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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	469
Proposal	PLATFORM: Arts: Art as an Expression of our Culturally Diverse Country
Presenter	Platform Committee presenter, Green Party of California sponsor
Floor Manager	David Strand
Phase	Closed
Discussion	07/05/2010 - 07/25/2010
Voting	07/26/2010 - 08/01/2010
Result	Failed
Presens Quorum	31 0.6666
Consens Quorum	80 0.6666 of Yes and No Votes

Background

GPUS Bylaws Article IX. Platform

9-1.1 The GPUS Platform represents policies upon which most Greens would agree and serves as a basis for Green Presidential and Congressional campaigns. The Platform may only be amended as provided by this Article.

9-1.3 In even numbered years in which there is no Presidential Nominating Convention, the National Committee shall be the decision-making body responsible for amending the platform. The process shall be as established in the GPUS Rules and Procedures.

9-1.4 Amendments to the Platform may be submitted for consideration by any accredited state party or caucus, or any committee whose Mission Statement authorizes it.

Proposal

Replace the 2004 text of the Arts section with the following text:

Chapter 1: Grassroots Democracy

Section Title: Arts

Section Subtitle: Art as an Expression of our Culturally Diverse Country

Our position: Greens support freedom of artistic expression and increased funding for the arts, to help build a lively, diverse and instructive culture.

Art can foster healthy relationships between people and their daily environments, communities, and the Earth, including when it advocates compassion, nurturance, or cooperation; or shows connections between various forms of violence, domination, greed and oppression.

Green Solutions

1. Eliminate laws that seek to restrict or censor artistic expression, including the withholding of government funds for political or moral content.

2. Increase funding for the arts, from local, state and federal governments.

3. Establish community-funded programs employing local artists to enrich their communities through public art programs, including public performances, exhibitions, murals on public buildings, design or re-design of parks and public areas, storytelling and poetry reading, and publication are encouraged.

4. Establish more non-profit public forums for local artists to display their talents and creations will enhance and bring together communities.

5. Add community arts programs that awaken the creativity of every student, from the youngest to the oldest. Care should be taken to ensure the inclusion of traditionally neglected groups such as teenagers, senior citizens, prisoners, immigrants, and substance abusers. Such programs would provide materials and access to qualified arts educators for every member of the community who demonstrates an interest.

6. Increase funding for arts education and incorporate it into every school curriculum. We encourage local artists and the community to contribute time, experience, and resources to these efforts.

7. Ensure diversity in arts education, include age-specific hands-on activities, and exposure to the arts of various cultures and stylistic traditions, including world music, and experiences with a variety of media, techniques and contents.

8. Integrate the arts and artistic teaching methods into areas of the curriculum to promote a healthy and holistic perspective.

Resources

none

References

Visit the Platform Committee webpage for this proposal at: http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/comments/?p=560.

On the webpage, you can see various formats of the proposal created by the GPUS Platform Committee and the amendment proposal sponsors including the 2004 and 2010 texts side-by-side. You can also read and respond to comments from Greens around the country, including many who are not on the Green National Committee.

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2004 Platform Original Language

Chapter 2: Social justice
Section Title: Education and arts
Subsection Title: The Arts

2. The Arts

Freedom of artistic expression is a fundamental right and a key element in empowering communities, and in moving us toward sustainability and respect for diversity. Artists can create in ways that foster healthy, non-alienating relationships between people and their daily environments, communities, and the Earth. This can include both artists whose themes advocate compassion, nurturance, or cooperation; and artists whose creations unmask the often-obscure connections between various forms of violence, domination, and oppression, or effectively criticize aspects of the very community that supports their artistic activity. The arts can only perform their social function if they are completely free from outside control.

The Green Party supports:

a. Alternative, community-based systems treating neither the artwork nor the artist as a commodity.

b. Eliminating all laws that seek to restrict or censor artistic expression, including the withholding of government funds for political or moral content.

c. Increased funding for the arts appropriate to their essential social role at local, state and federal levels of government.

d. Community-funded programs employing local artists to enrich their communities through public art programs, including public performances, exhibitions, murals on public buildings, design or re-design of parks and public areas, storytelling and poetry reading, and publication.

e. The establishment of non-profit public forums for local artists to display their talents and creations. Research, public dialogue, and trial experiments to develop alternative systems for the valuation and exchange of artworks and for the financial support of artists. Some examples include community subscriber support groups, artwork rental busts, cooperative support systems among artists, legal or financial incentives to donate to the arts or to donate artworks to public museums.

f. Responsible choices of non-toxic, renewable, or recyclable materials. Funding sources not connected with social injustice or environmental destruction.

g. Education programs in the community that will energize the creativity of every community member from the youngest to the oldest, including neglected groups such as teenagers, senior citizens, prisoners, immigrants, and drug addicts. These programs would provide materials and access to interested, qualified arts educators for every member of the community who demonstrates an interest.

h. Funding and staffing to incorporate arts education into every school curriculum. We encourage local artists and the community to contribute time, experience, and resources to these efforts.

i. Diversity in arts education in the schools including age-specific hands-on activities and appreciative theoretical approaches, exposure to the arts of various cultures and stylistic traditions, and experiences with a variety of media, techniques and contents.

j. The integration of the arts and artistic teaching methods into other areas of the curriculum to promote a holistic perspective.

The United States must respect the measures other nations take to ensure public health, and must not use medication, medical equipment, and other medical necessities, or threats of withholding them, as leverage for political reasons or as extortion for the sake of commercial profit. We oppose any embargo or economic sanction that would cause the suffering or death of civilians.

CONTACTS:
Marnie Glickman marnie - at - greenchange.org
Bruce Hinkforth bhinkforth - at milwpc.com
Gary Ruskin gary - at - greenchange.org

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