Because we feel that he comes closest to representing our priorities, we have decided to support Dennis Kucinich for President and hope you will join us by signing this statement. Of course this does not preclude our voting for whoever gets the nomination; this is about whom to support in the primaries. Molly Ivins has put it: Vote your heart in the primaries, vote your head in November. If Dennis wins enough hearts, there won't be any contradiction.
Original Signers:
Barbara Ehrenreich, a political essayist whose most recent book is Nickel and Dimed: Surviving in Low Wage AmericaAngela Gilliam, professor and scholar of Black feminist anthropology and international feminism
Ynestra King, a writer and activist specializing in environmental, feminist, and disability issues
Gail Lerner, an organizer in the global women's movement, who has worked with several United Nations agencies and international NGOs in the U.S. and abroad
Grace Paley, a writer and peace activist whose works include Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Later That Same Day, and Just as I Thought
Rosalind Petchesky, an international feminist activist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the City University of New York
Digna Sanchez, a Latina community activist in New York, president of the Aspirante Alumni Fellowship
Meredith Tax, a novelist, essayist and international organizer of feminist writers, whose books include Rivington Street and Union Square