[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Military Uses of Outer Space and of the Weather Platform Plank for Comment/Changes by April 22

[Drew]

I really enjoy that as a body we love to speak up about our points of view on policy issues.  I have no desire to rain on this or anyone else's policy parade, buy what I don't love is that we spend the "general business meeting" to kick around social policy points that I think would be better handled by a small group of us that really wants to focus on policy statements and resolutions.  Just like the state and national parties have groups devoted to considering policy statements, we could do the same.  Otherwise I'd be happy to rubber stamp all the good resolutions (provided there's no significant controvery about them of course) that people come up with, but I really have to say I don't think we should bog down our "general business meeting" with anything more than the bare functional minimum of business and leave the rest to committees.  Centralization is antithetical to our 10 Key Values.

Green is GO!

Drew
 
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> From: Caroline Yacoub <carolineyacoub at att.net>
>To: sosfbay-discuss <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org> 
>Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 6:54 PM
>Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fw: Military Uses of Outer Space and of the Weather Platform Plank for Comment/Changes by April 22
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>This is certainly something I can get behind. Can we put this on the agenda for next week's meeting?
>Caroline
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>--- On Sat, 4/20/13, shane que hee <squehee at ucla.edu> wrote:
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>>From: shane que hee <squehee at ucla.edu>
>>Subject: Military Uses of Outer Space and of the Weather Platform Plank for Comment/Changes by April 22
>>To: 
>>Date: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 2:58 AM
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>>MILITARY USES OF OUTER SPACE AND OF WEATHER PROPOSAL
>>>>1. April 10,2013; 2. April 12, 2013; 3. April 17, 2013; 4. April 20 2013
>>>> 
>>>>SPONSOR:  Platform Standing Group
>>>>PRESENTERS/CONTACTS:  Shane Que Hee, squehee at ucla.edu ; 
>>>>SUBJECT:    Military Uses of Outer Space and of Weather in the Peace and Non-Violence Section.  The 10 key values involved are non-violence and personal and global responsibility
>>>> 
>>>>Background and Purpose: 
>>>>Science is progressing so fast that often tools are developed that both help or hinder person kind (See the Green Science platform plank).  
>>>> 
>>>>History has shown us that all inventions and techniques can be
 used for good or ill, for example, a knife can help cut food and kill a person; a plane can be used to transport people or kill people remotely as by drones; and genetic manipulation of DNA may produce better or worse crop yields.  With the current moves to engineer climate  (for example, fertilizing oceans with iron to generate carbon credits; deploying a sulfate aerosol shield to prevent the heating of the planet; liming the oceans to modulate acidity) and the connection of the oceans with the weather, some patents have already been taken out to engineer the weather.  Amongst these include ideas to erect a solar shield to direct rain precipitation (the questions of divergent effects on rich or poor nations and who decides where the rain should fall are not addressed)
>>>> 
>>>>The Green Party believes that prevention is better than cure, and that its key values of Non-violence and  Personal and Global responsibility mandate that
 Outer Space and weather must not be used for military purposes.  Decisions related to weather or climate manipulation must not be left to corporations or single countries.  The Green Party will lead the movement to ensure that.
>>>> 
>>>>The Green Party proposes:
>>>> 
>>>>1.  That Outer Space and the weather be not used for military purposes 
>>>> 
>>>>2.  That this be ratified by neighborhood associations, associations, organizations, city councils, county councils, state governments, parliaments, legislative bodies, countries, international organizations and bodies,  the United Nations, and in international treaties.
>>>> 
>>>>3.  That the International Monetary Fund and all multicountry organizations like the European Community, the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and all individual governments of the world will not fund such
 purposes.
>>>> 
>>>>4.  That the United Nations police the use of ways to control outer space and the weather as military weapons. 
>>>> 
>>>>COMMITTEE DECISION .  The platform plank was suggested by input at the Platform Committee meeting at the San Francisco GPCA General Assembly on May 12/13 2012.  The 1st draft was posted on the GPCA Platform list serve on April  10 2013 with revisions on April 12, April 17, April 20. The platform plank was also posted on Cal-forum and the GROW listserves on April 20 2013.
>>>> 
>>>>RESOURCES:  This platform plank is new.  
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