A total ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and cloned
animals, and the implementation of "Green Chemistry" will be among the
platform planks to be debated at the Green Party of California State
Convention April 5-6, Saturday and Sunday, at Dwinelle Hall (Room 145) at
the University of California, Berkeley.
A news conference will be held Saturday, April 5, at 12 Noon (Room
215) where the state of the economy (local, state and national) and the
"Green Answer" will be presented by Green candidates for state, federal and
local offices.

The ban on GMOs and cloned animals would expand the current GPCA
Platform. It would not only ban them, but, if they're legalized, mandate
public warning labels, the USDA to alert counties, and neighboring farmers,
if GMOs are being used in their areas and hold the source biotechnology
corporation legally accountable for any "genetic pollution."

Greens will also create a new platform plank dealing with "Green
Chemistry," which is the design and use of "chemicals, processes and
products that are safer for human and environmental health (to prevent)
hazardous exposures."

"Industry relies on government corporate socialism via the public
trough whenever major safety and health problems occur, with legal
settlements far outnumbering completed legal cases. This...would end if the
source corporations were responsible for the 'cradle to grave' fate of
chemicals and their products rather than governments and the public,"
according to the proposal before the GPCA convention.

Greens will consider expanded rights for the disabled, and their
families...and guarantee members of the disabled community their basic civil
rights, including the right to marry, right to parenthood, right to
education, right to vote, right to access to the court system, the right to
competent legal representation and the right to appropriate accommodation in
prisons and jails.


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