Green Party of California Proposal (May 25, 2006)

Corrections by the General Assembly: Delete red text; Add green text.

Green Party of California Proposals (June 25, 2006, version)

SPONSOR: PLATFORM WORKING GROUP

PRESENTER: Adrienne Prince adrienneprince@hotmail.com

CONTACT: Adrienne Prince and Elizabeth, info@green247.org

SUBJECT: Promoting a Peace Economy and Preventing Violence Profiteering.

Grassroots democracy, social justice and equal opportunity, feminism and gender equity, respect for diversity, and personal and global responsibility are the involved 10 Key Values of the GP.

BACKGROUND: On June 25, 2006, the GPCA determined that this content shall be proposed to the subsequent General Assembly for decision in the form of proposed amendment to an existing plank in the GPCA Platform.

PURPOSE: Amendment of the Human Rights/Civil Liberties or Violence in Society plank of the GPCA Platform in the form of a talking point.
PROPOSAL 1: The GPCA immediately adds the following statement to the Human Rights/Civil Liberties or Violence in Society plank of its Platform as a talking point.

Require consent and certification to ensure every individual that any extraction, insertion, injection, imaging, abortion, and adoption is nonprofit not for profit, not coerced and not forced. This requires labeling information that includes the source (physician, laboratory, etc.) and how to contact the source for verification of informed consent. Ensure the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship by allowing a doctor to keep all patient information private. This must cover every drug, toxin, body tissue, organ, child, baby, fetus, cell, cell content including DNA, clone, and test tube baby. Decisions for minors, dependents, and deceased are to be made by their guardians or estates and trustees. Anonymous donations are to be handled by an internationally accountable trust

Require provider agencies to cover all costs for materials and services without profit or charge to any involved or potential parent, donor, or recipient.

(Note: The following section may be incorporated into the new Tax Proposal.)

SUBJECT: Discouraging Media Violence: Funding Peace Strategems.

Balance government appropriations equally among the three branches of government.

Fund a judiciary budget for outreach to the disenfranchised to inform them how to use the courts.

Taxes on the sale and promotion of violence and violence products will generate funds and act as deterrent to violence. Someone had a concern about this.

We do not support any content-based tax on the sale of movie tickets, videos, television broadcasts or other media protected by the First Amendment.

All government Treasuries will tax violence products and services at a rate that reflects the true cost, and will tax violence profits at a rate of 100% whenever possible.

All businesses that use killing, violence, coercion, or force should be nonprofit not-for-profit or outlawed.

Fund restitution or restoration for individual victims of civil rights violence in the amounts reported as average costs by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and scientific publications, as ordered by courts to restore health, career, home, family, and social support. Minimize aggravated damages.

Spoils of war, even after being used as capital, must be confiscated by the courts which will return them to the injured and uncompensated victims of violence. Likewise, all prison revenue will be returned to victims of crime. Mitchell had a concern about this.

Take the profit motive out of child adoption, abortion, harvesting cells, cloning cells, and organ theft, embryo theft, rape, incest, divorce, beating, kidnap, fraud, prostitution, trafficking, racketeering, pharmacy and prescription. Mitchell had a concern about this.

COMMITTEE DECISION: The ideas were first presented to the Green Issues WG at the 2003 San Francisco plenary. An initial written form was posted on the Women’s Caucus discussion board in April 2004. It was first posted on the Platform WG list-serve in May 2004, enabled for further consideration at the May 2004 Ventura Plenary, revised extensively thereafter, and was voted at the Sylmar Plenary of May 2005 to receive General Assembly assessment. It was included for General Assembly discussion at the Yolo Plenary of December 2005 but was not published in the Plenary program but had comments at and after the Platform Working Group Meeting at that Plenary. It was revised and invited back by the General Assembly at the Ventura Plenary of June 2006. On June 25, 2006, the Platform Committee elected a new presenter by consensus.

TIMELINE: There will be a two-minute time limit per expert on the subject. For the sake of time, it is requested that others ask any questions in writing in advance.

RESOURCES: Two large screens 6 ft x 6 ft and two overhead projectors. Someone to prepare the handouts and posters of reference material.

DEFINITIONS:

Strategems are rules by which the initial approach to a problem-solving task is regulated by specific features.

A violence product or service contains any violence without accompanying
1. depiction or acknowledgment of the pain, punishment, penance, or other adverse effect of the use of violence,
2. constant message that the violence is in error, unethical, inappropriate, criminal, or harmful, and,
3. emphasis on the immorality, unsuitability, crime, harm, and error of the violence.
Examples: police activity portrayed as a game; virtual child pornography; killing innocent civilians.
True cost is explained in the GPUS platform. It is calculated by think-tanks including the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Coercion is psychological violence. It is described in the California Constitution, laws and publications including Biderman's Chart on Penal Coercion.

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