Tim Laidman, Application for Coordinating Committee

I am a long-time resident of El Cerrito and registered Green since 2001. I got active when a fellow Green knocked on my door and invited me to get involved. I did door-to-door outreach to local voters to invite them to join in Green Party activities, give them a Green Party Voter guide or register them as Greens. I was a founding member in the weekly peace vigil in El Cerrito at Del Norte BART, which continued for many years. I  have worked on Single Payer Health Care SB840/810, on Community Choice Energy, on environmental issues around the Richmond shoreline, on stopping the Point Molate Casino and against militarism. I am very active in the Richmond Progressive Alliance, serving on several committees and worked hard on Mayor Gayle McLaughlin’s successful re-election campaign. I try to make connections between groups and build alliances to work together for progressive causes.

 

I was very active with the El Cerrito Greens for a long time, serving as treasurer, hosting monthly meetings and cooking vegan meals, staffing booths, canvassing neighborhoods, helping with presentations and working on an energy plan for El Cerrito. I am currently the treasurer of the Green Party of Contra Costa County. I have served many terms on the County Council (my first elected office) and as a delegate to the SGA and GA. I have served 3 years on The GPCA Coordinating Committee. I am CC liaison to the IT and Finance Committees and serve on the Budget, Personnel, Agenda and Strategy Committees. I am also an administrator of the SGA. I look forward to continuing to serve on the CC and helping the Green Party really grow in California.

 

I am an avid outdoors-person, woodworker, gardener, cook, dancer and dad. I am an electrical engineer with a background in computer technology, partially retired now, giving me more time to devote to activism. My love of this wonderful world and the beautiful people that inhabit it motivates my search for social justice, peace and a better future for our children. I try to bring joy and harmony with humor and a positive attitude. I have been active in the peace movement for forty years, including non-violence training, counter-recruitment, civil disobedience, anti-nuke work and first amendment cases. I was a member of the Muhlenberg Five, a case that went to the Pennsylvania Supreme court and extended the first amendment right to demonstrate on private college campuses in Pennsylvania.

 

Thank you for considering me for re-election to the Coordinating Committee.

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