Genevieve Marcus, Application for Alternate, Delegation to Green Party of the United States

Participated in Green Party forming CoC meetings locally and statewide starting around 1985. 
Worked to achieve GPCA ballot status and joined the party.
Participated in writing and editing the first GPCA Platform.
Served on the first state Coordinating Committee and the first Los Angeles
County Council as well as several since.

-Was coordinator of the Internal Communications committee, which at the time consisted of pleading with Greens to get online and instructing them in how to do so. 
-Managed the first statewide forums on PeaceNet.
-Served on the Outreach Committee and the Women’s Caucus.
-Was a delegate to the first Global Green conference in Brazil in 1992.
-Have been a member of the state and national Women’s Caucus 
since their inception.
-Was a delegate to the national conventions in Los Angeles, Colorado and Milwaukee (was a member of Peter Camejo’s delegation.).
-Had an active role on the state plenary planning committee in Los Angeles, 1996.
-Campaigned for numerous Green candidates at all levels.
-Participate in IRV and CF Reform efforts.

Prior experience:
1) Was an author and editor of several newsletters, two books, and numerous articles on

*Contemporary Music
*Telecommunications in Education 
* Social and Environmental Problem Solving
* Equality and Power in Relationships
* Creating a Virtual L.A.
2) Ran for Co-Governor of California on a proto-Green platform and promoting the idea that all elected offices should be gender-balanced.
3) Serve as Co-President and research director for Experimental Cities, Inc., a nonprofit organization created in 1971 to seek positive alternatives
to social and environmental problems in cities. Many of the concepts
formulated there can be found in the Green Party. 
ECI is currently organizing demonstration projects to test a means of expanding the use of wind energy to low wind areas.
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My hope for the GP is that it will provide a viable alternative to the
existing structure; one that will make sense to enough people to save the planet and ourselves.