The Green Party of Santa Clara County proudly endorses Dr. Butch Ware for Governor of California in the 2026 Election. The membership of the County Party made the endorsement decision at their monthly membership meeting on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
At a time when both major parties of war and Wall Street have stepped away from defending and protecting our human rights and addressing people and planetary needs, the 2026 California Gubernatorial election presents a critical crossroad.
California’s vast economic and political power impacts not only the other states in the U.S. but other countries and economies. Our state boasts the fourth largest economy in the world while also having the nation’s largest wealth and income gap, 8 out of the 10 most polluted cities, and the highest number of unhoused and housing-insecure residents.
California can effectively implement equitable, sustainable and just policies on healthcare, housing, environment, immigration, human rights, and electoral reforms that would inspire and resonate with communities around the country and the world.
However, for decades the CA legislation’s Democratic Party supermajorities have refused to address the growing and desperate needs of Californians and instead have prioritized corporate profits and their own careers funded by billionaires who rule silicon valley and beyond. Clearly, the Democrats’ political and economic agenda has been designed to serve the rich.
Dr. Butch Ware’s Campaign for Governor is a grassroots, corporate-free campaign according to the principles of the Green Party and it offers not only an alternative but THE imperative to status quo politics.
The Butch Ware Campaign has prioritized community building since its launch on February 3, 2025 and has since traveled across California, meeting with the most marginalized and underserved communities, Greens and allies on all fronts of our fight for social justice, democracy, ecology and peace. See Dr. Ware’s events and interviews here.
A central message in the Ware campaign has been the critical need to connect the many social justice movements and the growing mutual aid efforts WITH those who work on building electoral power so that together, we can make the lasting and desperately-needed changes that we need.
We invite everyone who has had enough of the corporate takeover of our government and the wholesale of our so-called representatives to join us and support the antidote to our state’s corporate duopoly, join us to support the Butch Ware Campaign for Governor of California.
Contact us to join our county’s Butch Ware campaign volunteers. For more information, see https://www.butchware4gov.com/ and connect with the campaign on social channels @ButchWare
About Dr. Ware: Professor Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specialized in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution. For the past two decades, he has put scholarship in service of the people, especially in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as the George Floyd murder in 2020. He has organized teach-ins, community education curricula, and other activist and organizing initiatives.
More broadly, Ware has been working as a public intellectual, activist, artist, and organizer, supporting communities across the country and around the world to challenge imperialism, ethnic cleansing, and endless war, and to build sustainable, just, peaceful alternatives rooted in African, Indigenous, and Abrahamic traditions.
