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'''SECTION TITLE: United States'''
 
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'''SUBSECTION TITLE: At home and worldwide'''
  
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'''OUR POSITION:  ONE SENTENCE'''
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'''OUR POSITION:  Greens believe peace must begin at home.
  
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INTRO PARAGRAPH
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Our first priority in foreign policy considerations is to create a future without war.
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To create world peace, we must walk our talk by eliminating violence in our homes, neighborhoods, schools and communities.  We support disarmament and massive reduction of the U.S. defense budget. We oppose the production and use of nuclear weapons. We support a no-first-strike policy and a no-preemptive strike policy.
  
 
'''GREEN SOLUTIONS'''
 
'''GREEN SOLUTIONS'''
  
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'''DISARMAMENT'''
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'''DOMESTIC PEACE'''
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1. Support the abolition of the death penalty in the United States and worldwide.
  
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1. Our government does not have the right to justify pre-emptive invasion of another country on the grounds that the other country harbors, trains, equips and funds a terrorist cell.
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2. Support gun control, to create an America free of gun violence.  We endorse bans on Saturday-night specials, which are used almost exclusively for crime; military-style assault weapons; and .50-caliber sniper rifles, which have no ordinary sporting use.
  
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2. Our government should establish a policy to abolish nuclear weapons. It should set the conditions and schedule for fulfilling that goal by taking the following steps:
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3. Support “Brady Bill” background checks for gun buyers, and waiting periods for record search before gun dealers may sell a gun.'''
  
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3. Declare a no-first-strike policy.
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4. Maximize restrictions on police use of weapons and restraining techniques such as pepper spray, tasers, stun belts and choke holds.
  
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4. Declare a no-pre-emptive strike policy.
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5. Expand opportunities for non-military community service.  
  
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5. Declare that the U.S. will never threaten or use a nuclear weapon, regardless of size, on a non-nuclear nation.
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'''ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS'''
  
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6. Sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Our pledge to end testing will open the way for non-nuclear states to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which has been held up by our refusal to sign the CTBT. Honor the conditions set in the NPT for nuclear nations.
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1. Call for the immediate start of the negotiation of a treaty to abolish nuclear weapons, and for the completion of those negotiations by the year 2012.  
  
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7. Reverse our withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and honor its stipulations.
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2. Declare a no-first-strike policy.
  
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8. End the research, testing and stockpiling of all nuclear weapons of any size.
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3. Declare a no-preemptive strike policy.
  
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9. Dismantle all nuclear warheads from their missiles.
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4. Declare that the U.S. will never threaten or use a nuclear weapon, regardless of size, on any nation.
  
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10. We urge our government to sign the Toronto treaty banning the production, stockpiling, use and sale of land mines, and assist other nations in unearthing and disabling land mines buried in their lands.
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5. Cut off all funding for the development, testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons, and funding for nuclear weapons research.
  
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l1. We urge our government to end all stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons and all research, use, and sale of such weapons; and sign the convention that will establish the decrease and inspection of all nations’ stockpiles of such weapons, which the U.S. abandoned.
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6. Dismantle all nuclear warheads from their missiles.
  
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12. The U.S. must allow foreign teams to visit the U.S. for verification purposes at least annually.
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'''DISARMAMENT'''
  
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13. Our defense budget has increased out of all proportion to any military threat to the United States, and to our domestic social, economic and environmental needs. The United States government must reduce our defense budget to half of its current size. The 2005 defense budget is estimated at around $425 billion, and that does not take into account military expenditures not placed under the defense budget.
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1. Sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.  
  
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14. The U.S. has over 700 foreign military bases. We urge our government to phase out all bases not specifically functioning under a U.N. resolution to keep peace and bring home our troops stationed abroad, except for the military assigned to protect a U.S. embassy. Many of these bases are small and can be closed immediately. We advocate further reductions in U.S. foreign military bases at a rate of closure of 1/4 to 1/5 of their numbers every year.
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2. Honor the obligations for nuclear nations in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
  
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15. Close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
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3. Reverse our withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and honor its stipulations.
  
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16. The U.S. is the largest arms seller and dealer in the world. We urge our government to prohibit all arms sales to foreign nations and likewise prohibit grants to impoverished and undemocratic nations unless the money is targeted on domestic, non-military needs. In addition, grants to other nations may not be used to release their own funds for military purposes.
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4. Sign the Ottawa Treaty banning the production, stockpiling, use and sale of cluster bombs and land mines, and assist other nations in unearthing and disabling unexploded bombs on their lands.
  
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17. The U.S. must not be a conduit for defense contractors to market their products abroad and must shift our export market from arms to peaceful technology, industrial and agricultural products, and education.
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5. End all stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons and all research, use, and sale of such weapons; and sign the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention that will establish the decrease and inspection of all nations’ stockpiles of such weapons, which the U.S. abandoned.
  
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18. The U.S. must prohibit all covert actions used to influence, de-stabilize or usurp the governments of other nations, and likewise prohibit the assassination of, or assistance in any form for the assassination of, foreign government officials.
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'''REDUCE THE DEFENSE BUDGET'''
  
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19. We must build on the Earth Charter that came out of the 1992 U.N. environmental Earth Summit. New definitions of what constitutes real security between nations must be debated and adopted by the foreign policy community.
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1. Reduce the U.S. defense budget by at least 70% from the record high 2010 levels. In 2010, President Obama and the U.S. Congress approved a $626 billion dollar U.S. defense budget.
  
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'''DEATH PENALTY'''
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2. Bring home our troops stationed abroad, except for the military assigned to protect a U.S. embassy.
  
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1. Greens support the abolition of the death penalty in the United States and all other countries.
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3. Phase out all U.S. foreign military bases not specifically functioning under a U.N. resolution to keep peace.
  
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'''DOMESTIC PEACE'''
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4. Close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
  
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2. One sentence on gun control. This is the current platform statement on gun control.  Needs major revision. 24. Thoughtful, carefully considered gun control 2.laws such as the “Brady Bill” and the waiting period for record search before gun dealers may sell a gun should be supported.
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5. Prohibit all arms sales to foreign nations.
  
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3. Maximize restrictions on police use of weapons and restraining techniques such as pepper spray, stun belts, and choke holds.
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6. End all covert actions used to influence, destabilize or usurp the governments of other nations, and likewise prohibit the assassination, or assistance in any form in the assassination, of foreign government officials.
  
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4. We must create new opportunities for citizens to serve their communities through non-military community service. Alternative community service to the military should be encouraged.
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7. End military, political and economic assistance to prop up repressive regimes.

Latest revision as of 00:11, 4 August 2010

SECTION TITLE: United States

SUBSECTION TITLE: At home and worldwide

OUR POSITION: Greens believe peace must begin at home.

Our first priority in foreign policy considerations is to create a future without war.

To create world peace, we must walk our talk by eliminating violence in our homes, neighborhoods, schools and communities. We support disarmament and massive reduction of the U.S. defense budget. We oppose the production and use of nuclear weapons. We support a no-first-strike policy and a no-preemptive strike policy.

GREEN SOLUTIONS

DOMESTIC PEACE

1. Support the abolition of the death penalty in the United States and worldwide.

2. Support gun control, to create an America free of gun violence. We endorse bans on Saturday-night specials, which are used almost exclusively for crime; military-style assault weapons; and .50-caliber sniper rifles, which have no ordinary sporting use.

3. Support “Brady Bill” background checks for gun buyers, and waiting periods for record search before gun dealers may sell a gun.

4. Maximize restrictions on police use of weapons and restraining techniques such as pepper spray, tasers, stun belts and choke holds.

5. Expand opportunities for non-military community service.

ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

1. Call for the immediate start of the negotiation of a treaty to abolish nuclear weapons, and for the completion of those negotiations by the year 2012.

2. Declare a no-first-strike policy.

3. Declare a no-preemptive strike policy.

4. Declare that the U.S. will never threaten or use a nuclear weapon, regardless of size, on any nation.

5. Cut off all funding for the development, testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons, and funding for nuclear weapons research.

6. Dismantle all nuclear warheads from their missiles.

DISARMAMENT

1. Sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

2. Honor the obligations for nuclear nations in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

3. Reverse our withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and honor its stipulations.

4. Sign the Ottawa Treaty banning the production, stockpiling, use and sale of cluster bombs and land mines, and assist other nations in unearthing and disabling unexploded bombs on their lands.

5. End all stockpiling of chemical and biological weapons and all research, use, and sale of such weapons; and sign the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention that will establish the decrease and inspection of all nations’ stockpiles of such weapons, which the U.S. abandoned.

REDUCE THE DEFENSE BUDGET

1. Reduce the U.S. defense budget by at least 70% from the record high 2010 levels. In 2010, President Obama and the U.S. Congress approved a $626 billion dollar U.S. defense budget.

2. Bring home our troops stationed abroad, except for the military assigned to protect a U.S. embassy.

3. Phase out all U.S. foreign military bases not specifically functioning under a U.N. resolution to keep peace.

4. Close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas, in Ft. Benning, Georgia.

5. Prohibit all arms sales to foreign nations.

6. End all covert actions used to influence, destabilize or usurp the governments of other nations, and likewise prohibit the assassination, or assistance in any form in the assassination, of foreign government officials.

7. End military, political and economic assistance to prop up repressive regimes.

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