Complete Agenda

Steering Committee Proposals A Resolution and Motion to Fold the SRC into the Steering Committee Whereas the Green Party of Virginia (GPVA) Steering Committee has a broad mission to function to perform planning, steering, and the formulation of strategies for achieving GPVA's growth and success, and Whereas the GPVA Structural Reform Committee (SRC) has had a mission to review GPVA bylaws and recommend bylaws changes, a mission which has similarly functioned to perform planning, steering, and the formulation of strategies for achieving GPVA's growth and success, and Whereas the Steering Committee and the SRC are similar and compatible in intent and purpose, and Whereas GPVA human resources are limited, Therefore CVG is hereby Resolved that CVG shall encourage and put before the GPVA's next quarterly meeting a motion to fold the personnel and function of the SRC into the personnel and several functions of the Steering Committee, which motion shall also include the provisions: that all members of the SRC shall be welcomed into the Steering Committee, that the SRC's responsibility of ongoing GPVA structural reform through bylaws review and recommendation shall be formally added to the responsibilities of the Steering Committee as a GPVA bylaws amendment, that the Steering Committee shall give that continuing responsibility all due and prompt attention, and that the GPVA congratulates and commends the members of the SRC for their leadership, dedication, and achievement in GPVA's behalf, and for their two years of diligence, skill and hard work in making the SRC not only a great success, but also, an important bridge in GPVA history. Add a line C.9 to existing Section XXIII of the GPVA bylaws: The Steering Committee shall review the GPVA bylaws, and may recommend changes and/or structural reforms. A GPVA Resolution Against the Decriminalization of Cross-Burning Read, Discuss, Vote - 5-7 Minutes Resolved: The GPVA calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold civil rights and social justice in the United States by declaring Virginia's prohibition of cross-burning to be constitutional, as it is a prohibition of threatening, intimidating, terrorizing conduct and action, and is not a prohibition of ideology, nor of protected speech. A GPVA Resolution in Support of Affirmative Action in College Admissions Read, Discuss, Vote - 5-7 Minutes Resolved: The GPVA calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold civil rights and social justice in the United States by declaring the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions policy constitutional, as it promotes the compelling State interest of diversity and pluralism reflective of the Constitution, promotes the robust exchange of ideas necessary to academic freedom consistent with the First Amendment, and, as race is used as one factor among many factors to evaluate each individual's contribution to the academic environment, it is therefore not a quota system. A GPVA Resolution in Support of a Just and Innovative Virginia Water Plan Read, Discuss, Vote - 5-7 Minutes Resolved: The GPVA calls upon the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to develop a just and innovative State Water Plan that: a) prioritizes conservation, water recycling, desalinization, and urban-infill development; b) creates strong protections for fisheries, species, shorelines, Native American and other minority communities, archaeological sites, and historic rural areas; c) incentivizes riparian buffers, and reduces agricultural, suburban, and urban run-off; d) creates strong penalties for loggers who log streamsides, damaging and polluting streams; e) disallows grandfathering of any older water planning so that all water planning is subject to the higher standards of this State Plan; f) terminates the proposed King William Reservoir project, which severely threatens tribal cultures and destroys 400 acres of wetlands; g) redoubles the Commonwealth's commitment to work with other states and the nation to: restore the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries; reduce and end acid rain; and introduce cleaner automobile and truck emissions; h) increases public water testing and publishes results with transparency and accessibility; i) imposes serious, deterrent penalties upon corporate and other point-source polluters. Proposal to Create a GPVA Coordinator to Facilitate GPVA Opposition to the King William Reservoir Read, Discuss, Vote - 5-7 Minutes Proposed: That the GPVA appoint a coordinator to facilitate GPVA opposition to the King William Reservoir (KWR). Duties of the coordinator shall include acting in concert with other GPVA officials to: a) provide information and education on the issue to all GPVA members; b) facilitate communications between GPVA members and the coalition of groups opposing the KWR; c) draft a GPVA organizing and action plan on this issue for GPVA's deliberation and adoption; d) encourage GPVA members and the GPVA to take actions in opposition to the KWR, and facilitate same. Resolution to Condemn Censorship Sponsors: D.C.Amarasinghe, Nikitah Imani, Charlie Jordan Whereas, there has been no more critical time to advance in the consciousness of the world's people the actual physical and spiritual consequences of war in the global community, Whereas, knowledge and consciousness of such definite effects on the victims of war is part and parcel of advancing the United Nations' goal of beating swords into plowshares, Whereas, the United Nations is currently considering matters which have likely consequences in the area of causing such war and generating such effects, Whereas, the art work "Guernica", was selected to represent the organization's charter and historical organizational commitment to avoid such consequences, and whereas, censorship in general is against the tenets of the UNESCO because it represents a fundamental violation of important elements of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and whereas, the United Nations purports to act in the larger global interests of all states in preventing war and promoting that prevention and not in the individual predilections of individual member-states, Be it resolved that the GPVA calls on the United Nations to decloak the reproduction of Picasso's "Guernica" mural and to formally apologize for covering it as a violation of its aims and the aims of peace, which it aims to promote. Be it further resolved, that GPVA calls on the US Green Party, FPVA, the Global Greens, and other associated Green parties to take up this matter and to consider similar resolutions on behalf of all Greens.