Category:Green Values

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The "Four Pillars of the Green Party", as written of within Wikipedia, are a "foundational statement of Green politics and form the basis of many worldwide Green parties... the four pillars define a Green Party as a political movement that interrelates its philosophy from four different social movements: the environmental movement, the labour movement, the civil rights movement, and the peace movement."

Ecological wisdom
Social justice
Grassroots democracy
Nonviolence

The "Ten Key Values" of the Green Party of the US followed and, from 1984 to today, continue to define the Green Party's value-based politics.

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Green Values: A Green Platform Foundation

Your GreenPolicy siterunner, from 1994 to 2001, was intimately involved in drafting the founding platform of the Green Party in the US.

Following are several personal recollections, quotes and links from this early state of building a US Green Party.

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The Ten Key Values of the Green Party of the US: The 'KVs' of the Founding Platform

The U.S. Green Party "Ten Key Values"

https://www.scribd.com/doc/253446615/The-Ten-Key-Values-of-the-Green-Party-of-the-US-the-KVs-of-Founding-Platform-approved-in-Denver-CO-2000

The Ten Key Values of the Green Party of the US are often referred to as "the KVs" and act as a values foundation for the policy platform of the Green Party. The Key Values were approved in 2000 at the national party convention in Denver, CO along with the founding national platform.

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Steven Schmidt - GreenPolicy siterunner writing to Charlene Spretnak in the Green Horizon Magazine, Fall 2013

"As the person who held a serious responsibility in redrafting the Key Values statement and changing the question format that came out of the 1984 Green meeting, I can say (and have said in numerous speeches, talks, articles and posts) that the Key Values are the values foundation on which we constructed our founding national Green Party Platform.... I often have explained our Green Key Values underpinning in speeches and in my writing over the years. The values of the Greens are a beginning point, an appropriate and a deeply held core set of beliefs that suffuse our platform... I was careful as I drafted platform language during these initial years and engaged with Greens in an extended process. I always pointed out the special, distinguishing role the Key Values hold..."

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A touch more history, personal recollections published regarding the proposal and the drafting of the US Green Party Platform and Key values:

"The challenge was to construct a successful model on which to build a growing, vital, U.S. Green party. The model adopted came from an unlikely place: a small state in the hinterland far from centers of power. In 1994 in Santa Fe, named after St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of the land and animals, the New Mexico Green party proposed a statewide slate of Green candidates that would run a serious and credible campaign based on their founding platform. The campaign was one of the most successful independent, third-party efforts in the United States in nearly four decades and became a model for the national Green “40-State Organizing Effort” launched in December 1994, which led to the founding of the national Green platform and the first presidential campaign in 1996."

-- SJS / 2014

"As I look back at the drafting of the U.S. Green Party's Key Values adopted formally as I presented them to the 2000 national Green Party Convention in Denver, along with the founding Green Party national platform, it remains for future greens, whether formally affiliated with the Green Party in the US or greens who share core values of Green parties to do their best in bringing the values and positions of green thought into reality."

"The politics of the present era clearly demand the independent, future-oriented vision of green, environmentally focused 'planet citizens'"...

-- SJS / 2015

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GHI / Boll Foundation

Green Parties History Conference, Washington DC, 2004

The following conference publication provides a formal history of Green Party during this formative period.

Green Parties: Reflections on the First Three Decades -- The Origins of Green Parties in Global Perspective

"History of US Green Party Founding Platform & First Presidential Campaign"

“The Origins of Green Parties in Global Perspective” – May 26, 2004, GHI/Boll Institute

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The Platform of the US Green Party