[Peace-discuss] Don't send a Democrat to the House

[C G Estabrook]

David— see section 7.

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THE PLATFORM OF THE PRAIRIE GREENS. 
Approved at the regular monthly meeting of the Prairie Greens on September 21, 2015, the last day of of summer. 
Thanks to David Green and other members who contributed to its drafting. 
This Prairie Green platform is an extension of the 10 Key Values of the Green Party US and the Illinois Green Party: <http://www.gp.org/ten_key_values_2016>.

[1] GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
The Prairie Green Party…
~ supports democratic electoral processes through universal voting rights and proportional party representation at all levels of government.
~ supports local and participatory democratic processes to utilize our communities’ productive capacity, financial wealth, vocational skills, and natural resources to provide for the basic needs of all citizens and residents.
~ supports public education systems democratically governed by parents, teachers, local community members, and students as they mature.

[2] SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
The Prairie Green Party…
~ understands that the wealth of our society has historically been produced by the labor of the vast majority of its citizens and workers—including slaves—not by the financial investments of a small minority which has gained ownership of most of its productive capacity.
~ understands that class oppression and racial oppression have historically been and continue to be integrally related in our society.
~ understands that equal opportunity and social justice depend on full employment at living wages.
~ supports government programs to provide full employment at living wages at the national, state, and local levels.
~ supports a public banking system at the state level, with an emphasis on investment in local communities.
~ supports a Financial Transaction Tax (LaSalle Street tax) in Illinois: a small fee imposed on the trading of commodities, paid primarily by the wealthiest citizens, which will generously fund government programs—especially education--at state and local levels.
~ opposes regressive state and local tax structures in Illinois, and supports measures to address the injustice of poorer people paying larger shares of their incomes in state and local taxes.
supports single-payer, universal healthcare provided at the state or national level as a human right and foundation for social justice and equal opportunity.
~ supports the development and broad availability of affordable, well-maintained public housing, provided in localized and innovative ways, as a human right and foundation for social justice and equal opportunity.
~ supports free education from preschool through college, with a particular emphasis on the minimization of student indebtedness, as a human right and foundation for equal opportunity.

[3] ECOLOGICAL WISDOM
The Prairie Green Party…
~ recognizes that the crisis created by climate change presents opportunities for promoting a sustainable society in relation to energy, resource and water conservation, agricultural, urban development, and other public policies.
~ supports an honest and critical evaluation of the role of biofuels, including corn- and soy-based fuels, regardless of local and regional economic interests, in moving towards a post-carbon-based fuel future.
~ opposes hydraulic fracturing “fracking” as a means to extract natural gas.
~ recognizes that pro-corporate economic policies that have engendered extreme economic inequality have also been exploitative and destructive of the environment, and that environmental sustainability, democratic and local governance, and economic justice are inseparable from and dependent upon one another.

[4] NON-VIOLENCE
The Prairie Green Party…
~ recognizes that the U.S. Government’s militarism and imperialism are extensions of corporate- and profit-driven economic policies—including weapons production itself and international weapons sales—that have been enacted at home and around the world.
opposes America’s ongoing imperial wars, and supports international law and the diplomatic mediation of all geopolitical conflicts that become or threaten to become violent; this includes conflicts in the Middle East, Eurasia, and Asia in general; and Israel/Palestine, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, and the South China Sea in particular.
~ supports a major re-allocation of military and “national security” spending to meeting human needs, both domestically and abroad.
~ opposes domestic state-sponsored violence and structural racism at national, state, and local levels, especially pertaining to the criminalization of drugs and related policies that facilitate the disproportionate and unjust incarceration of African-Americans.

[5] DECENTRALIZATION
The Prairie Green Party…
~ supports local decision-making regarding utilization of public funding and resources for schools, libraries, parks and recreation, local public media, transportation systems, and connectivity.
~ supports local decision-making regarding agriculture and food distribution systems, with an emphasis on policies and practices oriented to local and regional farmers and suppliers.
~ supports local control and democratic accountability of the police in relation to neighborhoods and communities, including and especially minority and immigrant communities.

[6] COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
The Prairie Green Party…
~ supports progressive taxation of income and wealth at federal and state levels, with significant amounts of revenue shared with local levels of government for the provision of social services, especially according to need, and with maximum local democratic participation regarding the disbursement of those expenditures.
~ supports workers’ rights to organize labor unions, opposes “right to work” laws at the state level, and supports the preference of unionized workplaces regarding government contracts.
~ supports public policies that promote worker-owned and worker-managed enterprises, and 
~ supports the preference of such enterprises in the awarding of government contracts.

[7] FEMINISM AND GENDER EQUITY
The Prairie Green Party…
~ supports equal wages for men and women within occupational categories, and between categories that have historically been unequally compensated as a result of the predominance of women, including the caring and other human service professions.
~ supports generous maternity leave and family leave, publicly and generously funded daycare and preschool, and other policies that facilitate equality for women and men in families and workplaces.
~ includes some who assert the right of women to have safe and legal abortions, as well as others who support a “consistent ethic of life” in opposing abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia.

[8] RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY
The Prairie Green Party...
~ supports public educational curricula that positively represent diverse cultural, ethnic, racial, gender, sexual, religious, and spiritual groups, while honestly reflecting on these groups’ various historical struggles, achievements, and goals.
~ supports public policies in particular that address historical, social, and economic injustices in relation to the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans and the African slave trade.
~ understands that ecological wisdom incorporates a concern for diversity and survival in the natural environment, including animals, plants, and natural resources, which should be addressed in public policies, including agricultural policies.

[9] PERSONAL AND GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
The Prairie Green Party…
~ supports a global response to climate change that recognizes the proportionate responsibility of the United States and other developed countries as both historical polluters and technological innovators.
~ recognizes the proportionate responsibility of the United States and other developed countries to fairly and generously disseminate the technologies necessary to address climate change and to promote conservation and sustainable development.
~ recognizes the proportionate responsibility of the United States and other developed and historically colonialist countries in addressing their ongoing contributions to war, militarism, the arms trade, and other violent aspects of modern capitalism.

[10] FUTURE FOCUS AND SUSTAINABILITY
The Prairie Green Party…
~ recognizes that grassroots and informed democratic processes at all levels of government are fundamental to addressing inequality, militarism and the threat of nuclear war, and climate change.
~ recognizes that economic growth for general prosperity is reflected not in the rate of return on Wall Street, but on the increased ability to meet the basic needs of the entire population without despoiling the environment and endangering the planet.
~ recognizes that sustainable and equitable growth and development are incompatible with an economic system primarily driven by corporate profits; and that such growth and development require an expanded public sector of regulation and services that is democratically accountable to the citizenry.

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> On May 24, 2018, at 2:54 PM, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com> wrote:
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> David, you seem unaware that the founding principles of the Prairie Greens explicitly recognize that there are a variety of views among Greens on abortion.
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>> On May 24, 2018, at 1:28 PM, David Enstrom <daenstrom at gmail.com <mailto:daenstrom at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Carl, you hold a few un-green values.  Advicate in your name for republicans and leave the GPUS out of it.  You have a history of attempting to insert your very un-green ideas into the GPUS and hurting the party in Champaign County in the process.  Your anti-choice sentiments, I understand, drove Greens away locally.
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