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Building on the positive results of the vigorous campaign for US Senate of Marsha Feinland, and the history-making campaign for President and Vice President of Leonard Peltier and Janice Jordan, the Peace and Freedom Party expanded its organizational base into several new areas.
For the first time in decades, there is an organized P&F chapter in Fresno. Founded the day after the November election, the Fresno County Peace and Freedom Party began immediately to draw interest from disenfranchised voters and a core group of socialists and feminists who never enjoyed any meaningful recognition by the Democrats or Greens.
Led by community activist Gloria Hernandez, president of El Comite No Nos Vamos, and John Crockford, who was a Green Party candidate for State Assembly in the 2004 election, the Fresno Peace and Freedom Party hopes to become a unifying political force. They say, "We will bring real power to the powerless, we will give voice to the voiceless and we will bring justice and peace to all those who have neither."
The party has kicked off its activities with John Crockford's campaign for Clovis City Council in the March 8 election.
Fresno County Peace and Freedom Party
P.O. Box 2191, Clovis, California 93613-2191
http://www.fresnopfp.org
Phone: 559-299-8510
Santa Barbara County Peace and Freedom is just getting organized after a long period of no local organization. We co-sponsored the Just Say No to Bush march and rally on August 29. We have our literature on the table of Art Schwarz, a Green friendly to P & F, who does tabling twice a week at the farmers markets. We have gotten a list of the 238 registered P&F voters in the county. We are planning a mailing to them to verify addresses and see how many want to be active in the party.
Howard Richards
945 Ward Drive # 108
Santa Barbara CA 93111
FAX 805 965 6991
telephone 805 696 6824
HOWARDRI@aol.com
Phil Dynan of Corning is interim County Chair of the Tehama County Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party. Phil was recently active in the John Reiger for congress campaign. Anyone in Tehama County interested in building the local movement should write to Phil Dynan, PO Box 5962, Corning CA 96021.
School teacher Jon Taleb is interim County Chair of the new San Bernardino Peace and Freedom Party. For information, write to: Jon Taleb, PO Box 1453, Joshua Tree CA 92252.
This story is accompanied by photographs of John Crockford and of Gloria Hernandez.
With the death of Robert Matsui, a leading Democratic Party proponent of NAFTA and globalization, a special election has been called in the Fifth Congressional District. John C. Reiger, who ran as the Peace and Freedom Party candidate in the November 2004 election will once again campaign on a platform of peace, freedom and meeting human needs. With this short window of less than two months to build a campaign, he will need all the help he can get. Contact him at:
Reiger for Congress
5301 Harte Way
Sacramento, CA 95822
reigers@earthlink.net
www.JohnReigerforCongress.com
916-456-4595
All our local Peace and Freedom Party groups are much too small to carry out the many tasks before us. If you want to help build a militant, independent movement for peace, freedom and equality, contact one of the PFP numbers below. There's plenty of work for all in this struggle.
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