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On Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering will feature Matt Lavery giving The View From Europe.   www.BabylonGreens.org The event will be held at Pisces Café, 14A Railroad Avenue, Babylon, NY (631-321-1231) www.piscescafe.net (map) Come hungry! For directions to the Babylon Green Gathering, call 631-422-4702 or email ian.wilder@yahoo.com Children are welcome. All gatherings are free of charge, and open to the public.

As an expatriate American, Matt Lavery has been active for years with the Green Party in Norwich, Norfolk England.Norwich was voted the “Greenest” city in England in 2006.Norwich also has one of the most successful local Green Parties in Britain—Greens are the official opposition party on the City Council, controlling 13 of 39 seats, two less than the majority Labour Party.  Most recently, Lavery has served as an advisor to the European Parliamentary Campaign for Rupert Read, who is a Norwich City Councillor.Read is also the official aviation policy spokesman for the Green Party of England.

Lavery will talk about the view and status of Green politics in Europe, and especially England. He will focus on two specific challenges European Greens are currently grappling with—leadership and “brand identity”—challenges looming on the horizon for American Greens.

Babylon Green Party Gatherings are held on the first Wednesday of every month:

• The August 6, 2008 Gathering will feature hosts Kimberly Wilder and Ian Wilder giving an eyewitness report on the 2008 Green Party Presidential Convention in Chicago.
• The September 3, 2008 Gathering will feature the much anticipated show Bob Westcott: The Folk Legend Rides Again.
• The October 1, 2008 Gathering will feature veteran activist Marge Harrison on The Social Justice Movement.
• The post-election November 5, 2008 Gathering will feature Jaci Clement of fairmediacouncil.org on Media Reform.
• The December 3, 2008 will be our annual Green Party Holiday Party with music?!
• The January 7, 2009 Gathering will feature Kirby Einhorn of LI Wins on the necessity of immigrants to the LI economy

For more information about these activities, please go to www.gpsuffolk.org or call Green Party of Suffolk Chair Roger Snyder at 631-351-5763. You can enroll in the Green Party by checking the box marked “Other” on the voter registration form and writing in the word “Green” on the line next to it. Click here to find a voter registration form. You can send donations to the Green Party of Suffolk,14 Robin Drive, Huntington, NY 11743.

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Green party Literature:

• GPSuffolk Global Warming Flyer (pdf) 3 per sheet
• Green Party of Suffolk tri-fold brochure (pdf)

Writings on going Green:

• Why I Joined the Green Party
• Why Vote Green?
• GPSuffolk: Alternative Views on the State of the State
• Greenwave by Patricia Goldsmith
• My Green Manifesto by Matt Gonzalez
• The Biggest Media Sin by Sam Smith
• By the Way, I’m a Green and Why We Must Be Visible and Green by Kimberly Wilder
• Monkey-wrenching with Minnie the Cat by Kimberly Wilder, Boog City,, Issue 3: 2/25/02
• Run, Run for Your Life by Kimberly & Ian Wilder, Boog City, Issue 3: 2/25/02
• A Place Called Hope by Kimberly Wilder, Poetry

Green Party Websites:

• Wilderside Green Party Store
• Green Party of Suffolk
• GPUS Black Caucus
• Greens for Greens
• News for Greens

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