Jane K Bernin' Dem. Nat'l. Platform

Please help Bernie have a positive effect on the Democratic Party Platform for 2016 by sending his strong advocates to the Democratic National Platform Standing Committee in July. I have been appointed as the only representative for Bernie from Oregon to the Platform Committee, where I will work with other delegates to finalize the 2016 Democratic National Platform. I am studying hard, and assembling reference materials and supporting facts so I can help other Bernie delegates advocate as strongly as possible for his planks to be incorporated in the Platform.

Environmental justice, clean energy, and confronting climate change as strongly and rapidly as possible are my top priority -- because we can't do anything without a livable planet, but I will fight for every one of Bernie's planks as hard as I can.

Bernie Sanders' positions on critical issues caught my attention and inspired me to become a volunteer for him in Lane County (Eugene, Oregon) over a year ago. I started as an artist making posters and working on creative outreach in our Alternative Marketing Committee.  As the movement gained momentum, I saw the need to contribute other kinds of work, and learned to do data entry, door-to-door canvassing, volunteer recruitment, phone banking, and other work wherever needed. As of June, I have logged over 3,000 phone calls (to Ohio, Arizona, Washington, Pennsylvania, New York, Oregon, and California), among other work.

I am deeply interested in policy because that's how things get done. I seek precision and clarity in language; and strive for effective, practical solutions to problems. I work empathetically and collegially with people, respecting their skills and experience.

I take the work of the Democratic Platform Committee very seriously and have made an all-out personal financial commitment to get there and participate.

To do my job I will have to make two long trips from Oregon. The first is to Orlando, Florida, July 7th-10th, to help finalize the Democratic National Platform. The second is to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 24th-29th, where the voting delegates will review and approve the final version of the Platform. I need to pay for airfares, hotels, food, taxis, and shuttles. I will travel as frugally as possible, and I estimate the cost to be about $2,000 for each trip.

All of my life I have hoped to make a difference for the good in the world. Thank you from my heart for any donation you may make to help me contribute to this important work.