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Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!“There are Solutions”:
Hear from 5 Green Party Candidates
for the June 3rd Election
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The Green Party is the largest political party in the world. In other countries, the candidates are included in all of the debates and are regularly elected to local, state and federal offices. Green Party candidates do not ever take money from corporations.
In the U.S., Green Party Candidates are routinely blocked from participating in debates in and the media ignores their press releases. There are 58 Greens currently in elected positions in California but none of them are at the state level.
Come hear what the media doesn’t want you to hear. You will be delighted and amazed that there are some very basic solutions to our many serious issues right now, as well as the people who know how to carry out those crucial ideas.
� Ellen Brown, candidate for California State Treasurer
� Laura Wells, candidate for California State Controller
� Jena Goodman, candidate for California State Lieutenant Governor
� Luis Rodriguez, candidate for California State Governor
� Barry Hermanson, candidate for US Congress, District 12/San Francisco
Ellen Brown, candidate for California State Treasurer: Our state has the financial ability, right now, to fully fund education, support small business, rebuild our infrastructure, protect homeowners from Wall Street predatory lending, become a leader in protecting our environment while saving money on energy, and significantly expand low-cost public transportation. With a state-owned, public bank we can make all these changes and more. Ellen has written 2 recent books on these issues.
Laura Wells, candidate for California State Treasurer: Laura Wells is a Green no-corporate-money candidate for Controller. She advocates for a State Bank to invest in California not Wall Street. She would “follow the money” with a call to tax the rich (duh); audit the good and bad of old Prop 13; and apply solutions to the problem of California having both the most super-rich people and the highest poverty rate of any state in the USA. She ran for Governor in 2010 and was arrested outside a gubernatorial debate for “trespassing at a private party.”
www.laurawells.org www.nocorporatemoneycampaign.org
@WellsController
Jena Goodman, candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California. Goodman served over 7,000 students as president of the Associated Students of Napa Valley College from 2012-2013. She is also former chair of the Solano County Green Party. She is currently a student at UC Davis studying biodiversity and ecology. Serving as president of the Associated Students of Napa Valley College exposed her to the issues faced by students within the California Community College, University of California, and California State University systems. Goodman believes California’s public schools, colleges and universities hold the key to fixing many of the problems facing California.
Luis Rodriguez, candidate for California State Governor
LA Weekly in 2012 named Luis J. Rodriguez one of the 60 most fascinating people in Los Angeles. Luis is the author of fifteen books in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s literature, including the 1993 memoir, Always Running,� La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. Luis has received recognition for his writings from numerous literary societies and publications including PEN Oakland, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, the Sundance Institute, KCET-TV and others. The Union Bank of California also designated Luis a “Hero of the Community” for his work co-founding and helping run the nonprofit cultural space Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore.
Luis has received recognition as an “Unsung Hero of Compassion” from the Wisdom in Action Foundation, presented by his Holiness, the Dalai Lama. After removing himself from gangs, crime and drugs which he had been exposed to since age 11, Luis at 19 years old embarked on a life-long path of revolutionary organizing, thinking and writing.� In 1976, at age 22, Luis ran for the Los Angeles Unified School Board, impacting future board races for Latinos and progressives. In 2012, he was the Justice Party’s candidate for Vice-President with Presidential candidate and former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. Luis is married to Maria Trinidad Rodriguez and has four grown children.
In October 2013, Luis embarked on an independent campaign for California Governor.
Barry Hermanson, candidate for U.S. Congress, District 12, San Francisco asks: How is it possible that any politician, like Nancy Pelosi, once elected, never again appears before constituents in a candidate forum or debate? There has been no debate in this Congressional District 12 since 1987. Because of the “top two” primary, only one other candidate will appear on the November 2014 ballot as an alternative to Pelosi. Barry Hermanson intends to be that alternative. He is a long-time activist who played a key role in successful local initiatives such as raising the minimum wage, is championing a platform of global living wages, an improved Medicare for All, and no tuition at all community colleges and public universities in California. He currently serves on the SF Green Party County Council.
http://barryhermanson.nationbuilder.com/