Green Party of New York State Chooses "Peace Slate" for 2006
GPNYS
Peace Slate
Top row: Howie
Hawkins, Julia Willebrand
Bottom Row: Alison Duncan, Malachy McCourt, Rachel Treichler
Photo by Deyva
Arthur
Albany,
NY - On May 20, 2006, the Green Party of New York State
chose the following candidates as its Peace Slate:
Malachy McCourt
for Governor
Malachy McCourt is the author of ‘A Monk Swimming’, a New York Times
bestseller. “Peace is not just the absence of war; peace is where we
are safe and secure in our lives and privacy,” said Mr. McCourt, who
supports demilitarizing the National Guard by bringing them home from
Iraq and converting them into a civilian environmental corps.
Alison
Duncan for Lt. Governor
Alison Duncan: “New York’s disadvantaged should not see the military as
their only option for an education and an honest job. As Lt. Governor
candidate, I will be campaigning for free public higher education and
strong economic development initiatives for our state.”
Howie
Hawkins for US Senate
Howie Hawkins will challenge Sen. Clinton over her support for the war
in Iraq, and will call for immediate return of U.S. troops and
impeachment of President Bush. Mr. Hawkins, a member of the Teamsters
Union, will also challenge the two major parties for failing to respond
to global warming; he supports major investments in energy
conservation, efficiency, and investment in renewable energy sources,
which will create new jobs in New York.
Rachel
Treichler for Attorney General
Rachel Treichler: “Illegal barriers to voting and ballot access have
allowed money to trump democracy in government decision making.”
Julia
Willebrand for Comptroller
Julia Willebrand said, “I will use the power of the Comptroller as sole
trustee of $115 billion in retirement investments as an instrument of
peace, joining other states efforts to end the genocide in Darfur by
divesting from companies doing business in Sudan.”
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This
year, we can make a big difference. . .
WE can vote for a Green Mayor who’s for:
- affordable
housing for New Yorkers
- strengthening
rent control and rent stabilization
- spending public money
for science, language, arts and music programs in the public schools
for our children.
- enforcing
the New York State Supreme Court decision demanding that the state
release the $10 billion owed by the state to New York City schools.
- expanding our mass
transit system by extending subway lines and adding on light rail and
trolleys to provide a clean, energy efficient alternative to auto
traffic
- emphasizing
energy conservation and decentralized alternatives to fossil
fuels, like neighborhood co-generators, solar cells,and wind and wave
turbines. These will replace energy dependence, price
gouging,blackouts, and projects to build more dirty power plants—all of
which have led to record annual oil company profits at the expense of
public health and pocketbooks.
- legalizing gay marriage with the full rights
accorded straight couples
WE can vote for a Green Mayor who will
implement Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1944 Economic Bill of Rights that
called for:
- a living wage through
full employment through public works as in the New Deal’s WPA program
- affordable housing
- free
health care
- free college(as was
the case with the City
University
from 1847 to 1975)
WE can vote for a Green Mayor
who will conduct city business transparently (as the current New
Paltz Green Mayor and City Council do)
- I will not engage in
any backroom deals on city contracts.
- I’ll hold public
hearings with public bidding.
- I’ll open the books
to public inspection of the MTA and all other city agencies
WE can vote for a Green Mayor
who will support city workers. We
say the municipal employees of New
York have the right to:
- a
good,
expansive system of public services
- go
on strike for
a decent contract. The Taylor Law, enacted in 1967, forbids municipal
workers (Transit,
Police,
Fire, Teachers, Professors, etc.) from striking, unlike the situation
in other industrialized nations. An important
objective of Greens is to get workers of all kinds unionized and to
insure the right of all workers to unionize. The union movement is in a
tragic decline and the Green Party stands for reinvigoration of the
union movement.
HOW CAN WE PAY FOR
THESE SERVICES
AND MAKE NEW YORK MORE LIVEABLE?
- Instead
of a sales tax that discriminates against poor and working
people, a carbon tax on fossil-burning fuels that cause asthma
and other health problems.
- The Helsinki
fine system that fines people according to income--not a
fine system that penalizes poor and working people
- Restoration
of the stock transfer tax that we had until 1980
- An annual tax of 1/100 of
1% on the net assets of
all
stocks represented, on private estates, banks and corporations worth
over $2 million.
- Restore
the progressive income tax we had in the 1950s, when top income
earners were in the 91% tax bracket.
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