The Green Party of California (GPCA) is the California affiliate of the Green Party of the United States, founded in 1990. The party is ballot-qualified, with 96,229 people registered in the party and it espouses green politics and the Ten Key Values of ecological wisdom, grassroots democracy, social justice, nonviolence, decentralization, community-based economics, feminism, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility, and sustainability. The key values of decentralization, grassroots democracy, and feminism influence the party’s structure of being composed of autonomous county parties, GPCA decisions being determined by General Assemblies of delegates from the county parties, and Coordinating Committees’ composition being determined by yearly, staggered-term elections of si