Gordon Clark
Green Party Candidate, Maryland’s 8th District
Host: David Swanson
Previously Aired On: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 – Listen to the Show!
Gordon Clark is a citizen-politician – a lifelong activist, advocate and community organizer for peace, social justice and the environment who is now running to make a difference in government. A brief resume of Gordon’s accomplishments includes:
*Graduate of Brown University, 1982, with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology
*Founder, 1984, Doylestown (PA) Peace Force, a community organization combating the nuclear war fighting policies of the Reagan Administration
*Site and Program Manager with the Bucks (County) *Association of Retarded Citizens, 1982-1987, delivering services to the developmentally disabled
*Member of the Bucks County (PA) Earth Day Committee
*Executive Director of New Jersey Peace Action (formerly Sane/Freeze), 1991-1995
*National Executive Director of Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots peace and disarmament organization, 1996 – 2001
*Nonviolence and conflict resolution trainer
*Founder, 2002, Iraq Pledge of Resistance (now the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance), a national non-profit network devoted to using the nonviolent methods of Gandhi and King to oppose the war in Iraq; convener, 2002-2007. (Following his most recent arrest for nonviolent protest, Gordon defended himself pro se in U.S. District Court and was acquitted on all charges.)
