END MILITARY ARMS TO LOCAL POLICE The Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party has joined with other organizations in demanding that the Biden Administration stop militarizing our local law enforcement officers. President Joe Biden has stated on January 26, 2021, that he intends to reinstate the modest restrictions of President Barack Obama on the notorious Department of Defense's 1033 program which provides military equipment including tanks and grenade launchers to local police. Lois Gagnon, a Co-Chair of the GRP, joins with the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and other organizations, to reject President Joe Biden’s executive order to alter the 1033 program because his supposed commitment to racial justice is an affront. For almost a quarter of a century, the 1033 program has transferred "surplus" military equipment and vehicles to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. It was established by the 1997 National Defense Authorization ACT. Over 8000 law enforcement agencies have been the recipients of such tools of violence as armored tanks, weaponized aircraft, pipe bomb materials, and high-powered guns. The Green-Rainbow Party stands with more than 80 other organizations in demanding an end to this unsafe and ineffective Program and its removal from the Defense Authorization Act.

The Green-Rainbow Party (GRP) State Committee approved this proposal on January 4, 2020. PROPOSAL: The Green-Rainbow Party (GRP) demands a moratorium on 5G implementation in Massachusetts until a full, extensive and independent assessment of the technology is completed and public hearings are conducted. 5G should not be implemented until the safety of people and the environment is assured.   Continue reading

Green-Rainbow Party Co-Chairs’ Statement:  April 26, 2020: We are living in a time of escalating crisis: pandemic, environmental collapse, perpetual wars, and an economic and political system incapable of meeting the needs of the people. This shocking reality has been decades in the making. The Democratic and Republican Parties long ago abandoned working people to serve the wealthy 1%. They cannot lead us to a better future. We urgently need a government that leads by listening to those who are suffering the most, and understands we are all connected. For this to happen, local, state, and national officials must be independent of the corporate parties and oceans of ‘dark money,’ that continue to block positive system change. Continue reading

WHEREAS THE U.S. MILITARY SERVES NO USEFUL PURPOSE AND IS USED SOLELY FOR IMPERIALIST WAR AND TO ENRICH ARMS MANUFACTURERS; AND WHEREAS THE U.S. MILITARY WREAKS TERRIBLE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION WHICH IS THREATENING THE FUTURE OF LIFE ON EARTH; AND WHEREAS THE U.S. MILITARY CONSUMES ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF RESOURCES THAT COULD BE USED TO SUSTAINABLY PROVIDE FOR HUMAN NEEDS, THE GREEN-RAINBOW PARTY OF MASSACHUSETTS RECOGNIZES THAT CUTTING U.S. MILITARY SPENDING IN HALF (OR SOME OTHER ARBITRARY AMOUNT) IS NOT ENOUGH. Continue reading