Green Party of NJ

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"Eventually everybody will vote Green in some way ...

Why not work for a party that represents the future? ...

As Woody Guthrie sang, 'This land is your land, this land is my land ... this land was made for you and me.' "

-- Pete Seeger

In 2000, the Green Party of New Jersey ran a Senatorial candidate, multiple Congressional candidates as well as candidates for county and local offices. We were the first state Green Party in the country to fulfill ballot petition requirements to place Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke on the ballot in New Jersey as candidates for President and Vice-President respectively.

1999 saw serious voter attention to Greens running for office. Gary Novosielski became the first Green to hold elective office in NJ and Richard Marx ran a very close third in a 4-way race for 2 council seats in Highland Park--well ahead of the Republican candidate.

In 1998, GPNJ ran three Congressional races as well as several local campaigns.

In 1997, the Green Party of New Jersey garnered 11,000 votes with Madelyn Hoffman's campaign for Governor.

In 1996, as the Green Party candidate for President, Ralph Nader received over 600,000 votes nationwide and almost 35,000 votes in New Jersey! With these two races and other activities, the Greens have grown from a small group to a party with active chapters in almost every New Jersey county.

Look how far we've come!

More and more Americans are convinced that the Democrats and Republicans are so closely tied to transnational corporations that they have lost their regard for the American people ... our incomes, our health, our communities, our jobs.

Green Parties are the fastest growing political movement of the modern era.
There are now Green Parties in 74 countries and in 49 states in the United States. (We're working hard on that last one!!!).
Green candidates in the U.S. received more than one million votes in 1996.
The Mayors of Rome and Dublin are Greens! Greens are the third largest party in Germany and part of the governing coalition in France.

"As we close the chapter on the twentieth century, the bloodiest century in history, we must also turn the page to develop new strategies for building a people's movement. The Green Party is a genuine peoples' party, with a future focus, which is desperately needed at this critical moment." -- Arthur Kinoy

THE ENVIRONMENT

Clean up the nation's largest number of Superfund sites. Make the polluters pay.
Reduce air pollution -- New Jersey ranks among the highest in toxic air pollutants per square mile.
Reduce toxic discharges -- New Jersey has the fourth highest incidence of breast cancer and the highest mortality rate in the country.
Shut down nuclear power plants, decommission them safely, and replace them with renewable energy sources.
Shut down failing garbage incinerators and implement the "3 R's plus C"--Reduction, Reuse, Recycling, and Composting.
Address environmental justice problems.
Prevent lowering standards for organic foods.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE:

Protect and promote workers' rights to join a union.
Support a just transition for all workers displaced when an industry shuts down for environmental reasons.
Oppose the privatization of vital community services such as schools, hospitals, and prisons.
Support full funding for job creation.
Advocate for the right to a living wage.
Support HR40, Congressman John Conyers' bill to appoint a commission to study reparations for African-Americans.

EDUCATION:

Provide equal access to quality education to all New Jersey students.
Support adequate and fair funding for all school districts.

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM:

Take big money out of politics, allowing voters to have more choices.
Bring Maine's successful Clean Money Campaign to NJ.

THE ECONOMY:

Reduce dependency on property taxes.
Implement a progressive alternative to our current tax system so that those who can afford to pay more do pay more.
Oppose public money being spent on corporate welfare. No taxpayer bailout of failing industries such as garbage incinerators and nuclear power plants.
Support measures to provide decent and affordable housing.
Advocate single-payer universal health care.
Oppose to agenda of corporatism, including the uncontrolled globalism of the WTO.

THE STATE PLAN:

Stop the loss of farmlands and forests and prevent inappropriate development.
Improve access to quality mass transit.
Stop suburban sprawl.

PEACE:

Oppose police brutality.
Stand in the forefront of opposition to war.
Solve international conflicts by peaceful means.
Support demilitarization.
Support a moratorium on the death penalty.

The Green Party of New Jersey is dedicated to ending all discrimination based on race, gender, or sexual orientation. We support all programs that seek to remedy these problems.

The Greens stand for:

Grassroots democracy
Ecological wisdom and sustainability
Community-based economics
Nonviolence
Social and economic justice
Future focus
Global responsibility
An end to corporate welfare
Workers' rights
And end to all discrimination

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