https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2011/04/live-chat-blue-america-pac-welcomes
It’s not very often that I get to know the person that Blue America PAC is endorsing for Congress years before they actually decide to run, but that’s the case here as I now welcome Norman Solomon to the Blue America and Progressive communities and wholeheartedly put my support behind his campaign. I’m really pleased that he’s coming here to help launch his fight to represent the true left when it comes to matters like the vast war machine and the many unnecessary nuclear energy power plants that our country’s elites has embraced.
We meet in 2007 for coffee after he released his book entitled Made Love Got War, which is an autobiographical look at his life’s work and that’s when I found out that he’s a very serious and principled man who has a history of standing up to the military industrial complex along with the nuclear power juggernaut and who stands strong with all working class Americans.
(Please donate to his campaign here.)
Unfortunately we are witnessing in real time the agonies that Japan is facing after suffering an 9.0 earthquake followed by a massive tsunami followed by severe aftershocks and power losses which has wreaked havoc to their Fukushima nuclear plant to the point where it’s now at least on par with the great disaster in Chernobyl. There’s an outcry from Japan now because many people feel that the government has been hiding the facts from them, while media elites in our country try to tell Americans that nuclear power is so nice and cozy and safe and we shouldn’t worry. Even as we speak, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Seeks 20-Year Extension in California.
No shock there, right?
He’s also been outspoken against needless and endless wars, supports a woman’s right to choose and equal rights’s for the LGBT community so what’s not to like?. Norman has all the qualities that make up a great progressive candidate from Marin/Sonoma county. The right kind of Progressive candidate. The candidate that will buck the party system and fight for real progressive values and will be an outspoken leader on these issues. He’s not just a cookie cutter politician that bows down to the party leadership. He’s independent minded in a good way, but will not compromise his values.
Here’s some of his accomplishments from his About Norman Solomon page on his website:
*Co-Chair of the Commission on a Green New Deal for North Bay
*Organized and went on three missions to Baghdad prior to the invasion of Iraq seeking alternatives to war.
*Health-care Not Warfare National Co-Chair (with Congressman John Conyers and Donna Smith of the California Nurses Association
*Recipient of numerous awards including the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, and the Annual Ruben Salazar Journalism Award
*From 1997 to 2010, as founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, oversaw policy research and liaison with thousands of experts on global warming, foreign policy, labor rights, “welfare reform,” economic equity, lax enforcement of federal regulations, civil liberties and a wide range of other topics related to federal, state and local government policies nationwide
*One of the lone voices on national television against invading Iraq before the start of the Iraq war in early 2003, appearing on CNN and other major TV networks more than a dozen times to argue for diplomacy instead of a U.S. attack
*Co-chair of the state Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus foreign policy committee
*Organized and went on fact-finding trip to Afghanistan in 2009
*The New York Times Magazine has called him “a leading progressive activist.” The Los Angeles Times has called him “a formidable thinker and activist.”
That’s a tremendous record of achievements so please join us in welcoming to C&L and Blue America PAC, Norman Solomon.
Please don’t forget donate to his campaign at our Blue America act blue page here. He’ll need your help to win this race.
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