2020 GREEN PARTY SENATORIAL NOMINEE
Thank you, delegates to the Green Party of Texas convention, for confirming my nomination on 18 April. This nomination comes with a major asterisk: My name may not appear on Texas ballots, because I submitted my application to run without the $5,000 filing fee (or 5,000 signatures in lieu thereof). A federal lawsuit currently pending may overturn the new filing fee provision.
For more than 30 years, I have participated in various activities with dozens of groups established to promote peace, social justice, economic justice, and environmentally sound policies. Most of my activist work has been within the Green Parties of Texas and Harris County. Currently, I am serving as co-chair of a new organization, Green Party Houston, which focuses on spreading the Green Movement throughout the Houston metropolitan area.
As a practicing Green, I am painfully aware that these ideals of peace, justice, and ecology are connected. We need an intersectional, big-picture approach to retool our society to serve actual humans, not corporate "persons."
The Preamble to the Constitution implies that our government's main purpose is to protect the People from stupidity and greed. Unfortunately, the forces of stupidity and greed have bought the government, and they will not allow our elected representatives to legislate them back into Pandora's box. Perpetual war, gross social injustices, and fossil fuel foolishness continue because they are profitable for the wealthiest 1%. The only way restore power to the People is through revolution, preferably by nonviolent means.
Thank you, delegates to the Green Party of Texas convention, for confirming my nomination on 18 April. This nomination comes with a major asterisk: My name may not appear on Texas ballots, because I submitted my application to run without the $5,000 filing fee (or 5,000 signatures in lieu thereof). A federal lawsuit currently pending may overturn the new filing fee provision.
For more than 30 years, I have participated in various activities with dozens of groups established to promote peace, social justice, economic justice, and environmentally sound policies. Most of my activist work has been within the Green Parties of Texas and Harris County. Currently, I am serving as co-chair of a new organization, Green Party Houston, which focuses on spreading the Green Movement throughout the Houston metropolitan area.
As a practicing Green, I am painfully aware that these ideals of peace, justice, and ecology are connected. We need an intersectional, big-picture approach to retool our society to serve actual humans, not corporate "persons."
The Preamble to the Constitution implies that our government's main purpose is to protect the People from stupidity and greed. Unfortunately, the forces of stupidity and greed have bought the government, and they will not allow our elected representatives to legislate them back into Pandora's box. Perpetual war, gross social injustices, and fossil fuel foolishness continue because they are profitable for the wealthiest 1%. The only way restore power to the People is through revolution, preferably by nonviolent means.
AUTHOR
...of three novels: Eastern Daylight—1997, in its original format, as a free online novel! You can also download each chapter as a separate PDF.
Most of the productive or meaningful writing I have done since 2015 has been in my blog.
...of three novels: Eastern Daylight—1997, in its original format, as a free online novel! You can also download each chapter as a separate PDF.
Most of the productive or meaningful writing I have done since 2015 has been in my blog.