PEACE -- By Popular Demand!!
Voting has become an excercise in futility, so far as the peace movement is concered.
Oregon has the opportunity to take a different kind of electoral strategy for peace-oriented progressives.
Taking into consideration the nature of our two party electoral system, it is incumbent on us to try different strategies to yield different outcomes.
Every citizen who is concerned about the cause of Peace should help us in our effort.
Now, the Peace Party is currently collecting signatures to form in Oregon in time for the Fall 2008 Election.
As concerned citizens, we are committed to a platform that is intended to encourage our elected officeholders to promote policies that strengthen the cause of peace and social justice across the globe.
Demand Change!
- A six-month timetable for withdrawing all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Cut the US military budget in order to increase investment in education and domestic infrastucture.
- Encourage local energy independence -- Increased subsidies for environmentally-friendly energy alternatives. No more subsidies for oil, coal, and nuclear industries.
- Establish a cabinet-level Department of Peace.
Enough talk. How we get there?
Right. The Peace Party supports instant-runoff voting, a reform in which voters have one vote and rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives a majority of first preference rankings, the candidate with the fewest number of votes is eliminated and that candidate's votes redistributed to the voters' next preferences among the remaining candidates. This process is repeated until one candidate has a majority of votes among candidates not eliminated. (irv info redacted from wikipedia)