Green Party Statement of Purpose for the June 2018 Primary Election

Green Party

People vote Green because Greens support viable solutions to our greatest challenges from inequality to climate change. Greens actions can match their values because Greens refuse contributions from corporations. In California, over 70 Greens hold elected office.

Voting Green means:

ECONOMIC FAIRNESS

•  Living wages, green jobs, universal health care, workers' rights, affordable housing and food security for all
•  Public banks to invest in California, not Wall Street
•  Tuition-free higher education
•  Reforming Proposition 13 to close corporate loopholes and restore schools and public services
•  Taxing the super-rich

ACTION ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS

•  Going 100% renewable through publicly-owned clean energy and efficiency programs
•  Switching from fossil fuels to clean electric-powered public transportation
•  Restoring groundwater and watersheds
•  Reforestation, restorative agriculture

HUMAN RIGHTS

•  Ending oppression based on race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or economic status
•  Defending immigrants from dangerous raids and deportations
•  Black Lives Matter, police accountability
•  Gun control/safety
•  Abolishing the death penalty, ending private prisons, reducing prison populations

ELECTORAL REFORM

•  Eliminating corporate money through publicly-financed elections
•  Proportional representation, ranked choice voting
•  Overturning the Top Two primary

VISION

•  Greens early leadership led to recent successes including cannabis legalization and closing California’s last nuclear power plant.

 Register and vote Green to help us do more. 

Green Party of California

P.O. Box 485, San Francisco, CA 94104

(916) 448-3437

E-mail: gpca@cagreens.org

Website: www.cagreens.org