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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Organizers of the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP), which organized the Green Party National Nominating Convention in Denver, Colorado on June 24 and 25, have posted the platform adopted at the convention at gp.org.

(NOTE: gp.org is now the home domain of the Green Party.  The 2000 Green Party Platform is available here: http://www.gp.org/platform2000.html)

This is the platform for which the state Green Parties voted at the convention, and is the sole platform on which Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke are running for President and Vice President, respectively. 

The ASGP/convention platform should not be confused with the platform of the Greens/Green Party USA (GPUSA), which represents an activist contingent within the larger Green movement in the United States.  Some state Green Parties hold affiliations with both ASGP and GPUSA, but the GPUSA platform has no formal connection with ASGP, the Denver convention, or the Nader campaign.  The GPUSA platform was incorrectly associated with the Nader campaign and, by inference, with ASGP by a caller to National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" and in a recent column by Jonathan Chait in The New Republic (July 10 & 17, 2000).

The Green Party platform directly opposes major policies of the Democratic Party platform adopted on July 7, on which Al Gore has based his campaign and the Republican Party platform of George W. Bush. 

Mr. Nader said in his speech to the NAACP last week, "The Green Party Platform hands down is the most thorough, justice-saturated platform of any political party platform of the day. Reminds me of some of the great platforms of many decades ago when parties -- at least one -- stood tall for the working people of this country."

The 2000 Democratic platform would gut the social safety net, especially New Deal and Great Society efforts over the past seven decades to improve the lives of working and poor Americans, in favor of debt reduction, and endorses the authority of international free trade cabals to override national and local labor, environmental, and human rights protections. 

The Democratic platform converges with Republican policy in favoring aggressive military intervention and increased military spending, policies that Greens see as a betrayal of the promised post-Cold-War peace dividend, for the profit of defense contractors. 

Greens have protested all such policies, and the Green platform demands national health insurance, livable wage and collective bargaining guarantees, increased environmental and human rights protections, massive cuts in defense spending, and the end of free trade cabals.

For More Information:

Green Party platform: http://www.gp.org
Nader 2000 Campaign: http://www.votenader.org
Association of State Green Parties: http://www.greenparties.org

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