Green Issues and Sustainable Solutions for 2008
Contents: initiatives; event planning; plan a lobby for the rights of women; polls; and contacts.
Attend the State Meeting .

Mail in all concerns about the following proposals now to help prepare them for the upcoming General Assembly. Email addresses are on the proposals.

Bring Green Issues to the State
The Green Party of California may need a diversified general assembly.
The Green Party of California may support ending the trading of unlawful pollution. GROW has sponsored a similar proposal.
The Green Party of California may support a diversified agenda. Updated version. Older version.
The Green Party of California may support ways to prevent oil depletion.
Green Party of California may support various types of proportional representation.
The Green Party of California may support balancing the budget among the branches of government. updated version.
The Green Party of California may support a workshop on toxic exposure.
The Green Party of California may support a workshop on energy alternatives.
The Green Party of California may support diversity of working group membership. Consider this update.

Past Successes at Bringing Issues to the Green Party of California
The June 24, 2006, General Assembly broke the Conservation of Human Health proposal into plank amendment proposals for the upcoming plenary.
Public Education plank amendment
Human Rights or Violence in Society plank amendment
Health Care plank amendment
Criminal Justice plank amendment

Help amend the Platform of the Green Party of California
The Green Party of California may support healing through the courts.
The Green Party of California may support consent and certification for transfer of biological materials, etc. Updated version.
The Green Party of California may support Green education.
The Green Party of California may support Reconciling victims, offenders and communities.
The Green Party of California may support more comprehensive health care.
The Green Party of California may support taxing violence profiteers.
The Green Party of California may support outlaw violence profits .
The Green Party of California may support a peace tax.
The Green Party of California may support protecting free speech from taxation.

The proposed budget for the Green Party of California
The 1/14/07 draft of the GIWG 2-Year Work Plan and Budget was sent to most of the GPCA coordinators, including several members of the Finance and Coordinating Committees on 1/23/07. Therefore, the GPCA has a proposed 2-Year Work Plan and Budget to present to the General Assembly for decision and annual revision, in accordance with Bylaws.
The 3/9/07 revision of the proposed 1-Year GIWG Work Plan and Budget was sent to the Finance Committee and many other GPCA coordinators on or around 3/9/07. It contains 3 proposals: The first tells how the GPCA may build coalition with 100 Green nonprofit organizations. The second tells how the GPCA may reimburse activators for building coalitions. The third tells how the GPCA may reimburse coordinators for implementing the GPCA Bylaws. These proposals may be presented to the General Assembly by a different committee. If any of these proposals is missing from the budget, it shall be presented separately by the GIWG at the convenience of the General Assembly.
How the Work Plan complies with the Bylaws of the Green Party of California
Green Actions concerning campaigns and candidates must be done in partnership with CCWG. See GPCA Bylaw 8-2.1(d).
GROW is required to coordinate, train and provide Green Actions especially because of the voter registration component. See GPCA Bylaw 8-1.1(a), (b) and (c), respectively. GIWG is the GROW delegate for coordination. Ellen is the GROW-GIWG liaison. Wes is the GROW-GIWG activator.
ERWG is welcome to use Green Actions to fulfill GPCA Bylaw 8-3.1(a) and (c).
Green Actions directly fulfill GPCA Bylaw 8-4.1(d). With assistance from CCWG and GPCA, Green Actions will fulfill GPCA Bylaw 8-4.1(c).

The Green Party of California may accept other propsals that were submitted in 2006 and postponed.

Proposals for future State Meetings
Here is the first draft of a new proposal for the GPCA to start an Accord Forum.
Here is the first draft of a new proposal for the GPCA to develop a Green Supreme Court like the Green Shadow Government.

Support the Restorative Justice Initiative.

The Green Party of California brought a Living Wage Initiative to the people of California. You probably signed the petition. You can still raise the minimum wage.

Climate Change Convergence.
Topics include global warming, alternative energy sources and cumulative toxicity.
Contact Activator Wes at wrolley@refpub.com to help the future of the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta.
Support a series of west coast conferences on examining Climate Change, identifying community-scale interventions, and coordinating local efforts to implement them - contact Activator Andy Caffrey at climate@efmedia.org


Participate in lobbying a senator for women's rights.

Lobby senators using a lobby kit. Support this coalition-building between the Green Party of California and Amnesty International USA. Contact Activator Alice at justice@green247.org to help organize and participate in the lobbying activities.
Join a Working Group on ratification of the CEDAW.
Where do you stand on these issues?

Urban versus Rural: How does GPCA include Rural Greens in decision-making? Here is an organizing website that uses cookies.
Past polls on Green issues:
How shall GPCA address Corporate Accountability?
  Shall GPCA file a complaint against a recidivist corporation at the upcoming Corporate Accountability Convergence?
  Shall GPCA file individual complaints by corporations?
  Shall GPCA file complaints against human traffickers whether corporate or government?
  Shall GPCA take grassroots actions en masse?
  Shall GPCA join protest marches against corporations and governments that kill and traffic in humans?

How shall the GPCA support Justice that Restores?
  Shall GPCA place an alternative to criminal justice in its platform?
  Shall GPCA solve internal problems through a mediation and restoration process at the upcoming plenary?
  Shall GPCA restore trillions of dollars to the peace economy through an initiative? Current wording of the Justice Initiative.
  Shall GPCA hold a workshop to set the wording of the Justice Initiative?
  Shall GPCA file complaints for individual Greens who have been harmed?
  Shall GPCA take grassroots actions en masse?

Torture is a problem, not a solution. How shall the Green Party solve it?
  More newspaper articles like:  Green Party Demands Investigation of Tortures and Missing $1 Trillion Green Party leaders called on Congress to begin immediate and far-reaching investigations of major abuses by the Pentagon. Sat 05/28/05 HotIndieNews.com
  Educate the public on the blowback from the torture protocol of subversives.
  Shall GPCA help survivors join a class-action lawsuit against Rumsfeld et al?
  Shall the Green Party recruit experts for campaigns on the Green Party ticket?
  Shall GPCA file complaints for individual Greens who have been tortured?
  Shall GPCA help educate the people on the consequences of torture and rendition?

See the poll results at the official Green Issues Working Group discussion board:
greenissuesworkinggroup-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Join the discussion. Green issues, solutions, organizing, comments and suggestions are welcome.

Contact Green Issues Working Group Co-coordinators:
KCM Curry, June 24, 2006 - 2008 kcmcurry43@yahoo.com
Liaison Elen Maisen, June 24, 2006 - 2008 sfvgreens@utla.net
Opening for co-coordinator: Start on June 24, 2008. Responsibilities (Bylaws Section 8-4).

Minutes of some past Green Issues Working Group Meetings: www.green247.org/minutes.htm

Wise Move: Register Green. Help design the government of the future in the USA. Create Green Proposals, Green Issue Workshops, Contests and Speaker Presentations.

green247.org Archives: 2004 issue; articles from the 2003 issue

GIWG Archives: Prior to May of 2005, the Green Issues Working Group home page was www.cagreens.org/giwg which is outdated. Some of the links are still live. Use at your own risk.