[adcom] Fwd: Re: Resolution or Statement re: Proposal 190

[david rolde]

I'm ok with Owen's statement as is. The only concern I
have is that I don't know the details of the outside
zionist infiltration of vulnerable state GPs that Owen
mentions, although it is easy for me to believe that
this is happening and I do support leaving this
mention in the statement. I'm assuming that the
statement will be communicated to the national party
by Jamie McLaughlin who is going to the national
meeting in Tucson and that Jamie will advocate for
retaining Prop 190.  So I would like to hear from
Jamie about whether she knows these details about the
attempts to rescind prop 190. If not then I hope she
and Owen could talk about it this week.   

Many thanks to Owen for drafting this.

- David

--- Owen Broadhurst <owen.broadhurst at gmail.com> wrote:

> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:22:51 -0400
> From: "Owen Broadhurst" <owen.broadhurst at gmail.com>
> To: adcom.members at green-rainbow.org
> Subject: Re: Resolution or Statement re: Proposal
> 190
> 
> Here we go -
> 
> 
> On Nov. 21, 2005, the Green Party of the United
> States passed Resolution
> 190, which states, in part: "The Green Party of the
> United States (GPUS)
> publicly calls for divestment from and boycott of
> the State of Israel until
> such time as the full individual and collective
> rights of the
> Palestinian people are realized." This Resolution,
> far more than any similar
> resolution in recent memory, has been met with a
> concerted campaign by
> forces outside our party seeking its repeal, a
> campaign that has resulted in
> the infiltration of more vulnerable state parties by
> said forces with the
> goal in mind of compelling National Committee
> reconsideration of the
> resolution.
> 
> The Green-Rainbow Party fully supports the
> implementation of Resolution 190,
> squarely stand against any reconsideration of the
> resolution, and shall
> actively combat all efforts to rescind the
> resolution. The Green-Rainbow
> Party finds its support for Resolution 190 to be
> congruent with, and a
> logical corollary to, both the Green-Rainbow Party
> Statement on Palestine
> and the Ten Key Values. The Green-Rainbow Party did
> adopt its Statement on
> Palestine at its June 2005 state-wide convention,
> and the Green-Rainbow
> Party did adopt this statement in the hopes that the
> Green Party of the
> United States might adopt a similar statement as it
> did in November.
> 
> The Green-Rainbow Party therefore must convey not
> only deep disappointment,
> but also grave concern, over reports that some hope
> to have a motion
> entertained at this July's Tucson Green National
> Committee Gathering that
> would rescind the resolution. The Green-Rainbow
> Party firmly believes that
> any rescinding of the resolution, period, but most
> especially the rescinding
> of the resolution at a time when the State of Israel
> is engaged in the most
> horrible of crimes and atrocities throughout its
> waging of terribly
> one-sided campaigns against the very peoples of
> Lebanon and Gaza, would send
> both Israel and the United States a most alarming
> message.
> 
> We call on our sisters and brothers throughout all
> caucuses and affiliates
> of the Green Party of the United States to reaffirm
> our committment to
> divestment and Resolution 190, condemn the State of
> Israel's scorched Earth
> campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza, recognize the
> Palestinian right of return,
> and pressure the United States to halt all military
> support immediately.
> 
> The Green-Rainbow Party Statement on Palestine now
> follows:
> 
> The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts, in
> consonance with its adherence
> to its Ten
> 
> Key Values, has the following position on the issue
> of Palestine. This
> statement will be
> 
> submitted to the national party through the
> International Committee:
> 
> 1. The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts calls
> for the end of all
> American military
> 
> and economic aid to Israel. Additionally, the
> Green-Rainbow Party of
> Massachusetts
> 
> supports the following means to bring pressure to
> bear on Israel: Divestment
> initiatives
> 
> that seek to withdraw institutional investments from
> Israel state bonds and
> 
> corporations that do business with Israel; academic
> boycotts of Israeli
> academics and
> 
> academic institutions.
> 
> 2. The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts calls
> for an ecologically sound
> 
> commitment to equitably sharing and conserving all
> water and other natural
> resources
> 
> among all peoples of the region.
> 
> 3. The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts supports
> full implementation of
> the Right
> 
> of Return for each Palestinian refugee, which means
> each Palestinian has the
> right to
> 
> choose to return to his or her home and lands. This
> right is a fundamental
> human right
> 
> and is enshrined in international law for all
> peoples of the world.
> 
> 4. The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts rejects
> all apartheid-based
> governmental
> 
> systems and calls for a secular, democratic
> governing entity for all people
> in the
> 
> geographic region of historic Palestine (today
> referred to by some people as
> Israel, the
> 
> West Bank and Gaza). We support a democratic system
> with equal rights for
> all in
> 
> which the peoples of the region democratically
> decide their future.
> 
> 5. The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts
> recognizes the right of
> Palestinians to
> 
> self-defense as well as nonviolent resistance to
> Israeli occupation and the
> Israeli
> 
> project of forced displacement of the indigenous
> Palestinian population
> which has
> 
> been ongoing since 1948. The right to resist
> occupation is guaranteed to all
> peoples of
> 
> the world by international law.
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/16/06, Owen Broadhurst
> <owen.broadhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hello, folks -
> >
> > I'm much later on this than I had intended to be.
> My hope was to have a
> > statement for you by Friday night, but that
> obviously did not happen. I hope
> > to have something for you folks soon.
> >
> > OB
> >
> > --
> > Owen R. Broadhurst
> > Candidate for State Representative
> > Third Hampden District
> > http://www.owenbroadhurst.org
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Owen R. Broadhurst
> Candidate for State Representative
> Third Hampden District
> http://www.owenbroadhurst.org
> 


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