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Anita is a licensed medical professional, elected official, radio talk show host, artist, crafter, writer, blogger, photographer, Political Consultant, and a New Media and Virtual Outreach expert. In 2010, Anita was elected to the Hillsborough County (Tampa Metro) Soil and Water Conservation Board, Seat 5. She won the seat with over 82,000 votes and spent less than $300 for her campaign. Anita was elected as Co-chair of the Green Party of Florida in May of 2013. She is the Interim President of Veterans for Peace Tampa and on the Steering Group for Transition Tampa. She broadcasts and produces the Wise Women Media Radio Show on the Here Be Monsters Network every Friday night.
Anita is a USAF veteran and worked as an Intelligence Operations Specialist in the US and in Europe. She studied English, Film, Political Science and Journalism in college and helped found Veterans for Peace Chapter 119, Code Pink Tampa Bay and the Tampa Bay Indymedia Collective. Anita was one of the first organizers for HANDS ACROSS THE SAND, a global initiative to stop offshore oil drilling and promote energy alternatives. She supports MOVE TO AMEND, an initiative to abolish CORPORATE PERSONHOOD and she supports political candidates that are not "corporate owned." From 2006 until 2012 Anita was on staff for three presidential campaigns, Kucinich (D), McKinney (G) and Barr (G).
Currently, Anita is now learning about Sustainable Living, the Transition Movement and Localism by crafting, growing, cooking and storing food, learning more about reselling, passing on natural cures and recycling, reusing and repurposing. She knits, paints, crafts, makes beaded jewelry and accessories, loves to do yoga and swim and explores in nature with her camera every chance she gets!
(2 comments) Tuesday, June 18, 2013 BRUCE WRIGHT -- PINELLAS COUNTY SHADOW SHERIFF by Jeff RobySHARE
Introducing Reverend Bruce Wright, on the Green Shadow Cabinet representing General Welfare, Executive Committee Member of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and now Shadow Sheriff of Pinellas County. As being poor becomes more criminalized every day, Reverend Wright has become the champion of the poor. Working with Greens and others state wide he promotes peace, social justice and equal and fair treatment of the homeless, hungry and poor everywhere.
Thursday, October 4, 2012 Ex-Staffer on Roseanne's Presidential Campaign Claims She Never Got PaidSHARE
Roseanne Barr may not have tied up all the loose ends associated with her first campaign. Her Green Party bid ultimately proved unsuccessful after Massachusetts doctor Jill Stein secured the party's nomination in July. Longtime activist Anita Stewart, said she served as Press Secretary for Ms. Barr's Green Party bid and is owed $4,300 for her work on the campaign. She has spent the past three months fighting to get paid.
(4 comments) Saturday, July 11, 2009 Barack Obama or Cynthia McKinney -- Who Represents Black America Toward Palestine, Israel and the Middle East? | Black ASHARE
Why are the US and Israel imposing this collective punishment upon the 1.5 million civilians of Gaza? How does McKinney's stand match up against that of our first black president, the most powerful man in the world who calls it a "humantarian crisis" but will do nothing about it? And how do they both stack up against the legacy of Dr. King?