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Carol Brouillet  US House of Representatives
I am running as a Green for US House of Representatives.
District: District 14
County: Sanata Clara
State: California
Election Day: Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Elected: No Results Yet
About Carol Brouillet
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| In 1992, she saw the film, “JFK” which changed her life dramatically. She began doing research on the CIA, the government, discovered the “alternative press,” and the peace and justice community. Her talents in public relations inspired her to be a “media activist” and promote the critical issues that were censored or ignored by the corporate press. She has tried to balance activism with motherhood and is very fortunate to have a wonderful husband who is great with children, and able to take care of them when she has gone on trips for conferences, protests, speaking engagements.
In '92 she also read excerpts compiled by Dave Ratcliffe on the health effects of low-level radiation which prompted her to compile and edit The Invisible Nuclear War about the effects of low-level radiation, the massive government cover-up, and the continuing battle waged by the Nuclear Powers against All Life on Earth. (She worked with a publisher, but printed pamphlet versions of the book for distribution at a Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Conference and for Congress whom she lobbied that month. One reason for the book was to prevent more nuclear testing at the Nevada site. That legislation was passed and she was able to celebrate the victory with other anti-nuclear activists in DC while she was there getting her book out to Congress. On her return, the publisher said he felt the issue was “No longer timely and she shelved it, as she entered her ninth month of pregnancy.)
She helped co-found the International Media Project, which produces a half hour weekly radio program called Making Contact, now heard on 185 stations. She helped to promote the film and book, Manufacturing Consent- Noam Chomsky and the Media.
She also helped found the Who's Counting Project, which promotes the film Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies & Global Economics. Most recently, she helped found the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance. All of these non-profit organizations seek to connect people, vital ideas and important information to nurture healthy social change, economic justice and ecological sustainability.
Her activism has spanned a wide range of issues. In 1993 she read Debt Virus, A Compelling Solution to the World's Debt Problems by Jaques Jaikaran and an article by Paul Glover "Creating Economic Democracy" and began writing on Money – one of our civilization's largest blind spots. She helped sponsor the first Local Currency Conference that was organized by the E.F. Schumacher Society. She organized a panel and workshop on local currencies at The Other Economic Summit in Denver, Colorado when the G8 was meeting in ’97. She has spoke and given workshops on Global Economics, Money and Community Currencies in many states, as well as in Italy and Brazil. Her paper “Reinventing Money, Restoring the Earth, Reweaving the Web of Life” was recognized by the Millennium Institute as one of the best ideas for the new millennium and has been translated and reprinted in many publications in the United States and around the world.
In January '98, she organized the first "Gathering on Strategies to Transform the Global Economy," in February '99, she organized a second "Gathering." There was so much energy gathered that 24 people volunteered to help six months later with The August Gathering.
Instead of organizing another Gathering in January, 2001, she tried to mobilize North Americans to go to the first World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 25-30, 2001, at the same time that the World Economic Forum was meeting in Switzerland. Energized by the historic event, she was working on combating the FTAA, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, and corporate globalization, speaking out against the FTAA, writing, and organizing in the U.S. in 2001. She worked with the Bay Area Coalition to Stop the FTAA and has organized many events, marches, protests, rallies in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland on many issues.
Shaken by the events of September 11th, she has worked tirelessly since then to counter the assaults upon civil liberties and oppose the “War on Terrorism,” war on Afghanistan, war on Iraq, by exposing the underlying truths behind the war propaganda.
Since October 2001, she has held a weekly listening project- Listening for a Change, every Wednesday, 11 am to 1 pm, except when it is raining. In November 2001, she visited Senator Feinstein’s office and asked to meet with staff to talk about her concerns about the events of September 11th.
She organized a march and rally on Senator Feinstein’s office on January 8, 2002 which raised serious questions about 9-11. She and a delegation from many Peace and Human Rights’ organizations met with Senator Feinstein and Boxers' staff to Demand a Congressional Inquiry of 9/11.
A subsequent march on Congresswoman Eshoo’s office received television coverage. Subsequently Bush and Cheney asked Daschle to limit the investigation and have it overseen by the very men who should have been investigated for their role in 9-11.
In 2002 her energies were devoted to exposing The Truth About 9-11. The local paper did a cover story, November 20, 2002 on "The Rising Local peace movement gathering steam," which profiled a number of activists, including Carol; while a good story, they did omit the gist of her "work."
She has received good press from NPR, the San Jose Mercury News, the Christian Science Monitor, but generally they have omitted the 9-11 work. She is also in numerous television programs, radio programs, documentaries, speaking on global economics and 9-11.
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| Why Vote For Me: |
| One of the best tools that Carol and artist, Blaine Machan, developed to empower, encourage, bring a smile to everyone's face, raise consciousness on 9-11 has been the Deception Dollar, which was first printed in October 2002. 10,000 were published in October; 100,000 in December, 500,000 in February, one million in March. The seventh edition was printed- with 750,000 Deception Dollars and 250,000 Media Deception Dollars; in December 2004, the eighth edition included a new Media Deception Dollar, a Billion Dollar Note, an Election Deception Dollar (over 500,000), as well as the traditional Deception Dollars; there are now over 5,000,000 in circulation and six million in print.
In April 2003, Carol and Blaine, risked their entire Deception Dollar printing fund to put on a couple of major events in San Francisco and Palo Alto- along with 9-11 activists from the Bay Area, the budding 9-11 Truth Alliance, they screened Aftermath- Unanswered Questions from 9-11 with Guerrilla News Network, Mike Ruppert, Peter Dale Scott, Riva Enteen, Barry Zwicker and Richard Heinberg and a lively panel/ Q & A following the film. At the beautiful Herbst Theatre in the heart of San Francisco (which holds nearly a thousand people), they had a full house, had to turn 300 people away and received a standing ovation. In Palo Alto over 400 people come to the event.
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Contact Carol Brouillet
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(650) 857-0927 | | Mail: | Carol Brouillet |
| | P.O. Box 60511 |
| | Palo Alto, CA 94306
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