Green Party Candidates Nationwide Support Plan for "Green New Deal"

From Green Change:

Sixty-nine Green Party candidates nationwide today called for a “Green New Deal,” to cut military spending by at least 70%, provide single-payer universal health care, make tuition free at public universities, create millions of new green jobs, abolish corporate personhood, ban usury and legalize marijuana.

Green candidates calling for the Green New Deal include ten candidates for governor, eight for the U.S. Senate and twenty-two for the U.S. House of Representatives.
“The Green New Deal is a complete break from the failed policies of the Democratic and Republican parties that have led us to economic and environmental disaster,” said Gary Ruskin, co-founder of Green Change, a national political organization.

“The Greens will pick up the New Deal torch the Democrats have dropped, reclaim the goals they have abandoned, such as job creation through public investment and single-payer health care, and expand the goals to include a sustainable green economy,” said Howie Hawkins, Green candidate for governor of New York.

These are the ten planks of the Green New Deal:

• Cut military spending at least 70%
  
• Create millions of green union jobs through massive public investment in renewable energy, mass transit and conservation
  
• Set ambitious, science-based greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, and enact a revenue-neutral carbon tax to meet them
  
• Establish single-payer "Medicare for all" health care
  
• Provide tuition-free public higher education
  
• Change trade agreements to improve labor, environmental, consumer, health and safety standards
  
• End counterproductive prohibition policies and legalize marijuana


  
• Enact tough limits on credit interest and lending rates, progressive tax reform and strict financial regulation
  
• Amend the U.S. Constitution to abolish corporate personhood
  
• Pass sweeping electoral, campaign finance and anti-corruption reforms

Green candidates who have endorsed the Green New Deal include . . . [follow the link for candidate list.]