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Dear County Council & Greens...<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.carol4congress.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.carol4congress.org</a> . 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.<br><br>
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
<a href="http://www.peaceportal.org/people-building-peace-2.0;jsessionid=F74A0AF7604D41C0531E0120B67804BA">
http://www.peaceportal.org/people-building-peace-2.0;jsessionid=F74A0AF7604D41C0531E0120B67804BA</a>
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The book marks the third in
<a href="http://www.peoplebuildingpeace.org/">GPPAC's People Building
Peace series</a>, 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.<br><br>
I will also be honored at an upcoming Project Censored - <b>Dispatches
from the Media Revolution</b> event in Santa Rosa next week-
<a href="http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/dispatches-from-the-media-revolution/">
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/dispatches-from-the-media-revolution/</a>
and miraculously, my whole family will be here and able to join me at
the event!<br><br>
Carol Brouillet<br>
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