Civil Rights

End racial profiling by police and the criminal justice system. Enact a moratorium on the death penalty. End the mistreatment of undocumented residents. Legalize undocumented workers. Provide a legal driver's license for all immigrants. Support programs to overcome past discrimination and its lingering effects. Equality for people of all sexual orientations, including equal civic rights for same-sex couples. Protect religious freedom for all by guaranteeing separation of church and state. Advocate for women's rights and reproductive freedom.

We Greens believe in the brotherhood/sisterhood of all people. We believe that we need to work together as a species to make a quality life available to every human being on this planet. We believe in diversity - not just tolerance of diversity, but a celebration of it as our strength.

We believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We encourage all Californians to exercise their right to vote, to speak in public, to practice any religion freely. Only when there is a public conflict of ideas do the best ideas gain acceptance. We are concerned that the concentration of the media in the hands of a few corporate owners is preventing the free interchange of ideas by limiting the exposure of ideas deemed too "extreme" by the corporate interests. We fear that this straitjacket placed on our public debate will prevent us from dealing with the challenges facing our state.

What better example than the exclusion of Camejo from the debate sponsored by the Los Angeles Times. The people of California would like to hear the Green point of view, but the mass media choose not to accede to the wishes of the people.

Camejo's Debate Response: Should undocumented immigrant workers be able to get driver's licenses, as the recently vetoed AB 60 would have allowed?

"[Davis] promised for three years he would sign it, then he betrays the Latino community and doesn't sign it. And first, he watered it down tremendously, so it was not recognizable. I would have signed the original bill. I think people who are living here and paying taxes--and all the powers that be know they're here and accept that they're here--cannot be denied to have normal status."