The Green Movement is founded on the Four Pillars and Ten Key Values.
The Pacific Green Party of Oregon is founded on a constitution and bylaws. We also maintain a party platform. They are preserved below, in accordance with the legitimate results of voting at the February 24-25, 2024 convention. The radical and blatant tampering of those results, subsequently backed by the state, may by now have resulted in “official” documents very different from these.
In any case, the fundamental structure of the PGP reflects the requirements of Oregon electoral and business law. Business-wise, the party is a non-profit corporation. Electorally, party officers report party financial activity and sign candidate nomination forms. They are responsible for organizing conventions, but are not leaders – the convention itself is the fundamental decision-making body.
All PGP registered voters have the right to participate in nominating candidates. Officers often set up “official” organizational structures beyond their delineated role. Typically, they proceed to demand all members use and conform to these structures. They also typically start purging members they don’t like from these structures. But they can not stop members from voting on candidate nominations, so these purges have little practical effect. Candidate nominations are the only convention decisions of real consequence that members can’t achieve on their own outside of conventions. The real party is the members, not the officers. That’s what this site is about.