Green Politics International

Green parties are described often as politically "neither left nor right but out in front" ...

Green values on environmental, social justice and peace politics, and Green parties around the world are creating new and visionary ways to approach political issues and strive toward new definition of environmental security...

Green parties are unique in their cross-border political formations in approx 1/2 of the countries of the world...

Four Pillars of the Green Party

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International Listing of National Green Parties

Green Parties -- Global list by GreenPolicy360, as of 2014

Our online international listing (with social media links) is now being utilized as a reference by Reddit and Wikipedia

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Green Party History

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

http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/mon/2008/ppn%20562199195.pdf

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Green/Environmental International Agreements and Treaties

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Environmental_treaties

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

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Greens and the Internet

Eco Operating System, by Steven Schmidt

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2016 Presidential Election Message from the Media Coordinator of the US Green Party

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Recollection of the First Green Party Presidential Campaign

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Green Party in the United States

Founding U.S. Green Platform and First Presidential Campaign

– Presented by Steven Schmidt to the German Historical Institute Conference in Washington DC

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

Founding US Green Party Platform and First Presidential Campaign via Green Institute

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Looking Back to the Origins of the US Green Party -- Looking Forward (as of 2016)

SJS / Siterunner

Posted a number of articles this week on the role of the Greens in "opening up debate" within the constrained US "duopoly", the dominant two-party system and restricted set of policy options and position that enter the political arena, whether domestic or foreign/national security policy.

Over the years, more and more of the US electorate is declaring themselves "independent" of the Democrats and Republicans. Polls track a steady upward trend over the past decades and currently indicate approximately 43% of American citizens consider themselves neither Democrat or Republican.

The current 2016 presidential campaign is likewise finding many commentators and media, political scientists and activists calling for opening up the the presidential debates to the two 'major-minor' independent parties -- the Green Party (www.gp.org) and the Libertarian Party (www.lp.org).

This opening up of the political system is what your siterunner has strived to achieve since the early 1990s.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/08/judge-rejects-suit-against-presidential-debate-commission-226720

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37245-tv-networks-should-open-up-the-presidential-debates

http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/05/media/debate-lawsuit-gary-johnson-jill-stein/index.html

http://www.changetherule.org/news/

http://www.presidentialdebatenews.com/

https://www.thenation.com/article/jill-stein-should-be-part-of-a-4-way-presidential-debate/

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/15/tv-networks-should-open-presidential-debates

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pete-tucker/what-the-hell-how-third-p_b_11277474.html

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clintons-third-party-headache-226700

LA Times Op-Ed | "Let Gary Johnson and Jill Stein into the debates"

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-welch-debates-johnson-stein-20160810-snap-story.html

SJS / Siterunner: "It's about opening up the political system and expanding the debate.

From the beginning of the Green Party in the US, this been a key goal and step by step, across political lines, new ideas are being brought forward.

The diverse and forward-looking ideas of Green politics are resonating and providing a shared vision of the future."

https://www.kcet.org/redefine/the-long-and-short-of-the-green-and-libertarian-environmental-platforms

http://www.fec.gov/law/litigation/lpf_lpf_complaint.pdf

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2015cv1580-52

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“The goal of our founding platform was to have a Green Party policy foundation on which Green candidates could run ‘serious, credible, platform-based campaigns’, that is, to succeed in the goal of effective political campaigning taking the Green Party positions in the platform and turning them into reality.”

- Steven Schmidt, NM and FL Green -- Platform chair 1995-2001

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US Green Party National Platform - Official National Platform

Approved in 2000 / National Green Party Convention / Denver, CO

http://gpus.org/committees/platform-committee/2000-platform/

Green Party founding platform / 2000 / PDF

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The Ten Key Values of the Green Party of the US_'the KVs' of Founding Platform approved in Denver, CO, 2000

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

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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 March 2015

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Green Horizon Magazine ♦ Fall/Winter 2013/2014 ♦

From SJS to Charlene Spretnak:

"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..."

Steven Schmidt Clearwater, Florida, 2013

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SJS: From the drafting of the Green Key Values with Charlene Spretnak's leadership in the early days of the US Greens to the proposing of a legal national party and the drafting of a new national platform approved in 2000 at the Nominating Convention at the Renaissance Center in Denver, through to near 200 pp filing with the Federal Election Commission and its approval of the US Green Party's legal standing as the Green national committe of a national party, the organizing work of dedicated Greens has led to a new era of Green Politics.

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