OCCUPATION: Educator and Activist
OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Lecturer, Siskiyou Action Project; Instructor of Political Science at Oberlin College and University of Illinois
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Columbia University, Doctoral Candidate; Illinois Institute of Technology, B.S.
PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: Mayor's Commission on Citizen Participation, Chicago.
I am running for the U.S. Senate because the major party candidates, with their million dollar campaigns and political debts to the rich and powerful, ignore all of us who want something better: A peaceful society with happy children and a healthy environment.
The Newt Republican Congress has attacked senior citizens, single mothers, the environment and our democratic process. The Democrats have been ineffective during this onslaught; at best, they seek only to slow this feeding frenzy.
I have worked for 13 years to protect the last remnants of Oregon's Original Forests. However, I am not a single issue candidate. Everything is connected. If we can't take care of old people, we can't protect old trees. We can't protect the environment without sustainable jobs and communities.
By converting the money spent on resource extraction to forest restoration, we can:
*Create meaningful jobs for Oregonians
*Provide simple and inexpensive protection for drinking water
*Restore salmon runs
*Strengthen rural economies by stopping exports of unfinished wood products, increasing family wage jobs in Oregon
Ensuring the survival of humans and other species requires us to stop clear-cutting and to preserve all old growth.
I also support:
*A foreign policy based on peace, respect and fair trade
*Single-payer health care
*Developing kenaf, hemp and agricultural "waste" as sources of fuel and fiber
If another candidate's voice sounds more sensible, support that candidate. If mine sounds best, please contact the PACIFIC PARTY and help me work with you to achieve our common good.
PACIFIC PARTY
PO Box 9272
Portland, Oregon 97207
293-5888
Vote Lou Gold and register PACIFIC for peace,
justice and sustainable communities.
(This information furnished by Lou Gold for Senate Committee.)