The California Green Archives and special collections was formally established in 2000. Its goal is to identify, collect, preserve, and make available records of the Green movement

Green politics

Green politics is a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy...

 and Green party to green activists, scholars, writers, historians, and journalists, and for posterity. The collection began in 1991 when volunteer archivist

Archivist

An archivist is a professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to information determined to have long-term value. The information maintained by an archivist can be any form of media...

 Hank Chapot accepted the task of collecting pertinent information from party activities. It has since been expanded to collect any and all products relating to the global Green movement.

The archives hold any documentary materials relating to the founding and establishment of the Green Committees of Correspondence

Green Committees of Correspondence

The Green Committees of Correspondence were founded in the summer of 1984 with the goal of organizing local Green groups, providing a clearinghouse and newsletter, and working toward the founding of a Green political organization in the United States...

, the Green Party of California

Green Party of California

The Green Party of California is the California affiliate of the Green Party. The party is a ballot-qualified in California, first established as such in 1991, using the petition method of gaining state recognition....

, and the wider Green

Green

Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; it is considered...

 political movement in the USA and beyond.

The archives survey available collections and contact current and former Green Party activists and campaigns. Transfers and acquisitions will be made in accordance with a written policy statement, supported by adequate resources and only when consistent with the mission of the archives.

History

A few hundred American political and environmental activists motivated by the success of Die Grünen, the German Green Party, founded the Green Committees of Correspondence in 1984. After a few years of meeting, publishing and corresponding, green activists chose to create a national membership organization called the Green Committees of Correspondence. There followed the establishment of state green parties and finally, the national Green Party of the USA. During this era, a volunteer archivist began the California Green Archives.

Scope

The collection is composed of numerous Series, beginning with foreign platforms, early debate, founding documents, party and candidate literature, minutes of the CoCs, state party meetings, San Francisco and East Bay Green Parties, Green Politics Network, campaign signs, publications, campaigns, video, audio, and miscellaneous ephemera.

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