Issues Statements
From time to time, the ILGP will formally take a position on a current issue, for example, by endorsing or opposing legislation or urging support for a new law. The following are the issues on which the ILGP has taken a formal position:
Position Paper from 50th Ward Greens on the Workers’ Rights Amendment
Conflicts of interest, serious disagreements and oppositional viewpoints, contradictory philosophies and belief systems, even interpersonal hostilities occur in all areas of life. One of these arenas is the employer-employee workplace, which for the majority of adult...
50th Ward Green Party Endorses Abortion & Full Reproductive Rights National Day of Action
The 50th Ward Green Party fully endorses the planned Abortion & Full Reproductive Rights National Day of Action march and rally on October 8 at noon at Federal Plaza, 219 S. Dearborn, in Chicago. This action is designed to build on the recent vote in Kansas where...
ILGP Opposes HB5589: Nuclear Moratorium Repeal
In line with our platform, which calls for an energy future that is “carbon-free and nuclear-free,” the Illinois Green Party opposes HB5589, which would repeal the moratorium on new nuclear reactor construction in Illinois. HB5589 was introduced on January 28 by...
ILGP Joins Calls for #NoWarWithRussia
The Illinois Green Party Coordinating Committee has approved signing on to Popular Resistance's No War with Russia Open Letter. (Text of the letter below.) Stop the War with Russia over Ukraine! We must act now to stop the war with Russia over Ukraine, a war that...
Illinois Green Party Supports the Chicago Teachers Union
The Illinois Green Party wholeheartedly supports the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in its struggle with the Chicago Public Schools over in-person learning and school safety. The CTU, naturally, is taking a stand to help protect its members from contracting the...
Illinois Green Party Supports Workers Rights Amendment to the Illinois Constitution
The Illinois Green Party, by consensus of the Coordinating Committee, has endorsed the following joint resolution of the 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, State of Illinois, 2021 and 2022, with respect to adding a new section (25) on Workers’ Rights to the Bill of Rights of the...
ILGP Statement on John Deere Strike
The Illinois Green Party supports the John Deere strike and stands with the 10,000 workers at twelve plants that span Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas. As a Fortune 100 company which has seen record profits in 2021, John Deere can afford to equitably compensate workers, as...
RELEASE: Sangamo Valley Green Party Opposes Plans to Further Expand Police Surveillance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 26, 2021 For Further Information: Chris Blankenhorn, chris@howiehawkins.us John Keating, theguywiththesign@gmail.com RELEASE: Sangamo Valley Green Party Opposes Plans to Further Expand Police Surveillance The Sangamo Valley Green Party...
Illinois Green Party Opposes the For the People Act of 2021 (HR1/S1) unless the Campaign Finance section, which Contains Dangerously Undemocratic Poison Pills, is Removed
H.R.1 was passed by the U.S. House on 3/3/2021. S.1 was introduced in the U.S. Senate on 3/17/2021. S.1 is a shell bill intended to eventually be a copy/paste of H.R.1.While the Illinois Green Party (ILGP) supports many of the reforms in this bill such as protecting...
Illinois Green Party Endorses Ranked Choice Voting Bills (SB1785/HB2416) with Recommended Improvements
The synopsis of the Illinois House's Ranked Choice Voting bills (SB1785/HB2416) are "Provides that members of the General Assembly and the offices Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Treasurer shall be elected by...