[GPSCC-chat] Santa Clara Green Party Council Endorsement

[Carol Brouillet]

Dear County Council & Greens...

I just finished the paperwork at the Santa Clara County Voter 
Registrar's office today, to be on the ballot in the upcoming 
primary, running for the 18th Congressional District seat (currently 
held by Anna Eshoo).  Our campaign slogan is "Occupy Congress" and 
with my son helping this time as campaign manager- I actually will be 
doing a campaign this year, although we will have to defeat the 
Republican in the primary to get on the ballot in November.

Mike Feinstein just called and I could be endorsed on the sample 
ballot by the Santa Clara County Green Council, if the Council votes 
in favor and gets that info to Sanda Everette before Wednesday- so 
she can pass it on to the Secretary of State.

We did gather over 600 signatures to offset the filing fee. I am most 
grateful to Tian Harter for not only serving as Treasurer, but 
helping to gather the most signatures (besides me) during that 
effort. We did find a great talented, experienced Green Party 
organizer from the East Coast, Jonathan Fluck (who organizes a Peace 
Film Festival every March in New York - a nice complement to our 
annual Truth Film Festival each September) to join our campaign 
staff, we are looking for office space, as well as more volunteers to 
help with a multitude of tasks.  We are planning a campaign kick-off 
party and other events.  The website still needs work, but is much 
better than before- see http://www.carol4congress.org .  I do hope 
our campaign will help activate and organize many people who haven't 
figured out yet how to participate in systemic change.  We are 
working on a new Perception Dollar, and another especially for the 
Green Party and Green Party candidates.

FYI... A story I wrote "Listening for a Change" was one of the 
winners of a story contest and published in a new book- People 
Building Peace 
2.0 
<http://www.peaceportal.org/people-building-peace-2.0;jsessionid=F74A0AF7604D41C0531E0120B67804BA>http://www.peaceportal.org/people-building-peace-2.0;jsessionid=F74A0AF7604D41C0531E0120B67804BA 

  The book marks the third in 
<http://www.peoplebuildingpeace.org/>GPPAC's People Building Peace 
series, a collection of case studies and stories on civil society-led 
peacebuilding initiatives.  The book represents a unique insight into 
the peacebuilding world and contains not only the 25 winning Stories 
of Peace, but also offers an interesting overview on the evolving 
role of social media in the field of conflict prevention. In the 
first section of People Building Peace 2.0, GPPAC's Programme Manager 
of Preventive Action and Human Security William Tsuma reflects on the 
role of information in crowd sourcing for conflict prevention, while 
Vladimir Bratic (Assistant Professor in Media and Communication at 
Hollins University) provides an overview of the evolving role of 
media (from traditional, to 'new' media) in peacebuilding. The book 
closes with a reflection from the jury and from GPPAC Executive 
Director, Peter van Tuijl. The author of the best story, Francois 
Lenfant, received the first copy of the book at the Peace Portal 
Launch, which took place in The Hague (NL) on January 26th 2012.

I will also be honored at an upcoming Project Censored - Dispatches 
from the Media Revolution event in Santa Rosa next week- 
<http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/dispatches-from-the-media-revolution/>http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/dispatches-from-the-media-revolution/ 
and miraculously, my whole family will be here and able to join me at 
the event!

Carol Brouillet

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