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Steven Schmidt

U.S. Green Party Platform Chair, 1995-2001

Key drafter founding platform

About GreenPolicy360's Siterunner, Steve Schmidt:

An early green activist looks back at the formation of the US Green Party

Steve's political organizing began in the 1960s in California, Washington DC and in Europe. He was a co-founder of the largest US anti-war group, the Vietnam Moratorium Committee and coordinated actions in California. He traveled widely speaking against the war and nuclear weapon issues. He helped release the My Lai story with Dispatch News Service and spoke to policy issues in association with Dan Ellsberg. His green/environmental organizing began with a series of actions and initiatives with Congressman George E Brown who encouraged Steve to enter politics when the Congressman represented East LA and they then began a cooperative relationship of over thirty years. The Congressman was one of the original supporters of 'teach ins' and supported student work to initiate the first Earth Day as an annual event beginning in 1970. Senator Gaylord Nelson spoke with Steve's invitation and encouragement on the day after the first Earth Day at USC. Steve's relationship with California Governor Jerry Brown goes back to the 1970s and they worked closely together for many years on environmental issues through the 1992 presidential campaign when they worked together to draft the campaign's "We the People/Take Back America" platform. The progressive positions resonated across the country in opposition to the priorities of the 'new Democratic Party' and together they carried key proposals to the platform hearings. Steve went independent after the 1992 campaign. Steve was the main drafter of a new platform for the New Mexico Green Party and ran for Lieutenant Governor in 1994, subsequently becoming a member of the State Board of Education. He became a core organizer in the Green Party, arguing for a state party based national organization and proposed a "40 State" organizing campaign in 1995 at the Greens national conference in NM. He then drafted platform structure, policy language and key values of the founding Green Party US platform which was approved at the 2000 national Green convention in Denver. The Platform became a key part of the application for national committee/party status and the Federal Election Commission legally recognized the national committee of the new national Green Party in 2001.

Here is the platform document filed with the US Federal Election Commission in our application for national committee/party status... The result of over five years of discussion, debate and decisions. -- Steven J. Schmidt, Platform Chair, 1995-2001

File:2000GreenPartyPlatform.pdf

The Founding US Green Party Platform

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Green Parties, International

"A Green Party for a Blue Planet"

Green Parties in Over 100 Nations

An International Political Party: The Green Party

* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Green_Parties_global_list_June_2014update.pdf

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