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Richard Z. Duffee  US House of Representatives
I am running as a Green for US House of Representatives.
District: 4th District
State: Connecticut
Election Day: Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Elected: No Results Yet
About Richard Z. Duffee
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| 6/01 – present Independent writer of essays, poetry, fiction, and filmscripts.
8/05–12/05 Teacher of Chemistry and Environmental Science to 11th and 12th grade students, Stamford Academy, Stamford, CT 06905
7/99 – 6/01 Taught Law and Poverty, Jurisprudence, Logic, Human Rights Law and Property Law at National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad, India, first as Guest Lecturer, then as Visiting Professor, to B.A./LL.B. students and LL.M. students
7/98 – 6/99 Teaching Assistant at National Law School, Bangalore, India
1/97 – 10/97 Designing educational, income-generating, and legal literacy projects to reduce girl trafficking for Rural Education and Development Association, Kathmandu, Nepal.
3/96 – 10/96 Designing studies of Nepalese criminal justice system and human rights for Organization for Participation in Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
3/95 – 5/98 Writing grant proposals for Nava Samaja Mahila Mandali, Guntur, A.P. India
6/94 – 1/95 Science and mathematics teacher, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, Bronx, New York, member of Coalition of Essential Schools
5/90 – 12/92 Cared for wife during her terminal illness, a brain tumor
2/92 – 5/92 Legal intern, Westchester Legal Services, White Plains, New York
5/89 – 7/89 Researched New York court treatment of expert testimony for revision of Matthew Bender treatise chapter
5/88 – 6/89 Research Assistant for article, “United Nations Charter as a Constitution,” 1 Pace International Law Journal
5/87 – 5/89 As paralegal, found housing for homeless families through Association for Improvement in Mohegan, then on work-study contract between Pace Law School, Quakers, and Westchester People’s Action Coalition, White Plains, New York
9/84 – 10/85 Taught writing and social studies to boys detained and committed by Juvenile Court, YMCA Challenge Program, Dorchester, Massachusetts
1/81 – 5/84 Independent tutor in reading, writing, and special education, Peekskill, New York
1/80 – 1/81 English teacher, Peekskill High School, Peekskill, New York
6/79 – 6/80 Editor, New Paltz History Review, New Paltz, New York
1/79 – 6/79 Adjunct faculty, State University of New York at New Paltz, teaching creative writing at Wallkill Correctional Facility, Wallkill, New York
1/77 – 12/78 Teaching Assistant in English, State University of New York at New Paltz; taught 4 Freshman writing and literature courses
8/73 – 6/74 Graduate Assistant in Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
3/66 – 2/73 Assistant, Great Expectations, Evanston, Illinois, a philosophy bookstore
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| Important Issues: |
| • Health care: There's nothing wrong with the Canadian single-payer plan—the vast majority of Canadian citizens are happy with it, including the doctors.
• Jobs: We can make jobs the way FDR did in 1932, this time by hiring people to do insulation, solar power, wind power, geothermal, retrofitting, and so on, and making it available to everyone at cost the way the GI bill made housing available to veterans after World War II.
• Foreign policy: We should comply strictly with all the provisions of international law we created but now disavow. We should comply with the United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg rules, the Geneva Accords, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 1996 International Court of Justice opinion that nuclear weapons are illegal, and fully fund the UN, help it reform so it can function, and behave as a normal law-abiding nation—which Article 6 of our Constitution says we are supposed to be.
• Global warming: Global warming is lethal. Several factors—loss of rainforests, collapse of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, exacerbation of El Niño—may make exponential heat spikes that will cause drought so severe that no one can survive it, flooding great enough to wipe out vast coastal areas and whole nations, horrific storms, sudden freezes, and such chaotically unpredictable weather that no agriculture can succeed. We need to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and establish a National Greenhouse Gas Initiative. |
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| Why Vote For Me: |
| I am one of a Green slate of candidates running for Congress in Connecticut's five districts. We are working to restore the Constitution, impeach Bush and Cheney, stop global warming, and end illegal wars.
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3rd District:TBA
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Contact Richard Z. Duffee
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(203) 588-0161 | | Donate: | (Coming soon. Meanwhile, send contributions to:
Duffee for Congress
1-B River Oaks Road
Westport, CT 06880)
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| Mail: | Duffee for Congress |
| | 341 Oaklawn Avenue |
| | Stamford, CT 06905
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