Members of Massachusetts Peace Action will elect board members for a 2-year term between January 10 and February 9, 2013. The following candidates have been nominated by the Executive Committee and will be voted up or down by the members. See information on the election procedure.

 

New Candidates

 

These members have been nominated as new members of the Board:

	Rosalie Anders – Cambridge Rosalie Anders retired in 2012 from her job as an environmental planner with the City of Cambridge. A longtime peace and environmental activist, she is co-chair of the Environmental Justice Task Force at First Parish Church in Cambridge, a board member of GreenCambridge, and a coordinating committee member for Greenport. A former Williamstown resident, she cofounded the Nuclear Weapons Education Center there in 1980 and was active in peace and environmental justice issues in Berkshire County. She was associate director of the Council for a Livable World from 1984 to 1991 and is a past vice president of WAND. Before becoming a planner, she was a family therapist for many years. She also serves as the Treasurer of the Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund (MAPA EF).
	Burton Glass – Newton Burton Glass is a principal with Hairpin Communications, a Boston-based agency building brands for nonprofits (www.hairpin.org). His clients include the National Endowment for Democracy, Corporate Accountability International, National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, Barr Foundation, Henry P. Kendall Foundation, and the David Brower Center, among many others. Before launching Hairpin Communications, Burton was a senior vice president in San Francisco at Fenton Communications, the largest communications consultancy focused on helping progressive causes. He also served as executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting, as press secretary of the national League of Conversation Voters and Physicians for Social Responsibility, and as a speechwriter in the U.S. Department of Justice. Burton’s career in activism began as a staff member for Ohio SANE/Freeze, leading to his work as program and PAC director for national SANE/Freeze, later Peace Action. He lives with his wife Naila Bolus and their three girls.
	Bonnie Gorman – Quincy Bonnie Gorman worked for two years in the Vietnam Air Evacuation Hospital network as a military nurse, which paid for her undergraduate degree (an early economic draft). She ran Vietnamese Medic Training Programs, along with work in intensive care units in the hospital network. In 1968, her brother Paul, a young Marine, was killed in action along the DMZ in Vietnam. Her mother then had a massive heart attack and eventually died. As a result of her personal losses and involvement with many wounded and dying soldiers and their families, Bonnie joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) and other peace groups working to end the Vietnam war and prevent future wars.   Bonnie is an active member of Military & Gold Star Families Speak Out (MFSO), Veterans for Peace (VFP) and Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP), continuing to support families of injured and fallen soldiers to help them get the medical and mental health care and services they need and to ensure that we do not continue to repeat our failed policy of sending our young men and women off to unnecessary and costly wars with no end.   After her military service, she returned to U.S. and worked for 50 years in nursing and social work. She continues her interest in public health and social policy issues, and works actively on medical, children and families, disability, veterans, peace and justice issues. She frequently contacts legislators to encourage them to support progressive policies and has been active in many political campaigns, most recently supporting Elizabeth Warren’s run for Senate.
	Jeff Klein – Dorchester Jeff Klein is a retired machinist and union activist. He worked at GE in Lynn and for the Mass Water Resources Authority on Deer Island, where he was president of his local union for ten years. Since 2003 he has been active with Dorchester People for Peace in opposing US wars abroad and promoting social justice at home, in cooperation with many other grassroots organizations, and he edits the weekly newsletter DPP Update. During the past decade he has traveled almost every year to Palestine/Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East, participating in solidarity efforts and promoting freedom for the Palestinians from occupation and racism. He has spoken many times about the Israel-Palestine conflict in schools, churches, mosques, community and peace organizations, and has appeared on local TV and radio. He also published articles and op-ed pieces on US policy, politics and Middle East issues. In the 1980’s Jeff lived and worked in Nicaragua, then joined the South African freedom struggle, working for the exiled African National Congress in Lusaka, Zambia. He helped to teach English at the Association of Haitian Women in Boston (AFAB) for the past two years. He lives in Dorchester and has two grown children. His recent articles include “Voters have spoken — will Washington listen?”, “The Way the Wind Blows in Syria (and Beyond)”, and “Romney’s Iran Campaign”.

 

Candidates for re-election

 

These current Board members have been nominated for re-election:

	Carol Coakley – Millis Carol Coakley is chair of Metrowest Peace Action and represents the Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex state senate district on the Democratic State Committee. She has a B.A. in Politics from Framingham State College, where she also worked as an administrative assistant and was steward for AFSCME Local 1067. She was Field Coordinator of the Instant Runoff Voting initiative petition drive with Citizens for Voter Choice in 2009. Carol works part time in the Mass. Peace Action office.
	Matthew Connolly -Cambridge Matt Connolly is Assistant Attorney General with the Consumer Protection Division of Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General.
	Guntram Mueller – Newton Guntram Mueller has been a member of the Board of Massachusetts Peace Action since 2008.  He is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. While there, he also designed and taught a philosophy course called The Cognitive Roots of Conflict, which received higher student acclaim than any of his mathematics courses. When his daughter was born in the 1970’s, and he saw his time of responsibility stretched out, Mueller designed a vertical axis windmill, with helical blades, and formed a company, Urban Turbine, to address the energy issue. Since 1989, he has been a member of 2020 Vision, a citizen action group concerned with nuclear weapons and environmental issues, and is now a member of the national core group of its successor, 2020 Action. Born in Germany, Mueller grew up in Toronto. He chairs the Nuclear Abolition Task Force of United for Justice with Peace.

Continuing Members

Because of staggered terms, existing members Jamie Babson, Steven Brion-Meisels, Shelagh Foreman, John Maher, Eva Moseley, Prasannan Parthasarathi, Pat Salomon, and Nancy Wrenn will continue to serve for another year before being eligible for re-election in January 2014.

Nominating Additional Candidates

 

Any member may nominate him or herself or a fellow member before January 10, 2013. See the procedures to follow or call the office at 617-354-2169 for information.

December 13, 2012