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For Immediate Release / Ahimsa 4 Mayor / Thurs 7-26
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE / AHIMSA 4 MAYOR / THURS 7-26
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE / AHIMSA 4 MAYOR / THURS 7-26
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LET'S MAKE HISTORY!
AHIMSA FOR MAYOR
WHEN: Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 12 noon
WHERE: on the Goodlett street steps of City Hall, Polk St. between McAllister &Grove.
WHO: A protege of Dr. Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, Sumchai grew up in San Francisco public housing and attended public schools.
A 1970 representative to the White House Conference on Youth, Sumchai attended San Francisco State University where she was inducted into the Science and Engineering Alumni Hall of Fame in 1995.
John Burton selected her to be his Assembly woman of the year in 1990.
A graduate of UCSF medical school and the first African American woman trained in neurological surgery at the University of California at San Francisco,
Dr. Sumchai completed a two year MD fellowship at Stanford University from 1986 through 1988 becoming the first African American woman to fly full time with a civilian hospital based aeromedical transport program in the nation.
WHY :Sumchai is running for Mayor - another historic first for an African American woman in San Francisco at a time when the cities Black population is hemorrhaging in numbers.
Her platform prioritizes public safety and disaster preparedness.
Sumchai believes interpersonal and group violence is a public health problem and that medical scientists and public policy experts must address the impact of global warming on the escalating incidence of worldwide human conflict.
HOW:An early advocate of single payer Universal Health Insurance, Sumchai will be working with the Peace and Freedom party to draft a statewide initiative to enact a single payer system.
A protector of children and families and an ardent believer in the positive impact of preschool, Sumchai will prioritize the implementation of universal preschool and childcare through luxury and "fat" taxes on foods with high calorie and poor nutritional content.
Known citywide as a vocal proponent for environmental health and justice, Sumchai is running on a platform to halt the dangerous construction activities of Lennar corporation at the Hunters Point Shipyard and to enact a moratorium on market rate and above market rate residential development in the city's southeast sector.
"I use public transporation up to three times a day, six days a week", says the candidate. I will enact transit reform that will optimize Muni public service and reduce service delays including front and back door boarding with proof of payment, citywide availability of fast passes and advance faire sales. Concerted focus will be placed on service delays in southeast and southwestern San Francisco and Muni operator training with emphasis on reduction in work related repetitive strain injuries and endurance to reduce the high absentee rate.
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, along with students from UCSF and Stanford, led the Sudan Divestment movement from the city's Retirement Fund.
A medical volunteer in the Sudan in 1985, and the organizer of an airlift of supplies into the southern Sudan in 1989, Sumchai is a member of the
Bay Area Darfur Coalition.
She will make ending genocide in the Sudan through full divestment of public and private holdings and other foreign policy measures.
Dr. Sumchai is an advocate for below market rate housing for Students, Workers, Single Mothers and the Poor. She believes low cost housing can be developed by Labor Unions, churches and non-profits with pension plans and through community land trusts.
Sumchai is also running as an environmentalist and nature preservationist to protect threatened and endangered species like the Peregrine falcon and the urban coyote.
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai
NSCA-CPT
PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
4 IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LET'S MAKE HISTORY!
AHIMSA FOR MAYOR
WHEN: Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 12 noon
WHERE: on the Goodlett street steps of City Hall, Polk St. between McAllister &Grove.
WHO: A protege of Dr. Carlton Benjamin Goodlett, Sumchai grew up in San Francisco public housing and attended public schools.
A 1970 representative to the White House Conference on Youth, Sumchai attended San Francisco State University where she was inducted into the Science and Engineering Alumni Hall of Fame in 1995.
John Burton selected her to be his Assembly woman of the year in 1990.
A graduate of UCSF medical school and the first African American woman trained in neurological surgery at the University of California at San Francisco,
Dr. Sumchai completed a two year MD fellowship at Stanford University from 1986 through 1988 becoming the first African American woman to fly full time with a civilian hospital based aeromedical transport program in the nation.
WHY :Sumchai is running for Mayor - another historic first for an African American woman in San Francisco at a time when the cities Black population is hemorrhaging in numbers.
Her platform prioritizes public safety and disaster preparedness.
Sumchai believes interpersonal and group violence is a public health problem and that medical scientists and public policy experts must address the impact of global warming on the escalating incidence of worldwide human conflict.
HOW:An early advocate of single payer Universal Health Insurance, Sumchai will be working with the Peace and Freedom party to draft a statewide initiative to enact a single payer system.
A protector of children and families and an ardent believer in the positive impact of preschool, Sumchai will prioritize the implementation of universal preschool and childcare through luxury and "fat" taxes on foods with high calorie and poor nutritional content.
Known citywide as a vocal proponent for environmental health and justice, Sumchai is running on a platform to halt the dangerous construction activities of Lennar corporation at the Hunters Point Shipyard and to enact a moratorium on market rate and above market rate residential development in the city's southeast sector.
"I use public transporation up to three times a day, six days a week", says the candidate. I will enact transit reform that will optimize Muni public service and reduce service delays including front and back door boarding with proof of payment, citywide availability of fast passes and advance faire sales. Concerted focus will be placed on service delays in southeast and southwestern San Francisco and Muni operator training with emphasis on reduction in work related repetitive strain injuries and endurance to reduce the high absentee rate.
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, along with students from UCSF and Stanford, led the Sudan Divestment movement from the city's Retirement Fund.
A medical volunteer in the Sudan in 1985, and the organizer of an airlift of supplies into the southern Sudan in 1989, Sumchai is a member of the
Bay Area Darfur Coalition.
She will make ending genocide in the Sudan through full divestment of public and private holdings and other foreign policy measures.
Dr. Sumchai is an advocate for below market rate housing for Students, Workers, Single Mothers and the Poor. She believes low cost housing can be developed by Labor Unions, churches and non-profits with pension plans and through community land trusts.
Sumchai is also running as an environmentalist and nature preservationist to protect threatened and endangered species like the Peregrine falcon and the urban coyote.
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai
NSCA-CPT
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She sounds great! How about drug policy and LGBT rights?
See more information on the press conference at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/10/18439815.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/10/18439815.php
For more information:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/1...
Gay rights and drug laws concern state laws, enacted by the state legislature and the governor, not the Board of Supervisors and the mayor. Civil unions are not marriage and marriage laws are state laws.
The Peace & Freedom Party platform is for gay rights, and San Francisco voters are 75% for gay marriage. The gay liberation agenda is not an issue in San Francisco. The same is true, but more so, of drug decriminalization/legalization. San Franciscio voted 80% for Prop 215, medical marijuana, some 10 years ago, and the support has increased since then. Dr. Sumchai states she is working with Peace & Freedom Party, whose platform may be found at:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/Platform.htm
The litmus test issue in San Francisco is rent control, a local ordinance. The current election fraud "mayor" is an anti-rent control mouthpiece of the real estate industry, and a proud Democrat. Any candidate for the workingclass is by definition for rent control. The issues addressed in this press release are direct criticisms of the Democratic Party machine's "mayor" Newsom, especially, the real estate development for the rich at the expense of the workingclass community in the southeast sector, Bayview Hunters Point, and the destruction of our public transportation system, especially in Bayview Hunters Point, with the elimination of the 15 bus line and installing of the disastrous T train. Some modifications have been made to the T train, but the 15 bus line is still gone, a disaster for the workingclass. The 30 Stockton and 9 bus lines are still overcrowded. No one takes any Muni Metro under Market Street if they can possibly avoid it, which means millions of our tax dollars were wasted on the Muni Metro for a failed system.
The Peace & Freedom Party platform is for gay rights, and San Francisco voters are 75% for gay marriage. The gay liberation agenda is not an issue in San Francisco. The same is true, but more so, of drug decriminalization/legalization. San Franciscio voted 80% for Prop 215, medical marijuana, some 10 years ago, and the support has increased since then. Dr. Sumchai states she is working with Peace & Freedom Party, whose platform may be found at:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/Platform.htm
The litmus test issue in San Francisco is rent control, a local ordinance. The current election fraud "mayor" is an anti-rent control mouthpiece of the real estate industry, and a proud Democrat. Any candidate for the workingclass is by definition for rent control. The issues addressed in this press release are direct criticisms of the Democratic Party machine's "mayor" Newsom, especially, the real estate development for the rich at the expense of the workingclass community in the southeast sector, Bayview Hunters Point, and the destruction of our public transportation system, especially in Bayview Hunters Point, with the elimination of the 15 bus line and installing of the disastrous T train. Some modifications have been made to the T train, but the 15 bus line is still gone, a disaster for the workingclass. The 30 Stockton and 9 bus lines are still overcrowded. No one takes any Muni Metro under Market Street if they can possibly avoid it, which means millions of our tax dollars were wasted on the Muni Metro for a failed system.
For more information:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/Platform.htm
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