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GP activist Shasby dies of West Nile Virus

In this issue:

The Cobb-LaMarche Campaign: A New Era for the Greens
THE MYSTERY OF THE 2004 ELECTIONS
COBB CALLS FOR GREEN PARTY UNITY
Green Party backs lawsuit against nation's big power suppliers
GP activist Shasby dies of West Nile Virus
Greens reach out at LA Lotus Festival
Greens Cite Reasons for a New, Independent 9/11 Probe
Keeping It Green in L.A. County
Greens Call Kerry Indistinguishable From Bush on Israel and Palestine
Should Greens Support Nader?
Presidential Politics and the Future of the Green Party
The San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.
Greens to Democrats: End the Occupation, Bring the Troops Home Now
San Diego South Bay Greens Fight Chula Vista Plans
LaMarche Calls for Heath Care for All
Fall 2004 Cartoons

Claremont resident Walter Sheasby, who ran four times for public office and served as editor for "Capitalism Nature Socialism," died of West Nile Virus infection after being hospitalized since August 10. "There was a bitter irony to Walt's death," wrote colleague Joel Kovel in a memorial statement, "as he succumbed at age 62 to complications of West Nile Virus, one of the rogue pathogens kicked into orbit by the destabilization of the ecological crisis against which he focused his formidable talent in the later years of his life." "I remember Walt from the early days," said Green Party of California Secretary of State liaison Jim Stauffer. "We were trying to get it together as an organization, and he was already an accomplished political organizer with many contacts in the progressive community around LA."

Sheasby ran for political office as a Green Party candidate four times; the first time in 1992, when the fledgling Green Party gained ballot status. Two of the four races were against Republican Congressman David Dreier in the 28th Congressional District.

"He had the guts to run in an area that was not the most Green-friendly in the state," Santa Monica City Councilman and Green Party member Michael Feinstein told the Inland Valley Bulletin. Sheasby previously served as a Green Party/Los Angeles County council member and most recently as a California state delegate to the national convention in Milwaukee in June. Associate Hilary Cable termed Sheasby's death "a great loss to the cause of decency and humanism in California politics." "Scornful of ordinary success and worldly comfort," wrote Kovel, "he lived for the cause, dividing his efforts between ceaseless activism and organization on the one hand, and the scholarship he loved above all on the other."


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