Another World is Possible! USSF Organizer Cheri Honkala becomes
VP Candidate  Tue, 2012-11-13 09:29  By Jade Brooks  This
election cycle, people in 38 US states will have the opportunity
to cast their vote for a ticket that includes Cheri Honkala, and
organizer who has been deeply involved in the US and World
Social Forum process and who founded the Poor People’s Economic
Human Rights Campaign. We talked with Cheri during her campaign,
which she has used as an opportunity to increase public
awareness of the work being done through the US Social Forum and
the People’s Movement Assemblies.  After being offered the VP
spot on the Green Party ticket late this summer, Honkala
deliberated (calling it the “most difficult decision I’ve ever
made in my life”). She decided to accept, citing the “many
people out there in this country who have invested in my
leadership, who have made me who I am.” Honkala feels she has “a
responsibility to a larger movement in this country, to play
whatever role I can in trying to change