ABOUT
US
The
Campaign for Fresh Air & Clean Politics is a 501(c)(3) tax
deductible educational organization founded in 2003.
Contact:
Kevin Zeese
Executive Director
Campaign for Fresh Air & Clean Politics
2842 N. Calvert St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
443-708-8360
KZeese(at)Earthlink.net
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Current projects include:
- PEACE: An end to the Iraq war and prevention of future wars
of aggression through VotersForPeace.US,
which brings together voters around the voters pledge which states "I will only vote for or support candidates
for federal office who make a speedy end to the Iraq war,
and preventing any future war of aggression, a public campaign
position." VotersForPeace educates and activates the signers
of the pledge into activists to end the war. CFACP also
serves as the sponsor of the educational activities of DemocracyRising.US
which is working to end the war with actions in Washington, DC
and around the country.
- DEMOCRACY: Election integrity through TrueVoteMD.org,
with a particular focus on ensuring a voter verified paper ballot
in Maryland. TrueVoteMD.org also works with a national network
of election integrity organizations VoteTrustUSA.org.
Linda Schade and Kevin Zeese of the Campaign for Fresh Air &
Clean Politics were among the co-founders of that national network.
TrueVoteMD.org will be taking on additional democracy issues in
the coming years like Instant Run-off Voting and improved ballot
access.
After five years of work TrueVoteMD succeeded in passing legislation
and getting funding so that Maryland can transition to a system
with voter verified paper ballots counted on optical scan machines.
While there is still work to be done in Maryland, e.g., requirng
random audits on election day to ensure the optical scan count
is right, TrueVote.US
was started to educate and organize people about democracy issues
nationally beginning with the need for voter verified paper ballots.
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ECONOMIC JUSTICE: CFACP participated in efforts to make the 2008 bailout of Wall Street good for Main Street. CFACP advocated for re-building the economy from the bottom up rather than the top down. Among the policy changes CFACP advocated for were:
- A stimulus for Main Street: Build the foundation of the real economy
- Make Wall Street speculators pay for the bailout: No more debt
- Shut down the Casino: Rein in the unregulated financial sector
- Limits on CEO pay and prohibitions on profiteering from the bailout
- Public Oversight: independent monitors to ensure the integrity of decisions
- Protect the Taxpayer: Taxpayers should get equity in firm receiving tax dollars.
- Aid the victims, not just the predators: Include provisions to protect home owners.
- ENVIRONMENT: Climate Security
is a joint project of Friends
of the Earth and Voters
for Peace to highlight the inter-relationship between
global climate change and global conflict. The concept of climate
security encompasses the relationship between climate and war
and militarism as well as economic and environmental security.
The
Climate Security Project seeks to encourage a shift from
an outmoded militarized economy to a green economy which is more
efficient, more localized and better distributes its resources
and bounty, while restoring the natural world upon which it depends.
On this site, we will provide news and information to get out
the word that a changing climate combined with the broader environmental
crisis is THE emerging threat to peace and security – not
only in the developing world but in so called developed economies.
The Campaign publishes a monthly
web newsletter summarizing the work of our projects. You
can sign up for this newsletter by clicking on the button above.
If you would like to get active in any of these projects or with
the Campaign more broadly you can contact us at: Linda(at)FreshAirCleanPolitics.Net. Sign up for specific projects by clicking
onto their websites on the left column.
BOARDOF DIRECTORS
Chris Driscoll is a
long-term labor activist, political historian and journalist. He
has served as the national co-chair of the Journalism Division of the
National Writer’s Union and
as a Delegate to the Washington Metro Labor Council. He has been active
in the Labor Party serving as a Delegate to the founding convention of
the Labor Party in 1996 and was a Delegate to the Labor Party’s first
constitutional convention. He has also been active in the Green Party
and the Populist Party of Maryland where he served as the State
Chairman. Chris was a co-founder of the Campaign for Fresh Air
& Clean Politics and currently serves as its Recording Secretary.
Robert Lanza is an
environmental consultant and democracy activist. He is a core
group member of TrueVoteMD.org.
Douglas McNeil is a
computer engineer by profession. He served in the United States
Army from 1969 to 1972, and graduated from the University of Michigan
with a BA (in Linguistics) in 1975. McNeil is a co-founder of the
Baltimore Libertarian Party, and he chaired the party for its first
five years. He also served as Treasurer of the Maryland
Libertarian Party, as well as holding several other state and local
party offices. McNeil's major focus has been ballot access
reform. He is the Director of Marylanders for Democracy, a
nonpartisan fair ballot access organization which has worked to improve
ballot access in Maryland. Doug routinely serves as a Security
Marshal for United for Peace and Justice demonstrations in Washington,
D.C. And he has published more than a hundred Letters to the Editor and
op-eds, mostly in major newspapers, on a wide variety of subjects,
including science, history, education, politics, and law.
Linda Schade is the
founding Executive Director of VotersForPeace,
and the Director of the Climate Security
Project. Ms. Schade is a 20-year political veteran featured on CNN, Fox
News, C-SPAN, Washington Post, USA Today,
NPR, Pacifica
radio, and other media outlets on her peace, justice and democracy work.
She co-founded TrueVoteMD and VoteTrustUSA - a state and national organization
fighting for transparent elections voters can trust, and paper records for
electronic voting machines, and the Montgomery County Coalition for Alternatives
to War. Linda is also the Founder of the Campaign for Fresh
Air & Clean Politics, a 501(c)3 organization, the sponsor of
VotersForPeace, Climate Security and True Vote.
Diane Wittner
is director of Chesapeake Citizens, and she is an adjunct professor in integrated
arts education. In the 1990's she worked at PLATFORM where she
coordinated the award-winning project ‘Still Waters.' From 2005 to 2007,
she co-produced the Backbone Campaign's Progressive Cabinet interviews Conversations with the
Cabinet. Ms. Wittner also served on the board of directors of the
Backbone Campaign and the Chesapeake Sustainable
Business Alliance. Current
partnerships are with the Coalition for Health
Security and the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean
Politics. Ms. Wittner's
articles and creative citizenship actions have been featured in Dissident Voice, OpEdNews, Progressive Democrats of America, After Downing Street and The Order of the Earth. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from
George Mason University, an M.A.T. from Brown University, and an M.A. from the
Maryland Institute College of Art.
Kevin Zeese
is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Campaign for
Fresh Air and Clean Politics, VotersForPeace and True
Vote. Zeese is an
attorney and a long term peace advocate. Zeese serves as the
President of Common Sense
for Drug Policy. Zeese also served as the Executive Director of Democracy Rising. Zeese was a founding member of the
Montgomery County Coalition Against the War in Maryland and has worked with various
non-profit organizations on peace, justice, and democracy issues since
1978.
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