The Maryland Green Party’s Green New Deal
1: Locally-based Economics and Grassroots Democracy
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Fund equitable public financing for state elections.
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Curtail and end pay-to-play politics.
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A thriving multi-party democracy where working class folks have a true voice; enact Ranked Choice Voting and third party ballot access
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A carbon neutral economy capable of providing green jobs for all who need them.
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Add a warning label to all campaign materials funded by the fossil fuel industry and other major climate-destroyer industries.
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Promote community owned banks to provide investment capital to fund green jobs to struggling areas.
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Provide incentives for health care facilities.
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Ensure adequate schooling for all areas of the state.
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Promote locally-based, organic farming and urban gardening.
2: Social and Racial Justice
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Reparations
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Reparations mean repaying communities for harm caused by the state and providing the autonomy for these communities to build the just, green future they choose.
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Initiate Maryland Environmental Neighborhood Defense Corps to remediate all lead paint in Baltimore’s Black Butterfly and brownfield sites across Maryland while incubating democratically-owned green businesses.
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Build bottom-up climate resilience.
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Empowerment of marginalized communities and a democratic economy.
3: Nonviolence:
Climate apartheid and injustice is a major root cause of violence in Baltimore and across the state. Climate justice demands demilitarization and investment in community-controlled public safety.
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Maryland Must Stop Profiting from Climate Pollution by:
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Ending tax breaks for corporate arms dealers.
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Diverting funding from enforcement and incarceration to mediation and peace building.
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Enacting strict controls per and poly fluoroalkyl contamination.
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Grassroots peacekeeping from individuals up, and across Maryland’s society.
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4: Ecological Wisdom
The planet’s resources are finite. We must increase community wealth through greater equity, not unsustainable growth.
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Mandate 100% truly renewable energy: 100 Percent Clean Renewable Energy by 2032.
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Maryland must close all of its coal plants.
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End all animal agriculture subsidies and overfishing.
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End the use of toxic chemicals in our agriculture.
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Phase out factory farms.
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Encourage a plant-based diet.
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Divest state pension funds from fossil fuel companies.
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Protect Maryland's ecosystems and biodiversity, and restore our watersheds and landscapes to function as naturally as practicable.
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Ban single use plastics.
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Begin the just transition to a green future now by all means necessary.
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Build a circular economy that recycles all valuable resources.
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Build an economy powered not by endless growth, but by boundless equity.