Daniel Brezenoff for Congress: election Tuesday

The runoff in the special election for Congress in the 37th district is this Tuesday. The Green Party candidate is Daniel Brezenoff.

From Brezenoff's website:

Daniel Brezenoff has been active in the civil rights, labor, environmental, and peace movements literally since the age of ten. Raised in a family of civil rights, labor, and anti-war activists, he has organized, marched, spoken out publicly and published essays in newspapers about issues of justice, integrity and nonviolence in government and society. He was the founder of Long Beach Citizens for Peace and a principal organizer for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign. Daniel has worked on several national and local political campaigns for progressive Democratic, left-Libertarian and Green candidates.

As a clinical social worker, Daniel has worked closely with some of the most challenging populations in the mental health field, including men and women struggling with addiction, young adults leaving the juvenile incarceration system, and children who have been severely abused. Daniel has facilitated healing, understanding, and solutions with groups and families dealing with violence, trauma, and poverty. He has also been an advocate on the macro level for people with mental illness, especially veterans and women fleeing violence.

Daniel was selected by mental health professionals to serve on the North Carolina Governor’s Crime Commission committee on domestic violence from 1999-2001.

As a historian and journalist, Daniel has given his time and energy to the cause of truth in media and government, tirelessly challenging the myths created to support the status quo by researching and publishing accurate information for the public on the Internet and in periodicals.

Daniel was active in helping to pass the federal Clean Air Acts and in advocating for full disclosure in food and drug labeling in the 1990’s. He helped organize the successful nationwide drives on college campuses to encourage fair trade and labor practices by merchandisers.

Daniel has never held public office, but the dire situation in Washington, and the request of local Greens that he run, caused him to feel that the time is now to take his public service to a new level.