Green Cross Movement

The Green Cross Movement is a political movement active in the state of Kings. It was originally founded as the Portland Green Cross Movement in 1962 when the Southern Families in Portland united against the political power of Newhaven. The original Portland movement saw the political actors of Newhaven and their socialist ideals as agents of the Noble City establishment which wanted to keep the state of Kings and its population down. Todays movement has ties with former members of the Portland Green Cross and protests against both the unitarian Lovian state structure and the socialist wealth redistribution programs of the CPL.nm, the strongest party in Kings.

History
In the fifties, Kings was still a poor state and there was not much work in the city of Newhaven. A lot of people left to either Noble City or Hurbanova to find their luck, but some stayed on the isle in search of an escape from poverty. A series of migrations to the southern parts of the isle resulted in the creation of a community that would become present day Portland. The people who migrated there became known as the 'Southern Families'. They farmed the fertile lands in central and southern Kings and the community flourished. At the time that the investments made by the Southern Families started to pay off, politicians with a new mindset get to occupy crucial posts in Newhaven: a series of socialist governors want to use the southern wealth to stimulate economic growth by redistribution programs and subsidizing economic activity in the north.

The Southern Families reacted by uniting themselves in the Portland Green Cross Movement in 1962, a loose political network which opposed the wealth redistribution programs that the governors wanted to impose. The Movement saw the entire set of measures not as a means to get King's economy booming but as a dictate coming from the central government of Noble City. The idea lived that the states of Sylvania and Oceana, who's economy had been slacking throughout the sixties and early seventies, wanted to keep Kings down by tricking it into expanding government and reducing market incentives. of course the lack of socialists in Congress was simply left out of the picture, which made some notable Newhaven politicians believe the Southern Families were being selfish.

The Portland Green Cross Movement sought recognition as a separate 'Southern Kings' state and opposed any regulation coming from outside the commune. The governor of Kings, in cooperation with the Federal Police, broke the resistance with violence and socialist policies were enforced. The Green Cross Movement remained nonetheless active as a committee demanding more autonomy and fighting socialist views. The tensed relation between Portland and Newhaven remained until the eighties, when King's economy was on the rise and the influence of the movement was dropping.

In 2002 the movement was founded anew, though this time as a movement active in all of Kings. The present Green Cross Movement advocates a more confederal state model with great autonomy for the states. This fits in the idea that Kings can only remain wealthy if it doesn't have to look after the other states that did not manage their economies well. Quite obviously, the Green Cross Movement oppose heavily to the CPL.nm which represents both a unitarian and socialist approach and remains the most popular party in Kings.