Jess Moore for Cunningham

Jess Moore, well-known community activist and part-time worker, will contest the seat of Cunningham in the federal elections. Moore, a member of Socialist Alliance, is a leading climate and renewable energy campaigner. She is active in the struggle for marriage equality and helped found the Illawarra Aboriginal Rights Group. Moore was president of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students' Association in 2006 and is the national co-ordinator of Resistance, a socialist youth organisation.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Union veterans back socialist candidate

Check out this article in Australia's leading independent newspaper, Green Left Weekly, on Jess's campaign:

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Union veterans back socialist candidate

By Chris Williams

Sunday August 8, 2010 - Some of the Illawarra’s foremost fighters for social justice have backed Socialist Alliance candidate Jess Moore in the seat of Cunningham on the New South Wales south coast.

Highly regarded, veteran trade unionists Monica Chalmers, Neville Arrowsmith, Jim Keogh and Ken McBride, who have all spent decades in union and solidarity campaigns, have endorsed Moore and are helping her campaign.

For full article visit http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45075