[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [media-states] GREEN RELEASE Former Black Panther chair Elaine Brown will run as Green

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
>http://www.gp.org
>
>For Immediate Release:
>Tuesday, April 26, 2005
>
>Contacts:
>Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
>mclarty at greens.org
>Nancy Allen, Media Coordinator, 207-326-4576,
>nallen at acadia.net
>Elaine Brown, candidate for Mayor of Brunswick,
>Georgia, 912-261-9381, sistereb at bellsouth.net
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>FORMER BLACK PANTHER CHAIR ELAINE BROWN WILL RUN
>FOR MAYOR OF BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, AS A GREEN
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>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Elaine Brown, the only woman
>to lead the Black Panther Party, has declared her
>intention to run for Mayor of Brunswick, Georgia,
>as a member of the Green Party.
>
>Ms. Brown will formally announce her candidacy in
>the nonpartisan race on May 19 -- Malcolm X's
>birthday -- in Brunswick.  Ms. Brown ran twice
>for public office as a member of the Black
>Panther Party; a brief bio of Ms. Brown is
>appended below.
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>"I'm trying to win this seat to create a base of
>economic power for Brunswick's majority black and
>poor population through redistribution of the
>massive revenues of the city's powerful port,"
>said Elaine Brown.  "I intend to be the first
>black mayor and the first woman mayor in a city
>now controlled by a white, wealthy consortium
>whose current mayor is a lieutenant colonel in
>the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
>
>"At the top of my agenda is economic and
>political power for the black residents of
>Brunswick, and forestalling a development plan
>that would displace Brunswick's black
>population," added Ms. Brown, who is profiled in
>the current issue (May 2005: 35th anniversary
>issue) of Essence magazine.
>
>Elaine Brown gave a speech Saturday evening,
>April 23, to a full house at Howard University in
>Washington, D.C. on "From Revolution to the
>Ballot Box:  A Discussion of Strategy for Radical
>Change."  The event was sponsored by the Green
>Institute, an independent tax-exempt
>organization.
>
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>ELAINE BROWN
>A Brief Biography
>
>-- Elaine Brown is a former leading member of the
>Black Panther Party and author of A Taste of
>Power and The Condemnation of Little B.
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>-- A Taste of Power, Brown's memoir, is slated
>for film production by Suzanne de Passe,
>Emmy-award winning president of de Passe
>Entertainment.
>
>-- In 1996, after living six years in France,
>Brown moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she
>established the nonprofit education corporation
>Fields of Flowers to build a comprehensive model
>education center for black and other poor
>children.
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>-- Brown is Executive Director of the Michael
>Lewis Legal Defense Committee, organized to
>support the legal appeal of Lewis ("Little B"),
>who, arrested at the age of 13 for a murder he
>did not commit, was convicted and sentenced to
>life in prison (1997).
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>-- Brown is a co-founder and Board member of the
>National Alliance for Radical Prison Reform, an
>organization primarily composed of former
>prisoners and family members and friends of
>prisoners, the goals of which are to repeal the
>harsh criminal laws of the U.S., advocate for
>human rights for prisoners, and provide re-entry
>programs for former prisoners.
>
>-- In addition, Brown is a member of the Geechee
>Council of Georgia; the Brunswick NAACP; Vice
>President of The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation;
>and a partner in Seize the Time, Inc.
>
>-- Brown lectures at colleges and universities
>throughout the country on New Age Racism and
>realization of the vision of eliminating racism,
>gender oppression and class disparity toward an
>inclusive and egalitarian world society.
>
>-- Brown, a fluent French speaker, has traveled
>extensively throughout the world, both on behalf
>of the Black Panther Party and independently,
>from China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Algeria
>to France, Italy, Russia, Argentina, Uruguay, and
>elsewhere.
>
>-- Brown, who studied classical piano for years
>and recorded two albums of her original songs,
>one for Motown records, has attended Temple
>University, UCLA, Mills College, and Southwestern
>University School of Law.
>
>-- The mother of one adult daughter, Brown grew
>up in the ghettos of North Philadelphia. Brown's
>papers have been acquired by Emory University.
>
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>MORE INFORMATION
>
>The Green Party of the United States
>http://www.gp.org
>1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404
>Washington, DC 20009.
>202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
>Fax 202-319-7193
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Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand