GREEN PARTY OF NEW YORK
http://www.gpnys.org/
Candidate Press Release
Alice Green for Mayor
http://nys.greens.org/alicegreen
For More Info: Alice Green 518 482-2672 or
482-0952
November 04, 2005
Alice Green, the Green Party candidate for Mayor
in the City of Albany, was endorsed today by the National Organization
for Women (NOW) of New York State and numerous women activists. Below
are statements from a few of the individuals who spoke at the event.
Nearly 20 women participated.
"NOW New York State proudly endorses Alice
Green for Mayor of Albany. Ms. Green has championed civil rights in
her community and beyond. She will be a champion for the rights of
women and minorities in Albany and represent the citizens of this
great city in a way that emanates fairness and justice for all. With
Dr. Green at the helm, Albany will thrive and become the city that it
deserves to be. We ask all who care about the future of Albany to Vote
for Alice Green."
Marcia A. Pappas
President, NOW NYS
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"The Green Party's Alice Green for Mayor
Campaign presents a pioneering approach at tackling Albany's
multi-faceted issues. Alice Green merges fresh ideas with
resourcefulness to provide common sense, practical solutions to the
complex, interwoven concerns our city must address and resolve. A
convention center is not going to address our race and class issues,
violence in our schools, homes and streets, or the declining Albany
public education system. Alice offers plans for Albany's problems by
looking at root causes of these problems, not just temporary band-aid
solutions. She considers the economic, environmental, community-health
and family impacts of her ideas and plans. Alice Green's established
record fighting for those too often forgotten and left behind by Mayor
Jennings proves that she is the Mayor we need in Albany."
Sally Kim
SUNY Albany student and
Campus Green member
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"I would like to add my name to the growing
list of supporters of Alice Green's campaign for Mayor of Albany. For
many years, Alice has been a leading Spokeswoman in our community for
issues of social justice and peace. As Chair of the Battered Mothers
Custody Conference, I am well aware of the reforms that are needed in
the courts and in the criminal justice system as a whole. This
emphasis has been reflected in much of Alice Green's work with the
Center for Law and Justice. Alice Green is a candidate who has fought
for this city, for minorities, and for women, not as a political
insider, but as an activist who is deeply concerned about people and
about these issues. I therefore support her candidacy for mayor of
Albany."
Dr. Mo Therese Hannah
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"Dr. Alice Green has been a long time resident and activist in
Albany. She works the margins, so to speak. Her interests lie in
seeing a city that is vibrant with the people who have made this place
there home, the people who send their children to our schools, work
here, socialize here and seek to have a safe, affordable and
economically viable future. This doesn't seem to be a far fetched. She
has no need of emperor's clothes. She has made her points clear and
the people have listened. She has inspired so many people in the past,
now and she will in the future. Get out the vote behind the
first African American Woman to run for the office of the Mayor
of the Capital of the Empire State."
Margaret Rockwell
PhD Student, U. Albany - Reading
