Green Candidates Reflect on the 10 Key Values for Green Party Day
Each year on April 10th (4/10), the Green Party of the United States takes time to reflect on the Four Pillars and Ten Key Values. Together, they underpin the positions, platform, and efforts of our party. This year we thought we'd ask a few current green candidates about which of the key values spoke most to them.
The Green Party of the United States has always cultivated excellent candidates that speak deeply to a wide range of people across age, gender, race, and cultural lines.
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"Grassroots Democracy is so important. I believe, especially in today's high political atmosphere, it's important to have candidates and leaders who are not bought out by corporations. It is the only way to know that we have leaders who work for voters, not for corporations." - Christina Kahlil, Green Party Candidate for US Senate in NJ |
Our candidates understand the near universal appeal of the Green Party's message of People, Peace, and Planet.
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"What the world needs now is Peace, the fourth Pillar of the Green Party. We also need new police policies, equipment and tactics that de-escalate conflict and end fatalities. It is also past time to de-schedule cannabis." - Richard L. Weiss, Green Party Candidate for PA Attorney General |
The Green Party of the United States and our state party candidates help put local issues in a broader national and global context.
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"How could I pick just one? All of our values and pillars are vital and true. Yet, the answer is staring me in the face: Future Focus and Sustainability. While some may pine for the perceived glories of the past, full of its inequalities, rampart militarism, murder and destruction and wanton planetary devastation, we look the children squarely in their eyes and resolutely determine they will have a future and we work tirelessly, in the face of powerfully armed opposition to secure a real future for them. Key Value #10 is #1 for me." - Michael Dublin, Green Party Candidate for NC's 2nd Congressional District |
Our candidates stay focused on the long term for peace and planet, with principled and consistent stances rooted in the Ten Key Values.
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“I launched my congressional campaign a year ago today. Since then, my team and I have worked hard every day to ensure a real choice for voters in the upcoming election. Right now, we’re facing a global crisis of conflict unlike any of us have experienced in our lifetime with the genocide in Gaza, a genocide that is fundamentally supported by both war machine parties. Gaza has further opened our eyes to other regional conflicts of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Congo, in Sudan, in Ethiopia, in Myanmar. As the conflict in Israel / Palestine has expanded to Syria and Lebanon we are faced with the very real prospect of clashes between nuclear armed nations. Now more than ever we need leadership that will promote Cooperation and Nonviolence. We cannot afford anything less. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” - Jason Call, Green Party Candidate for WA's 2nd Congressional District |
Our candidates represent the quiet majority of Americans who feel left out by the parties of War and Wall Street.
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"I stand with all Americans in seeking Social Justice and Ecological Wisdom for everyone in the Americas, whether they be rich or poor. The intersectionality of the climate crisis with so many other issues is part of what inspired me to run for Texas Railroad Commissioner. As Greens we must advocate for new policies while also changing minds and hearts. I want to advocate for a healthy climate in every community across Texas, in English and in Spanish." - Eddie Espinoza, Green Party Candidate for TX Railroad Commissioner |
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The Green Party of the United States
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