Gabrielsky for Assembly

The Green Party of New Jersey
Updated May 08, 2008
Robert Paul "Gabe" Gabrielsky
for NJ State Assembly -

New Jersey Second Legislative District

Gabe's Platform

Build a national social justice movement:

Build the Green Party as a movement center for social justice and political and social reform
Foster cooperation between the Green Party, the labor movement and other movements for social justice
Act as a tribune of people and movements who have begun to fight back against injustice
Encourage popular participation in government

Support proposed and pending social reform legislation and reform legislation already successful in other states and nations:

Oppose the death penalty. Support the death penalty moratorium coalition
Pass legislation for paid family leave
End Police Brutality. Democratically elected civilian police review boards
Universal health care based on the Massachusetts model
Strengthen the Occupational Safety and Health Act to mandate democratically elected work place based health and safety committees
Lifelong free public education, Pre-K through graduate school

Envision a Better World:

Just transition for Salem nuclear plant and all ecologically unsound work places. Shut it down with corporate responsibility for full compensation of displaced workers until they find equivalent positions.
Equitable funding of public schools through graduated income and corporate taxes rather than property taxes to foster equity in education
End sprawl. Massive commercial reinvestment in urban centers. Massive reinvestment in public mass transit, particularly railroads.
End poverty. A living wage for all New Jerseyites. Affordable housing for all New Jerseyites.
End corporate welfare. Substantially increase taxes on the corporations and the very wealthy and fines on corporations that run away to cheaper labor markets.
Expand democracy. Public financing of all elections. Proportional representation and instant run off voting at all levels of government.

Green Party Candidate for State Assembly - New Jersey Second Legislative District

Independent Electoral Activities:

Social Activism:

International Organizer, Peace Activists East and West Coordinating Committee, a grassroots international human rights group, 1983-1989
Chapter Organizer, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 1966-1969
Member, Lower East Side Committee on Racial Equality, 1964
Youth Organizer, Civil Rights March on Trenton for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

Labor Activity:

Shop Steward, Local 54 HERE
Labor Coordinator, New Jersey Green Party
Organizer, Community Health Workers Association, 1995-1996
Internal Organizer, University of Massachusetts Graduate Student Employees Organization (UAW) 1984-1987
Internal Organizer, District 65 (UAW)-Barnes and Noble organizing drive, 1976-1977
Stage Manager, Labor Theatre, 1975-1977
Financial Secretary-Treasurer, Local #416, IUE, 1973-1974
Internal Organizer, USBE-Teamster-OPEIU Organizing Drive, 1968

Employment:

Volunteer Activity:

Graduated Hunter College magna cum laude, 1981

ABD, Labor History, University of Massachusetts

Author of several published scholarly and popular articles in the field of American social, cultural and labor history

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

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