FORUM TRUTH EXECUTIVE BOARD


Chair
Irene Bandy-Hedden
Treasurer
Ellen VanDernoot
Secretary
Wendy Sears Grassi

Robert Atwell
Laurence Eger
Nancy Feehan
Marilyn Harwell
Cooper Levey-Baker
Caren Lobo
Lawrence A. Miller
Jim McCartney
Molly McCartney
Steve Schlossberg
Lois Seiden
DeWanda Smith-Soeder
Bernard C. Watson

Executive Assistant
Priscilla Chadwick
Honorary Chair
Paul Duke
(1926-2005)
Co-Chair
James Bausch
(1936-2006)


FORUM TRUTH is a non-partisan group, but with a progressive orientation.

We are a group of citizens, from a wide variety of backgrounds, who have come together to form a new organization, which we have chosen to call Forum Truth.

We are not Republicans or Democrats, left-wingers or right-wingers, we are concerned Americans who believe we have a responsibility to try to do something to help our country flourish.

Here are our major concerns:

Health Care/Medicare
Social Security
The Economy
The Mideast
International relationships and cooperation
The Environment
Redistricting
Growing federal budget deficit
Dramatic erosion of basic civil liberties
Systematic dismantling of environmental protection laws
Poverty and the working poor


We do not pretend to know the answers but we believe we have an obligation as citizens to help search for answers. We have chosen the name Forum Truth consistent with a dictionary definition of the word "forum": An assembly for the discussion of public matter or current questions."

We are a not-for-profit, non-partisan research, discussion and expository organization based in Sarasota, Florida. We plan to sponsor a series of public meetings and discussions featuring the most expert and informed fellow citizens we can find to help us learn.

A major concern that has brought us together is the apparent thirst for war by the current government. It now appears clear that the threat from Iraq was exaggerated and the public deceived into believing that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and was prepared to use them in attacks directly threatening the United States and its citizens.