AGP Platform

Alabama Green Party platform was adopted by the Alabama Green Party Executive Committee June 23, 2003

Key Values

• Grassroots Democracy
• Social Justice and Equal Opportunity
• Ecological Wisdom
• Non-Violence
• Decentralization
• Community-Based Economics and Economic Justice
• Feminism and Gender Equity
• Respect for Diversity
• Personal and Global Responsibility
• Future Focus and Sustainability

We Advocate

• Protecting civil liberties
• Converting our economy to long-term ecological sustainability
• A liveable wage and the rights of all workers to organize
• Ending corporate welfare
• Universal health care, including alternative, integrative, and mental health
• Ensuring women's rights
• Increasing educational funding
• Improving existing assistance programs
• Emphasizing drug rehabilitation over criminal sentencing for use of illegal drugs
• Lowering recidivism rates
• Ending the death penalty
• Replacing winner-take-all election systems with proportional representation
• Campaign finance reform that reduces the influences of money in politics
• Ecologically sustainable land-use: urban, rural, agricultural
• Promoting and preserving the environmental health of Alabama State Parks and public lands as wildlife nature preserves with minimal impact from private and recreational use
• Promoting and protecting organic and family farming
• Promoting increased public transit
• Ending nuclear power. Supporting renewable energy, solar, wind, and biomass
• Taxing pollution, non-renewable energy and waste
• Protecting children and youth from abuse, neglect and exploitation
• Supporting constitutional reform organizations
• Elimination of predatory lending practices

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