Democracy awards
SEATTLE — Fix Democracy First will honor Linda Brewster of Port Townsend and U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer at its inagural awards dinner Sunday.
The dinner will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Centilia Cultural Center, 1660 S. Roberto Maestas Festival St. in Seattle.
Tickets are $75 in advance through Brown Paper Tickets and $85 at the door.
Brewster, past chair of the Washington Coalition to Amend the Constitution (WAmend), will receive the Democracy Volunteer of the Year award for her work during the Initiative 735 campaign — the passage of which meant Washington became the 18th state calling for an amendment ending the effects of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision — and ongoing work for a proposed 28th Amendment saying corporations do not have constitutional rights.
Kilmer will be honored as the Democracy Elected Official of the Year for supporting I-735. He represents the 6th Congressional District, which includes the North Olympic Peninsula.
The Washington Voting Justice Coalition will be recognized as the Democracy Organization of the Year.
The keynote address by David Korten, co-founder of Yes! magazine, will be “Deep Democracy and the Path to Ecological Civilization.”
For more about the group, see fixdemocracyfirst.org/fdf.
Source: Peninsula Daily News