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Shuji Imamoto

He then joined a lot of events and campaigns held by European Greens, interviewed them many times, and introduced them in eco-media of Japan, so that they should hope to found a Green party of Japan.


2010 Dresden anti-fascist blockade

Supporters of Dresden Without Nazis include local and regional anti-fascist groups, the nationwide anti-fascist associations "No pasarán!" and "VVN-BdA", artists such as Konstantin Wecker and Die Toten Hosen, politicians from the Left Party, the Green Party and the Social Democratic Party and leading members of trade unions.

Aaron Dixon

On March 9, 2006, Dixon announced his decision to seek the Green Party's nomination for U.S. Senate, challenging Maria Cantwell on her continued support for the U.S. presence in Iraq and the USA PATRIOT Act.

Anke Spoorendonk

After the 2012 election, she was appointed minister for Justice, Culture and European Affairs in the newly formed coalition government called Danish traffic light coalition which consists of the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the SSW.

Bernd Reichelt

In the 1990 East German elections, he was elected to the Volkskammer (parliament of the GDR) on behalf of the Green Party.

Bournemouth Council election, 2011

There were 176 candidates nomianted, comprised as follows: 54 Conservatives, 40 Labour, 39 Liberal Democrats, 24 Independents, 14 UK Independence Party, 4 Green Party and 1 Liberal Party.

Canadian leaders debates

The five participants were Conservative leader and incumbent prime minister Stephen Harper, Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, NDP leader Jack Layton, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, and Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

Cherkley Court

This decision met with strong opposition and in August 2013 campaigners, including the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), the Surrey Green Party and the Leatherhead Residents' Association, won a High Court appeal to overturn that decision, on the basis that the project would have an adverse effect on a landscape and area of outstanding natural beauty, and that Surrey did not need another golf course, having 141 already.

Coláiste Chríost Rí, Cork

Many well-known Irish names have attended the school, such as Micheál Martin, the current leader of Fianna Fáil, footballers Denis Irwin and Damien Delaney, Green Party Senator Dan Boyle, athlete Marcus O'Sullivan and world champion, Robert Heffernan and former Cork senior football manager and former allstar Billy Morgan (Gaelic footballer).

Colleen McCrory

She ran as a candidate for the Green Party in the 2001 British Columbia provincial elections.

David McReynolds

On July 10, 2004, McReynolds announced his candidacy running on the Green Party ticket for one of the New York seats in the Senate, running an anti-war campaign against Democratic incumbent Chuck Schumer, where he pulled in 36,942 votes for 0.5% of total.

David Skrbina

He stood for the office of Lieutenant Governor for the U.S. state of Michigan as the Green Party candidate in 2006, as the running mate of Douglas Campbell.

Dyke baronets

In 2008, the tenth Baronet ran in the 40th Canadian General Election as the Green Party candidate for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, Ontario.

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens, formerly known as Eckhard Stratmann, (born April 3, 1948 in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former politician and Green Party member of the German Bundestag.

Ed Fallon

During the 2000 presidential election, he made headlines across the state when he endorsed the candidacy of Green Party nominee Ralph Nader over that of Democrat Al Gore because of Gore's choice of Joe Lieberman as a running mate.

Elizabeth Brater

In the general election, she triumphed easily over Republican candidate Gordon Darr, a Scio Township Trustee, and Green Party candidate Elliott Smith.

Fishergate

In the 2003 local elections, the Green Party made its breakthrough in York, winning both Fishergate council seats by a significant majority and these seats were held in the 2007 local election.

Förbifart Stockholm

The Centre Party, Liberal People's Party, Christian Democrats, Moderate Party, and Social Democratic Party were in 2010 supportive of the road project, while the Green Party and Left Party were opposed to it.

Francine John-Calame

On the list of the Green Party, she acceeded to the National Council on May 31, 2005 following the resignation of Fernand Cuche.

Friedel Grützmacher

Originally a teacher in Wörth in Rhineland-Palatinate, she joined the Green Party in the 1980s, and served as an elected Member of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag between 1991 and 2006.

Hanfparade

About 5,000 demonstrators, including Hans-Christian Ströbele (a Green Party member of the German Bundestag), representatives of the Green Party Youths, The Left Party and the Grey Panthers Party, participated in the demonstration.

International Socialist Group

The Group called for a first preference vote for the Green Party candidate, the eco-socialist Siân Berry, in the 2008 London mayoral election.

Lancy

The next three most popular parties were the SP (21.8%), the Green Party (14.47%) and the CVP (11.59%).

Land Party

The party includes mostly independent members but also incorporated the Galician Ecologist Movement (Movimento Ecologista Galego), a registered green party founded in 1983 by Constantino Rábade.

Letizia Battaglia

From 1985 to 1997 she held a seat on the Palermo city council for the Green Party.

Lynne Serpe

She was the Green Party candidate in the 2009 New York City Council race for New York’s 22nd District, which includes Astoria, Long Island City and parts of Jackson Heights, and finished second in that race.

Monika MacDonagh-Pajerová

Her sister, Kateřina Jacques is a former deputy chairperson of the Green Party and former member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament.

New York's 25th congressional district election, 2008

The race featured Democratic Party nominee Dan Maffei, who narrowly lost to incumbent Jim Walsh for the same seat in 2006, Republican Party nominee Dale Sweetland, former Chairman of the Onondaga County Legislature, and Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins, Green Party founder and frequent political candidate.

New Zealand intelligence agencies

The Green Party, for example, aims to abolish the GCSB and possibly the SIS — the functions of the former are deemed unnecessary and undesirable, while the functions of the latter are suggested as better performed by the Police.

Nuala Ahern

Nuala Ahern (née MacDowell; born 5 February 1949 in Omeath, County Louth) is a former Irish Green Party member of the European Parliament representing Leinster in Ireland from 1994–2004.

Politics of Mongolia

The Democratic Party established a coalition government with Civil Will-Green Party, and Justice Coalition of new MPRP and Mongolian National Democratic Party due to Democratic Party having not enough seats at the parliament to establish a government on its own by law.

Red-green alliance

Incumbent mayor Ken Livingstone, candidate for the Labour Party, formed an electoral pact with the Green Party mayoral candidate Siân Berry via the supplementary voting system, in which Labour voters were encouraged to place the Green candidate as their second preference, and vice versa.

Rita Childers

Rita and Erskine Childers' daughter, Nessa, entered politics in 2004 when she was elected as a councillor on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the Green Party.

Rivers of New Zealand

This report alarmed the Green Party and a number of environmental organisations due to the fear of an increasing loss of scenic rivers and rivers that have a high degree of natural character.

Ruislip Manor tube station

Local Green Party members commented that improved disability access has not been included in this overhaul.

Sean Parlaman

He was able to secure government grants, to become a member of the Oregon steering committee of the 2000 Green Party Presidential campaign of Ralph Nader, and to get permission from Stephen King to make Stud City, a short, independent sequel to Stand by Me.

Simone Peter

Simone Peter (born 3 December 1965 in Quierschied) is a German Green Party politician. Since October 2013, she has been co-chairman of the German political party Alliance '90/The Greens, together with Cem Özdemir.

Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs

An exception was made in the 2013-2017 Parliament when Rasmus Hansson, the sole representative of the Green Party, asked to be seated on the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment instead.

Stanley Aronowitz

In 2002, Aronowitz led efforts to maintain the official ballot status of the Green Party in New York and ran for governor on that ticket the same year.

Swedish general election, 2014

Discussions on a possible collaboration in the 2014 election will probably not take place in the near future, according to Mikaela Valtersson, member of parliament (MP) of the Green Party.

Swiss Federal Council election, 2008

The opposition Green Party, citing their opposition to the SVP's policies and their representation on the Council, fielded State Councillor Luc Recordon as a candidate of their own.

Torsten Albig

SPD and CDU achieved 22 seats each, and the election result made it possible for Albig to form a coalition government with the participation of the Green Party and the SSW, which is a regional party representing the Danish and Frisian minorities.

United Kingdom elections, 2004

Of the minor parties, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party increased their number of councillors, whilst the United Kingdom Independence Party picked up a handful.


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Annie Young

She is one of two elected Green Party members in the Minneapolis city government; the other is city council member Cam Gordon.

Big Brother México

Congressman Jorge Kahwagi, minority whip of the Mexican Green Party in the Chamber of Deputees (equivalent of the U.S. House of Representatives) of Mexico's Congress, shocked and angered many people in Mexico when he asked to be excused from his post in Congress to be sequestered for months inside the Big Brother House.

Blam Blam Blam

Metiria Turei of the Green Party read a Maori translation of the song, which Russell Brown's liner notes to The Complete Blam Blam Blam (see below) described as "a quirky, arty, militant thing to do. Which probably makes it a perfect Blam Blam Blam moment."

British Left

Aside from Labour the biggest leftist parties are the Green Party, Respect and the Socialist Workers Party.

Cam Gordon

He is the only non-DFL member of the council, and one of two elected Green Party members in the Minneapolis municipal government; the other is Minneapolis Park and Recreation commissioner Annie Young).

Cameron Gordon

Cam Gordon, Green Party councillor for Minneapolis, Minnesota

Canadian leaders debates

Two parties, the Conservatives and the NDP, opposed the inclusion of the Green Party, citing a deal struck between the Green Party and Liberals where the Liberals would not run in Green Party leader Elizabeth May's riding, Central Nova, and the Green party in Liberal leader Stéphane Dion's riding, Saint-Laurent—Cartierville.

Connecticut Green Party

For the 2006 election year, the Connecticut Green Party endorsed Cliff Thornton to run for Governor, and Ralph Ferrucci to run for U.S. Senate.

Corngate

Green Party statements claim the committee was "obstructed" by Syngenta refusing to release test results.

David Cadman

Cadman ran for Mayor of Vancouver in 1999, endorsed by both the Coalition of Progressive Electors and the Vancouver Green Party, but was defeated by incumbent mayor Philip Owen.

David Cobb

After moving to Eureka, California in 2003, Cobb also won a seat on the County Council of the Green Party of Humboldt County in a hotly contested election on June 6, 2006, a position he maintains.

Democratic Reform British Columbia

Most of their online work had been done by Matthew Laird who has left the party to run for the Green Party of BC.

Eamonn Ryan

Eamon Ryan (born 1963), Green Party politician and former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens

Stratmann-Mertens and other anti-war activists called at a special Green Party convention in Bielefeld on 13 May 1999 for an immediate halt to the NATO bombing in the Kosovo War, but were unsuccessful getting the party to adopt the position.

Green Party of Alberta

Alberta Greens (1986–2009), also known as the Green Party of Alberta

Green Party of Canada

Sonya Chandler was elected municipally to Victoria City Council in Victoria BC in 2005, and re-elected with her co-candidate Philippe Lucas in 2010 - both under the Green Party banner (noted on the ballot)

During the 2004 federal election the Green Party of Canada became the fourth federal political party ever to run candidates in all the ridings.

Green Party of Minnesota

In 2005, Cam Gordon, a former chair of the Green Party of Minnesota, was elected in Ward 2 to the Minneapolis City Council, winning over DFLer Cara Letofsky in a 51% to 48% vote.

Green Party of New York

Howie Hawkins ran as the Green Party candidate for Governor of New York, against six other candidates.

Green Party of Texas

Small, active Green groups existed in large cities throughout the state (particularly Houston, Dallas and Austin) before this time, but Ralph Nader's 2000 campaign helped spur the growth of the Green Party of Texas.

Heidi Bedell

She was married to Trevor Sargent, TD, the former leader of the Irish Green Party, and like him is a member of the Church of Ireland but they divorced in 2013.

John Turmel

In the election, Turmel ran as an independent against Green Party leader Trevor Hancock in Toronto—Beaches, Marc Gauvin ran in Ottawa Centre, supporter Serge Girard in Ottawa—Vanier, and John and Ray’s mother, Therese Turmel ran in Ottawa West, and Ray Turmel ran as an "independent Green" in Nepean—Carleton.

Kelley Aitken

Aitken lives in Toronto, Ontario with her partner, former Green Party of Ontario leader Frank de Jong.

Matthias Platzeck

Platzeck was elected member of the Volkskammer in 1990 for the Green Party and was parliamentary secretary of the joined faction of Greens and Bündnis 90 (Alliance 90).

Michel Fernex

His wife, Solange Fernex, was also known as a prominent member of the Green Party.

Minneapolis municipal elections, 2005

In other offices, the DFL-endorsed candidates won in all races except Ward 2 (Green Party Cam Gordon won by 141 votes over DFLer Cara Letofsky), 1 Park Board seat (Incumbent Annie Young had no DFL-endorsed opponent) and 1 Library Board seat (Incumbent Anita Duckor (independent) beat Gary Thaden (DFL).

Paul Gogarty

In an interview with TheJournal.ie, Gogarty was reported to have claimed that he was considering changing parties to Fianna Fáil saying that "I haven’t finished with the Greens. I am very much green to the core, but in terms of getting political objectives achieved, I have not made up my mind with whether I will go back into politics, whether the Green Party has a chance to recover or whether we need a strong green element in some other organisation".

Question P

The effort to gather signatures to put Question P on the ballot, in the first place, was spearheaded by a grassroots political action coalition that included Community and Labor United for Baltimore (CLUB), the Baltimore Green Party, the Baltimore office of ACORN and state delegates Curt Anderson and Jill P. Carter.

Rich Whitney

Like California Green Party gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells, Whitney also proposed putting state tax revenues and pension contributions into a state bank.

Robert Kelleher

It was his second run against Baucus, whom he also challenged in the 2002 Senate race on the Green party ticket (2.3%).

Sander Hicks

However, he lost the Green Party nomination to Howie Hawkins, but later served the Hawkins campaign as media director.

Scottish Green Party

On 31 May 2009, Cllr Martin Ford, formerly a Liberal Democrat, joined the Scottish Green Party in protest against the plans by Donald Trump to develop on an important environmental site at Menie.

Southern Illinois University School of Law

Rich Whitney - Illinois Green Party politician, civil rights attorney

Swiss Federal Council election, 2008

Green Party candidate Luc Recordon, who did not receive more than ten votes in the first round, declared that he would "suspend" his candidacy.

Swiss Federal Council election, 2010

The Green Party and the FDP.The Liberals have announced they will support the SP's candidate for Leuenberger's seat, while the Swiss People's Party has announced it will put up its own candidate, likely either Jean-François Rime or Adrian Amstutz (Caspar Baader was mooted as a candidate, but declined).

Thayne McCulloh

Other faculty and colleagues with whom he worked include well-known psychologist and television personality Peter Collett, and British Green Party politician Mike Woodin.

Tigilau Ness

In 2008, Ness featured with his son Che Fu in the documentary Children of the Revolution about the children of political activists in New Zealand which also included Māori activist Tame Iti, Māori Party Member of Parliament Hone Harawira, Green Party Member of Parliament Sue Bradford and anti-apartheid leader John Minto.

United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut, 2010

Incumbent Democratic Congressman John B. Larson was challenged by Republican Ann Brickley, Green Party candidate Kenneth J. Krayeske, and Socialist Action candidate Christopher J. Hutchinson.

Vera Lengsfeld

At this time she joined Alliance 90, the Green Party of the GDR, and at the 1990 election was elected to the member of the GDR parliament until its dissolution on 2 October 1990 as a member of Alliance '90/The Greens, the coalition between Alliance 90 and The Greens.

Verena Diener

Diener's seat is one of five (out of 46) not held by members of the parties represented in the Swiss Federal Council (besides fellow Green Liberal, Markus Stadler of Uri, Werner Luginbühl of Canton of Bern and the two of the Green Party, Robert Cramer of Geneva and Luc Recordon of Vaud).

Water supply and sanitation in Germany

In reaction to the liberalization debate the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) passed a decision sponsored by the Green party and the Social-democrats (SPD) on sustainable water supply and sanitation (nachhaltige Wasserwirtschaft) in 2001.

Willie O'Dea

However, Green Party Chairman Senator Dan Boyle wrote on Twitter, that he has "no confidence" in O'Dea and declaring him to be "compromised".

Wisconsin Green Party

Koehn's election to the Bayfield County board in 1986 was the first time a Green Party candidate had ever been elected to an office in the United States.

Young Greens of England and Wales

Many Young Greens have been elected to County or City Councils, including Adrian Ramsay the former deupty leader of the Green Party in Norwich; Matt Sellwood, a former chair of the Young Greens, in Oxford and Ash Haynes, current Female co-Chair and youngest ever Green councillor, in Norwich.