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Story from Green Horizon Magazine | Fall Issue, 2021

"Who Founded the Green Party in the United States?"

by John Rensenbrink, Professor Emeritus, History & Politics, Bowdoin College

Professor Rensenbrink writes of "essential founding work" that led to the US Green Party, including by GreenPolicy360's Founder and current Siterunner --

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Recalling the beginnings of the U.S. Green Party:

Although the U.S. Green Party has changed far from its founding platform and Green values, policies and positions, here Green Horizon Magazine editor John Rensenbrink speaks of those who did the original creative work and constructive organizing.

Engaged, positive Green politics, coalition building, and far reaching solutions were the hallmark of green political action.

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Steve promoted and ably defended the creation of the Association of Green State Parties in the early days of the nascent U.S. Green Party. In 1995 at a national gathering of Greens in New Mexico, he presented the "40-State Green Organizing Effort," a strategic plan that included a presidential campaign by state parties with a convention to be held in Los Angeles. The proposal was accepted and state parties moved forward with national organizing based on his plan. Steve chaired a new Platform committee from 1995 to 2001, during which time he structured and drafted a significant amount of the founding platform (which can be found at https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Platform). The official, founding U.S. Green Party Platform was an integral part of the subsequent successful submission to the FEC for national committee/party status.

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For more about the Green Party, its original founding platform, politics and subsequent changes visit:

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Party

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Platform

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