Add Animal Agriculture Solutions to the Green Party Platform

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The Green Party is the only political party in the USA with an animal rights plank in its platform, and if I am not mistaken, that may just be for Texas. But, that's more than the others. As we know, environmental responsibility is simply lip service without serious attention to the devastating effect of animal agriculture our planet, our one and only home. This is the real inconvenient truth. Consider adding to the Green Party efforts to solve environmental problems through serious address of animal agriculture. NOTE: Rants not encouraged and are not helpful. Thoughtful solutions are. See below contact information for contributions to the Green Party platform in this regard. Thank you. Margaret MorinFounder and PresidentVegetarian Network of Dallaswww.vegNod.comnortxgreens wrote: North Texas Greens North Texas Greens Messages In This Digest (1 Message) 1. Extension for Submissions to NATIONAL Platform Committee Joy Vidheecharoen-Glatz View All Topics | Create New Topic Message 1. Extension for Submissions to NATIONAL Platform Committee Posted by: "Joy Vidheecharoen-Glatz" jvglatz rangergirl1313 Thu Jan 3, 2008 7:22 am (PST) For those of you who wanted to submit planks to the national platform, here's your chance. The national platform only gets revised every four years and its great to be a part of the change in the party. ************************************************ Extension for Submissions to Platform Committee On the request of the Steering Committee, the Platform Committee has agreed to extend the deadline for Platform revision submissions from the original December 31 2007 deadline. All submissions for

amendments to the 2004 Platform for the 2008 campaign season, once they have been approved by the state party organizations, are now due on Martin Luther King Day, that is, Monday Jan 21st, 2008. Please get the word out to your party members, and please remind them to follow the format for revision of the Platform. The format guidelines are pasted below. Please follow them! Those amendments which have been submitted and approved for consideration can be viewed at: www.gp.org/committees/platform/draft/work Amendments should be sent by email to the Platform Committee Co-Chairs, email addresses indicated below. Amendments sent by other means can be arranged by telephone contact. Sincerely, Jenefer Ellingston and John Ely, Co-Chairs Green Party Platform DC Statehood Green Party Contacts: Jenefer Ellingston = jellingston (AT) earthlink (DOT) net Tel (202) 546 0940 John Ely = johnbethany (AT) earthlink (DOT) net Tel (202) 529 1966 Mike Ewall, PA = catalyst (AT) actionpa (DOT) org (Platform Committee Secretary) ### Format for submitting a proposal (amendment) to 2004 Platform Full Name Street Address, City, State, Zip/Postal Code Home Phone, E-mail Party affiliation The Platform Committee: 1) May return a proposal for revision or correction. 2) May send a proposal to your state party or state organization for review. ------------------------- Steps to take for proper submission: - First, go to Chapter (in Roman numerals) and the Section (in Alphabet) and then paragraph or

paragraphs, Number(s) of 2004 Platform that you wish to amend. - Identify where your amendment will fit or what it will replace. - Write your amendment and indicate that it replaces/adds/re-orders/change some words/or whatever in 2004 Platform. Sometimes an amendment merges with original text, sometimes it replaces or adds... that's fine. - If your text replaces a whole section - are defined number of paragraphs - write it in italics. - Get approval from your Steering Committee before sending to us. (You can get approval by e-mail if necessary.) - Send the amendment to the Co-Chairs of the Platform Committee: Jenefer Ellingston, email = jellingston (AT) earthlink (DOT) net and John Ely = johnbethany (AT) earthlink (DOT) net Write Additional Comments if further explanation is necessary. Please note: If you do not follow format given above, your amendment will not be accepted. It will be returned with request that you follow the format. GPUS Platform 2008 Timeline/Process Amendments were accepted from Oct. 1, 2006 to Dec. 31 2007. We have extended the timeline to January 21, 2008. Accepted amendments will be put on website by Mike Ewall, Secretary for all Greens to review and offer corrections. Mike's email = catalyst (AT) actionpa (DOT) org The website will be closed for a period while we compile/order/correct typos the text and then opened two months prior to Convention. We wish to avoid complaint that Green had to vote on a document they hadn't had time to read. *************************************************************************************************** Additional information

1. National Committee approved the timeline/process this summer or early fall of 2006. 2. Notice was sent out by the Platform Committee co-chairs to NC and Platform Committee members that door is open to accept amendments. 3. Amendments are to be approved by State Steering Committee or Caucus before submitted by member. The Platform Committee will track and organize submissions. All accepted amendments will be posted on the website: www.gp.org/committees/platform/draft/work (Note that they are not all there yet.) 4. Corrections to website amendments must come from your Steering Committee or Caucus, not from one person. We will use a simple rating system to evaluate support or opposition for a proposed amendment. (SEE RATING FORMULA BELOW.) 5. Final draft by two months prior to 2008 convention. There should only be a few, if any, unresolved issues at this point. Unresolved amendments

will be circulated back to states/caucuses at least two months prior to the convention for last-minute feedback, informing them that they could be voting on these at the final platform hearings, to be scheduled as close as possible to the day preceding the presidential nominating convention. Any items and language that remain to be determined at the final hearings, if such are needed, will be made available to all convention delegates as part of the convention packets (as well as available online). 6. Copies of the nearly final platform (with an addendum listing unresolved issues) will be printed before the convention and will be available at the convention. Platform hearings will be held to refine the unresolved issues in an effort to make them acceptable to Greens at large. Platform hearings will be open to all, but only those chosen specifically to represent their state or caucus on the matter of these unresolved

amendments would be entitled to vote, {if such is needed; however, consensus is the goal, so material not gaining obvious overall support will not be included}. States/caucuses can caucus at the convention and choose who will represent them in these hearings. (It is up to the state/caucus chair or co-chairs to inform the Platform Committee about who was chosen to represent them). States/caucuses can choose more than one representative, but votes will be counted in such a way that each state/caucus will be represented proportionally, with voting weight equal to the number of voting delegates to which they are entitled to have at the convention. No single person may carry more than three votes. If consensus cannot be reached in the hearings, the voting representatives shall vote on proposed amendments. Those amendments pass only if they obtain the support of 90% or more of the weighted vote of the representatives in

attendance. 7. Final copies of any amendments approved on the floor of the convention will be printed and made available, as a final addendum to the printed "near final" draft that the delegates will already have. This will prevent a frantic, last-minute printing adventure. Nice and pretty final copies can be done up after the convention. ************************** **RATING FORMULA A rating of 1 = 3 points A rating of 2 = 2 A rating of 3 = 1 A rating of 4 = 0, and A rating of 5 = -1 1 - Approval. Material meets with general approval of membership, a strong majority or consensus. 2 - Approval, with minor revisions. Overall approval, but minor revisions such as corrected or updated information may be needed, or minor revisions to meet concerns are suggested. 3 - General support, but with more substantial concerns to be addressed (this could involve more

substantial working out of material, possibly referring content to those with particular expertise or background) 4 - General lack of support. This might be more acceptable if (...), but overall, members find it unnecessary/unacceptable/doesn't really fit. (Unlikely that material garnering this type of rating will make it into the 2004 platform, but worth looking into.) 5 - Reject. Members do not support inclusion of this amendment in the Green Platform In solidarity, Joy Vidheecharoen-Glatz Green Party of Dallas County http://www.dallasgreens.net Dallas Greens Meetup http://green.meetup.com/196 Dallas Greens dallasgreens Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) Visit Your Group News Get it all here Breaking news to entertainment news Parenting Groups on Single Parenting to managing twins. Sell Online Start selling with our award-winning e-commerce tools. Need to Reply? Click one of the "Reply" links to respond to a specific message in the Daily Digest. Create New Topic | Visit Your Group on the Web Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar To Post a message, send it to: nortxgreens (AT) eGroups (DOT) com To Un, send a blank message to: nortxgreens- (AT) eGroups (DOT) com MARKETPLACE Earn your degree in as few as 2 years - Advance your career with an AS, BS, MS degree - College-Finder.net. Change settings via the Web ( ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Individual | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Terms of Use | Un

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