Green Party USA Statement on the Disasters.

• Position: World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks - Brief Article

All good people abhor the death and destruction of September 11, 2001. People of the world want peace. But they also want justice.

Looking past today, we need to learn how to stop terrorism, how to break the cycle of hatred and revenge. We need to come up with just and positive alternatives.

Clearly, the way countries now deal with one another isn't working. The world needs leaders who will set good examples for Earth's peoples.

Can we not be grown-ups and use this latest disaster as a starting point for working together towards peace? There is no security in revenge, only a continuous escalation of killing once the hatreds are solidified.

What can we do so people do not feel they have to attack others?

What do people in the third world want from the United States?

1. Stop interfering. If American-based corporations choose to take risks by attempting to steal another country's natural resources, do not support these corporations with American military or in any way. In fact, corporations should be actively discouraged from taking advantage of poor regions of the world, including in the USA.

2. Stop US military incursions and blockades of needed food and other goods anywhere in the world. These anti-human acts, being engaged in by US military every day, kill many civilians and engender permanent hatreds towards Americans.

3. Stop selling arms to the world, which enables many, who would not otherwise have the means, to attack and kill others.

4. Bring all American troops home from all over the world. We do not need far-flung bases whose only purpose is to protect US businesses. Let US corporations, so busy using up Earth's resources and beggaring Earthis life forms, protect themselves. "Defense" should mean only that; defending ourselves when necessary against harm.

5. Stop the manufacture and sale of most pesticides and industrial toxic chemicals; especially stop shipping hazardous chemical wastes to Third World nations. Have full public disclosure and debate before the creation and/or use of any toxic chemical, with citizens wherever there might be exposure having the right to make these decisions.

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