Akio Tanaka, Application for Alternate, Green Party of the United States

Name - Akio Tanaka
City - Oakland
County - Alameda
Contact information - gpus.aki@gmail.com

1) Please list any prior or current positions, related experience, and/or personal and professional skills within of the Green Party that you have, that apply to this position.
 
Registered Green in California since 2002;
Green Party of Alameda County Councilor
Matt Gonzalez, San Francisco Mayoral campaign- volunteer
Peter Camejo, California Gubernatorial campaign- volunteer
Aimee Allison, Oakland City Council campaign-volunteer, fundraiser host
2008 Green Party Presidential Debate in San Francisco- volunteer
2008 Green Party Convention in Chicago - delegate
 
2) Please list any prior or current positions, related experience, and/or personal and professional skills outside of the Green Party that you have, that apply to this position.
 
Listener Delegate to the Pacifica-KPFA Local Station Board 2006-2012.
Board member NorCal ISM, FPM 2010-11.
Organizer of Oakland’s Oak-to-Ninth Referendum Petition Drive to reverse a City Council Development Ordinance.
 
3) Please describe your vision for serving as GPUS Delegate including addressing the job description for GPUS Delegate.
 
We should work for electoral reform especially Public Financing of elections.
We should promote democratic worker owned cooperatives based on Mondragon experiment in Spain as an alternative to corporate capitalism.