Candidate for
United States Representative; District 2

• Co-chair of the Commission on a Green New Deal

• Healthcare Not Warfare national campaign co-chair, along with Congressman John Conyers and Donna Smith of the California Nurses Association

• Author of a dozen books on media, political discourse and public policy, including "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death," adopted as required reading in many college courses

• Taught seminars and classes at numerous colleges, including Sonoma State University and Dominican University

• Former member of the national advisory board for Progressive Democrats of America

• Elected as an Obama delegate from Sonoma and Marin counties to the 2008 Democratic National Convention

• Now in third term as an elected delegate from the North Bay to the California Democratic Party's state central committee

• Co-founder of the media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)

• Educator on media, politics, foreign policy and public affairs

• Received the first Alex Forman Peace Award from the Marin County Democratic Party

• Recent keynote speaker at the Marin ACLU annual dinner, the North Bay Labor Council COPE annual dinner, and Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey's 2010 "Honoring Local Doves" event

• Organized and went on three missions to Baghdad prior to the invasion of Iraq -- including one led by Congressman Nick Rahall and former U.S. Senator James Abourezk -- seeking alternatives to war

• One of the lone voices on national television against invading Iraq before the start of the Iraq war in early 2003, appearing on CNN and other major TV networks more than a dozen times to argue for diplomacy instead of a U.S. attack

• Organized and went on fact-finding trip to Afghanistan in 2009

• The New York Times Magazine has called him "a leading progressive activist." The Los Angeles Times has called him "a formidable thinker and activist."

• Recipient of numerous awards including the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, and the Annual Ruben Salazar Journalism Award

• From 1997 to 2010, as founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, oversaw policy research and liaison with thousands of experts on global warming, foreign policy, labor rights, "welfare reform," economic equity, lax enforcement of federal regulations, civil liberties and a wide range of other topics related to federal, state and local government policies nationwide