Grassroots Democracy

Green Party candidates will be on the ballot in Illinois this fall. The state requires a full slate, and the party survived a Democrat challenge to their qualifying petitions. They're angling for debate invitations now. Tribune story here.

Green Party website features 10 key values, apparently in lieu of a specific platform.

1. Ecological wisdom
2. Social justice
3. Grassroots democracy
4. Nonviolence
5. Decentralization
6. Community-based economics
7. Feminism
8. Respect for diversity
9. Personal and global responsibility
   
10. Future focus

What, no explore the universe? Guess that will be a "future focus", but good to know they have a respect for "other life forms".