platform

I’ll be on the ballot in November as the Green Party candidate for US House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 3rd congressional district.

In regard to platform . . .

* An egalitarian Economic Bill of Rights establishing the rights to a living-wage job, housing, healthcare, childcare, secure retirement, healthy food and clean water.

* The Green Party’s comprehensive ecosocialist version of the Green New Deal: https://www.gp.org/ecological_sustainability/#esClimateChange

* Cut military spending by 75%; end the endless wars; shut down the U.S. worldwide network of military bases; create a new foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights.

Details and full specifications can be found at: https://www.jillstein2024.com/platform

I also add this:

The exemplary Jill Stein platform delineates policy prescriptions at the “macro” level. But I think social change also has to take place at the “micro” level. Greens in government can pass legislation to foster the revitalization of local community life. The latter is the only possible locus for a participatory form of democracy.

The modern industrial state, dominated by the mega-corporations, is too big, too remote, too opaque, and too complex to be truly democratized or fully socialized. Yes, it can be reformed — and every reform is worth fighting for. But the thoroughgoing Green transformation that’s so badly needed will mostly come about through piece-by-piece, place-by-place, building of the new society within the shell of the old.

We need to elect Greens to office to (a) win the reforms we advocate in our campaign platforms, and (b) foster the creation of alternative institutions, Transition Towns, ecovillages, mutual aid networks, and local cooperative enterprises.