[Update: Read the comments to see the Committee of Seventy’s response. -ed.]

Hello from Philadelphia, Green Mass Group!  Here we’ve got a VERY strong candidate for Sheriff running on a “no evictions” platform, promoting ideas like community land trusts and greening the sheriff’s fleet.  Her name is Cheri Honkala and she’s a longtime activist in Philadelphia and around the country.

But an important civic organization here in Philadelphia, the Committee of Seventy, is ignoring her candidacy.  They won’t give her a spot on their website alongside the duopoly candidates (although here in Philly it’s really one-party rule by Democrats), and they pretty much won’t even acknowledge she exists.

So we’ve got an online petition that we started yesterday, and all that I’m asking now is that you sign the petition and pass it along to your Green friends and any friends in Philadelphia.  This is an incredibly easy thing to do and one instance where an online petition could actually make a difference!

Here it is:  http://www.change.org/petition…

[And keep us in mind in the coming months, because the campaign is having events all over the country to support Cheri!]