The Boston School Committee has approved the renaming of the McKinley South End Academy for Melvin H King, the renowned Boston activist, creator of the Boston Rainbow Coalition, and subsequently a founder of the Green-Rainbow Party in 2002.   Continue reading

What became the Green Party of the United States had its first national conference 35 years ago in Massachusetts. “Building the Green Movement: A National Conference for a New Politics” was a six-day marathon that ran over the July 4th weekend from Thursday, July 2 through Tuesday, July 7 at Hampshire College in Amherst.  Continue reading

* Female delegate to the National Committee * The Green-Rainbow Party is staffed by volunteers.  There are literally hundreds of opportunities to make a Green difference in Massachusetts and beyond.  This one won't wait.  The Massachusetts state party is represented by delegates appointed to committees of the Green Party of the United States.  As we head into 2023, a critical year to build the nationwide Green presence, we are seeking to appoint members to represent us on key GPUS committees.  Continue reading

Well, the November mid-term elections have come and gone as has my initiation into grassroots politics.  I ran for State Representative of the southern hilltowns of the Berkshires out in the most-Western part of the state. My campaign focused on truth and transparency and called to question the practice of unrecorded votes in the Statehouse. While that is an important topic and worthy of representation it was not a klaxon call to action for the electorate. Combine that with a twenty-year incumbent with a $200,000 war chest who put billboards up all over the county, it was a hard-fought campaign and I  garnered 10% of the vote in a two-person race. Before election day I was hoping for between 8-15% and would consider that a showing of interest in a “third-party” GRP candidate. So I am hopeful in the end, that I can run again and/or another GRP candidate can run in my place.  Continue reading

Noting that Massachusetts is in the middle of a worsening housing crisis for renters,  Gloria Caballero-Roca, Green-Rainbow candidate for State Auditor, has issued a call for a thorough audit of state programs that are intended to assist renters in finding acceptable rental units and avoiding evictions. “Our state assistance programs need to be thoroughly revamped to give renters a chance of surviving punishing rent inflation and continuing shortages of rental units for lower-income families” Caballero-Roca asserted. Continue reading