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The Green Party candidate for the 1st CD in Suffolk
County, Long Island is long-time environmental activist Lorna Salzman, a
co-founder of the original NY Green Party in 1985. Salzman's web site
with her platform, bio and numerous articles written over the past
several decades will be completed shortly. She faces Republican
incumbent Felix Grucci and Democratic candidate Timothy Bishop.
Salzman's environmental career began in the mid-sixties at the
grassroots level, where she got involved in early battles to save tidal
wetlands. Later on she immersed herself in the anti-nuclear power
movement, initiating the Shoreham Opponents Coalition in Suffolk County
and leading the battle in New York City to stop radioactive waste
transport from Brookhaven National Laboratories on LI through NYC.
At this same time she was hired by the late David Brower, founder of
Friends of the Earth (FOE), where she served for over ten years as FOE's
regional representative. Her issue focuses were on nuclear energy,
stopping shorefront destruction by the Army Corps of Engineers, and
preserving important pine barrens habitats in Flanders and Calverton,
LI. More recently her writings have focused on biotechnology and
biodiversity. She was awarded the Earth Society Foundation's 2000 award
for environmental activism.
After serving as Executive Director of Food & Water Inc., an
anti-food irradiation group, she was briefly an editor at American
Birds, published by the National Audubon Society. Several years later
she was hired by then-Commissioner of the NYC Dept. of
Environmental Protection Al Appleton as a natural resource specialist in
the DEP's natural resource unit. Since then she has run as a write-in
candidate and as a petition candidate for Congress on the Peconic Greens
and Green Choice lines respectively.
Salzman's campaign will emphasize global warming, universal health care,
stopping the WTO, ending corporate welfare, and protecting women and
children's rights abroad. She is married to composer-writer Eric Salzman.
They have twin daughters and one granddaughter and live in East Quogue,
LINY.
A Committee to Elect Lorna Salzman is in formation. Its members to date
include author-naturalist Peter Matthiessen, Selma Brackman, president
of the War & Peace Foundation, Charles Komanoff, director of
Komanoff EnergyAssociates, and Robert Macalevy, environmentalist and
retired engineering professor.
A full platform, bio, and list of Salzman's accomplishments in
protecting the Long Island environment are available on e-mail and will
be posted on the web site when it is completed.
Information: 631-653-3387
Lorna Salzman
718-522-0253; 631-653-3387
lsalzman@rcn.com
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