Peace and Freedom Party Registration Drive
by Y.
Miranda
I was recently elected to the
Grassroots Venice Neighborhood Council as part of the Progressive slate of 12
people. I want to thank the open-mined community in Venice that supported our
candidacies. It’s great honor for me, to be of service to the community I
love so dearly.
The Peace and Freedom Party has a deeply
rooted history in Venice. It was here that the party started in 1968. The
community activists, war resisters and veterans of the Vietnam war believed that
the two party in this country had no intention in ending the war or addressing
the issues of working people in this country in improving the quality of our
lives.
The Peace and Freedom Party had
been on the ballot for 30 years, but in 1998 we were unable to obtain the 2
percent of the vote to keep our ballot status. We are currently on an intense
registration drive to increase our total by 10,000, to more than the 86,212
needed to return to the ballot. Do third parties have a right to be on the
ballot? Many people have responded affirmatively by registering Peace and
Freedom.
If you believe in any of these
goals: double the minimum wage; free, quality health care for all; good paying
jobs for all; free education for all; free public transportation; affordable
housing; bring the troops home (No More Vietnams); community control of the
police; decriminalize marijuana; end homelessness; support affirmative action,
end the death penalty; and instead of funding wars, spend money to find a cure
for AIDS which globally will kill 56 millions people in less than eight years.
Register P&F to provide an advocate for a better
world.
Please contact Venice P&F at
399-2215, if you would like to help our registration
drive.
You are invited to attend the
Venice Peace and Freedom meeting, held once a month. Call me for details.
I also encourage you to join us in our
every Sunday peace march at 2pm on the boardwalk. We start at 5 Rose Ave. At the
end of the march we have an open mike where anyone can speak their feeling
concerning peace, mass detentions and attack on our civil liberties.
Yolanda Miranda is co-chair
of the Venice Peace & Freedom Party
Posted: Mon - July 1, 2002 at 06:01 PM