Green Party of California Proposal (April 2004) Outlaw Violence Profits (6/25/06 version of the Proposal content as amended by the General Assembly, the Background section is the 3/14/07 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. Peace and nonviolence, and personal and global responsibility are the involved 10 Key Values of the GP.

BACKGROUND: "Coercion causes a victim to suffer a loss, but the perpetrator does not gain anything."(1) "With some important exceptions, coercion causes crime and social support prevents crime."(2)

The GPCA values peace and nonviolence, and personal and global responsibility. Therefore, it is presumed that the GPCA supports facilitating healing through social justice by minimizing aggravated damages caused both by jury bias and by invading the privacy of a victim-witness-informant to quantify damages.

PURPOSE: Amendment of the GPCA Platform in the form of one or more talking points.

PROPOSAL: The GPCA immediately includes into the Violence in Society plank of its Platform the following means supported by the GPCA:

1. All businesses that use
a. killing,
b. violence,
c. coercion, or
d. force
should be not-for-profit or outlawed.

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 GPCA determined that this content shall be proposed to the General Assembly for decision in the form of proposed amendment to an existing plank in the GPCA Platform. On June 25, 2006, the Platform Committee elected a new presenter by consensus.

TIMELINE: The text goes into the platform upon approval by the GA.

RESOURCES: The platform is enhanced with up-to-date talking points. Platform printing and Platform Committee expenses are included in the 2007-2008 budget.

REFERENCES: 1. Scheidler, Joseph, et al. v. National Organization for Women, Inc., et al. / Operation Rescue v. NOW Appealed From: 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (Jan. 28, 2005) (By Laura Mcgann & Catherine Andrews, Medill News Service) 2. Mark Colvin, Francis T. Cullen, Thomas Vander Ven (2002) Coercion, Social Support, And Crime: An Emerging Theoretical Consensus Criminology 40 (1), 19–42.