Peace Survey for Green Party Presidential Candidates
Posted by Green Party Peace Network on December 16, 2007
The survey below has been sent to all the Candidates seeking the GPUS nomination for U.S. President on behalf of members of the Green Party Peace Network (GPPN). Members will distribute the answers to their state parties and they will be posted on this blog.
GPUS Presidential Candidate Peace Issues Survey:
1. What is your position / policy on the following Issues:
–War and Occupation of Iraq
–Waging war on other countries (Iran)
–Disparity in the percentage of U.S. government revenues devoted to
militarism vs. domestic and social needs
–No Child Left Behind and military recruiting in schools?
–Support of a draft or “War tax”
–Support of a “war-profiteering” tax for those companies making
windfall profits from this war?
–The idea of a surtax on incomes over a certain level
–Alternative energy sources
–Climate change (specifically, what goals would you prioritize)
2. What support would you hope to get from states in the GPUS?
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2008 Green Party Presidential Candidates:
• Jared Ball, independent journalist; radio host (WPFW 89.3 FM Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC),
hip-hop scholar, assistant professor of communications studies at Morgan State University
in Baltimore, Maryland
http://www.jaredball.com• Elaine Brown, 2005 Green candidate for Mayor of Brunswick, Georgia; former leader of the Black
Panther Party; organizer of Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice and National Alliance for
Radical Prison Reform
http://www.elainebrown.org
• Jesse Johnson, 2006 US Senate candidate and 2004 gubernatorial candidate for the Mountain
Party in West Virginia (now affiliate state party of the Green Party of the United States); filmmaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxgYnmdHfg
• Cynthia McKinney, former member of the US House of Representatives (Georgia), 1993 to 2003, 2005
to 2007; former member of the Georgia House of Representatives, 1988-1992
http://www.runcynthiarun.org
• Kent Mesplay, 2004 candidate for the Green presidential nomination; former president of
Turtle Island Institute; environmental engineer, alternative energy activist; California Green organizer
http://www.mesplay.org
• Kat Swift, Texas Green organizer; former Campus Greens leader; activist with Clean Money San
Antonio and San Antonio Democracy Now
http://www.bexargreens.org/katforprez
