Stand with the Green Party of New Jersey in support for working toward peaceful and mature solutions to our challenges with our neighbors around the world. We are demanding that cool heads prevail and that the United States will silence its war drums.

Because we care about climate change, poverty, refugees and migrants, health care, jobs and economy, and human rights, we insist that our elected representatives work with us to build a world where we can be safe, productive, and at peace. We, the people, are the last line of defense against governments, corporations, and politicians who care more for money and power than for the people who are suffering as a result of their short-sightedness and greed. We are promising to act, and to use our voices, to stand up for those people and our planet.

We have seen recently, and over the last decades, politicians from both the major parties plan and cheer on bombings, invasions, regime changes, and various confrontations that are entirely avoidable. As John F. Kennedy said, “Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer.”

War creates terrorists and refugees. It destroys lives, families, well-being, educational opportunities, and hope. It contributes to pollution and climate change and destruction of ecosystems and places of historical and cultural significance. It distracts us from our real problems, takes resources away from the people who need them the most, and causes us to forget our own humanity. It divides the world further, and prevents us from coming together for the greater good.

But, as Kennedy also said, "But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone."

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The Green Party Believes in Non-Violence

It is essential that we develop effective alternatives to society's current patterns of violence. We will work to demilitarize and eliminate weapons of mass destruction, without being naive about the intentions of other governments. We recognize the need for self-defense and the defense of others who are in danger. We promote non-violent methods to oppose practices and policies with which we disagree, and will guide our actions toward lasting personal, community and global peace.

In the 1960s, President Eisenhower warned “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” This complex prefers a state of constant war to maximize profits, reducing the lives of soldiers to an acceptable loss in the pursuit of money.

We reject the notion that there are any benefits from active antagonism toward those raised to mistrust the West. Our desire for their destruction does not lead to a safer, more stable world.