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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	1122
Proposal	2022 Platform Amendment: Chapter II, Section A, Plank 10 Consumer Protection
Presenter	Platform Committee Sponsor: National Black Caucus
Floor Manager	Chris Stella
Phase	Closed - Failed
Discussion	11-14-2022 - 12-11-2022
Voting	12-12-2022 - 12-18-2022
Presens Quorum	Two Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens Quorum	Two Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

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Proposal

Amend Chapter II. Social Justice, Section A. Civil Rights and Equal Rights, Plank 10. Consumer Protection, as follows:

(1)
Current version:
The Green Party supports strong consumer protections against fraud, dangerous products, usury, corporate greed and rip-offs

New version:
The Green Party supports strong consumer protections against fraud, dangerous products, *experimental drugs and other untested pharmaceutical products*, usury, *planned obsolescence*, corporate greed and rip-offs.

(2)
Current version:
We believe that prevention and justice are at the heart of consumer protection. Millions of lives will be saved or lost depending on the strength of our consumer protection laws. We aim to stop corporations and others from defrauding consumers or endangering them with defective products or negligence. We stand with consumers, who have been injured or defrauded by corporations and others, and support their efforts to redress the wrongs done to them. We stand with whistleblowers, who are often the public's best protection against corporate crime, fraud and waste

New version:
We believe that prevention and justice are at the heart of consumer protection. Millions of lives will be saved or lost depending on the strength of our consumer protection laws. We aim to stop corporations and others from defrauding consumers or endangering them with defective products or negligence. *Under no circumstances should any medical treatment or procedure — including psychotropic medications, vaccines and/or other injectable treatments — be mandated or coerced except in the event of mental, physical, or public health emergency or crisis.* We stand with consumers, who have been injured or defrauded by corporations, health care industries, and others, and support their efforts to redress the wrongs done to them. We stand with whistleblowers, who are often the public's best protection against *government overreach*, corporate crime, *medical malpractice*, fraud and waste.

(3)
Current version:
We recommend the following actions:
Strengthen product safety standards and enforcement for a variety of products, including food, motor vehicles, pharmaceuticals and airplanes.

New version (removed *airplanes*):
We recommend the following actions:
Strengthen product safety standards and enforcement for a variety of products, including food, motor vehicles, *aircraft, drones, electronics, software, weapons, tobacco, alternative medical treatments* and pharmaceuticals

(4)
Current version:
b. Restore state health, safety, and consumer protection laws by striking federal preemptions that weaken state law.

New version:
b. Restore state health, safety, and consumer protection laws by striking federal preemptions that weaken state law. *Any government or private sector entities imposing restrictions from public spaces that require “passports" or any other proof of "compliance" with any medical treatment violates Constitutional, Consumer Protection and HIPAA laws.*

(5)
Current version:
Preserve and expand product-labeling requirements to ensure that consumers are fully informed about the origin, ingredients, and ecological life cycle of all products, including animal testing, and the product’s organic, recycled, and genetically engineered content. Include information about the nutritional value and the vegetarian or vegan status of food products. Require stringent “Eco-Labeling” requirements which show the “environmental impacts associated with the production or use of a product.” This may include land use, water use, waste byproducts, emissions, and more.

New version:
c. Preserve and expand product-labeling requirements to ensure that consumers are fully informed about the origin, ingredients, and ecological life cycle of all products, including animal *and human testing*, and the product’s organic, recycled, and genetically engineered content. Include information about the nutritional value and the vegetarian or vegan status of food, *beverage, toiletry, clothing, medical, and dental* products. Require stringent “Eco-Labeling” requirements which show the “environmental impacts associated with the production or use of a product.” This may include land use, water use, waste byproducts, emissions, and more.

(6)
Current version:
Prohibit corporations from concealing information about public health, labor conditions or environmental safety via protective orders or confidential settlements.

New version:
d. Prohibit corporations from concealing information about public health, labor conditions or environmental safety via protective orders or confidential settlements, *especially due to the healthcare industry’s history of fraud, bribery, lawsuits and scandals.*

(7)
Current version:
Expand class action rights against manufacturers of unsafe products and practices, and strengthen the civil justice system and supply the resources necessary to bring to justice to those corporations that injure innocent consumers.

New version (completely replaced the original sentence):
e. *Disallow immunity from liability and expand class action rights against manufacturers of unsafe products and practices, strengthen the civil justice system and supply the resources necessary to prevent corporate fraud, bribery, lawsuits and scandals.*

(8)
Current version:
Protect whistle blowers against demotion, job loss, and other forms of retaliation.

New version:
f. Protect *whistleblowers and employees who refuse to participate in illegal conduct or conduct that otherwise is harmful to the public interest, from* demotion, job loss, and other forms of retaliation.

(9)
Current version:
h. Grant consumers the right to limit collection and secondary use of personal information by any commercial entity.

New version:
h. Grant consumers the right to limit collection and secondary use of personal information by any commercial entity *by use of privacy-invasive technology and artificial intelligence (AI) monitoring systems.*

Resources

Approval of this proposal will amend the 2020 GPUS Platform.

Contact:
Philena Farley, pifbits@ohiogreens.org

NBC Co-Chair
Darryl! Moch, nubianphoenix1@gmail.com

References

This proposal is also available with improved formatting for comment at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VZuvf8SYcORQc7EGYWxXuVocn4ASr9QH1H50KHXPET4/edit?usp=sharing

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