The Green Party of New Jersey Updated May 08, 2008 Robert "Gabe" Gabrielsky for Congress - NJ District 2
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	While Robert "Gabe" Gabrielsky only recently joined the New Jersey Green Party, he has been active in Green politics since the 1980's and was a featured workshop speaker at the First National Green Gathering in Amherst, MA, on the topics of Solidarity with the human rights, labor, environmentalist and independent peace movements of Eastern Europe and nonviolence as a principle, strategy and tactic for social justice movements. While Robert "Gabe" Gabrielsky only recently joined the New Jersey Green Party, he has been active in Green politics since the 1980's and was a featured workshop speaker at the First National Green Gathering in Amherst, MA, on the topics of Solidarity with the human rights, labor, environmentalist and independent peace movements of Eastern Europe and nonviolence as a principle, strategy and tactic for social justice movements. Robert "Gabe" Gabrielsky is an active rank and file trade unionist, has been a member of over half a dozen different unions, and on several occasions has served as a local union officer.  For nearly four decades "Gabe" has been actively involved in the struggle for social equality, for international solidarity among progressive, democratic social movements, for a militant, socially progressive and democratic labor movement, and for a mass, independent, progressive electoral party in the United States.

While Robert "Gabe" Gabrielsky only recently joined the Green Party of New Jersey , he has been active in Green politics since the 1980's and was a featured workshop speaker at the First National Green Gathering in Amherst, MA, on the topics of Solidarity with the human rights, labor, environmentalist and independent peace movements of Eastern Europe and nonviolence as a principle, strategy and tactic for social justice movements.

Robert "Gabe" Gabrielsky is an active rank and file trade unionist, has been a member of over half a dozen different unions, and on several occasions has served as a local union officer.  For nearly four decades "Gabe" has been actively involved in the struggle for social equality, for international solidarity among progressive, democratic social movements, for a militant, socially progressive and democratic labor movement, and for a mass, independent, progressive electoral party in the United States.

Born in Camden, NJ in 1943, Gabrielsky was graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College in 1981, and has done extensive graduate work in the field of labor history at the University of Massachusetts.  Gabrielsky first came to the public's attention in 1947 when he organized a strike of his Kindergarten class in protest against enforced naptime.  Since then it has been nonstop.  His slogan has been "Organize where you are."  At one point he was fired from a job as a union organizer when he attempted to unionize his fellow organizers.  He not only questions authority, he challenges it at every turn, including his own as a parent, teacher and intellectual.  He profoundly believes that we are all leaders and eschews authority at every level.

For his entire life, "Gabe" Gabrielsky has struggled against not only greedy corporations and their political lackeys, but also against bureaucratic and corrupt union bosses, the self-serving, self-appointed "leaders" of progressive social movements, and the narrow mindedness of the general public, as well as his own personal success, adopting the motto, in 1967, "The only way not to sell out is to make yourself unmarketable."  He has tried to remain true to it ever since.

In the fable of the grasshopper and the ant, Gabrielsky has always identified with the grasshopper, despite the fact that he has no talent for the violin.  His lifelong and tireless commitment to instant gratification have utterly marginalized Gabrielsky, leaving him nearly friendless, with social skills sharply honed to alienate those closest to him (one wag remarked, "Why, he's like a sinking ship firing on his rescuers!"), penniless and nearly incapable of supporting himself, let alone his family.  Nevertheless, as much because of these traits as despite them, in an era of widespread cynicism, Gabrielsky stands out as an ordinary human being who proves that it is possible to abandon virtually all the norms, values and standards of a middle class life, to retain all the values of an extremely idealistic youth and still live a rewarding and ultimately satisfying life.  

Despite, or more probably because of a lifestyle far out of the ordinary, Gabrielsky demonizes no one and retains a boundless optimism for human potential and the future of humanity.  He calls on you not simply to vote for him, but to join him as an equal to help build the Green Party, a new type of party that, through our common, collective efforts, will transform our nation and make social equality, political democracy for all and world peace a reality.

Vote your hopes, not your fears.  Vote for Gabrielsky.