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- From: bongo@ix.netcom.com (Russell Bentley)
- Newsgroups: alt.hemp,alt.drugs,alt.politics.greens
- Subject: why do we need a Grassroots Party? well...
- Date: 29 Apr 1995 23:35:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <3nuigv$70u@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
-
- The Grassroots Party was formed to promote the interests
- of Peace, Freedom and Justice. After much deliberation,it
- was decided to make the hemp legalization issue our main
- campaign platform. We felt that we could accomplish the
- most good in the most areas by helping to change the law
- against hemp. We felt there would be benefits to the
- environment, civil rights, medicine and the economy, by
- changing this one law.
- When the GRP was founded in 1986, the Hemp Movement was
- in it's infancy, so we forged on alone, only slightly
- ahead of our time.
- Now, ten years later, the Hemp Movement has grown into
- a multitude of organizations, across the nation, and
- around the world.
- The Grassroots Party has grown as well, into a potent
- political organization with dedicated volunteers in
- several different states, ready to bring the struggle
- for hemp legalization into the ballot box, and right
- into the faces of prohibitionist politicians and
- an apathetic public.
- The Grassroots Party is about going head-on against
- narco-fascists, not just as John Q. Public, but as a
- candidate on equal ground, not to ask for mercy,
- but to demand justice.
- Our record speaks for itself.
- The time has come for a nation-wide effort by the Hemp
- Movement. To be effective, it must be POLITICAL, and
- it must be ORGANIZED.
- The GRP is a political organization.
-
- To support ineffective organizations is worse than
- doing nothing, it's wasted effort that could have done
- some good. As the saying goes, "If you plant ice, you're
- gonna harvest wind."
- The Hemp Movement is made up of many great people, who
- contribute to the cause in many diverse ways. The
- GRP salutes and supports all whose efforts support real
- hemp law reform. Total reform.
- The GRP does not support those whose goal is only
- industrial hemp, or only medical hemp or decrim of
- personal amounts.
- These are half-measures that will not address the whole
- situation.
- The GRP supports all these measures, combined, and then
- some. Our goal is to make hemp as legal as corn.
- We will not stop until it's accomplished.
-
- The Grassroots Party has this to offer the Hemp Movement:
-
- 1) A unifying front with genuine political influence, and
- a presence in the ballot box, where laws and policies
- are made and changed.
-
- 2) A program that encompasses all aspects of the hemp
- issue, industrial and medical, as well as civil rights.
-
- 3) Veteran political strategists and dedicated volunteers
- who have traveled to other states, and even other
- countries, to promote hemp legalization. Volunteers and
- resources of the GRP are available to anyone who needs
- assistance in getting a chapter started.
-
- The Grassroots Party needs volunteers.
-
- Hemp legalization is up to those whose political
- sophistication goes beyond a slogan on a t-shirt.
- Those who are not in it to make a buck for themselves.
- Those who are not in it for an ego-trip.
- Those who are willing to to make a commitment.
- Those who are willing to do more than talk.
- "Armchair activists" need not apply.
-
- The time has come for the Hemp Movement to
- get off it's knees.
- The time has come for the Hemp Movement to become a
- political movement.
- The time has come to demand justice.
- The GRP is not about asking for change,
- it's about making change happen.
- The time to get started is NOW.
-
- Contact:
- The Grassroots Party
- P.O.Box 6197
- MPLS,MN. 55406-0197
- USA
-
- phone: (612) 822-3396 voice e-mail: stevea@geom.umn.edu
- (612) 729-2048 fax or bongo@ix.netcom.com
- (612) 722-4GRP Grassnet
- ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR FREEDOM, PEACE AND JUSTICE
- ASK WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR ITSELF.
- LEGALIZE HEMP - VOTE GRASSROOTS
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