Green Issues Working Group
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CC Liaison: (Vacant)
Welcome to the Green Issues Working Group webpage! This group is charged by the state party with the task of making sure the Green Party is aware of and initiating action on issues not currently being addressed by the party.
Goals of the Working Group include:
- To identify current issues and events for which the GPCA has no position;
- To sponsor resolutions on current issues to be passed by the GPCA Plenary body, when appropriate;
- To sponsor debate of issues that may impact the platform;
- To interface with the Platform Standing Committee and with candidates who are running for office as Green Party members, as appropriate;
- To build coalitions with other organizations.
We examine issues based on how they relate to the Ten Key Values of the Party, and identify ones not currently being addressed in the Green Party Platform or by another Working Group.
Green Issue Subgroups
The Green Issues Working Group has a number of subgroups on a variety of topics within the 10 Key Values of the Party and in line with Platform Issue divisions, including:
- Social Justice and Livable Communities (platform, subgroup)
- Peace and Non-Violence (platform, subgroup)
- Democracy and Electoral Reform (platform, subgroup)
- Community-Based Sustainable Economics (platform, subgroup)
- Ecology and Earth Stewardship (platform, subgroup)
Following is a list of e-list discussion groups maintained by GIWG. You can join any of them by clicking on the link, which will generate a "SUBSCRIBE" e-mail:
- Green Issues - Covers overall and miscellaneous Green Issues Working Group matters not addressed by the other e-listgroups.
- Democracy and Corporations
- Criminal Justice
- Energy
- Environment: (link to form - not email)
- Health Care
- Minimum Wage
- Social & Economic Justice
Monthly Teleconference
Green Issues hosts a monthly teleconference to which all active Greens are invited to participate. For call information, please send an email asking for the information to . Minutes of past teleconferences may be found at the bottom of this page
Issue Groups
Following are short descriptions of each of the discussion groups, and contact info for sub-group coordinators, where there is one.
Green Issue Proposals / White Papers
Social Justice & Livable Communities
| Coordinator: | none |
| Activator: | Wes Rolley - Rural Green Issues |
Peace & Non-violence
| Coordinator: | and |
| Activator: | Paul Encimer - Empire Boycott/Peace Holiday -
Vote for peace with your money and/or time. Take personal action
to make the change you want to be. Don Eichelberger - Corporate Accountability - Corporate and governmental leaders should not hold secret gatherings out of public scrutiny, as they do at Bohemian Grove and other elite clubs. Elisabeth Green - Restorative Justice - We need to devise and implement a judicial system that is non-adversarial and works to bring a restorative resolution among parties that redeems the perpetrator and reimburses the victim for harms done. |
Democracy & Electoral Reform
| Coordinator: | Jeannie Rosenmeyer |
| Activator: | none |
Community-based Sustainable Economics
| Coordinator: | none |
| Activator: | none |
Ecology & Earth stewardship
| Coordinator: | |
| Activator: | none |
Anti-Toxics (Brian Everette)
Promoting the tactic of filing criminal negligence charges against polluters! ()
Energy/Public power to the people! ()
Municipalization of corporate-owned power grids returns control of power generation to the local community. Those California cities that already have it - Los Angeles and Sacramento - avoided the 2000 California 'power crisis'; in fact, they even made money selling their excess power to the private power companies. There is no good reason why municipalities should not control their own power generation, and every reason they should.
Municipal Utility Districts, Portfolio Standards and
Aggregation
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Municipalization of corporate-owned power grids returns control of power generation to the local community. Those California cities that already have it - Los Angeles and Sacramento - avoided the 2000 California 'power crisis'; in fact, they even made money selling their excess power to the private power companies. There is no good reason why municipalities should not control their own power generation, and every reason they should.
Transportation, Oil, and Global Warming ()
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) ()
Napa County Greens formed and are working with Preserving the Integrity of Napa's Agriculture (PINA) to obtain a precautionary moratorium on the the propagation, cultivation, growing, and raising of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Napa County. Moratoriums on GMOs have already been passed in Mendocino, Marin, Trinity, and Santa Cruz counties. All of these county-wide efforts are supported by Californians for GE-Free Agriculture, an organization which is addressing the issue on the state level. Such cooperation is critical for success Similar work is ongoing in Sonoma, Humboldt, Alameda and San Luis Obispo Counties.
You are invited to become a part of any or all of these issue groups, participate in the discussions and further our efforts to promote our Green Party's 10 Key Values. If you have an issue which you do not see listed here or covered in the Green Party Platform, please post a comment to the . (Even better if you volunteer to lead up the new group!) We will take all reasonable comments under consideration.
Thank you for your help and interest,
Green Issues Working Group Co-coordinator
Minutes of past Green Issues WG teleconferences:
| 09/28/05 |
Check out these pictures of the Green Issues meeting at the Jan. 2003 Green Party meeting in Palo Alto, CA (courtesy of Tian Harter)