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<TITLE>December 1st Deadline -- Please sign petition to GPUS that you agree that Elaine Brown should be considered a national draft candidate for the GPUS presidential slot</TITLE>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"What Elaine Brown writes is so astonishing, at times it is even difficult to believe she survived it. And yet she did, bringing us that amazing light of the black woman's magical resilience, in the gloominess of our bitter despair."</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">-Alice Walker</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=7 FACE="Courier New">…</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">ACTION BACKGROUND December 1st Deadline:</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Green Party Peoples/Friends/Fellow Travelers/Comrades, </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Please send me your name and your state where you are a green party member in good standing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">so that we can have by December 1st 100 names from at least five different states who, while not necessarily endorsing Elaine Brown for GPUS president, at least feel that the GPUS should consider her as a draft candidate for our nomination.</FONT></I></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">-Henry Duke</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">ACTION</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The petition you will attach your name to will be to this effect:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">We the undersigned -- all green party members in good standing from our respective states -- request that the GPUS consider Elaine Brown, former Green Party Member for Mayor of New Brunswick Georgia, an official draft candidate for the US presidential nomination and/or endorsement for this same office.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">1. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Henry Duke, Green Party of California</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Matthew Freiberg, Green Party of California</FONT></SPAN>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">BACKGROUND</FONT></B></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Courier New">Elaine Brown</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> amoungst top-runners Ralph Nader (4% national polling) and Cynthia McKinney (0%) national polling,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Courier New">is the only serious GPUS draft candidate for president who has both</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> #1)a long consistent public record of working for the public interest and against the racist prison- and military-industrial complex</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B> <FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Courier New">and #2)an enduring green party membership</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> of Georgia and the US for over 3 years now, having run as a green party candidate for the mayorship of Georgia's major port city of Brunswick before coming under attack by the good ole boy network -- a network historically of the democratic party -- and having her name removed from the ballot in the white controlled but Black-majority town.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Here in Orange County, California we have been distributing her autobiography of her experience in shaping the Black Panther party which led ultimately to becoming the first Womyn chair of that organization and to several local campaign runs, and it is a book which electrifies young people and student leaders committed to peace, feminism, and social justice who see Elaine as an embodiement of these values both inside and outside of electoral politics which so many of our younger, working, and oppressed people feel rightly disenfranchiced from and cynical towards.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The book is </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">A Taste of Power, A Black Woman's Story</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Kirkus Reviews called it:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"A stunning picture of a black woman's coming of age in America. Put it on the shelf beside The Autobiography of Malcolm X"</FONT></SPAN></P>
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