GREEN PARTY PLATFORM
Proposed Revisions and Amendments
Part II, PRA 32 to 61
PRA-32 RE Community Involvement
The Green Party supports "community radio", particularly those rulemaking
petitions before the F.C.C., which allow for a new service of small,
locally-owned FM stations.
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PRA-33 RE Land Use Planning
[note that bracketed language is proposed to be added to the current
Platform ] (parenthesis indicates language has been deleted or edited)
Greens are advocates for the Earth. All the rivers, lakes, [landscapes,
forests,] and wildlife. This is our birthright and our home - the green Earth.
When we see the first picture ever taken of our green oasis from space,
photographed from the window of the Apollo flight, we marvel at the
preciousness of life.
We remember John Muir's and Edward Abbey's call to protect what is critical
to our spirit Experiencing the wilderness calls us to preserve pristine
nature We are advocates for our home. Our advocacy is based on our love of
nature and our recognition that it is beyond us.
(Greens look to the future and support "conservative" conservation
practices as well as "liberal" approaches and programs, both having a place
as long as good land stewardship is in evidence.) Greens take a BIOREGIONAL
VIEW of the ecosystem, acknowledging political boundaries while noting that
the land, air and water, the interconnected biosphere, is a unique and
precious "community", deserving careful consideration and protection. (We
encourage social ownership and use of land at the community, local and
regional level, particularly in the form of community and conservation land
trusts, under covenants of ecological responsibility.) [We feel that, just
as the planetary ecology consists of nested systems at various scales, so
must our programs and institutions of ecological stewardship be scaled
appropriately.]
[Guided by our sense of stewardship, we feel that all land use polices,
plans, and practices should be based on sustainable development and
production, the reduce-reuse-recycle ethic, and the encouragement of
balance between optimum and diverse use of land. They must recognize the
natural character of the land, for example, fertile soil, wetland, aquifer
recharge area, and critical habitat, the intrinsic value of Nature in and
of itself, and the assurance of social justice in the formation and
implementation of land use policy. We believe that planning and
implementation of land use policy at all levels-local, regional, and
multiregional-should occur through democratic, participatory public
processes.]
[ 1. Land Ownership and Property Rights]
[America has a long and deeply rooted tradition of property ownership by
individuals and families. Greens affirm the right of individuals and
families to hold title to land, with the corresponding responsibility of
ecological stewardship. We distinguish between individual and family rights
of property and rights granted to corporations. Greens believe strongly
that community rights ultimately supersede property rights claimed by
corporations. ]
[Wealth in land created by the community should support the community,
while recognizing the legitimate right of individuals to retain the wealth
in land created by direct investment. We believe in strongly discouraging
and eventually eliminating land speculation, that is, the purchase of land
to sell in the future for profit at the expense of the community or the
environment.] *
(We encourage the social ownership and use of land at the community, local,
and regional level, for example in the form of community and conservation
land trusts, under covenants of ecological responsibility.)
[2. Communities and Urbanism]
[Greens find inspiration in building healthy, livable communities.
Communities must be designed or redesigned so that they are built with
energy efficiency in mind, on a human scale, with integrated land uses.
Such integrated land uses should provide, for example, ready access between
home and work, and to schools, a local supply of food, shopping, worship,
medical care, recreation and natural areas. Integrated land use should also
de-emphasize individual motorized transport and place more emphasis on
ecologically responsible mass transit, bicycling, and the pedestrian.]
[We promote urban design and architecture that does not alienate, but
fulfills, the spirit and that is compatible with human, social, artistic,
and environmental values. Greens support the concepts advanced by the NEW
URBANISM movement. As there is much to learn about human-scale development
and neighborly social interaction from historical patterns of urbanism, we
support historic preservation.]
[Recreational opportunities are the beginning of lifelong appreciation of
our natural environment. We should all have opportunities to experience
nature firsthand.] The "call of the wild" is in all of us. Outdoor
recreation, sports, hiking, adventuring, educational programs for children,
nature study - these are essential to the wholeness of life.
[3. Land Use Planning
[It is imperative that we as a nation find a means to CONTROL URBAN SPraWL.
The ecological, social, and fiscal crises engendered by sprawl are becoming
ever-more apparent Greens enthusiastically endorse the Metropolitics
movement, which seeks to control sprawl by integrating such measures as
urban growth boundaries, tax base sharing, fair housing, and metropolitan
transportation. Urban areas can be revitalized through "brownfields"
redevelopment although standards for the clean up of contaminated sites
must not be lowered. Rural areas and farmland should be preserved, through
such measures as purchase of development rights.]
[WATERSBED PLANNING should be undertaken to mitigate the impacts of urban
development on our streams, rivers, and lakes. Storm water management, soil
erosion and sedimentation control, the establishment of vegetative buffers,
and performance standards for development are appropriate measures in this
area.] Special attention must be given to the restoration and protection of
riparian areas, which are critical habitats in healthy ecosystems.
4. Natural Resource Management
Greens believe that effective land and resource management practices must
be founded on stewardship, such as incorporated in a "land ethic" as
articulated by Aldo Leopold.
[Stringent natural resource management should serve to prevent activities
that adversely affect public and adjacent lands. For example, mining
operations and oil and gas extraction cannot be permitted to cause water
pollution and timber cutting cannot be allowed to destroy habitat and
streams, while producing severe soil erosion.]
We call for repeal of the "Mining Act of 1872". We demand a halt to federal
mineral, oil and gas, and resource giveaways, "royalty holidays", and
flagrant concessions to the mining, energy and timber industries; and an
immediate crackdown on their evasions and reporting fraud draining billions
of dollars annually from the public treasury.
We call for strict CLEAN-UP ENFORCEMENT of industrial-scale natural
resource extraction activities, for example, of tailings, pits and run-off
from mining operations via agreement with companies that can include
posting of site-restoration bonds prior to commencement of operations. The
regional long-term environmental and social impacts of any resource
extractions should be minimized, and the land restored to a healthy
ecological state.
We call for a halt to all current international funding policies that
promote destruction of forest ecosystems and we call for an end to the
trade in endangered hardwoods. We support laws that promote paper recycling
and mandate SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY practices. We urge protection of "old
growth" forests, careful restrictions of commercial cutting on federal and
state lands, a ban on all clear-cutting, and a reduction of road building
on public lands. We are sensitive to the needs of local and rural
communities and do not endorse overly restrictive or punitive restrictions
on local logging. We support restoration of degraded forest ecosystems
through the development of "value-added" economies, second-growth logging,
and certified wood products.
We advocate raising grazing fees on public land to approximate fair market
value and encourage GraZING REFORM that brings together traditional users
and concerned local citizens in new working relationships. We support
policies that favor small scale ranchers over corporate operations (which
are often used as tax write-offs, a practice which undermines family
ranches.) Eliminating large corporate allotments will ensure more
sustainable levels of grazing, benefiting the land and community.
[We must promote the preservation and extension of wildlife habitat and
biological diversity by creating and preserving large continuous tracts of
open space (complete ecosystems so as to permit healthy, self-managing
wildlife populations to exist in a natural state.] We oppose any selling
off of our National Parks, the commercial "privatizing" of public lands;
and/or cutbacks or exploitation in our national wilderness areas.
Public involvement in decision making via active and well-funded RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS and COUNCILS will aid a long-term process on the use
of federal and state trust lands which are currently controlled by the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Forest Service, National Park
Service, and State Land Offices.
We support state bans on [the renamed] ANIMAL DAMAGE CONTROL (ADC), the
federal agency that has been killing wildlife indiscriminately in the West
since 1931. We urge comprehensive, base-line mapping of our nation's
biodiversity resources; consideration of "wildlife ranching" and policies
that desirably increase native big-game populations.
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PRA-34 RE Energy Policy
Extensive "conservation" measures will bring huge resource savings for both
the economy and the environment. Conservation, along with energy efficiency
and renewables is an essential part of an effective energy policy. The
Greens call for pervasive efforts on the energy conservation front.
On a related front, Greens support enacting mandatory carbon reduction
measures and setting the bar for carbon emissions at a percentage well
below the best appropriate technology.
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PRA-35 RE Trade
The Tobin tax, named for the Canadian economist who first proposed it,
calls for a small sales tax on cross border currency transactions. The
purpose is to suppress market volume and volatility and help restore
national sovereignty over monetary policy. In view of the growing disparity
between the rich and poor in the US and the world, and in light of the
negative impacts of monetary speculation in the "Asian crisis" of Thailand,
Malaysia, Indonesia, and Russia, as well as similar crises in Brazil,
Mexico and many other countries in the late 90's, the Green Party urges
that state and international governments work together to impose an
effective form of Tobin tax.
In the last ten years international money changing has grown in volume from
$200 billion to $1.8 trillion daily with dangerous consequences for
countries caught in a speculative rip tide. Even a small tax of .01%-.05%
would cool the speculative fever and raise between $75-$250 billion dollars
annually. While reigning in grievous financial abuses, the Tobin tax
receipts could be devoted to reducing world poverty, funding international
peacekeeping, and attacking environmental problems.
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PRA-36 RE Civil Rights
Recently proposed bills that encroach on civil liberties, such as the Crime
Bill of '96 and the Terrorist Bill of '97, as well as the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act, which circumvents the 4th Amendment and
opens the door for CIA to spy domestically on US Citizens, are of special
concern to the Green Party. The Bill of Rights must remain a fundamental
touchstone in defense of our civil rights.
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PRA-37 RE Foreign Policy
The War Powers Act is unconstitutional.
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PRA-38 RE Political Reform
Political profiles of all candidates for office (that will reduce need to
advertise on TV) should become a regular part of all campaigns.
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PRA-39 RE Political Participation
Under "B Political Participation" paragraphs 5&6 [below] add nothing
substantive; delete.
>Individual participation in the life of our local community - in community
projects and through personal, >meaningful, voluntary activity - is also
political and vital to the health of community.
>We support citizen involvement at all levels of the decision-making
process and hold that DIRECT ACTION >can be an effective tool where
peaceful democratic activism is appropriate. We support the right to
non->violent direct action that supports green values. Greens believe in
building community as a personal step each >of us takes in our own way.
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PRA-40 RE Community
Add "neighborhood schools" under "A Children's Agenda"
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PRA-41 RE Education
Delete "restoring community is central to expanded opportunity".
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PRA-42 RE Education
The use of computers in the early grades should be carefully considered,
given the need to develop basic skills, perceptual and motor skills as a
foundation for learning.
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PRA-43 RE Education
Dispute resolution is an important part of resolving classroom or
after-school disputes, and a life skill that all children should learn.
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PRA-44 RE Health Care
Delete the first paragraph.
>Fundamental reform of our nation's health care system is necessary to
provide affordable, quality and >accessible health care for all Americans.
Currently, we are the only industrialized country without a >national
health care system. Unfortunately we have a private insurance system that
insures only the >healthiest people, systematically denying coverage to
individuals with "pre-existing" conditions and >routinely terminating
coverage to those who become ill. The bad faith of the health insurance
industry >remains a scandal - and recent Congressional action dealing with
"portability" (coverage carrying over >from job to job) and pre-existing
conditions (preventing arbitrary denial of insurance) only begin to
>address the seriousness of our health care crisis.
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PRA-45 RE Criminal Justice
Insert "Alternative Sentencing for non-violent crimes."
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PRA-46 RE Criminal Justice
G.E.D. and college courses and dispute resolution and/or mediation should
be available in all prisons.
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PRA-47 RE Criminal Justice
Professional qualifications are critical to determining judicial
competence. In general, we oppose the popular election of judges where
elections based on money and influence becomes more important than
demonstrated skills and quality of jurisprudence.
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PRA-48
RE Tax Justice/Fairness
Delete second paragraph
>We call for SYSTEM-WIDE TAX REFORM that acts to simplify the tax system.
We call for a tax policy that >moves to eliminate loopholes and other
exemptions that favor powerful interests over TAX JUSTICE. Small >business,
in particular, should not be penalized by a tax system which benefits those
who can "work" the >legislative tax committees for breaks and subsidies. We
support substantive and wide-ranging reform of the >tax system that helps
create jobs, economic efficiencies and innovation within the small business
community. >We believe fiscal and tax policies should confront and end
destructive large "corporate welfare" and subsidies. >Smaller businesses
are America's great strength - Greens believe government should have a tax
policy which >encourages small- and socially responsible business. Where
corporations act with corporate citizenship, that is, >with "fiduciary
responsibility" that includes the interests of their community and
employees, as well as >shareholders, we support appropriate tax incentives.
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PRA-49 RE Economic Justice - Social Welfare
It is crucial that mothers of young children have the choice to stay home
in the early years. The tying of this choice and children's well being to
women's personal relationship to individual men has been one of the most
obscene aspects of the welfare "debate" and the "family values" lobby.
My strong belief is that "Guaranteed Income" must recognize the importance
of mothering, of care giving to the young and the needy. The minimum income
must be at (or above) the poverty level. In addition, the poverty level
must be calculated with realistic factors, to bring it to the actual
poverty level.
Guaranteed income should not be called "supplemental" income, for the above
reasons. This implies that a guaranteed income is a "handout", when we need
to come to an understanding that it is an inherent right.
Different names have been used over the years. Guaranteed Income is the
most common. Guaranteed Adequate Income. Guaranteed Annual Income.
Guaranteed Minimum Income or simply Guaranteed Income, which has been
traditionally used by its main advocates, welfare rights groups
Instead of hundreds of billions a year going to corporate welfare, it is
time to pay attention to children's welfare. The Greens support "children
and mothers first".
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PRA-50 RE Criminal Justice
The Green Party abhors punitive discrimination in any form, and thus
condemns the practice of those law enforcement agencies in the country
which are guilty of discriminatory "racial profiling," stopping motorists,
harassing individuals, or using unwarranted violence against suspects with
no other justification than race or ethnic background.
We also favor strong measures to combat official racism in the forms of
police brutality and racial profiling directed against people of color. We
agree with groups such as Amnesty International, which has recently said
that police brutality has reached epidemic levels in the United States and
we call for effective monitoring of police agencies to eliminate police
brutality and racial profiling.
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PRA-51 Civil Rights
As Greens, we uphold the key value of respect for diversity. We recognize
that the development of the United States has been marked by conflict over
questions of race. Just as we acknowledge that our Nation was formed only
after Native Americans were first displaced, we also acknowledge that the
institution of slavery had as its underpinnings the ideology and practice
of white supremacy, which we as Greens condemn. We know that, in slavery's
aftermath, discrimination and racial violence against people of
color continues to be a social problem of paramount significance, even
today. We condemn discrimination and violence against anyone but also
recognize that people of color have borne the brunt of racial violence and
discrimination throughout the history of the United States.
Therefore, we call for an end to official support for any remaining badges
and indicia of slavery and specifically call for the immediate removal of
the Confederate battle flag from any and all government buildings because
we recognize that, to many, this remains a painful reminder of second class
status on the basis of race.
In addition, we support efforts to overcome the aftereffects of over two
hundred years of discrimination and, hence, support affirmative action.
Furthermore, we recognize that people of color have legitimate claims in
this country to reparations in the form of monetary compensation for these
centuries of discrimination. We also uphold the right of the descendants of
the African slaves to self-determination, as we do for all indigenous peoples.
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PRA-52 RE Health Care
We support scientifically proven policies for intervening in public health
problems such as substance abuse and addiction, and will work to promote
safer, less discriminatory and more humane programs that will reduce the
harmful effects of these diseases.
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PRA-53 RE Health Care
We oppose the arrest, harassment or prosecution of anyone involved in any
aspect of the production, cultivation, transportation, distribution or
consumption of medicinal marijuana. We also oppose the harassment,
prosecution or revocation of license of any health-care provider who gives
a recommendation or prescription for medicinal marijuana.
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PRA-54 RE Corporate Accountability
Subsidies, export incentives, tax loopholes and tax shelters that benefit
large corporations now amount to hundreds of billions of dollars each year
and must be cut to the bone. The high price of corporate welfare corrupts
the political process by encouraging the exchange of political favors for
campaign donations. While corporate tax breaks are ultimately paid for by
higher taxes on the middle class, they distort the rules of the marketplace
and seldom serve a larger public purpose.
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PRA-55 RE Education
In an economy that demands higher skills and in a democracy that depends on
an informed and educated electorate, the opportunities for universal
higher education and life-long learning must be vastly expanded.
Student-loans should be available to all students attending college, and
they should be repayable as a proportion of future earnings, rather than at
a fixed rate. On the same terms, individualized training accounts should be
made available to students who choose to pursue vocational and continuing
education.
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PRA-56 RE Waste Management
Environmental justice demands that poor communities, minority and
under-represented communities not bear an unfair burden when it comes to
disposal of toxic wastes.
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PRA-57 RE Waste Management
The environmental problems associated with the personal computer and
electronics industry are growing worse. The Green Party believes that these
environmental issues must be identified and addressed: 1) Pollution. The
manufacture of computer chips, computers and peripherals involves a host of
chemicals that end up in our water, air, and landfills. Cleanup is a major
cost, an 'externality' that must be addressed. Health costs associated with
the use of computers and electronic devices are not insignificant and range
of work-related injuries and illnesses. At work, at home and on the road
the digital era is ubiquitous. The shift mandated by the FCC from analog to
digital communications systems (including HDTV), as just one example, will
produce tens of millions of out-of-date televisions and monitors over the
next decade. The chemicals in these devices are dangerous and should not be
allowed to simply be deposited in land fills or disposed of in a way that
will produce long-term health damaging and adverse environmental effects
2) Power. Energy bills associated with the electronics industry are rising
and alternative sources of power are needed. Cleaner, cheaper 'green'
energy has to become a universal goal. 3) Paper consumption. The demand for
printing paper puts pressure on dwindling forests. Clear cutting continues
with all the attendant environmental damage. The pollution caused by mills
is considerable, and the production of white paper is particularly
damaging. Alternative paper stock, and recycled papers, should become the
norm. 4) Packaging. The excessive amounts of plastic, cardboard and
Styrofoam many manufacturers use to package computers and software are an
increasing problem. These non-biodegradable materials contribute layers to
landfills. It's time to have a complete makeover of the electronics
packaging industry. 5) Recycling. All the materials associated with the
personal computer and electronics industry must be identified as recyclable
and recycled wherever possible as part of a closed-loop system.
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PRA-58 RE Land Use
(from the Platcom; note need to conform language)
Suggested comments for changes [in brackets] to the Land Use section of
the Green Platfom:
H. LAND USE
We remember John Muir's and Edward Abbey's call to protect what
is critical to our spirit. Experiencing the wilderness calls us to preserve
pristine nature. We are advocates for our home. Our advocacy is based on
our love of nature and our recognition that it is beyond us.
[Unfortunately, there is no longer "pristine nature" on planet Earth.
Pollution pervades all parts of our globe's surface now. Also, the
Wilderness Act does not require that designated Wilderness areas be
"pristine." As Dave Foreman notes in the Summer 1999 issue of "Wild
Earth," "For example, there is no requirement that candidate Wilderness
Areas have to be roadless or unlogged, but Section 4(c) holds that they
must be managed as roadless after they are placed in the National
Wilderness Preservation System. In other words, existing roads must be
closed and no further commercial logging allowed after designation of an
area as Wilderness. There are many cases of once-roaded or earlier-logged
areas in the National Wilderness Preservation System--including some of the
classic big Wilderness Areas in the West. By clearly wording what
wilderness means and what the Wilderness Act says, many misunderstandings
about wilderness should melt away." We unwittingly exclude areas that
should be designated protected
Wilderness if we use terms like "pristine." So please change this passage
accordingly, changing "pristine nature" to, perhaps, ("natural areas.")]
1. Greens look to the future and support "conservative"
conservation practices as well as "liberal" approaches and programs, both
having a place as long as good land stewardship is in evidence.
[I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. "Liberal" and "conservative"
don't apply well to conservation issues. I'd drop this sentence altogether.]
2. We take a BIOREGIONAL VIEW of the ecosystem, acknowledging
political boundaries while noting that the land, air and water, the
interconnected biosphere, is a unique and precious "community", deserving
careful consideration and protection.
[I suggest adding "Greens support restructuring institutions to conform to
bioregional realities." At least we used to in the late 1980s.]
5. We call for repeal of the "Mining Act of 1872". We demand a
halt to federal mineral, oil and gas, and resource give-aways, "royalty
holidays", and flagrant concessions to the mining, energy and timber
industries; and an immediate crackdown on their evasions and reporting
fraud draining billions of dollars annually from the public treasury.
[I'm not sure what the "evasions and reporting fraud draining billions"
refers to.]
9. We support laws that promote paper recycling and mandate
SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY practices.
["Sustainable forestry practices" is a vague term, used all sorts of ways.
Unless you define what it means, I'd drop the term from the sentence.]
10. We urge protection of "old growth" forests, careful
restrictions of commercial cutting on federal and state lands, a ban on all
clearcutting, and a reduction of road building on public lands.
[Can't we be at least as strong as the Sierra Club and call for No
Commercial Logging, or better yet No Commercial Extraction from public
lands and manage them for ecological restoration instead? Commercial
considerations have driven the management that has wrecked the national
forests, and will continue to do so as long as they are in the equation.
We should call for no more road building in roadless areas (I think that's
what you're trying to get at) and removal of eroding and
obsolete roads to protect water quality and wildlife habitat and improve
recreational conditions for non-motorized users. You might even want to
say something about the aesthetic and spiritual value of natural areas.
Moses and John the Baptist went to the wilderness for inspiration, not to
the off-road-vehicle area!]
11. We are sensitive to the needs of local and rural
communities and do not endorse overly restrictive or punitive restrictions
on local logging.
[What does this mean? Extremely vague. Living in a "conservative" rural
area heavily influenced by extractive interests, I can guarantee you that
even the Forest Service's new roadless areas protection plan is seen by
many as "overly restrictive or punitive restrictions on local logging." I
suggest you drop this altogether and replace it with something like
economic support for communities and individuals affected by the end of
commercial logging on public lands. Destruction of our national forests
ecosystems should not be used as an economic support for local communities.]
12. We support restoration of degraded forest ecosystems
through the development of "value-added" economies, second-growth logging,
and certified wood products.
[The idea of logging for the "restoration of degraded forest ecosystems"
comes from the timber industry! There does need to be some thinning of
brush and small trees from below the canopy in some western forests that
have been damaged by fire suppression, grazing, and big tree logging, but
that is not commercial logging because it will not pay for itself.]
13. We advocate raising grazing fees on public land to
approximate fair market value and encourage GRAZING REFORM that brings
together traditional users and concerned local citizens in new working
relationships.
[We should phase out grazing on public land and manage public land for
ecological restoration.]
14. We support policies that favor small-scale ranchers over
corporate operations (which are often used as tax write-offs, a practice
which undermines family ranches.) Eliminating large corporate allotments
will ensure more sustainable levels of grazing, benefiting the land and
community.
[Is this referring to public lands grazing allotments? If so, drop the
point altogether in favor of phasing out public lands ranching.]
17. We support state bans on ANIMAL DAMAGE CONTROL (ADC), the
federal agency that has been killing wildlife indiscriminately in the West
since 1931.
[Why not just say we support the abolition of ADC (now renamed Wildlife
Services!)?]
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PRA-59 Nuclear Issues/Foreign Policy
The Green Party, recognizing the need for de-escalating the arms race which
continues unabated in spite of the end of the 'Cold War", strongly opposes
putting nuclear weapons, lasers and other weapons in space in a new
militarization policy that is in clear violation of international law.
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PRA-60 Political Reform
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: Recognizing the need and public demand for bold
and comprehensive electoral reforms, [the Green Party of Tennessee proposes
changing the current platform proposal's call for further limits on
campaign contributions to] we support for a system of full public
financing for all federal elections and a ban on all "soft" money
contributions to political parties by corporations, labor unions and other
non-voting entities. [note previous proposed electoral reform proposals]
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PRA-61 Education
METRIC SYSTEM: Recognizing that the United States lags behind the rest of
the world in the adoption of the metric system, and further recognizing
that the world's various Green Parties are able to take a larger view of
seemingly small issues by virtue of their global connections, the Green
Party urges Congress to enact legislation to speed the adoption of the
metric system in the United States and to stimulate the education of
schoolchildren and business leaders on the metric system itself.
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