THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
www.cagreens.org
June 26, 2006
Released June 23, 2006
Contact(s): Cres Vellucci, Press Secretary 916.996-9170
Green Party of California holds state convention
this weekend; Delegates will debate more union support, violence training,
agricultural dumping
MOORPARK, CA -- The Green Party of California will hold its
state convention here Saturday and Sunday at Moorpark College, focusing
primarily on the upcoming November elections and several proposals, including those supporting unions,
ending "agricultural dumping" and educating children about options to violence in society.
About 100 delegates - and Green Party federal, state and local candidates -
from Los Angeles and San Diego to Sacramento and Eureka are expected to
attend the two-day convention.
The union proposal would strengthen the GPCA support of "Democratic
Unionism," and proposes - to counter "anti-union propaganda" - plans to
educate students and the general public about the benefits of unions through labor studies at all
levels of education.
Another proposal before the GPCA General Assembly asks for full support of
"conservation of human health" through education of children about violence, and addiction, as well as "humanizing" jails, and prevention of
"violence profiteering."
Greens will also vote on a measure calling for an end to "agricultural
dumping." The U.S. is responsible, according to the proposal before delegates, for dumping huge quantities of agricultural products into world
markets, resulting in "irreparable" harm to the agricultural economies of
many countries who no longer have an even playing field in those markets.
Please contact the GPCA press secretary at 916/996-9170 for interviews or
more information.
