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A Brief History of the Green Party

We are a confederation of Green Parties from states around the country. We are also the recognized partner of the European Federation of Green Parties.

The Green Party of the United States began as the Association of State Green Parties. The ASGP was formed after the 1996 elections to fill a void in national Green politics and to help existing state parties develop.

	The Green Party of the United States is a confederation of state Green parties. Our membership consists of state Green parties, not individuals.

Green Party growth has come from a near doubling of state party members since our founding. This growth culminated in the 2000 Presidential Nominating Convention in Denver, CO on the weekend of June 24, 25. At the 2000 convention, the Green Party formally nominated Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke to be our nominees for President and Vice President.

In 2004, our Presidential campaign ticket was represented by David Cobb and Pat LaMarche. The 2004 Green National Convention, Forward! 2004, was in Milwaukee, WI. (More on Green Party Conventions and National Meetings)

The mission of the Green Party of the United States is to build the Green Party into a viable political alternative in the United States, and our operating principle has been to keep it simple and focused. Our support comes from thousands of volunteers at the national and local level and from small contributions from individual citizens. Our growth plan includes managing our national office as a focus for national organizing and hiring field organizers to work with local groups and parties to help mobilize greens in voter registration drives, election activity and daily citizen action. Our preference is to leave most decision making and financial resources at the state and local level, minimizing our budgetary needs. This method has met with wide acceptance from Green groups around the country and is what has fueled our growth so strongly.

The Green Party has a broad platform that ranges from protecting the environment to our Blue-Green pro-labor agenda to human rights and social justice. Green groups around the country not only run candidates for office, but work consistently in between elections on issues of concern in their community. This kind of activism is fundamental to our grassroots values and keeps us grounded on local issues, building the support networks needed to run candidates for local office first, followed by higher offices later. With over 220 officeholders (click here for up-to-date officeholder information) in local office around the country from Hawai'i to Washington DC, we walk our talk at the grassroots.

Take a look at our 10 Key Values that define the Greens in the United States.
Read some of the articles and books that have been written by or about Greens.
Read and subscribe to Green Pages, the Green Party newspaper.
Visit our Green Action page to get involved immediately by sending letters to legislators and newspapers.
Read about Greens in the Media
Sign up to receive Green information and news updates
And most important, find the Green group in your area and get in touch in person with your local Greens.

Let's build this movement from the ground up.

[Read more about the history of the Green Party in the U.S.].

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