Ficus Elected to Office: Snopes.com

Ficus' Run for Mayor in Philadelphia

What Are Your Concerns?

  • Iraq?  Afghanistan?  Iran?   Pakistan?   Nigeria?   Darfur?  Cuba?  Honduras?   Peru?
  • Climate destruction and health, environmental, and political effects?
  • The BP Oil catastrophe, "clean coal", mountaintop removal and corporate destruction of the earth in the name of profits from cheap energy?
  • Racial profiling?  Erosion of your civil rights and liberties?  Detentions?  Torture? Political prisoners?
  • Military recruiters in the schools or stalking your child at the mall and
    how to stop them? (Resources for how to stop them can be found here)
  • What kind of education your children are getting and what kinds are possible?
  • Access to quality affordable healthcare that does not drain your wallet and leave you sick?
  • Pharmaceuticals in your drinking water?
  • Pesticides, hormone-mimicking substances, and genetically modified organisms in your food and the food your children are getting at school?
  • Exposure to toxic chemicals in the community?
  • The housing crisis?
  • How you and your neighbors are treated regardless of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religious affiliation (or not), national origin, or citizenship status?
  • Your ability to get information on all of the above that is not contaminated by corporate influence?
  • Your quality of life and that of your children?

    What are they saying about A. Ficus?

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    This post by Ross Gelbspan at the environmental news and commentary blog Grist is essential reading for everyone who gives a flying &%#*$@& about the future.

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    Derrick Jensen: What's Your Threshold?

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    • Don't like who's running for another office in your area? Write in A. Ficus, the all-purpose Green candidate.

    Paid for by Friends of Ficus for Mayor Committee. A. Rose Bush, Treasurer.

    Contact the webster at aficus4mayor@gmail.com.