Cheri Honkala

Overview

Cheri Honkala born Minneapolis, MN January 12, 1963. Vice-presidential candidate for Green Party 2012, winning 469,504 votes. Ran on platform of nonviolence; anti-poverty activist, using nonviolent direct action; arrested for building homeless shacks 1997; organized 300 mile March of the Americas poor DC to UN Oct. 1999; ran for sheriff of Philadelphia 2011 opposing foreclosure evictions.

Quotations

“We’re all interconnected to each other and to the environment and the universe. We have a responsibility to learn from the people who have come before us and to pass on those teachings and to do it in a spirit of love.” (Tom Over interview, Free Press, Sept. 14, 2012; photo Wikipedia)