Activist

The Green Party of Colorado Activist Committee (not currently functioning in 2011)

Created at the 2005 State Meeting, this committee is to concentrate on issues and activities the GPCO should become involved in.

Past Co-chairs: Allen Butcher, Judith Mohling

TCD Resolution

The Green Party of Colorado, and Greens everywhere, work for nonviolence, free speech, social justice and equal opportunity for all in our society. We believe that embracing ethnic and cultural diversity results in a stronger and more democratic society. This democratic embrace of diversity can serve as a means of resolving conflict as it works against violence, racism, discrimination and inequality. Therefore, as a means of working to heal the contemporary effects of historic racism and genocide in North America, the Colorado Green Party endorses the call to transform the Columbus Day holiday.

Columbus Day celebrates a man and a worldview that began the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. As a city, state, and nation, we can work to heal this painful history of ethnic cleansing of the Western Hemisphere through expanding the official Columbus Day holiday to one that honors the heritage of all peoples, indigenous as well as immigrant, while preserving free speech.

The Green Party of Colorado calls upon Mayor John Hickenlooper and Governor Bill Owens to use their leadership to form a mediation commission bringing together supporters and opponents of the celebration of the Columbus Day Holiday in the City of Denver and the State of Colorado, so that we might resolve the ongoing conflict. We also call upon our elected leaders to create a new state holiday that celebrates our diverse cultural heritage and envisions a future for the Americas that is free of racism and dedicated to social and economic justice for all.

* If you are interested in reorganizing the Activist Committee, please contact a state officer or your state council representative in your nearest local Green chapter.