Websterof the Drug Policy Forum of Massachusetts, got an advisory ballot question on medical marijuana on the ballot in 15 Massachusetts towns.

John Leonard, a Green-Rainbow Party member in Hingham, initiated an advisory ballot question in a number of South Shore towns supporting the Cape Wind and other future offshore wind projects. The effort has gotten some support from Sustainable Braintree, Sustainable Scituate, Sustainable Hanover, Cohasset Alternative Energy Committee and the Hingham REACH Wind Committee.