GREENS WILL STAY ON THE BALLOT IN NORTH CAROLINA!
Tremendous thanks goes to Jill Stein and Butch Ware for stepping forward in 2024 to lead the Green’s US presidential campaign. Because of their work – and that of the Green Party US and Green volunteers across the country, Jill’s name officially appeared on the November election ballots in 38 of 50 states in the nation, with qualified write-in votes in 8 more states. (Read her important statement on the 2024 election results here.) Our special thanks goes to all of you who courageously voted for Stein/Ware and against genocide!
That 78% sweep of ballot access in the US is a decisive victory for moving the Greens forward over the next four years – and the biggest reason why Greens ran a US presidential candidate, even before we have all the candidates we’d like to run in local and state races. Ballot Access is the breath of life for us in North Carolina. The law here requires a recognized party to have been on the ballot in at least 70% of the states in a prior presidential election. Goal met!
We recognize that Jill’s vote total here showed far less support than the NCGP would have liked, but it still won Jill a 3rd place standing in a duopoly-dominated race. Voters in NC, even if they didn’t know anything about Greens, saw that we are standing up with political challengers. Our Green candidate for Governor, Wayne Turner, a somewhat unknown in NC politics, actually garnered twice the number of votes as did Jill. We see this as a strong base going forward who will keep demanding attention to our working-class movement. Our thanks and appreciation also goes to Wake County’s Michael Dublin running a US House race, to Lenoir County’s Adrien Meadows running an NC House race, and to Joshua Bradley running for a Raleigh City Council At-Large seat. Each vote earned, each step, moves us forward.
We and our supporters stood up to voice moral clarity in a time of genocide, as did Cornel West’s Justice For All party and the write-in voters of other socialist organizations in NC. Together in solidarity, we will not step back while maniacal imperialist forces continue to “finish off” an oppressed and suffering people in Palestine.
Neither will we step back on our priorities for the People, Planet and Peace. We must reduce military spending, fight for national universal healthcare for all, for rights to housing, decent-paying jobs, and humane immigration policy. We must work harder with allies to secure protections for our environment in the present and long-term. We must not cower in the face of corporate and oligarchic domination, whose corruption and self-interest will undoubtedly continue to bring worse impacts to our lives and our warming planet.
What we do with our stable ballot line and increased attention to Greens will literally be in the hands of our NC Green Party members and supporters. What is to be done? Involve yourself with outreach and direct actions. Strengthen local chapters with your ideas. Bolster our alliances. Support our efforts with what financial help you can provide. Consider running for a local or state office if you’re willing to serve your community. And if you’re out there still Unaffiliated, please come forward to demonstrably stand with us in unity as Greens. Taking any of these steps moves the movement forward – join us in claiming the power of a people who won’t be silenced!
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The North Carolina Green Party (NCGP) is the only left-wing political party to have placed its candidates on the ballot in this state in over 30 years. We're not Democrats or Republicans. We're a separate party—the Greens. The NCGP is no ordinary political party: we are structured as a membership-based, dues-paying party funded entirely by individual working-class people. We and our endorsed candidates never accept money from corporations or wealthy elite interests.
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Greens are committed to building our own political power outside the confines of the capitalist two-party system. We work for social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. We strive to be pro-worker, anti-war, anti-imperialist, respectful of gender and diversity, and responsive to the needs of our communities and endangered planet, believing all of these things are interrelated.
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North Carolina Green Party (our main statewide NCGP Facebook discussion group)
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Eastern NC (Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, Greenville, Wilmington/Cape Fear, Outer Banks)
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Western NC (Asheville, Hendersonville, Boone, Cullowhee)
North Carolina Green Party Organizers (group devoted to Green action/organizing statewide)
The North Carolina Green Party is an affiliate of the Green Party of the United States.