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Green Party of the United States The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States. The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy, grassroot ...
, also known as GPUS, is one of the two minor contemporary political parties in the United States with a sustained national presence, the other being the
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. The
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has affiliated state parties in most states. However, not all state Green Parties are affiliated with GPUS, with those parties included separately in the following list.


Organizations of GPUS


Standalone state parties


Alaska

The Green Party of Alaska is a political party in the U.S. state of
Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...
. It was the Alaska affiliate of the national state
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, up from its creation to 2021, due of the state party has broken the party rules over refused to recognize the nominated presidential candidate,
Howie Hawkins } Howard Gresham Hawkins III (born December 8, 1952) is an American trade unionist, environmental activist, and perennial candidate from New York. A co-founder of the Green Party of the United States, Hawkins was the party's presidential nominee ...
in the 2020 presidential election. Alaska was the first state to gain Green Party
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, in 1990, when
Jim Sykes James L. Sykes (born April 8, 1950) is a producer and elected official in the state of Alaska notable for being one of the founders of the Green Party of Alaska. Early life and career Jim Sykes was born in Rapid City, South Dakota and moved to Al ...
ran for governor. Sykes had previously filed a ballot access lawsuit, citing an earlier case, '' Vogler v.
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''. Like the
Alaska Libertarian Party The Libertarian Party of Alaska is the affiliate of the Libertarian Party (LP) in Alaska, headquartered in Anchorage. It is the third-largest active party in Alaska and has the highest percentage of registered Libertarians of any state. Sinc ...
, the Green Party organizes local affiliate groups by regions of the state rather than election districts. It is known for calling these groups
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s. The organized bioregions of the GPAK include the Southcentral Bioregion (Anchorage area) and the Tanana-Yukon Bioregion (the Interior, around the Tanana and Yukon River areas).


Georgia

The Georgia Green Party is a state-level political party in Georgia. Their candidate for president in 2016 was Dr.
Jill Stein Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician, activist, and former political candidate. She was the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections and the Green-Rainbow Party's candidat ...
. Stein was denied access to the ballot. The party sued and won at the
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. The state chapter was disaffiliated by the Green Party of the United States on June 26, 2021 due to the state chapter drafting and passing a platform amendment against the rights of transgender people, counter to the GPUS platform.


Rhode Island


OSGP

The Ocean State Green Party (OSGP) is a
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in the
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. The party was founded in summer 2020, originally as a small group of supporters of the Hawkins-Walker 2020 campaign in
Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but it ...
. After the older Green Party of Rhode Island refused to support the presidential campaign, these supporters opted to reject this decision and collect signatures to gain a ballot line for the Green Party ticket. They then proceeded to file a complaint with the Accreditation Committee of the Green Party of the United States.


GPRI

The Green Party of Rhode Island (GPRI) is one of the oldest active Green parties in the United States. The party was founded on March 6, 1992, at a meeting of 40 activists from
Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020, but it ...
. In November 1996, GPRI was one of 12 founding parties in the Association of State Green Parties, renamed the Green Party of the United States in 2001. Several Rhode Island party leaders have served as officers of the national Green Party. The party's candidates run for municipal councils in several cities and towns, such as running for Mayor of Providence, the State Senate and the State House of Representatives,
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, and for Lieutenant governor. The Green Party of Rhode Island was involved in nationwide
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, until 2020 when the state party leadership took the rogue position to refuse to place the Green nominee for President,
Howie Hawkins } Howard Gresham Hawkins III (born December 8, 1952) is an American trade unionist, environmental activist, and perennial candidate from New York. A co-founder of the Green Party of the United States, Hawkins was the party's presidential nominee ...
, on the ballot. Rather than face deaccreditation, the state party ended its affiliation with GPUS.


Virginia

The Independent Greens of Virginia, (also known as the Indy Greens), was the state affiliate of the
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in the Commonwealth of
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. It became a state party around 2003 when a faction of the Arlington local chapter of the Green Party of Virginia (GPVA) split from the main party. As of 2011, it bills itself as a "fiscally conservative, socially responsible green party", with an emphasis on rail transportation and "more candidates". In support of wider ballot participation, it endorses many independent candidates who are not affiliated with the party.


See also

*
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* List of state parties of the Libertarian Party (United States) *
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