Dear Friends,
We, the undersigned, are writing to
you in support of Lisa Savage’s US Senate campaign in Maine against Sen. Susan
Collins (R-ME). The November election in
Maine for that seat will be a Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) race. There will be no ‘spoiler effect’ this
time.
Lisa is running as an Independent
Green. In her long-time peace and climate change activism, she has specialized
in linking the Pentagon’s carbon footprint and our climate crisis. She founded
the Maine Natural Guard to do just that important work. As an educator, Lisa has experience as a
public school teacher and former union negotiator.
In Maine, Lisa has also led efforts
to convert the Bath Iron Works shipyard away from constructing lethal Naval
Destroyers and toward creating sustainable technologies that help us deal with
climate crisis. Lisa advocates
converting to commuter rail, tidal power and other much needed systems. Studies show that such a transformation would
create more jobs for people in Maine.
Imagine having a national voice in the U.S. Senate calling for the entire
military industrial complex to be converted – unless we do so quickly we will
not succeed in dealing with our greatest threat, the threat of what we’re doing
to our own environment.
Of course Lisa also strongly supports
Medicare4All, erasing student debt, a $15 minimum wage and many other issues
that are vital to the survival of working and poor people across the
country. She’s lately spoken out against
the recent massive bailouts for Wall Street under the guise of virus relief
while many people have yet to receive their promised $1,200
check.
Speaking about the recent murder of
George Floyd by police in Minnesota, Lisa said, “People are fed up with
unaccountable policing that targets Black men, women, and children and deals out
injury, death, humiliation, and destruction of lives without meaningful
consequences. Hundreds of thousands have rightly taken to the streets in all 50
states, including here throughout Maine. We have seen countless examples of
militarized police forces instigating violence as these crowds of frustrated and
angry citizens seek to peacefully assemble and express themselves, as is
protected in the very first amendment to the U.S.
Constitution.”
We hope you will join us in doing
what you can to help support Lisa’s important campaign. Rarely do we see such a vital opportunity to
impact the national debate as Maine’s Senate race will be one of the most
watched in the nation.
You can learn more about Lisa at her
web site www.lisaformaine.org.
Many of us have donated to her campaign.
We hope you will share this letter widely across your community so that
others who share our deep concerns may learn more about Lisa.
Twitter: @LisaforMaine Facebook: LisaforMaine
We are at a crucial moment in world
history. We must work in every possible
way to bring these issues to the public.
We are grateful for Lisa and her team for their good work on all our
behalf.
For people, planet and
peace,
(Organizations listed for identification purposes
only)
Signers of Statement of Support
- Dawn Neptune Adams (Penobscot activist)
Bangor, Maine
- Peggy Akers (Nurse practitioner, VFP
Maine) Portland, Maine
- Nathan Albright (Writer, Maryhouse
Catholic Worker) New York, New York
- Doug Allen (Professor, peace and justice
scholar, and activist) Orono, Maine
- Jim Allen (Alabama Veteran for Peace)
Lanett, Alabama
- Nancy Allen (Activist, Green Party member)
Brooksville, Maine
- Ashley Bahlkow (Currently nurturing
family, working on land access & food justice initiatives and sharing garden
space) North Yarmouth, Maine
- Ajamu Baraka (National Organizer, Black
Alliance for Peace) New York, New York
- Ellen Barfield (Phil Berrigan Memorial VFP
chapter) Baltimore, Maryland
- Elizabeth Barger (Freedom Press publisher,
artist, poet, CODEPINK activist) Summertown, Tennessee
- Medea Benjamin (Author and codirector of
CODEPINK) Washington DC
- Frida Berrigan (2019 Green Party Mayoral
Candidate & author of ‘It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals
and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood’) New London, Connecticut
- Justin Beth (Green Party of the U.S.
Co-Chair, MGIP SC Member, PGIC Co-Chair) Portland, Maine
- Toby Blome (Drone resistance organizer) El
Cerrito, California
- Commander (Ret) Leah Bolger (President
World BEYOND War, past president Veterans For Peace) Corvallis, Oregon
- Francis A. Boyle (Professor of
international law at the University of Illinois, College of Law) Champaign,
Illinois
- Meredith Bruskin (FNP, Peace & Justice
Group of Waldo County) Swanville, Maine
- Chris Buchanan (Owner, CBC Carpentry)
Searsport, Maine
- Dr. Helen Caldicott (Anti-nuclear
advocate) New South Wales, Australia
- Jonathan Carter (Director, Forest Ecology
Network) Lexington Twp, Maine
- Ralph Chapman (Retired Applied Physicist
& recent member of Maine's Legislature, the only Green Independent party
member during his last term) Brooksville, Maine
- Judy Collins (Peace-justice
advocate/singer/songwriter, Vine & Fig Tree Community) Lanett,
Alabama
- Gerry Condon (Veterans For Peace)
Clearlake, California
- Priti Gulati Cox (Artist, activist)
Salina, Kansas
- Stan Cox (Scientist, writer) Salina,
Kansas
- Bob Dale (VFP Maine, PeaceWorks)
Brunswick, Maine
- Barry Dana (Native educator, past chief
Penobscot Nation) Solon, Maine
- Ellen Davidson (Activist &
photojournalist) New York, New York
- Joseph de Rivera (Senior Research Scholar,
Clark University) Brunswick, Maine
- Christine A. DeTroy (PeaceWorks)
Brunswick, Maine
- Jacqui Deveneau (Chair of the Maine Green
Women's Caucus) Portland, Maine
- Denise Dreher (Catholic Peace &
Justice activist) Biddeford, Maine
- Reginald A. Dunton (Grassroots activist)
Freeport, Maine
- Leonard Eiger (Ground Zero Center for
Nonviolent Action) North Bend, Washington
- Pat Elder (Military Poisons Project) St.
Mary’s City, Maryland
- Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon papers, Senior
Fellow PERI, UMass Amherst) Kensington, California
- Catherine Erdman (Peace activist) Temple,
Maine
- Jodie Evans (Co-founder, CodePink) Venice,
California
- Margaret Flowers (Co-director Popular
Resistance) Baltimore, Maryland
- Bruce K. Gagnon (Peace & justice activist) Brunswick,
Maine
- Manuel Garcia, Jr. (Climate blogger & retired physicist) Oakland, California
- Ann Garrison (Independent Journalist)
Oakland, California
- Betsy Garrold (Retired Nurse Midwife,
former Maine Green Independent Party Co-Chair, President of Food for Maine’s
Future, homesteader, lobbyist, Mother) Knox, Maine
- Carol Gilbert, OP (ICAN) Washington,
DC
- Starr C. Gilmartin (Licensed Clinical
Social worker) Trenton, Maine
- Holly Graham (Singer/songwriter, activist)
Olympia, Washington
- Chris Hedges (Pulitzer-prize winning
journalist and author) Princeton, New Jersey
- Susan Hellewell (Artist and retired
science teacher) Bingham, Maine
- Dud Hendrick (VFP Maine) Deer Isle,
Maine
- Eric Herter (Filmmaker, VFP Maine)
Brunswick, Maine
- Matthew Hoh (Marine Corps Iraq war
veteran, 100% disabled veteran, Senior Fellow at Center for International
Policy) Raleigh, North Carolina
- Fred Horch (Green Independent Candidate
for Representative to the Legislature) Brunswick, Maine
- Tamara Hunt (Family & Child Welfare
Advocate, Public Policy USM Graduate Student) Portland, Maine
- Connie Jenkins (Catholic peace and justice
activist) East Blue Hill, Maine
- Ken Jones (Retired USM educator)
Swannanoa, North Carolina
- Kyle Kajihiro (Board Member, Hawaiʻi Peace
and Justice) Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
- Tarak Kauff (Editor in Chief of Peace
& Planet News) Woodstock, New York
- Kathy Kelly (Co-coordinator, Voices for
Creative Nonviolence) Chicago, Illinois
- Lynn Kelley (Retired physician) Mankato,
Minnesota
- Ed Kinane (Upstate Drone Action,
anti-militarism activist) Syracuse, New York
- Thomas Kircher (Interfaith Chaplain)
Biddeford, Maine
- John Kiriakou (Former CIA Counterterrorism
Officer & Former Senior Investigator, US Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations) Washington DC
- Pat LaMarche (Former Maine gubernatorial
candidate & 2004 candidate for V-P) Carlisle, Pennsylvania
- Nydia Leaf (Granny Peace Brigade) New
York, New York
- Debbie Leighton (PeaceWorks) West Bath,
Maine
- Richard Brown Lethem (Artist, VFP)
Brunswick, Maine
- Sass Linneken (Community organizer)
Bangor, Maine
- Stan Lofchie (VFP Maine) Brunswick,
Maine
- Alfred L. Marder (US Peace Council) New
Haven, Connecticut
- Betsy Marsano (Working to overthrow the
duopoly for over 30 years) Belfast, Maine
- Kenneth E. Mayers (Major USMCR ret’d, VFP)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Natasha Mayers (Editor in chief of Maine
Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly, Union of Maine Visual Artists) Whitefield,
Maine
- Kelly Merrill (Activist, journalist,
organizer) Portland, Maine
- Karl Meyer (Coordinator Greenlands
Catholic Worker community) Nashville, Tennessee
- Peter S. Morgan Jr. (VFP Maine) Raymond,
Maine
- John Morris (Retired teacher, VFP Maine)
New Gloucester, Maine
- Chris Nelson (Chico Peace Endeavor) Chico,
California
- Tom Neilson (Singer, songwriter)
Greenfield, Massachusetts
- K. J. Noh (Scholar, Journalist, Peace
Activist) San Francisco, California
- Jon Olsen (Former co-chair MGIP)
Jefferson, Maine
- Koohan Paik-Mander (Coordinator, Just
Transition Hawaii Coalition) Hanokaa, Hawaii
- Mike Michalski (Former Marine opposed to
war) South Portland, Maine
- Rosalie Paul (Peaceworks) Brunswick,
Maine
- Ilze Petersons (Peace & justice
organizer and activist) Orono, Maine
- Sam Pfeifle (Vice-Chair, MSAD 15 School
Board) Gray, Maine
- Cecile Pineda (Author) Berkeley,
California
- Ron Placone (Comedian & YouTube host)
Pasadena, California
- Ardeth Platte, OP (ICAN) Washington,
DC
- Doug Rawlings (President of VFP Maine
chapter) Chesterville, Maine
- John Rensenbrink (Professor of Government
Emeritus, Bowdoin College, co-founder Maine Green Independent Party & US
Green Party) Topsham, Maine
- Richard Rhames (Family farmer, Public
access TV activist) Biddeford, Maine
- Kim Rich (Water District Trustee)
Portland, Maine
- Judy Robbins (Let Cuba Live), Sedgwick,
Maine
- Coleen Rowley (Retired FBI Agent, former
Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel and Whistleblower) Apple Valley,
Minnesota
- Robert Schaible (Chairperson, Maine Voices
for Palestinian Rights) Portland, Maine
- Gladys Schmitz, SSND (Retired RN and
Retired teacher) Mankato, Minnesota
- Ginny Schneider (Maine WTR Resource
Center) South Portland, Maine
- John & Carrie Schuchardt (House of
Peace, Ch. 45 Veterans for Peace) Ipswich, Massachusetts
- Alice Slater (Board, Global Network
Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space) New York, New York
- Ursula L. Slavick (Deering High teacher,
former Portland Teachers’ Association president, Haiti School fundraiser),
Portland, Maine
- William H. Slavick (Professor, retired Pax
Christi Maine coordinator; 2006 Senate candidate; social justice, Palestinian
rights activist), Portland, Maine
- Gar Smith (Author, editor, and cofounder
of Environmentalists Against War) Berkeley, California
- Robert Shetterly (Americans Who Tell the
Truth) Brooksville, Maine
- Dr. Jill Stein (Two-time Green Party
presidential candidate) Lexington, Massachusetts
- Herschel Sternlieb (Peace activist)
Washington DC
- Mary Beth Sullivan (Social worker)
Brunswick, Maine
- David Swanson (Author & peace
activist) Charlottesville, Virginia
- Pat Taub (Blogger, writer, teacher, peace
& justice worker) Portland, Maine
- Ann Tiffany (Upstate Drone Action,
anti-militarism activist) Syracuse, New York
- Dwayne Tomah (Passamoquoddy language
keeper) Perry, Maine
- Jesse Ventura (Former Independent governor
of Minnesota) Dellwood, Minnesota
- Karen Wainberg (PeaceWorks) Brunswick,
Maine
- Morgana Warner-Evans (Workers' rights
advocate & mental health professional) Portland, Maine
- Janet Weil (Activist, climate &
militarism) Portland, Oregon
- Steven Welzer (Co-editor, Green Horizon
Magazine) East Windsor, New Jersey
- Barbara West (Women's International League
for Peace & Freedom) Bath, Maine
- Tom Whitney (Let Cuba Live) South Paris,
Maine
- Russell Wray (Citizens Opposing Active
Sonar Threats - COAST) Hancock, Maine
- Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright (Former US
diplomat) Honolulu, Hawaii
- Kevin Zeese (Co-director Popular
Resistance) Baltimore, Maryland
- Violet Rose Zitola (former National
Co-Chair, Green Party of the US) Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Johnny Zokovitch (Catholic peace and
justice activist) St. Louis, Missouri
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