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Biography
• Mary has served her community as;
• Secretary & Precinct Captain for the Green Party of Pima County
• Green Party representative to the Election Integrity Commission
• Vice President of Mountain View Neighborhood Association
• Co-Founder of the monthly Really Really Free Market in Himmel Park
• Connector for Pro-Neighobrhood's Communities Putting Prevention to Work project
• Local organizer for Code Pink: Women for Peace
• Lend-A-Hand volunteer
• Core member of Transition Pima
• Volunteer for Sustainable Tucson
• Co-Facilitator for Socrates Saturday Morning Forum
• GPPC Recruitment & Outreach Coordinator
• Steering Committee Member for Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
• Board Member of Tucson Peace Center
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• Mary is a Nebraska native
• Since the age of 14, Mary has worked a series of blue-collar, pink-collar, and white-collar jobs including waitress, librarian, bank courier, secretary, federal agricultural clerk, lead teacher in a charter high school, plumber's assistant, analyst, construction worker.
It’s no wonder she won the endorsement of the Pima Area Labor Federation!
• She has taught courses in math, communication and political science for the University of Arizona, George Washington University, Northern Arizona University, Cochise College, and Northeast Nebraska Community College.
• As a candidate for City Council in 2009, Mary won the Kids Voting Arizona straw poll.
Philosophy
• Whether you believe in creationism or evolution, when you go back in your ancestry far enough, you'll realize we all share the same spark of life and we need to honor and support every creature who is walking the earth with us.
• Our Earth is imperiled and we, as the planet's stewards are responsible for maintaining it in a fashion that it can be passed on “undiminished in its ability to meet the needs of future generations.”
• There are enough resources available to support everyone in Tucson with a reasonable Quality of Life and there is enough “Good Work” to be done to make Tucson a Sustainable Oasis. The task is to connect the resources with the needs and the work with the people.
• Love really is stronger than hate; peace is cheaper, healthier, more fun and more sustainable than ever-escalating warfare; and we can choose the path that is most advantageous to the Earth and her Creatures.
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