Here are some of the issues and positions the Miami-Dade Green Party has advocated over the past year:
- Education on threats posed by WTO, NAFTA, FTAA and other anti-democratic "free trade" agreements
- Participate actively with the Miami-Dade Electoral Reform Coalition to secure full access and fair elections practice locally.
- A Living Wage that keeps working people out of poverty
- Dade Commission sets back citizen-candidate movement-- The Miami-Dade County Commission caught the public and activists off guard when they amended the public election campaign financing ordinance to keep ordinary citizens OUT of the process--effectively reversing earlier referendum vote. more.
- Coalition-building to end runaway corruption in Miami-Dade
- Support workers' right to organize; Green Danny Glover addressees Jobs with Justice rally
- Support SAVE DADE to keep full Human Rights Ordinance
- Greens Support Democracy in Venezuela more
- World Social Forum in Brazil Draws 100,000+ more
- Appropriate people-friendly and environment-friendly use of Homestead AFB.
- Support for Tooth Fairy Project (study on local effects of radioactive contamination from power plants)
- Sustainability and health concerns in Miami-Dade's energy policies
- Everglades restoration supported largely by the despoilers
- Public financing of political campaigns
- An end to public financing of corporate stadiums
- ELECTORAL REFORM: an end to winner-take-all elections
- Opposition to State's citrus canker project
- Education on risks of GMO's (genetically modified organism) in our food supply - without our knowing (no labeling required)!
- Universal Healthcare
- Campaign finance reform
- An end to the embargo of Cuba
- Support for local anti-discrimination ordinance
- The right for workers to organize
- A non-discriminatory immigration policy
- An end to the death penalty
These are all informed by our Key Values and by positions expressied in the Green Party Platform. Their goals are consistent with fairness, global and individual responsibility, democracy and ecological wilsdom.
- more to come -
