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Call to Action:

The Green Platform presents an eco-socialist analysis and vision for our country. In contrast to the major political parties that create their platforms through back-room deals by insiders and power brokers, we have created a grassroots process that invites submissions from every localGreen Party and every Green individual. Through a democratic process, we have arrived at a final draft to present for approval. The Green Platform is an evolving document, a living work-in-progress that expresses our commitment to creating wise and enduring change in specific policies and in the political process itself. The Green Party is committed to values-based politics, as expressed in our Ten Key Values. These values guide us in countering and changing a system that extols is based on exploitation, unsustainable consumption, and destructive competition.

The US government is proving has proven, during both Republican and Democratic administrations, to be incapable of governing our nation or working with other nations to address current and long-term problems in a time of multiple global crises. The United States is locked in a vicious circle cycle, in which it has become increasingly clear that the ‘bipartisan’ political duopoly will drift further rightward at an increasing pace without a true opposition partyas a counterweight, as both corporate parties seek to better serve their 1% masters.

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Throughout American history, independent parties outside the two-party power establishment have been responsible for introducing urgently-needed changes, whether the partiesthemselves won electoral success (like the anti-slavery Republican Party in the mid-1800s) or not. The long list of reforms introduced by these parties includes abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage,

the eight-hour workday, workers’ rights and protections, and civil rights for all African-Americans. Who will give voice on the electoral stage to the important ideas of the 21st century?

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Preamble

The global political structure is built around a “grow-or-die” economic imperative fundamentally at odds with nature and the survival of complex life, including humanity. Neoliberal capitalism has colonized the world in order to extract and extracted the wealth from the working classes, especially in the Global South, resulting in growing poverty and susceptibility to the effects of climate change., This system is enforced globally by escalating militarism and imperialism threatening nuclear annihilation, and locally by an increasingly militarized and brutal police response. Global corporations have undermined local democracy and replaced self-determination with a bureaucratic oligarchy made up of wealthy business executives with governmental representatives who claim “representative democracy” while acting to restrict ballot access from all but those approved by the oligarchy.

Only an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist Green Party, based in our Ten Key Values includingrespect for gender diversity and gender equality, is prepared to confront and address the existential threat of climate change, and along with the social crises at the root of ecological crisis.

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The Green Party proposes this Platform – parts of which (those parts that addressingeconomic and environmental justice) we refer to as our Green New Deal – as a set of immediate and short- and medium-term steps to turn our future vision into reality. We proposebold steps to end poverty; recognize human economic rights such as rights to housing andhealthcare; quickly halt

carbon emissions and transition to a decentralized, community-based economy built withrenewable energy and green industry; and much more.

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I. Democracy

Introduction

Our nation was born as the first great experiment in modern democracy. We seek to rescue that heritage from the erosion of citizen participation.

Moreover, we seek to dissolve the grip of the ideology, intoned by big-money interests for more than twenty years, that government is intrinsically undesirable and destructive of liberty and that elected officials should rightly “starve the beast” by slashing all spending on social programs, inthe name of freedom. We challenge that tactic approach by calling on all Americans to think deeply about the meaning of government that would truly be of the people, by the people, and for the people. In a democracy, individuals come together to form structures of governance that protect and advance the common good. We, the citizens, are the government, and we, the citizens, can direct it to fulfill its finest goals and purposes. Our citizens must not permit usurpation of their authority by acts of individuals and government agencies that isolate or insulate government from their oversight and control. We, the People, have a responsibility to participate in self-government through all the means that our Constitution provides.

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A growing and grave imbalance between the citizens of this country and the interests that extract usurp power from the citizens is an imminent danger to our security and national and global social stability. We strongly feel that our country should view itself as a member of the community of nations – not above it. The United States could well play a leadership role in thatcommunity

but only if we become committed to an eco-socialist vision of peace, national self-determination, and international cooperation.

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A. Political Reform

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The failure to fulfill the promise of democracy leaves millions of people in our country too discouraged to vote and others, who do choosechose to vote, seemingly trapped among false and limited choices options. A system that promotes full and fair representation would draw millions of people in the United States into civic life and could revive democracy in this country.

GREEN SOLUTIONS

Electoral

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Top-x primaries are not suitable to handle large numbers of competitive major partycandidates, with because competition among candidates of the same major parties that who don’t actually represent significantly different policies crowding out minor parties with distinct perspectives.

Misleadingly, proponents of top-x primaries call them “open primaries.” ActualOopen primaries, however, are systems that retain party primaries, but allow anyvoter to choose to vote in a party primary of their choice. Instead of promoting an inclusive multi-party system, top-x systems eliminate party primaries.

d, Adopt Federal legislation to Ssubstantially expand the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and elect the

House from multi-seat districts by proportional representation – both by Federal legislation – to help make the House far more representative of the nation’s population and rich diversity.

Towards this end, amend or repeal The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 (https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/The-Permanent-Apportionment-Act-of-1929/), which limits the size of the House; and amend, or repeal and replace the 1967 law (PL 90-196 (http://archive.fairvote.org/?page=526) that mandates single-member districts for the Houseand replace it with one that mandates multi-seat districts elected by proportional representation.

Abolish the S. Senate by constitutional amendment. Until the

U.S. Senate is abolished, enact state laws requiring that all state

U.S. Senate seats are be elected by ranked-choice voting. Amend the U.S.Constitution to require that all vacancies in the

U.S. Senate be filled by ranked-choice voting special election, rather than byappointment.

Abolish the Electoral College and provide for the direct national election of thepresident by Rranked Cchoice Vv As a step in that direction, support Nnational Ppopular Vvote legislation which would guarantee the presidency to the presidentialcandidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and the District of Columbia),. which This would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes -— that is, enough electoral votes to elect a president (270 of 538).

4. Campaign Finance Reform

Provide full public financing of federal, state and local elections, including free candidate statements in official government voter guides, and as well as free and equal radio and television time on the public airwaves for all ballot-qualified candidates and parties.

Amend the S. Constitution to unequivocally define that money is

not a form of free speech; that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitledto constitutional rights; and that full regulation or limitation of campaign contributions and spending be allowed by law. Such an amendment would overturn several courtdecisions including Citizens United v. FEC (2010), McCutcheon v. FEC (2014) and Buckley v. Vallejo (1976). Amend the Constitution to authorize the regulation of election contributions and spending to eliminate undue influence of money in our political system, and to protect the rights of all Americans to free speech, political participation, and meaningful representation in government. Together these reforms would address campaign finance transparency of in relation to dark money while ending independent campaign expenditures by the corporate rich. Until such amendments are enacted, prohibit corporations from spending to influence elections, as a condition of receipt of a corporate charter by federal chartering of corporations by the federal government.

5. Election Integrity

Develop publicly-owned, open source voting equipment and deploy it across the nation to ensure high national standards, performance, transparency, and accountability; use verifiable paper ballots; and institute mandatory automaticrandom precinct recounts to ensure a high level of accuracy in election results. Establish Create a National Elections Commission with the mandate to establish minimum national election standards and uniformity, partner with state and localelection officials to ensure pre-election and post-election accountability for their election plans, require nonpartisan election boards, and depoliticize and professionalize election administration across the United States. Enact federallegislation to protect election workers from partisan interference.

6. Reducing Corruption and Ensuring Good Government

Empower the Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct insider trading and other securities investigations of Congress members and staff who are privy to material relevant nonpublic information. Empower the Internal Revenue Service to conduct yearly audits of member Congressional representatives’ finances, as a strong disincentive against members of Congress trying to hide financial interests, while simultaneously giving the public confidence that members they are playing by the same financial rules as everyone else.
1. Establish binding ethics requirements for Supreme Court judges and strengthen existing ethics requirements for other federal jurists, including to address financialconflicts of interest and other forms of influence that are damaging to the courts’ independence and impartiality of the courts. Require recusal whenever a conflict of interest creates the appearance of bias.

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Establish an Inspector General (IG) for oversight of all federal judges. Require public disclosure by all members of the federal judiciary of their tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service every year on an annual basis. Require federal judges to make annual yearly financial and ethics-related disclosures to the IG. Give the IG the power to investigate and monitor justices’ compliance with whatever financial andethical rules apply to them. Require the IG to generate and issue annual reports of non-compliance with those rules, or with the IG’s efforts to investigate compliance with those rules, to the public and to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.

Substantially increase the size of the Supreme Court so that filling any single vacancy would have less impact on the ideological balance of the Court, also so that the larger size would limit the impact of any ideological bias on the part of individualjustices, and so that the larger size could better represent the diversity of

experience in society and as a means to inform the Court’s decision-making. Substantially iIncreaseing the size of the Supreme Court to will also enable theCourt to expand its capacity to hear more cases. Replace lifetime appointments with term lengths, so that all appointees to regular terms serve terms of equal length. Establish term lengths so each presidential administration would will have appointments to make. Consider term limits and a mandatory retirement age for justices.

Enact tough new federal anti-bribery and gratuity laws to stop corporations and thewealthy from purchasing government action, and ensure that the Justice Departmentvigorously enforces anti-corruption laws. by the Justice Department.

B. Community

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1. Families and Children

We call for social policies to focus on protecting families. The young— our citizens of tomorrow— are increasingly at risk. Programs must ensure that children, who are among the most vulnerable members of society, receive basic nutritional, educational, and medical necessities. The Green Party supports and seeks toexpand Head Start and along with pre- and neo-natal programs. A Children’s Agenda should be put in place to focus attention and concerted action on the future that is our children. [See section A.8. Youth Rights in chapter II.]

2. Alternative Community Service

We must create new opportunities for citizens to serve their communities throughnon-military community Alternative c Community service to the militaryshould be encouraged as an alternative to the military.

C. Free Speech and Media Reform

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The United States’ original communications policy of the United States was the 1st Amendment.Freedom of the press was guaranteed in the Constitution because an exchange of ideas and an unfettered debate were considered essential components of a democratic society. Today, however, government policy is designed less to enhance public deliberation than to boost the profitability of media corporations.

End commercial broadcasters’ free licensed use of the public airwaves. Require market-priced leasing of for any commercial use of the electromagnetic spectrum. Revenuesderived from these license fees should be used to fund the operation of community media.Tax electronic advertising to fund democratic media outlets.
Support Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) Aaccess Ttelevision to ensure thatcitizens and community organizations have the opportunity to create and present their own programming on cable televisionchannels.
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We call for the specific classification of all Internet service providers as “common carriers” as that term is used in Title II of the Communications Act.

D. Foreign Policy

At the start of One Quarter of the way through a new century, we stand poised between the geopolitical conflict of East versus West; a future marked by the aftermath of the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001; the dangers of global terrorism; the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan followed by the

unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq; the escalation of conflict in the Middle East; war in Ukraine; Israeli genocide in Gaza; and the continued research and development of nuclearweapons and along with the stockpiling of bio-chemical weapons.

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As we overcome confront continued conflicts and violence, we realize the difficulties inherent inencouraging democracy and of advancing the cause of peace. We face a more complex set of challenges in how our nation defines its national security. Greens support sustainabledevelopment and social and economic justice across the globe. Reducing militarism andreliance on arms policies is the key to progress toward collective security.

1. Foreign Policy—Peace and Disarmament

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2. A Real Road to Peace in the Middle East

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Should the United Nations and international civil society conduct Palestinian-led peace negotiations, we recognize the usefulness of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose inaugurating action could be mutual acknowledgement by Israelis and Palestiniansthat they have the same basic inherent rights, including the right to exist and flourish in the same, safe and secure place of a as their homeland.

6. Puerto Rican Independence

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As a colony of the United States, Puerto Rico’s position of political subordination cuts acrossmakes all of its the problems worse., and iIndependence would break the stalemate and createthe possibilities of a solution.

E. Domestic Security

Restore habeas corpus, a legal action to obtain relief from illegal detention. Enforce the free exercise of the right to habeas corpus in all circumstances when, or situations where,the legality of a detention may be questioned. End the use of indefinite detention without trial.

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F. Demilitarization and Exploration of Space

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The peaceful exploration of Space has been usurped by the militarization of Space. The last four The most recent U.S.—backed military conflicts have used space-based technology to disrupt the computer and communication systems of sovereign states. The funds required for continuing peaceful Sspace exploration have been used, instead, for the design, implementation and deployment of wasteful and dangerous Sspace hardware, such as the Strategic Defense Initiative.

II. Social Justice

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Our public schools, from kindergarten through college, are forced to cut back countless programs and services. Fees for community colleges are up sharply, and many public universities must turn away qualified students. More than 50 million Americans have no medical insurance coverage. The crisis in publicly subsidized housing is intensifying, while publicly funded “corporate welfare” continues unabated. Our tax code favors the wealthy. Our criminal justice system assigns long prison terms to hundreds of thousands of perpetrators of victimlesscrimes, such as selling marijuana small quantities of drugs. Our civil liberties of privacy and free speech are impaired by the excesses of the USA PATRIOT Act and kindred similar newer laws that use a national tragedy (the attacks on September 11, 2001) as an excuse to impose ubiquitous surveillance and control over citizens. In addition, discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, or race continues to sap the potential of our society and to violate personal dignity.

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A. Civil Rights and Equal Rights

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1. Women’s Rights Economic Equality

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Single mothers are among the largest and most severely impoverished groups in the United States, which explains why a substantial number of children in our country live below the poverty line. Welfare reform has forced mothers to abandon their children while they travel to work at minimum wage jobs. With

the extreme pay inequity, single mothers cannot afford child care, nurture their children, and ormove out of poverty.

Violence and Oppression

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Violence against women is increasing nationwide. We must address the root cause of all violence even as we specifically address violence to women. We support stronger legislation, programs and enforcement. We also call for new dialog and re-thinking that can lead to better language, ideas, and solutions. We urge that the term “domestic violence” be replaced by the term “violence,” because “domestic violence” is not perceived as real violence, which leads to it not being treated legally and practically for the violence that it is. We urge that the term “sex work” not be used in relation to prostitution. With the increasing conflation of trafficking (the violent and illegal trafficking in women and girls for forced sex) with prostitution, it is impossible to know which is which, and what violence the term “sex work” is masking. No source in existence knows which forms of prostitution comprise forced sex and which comprise free will or choice prostitution. Forced sex is rape, and it is a crime. An increasing number of experts thinkthe percentage of those involved in sex for pay who are engaged in choice prostitution is verysmall, leaving the larger number of women exposed to serious and often fatal violence. Much of what is commonly called prostitution is actually sex trafficking by definition. The Green Party calls for a safer world for women and girls.

The Green Party has zero tolerance for the illegal international trafficking in humans. Of themillions of humans trafficked worldwide, the large majority are women and children who are bought and sold as slaves. They are kept captive and in debt-bondage that can never be paid off. Most are sold over and over again for forced– sex prostitution. Forced sex is rape and a serious crime. Some are forced to labor in agriculture, sweat shops, hotels,

restaurants, domestic service, and other forms of servitude. Coercive tactics

— including deception, fraud, intimidation, isolation, threat and use of physical force, or debt bondage — are used to control women. Estimates of human trafficking in the U.S. vary greatly from 18,000 at a low end to 50,000 to over 100,000, with a worldwide estimate of over 27 million—, the majority of which whom are women and girls.

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2. Pathway To Citizenship

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), local police, and for-profit/private prison corporations such as GEO Group and CoreCivic have taken advantage of the increase in anti-immigrant legislation and created a symbiotic relationship. ICE’s mission is defined in these words:, “To protect America from cross border crime and illegal immigration that threatennational security and public safety. This mission is executed through the enforcement of more than 400 federal statutes and focuses on immigration enforcement and combating transnational crime,.” These words suggest subscribes to the belief that every Latin American citizen is a criminal. Mass incarceration fuels the proliferation of for-profit prisons while for-profit prison corporations encourage policies that increase the number of people behind bars. With various states implementing anti-immigrant legislation, setting up detention centers has been an easycontractual agreement with the “incentive” that they must meet 80% to 100% fill capacity for payment. ICE reports they have paid

$85,000 per incarcerated individual and a total of $807 million to 19 for-profit detention centers.

Racist policies must be abolished. Undocumented immigrants boost America’s economic growth and raise the general productivity of American workers by providing much-needed skills. Immigrant workers allow important sectors of the economy to expand, attract investmentand create employment opportunities for native-born Americans, contribute more in tax revenue than they collect in public services, reduce American firms’ incentives to offshore

jobs and import foreign-produced goods, and benefit consumers by reducing the prices of goods and services. Economists estimate that legalization of the undocumented immigrant populationwould increase the immigrants’ earnings and consumption considerably, and increase U.S. gross domestic product.

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The Green Party must will continue to consider immigration issues from an international standpoint, taking into account international labor and environmental standards, and human rights.

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2. Interim Measures

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Greens oppose “English-only” legislation. Immigrants already have ample incentive to learnEnglish. But when interaction with the government is limited to the English– speakingindividuals, persons are put at additional risk of exploitation.

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Black Agenda

We recognize that full employment and a national minimum wage are essential to achieving both economic justice and environmental sustainability. We support prioritizing green jobs and investment in historically disadvantaged communities, alongside policies like promoting worker cooperatives and a guaranteed minimum income funded by progressive taxation, to finally break the cycle of poverty

and end environmental racism.

Support the release of all political prisoners held by the USA. We reject theauthority of the U.S. State to imprison Black individuals whose imprisonment stems from their defense of Black people’s democratic and self-determinationrights, including the right to self-determination, regardless of the specific location or movement associated with their activities.

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5. Justice for Native Hawaiians: Kanaka Maoli

Immediate distribution of Hawaiian Homelands, set up by the “Hawaiian HomesCommission Act” of 1920, with government funds allocated for the necessary infrastructure.

10. GI and Veterans’ Rights

Support for men and women in the armed forces must go far beyond the rhetoric used to discredit the peace movement in the U.S. today. We believe that the ill-advised and illegal actions of the many U.S. administrations have consistently and unnecessarily put our troops in harm’s way. We further believe that the dangerous burden of fighting the unnecessary wars in the Middle East, due to the administration’s overly narrow and militaristic response to terrorismis disproportionately borne by families of lesser means. Those who are required to carry out militaristic policies, often with great hardship to themselves, their families, and even the risk oftheir lives, deserve our respect and our commitment to adequate compensation and benefits.

Our first priority in foreign policy considerations is to createcreating a future

without war. We are committed to the idea that future generations not face the separations and sacrifices of war.

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Provide better care for the wounded, sick, and injured soldiers. Restore full fundingfor veterans’ health programs. Ensure that the Pentagon takes all steps necessaryto fully diagnose and treat the physical and mental health conditions resulting from service in combat zones, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Supportincreased funding for additional clinics to provide services which now are too often delayed or denied throughout the Veterans Affairs system because of overcrowdingover crowding and budget constraints.
Veterans are being unfairly discharged from the service with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other injuries caused by stress, trauma, and head injuries, under trumped-up behavioral charges, —as a means of military budget cost-cutting. As Greens we insist that all U.S. combatants are entitled to medical and psychiatric health care by the VA, after serving any time in a combat zones. Service members serving in combat zones are subjected to assorted variations of permanent physicaland mental damage and are entitled to treatment by the Veterans Administration.This nation has a moral obligation to provide health care services and disability entitlements to its veterans. We support funding for additional clinics to provide services which now are too often delayed or denied because of over-crowding and budget constraints throughout the VA system.

12. Adoptee Rights

Due to current laws millions of adults that who were adopted as children are now being deniedaccess to vital records regarding their births. This is a basic human right that the Green Party should be is committed to. We will help in abolish.ing the secrets and lies that surround many adoptions around the

world, by creating the necessary transparency between adoptees, their mothers, and adoptive parents.

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C. Economic Justice / Social Safety Net

The passage of the 1996 Welfare Act by Congress and its signing by the President Clintonconfronts us with hard choices. Democrats and Republicans seem to be saying the country cannot afford to care for children and poor mothers. In ending over fifty years of federal policy guaranteeing cash assistance for poor children, Congress has set in motion a ended one radical experiment and began another that will have with a profound impact on the lives of some of the weakest members of our society. How will should state, city, and county governments,; local communities,; businesses and religious institutions—all of us—respond?

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D. Welfare: A Commitment to Ending Poverty

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Forcing welfare recipients to accept jobs that pay wages below a living wage drives wagesdown for everyone and exploits workers for private profit at public expense. We reject workfare as being a form of indentured servitude.

E. Education and the Arts

1. Education

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Therefore, Greens work toward:

Dismantling white supremacy in our schools, represented in curricula, discipline, teacherrecruitment, and more, by seeking to end the school-to-prison pipeline.jailhouse track

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We recommend the following actions:

Build education programs based on autochthonous indigenous skills, crafts, art, music,permaculture, and Also present children of colonial heritage viable and sustainable ways of life of indigenous peoples worldwide.

2. The Arts

Freedom of artistic expression is a fundamental right and also a key element in empowering communities, and likewise in moving us toward sustainability and respect for diversity. Artists can create in ways that foster healthy, non-alienating relationships between people and their daily environments, communities, and the Earth.

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F. Health Care

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Under a universal, comprehensive, national single-payer health care system, the administrative waste of private insurance corporations companies would be redirected to patient care. If the United States were to shift to a system of universal coverage and a single payer plan, as in Canada and many European countries, the savings in administrative costs would be more than enough to offset the cost of additional care. Expenses for businesses currently providing coverage would be reduced, while state and local governments would pay less because they would receive reimbursement for services provided to the previously uninsured, and alsobecause public programs would cease to be the “dumping ground” for high-risk patients and those rejected by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) when they become disabled and unemployed. In addition, people would gain the peace of mind, in knowing that they have thehealth care they need. No longer would people have to worry about the prospect of financial ruin if they become seriously ill, are laid off from their jobs, or are injured in an accident.

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Greens recognize that our own health is also intimately tied to the health of our communities and environment. To improve our own health, we must improve the quality of our air, water, andfood, along with and the health of our workplaces, homes and schools.

The Green Party unequivocally supports a woman’s right to reproductive choice, no matter her marital status or age, and that contraception and safe, legal abortion procedures be available on demand and be included in all health insurance coverage in the U.S., They should beoffered as well as free of charge in any state where whenever a woman’s income falls below the poverty level. [See section A.1. Women’s Rights abovein this chapter.]

We recommend the following actions:

2. AIDS / HIV

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The AIDS epidemic has not had adequate public health management at all government levels. Drug corporations have a strong profit motive to encourage for the medical management ofthose with HIV by using medication drugs that keeps the virus from being detected in the blood. This means there are guaranteed sales of very expensive drugsmedications. Rather than invest in research for a cure like they have done with Hepatitis C, the drug companies invest in drugs that manage a chronic illness. The Green Party believes that this failure to invest in research for a cure is because prompted by a mainstream society has the belief that contracting HIV is self-inflicted by as the result of “sinful” or “illegal” behavior. The largest groups with HIV/AIDS in the USA are men who have sex with men, including gay, bisexual, and trans men, and men of color, particularly of African and Latinx descent.

Persons who share needles are the next largest group of persons with HIV/AIDS in the USA. While HIV drug treatment regimens have saved lives, some people suffer from debilitating side effects where quality of life is poor. There is also the economic side effect due to the high cost ofthese life-saving medications.

We recommend the following actions:

Increased public education in about transmission prevention, which includes funding for the purchase and distribution of condoms, gloves, dental dams, and needles &/

Increased funding for age appropriate comprehensive sex education that includes use of barriers for prevention of fluid/blood Wesupport students having easy access to condoms, gloves, and dental dams in schools.

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Creation of a repository for the latest peer reviewed theories, studies, and findings, and to facilitate sharing among research laboratories, schools and universities, medical centers, and public health facilities that would be accessible for common good rather than kept proprietary by for– profit companies.
Funding for methods of peer education for sex workers and those who may share needles, and to supplying them with condoms, dental dams, gloves, and needles/ &
Educating incarcerated individuals in HIV transmission prevention andsupplying them with condoms, dental dams, and gloves. Additionally, remove barriers to access of medicines for incarcerated individuals with bothHIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis C.
Increased funding for educating the public about addiction and funding fortreatment facilities for addicts, and also for transitional housing to help with society re-entry.
Education and funding for addiction harm reduction practices, includingavailable needle exchange programs for those individuals with substance abuse problems who are not yet ready to enter treatment programs.
Immediate increases in funding for programs that ensure all individuals with HIV/AIDS who want housing or treatment are able to obtain such it No individuals with HIV should ever spend a single night on the streets or beturned away from treatment due to their economic status. We advocate for creating daily HIV medication distribution centers for individuals who are unable to manage the complex daily medication regimen without assistance.

G. Labor

A repeal of all HIV criminalization laws and policies and release all prisoners those imprisonedsolely due to HIV status.

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And as union membership falls, so do the real wages of all working people, union and non-union alike. We support efforts to overcome these legal handicaps, especially in the South and Southwest where the laws are most hostile. We also must dedicate ourselves to fighting for acomplete overhaul of this country’s labor laws.

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k. New union members’ The right of newly-formed unions to submit a firstcontract to binding arbitration at the request of the union.
Labor’s right to stock ownership and oversight of the investment of itsown funds in the company where it works employed.
Agricultural and other presently-excluded workers must be covered byfederal labor laws, except where existing state laws offer more protection.

H. Criminal Justice

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The negative effects of imprisonment are far-reaching. Prisoners are isolated from theircommunities and often denied contact with the free world those on the outside and the media. Access to educational and legal materials is in decline. Prison administrators wield total authority over their environments, diminishing procedural input from experts and censoring employee complaints.

Our priorities must include efforts to prevent violent crime and address the legitimate needs ofvictims, while addressing the socio-economic root causes of crime and while practicing policies that prevent recidivism.

Greens oppose the increasingly widespread privatization of prisons. These prisons treat people as their product and provide far worse service conditions than government-run prisons. Profits inprivately– run prisons are derived from understaffing, which severely reduces the acceptable care of attention given to the needs of inmates. Greens believe that greater, not lesser public input, oversight and control of prisons is the answer.

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Greens also call attention to the fact that more than forty thirty percent of those 2.3 millionlocked down come from America’s bBlack community, which is one-eighth of the national population.

The Green Party recognizes that our nation’s ostensibly color-blind systems of law enforcement and crime control—, from police practices to and prosecutorial prerogatives, to mandatory sentencing and zero-tolerance—have effectively constituted an ubiquitous national policy of racially selective mass incarceration, a successor to Jim Crow as a means of social control., This is a policy that must be publicly discussed, widely recognized, and ultimately reversed. The nearly universal, though largely unspoken, nature of this policy makes piecemeal reforms that are not accompanied by public discussion of the larger policy ineffective outside the context of a broad social movement.

1. Alternatives to Incarceration

Never house juvenile offenders with adults. House violent and non-violentjuvenile offenders Continue the education of juveniles while in custody. Substantially decrease the number of juvenile’s assigned to each judge and caseworker to ensure adequate oversight of oversee each juvenile’s placement and progress in the juvenile justice system.

2. Prison Conditions, Prisoner Treatment and Parolees

Ensure prison conditions are humane and sanitary, including but are notlimited to heat, light, exercise, clothing,

nutrition, libraries, possessions, and personal safety. Properly Mmeet prisoners’ dietary requirements. Ensure availability of psychological, drug, and medical treatment, including access to condoms and uninterrupted access toall prescribed medications. Minimize isolation of prisoners from staff and one another; use this only as needed for safety.

Make incarceration more community-based, including through increasedvisitor access by families. Establish and enforce prison policies that discourage racism, sexism, homophobia, and rape.

Require that each state prison system install a rehabilitation administratorwith equal authority equal to that of as the highest authority.

Provide incarcerated individuals the right to vote by absentee ballot inthe district of their domicileprevious residence, and the right to vote during parole.

• 5. Police Accountability

Due to current conditions when it comes to policing the cities and people, encounters with police officers are the 6th leading cause of death for young men in America. Morecommonly, the greatest lives that are most at stake when it comes to crimes against persons at the hands of the police are those of our bBlack, brown, LGBTQIA?+ and disabled individuals, including those with mental health issues when it comes to crimesagainst persons at the hands of the police. In accordance light of this we recommend the following actions:

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J. Housing and Homelessness

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Instead of enacting zoning laws to increase affordable housing, the trend has too often been to increase the proportion of land zoned for commercial property at the expense ofresidential property. Instead of

providing funding to increase affordable housing, the amount of funds dedicated to this purpose is decreasing. At the same time, rent control and tenant eviction protections do not exist in most jurisdictions, and where they do, they are often inadequate and under attack. State governments continue to weaken or preempt local rent control laws, while landlords who violate housing codes requirements by failing to keep their property in habitable condition, are often tolerated or given lenient penalties. Housing discriminationalso remains rampant against people of color, immigrants, the disabled, single people, gays and lesbians, and families with children.

III. Ecological Sustainability

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Our houses and buildings, manufacturing processes, and industrial agriculture were all designed with the assumption of an endless supply of cheap and readily available fossil fuels. The resultant Pollution and despoiling the land were not part of the thinkingfactored into the equation. The Green Party, however, is optimistic about the alternatives that now exist and that could be encouraged through tax policy and the market incentives of fuel efficiency. We also challenge the grip of the oil, automotive, and automobile insurance industries that have managed to block or roll back progress in public mass transit. The gutting of subsidies for the railroads has meant not only fewer passenger routes but also the addition of thousands of large freight trucks on our highways, decreasing public safety, and increasing pollution. We are committed to extending the greening of waste management by encouraging the spread of suchpractices such as reduce, return, reuse, and recycle. We strongly oppose the recent attempts to roll back the federal environmental protection laws that safeguard our air, water, and soil.

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A. Climate Change

ECOSOCIALIST GREEN NEW DEAL

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It is too late for public incentives to private industry such as tax breaks, subsidies, and contracts to make the clean energy transition as the progressive Democrats’ version of the “Green NewDeal” proposes to do. This

approach cannot coordinate and integrate the clean energy transition on a rapid timescaleacross all productive sectors—not only electric power (25% of greenhouse gas emissions), but also transportation (29%), manufacturing (23%), buildings (13%), and agriculture (10%). Private industry will not phase out dirty energy sources as long as its existing plants and equipment are profitable.

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Declare a Climate Emergency

The president should declare the climate crisis a national emergency, which gives the presidentpowers under existing laws to take many immediate steps to address thate climate crisis without needing congressional legislation. The president should create a cabinet-level Office of Climate Mobilization to coordinate all federal agencies and economic planning to meet climate safety and justice goals.

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Economic Bill of Rights

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Borrowing — Progressive and ecological taxes and reallocating military spending to the Ecosocialist Green New Deal may not generate enough revenue to make the massive investments immediately needed to rapidly transform the economy to clean energy. Climate breakdown will cost much more than not making those investments, however. So pending Green Monetary Reform, the federal government may have to borrow to make the needed investments. In such borrowing, Greens favor a program of Green Quantitative Easing wherethe Federal Reserve creates the money to buy the Treasury securities issued to support the Green New Deal investments. This

quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve would be used to bail out the planet and the peopleinstead of the big banks as happened in 2008 in the wake of the Great Recession.

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2. Economic Policy For A Safer Climate

Enact a Fee & Dividend system on fossil fuels to enable the free market to include the environmental costs of their extraction and use. These fees shall be applied as far upstream as possible, either when fuel passes from extraction to refining, distribution or consumption; or when it first enters the jurisdiction of the United States‘ jurisdiction. Thecarbon fee will initially be small, a dime per kilogram of carbon, to avoid creating a shock to the economy. The fee will be increased by 10% each year that global atmospheric carbon dioxide content is greater than 350 ppm, decreased 10% each year it’s less than 300 ppm, and repealed entirely when it falls below 250 ppm.

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B. Energy

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The energy transition cannot be accomplished with a minor retrofit of existing energyinfrastructure. Just as our fossil fuel economy differs from the agrarian economy of 1800, the post-fossil fuel economy of 2050 the future will be profoundly different from all that we are familiar with now. Changes would occur if we wait for the price of fossil fuels to reflect scarcity, forcing society to

adapt; however, lack of government planning will result in a transition that is chaotic, painful, destructive, and possibly not survivable.

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3. Eliminate dirty & dangerous energy sources

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The Green Party stands for the enactment of bans on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas andoil on the local, state, and federal level. We also and stands for bans on the disposal of wastes created by the fracking industry.

4. Decentralize the Grid

The Green Party supports net metering, which allows residential and commercial customers who generate their own electricity from solar power to sell the electricity they aren’t using back into the grid, to make decentralized energy production economically viable.

5. De-carbonize and Re-localize the Food System

De-carbonize and re-localize the food system.