Posts by Barry Bendar

Letter To The Editor For Immediate Release 04/20/2021 At the Hawthorne Town Council meeting on April 7th, our borough attorney Michael P. Pasquale updated the Administration, council and those of us on the call, about the status of marijuana legalization at 52:29 minutes into the meeting. What stood out to me was the discussion once again to pass…

                     FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Barry Bendar, Elections Chair Green Party of New Jersey, email: electionschairgpnj@gmail.com or via phone: 609-276-3183. Matthew Skolar, Outreach Coordinator, Hoffman for Governor 2021 Campaign, email: matts1002@yahoo.com or via phone: 908-666-3857. Madelyn Hoffman, the Green Party of New Jersey’s candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2020, today announces that she…

Watch this video of co-hosts Shane Coughlin and Madelyn Hoffman, on KRTD Media’s Second Fridays podcast for a brief update on the vote to unionize the Bessemer Alabama’s Amazon Fulfillment Center; what was then the upcoming run-off elections for president in Ecuador; and a powerful segment on what’s happening in Haiti today — its history and…

US MILITARISM: A CONSTANT ACROSS PARADIGMATIC SHIFTS From the Old Cold War to the War on Terror The four and half decades following World War II were characterized by intense competition with the Soviet Union, which saw the cultivation of weaponry capable of ending all life on earth multiple times over. Massive resources were poured…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 3, 2021 Contact: Madelyn Hoffman (973)876-1023 mrhlepaix@gmail.com Green Party of New Jersey Marks the 54th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence” Speech with a Statement against U.S. Militarism and Imperialism As we approach April 4th, the 54th anniversary of Dr.…

For Immediate ReleaseApril 1, 2021 Press Contact: Marlene Ramos, Abolish ICE NY-NJ Coalition Organizer, 929-390-8606, marlene.n.ramos@gmail.com El Salvadoran Asylum Seeker in ICE Detention on Day 26 of Hunger Strike, Likely Hospitalized at Facility with Troubled History April 1, 2021, MIAMI – Marvin Reyes Ventura, a 45-year-old El Salvadoran asylum seeker currently in ICE detention at Krome…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2021 Oppose A3507 and S3361 Free Them All Means Free Them All Now! For more information contact: Madelyn Hoffman, Communications Chair of GPNJ, (973) 876-1023 Matthew James Skolar, Chair, Young Ecosocialists – NJ, (908) 666-3857 Justin Pines, Abolitionist Activist from Bergen County, (929) 320-5873 Lily Benavides, Green Party of Morris…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  March 16, 2021 For more information contact: Craig Cayetano, State Party co-chair, Green Party of NJ, Cayetano4Council@gmail.com, or 973-433-6696Madelyn Hoffman, GPNJ Communications Committee chair, mrhlepaix@gmail.com,973-876-1023Barry Bendar, GPNJ Elections Committee chair, electionschairgpnj@gmail.com,609-276-3183   The Green Party of NJ (GPNJ) calls on the Fair Ballot Project and all coalition members to embrace general elections, too, not just primaries. GPNJ denounces…

For the 18th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, this webinar offers an opportunity to analyze Round 2 of the reconstituted “war on terror” which began following the 9/11 attacks. What started as an invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 has developed into a massive network of counter-terror operations in more than 70 countries. Trillions…