Lewallen Prepares to Serve in Congress

--by John Lewallen (707)895-2996

www.johnlewallenforcongress.org

Dear friend,

  I'm meeting so many people who either voted by mail for John Lewallen for Congress, or are going to vote for me on June 5, that I am devoting the

last several days before the primary to preparing myself to serve in U.S.

Congress.

       My wife Barbara and I have brought our message of peace conversion,

environmental protection, and harmonious employment to meetings and forums from Hayfork in Trinity County, to Marin City by San Francisco Bay.

Everywhere people are organizing for fundamental reform. We delight in

helping to weave this movement together.

    Enough voters may decide to overthrow big-money politics by propelling

John Lewallen, Independent organizing unity to avoid war, depression and

economic destruction, into the general election contest.         

 I'm sure we can attract a strong staff reflecting the genius and diversity

of Northern California.  We will serve in Congress as part of a growing

and diverse movement for fundamental reform.

   If chosen by the electorate, we will organize our Congressional staff as

we campaign for the general election in November. In Congress, we will

focus on writing and enacting major reform legislation-peace conversion,

conversion to renewable energy, large government employment programs,

tribal health and cultural support, fishery allotments supporting

harmonious shore-based fishers, single payer health care, tax reform,

financial industry reform, support for a legal marijuana industry. The

people are my only political party, so I can write and help write big

reform bills which meet the needs of all.

   As a campaigner, I have worked with all other candidates to identify and

develop the key issues. Many themes we brought to the debate have become major issues put forth by other candidates. A nonviolent campaigner, I can work with people of all political persuasions to enact the policies we need for our general welfare.

    Beginning at an April 18 forum in Healdsburg, I asked all eleven of the

other Congressional candidates to join in a demand to "stop the federal

attack on legal medical marijuana." Now all candidates have expressed

opposition to the federal crackdown on legal medical marijuana,

according to a San Francisco Chronicle story by Joe Garofoli on May 21.

       On April 14 we founded the Peace Conversion Coalition at a campaign event at Lauren's Restaurant in Boonville, renewing efforts to move U.S. industrial production from making weapons and war, toward a massive employment effort to build an energy system and transportation

infrastructure for a prosperous, peaceful, and harmonious world.

    The ocean upwelling ecosystem on California's Northcoast is one of the

world's great sources of endlessly renewable ocean food. It is tragic

that the people are being cut off from harmonious access to this food by

federal and state fishery policies which are moving toward ocean

militarization and industrialization.  United, we have been able to stop

offshore oil drilling and keep Mendocino County habitats open to

harmonious tribal cultural activities, fishing, urchin and abalone

harvest,  seaweed gathering, and recreation.  

    Meetings with fishermen in Shelter Cove and elsewhere led to a plan to

launch a coordinated Congressional effort to both restore fisheries and

develop shore-based fishing communities. Changing federal fish

allotments to allow harmonious Northcoast fishers to make a living, and

reduce fishing allotments to large net-dragging trawlers based

out-of-state, are a high priority. These fishing allotment reforms will

be coordinated with efforts to defend and restore the Eel, Klamath, and

San Francisco Bay Delta ecosystems for tribal cultural survival and

salmon habitat. We will work with local business people to support fish

processing and marketing systems.

If you choose to elect John Lewallen to U.S. Congress, it will shake

politics worldwide, and inspire truly independent reformers to come into

Congress from throughout the nation. Let's go together into the people's

House of Representatives!