AN APPEAL TO PROGRESSIVE CALIFORNIANS

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AN APPEAL TO PROGRESSIVE CALIFORNIANS

from Noam Chomsky, Juan Gonzalez, Gerald Horne, Manning Marable, Michael
Parenti, Howard Zinn and many more (see below)

We, the undersigned, urge you to join with us and ACT NOW to support the
ballot status of a reinvigorated left voice ? the Peace and Freedom
Party. Without P&F there would be no democratic socialist alternative on
California?s 2002 ballot.

In July alone, P&F gained 5,000 new registrations. If it is to compete in
next year?s election, another 11,000 voters must register with Peace and
Freedom by Oct. 2.

We are supporting P&F?s effort because we support the issues it will
bring before the public and/or we favor the expansion of the democratic
process by including more parties ? and viewpoints ? into the electoral
arena.

Most of us believe a left party that expresses the needs of working and
poor people, regardless of sexual orientation, especially people of color
and women, should be on the ballot to address the issues confronting
Californians, such as:

* We need a clear voice that will counter the energy ripoff with a demand
for a democratically-run public power agency.

*   We need an insistent voice that will demand an end to the
prison-industrial complex, repeal of the three-strike law, release of
political and economic prisoners, an end to police abuse in our
communities and an end to state executions of the poor, and predominately
Black and Latino prisoners.

*   We need a tireless voice that will speak up for poor and working women
and their right to control their own bodies, for their right to raise
their children without being forced to work for corporations.

*   We need a militant voice that will stand up for workers and their
unions against scabs and neoliberal globalization, and for peoples needs
not corporate profits.

*   We need a caring voice that will fight for free health care, free
quality public education, affordable mass transit, a decent
rent-controlled home and a basic income for all Californians.

If you currently are not registered to vote or are registered Democrat,
Republican or independent, we urge you to register Peace and Freedom and
ask your friends and co-workers to register P&F.

You can download a voter registration form at
<http://www.peaceandfreedom/eng_vote.pdf> (write in *Peace and Freedom*
in Box 7) or pick up a form at your local library or post office. If you
can help support this campaign financially, please send a check to P&F at
the address listed below.

We want to thank you for doing your part to extend the democratic process
by guaranteeing that this important voice of the left is on the
California ballot.

>From (partial list*):

Noam Chomsky - Professor, Author

Juan Gonzalez - Journalist

Gerald Horne - Author, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising & the 1960s"

Manning Marable - Professor, Columbia University

Michael Parenti - Author/lecturer

Howard Zinn - Author, "Peoples? History of the United States"

Paul Banke - former World Boxing Champion
Alan Benjamin - Editor, The Organizer Newspaper
Carl Bloice - California Nurses Association
Ron Daniels - Veteran Social & Political Activist
Manzar Foroohar - Prof., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Tonette Garcia - SEIU 250
Ted Glick - IPPN National Coordinaton
Andrea Houtman - AFSCME 800
Robert J. Huot - Prof. Emeritus, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Nick Jones - former UFW Boycott Director
Janice Jordan - California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Tracy Larkins - Democratic Ends
Jim Lauderdale - SEIU 347
Eric Mann - Director, Labor Community Strategy Center
Yolanda Miranda - Organizer, AFSCME 1108
Bill Mitchell - TV Host
Michael Novick - Author, "White Lies, White Power"
Kwazi Nkrumah - UC-AFT
Enrique Ochoa - Prof., Cal State L.A.
Ed Pearl - founder, Ashgrove Club
Maggie Phair - Socialist Party USA
Gary Phillips - National Writers Union
Gonzalo Santos - Prof., CSU Bakersfield
Dr. Lester Silverman
Jim Smith - Editor, L.A. Labor News
John Van Eyck - SEIU 250
Sue Wheaton - Alliance for Democracy
Sabina Virgo - President, AFSCME 2620
Steve Zeltzer - Labor Video Project

To add your name and organization (for id purposes only)
to the "Appeal," send an email to <pfoc@xxxxxxxxxxx>.

To download a one-page "Appeal to Progressive Californians" in pdf
format,
click here: <http://www.lalabor.org/Appeal.pdf>.

Paz y Libertad

Peace & Freedom Organizing Committee
POB 644, Venice CA 90294
310-399-2215 * pfoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.peaceandfreedom.org