City Residents: Sign the Petition to Dump RG&E
Rochester Gas & Electric, part of Avantgrid, part of Iberdrola has become a cancer in our community. The corporation continues to extract wealth from Rochester while providing criminally sub-par services, leaving our neighbors in debt, in the dark, and sometimes, in mortal peril. There is a path to excise this cancer that is laid out in New York State law. AND there is already language in the Charter of the City of Rochester that would allow for a publicly owned and run utility with minor changes to the text. By signing the petition below, you are calling for Rochester City Council to release money that has been held for years for a state-mandated study to see if such a utility is feasible and to amend the City Charter to allow for the formation of a public utility to replace RG&E. This is for City of Rochester residents ONLY.
To sign the petition, click https://www.greenrochester.org/publicutility
After you have signed the petition, use your social media accounts to tell other City Residents to sign the petition as well. Then, call members of City Council and tell them to release the money for the feasibility study for a public utility. Here's their contact info:
Miguel Melendez, President, at-large
[email protected]
(585) 428-7538
LaShay Harris, Vice-President, South District
[email protected]
(585) 428-7538
Mitch Gruber, at-large
[email protected]
(585) 428-6924
LaShunda Leslie-Smith, at-large
[email protected]
(585) 428-7538
Stanley Martin, at-large
[email protected]
(585) 428-6935
Chiara Smith, at-large
[email protected]
(585) 428-7538
Mary Lupien, East District
[email protected]
(585) 428-7513
Bridget Monroe, Northwest District
[email protected]
(585) 428-7554
Michael Patterson, Northeast District
[email protected]
(585) 451-2024
You Are Still Registered Green!
You may have just received a letter from the Monroe County Board of Elections that said that you are no longer a Green. It would look something like this:
[We added the green box to highlight what to look at.]
This is another case of Democratic politricks. You ARE still registered as a Green. There is absolutely no real or legal reason for them to say otherwise. If you do a Freedom of Information request for voter registration data, you will be listed by both the State as OTH - GRE, which means Other - Green. Saying that you have no party is a falsehood, sent to confuse us and to further eat away at our power. DON'T BELIEVE THEM! You are still a registered Green. If not, why can folks still write in Green for a party?
How ironic that the party that calls themselves Democrats are so undemocratic. They're not going to stop their hijinks so there is really only one thing we can do...continue to fight for our rights as Greens. How?
- If you're already a Green, support local and state Green candidates.
- Better yet, if you're a Green, run for office yourself!
- If you're not registered as a Green right now, change! Resist the corporatists!
You can change your registration to vote right now at https://www.ny.gov/services/register-vote.
The Undemocratic Party does not deserve your support. They take us for granted and straight out lie to us all while supporting genocide. Fight back!
The Green Party of Monroe County denounces the cartoon and letter sent to the Monroe County Executive and members of the County Legislature on March 12, 2024. Both the cartoon and letter were created by
an individual who at the time was registered as a Green, but had no authority to represent the party. He had incorporated graphics that implied that his message was sponsored by both the Green Party as well as the local chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL). Neither group had knowledge of the individual’s intentions beforehand nor does either group approve of his message.
While the Green Party of Monroe County condemns this individual’s actions, we will continue to fight for an end to genocide and an end to the occupation in Palestine.
Free Palestine!
Local Petitions
In solidarity with local group who are taking actions, here are 2 online petitions that you can quickly do to help get Rent Control in the City of Rochester and to have Rochester City Council pass a resolution calling for a Ceasefire in Palestine.
By opting into Rent Stabilization, the City of Rochester can limit rent increases on eligible buildings. That means in thousands of apartments, landlords will no longer be able to raise rents as much as they want and we can have more housing security and stability in our city! Petition to City Council.
Rochester Committee to End Apartheid: Petition for Ceasefire Resolution in Rochester NY.
Letters for Palestine, Again
Even if you've already written letters to Federal representatives, there's more to do!
Some folks have been writing letters to Schumer, Gillibrand, Morelle, and even Trump, demanding they work for a ceasefire in Palestine. Now we have another angle.
Join us this SUNDAY to hand write letters to our Federal elected representatives to tell them to do what needs to be done for a permanent ceasefire in Palestine. We'll also be writing to the NY Attorney General to get them to go after NY corporations who sell military equipment to Israel.
Our guide to writing letters about Palestine is at https://www.greenrochester.org/letters_for_palestine. So you can do it yourself!
What is a Municipal Energy Company (aka Public Power)?
Ask some of our previous candidates...
Here's Dave Sutliff-Atias in 2019
Here's Alex White discussing it on his radio show Transforming Rochester in 2018
https://archive.org/details/TransformingRochester119
Greens have been calling for this issue for years. Some folks are working on it, but it's not enough. Stay tuned for information on how YOU can get involved.
What Should Our Elected Officials Do about Violence, Part 4
What Should Our Elected Officials Do about Violence, Part 3
Discussion on Gun Violence, Part 2
Leave ideas and comments on our social media or email us at [email protected].
Discussion on Gun Violence, Part 1
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A Dialogue on Anti-Racism
Read the REAL Racial Equity Plan, click here.
The State of Police Accountability in Rochester
Green Vice Presidential Candidate Angela Walker at the GPoMC Monthly Meeting
For more information, to volunteer, and donate go to www.howiehawkins.us.
Here is June's Monthly Meeting on the City of Rochester budget. We contacted City Council & the Mayor to make suggestions and they took none of them. Watch the presentation to see what havoc will be wrought.
Did you leave us to support Bernie Sanders in the past?
That's OK. You can switch back to the party where you belong by downloading and mailing in this form:
- http://www2.monroecounty.gov/files/MonroeCounty-voteform-1.pdf (English)
- http://www2.monroecounty.gov/files/MonroeCounty-Mail-Spanish-2015.pdf (Spanish)
Green Party 10 Key Values
Grassroots Democracy • Social Justice And Equal Opportunity • Ecological Wisdom Non-Violence • Decentralization • Community-Based Economics • Feminism And Gender Equity • Respect For Diversity • Personal And Global Responsibility • Future Focus And Sustainability