Candidate for
Member, Green Party County Council; County of San Mateo

To gain my sense of place I have had many painful and growth related experiences. I have always kept my vision for how we can be as a people. First the diversity of a community of people anywhere belongs to growing relational part of nature. We all have gifts to share by the hardship we bare. Some fun here, I feel like a survivor from the society of my families institutional white privilege. I could not except the dominate culture. So as you might know, we grow up in a society that purposely divides us commercially by primitive behaviors like hatred, separateness, rankism or classism, racism, or arrogance. We try our best to survive. If we have the tools of consciousness or have some faith based support we can do it better, together and not become cynical.

So in college I had a method to watch the contradiction in society by studying what Marx had to say about capital. I think he did a pretty good job of making me aware. I am not a supporter of dysfunctional hierarchies of people calling themselves governments when they themselves only represent monied interests, which then is their interest to make themselves money and stay in positions of power. Protecting the status-quo has nothing patriotic about it. Change is a progression, a constant, for me as a progressive seaching for the greatest good keeps me positive. We have much to offer the worlds humanity of what not to do if they can listen to our environmental wrongs that continue. Now with its face, Globalized capital, there is even deeper wounds. I think that people from around the world should be able to live in the United States and have all the technology available to them so they can get the fact that honoring their own positive cultural heritages is a must. Environmental sense of place comes first to materialism and the dis-ease it causes here. Corporations need to be accountable for the local people of the World. Can they be? My Motto, Healthy ethics for the best of environmental possibilites with positive eco/econo opportunities for the People of the World makes my day. Thanks