Paul George

Hi. Thanks for dropping by. If you missed it somehow, my name is Paul George. And this is my blog.

I have been a peace activist since I was 16-years old and worked for the Gene McCarthy for President campaign. That was in 1968. Go ahead, do the math. I’ll wait…

Currently, I’m the Director of Peninsula Peace and Justice Center in Palo Alto, CA. We bill ourselves as the “San Francisco Peninsula’s leading grassroots activist organization.” I don’t think that’s an exaggeration. We work hard and we do a lot.

I started at PPJC in 1988 as a part-time office helper and became Director on August 1, 1990, one day before the Iraq invasion of Kuwait. I left for a while in 1994 to pursue other organizing opportunities, but returned in 1996. I’ve been there ever since.

I have also worked as the West Coast organizer for Quest for Peace, an organization that shipped humanitarian aid to Nicaragua during the US embargo of that country in the 1980s; I worked for the single payer health care initiative that was on the 1994 California ballot; and as a community/political organizer for SEIU Local 250 of the Hospital and Healthcare Workers Union.

Among other things.