Rights and Quality of Life

A 'Quality of Life' Key Value and the Founding US Green Party Platform

A 'Politics of Values' ... protecting, preserving, nourishing life on our Living Planet

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Quality_of_Life

Our overall goal is not merely to survive, but to share lives that are truly worth living.

We believe the quality of our individual lives is enriched by the quality of all of our lives. We encourage everyone to see the dignity and intrinsic worth in all of life, and to take the time to understand and appreciate themselves, their community and the magnificent beauty of this world.

From Green Horizon Magazine 'On the Founders of the Green Party'

Steve Schmidt, 'Looking back, moving forward':

"In drafting the founding Green Party platform, I was attempting to put forward a 'politics of values, an expansion of a rights agenda'. The goal was a 'serious, credible, platform-based politics'. The Green Party has expanded internationally to become a worldwide green political force in over 100 countries. We are an 'out in front' politics..."

(Note: subsequent to the above statement on the drafting of the Green Party Platform, the US Green Party was taken over by an extreme cadre, a political faction with a professed ideology that is far from the Green values and positions as stated in the original founding Green Party Platform and 1990s organizing. As a result of this cadre-faction's hostile takeover of the US Green Party (i.e, expropriation of the remnants of the Green Party) and cadre's dictated substitution of an anarcho-program, the GreenPolicy360 Siterunner ended all association with the current US GP.)

Official Founding US Green Party Platform - 2000

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Platform

Green Values, a Platform for Green Politics

SJS / Green Policy Siterunner: Green political parties, now in over 100 countries, began in the 1980s at the front lines of the Cold War, standing in support of life-affirming values and in opposition to imminent nuclear war. The nonviolent, pro-peace green movement and multi-dimension, out-in-front Green parties internationally are shaping a new vision of politics with values, platforms and positions envisioning local, national and global security.

The "Ten Key Values" of the Green Party of the US followed in the tradition of the European "Four Pillars" and, from 1984 to today, the Green KVs in the US continue to define the Green Party's values-based politics.

The beginning of the U.S. Green Party can be traced to the "Ten Key Values" drafted by Charlene Spretnak and a activist women in the 1980s. Look to the values foundation on which the Green Party was built. The U.S. Green Party, legally recognized (as distinct from the faction that took over the U.S. Green Party in 2016), served as a model and platform for an international Green charter and movement. Here's to Charlene and the first to step up and recognize the challenge of Green politics and a positive vision for changes that need to be recognized and achieved... out in front, step by step by step...

Ten Key Values, as quoted in the Founding Platform of the U.S. Green Party

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Values

Green Politics - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Politics

Green Law - GreenLaw360.com

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'A Democratic Republic... if you can keep it' - Benjamin Franklin

United States Declaration of Independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

-- U.S. Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776

Protecting Freedom, Protecting Rights, Protecting Democracy Nation-by-Nation, Community-by-Community

A Democratic Republic, a 'Great Experiment' in the United States

A foundation of rights, human rights, put forward with and embodied in a founding US Constitution, Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments -- together a Constitutional government envisioning a living Democratic Republic. Ours is a democracy, a republic, a work-in-progress continuing to this day, a heritage worth protecting... The US Declaration of Independence proclaims ... “We hold these truths to be self-evident”.... “all men are created equal”... with the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, with rights to live under a government of their own choosing.

We recall a quote of Benjamin Franklin responding to a question in 1787 about the newly announced birth of the US as he left Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention:

We have "a Republic, if you can keep it."

Democracy and Voting Rights

https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Democracy

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democracy_and_Voting_Rights

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Civil_Rights

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Voting_Rights

The 'Enlightenment' & Natural Rights ... Recalling 'The History of Ideas'

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Natural_Rights

The idea of natural rights is the concept used in philosophy and legal studies that a person has certain rights from birth and which, because they were not awarded by a particular state or legal authority, cannot be removed, that is, they are inalienable. Such rights may include the right to life, liberty, equality, property, justice, and happiness.

1948

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml/hr_law.shtml

http://www.ohchr.org/en/udhr/pages/introduction.aspx

http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Following this historic act, the U.N. Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.

Women's Rights