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The Green Party has always opposed California's Three Strikes law.  In 1994 the Green Party opposed the original 'three strikes law': Prop 184 'Increased Sentences. Repeat Offenders (Three Strikes), that California voters passed that year. Since then, the Green Party  has consistently supported efforts to amend Prop 184, including via Prop 66, which was unsuccessful at the ballot box in 2004.

Prop 39 does several related things at once that the Green Party favors  – closes a corporate welfare tax loophole and addresses the state's budget structural deficit, while creating new green jobs and addresses climate change. For these reasons, the Green Party enthusiastically endorses Prop 39.

​The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act has qualified for the November 2012 ballot. Hear about it from Green Party member Stacy Malkan, a spokesperson for the California Right to Know campaign that qualified the measure.