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Green Party of Ohio

Ohio affiliate of the Green Party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ5603018 ↗
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The Green Party of Ohio is the state party organization for Ohio of the Green Party of the United States.

History

The Green Party of Ohio grew out of a network of 5 Green "locals" associated with the Green Committees of Correspondence that were formed in the early 1990s. These included the Central, NW, NE, SW and SE Ohio Greens. These "Locals" made up the Ohio Greens and helped in the formation of The Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA), the only national Green organization at the time.

Among other activities, this network of Green Locals formed the Ohio Greens Anti-Nuclear Organizing Committee (OGANOC) to fight against the creation of a multi-state low-level radioactive waste dump in Ohio. After several years of work, the Ohio Blue Ribbon Commission that had been formed to create the dump gave up their efforts due to the rising costs of doing so.

In the mid-1990s, and leading up to the 1996 US presidential election and Ralph Nader's minimalist candidacy, the Greens in Ohio were caught up in the strategic debate that found its expression at the national level in the competing GPUSA/Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) tendencies. Some Ohio Greens were decidedly non-electoral and did not support the ASGP effort for a Nader candidacy. The Green Party of Ohio's effort to put Nader on the ballot in 1996 fell about 315 signatures short.

In January 2000, Paul Dumouchelle convened a meeting of 11 prominent Ohio Greens and formed the committee that got Nader on the ballot in Ohio that year.

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