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Ten Key Values of the Green Party

Here is a Link to the Harris County Green Party www.hcgp.org

  • Ecological Wisdom. We recognize that the Earth sustains all life processes.  Green ecology moves beyond environmentalism by understanding the common roots of the abuse of nature, the abuse of animals, and the abuse of people. Whatever we do to the web of life, we do to ourselves. 

 

  • Social Justice. We want to replace the worldwide system of poverty and injustice with a world free of all oppression based on class, sex, race, citizenship, age, or sexual orientation. 

 

  • Grassroots Democracy. We believe in direct participation by all people in the environmental, political, and economic decisions that affect their lives. 

 

  • Nonviolence. We reject violence as a way of settling disputes -- it is shortsighted, morally wrong, and ultimately self-defeating. We work to create a world where war is obsolete. 

 

  • Decentralization. Power and responsibility must be restored to local communities within an overall framework of ecologically sound and socially just values and life- styles. 

 

  • Community-based Economics. We seek a new economics based upon the natural limits of the Earth, which meets the basic needs of everyone on the planet under democratic, localized community control. 

 

  • Feminist Values. The Green movement is profoundly inspired by feminist values. The ethics of cooperation and understanding must replace the values of domination and control over others. 

 

  • Respect for Diversity. We honor the biological diversity of the Earth and the cultural, racial, sexual and spiritual diversity of the Earth's people. We aim to reclaim this country's finest ideals: popular democracy, the dignity of the individual, and liberty and justice for all. 

 

  • Personal and Global Responsibility. We are committed to global sustainability and international justice through political solidarity. We strive to create personal lifestyles based upon sufficiency and living lightly. 

 

  • Future Focus. Like the Iroquois, we seek a society where the interests of the seventh generation yet to come are considered equal to the interests of the present generation. We must reclaim the future for ourselves and for our children.

 

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