[pjw] INFO:Oregon Governor Candidate Peace Issues Questionnaire May 2022

[Peace and Justice Works]

Oregon Governor Candidate Peace Issues Questionnaire May 2022
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In March, 2022, Peace and Justice Works' Iraq Affinity Group along with
Albany Peace Seekers, Veterans For Peace Chapter 72, Veterans For Peace
Linus Pauling Chapter 132, Jewish Voice for Peace-Portland and Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)-Corvallis OR branch*
sent a questionnaire with four peace-related questions to the 36
candidates for Oregon's Governor who are running in the May 17 primary.

The questions pertain to keeping Oregon's National Guard in Oregon,
cutting the military budget, changing military policies to help the
climate, and getting Oregon State Police out of the FBI's Joint
Terrorism Task Force.

Out of thirty-six (36) candidates, seven (7) sent full replies and one
(1) sent a generic answer.

NOTES:

  --Responses were limited to 150 words.

  --Answers were not edited for typographical errors, grammar or
    accuracy.

  --Only Democrats and Republicans are engaged in the primary, other
    parties will be nominating their candidates before the November
    election.

THE QUESTIONNAIRE

Laid out on 8.5 x 11 sheets; total of 8 pages printed:

https://pjw.info/PeaceIssueQuestionnaire22.pdf

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https://pjw.info/peacequestionnaire2022.html

Thank you.
dan handelman
for Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group

    * --Peace and Justice Works has been promoting nonviolent conflict
    resolution on local, national and international levels since 1992.

    --Albany Peace Seekers works to be a positive, non-violent voice of
    conscience in the midst of aggression, war and injustice.

    -- Veterans For Peace Chapter 72 (Portland) is an educational and
    humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war.

    -- Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132 (Mid Valley) has been
    waging peace since 1988; its primary mission is to oppose US military
    intervention and to advocate for diplomacy over war.

    --Jewish Voice for Peace works to achieve a lasting peace that
    recognizes the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians for security
    and self-determination.

    --Founded in 1915, WILPF is one of the world's longest-standing women's
    peace organizations, working to promote international peace and justice
    through a feminist lens.