Michael Wyman Green Party of California Collection

Collection

Identifier: SPC-2021-005

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Michael Wyman Green Party of California collection (1982-2009; undated) contains 10 boxes and 11 linear feet of correspondence; clippings; ephemera; newsletters; mailers; financial records; flyers; meeting minutes; material related to presidential and California elections; and other material regarding the Green Party of California and Green Party of the United States. This collection belonged to former treasurer, Michael Wyman and a majority of this collection contains financial records regarding budgets, campagin filings; dues; fundraising; and treasurer correspondence, reports, and meeting notes; as well as material related to Wyman's 2006 campaign for attorney general as a candidate of the Green Party of California. This collection is arranged into four series. Series I: Green Party of California contains organizational records such as by-laws, policies, and proposals; material regarding Green Party of California committees and working groups; county party mailers, monthly dues, proposals, and meeting minutes; budgets, invoices, receipts, dues, filings and other financial records; and meeting minutes, flyers, email correspondence, and other documents regarding events, conferences, retreats, and plenaries. Series II: Green Party of the United States contains material pertaining to the Green Party national platform such as: national mailers; national conventions; national meetings; and issues of national publications such as "Green Pages" and "Campus Greens"; and documents regarding delegates, Association of State Green Parties, and steering committees. Series III: Elections contains clippings, articles, ephemera, flyers, correspondence, meeting minutes, and other material related to presidential and California elections for candidates who were running on the Green Party platform. A majority of the material in this series is in regards to Ralph Nader campaigns; as well as material regarding Mike Wyman's 2006 campaign for attorney general. Also included are material regarding the Peter Camejo campaigns for California governor and material related to the 2006 California election. Series IV: Subject Files contains articles; newspapers; newsletters; and reports regarding various topics such as El Salvador, the Marin Pipeline, Presidio park, politics, and the environment.

Dates

1982-2009; undated

Creator

Wyman, Michael (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

The Green Party of California is the California affiliate of the Green Party of the United States, was founded on February 4, 1990, and achieved ballot status on January 1, 1992. As of 2021 approximately 85,000 people are registered in the party. The party promotes green politics which focuses on environmentalism, non-violence, social justice, grass roots democracy, anti-war, anti-racism, libertarian socialism, and eco-socialism- an "alternative social, economic, and political system founded on democracy, equity and solidarity" ("Platform", Green Party of California)

Michael Wyman was the treasurer of the Green Party of California from 2000-2005. He has a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz and LLB from Hastings School of Law; and has been an attorney who specializes in non-profit work and business law. He became involved in the Green Party in 1993 after returning to the Bay Area from Washington D.C. He was active in the Alameda and Marin County chapters as a supporter, contributor, and volunteer to campaigns such as Medea Benjamin and Ralph Nader in 2002; Peter Camejo for governor in 2002 and 2003; and the Nader/Camejo presidential campaign in 2004. In 2006, Wyman ran for attorney general on the Green Party platform where his campaign focused on law enforcement reform.

"Michael Wyman, Attorney General Candidate", Box 9, Folder 10 "Vote Green, Vote Justice, Vote Wyman for Attorney General" [flyer] Box 9, Folder 9 "Platform" https://www.cagreens.org/platform

Extent

10 boxes (nine record storage boxes; one oversized document box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection contains correspondence; proposals; policies; ephemera; mailers; financial records; flyers; meeting minutes; material related to presidential and California elections; and other material regarding the Green Party of California and Green Party of the United States.

Processing Information

Material was removed from original folders and placed into archival folders with reference to original folder titles. Although material has been arranged chronologically and into series by subject; original order was maintained in regards to material within each folder and folder titles, meaning that documents have been placed in the same order within each folder, and folder titles were authored by the collection's creator. If material was originally unfoldered, it was placed into archival folders with archivist derived title descriptions. All titles notated in quotations were original and creator derived; while all titles not in quotations were archivist derived.