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23 July 2009

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.

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 difficulty,
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.

Over the weekend there will be speeches, workshops, and forums:

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

Get the real story, delete the middleman, make your own new!