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Green Party

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San Diego’s 2008 mayoral election includes Green Party member and candidate Rocky Neptun. Nationally, Greens are the third-largest political party; locally, the contingent numbers fewer than 5,000. Neptun, director of the San Diego Renters Union, will not run solely as a Green candidate. Six other progressive organizations have banded together to form the San Diego Coalition for Clean and Fair Government.

“Our environmental platform includes mandatory green building for all structures, total renewable energy sources mandated by 2021 and water independence through water-desalinization plants,” says Neptun. “Also, free public transportation to get people out of their cars, requiring all businesses, nonprofits and government agencies to file environmental impact yearly reports, opening the industrial waste-recycling plant at Miramar and mandatory recycling ordinances.”

According to its Web site ­(sdgreens.org), the Green Party is a political party and a global movement. Its goal is to elect people to office and implement social reform to reverse the role big corporations and money play in current world politics. Party members are not solely environmentalists. They are advocates for social justice, nonviolent resisters, small-business owners, disaffected Demo­crats, grass-roots activists, students and regular citizens who’ve “had enough of corporate-dominated politics.”
—RON DONOHO



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