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Core Values

Below are the core values of the Green Party. Please click through these links to learn how to promote these values.

  • Ecological Wisdom: Whatever we do to the web of life, we do to ourselves.

  • Social Justice: We are working toward a world in which all can fulfill their potential.

  • Grassroots Democracy: Greens believe in direct participation by all citizens in decisions that affect their lives.

  • Nonviolence: Greens reject violence as a way of resolving disputes.

  • Decentralization: Greens view political decentralization as a prerequisite for substantive participatory democracy.

  • Community Based Economics: Greens seek to regionalize economic activity as much as practical to foster local self-reliance and accountability.

  • Feminism: Greens believe that gender should not be a basis for discrimination nor for role typecasting.

  • Respect for Diversity: Greens honor the biological diversity of the Earth, and the cultural, sexual, and spiritual diversity of Earth's people.

  • Personal and Global Responsibility: Greens express commitment to global sustainability and international justice both through political solidarity and personal lifestyles based on sufficiency and living lightly upon the Earth.

  • Future Focus and Sustainability: Greens believe we must act in the present in such a way to reclaim the future for our children and their children.