2008 Woodie Awards
The Green Party: A Closer Look
Shawna Woodall
Issue date: 10/31/07 Section: College News
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Although many don't realize it, the Republican and Democratic parties won't be the only choices on upcoming elections. The Green Party may be one of those choices.
The Green Party was founded in 1984 with the prospect of creating a more democratic, safer and cleaner world. The Green Party Web site says its political goal is to make a country where choices are made by the people and not by corporations. Green Party USA created the Green Ten Key Values, which, focuses on a new society based on ecological wisdom, social justice, cooperation and non-violence.
The preamble of the Green Party Platform says, "Green politics is an ecological approach to politics that links social and ecological problems."
Greens believe racism, sexism, class exploitation, bureaucratic domination and war must be fought to create a stable society. They promote values of equality, solidarity and freedom. They also encourage an ecological society that is harmonized with nature.
Their Bill of Rights includes universal social security, jobs for all, living wages, a 30-hour workweek, social dividends, universal health care, free childcare, lifelong public education and affordable housing.
They also believe in undergoing an ecological conversion that would be implemented through a series of events including ecological production, renewable energy, biotechnology, environmental defense and restoration, environmental justice, and a fair transfer for those workers whose jobs are displaced by the conversion.
There are 229 Green Party members across the United States hold positions from school board members to mayors.
In his Web site, Green Party member Jared Ball, a 2008 presidential candidate, focuses on culture, the oppressed, and those who have long given up on the vote. He is running with the Green Party because he believes that most women, the lower class, blacks, Latinos and American Indians need organization and a place to unite. He believes the Green Party is the place for that because of its platform.
"I am the candidate that can properly articulate such a need," Ball says on his Web site. "The party's freedom from corporate dominance, its commitment to social justice and redistribution of society's wealth and service and its call for diversity are far more substantive than those false claims of such made with varying degrees by other parties."
The Green Party urges Americans to become familiar with and organize around their Green Ten Key Values and to be led by them in decisions made privately and publicly.
Contact Shawna Woodall at swoodall@indiana.edu.
The Green Party was founded in 1984 with the prospect of creating a more democratic, safer and cleaner world. The Green Party Web site says its political goal is to make a country where choices are made by the people and not by corporations. Green Party USA created the Green Ten Key Values, which, focuses on a new society based on ecological wisdom, social justice, cooperation and non-violence.
The preamble of the Green Party Platform says, "Green politics is an ecological approach to politics that links social and ecological problems."
Greens believe racism, sexism, class exploitation, bureaucratic domination and war must be fought to create a stable society. They promote values of equality, solidarity and freedom. They also encourage an ecological society that is harmonized with nature.
Their Bill of Rights includes universal social security, jobs for all, living wages, a 30-hour workweek, social dividends, universal health care, free childcare, lifelong public education and affordable housing.
They also believe in undergoing an ecological conversion that would be implemented through a series of events including ecological production, renewable energy, biotechnology, environmental defense and restoration, environmental justice, and a fair transfer for those workers whose jobs are displaced by the conversion.
There are 229 Green Party members across the United States hold positions from school board members to mayors.
In his Web site, Green Party member Jared Ball, a 2008 presidential candidate, focuses on culture, the oppressed, and those who have long given up on the vote. He is running with the Green Party because he believes that most women, the lower class, blacks, Latinos and American Indians need organization and a place to unite. He believes the Green Party is the place for that because of its platform.
"I am the candidate that can properly articulate such a need," Ball says on his Web site. "The party's freedom from corporate dominance, its commitment to social justice and redistribution of society's wealth and service and its call for diversity are far more substantive than those false claims of such made with varying degrees by other parties."
The Green Party urges Americans to become familiar with and organize around their Green Ten Key Values and to be led by them in decisions made privately and publicly.
Contact Shawna Woodall at swoodall@indiana.edu.
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