{news} Fw: GREEN RELEASE Former Black Panther chair Elaine Brown will run as Green

[Tom Sevigny]

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Subject: GREEN RELEASE Former Black Panther chair Elaine Brown will run as
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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
>
>
> FORMER BLACK PANTHER CHAIR ELAINE BROWN WILL RUN FOR
> MAYOR OF BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, AS A GREEN
>
>
> 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.
>
> "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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> -- 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.
>
> -- 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).
>
> -- 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.
>
>
> 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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