Montana Green Party Annual Meeting: June 20, 2009

Placed a month before the annual national Green Party meeting at the end of July 2009 in Durham, NC, this state-level meeting is a perfect opportunity for Montana Greens to organize a united front, ready to advocate for local interests and a local spin on national and international concerns.

The Montana Green Party, like every state Green Party affiliate, subscribes explicitly to the Ten Key Values of the Green Party. It expresses such affiliation in its own Montana-centric way:

The Montana Green Party believes in the dignity and moral equality of each and every citizen of our state and our nation. We believe that all forms of discrimination and exploitation devalue individuals and harm their communities. We are dedicated to the realization of social and economic justice; the right of every person to a safe, healthy and productive life free of the threats of poverty, bigotry, and violence.

Montana has been blessed with wondrous natural beauty and a tremendous abundance of resources. The mountains and rivers provide opportunities for recreation and economic sustenance throughout the year, and responsible stewardship of our minerals, fields and forests provide our state with prosperity. The Montana Green Party believes that we must protect these resources for the good of ourselves and our children in perpetuity. Every natural resource we leave in place will become much more valuable in the future. We must end the negative legacy of depletion, debt, and desolation. Ecological wisdom is crucial to our state, our nation and the entire planet. We must be forward-looking and responsible so that our children, and their children, can know the splendor and bounty of our land, our rivers, and our sky.