These 10 values are key to understanding the Green Party. Anyone who is in harmony with these values is welcome to join us and help us move this nation away from the old politics of money, power, and corruption, and into the new politics of the people, the environment, and the earth.
Ecological Wisdom:
We recognize that the Earth sustains all life, and we work
to raise awareness of the common roots of the abuse of nature,
animals, and people. We seek to live wisely within her
ecology, in ways that preserve life, rather than destroying it.
Participatory Democracy:
We believe in direct participation by all people in the
environmental, political, and economic decisions that affect
their lives, and work to overcome the growing corruption of
the political process by both private and corporate influences.
Social Justice:
We work to replace the worldwide system of poverty and
injustice with a world free of oppression based on such things
as gender, class, race, age, citizenship, wealth, physical
ability, and sexual orientation.
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we work to create a world in which war is obsolete.
Decntralization:
We work to restore power and responsibility to local
communities within an overall framework of ecologically sound
and socially just lifestyles.
Commmunity-Based Economics:
We seek a new, true-cost, economics based on the natural
limits of the Earth, that will meet the basic needs of
everyone on the planet under democratic, localized community
control.
Gender Equality & Feminism:
The Green movement is profoundly inspired by feminist
values. The ethics of partnership and cooperation must
replace the old values of domination and power over others.
Respect for Diversity:
We honor the biological diversity of the Earth and the
cultural, racial, sexual, and spiritual diversity of its
people. We work to reclaim this country’s finest ideals:
popular democracy, individual dignity, and liberty and
justice for all.
Personal & Global Responsibility:
The responsibility for preserving life on Earth, including
the human race, is one that must be assumed by all of us.
Each of us personally, and all of us globally, must accept
that responsibility if we are to survive.
Future Focus & Sustainability:
Like the Iroquois, we seek a society in which 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 our children.