Green Party
Green Party principles are expressed in 10 Key Values:

We advocate:

• Nonviolence and preservation of civil liberties.
• Increased education funding, and allowing local schools to innovate.
• Proven bilingual education programs, and increased language training for all students.
• Protecting children and youth from discrimination and exploitation.
• Universal healthcare, including holistic and mental health.
• Reproductive choice.
• True Living Wage, and workers' right to organize.
• Ending the death penalty.
• A moratorium on prison construction.
• Decriminalizing drug use, and instead funding proven treatment programs.
• Affirmative action programs.
• Eliminating discrimination based on race, sex, age and disability.
• Increasing assistance program funding to sustainable income levels.
• Ending immigrant bashing and racial profiling.
• Supporting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.
• Converting California's economy to long-term ecological sustainability.
• Taxing pollution, nonrenewable energy and waste, rather than labor.
• Ending corporate welfare.
• Campaign finance reform reducing the influence of money in politics.
• Electoral reform, particularly instant runoff voting and proportional representation.
• Increasing public transit.
• Ecologically sustainable land-use.
• Protecting and promoting family and organic farming.
• Energy conservation and renewable energy.
• Preserving old-growth forests.
• Ending nuclear power.

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
P.O. Box 2828, Sacramento, CA 95812
916-448-3437
E-mail: gpca@greens.org
Website: http://www.cagreens.org

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