Peace and Freedom Party

"Someone needed to stand with the disability rights community and I did," said C. T. Weber, Peace and Freedom Party State Chair and nominee for Lieutenant Governor. Weber was arrested at a rally on Disability Rights Day at the state capitol on Wednesday, August 18. The disability community was protesting the crippling cuts to social services in the state budget.

Twenty-two demonstrators, eight of them in wheel chairs, were arrested after they sat down and blocked traffic. However, the police vans had no ramps to take those in wheel chairs away. C.T. Weber received a head wound when a channel 3 TV camera hit him. All but one of those arrested were issued citations and released.

This is not the first time that Weber has been arrested for civil disobedience.  Recently he was arrested in Congress member Doris Matsui's district office for protesting her votes for funding the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Peace and Freedom Party Newsletter for September is now available. Click here to download the file.

Other Peace and Freedom Party literature is available here.

On July 31 Cindy Sheehan changed her voter registration to the Peace and Freedom Party. She is the mother Spc. Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004. She is the national director of Peace of the Action, the author of five books and host of her own radio show, Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox.

This is the Peace and Freedom Party's statement in the 2010 statewide Voter Information Guide.

The Peace and Freedom Party is a working-class party in a country run by and for the wealthy and their corporations. We should not have to sacrifice our health, our livelihoods and our planet for our bosses’ profits. We can tax the rich, whose wealth is entirely created by workers, to pay for the people’s needs. We favor:

• Bringing all troops home now.
• Ending all discrimination.
• Full rights for immigrants.
• Free health care for everyone.
• Good services for disabled people.
• Restoring and protecting the environment.
• Real democracy and fair political representation.
• Free education for all from preschool through the university.
• Decent jobs and full labor rights for all.

As long as our system puts the wealthy first, we will suffer war, police brutality, low wages, unsafe workplaces and pollution. We advocate socialism, which we see as the ownership and democratic control of the economy by working people. If we join together to take back our industries and natural resources, we can work together democratically and cooperatively for the common good, rather than being slaves to the rich and their corporations.

Vote for those who speak up for your own needs, the candidates of the Peace and Freedom Party.