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Greens are people who support some or all of goals of a Green Party without necessarily working with or voting for that or any party. Most of them consider themselves to be part at least of a global Green movement. A potential basis of unity for Greens could be Green values (as made explicit in the Four Pillars and other documents), but even these aren't shared by all people who see themself as Greens.Historically, "being green" developed as a political identity together with the blooming of the peace movement, the ecology movement, and the feminist movement in the late 1970s, the time the first green parties on a local level were founded.
1 Different kinds of Greens
A small sample of the factions or tendencies that exist on the movement's fringe — some only in very small numbers:
- Pacifist Green are those who reject violence entirely, even that done by laws and votes, and do not generally support even simple Electoral Reform. They may support an NGO such as Greenpeace, or more radical groups engaged in destruction of property that propagates violence.
- Deep Greens follow the ascetic ethics of Spinoza, Mohandas Gandhi, and indigenous peoplesIndigenous peoples are: Peoples living in an area prior to colonization by a state Peoples living in an area within a nation-state, prior to the formation of a nation-state, but who do not identify with the dominant nation. The descendants of either of th. They are usually rural people who prefer wild to "tamed" living. Cf. also the ideology of deep ecologyThe phrase Deep ecology was introduced by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1973. Deep ecology is an offshoot of the ecology movement. It is notable for statements that the Earth's carrying capacity for the human population was quite limited, and th.
- Wild GreensWild Greens are a youth movement of the Greens, usually associated with one of the Green Parties. It began as a wing of the New Zealand Green Party, committed to direct action and taking risks of bodily harm to protect nature the wild. The movement has si are a youth movement of New Zealand Green Party, committed to direct actionDirect action is a method and a theory of stopping objectionable practices or creating more favorable conditions using immediately available means, such as strikes, boycotts, workplace occupations, sit-ins, or sabotage, and less oppositional methods such and taking bodily risks to protect nature.
- Viridian Greens are a more artistic movement in the U.S., originated by science fiction writer Bruce SterlingBruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. He writes Catscan for the SF Eye. In 2003 he was appointed Profess, and have fewer objections to media or technology.
- Eco-Anarchists ( Eco-anarchismEco-anarchism argues that small eco-villages (of no more than a few hundred people) are the correct scale of human living, and that infrastructure and political systems should be re-organized to ensure that these are created. It combines older trends towa, Green anarchism) can also be thought of as greens (but not generally Greens).
Greens is also a colloquial term often used when telling children to eat their vegetables, probably because most vegtables that children don't eat are green — in some parts of the United States, greens are a specific type of cooked vegetable, usually collard greens.
