citizen josh
the quixotic adventures
of an unlikely berkeley activist
Gordon
Wozniak
Dr. Gordon Wozniak is an internationally known nuclear
chemist – recognized for his team’s
discovery of “Phase Transitions in Atomic
Nuclei” (2002); he is also a politically involved
community member in the city of Berkeley. He currently
serves on the Berkeley City Council, representing
the southeast District 8 of Berkeley. Get
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Linda
Maio
Linda Maio has been a member of the Berkeley City
Council since 1992. Adjustments Board and California
Elected Women for Education. Linda Maio is founder
and served as Board Chair of Resources for Community
Development, a nonprofit housing development corporation,
for over a decade before her election to the City
Council. Her priority interests are enhanced public
education, quality jobs, an improved economy, environment
and energy policy. Get
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Mayor
Tom Bates
Tom Bates in a native Californian and a graduate
of the University of California, Berkeley. Tom Bates
was sworn in as Mayor of Berkeley in December 2002
and was re-elected in 2006. Mayor Bates focused
tremendous effort and resources on building Berkeley
into a national environmental powerhouse. Under
his leadership, the City became the first in the
nation to share its fleet vehicles with the public
as part of a partnership with City CarShare, passed
a new law requiring all city buildings be built
to green standards, and. Mayor Bates also worked
to build Berkeley’s “green” economy,
which now numbers over 200 green businesses. Get
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Robert
Hurwitt, SF Chronicle critic
Robert Hurwitt is the theater critic for the San
Francisco Chronicle. He was the theater critic and
arts editor of the East Bay Express from 1979 to
1992, and the theater critic for the San Francisco
Examiner from '92 until he joined the Chronicle
staff in 2000. He has also written about theater
for numerous other publications. He is a recipient
of the George Jean Nathan Award for theater
criticism. Before becoming a critic, he worked
as an actor and director (among many other
things) in New York, the Bay Area and London, and
was active in several political causes, including
the grass roots effort that resulted in the creation
of Ohlone Park. Get
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Cynthia
Papermaster
Cynthia Papermaster is a 40-year resident of Berkeley,
having never left after getting her BA in Political
Science and Master of Library Science degrees from
UC Berkeley. She became a parent activist in the
Berkeley public schools, was President of the Berkeley
PTA Council, and ran for School Board. She organized
busloads of parents and students for the State PTA's
first-ever rally in Sacramento to protest Arnold's
theft of education funds. Josh happened by the rally
and Cynthia inveigled him into meetings with Loni
Hancock and Don Perata. Today Cynthia is a national
figure in the impeachment movement with CODEPINK
and the National Impeachment Network, which she
founded. She is running for Congress against Pete
Stark to force him to impeach Cheney.Get
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Osha
Neumann
After a childhood spent in middle-class comfort
in the Bronx, OSHA NEUMANN attended Swarthmore and
Yale. He became deeply involved with student activism
and eventually moved back to New York, where he
helped to found the anarchist street gang, the Motherfuckers.
Neumann is now a lawyer in Berkeley, California.
Here's an article with more information: http://www.thestreetspirit.org/Sept2006/interview.htm
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Becky
O'Malley
Becky O'Malley has been the Executive Editor of
the Berkeley Daily Planet for five years,
after a checkered career which included stints as
a political organizer, an investigative journalist
and a software entrepreneur. She and her partner,
Mike O'Malley, thought the Planet would
be an easy little retirement project. Wrong.Get
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Laurie
Capitelli
Councilmember Laurie Capitelli is a Bay Area native,
a 1968 graduate of UC Berkeley and a Berkeley resident
for over 35 years. He has served as Council representative
for North Berkeley since 2004. Laurie’s civic
life in Berkeley includes service on both the City’s
Planning Commission and the Zoning Adjustments Board,
and as board member of the Berkeley Public Education.
His priority as a councilmember is to support and
nurture Berkeley’s neighborhoods and the small
commercial districts that help define the community;
to maintain the best of Berkeley while being flexible
and creative in order to adapt to the future.Get
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Loni
Hancock
Loni Hancock has had a remarkable public service
career, spending more than three decades as a forceful
advocate for open government, educational reforms,
environmental protections, health care, economic
development and social justice. She has served at
the local, state and federal levels, including serving
as the first woman to be elected Mayor of Berkeley
as well as working under Presidents Bill Clinton
and Jimmy Carter. Now serving in her third and final
term as the representative of the 14th Assembly
District, Hancock chairs the Assembly Committee
on Natural Resources.Get
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Timothy
Burroughs
Timothy Burroughs is the Climate Action Coordinator
at the City of Berkeley. His role is to engage
the community and the City government in the design
and implementation of effective greenhouse gas emissions
reduction strategies. Timothy is the lead
city staff person tasked with coordinating Berkeley’s
ongoing climate protection efforts. Timothy came
to the City of Berkeley from ICLEI – Local
Governments for Sustainability. Prior to joining
ICLEI Timothy worked at the U.S. EPA in Washington,
DC. Get your tickets!
Matt
Nichols
Matt Nichols has served as the Principal Transportation
Planner for the City of Berkeley for several years
and is dedicated to bringing more clean air alternatives
to Berkeley, including expansation of local bike
trails, car sharing and public transportation. Get
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Susan
Griffin
Griffin’s latest book, Wrestling with
the Angel of Democracy, On Being an American Citizen,
is about the inner life of democracy. Named by Utne
reader as one of a hundred important visionaries
for the new millennium, she has written nineteen
books, including Woman and Nature, and
A Chorus of Stones, the Private Life of War,
a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.Get
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Brian
Weiner
Brian Weiner is an Associate Professor of Politics
at the University of San Francisco. He received
his B.A. from Princeton University, and his M.A.
and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He lives right by Ohlone
Park with his wife (Andrea Mock, a writer), daughter
(Lily, a girl of many talents), and dog (Oggie).
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Doug
Buckwald
Doug Buckwald directs Save the Oaks, a community
organization committed to saving the beautiful Memorial
Oak Grove west of Cal’s football stadium.
Over the past two years, Doug has experienced the
power and inspiration of a diverse coalition acting
together to support a cause that matters. Trees,
after all, were here first, and they make it possible
for humans to exist. That is really very nice of
them, Doug believes, and feels we should return
the favor. Just like the Coast Live Oaks he is working
to save, Doug is a native Californian. He grew up
exploring the creeks and oak woodlands in the foothills
of the Santa Cruz Mountains, developing a reverence
for nature that has lasted all his life. He even
had a pet squirrel in high school. Doug promises
he will sing “By the Tree Where You Live”
if he can get enough volunteers to play the parts
of the trees.Get your
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Jeff
Lustig
Jeff Lustig is a Ph.D. in protest, a vet of the
Free Speech Movement, People’s Park and other
fracases large and small. He teaches Political Theory
at CSU Sacramento, writes on American political
thought, was a faculty union activist, trustee of
the California Historical Society and founder of
the California Studies Association.Get
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