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  Kevin Zeese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zeese was born in New York City in 1955.
Zeese is currently president of Common Sense for Drug Policy, an organization dedicated to reforming drug policy and expanding harm reduction.
Zeese calls his campaign the "Unity Campaign", and is running on a reform platform for, as he states it, "peace, justice and democracy".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kevin_Zeese   (618 words)

  
 Kevin Zeese: Archives
Kevin Zeese on the feds' new biowarfare arms race.
Kevin Zeese on the push for a congressional debate on Iraq.
Kevin B. Zeese on the court martial of Kevin Benderman.
www.lewrockwell.com /zeese/zeese-arch.html   (205 words)

  
 Kevin Zeese - dKosopedia
Kevin Zeese is running a unique campaign for U.S. Senate in Maryland, bringing together three alternative political parties, the Populists, Libertarians and Greens.
Zeese was a founder of the Alliance of Reform Organizations (ARO), a coalition of organizations working to end the failed war on drugs and put in place a policy that has at its center public health strategies rather than law enforcement strategies.
Zeese was a co-founder of the Campaign for Verifiable Voting in Maryland.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Kevin_Zeese   (391 words)

  
 Main Page - Wiki-Zeese for Senate Campaign Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Zeese --In fact, in the last weekend of the legislative session, the Democrat controlled legislature passed a law to block me from having three parties nominate me -- they required that candidates be registered with the party that nominates them.
Kevin is a cofounder of the Maryland Populist Party and is well known among Greens, but he felt that it was impossible to win without Libertarian support.
Kevin Zeese, having been Ralph Nader's press secretary in 2004, and therefore having already supported a similar third-party coalition effort, was one of the key initiators of the idea from the beginning.
www.zeese.us /index.php?title=Main_Page   (9642 words)

  
 portland imc - 2006.06.04 - Kevin Zeese: “Both Parties Selling Country to Highest Bidder!”
Kevin Zeese, an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, accused both parties, Democrats and Republicans, of "selling the country to the highest bidder." He spoke at a Forum, in Baltimore, MD, on June 4, 2006.
Zeese also underscored that our fragile environment is headed for a global disaster, unless serious policy changes are made within the next five to ten years.
Zeese has labeled the two opposition parties as "corporate dominated." He has written that if there was ever a moment for Marylanders "to get organized" and to "throw the bums out," it's right now.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2006/06/340544.shtml   (977 words)

  
 Kevin Zeese's Antiwar Campaign For The U.S. Senate By Joshua Frank
Zeese, who is running independent of the two major parties, has been involved in a host of social justice issues over the past thirty years and is currently serving as the director for the antiwar organization Democracy Rising, which is calling for a responsible, rapid withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Zeese is seeking the nomination of Maryland's antiwar Libertarian, Populist and Green Parties as well as support from Maryland's fastest growing group of voters -- disgruntled Republicans and Democrats.
Zeese's pursuit is already drawing support from Democrats disappointed with the Party's attempt to anoint Cardin.
www.countercurrents.org /us-frank201005.htm   (723 words)

  
 cannabisnews.com: Arcata Journal Interview with Kevin Zeese
Zeese is a member of the executive committee of the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers and a board member of the Media Awareness Project, the Foundation on Drug Policy and Human Rights and the Harm Reduction Coalition.
Zeese is a co-founder of Drug Policy Foundation where he served as Vice President and Counsel and a former Executive Director and Chief Counsel of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.Acknowledgments:Special thanks to Bob Randall and Alice O'Leary of the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics for their assistance with this project.
Zeese and those others involved in the lawsuit against the Feds *made them back off*; the Feds wound up burning their fingers and sullenly stuck them in their mouths like the bullies they have been proven to be.
www.cannabisnews.com /news/thread4706.shtml   (5250 words)

  
 Kevin Zeese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Zeese is Director, of DemocracyRising.US, an organization working to responsibly end the Iraq War and Occupation.
As President of Common Sense for Drug Policy, he is nationally recognized as a leader of the effort to end the war on drugs and put in place a public health approach to drug control.
Zeese was also a founding member of the Treatment Not Incarceration Coalition in Maryland.
home.comcast.net /~howardgreens/06election/KZ.html   (272 words)

  
 TheWBALChannel.com - News - Kevin Zeese For Senate: I'm A Legit Candidate
The office in Zeese's Tacoma Park home is home to social activism and a visual biography of the 50-year-old third-party candidate for Senate.
If elected, Zeese said he would work to end the war in Iraq and push for a micro-tax on the nation's 1 percent.
Zeese has a following of very loyal supporters, but he said he hopes to attract other voters who have long shared their displeasure with the major political parties.
www.thewbalchannel.com /news/10178014/detail.html   (447 words)

  
 American Chronicle: In Maryland, Kevin Zeese Takes On The Power Brokers
Zeese is the uniter who has drawn these three movements under one wing, together with Democrats, Republicans, and non-aligned voters—the fastest-growing constituency in Maryland politics—to stake a common purpose.
With Kevin Zeese calling on Marylanders to chart "a new political course...a new direction for politics in America," voters will be asked to decide whether the two parties really hold an incontestable, inherited right to the offices of the Senate.
Kevin Zeese will be standing up for those who were washed away from their rooftops by Hurricane Katrina, the victims of policies administered by two parties who have (wittingly or unwittingly) conspired to let the interests of an elite few masquerade as national interest.
www.americanchronicle.com /articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=2851   (1851 words)

  
 Green Party News :: Kevin Zeese Claims "Hawkish Israeli Lobby Wants War With Iran"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Zeese is the director of DemocracyRising.US, an organization working to end the Iraqi War and the Occupation.
Presently, Zeese is an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, seeking to bring together, in a voting bloc, the combined electoral efforts of the Green, Populist and Libertarian Parties.
Zeese asserted that "our democracy is threatened by the stifling of debate.” He said now is the time to confront the “special relationship" between Israel and the United States.
web.greens.org /news/displayarticle.php?mediaId=4210   (787 words)

  
 Kevin Zeese Launches Exploratory Committee for U.S. Senate Race in Maryland
Zeese's entry into the race will make an already competitive race even more difficult to predict and brings a different perspective than the two major parties on critical issues of concern to Maryland voters.
Zeese is director of Democracy Rising (see: www.DemocracyRising.US) an organization working for a responsible end of the Iraq War and occupation.
Zeese will also be emphasizing reducing the rich-poor divide, creating an ownership society, ending the failed war on drugs, restoring civil liberties and reinvigorating our democracy beginning with a voter verified paper record as part of all voting in the United States.
orbstandard.com /News/Zeese/Zeese_for_US_Senate.html   (592 words)

  
 Kevin B. Zeese Biographical Sketch
Kevin Zeese has written for newspapers and journals on a range of drug issues, including an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the Colombian drug war.
Zeese is a co-founder of the Drug Policy Foundation (now renamed the Drug Policy Alliance), where he served as Vice President and Counsel, and is a former Executive Director and Chief Counsel of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
In 2000, Kevin Zeese was the recipient of the Richard J. Dennis DrugPeace Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Drug Policy Reform from the Drug Policy Foundation at their 13th Annual International Conference on Drug Policy Reform.
www.csdp.org /kz   (537 words)

  
 Drug Policy Reformer Kevin Zeese Runs for Senate in Maryland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kevin Zeese, former executive director of NORML and president of Common Sense for Drug Policy, is running as a third-party candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland.
The Baltimore Sun reported Oct. 9 that the cornerstones of Zeese's campaign include opposition to the war in Iraq, overhaul of the federal income tax, and national health insurance.
Michael Steele, but Zeese has managed a few small victories: he is the first third-party candidate in Maryland to be included in debates for the Senate seat, and also is the first candidate in the U.S. to win endorsements from both the Green Party and the Libertarian Party.
www.jointogether.org /news/headlines/inthenews/2006/drug-policy-reformer-kevin.html   (433 words)

  
 Baltimore Independent Media Center: U.S. Senate Candidate Kevin Zeese Electrifies a Baltimore Audience
Zeese says a yardstick for the U.S. economy, the gross national product, will grow by 400 percent during the 21st century, and that the main question our century faces is what to do with it.
Zeese paints himself as a critic of corporate America's grip on government, but even if his campaign aligns with public sentiment, he has a lot of work to do to get his name out and convince people to vote for the Green Party.
Zeese will be participating in a Jan. 11 debate in Chevy Chase, Maryland that should feature most of the major primary candidates from all the parties.
baltimore.indymedia.org /newswire/display/11611/index.php   (1063 words)

  
 Chat With Kevin Zeese Of Common Sense For Drug
Kevin: Regarding the question on the therapeutic state, that is a legitimate concern.
Kevin: We are spending $20 Bill federally and probably $25 to $30 billion at the state and local level.
Kevin: That is a good part of the recent study -- the problem with the study is it is exaggerated and intended to create fear among parents.
www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v01/n1170/a07.html?101   (2510 words)

  
 Green Party's Kevin Zeese Has New Approach
Zeese, 50, an attorney and longtime peace and social justice activist, was introduced by Dr. Kwame O. Abayoni, pastor of the Unity United Methodist Church and a former Baltimore City Councilman from the Southside.
Zeese said, “The Military Industrial Complex is the greatest threat that we have to our country as far as funding what we need for necessities for the people and for our basic infrastructure needs...It takes half of our discretionary income...Worldwide, the U.S. spends as much as the whole world combined on the military.
Zeese said, however, that Steele’s campaign may be able to raise mega-millions for the Senate race because of backing for him from the White House.
baltimorechronicle.com /2005/121605Hughes.html   (995 words)

  
 THC - Cannabis - Ministry :: Community :: View topic - Kevin Zeese Challenges Rep. Cardin on Israel
Zeese also sharply criticized Rep. Cardin for not speaking out about the plight of the 25,000 Americans, who were trapped in Lebanon when the war broke out.
Zeese, in his July 11th letter to Rep. Cardin, along with two other letters, which dealt with Occupied Palestine, condemned the Israeli invasion of Gaza and the destruction there of homes, power plants, government buildings, along with the targeted assassinations of individuals by the IOF.
Zeese is doing a tremendous service for the Republic by calling for a series of debate with Rep. Cardin on Israel's off-the-wall military behavior, which can't be sustained under any kind of "just war" theory.
www.thc-ministry.net /forum/viewtopic.php?t=7166&highlight=&sid=205295748238ad9a24f6c029192c8de8   (1371 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Ralph Nader Drives to Get on Presidential Ballots -- September 20, 2004
Kevin Zeese, as we were trying to keep track of these numbers today, they kept shifting even as we were counting on our fingers and toes.
KEVIN ZEESE: We've been told that we're on 37 ballots by the board of elections around the country.
KEVIN ZEESE: The problem with the ballot access - only one problem with that - and that's the Democratic Party being anti-democratic is the problem.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/politics/july-dec04/nader_9-20.html   (1909 words)

  
 Kevin Zeese Blasts "Special Interests" at Senate Debate : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kevin Zeese, the “Unity Candidate,” blasted the Democrats and Republicans in the Congress for selling the country out “to the special interests.” Unlike his opponents, Lt. Gov.
It pitted Kevin Zeese, the popular "Unity Candidate," who has a strong anti-Iraqi War platform, against the standard bearers of the two older political parties: Lt. Gov.
Zeese calls himself the "Unity Candidate." He proudly points out that he also has Democrats, Republicans and Independents serving on his campaign committee.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2006/10/1732604.php   (926 words)

  
 A Pretext for War - by Kevin B. Zeese
Zeese: A recent memo of meeting minutes was released in Great Britain saying the Bush administration was "fixing the intelligence" so that the Iraq War could be justified.
Zeese: After 9/11, there were many changes in law to fight the war on terrorism.
Zeese: There are a lot of people discussing whether the U.S. government was aware of the 9/11 attack before it happened; some even argue that some in the U.S. government were involved or informed of the attack.
www.antiwar.com /orig/zeese.php?articleid=6054   (2615 words)

  
 A Leftist Youth Journal Based in the U.S.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Zeese: I'm considering running for the U.S. Senate because neither of the two major parties represent the interests of a majority of Americans.
Zeese: The United States is going in more wrong directions at the same time than ever in my lifetime.
Zeese: At the foundation of the legitimacy of government is elections.
www.lefthook.org /Interviews/FoxworthZeese072605.html   (4776 words)

  
 Kevin Zeese on Civil Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kevin Zeese urged Rep. Ben Cardin to co-sponsor an amendment to the Family and Medical Leave Act that would grant medical leave benefits to same sex partners.
In a letter to Rep. Cardin, Zeese points out that the 2000 Census reports that there are nearly 600,000 same-sex households in the United States.
Zeese urges Cardin to co-sponsor HR 475 to send a "message that you do not support discrimination against the gay and lesbian community.
www.govote.com /Domestic/Kevin_Zeese_Civil_Rights.htm   (430 words)

  
 Bush Administration Psychological Warfare Against the U.S.?
Zeese: You spend a lot of time in your article on the story regarding the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch.
Zeese: You say in "Truth from these Podia:" "In the most basic sense, Washington and London did not trust the peoples of their democracies to come to right decisions.
Zeese: You conclude "Truth in these Podia" with the "Last Chart" and suggest that we need an investigation to determine the extent of information management and legislation to prevent the people of the United States from being victimized by war propaganda in the future.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article9239.htm   (2119 words)

  
 Candidate Profile: U.S. Senate: Kevin Zeese
Zeese is not new at campaigns: In the 2004 presidential election he was the press secretary of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, who later encouraged Zeese to run.
Originally from New York, Zeese grew up in a politically active house, where his father was teacher and his mother a nurse.
Politics was a bond for the couple, as Zeese helped Schade through her campaign for state delegate.
www.somd.com /news/headlines/2006/4753.shtml   (1258 words)

  
 Ballot Access News » Blog Archive » Kevin Zeese to be Maryland Green Nominee for US Senate
Kevin Zeese has been running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland for approximately six months, with the likely or certain endorsement of three different minor parties (Populist, Green and Libertarian).
Zeese was an active supporter of Ralph Nader in 2004 and helped to create the Populist Party in Maryland (the Populist Party was formed largely as a vehicle for Nader’s candidacy, since the ballot access requirements are easier for new parties in Maryland than they are for independent candidates).
Kevin Zeese is not universally supported and a write-in or, more possibly, None of the Above could beat him for the Green nomination.
www.ballot-access.org /2006/05/20/kevin-zeese-to-be-maryland-green-nominee-for-us-senate   (1003 words)

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