2009 Annual National Meeting in Durham, North Carolina; all times are Eastern Standard
http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
Going live again starting @ 9:00 AM Jul 24, at this posting the channel is revisiting streams from the last year or so.
Over the weekend there will be speeches, workshops, and forums.
Live broadcast started today around 1:30 PM Jul 23 from Durham NC, and went quite well for an unrehearsed roll out by mostly complete noobs.
Today there was more foreground discussion of technical difficulty than there was technical dificulty, but i expect that will improve greatly tomorrow. Starlene Rankin, Craig Seeman, and several others did a fine job showing just how easy it could be to make it work despite not having done it before.
On Saturday afternoon at 3:00 pm, Cynthia McKinney will speak about her recent efforts, with the Free Gaza Movement and Viva Palestina, to bring medical and other supplies to Gaza in the wake of Israel's brutal invasion. Ms. McKinney and other Free Gaza human rights activists were aboard the Spirit of Humanity when it was seized by Israeli gunboats. The 'Free Gaza 21,' including Ms. McKinney, were held in a prison in Ramla, Israel, until their release last week http://gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=234;
The Green Party will present a public forum on the need for a single-Payer health care funding system on Friday, July 24 from 3:30-4:30 pm http://gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=236;
Green candidates and officeholders will be speaking, like former Green Party presidential candidate Jesse Johnson, who will be presenting a film "Coal Country" addressing the horrors of mountaintop removal in coal mining.
Go to http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus, and stay tuned in all weekend!
More at gp.org, http://www.ncgreenparty.org/2009-ANM.html, & http://gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=234
Workshops detailed @ http://www.ncgreenparty.org/2009-ANM%20WORKSHOPS.html
Some of us already have high hopes that this will lead to a more open, inclusive, and transparent future for the GPUS, and that other nationals and state parties will follow the lead to broadcast internationally once it's simplicity and effectiveness are shown.
If you get bored waiting for the cameras and action to move from location to location read the new issue of Green Pages, the official publication of record of the Green Party of the United States, while you wait @ Green Pages, Vol. 13, No. 1 - http://gp.org/greenpages-blog
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