Green Party Speakers Bureau

subject: Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP)
NAME OFFICE OR CAMPAIGN SUBJECTS BIO
McCabe, Justine

 

Co-Chair, GPUS International Committee, former Co-Chair, Green Party of CT Foreign policy (Middle East) and national health insurance (single payer), SPP Dr. Justine McCabe is a lifelong human rights and peace activist. She is the Co-Chair of the International Committee of the Green Party of the United States for which she has served as a point person on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr. McCabe has extensive experience speaking and writing about this issue including published opinion pieces and letters in venues like the Hartford Courant and The New York Times. She has also advocated for the medical rights of women and health care reform in California and Connecticut. Most recently, she co-authored The Connecticut Health Care Security Act, which would implement a single payer health insurance system in Connecticut. [more]
Willebrand, Julia

 

Co-Chair, GPUS International Committee, 2006 Green Party candidate for Comptroller, NY Corporate power, foreign policy/Latin America, education/No Child Left Behind/high stakes testing, labor/trade policy, globalization, SPP Dr. Julia Willebrand is an environmental and antiwar activist who has worked for peace and social justice for many years. She ran for Comptroller of New York in 2006 and got over 100,000 votes, the highest ever for a statewide Green Party candidate in New York. She ran for Mayor of New York City in 2001 and State Senate in 1998. Dr. Willebrand is the co-chair of the International Committee of the Green Party of the United States and co-president of the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas (FPVA). She has represented the national party at Global Green meetings in Nicaragua, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Ireland, and Italy. She is co-founder and former chair of the Westside Local in NYC and former chair of the New York County Green Party. [more]