THE IMPERATIVE PARTY . . . “The Nebraska Green Party is more than an “alternative” party. It is the IMPERATIVE PARTY. It is imperative that we redirect our nation’s economy away from perpetual wars over oil. We need to redirect our nation’s resources toward renewable energy education so our young people can spend their lives inventing and building the clean and renewable Green Energy Economy of the 21st century and beyond. With a growing global population of more than 6.8 billion people and a declining natural resource base to work with, it is essential that we move as quickly as possible toward a clean and renewable Green Energy Economy to revitalize our family farms, rural communities, nations and global community. By voting Green, you are NOT throwing away your vote. You are building a global Green Movement working in over 80 countries for world peace and clean, renewable energy that meets the needs of current generations without depleting natural resources for future generations. GREEN VOTES COUNT MORE THAN EVER IN THIS ELECTION!” –Steve Larrick

LARRICK FOR SENATE YARD SIGNS and T’s AVAILABLE NOW . . . Pick up a Larrick for Senate yard sign at 920 South 8th Street, Lincoln. Find signs by the garage at the end of the driveway next to the house. Or leave a message with your phone number and address at 402.435.5612 to have signs delivered. If you can help place signs, especially on high traffic streets, or if you want a Larrick for Senate T-shirt, phone Steve at 435.5612. In Omaha, phone 402.561.9281 for pick up or delivery of signs and T’s. To help Steve purchase tv time, send checks to Larrick for Senate, 920 South 8th Street, Lincoln, NE. 68508. Financial assistance of any amount will go directly to postal or tv outreach. The future of Nebraska Green Party depends on a 5% Larrick for Senate vote November 4, 2008. Help counteract the media blackout by spreading the word. Click here to learn about Steve’s background and issue positions.

REGISTER TO VOTE GREEN . . . Fill out the voter registration form here. (pdf) Complete online, and print out a copy for your records. If you have questions about registering to vote, contact the Secretary of State’s office at 402.471.2555, or your local county election commissioner.

VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES . . . The deadline for in-person voter registration is 6:00pm on Friday, October 24, 2008. The deadline to request an early voting ballot to be mailed to a specific address is 4:00pm on Wednesday October 29. You can also vote in person at the Lancaster County Election Commissioner’s office, 601 North 46th Street, in Lincoln. You cannot vote on-site on election day, November 4, if you requested a mail-in ballot.

PLEDGE TO WORK THE POLLS . . . Click here to sign up for Lancaster County election day poll work from 7:00am to 8:00pm, November 4, 2008. Payment is minimum wage compensation. There is a required training session before the election. The Pollworkers for Democracy website also links to other counties in Nebraska.

SPRING CREEK PRAIRIE HEARING TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 . . . Spring Creek Prairie Audubon and preservation supporters are asking the Lancaster County Commissioners to close a minimum maintenance dirt road to create and save a larger tract of important prairie habitat for future generations. A public hearing on the request will be Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 9:30am at the County-City Building, 555 South 10th Street in Lincoln. The public is urged to attend, contact County Commissioners in support of the closure by phone at 402.441.7447, e-mail commiss [at] lancaster [dot] ne [dot] gov, and write letters to the editor of Lincoln Journal-Star at oped [at] journalstar [dot] com.    Click here for a Journal-Star editorial “Protect the prairie from trash, traffic.” Phone the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center for further information at 402.797.2301.

OMAHA AREA GREENS CHAPTER MEETING . . . Congressional District 2 Greens will meet on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 7:00pm, at McFoster’s Natural Kind Cafe, 38th & Farnam.

GREAT PLAINS STUDIES SEMINAR . . . The second Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies of this season is Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 3:30pm at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q Street, Lincoln. Free and open to the public, local photographer Michael Farrell will present “Plain Speaking & Straight Shooting: Documentary Art in Flyover Country.”

LINCOLN PEACE VIGILS . . . Join weekly peace vigils at the Federal Building, 15th and O streets in Lincoln, every Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:00pm. Contact Mark at 402-499-6672 or e-mail mark at weddleton dot com for more information.

LARRICK IN GRAND ISLAND CANDIDATES FORUM . . . Steve Larrick will join the other two major party US Senate candidates on Thursday, October 16, 2008, 7:00pm, at the Walnut Middle School, 1600 North Custer Avenue, Grand Island, for a Candidates Forum sponsored by the Grand Island Independent, KHAS TV, and KRGI 1430AM radio.  The forum will be broadcast live on KRGI, and taped for TV and websites.

11TH ANNUAL CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE . . . Thursday, October 16, 2008, 7:30pm, there will be a Candlelight Vigil to remember victims of domestic violence on the front steps of Voices of Hope, 2545 N Street, in Lincoln. The public is invited to a Voices of Hope open house from 5:30 to 7:30pm, to tour the facility, meet the staff and learn about the agency’s services in the community fostering awareness of domestic violence and its impact. The theme of this year’s event is “Hope Speaks.” There will be readings, songs and brief remarks as part of the domestic violence awareness month event. For more information, contact Voices of Hope at 402.476.2110.

“MEET THE CANDIDATES: NEBRASKA’S SENATE RACE” . . . NET Television will re-broadcast a one-hour program featuring in-depth interviews with Steve Larrick and two of the three other US Senate candidates on Thursday, October 16, 9:00pm on NET1.

NEBRASKANS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY ANNUAL DINNER . . . The 2008 NADP Annual Dinner is Friday, October 17, at the Roy G. Story Student Center, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 5000 St. Paul Avenue, Lincoln. Social hour and silent auction begin at 6:30pm, followed by dinner and program at 7:30. Kathleen Hawk Norman is the Keynote Speaker. She was a jury foreperson who helped send Dan Bright to death row in New Orleans, subsequently discovered he was innocent, and spend the next six years working, successfully, to have him freed. She founded Jurors for Justice, and is the Director of the Innocence Project in New Orelans. Phone NADP at 402.477.7787 by Tuesday, October 14, 2008 for reservations.

2008 ANNUAL PEACE CONFERENCE: THE TRUE COST OF WAR IN IRAQ . . . The Nebraskans for Peace Annual Conference is Saturday, Oct 18, 2008, 9:00am to 5:00pm, at First Lutheran Church, 1551 South 70th Street, Lincoln. The Keynote Speaker is Michele Chwastiak, Associate Professor, Anderson School of Management, at the University of New Mexico.  Download the Conference Brochure here. (pdf)  For further information, e-mail nfpstate [at] nebraskansforpeace [dot] org.

AN EVENING OF LOVE, RAGE & HOPE CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF HUMAN RIGHTS . . . Celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Saturday, October 18, 2008, 7:30pm, at The Loft at the Mill, 800 P Street, Suite 301, Lincoln. Doors open at 7:00pm. Elena Dodd’s one-woman performance “Meet Eleanor Roosevelt” will be the featured event. The evening will conclude with a showing of youth-produced videos on human rights. Admission is Free, and refreshments will be available.

NEBRASKA GREEN PARTY CANDIDATES . . . Green Party candidates for 2008 in Partisan elections are Steve Larrick, U.S. Senate; and for Douglas County Board, District 1: Scott Hoffman. LaVerne Thraen has filed for the Non-Partisan OPPD Board of Directors Metro District, and Doug Paterson is a candidate for Public Service Commission District 2 in Omaha.

We are not the alternative; we are the imperative. ReShape ’08. Register Green. Vote Green.