Lisa Savage for U.S. Senate

Dear Friends,

We, the undersigned, are writing to you in support of Lisa Savage’s US Senate campaign in Maine against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). The November election in Maine for that seat will be a Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) race. There will be no ‘spoiler effect’ this time.

Lisa is running as an Independent Green. In her long-time peace and climate change activism, she has specialized in linking the Pentagon’s carbon footprint and our climate crisis. She founded the Maine Natural Guard to do just that important work. As an educator, Lisa has experience as a public school teacher and former union negotiator.

In Maine, Lisa has also led efforts to convert the Bath Iron Works shipyard away from constructing lethal Naval Destroyers and toward creating sustainable technologies that help us deal with climate crisis. Lisa advocates converting to commuter rail, tidal power and other much needed systems. Studies show that such a transformation would create more jobs for people in Maine. Imagine having a national voice in the U.S. Senate calling for the entire military industrial complex to be converted – unless we do so quickly we will not succeed in dealing with our greatest threat, the threat of what we’re doing to our own environment.

Of course Lisa also strongly supports Medicare4All, erasing student debt, a $15 minimum wage and many other issues that are vital to the survival of working and poor people across the country. She’s lately spoken out against the recent massive bailouts for Wall Street under the guise of virus relief while many people have yet to receive their promised $1,200 check.

Speaking about the recent murder of George Floyd by police in Minnesota, Lisa said, “People are fed up with unaccountable policing that targets Black men, women, and children and deals out injury, death, humiliation, and destruction of lives without meaningful consequences. Hundreds of thousands have rightly taken to the streets in all 50 states, including here throughout Maine. We have seen countless examples of militarized police forces instigating violence as these crowds of frustrated and angry citizens seek to peacefully assemble and express themselves, as is protected in the very first amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”

We hope you will join us in doing what you can to help support Lisa’s important campaign. Rarely do we see such a vital opportunity to impact the national debate as Maine’s Senate race will be one of the most watched in the nation.

You can learn more about Lisa at her web site https://www.lisaformaine.org/. Many of us have donated to her campaign. We hope you will share this letter widely across your community so that others who share our deep concerns may learn more about Lisa. Twitter: @LisaforMaine Facebook: LisaforMaine

We are at a crucial moment in world history. We must work in every possible way to bring these issues to the public. We are grateful for Lisa and her team for their good work on all our behalf.

For people, planet and peace,

(Organizations listed for identification purposes only)

Dawn Neptune Adams (Penobscot activist) Bangor, Maine
Peggy Akers (Nurse practitioner, VFP Maine) Portland, Maine
Nathan Albright (Writer, Maryhouse Catholic Worker) New York, New York
Doug Allen (Professor, peace and justice scholar, and activist) Orono, Maine
Jim Allen (Alabama Veteran for Peace) Lanett, Alabama
Nancy Allen (Activist, Green Party member) Brooksville, Maine
Ashley Bahlkow (Currently nurturing family, working on land access & food justice initiatives and sharing garden space) North Yarmouth, Maine
Ajamu Baraka (National Organizer, Black Alliance for Peace) New York, New York
Ellen Barfield (Phil Berrigan Memorial VFP chapter) Baltimore, Maryland
Elizabeth Barger (Freedom Press publisher, artist, poet, CODEPINK activist) Summertown, Tennessee
Medea Benjamin (Author and codirector of CODEPINK) Washington DC
Frida Berrigan (2019 Green Party Mayoral Candidate & author of ‘It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood’) New London, Connecticut
Justin Beth (Green Party of the U.S. Co-Chair, MGIP SC Member, PGIC Co-Chair) Portland, Maine
Toby Blome (Drone resistance organizer) El Cerrito, California
Commander (Ret) Leah Bolger (President World BEYOND War, past president Veterans For Peace) Corvallis, Oregon
Francis A. Boyle (Professor of international law at the University of Illinois, College of Law) Champaign, Illinois
Meredith Bruskin (FNP, Peace & Justice Group of Waldo County) Swanville, Maine
Chris Buchanan (Owner, CBC Carpentry) Searsport, Maine
Dr. Helen Caldicott (Anti-nuclear advocate) New South Wales, Australia
Jonathan Carter (Director, Forest Ecology Network) Lexington Twp, Maine
Ralph Chapman (Retired Applied Physicist & recent member of Maine’s Legislature, the only Green Independent party member during his last term) Brooksville, Maine
Judy Collins (Peace-justice advocate/singer/songwriter, Vine & Fig Tree Community) Lanett, Alabama
Gerry Condon (Veterans For Peace) Clearlake, California
Priti Gulati Cox (Artist, activist) Salina, Kansas
Stan Cox (Scientist, writer) Salina, Kansas
Bob Dale (VFP Maine, PeaceWorks) Brunswick, Maine
Barry Dana (Native educator, past chief Penobscot Nation) Solon, Maine
Ellen Davidson (Activist & photojournalist) New York, New York
Joseph de Rivera (Senior Research Scholar, Clark University) Brunswick, Maine
Christine A. DeTroy (PeaceWorks) Brunswick, Maine
Jacqui Deveneau (Chair of the Maine Green Women’s Caucus) Portland, Maine
Denise Dreher (Catholic Peace & Justice activist) Biddeford, Maine
Reginald A. Dunton (Grassroots activist) Freeport, Maine
Leonard Eiger (Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action) North Bend, Washington
Pat Elder (Military Poisons Project) St. Mary’s City, Maryland
Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon papers, Senior Fellow PERI, UMass Amherst) Kensington, California
Catherine Erdman (Peace activist) Temple, Maine
Jodie Evans (Co-founder, CodePink) Venice, California
Margaret Flowers (Co-director Popular Resistance) Baltimore, Maryland
Bruce K. Gagnon (Peace & justice activist) Brunswick, Maine
Manuel Garcia, Jr. (Climate blogger & retired physics professor) Berkeley, California
Ann Garrison (Independent Journalist) Oakland, California
Betsy Garrold (Retired Nurse Midwife, former Maine Green Independent Party Co-Chair, President of Food for Maine’s Future, homesteader, lobbyist, Mother) Knox, Maine
Carol Gilbert, OP (ICAN) Washington, DC
Starr C. Gilmartin (Licensed Clinical Social worker) Trenton, Maine
Holly Graham (Singer/songwriter, activist) Olympia, Washington
Chris Hedges (Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author) Princeton, New Jersey
Susan Hellewell (Artist and retired science teacher) Bingham, Maine
Dud Hendrick (VFP Maine) Deer Isle, Maine
Eric Herter (Filmmaker, VFP Maine) Brunswick, Maine
Matthew Hoh (Marine Corps Iraq war veteran, 100% disabled veteran, Senior Fellow at Center for International Policy) Raleigh, North Carolina
Fred Horch (Green Independent Candidate for Representative to the Legislature) Brunswick, Maine
Tamara Hunt (Family & Child Welfare Advocate, Public Policy USM Graduate Student) Portland, Maine
Connie Jenkins (Catholic peace and justice activist) East Blue Hill, Maine
Ken Jones (Retired USM educator) Swannanoa, North Carolina
Kyle Kajihiro (Board Member, Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice) Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Tarak Kauff (Editor in Chief of Peace & Planet News) Woodstock, New York
Kathy Kelly (Co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence) Chicago, Illinois
Lynn Kelly (Retired physician) Mankato, Minnesota
Ed Kinane (Upstate Drone Action, anti-militarism activist) Syracuse, New York
Thomas Kircher (Interfaith Chaplain) Biddeford, Maine
John Kiriakou (Former CIA Counterterrorism Officer & Former Senior Investigator, US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations) Washington DC
Pat LaMarche (Former Maine gubernatorial candidate & 2004 candidate for V-P) Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Nydia Leaf (Granny Peace Brigade) New York, New York
Debbie Leighton (PeaceWorks) West Bath, Maine
Richard Brown Lethem (Artist, VFP) Brunswick, Maine
Sass Linneken (Community organizer) Bangor, Maine
Stan Lofchie (VFP Maine) Brunswick, Maine
Alfred L. Marder (US Peace Council) New Haven, Connecticut
Betsy Marsano (Working to overthrow the duopoly for over 30 years) Belfast, Maine
Kenneth E. Mayers (Major USMCR ret’d, VFP) Santa Fe, New Mexico
Natasha Mayers (Editor in chief of Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly, Union of Maine Visual Artists) Whitefield, Maine
Kelly Merrill (Activist, journalist, organizer) Portland, Maine
Karl Meyer (Coordinator Greenlands Catholic Worker community) Nashville, Tennessee
Peter S. Morgan Jr. (VFP Maine) Raymond, Maine
John Morris (Retired teacher, VFP Maine) New Gloucester, Maine
Chris Nelson (Chico Peace Endeavor) Chico, California
Tom Neilson (Singer, songwriter) Greenfield, Massachusetts
K. J. Noh (Scholar, Journalist, Peace Activist) San Francisco, California
Jon Olsen (Former co-chair MGIP) Jefferson, Maine
Koohan Paik-Mander (Coordinator, Just Transition Hawaii Coalition) Hanokaa, Hawaii
Mike Michalski (Former Marine opposed to war) South Portland, Maine
Rosalie Paul (Peaceworks) Brunswick, Maine
Ilze Petersons (Peace & justice organizer and activist) Orono, Maine
Sam Pfeifle (Vice-Chair, MSAD 15 School Board) Gray, Maine
Cecile Pineda (Author) Berkeley, California
Ron Placone (Comedian & YouTube host) Pasadena, California
Ardeth Platte, OP (ICAN) Washington, DC
Doug Rawlings (President of VFP Maine chapter) Chesterville, Maine
John Rensenbrink (Professor of Government Emeritus, Bowdoin College, co-founder Maine Green Independent Party & US Green Party) Topsham, Maine
Richard Rhames (Family farmer, Public access TV activist) Biddeford, Maine
Kim Rich (Water District Trustee) Portland, Maine
Judy Robbins (Let Cuba Live), Sedgwick, Maine
Coleen Rowley (Retired FBI Agent, former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel and Whistleblower) Apple Valley, Minnesota
Robert Schaible (Chairperson, Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights) Portland, Maine
Gladys Schmitz, SSND (Retired RN and Retired teacher) Mankato, Minnesota
Ginny Schneider (Maine WTR Resource Center) South Portland, Maine
John & Carrie Schuchardt (House of Peace, Ch. 45 Veterans for Peace) Ipswich, Massachusetts
Alice Slater (Board, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space) New York, New York
Ursula L. Slavick (Deering High teacher, former Portland Teachers’ Association president, Haiti School fundraiser), Portland, Maine
William H. Slavick (Professor, retired Pax Christi Maine coordinator; 2006 Senate candidate; social justice, Palestinian rights activist), Portland, Maine
Gar Smith (Author, editor, and cofounder of Environmentalists Against War) Berkeley, California
Robert Shetterly (Americans Who Tell the Truth) Brooksville, Maine
Dr. Jill Stein (Two-time Green Party presidential candidate) Lexington, Massachusetts
Herschel Sternlieb (Peace activist) Washington DC
Mary Beth Sullivan (Social worker) Brunswick, Maine
David Swanson (Author & peace activist) Charlottesville, Virginia
Pat Taub (Blogger, writer, teacher, peace & justice worker) Portland, Maine
Ann Tiffany (Upstate Drone Action, anti-militarism activist) Syracuse, New York
Dwayne Tomah (Passamoquoddy language keeper) Perry, Maine
Jesse Ventura (Former Independent governor of Minnesota) Dellwood, Minnesota
Karen Wainberg (PeaceWorks) Brunswick, Maine
Morgana Warner-Evans (Workers’ rights advocate & mental health professional) Portland, Maine
Janet Weil (Activist, climate & militarism) Portland, Oregon
Steven Welzer (Co-editor, Green Horizon Magazine) East Windsor, New Jersey
Barbara West (Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom) Bath, Maine
Tom Whitney (Let Cuba Live) South Paris, Maine
Russell Wray (Citizens Opposing Active Sonar Threats – COAST) Hancock, Maine
Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright (Former US diplomat) Honolulu, Hawaii
Kevin Zeese (Co-director Popular Resistance) Baltimore, Maryland
Violet Rose Zitola (former National Co-Chair, Green Party of the US) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Johnny Zokovitch (Catholic peace and justice activist) St. Louis, Missouri