SPONSOR: Green Issues Working Group

PRESENTER: Bernie

CONTACT: Bernie

SUBJECT: Accord Forum Grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, and personal and global responsibility are the involved 10 Key Values of the GP.

BACKGROUND: The Accord Forum (from South America) is a small group of about 20 individuals who form a self-governance team.

PURPOSE: To form an Accord Forum as a model of grassroots organizing.

PROPOSAL: The GPCA immediately adds the following resources to its organizing structure.

1. cagreens.org home page link to the Accord Forum organizing page

2. Political support to a small group of about 20 individuals who form a model self-governance team.

3. Listserve with polling software for the Accord Forum.

COMMITTEE DECISION: Sponsored during a teleconference (10/06?) by consensus.

TIMELINE: Demonstrating some success by the end of 2007 should give the GPCA some press on small community alternatives to governing structures with excessive carbon emissions.

RESOURCES: Demonstration of reduced need for reliance on centralized government. Demonstration of alternative structures for facilitating proportional representation and other possible aspects of Green government.