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GPCA to Host ASGP July Meeting
The Green Party of California will be hosting the July ASGP meeting in Santa Barbara on
July 27, 28, and 29, 2001.
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Ralph Nader News
From Nader 2000 Headquarters: The Nader 2000 campaign respects privacy rights and promised to keep volunteer and email list information confidential. This means we will not transfer email addresses to the new organization without explicit permission. As we close down Nader 2000, we would like to keep you informed about the future moves of Ralph Nader, the Green Party, and the movement for citizen-powered democracy. [More Details] Click here to join the new list: http://www.votenader.org/signon.html
Nader discusses the Bush presidency, the CA energy situation and the Greens' trajectory.
Nader's weekly column 'In the Public Interest'.
Nader discusses Academia, Politics, and Media.
Green Party of California
Spring General Assembly Meeting (Plenary)
The plenary was held in Sacramento April 27-29. Thanks to the Sacramento Green Party for
doing such a wonderful job organizing and putting on this event! We had delegates from many
new CA county locals, reports from the Global Greens Conference and current Green office holders,
and lots of great brainstorming.
More details and meeting minutes and links will be posted shortly.
Global Greens Conference
The Global Greens Conference, held April 13-15, 2001 in Canberra, Australia, was a conference of Green parties and political movements from Asia, the Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Americas, hosted by the Australian Greens.
Group shot of participants at the Global Greens Conference, April 15th, 2001. Photo by Tim Cole.
Australian Greens Hail Global Conference Success
The Australian Greens are elated with the success of the 3 day Global Greens Conference which was held at Canberra’s National Convention Centre."It was 5 years in the making but worth every minute of it," Greens Senator Bob Brown said.
"Like the Olympics, its success depended on a small army of volunteers. We began planning for 120 people and ended up with 800 from 70 countries. Delegates from all over were full of praise for the facilities and outcomes.
"The agreed Global Greens Charter is a document of great significance for world politics. It sets out a political agenda to challenge economic rationalism, the growing gap between rich and poor, and the great environmental problems of the age.
The charter calls for:
- all electoral systems to be based on proportional representation
- public funding and strict limits on corporate donations in elections
- bans on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
- a Tobin tax on speculative financial transactions
- immediate ratification of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business
- a clear separation of state and religion
- ratification the Kyoto Protocol for a 5 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions but a target of 20%-30% reduction by 2020
- phasing out of nuclear power
- a World Environment Court for environmental law breakers
- a worldwide ban on patenting of living creatures
- reform or abolition the World Trade Organisation
- domestic environmental laws to be applied to mining and logging companies operating overseas
- women’s right to control their own fertility
- a ban on mandatory detention of asylum seekers
- abolition of the death penalty worldwide
- a 5 year moratorium on genetically engineered crops
- removal of the veto power of the UN’s Security Council
- lifting the debt burden on developing countries
"No other political party in the world could have negotiated such a comprehensive platform. The Global Greens Charter is a responsible, far reaching, progressive program that will help guide the growing Green tide around a the planet," Senator Brown said.
More about the Global Greens
More about the Global Young Greens 2001 -- the first gathering of young Green campaigners and activists from around the world (April 7-9, 2001).
Greens in the Media
The Beat - Blue Green Alliance - Santa Monica Green Mayor Mike Feinstein's labor and tenant connections, as model for Green/Labor 'blue-green' electoral alliance
03/26/01
The Nation
City May Give Breaks to Boost Solar Power Use - Santa Cruz Green Mayor Tim Fitzmaurice supports incentives for solar panels
03/08/01
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Green Candidates 2001
7 California Green Candidates in 2001 so far
[Details & Full List of US Candidates]
Green Party of California Weighs In With Energy Proposals - Supports State Take-Over Of Utilities, Energy Conservation, and No Nukes
Press Release 1/31/01CONTACT: Ross Mirkarimi 415-931-9761
The Green Party of California is outraged by the convoluted approach to the current energy crisis and demands that our state legislature integrate common-sense, consumer friendly, sustainable measures put forth by this state's fastest growing third party.
The Green Party recommendations lay out a comprehensive agenda for establishing an energy policy that supports conservation, public control, renewable energy, tiered pricing, and forcing PG&E; to use it's corporate assets to bail itself out. The full proposal lays out the skeleton of a plan for a massive energy conservation effort in the state. [Full Press Release]
Green Party Registration Totals
| 21,461,275 | Total Eligible Statewide |
| 15,707,307 (73.19%) | Total Registered Statewide |
| 138,734 (.88%) | Greens Statewide |
| as of October 10, 2000 | |
Green Links
- Green Party Platform - Learn about the National Green Party's core beliefs and policy positions
- Ten Key Values - Ecological Wisdom, Community-Based Economics, Grassroots Democracy, Respect for Diversity, Nonviolence, Post-Patriarchal Values/Feminism, Social Justice, Personal & Global Responsibility, Decentralization, Sustainability/Future Focus
- Association of State Green Parties (ASGP) - Confederation of Green Parties from states around the country.
- Vote Nader - Official Ralph Nader campaign site
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