<wg:chunk type="raw" content_type="text/html" part="content" position="1"><div><h1>Grant Neufeld’s Brief Biography</h1> <p>I was born and raised in Alberta, and moved to Calgary at a very young age.</p> <p>A computer programmer by trade, I left the corporate work world to focus on community activism.</p> <p>I spent a number of years working on <a href="http://calgarydollars.ca/">Calgary Dollars</a> and other projects at the <a href="http://arusha.org/">Arusha Centre</a>.</p> <h2>Community Activism</h2> <p>I have been involved in social justice and environmental activism for most of my life, having started my life-long dedication to volunteerism as a child. I continue to be very active in a wide range of issues and community projects, especially anti-poverty, environtment, peace, community development and pro-democracy work.</p> <p>I created the <a href="http://activist.ca/">activist.ca</a> community network service which I ran for nearly five years as a volunteer before passing the project to other local volunteers. I am the founder and Calgary coordinator of the <a href="http://knitting.activist.ca/">Revolutionary Knitting Circle</a>, a group dedicated to building community independence and bringing diverse people together—using knitting and dialogue.</p> <h2>Politics</h2> <p>I worked with the Green Party in Calgary in the early 1990’s, but fell away from that for a long-time due to burn-out. I became active again in the Green Party of Alberta in 2003. At the 2004 provincial convention, I was elected President of the Party (not to be confused with the position of party “Leader”). I served in that capacity for a full two-year term.</p> <p>In the fall of 2004, I ran as the Green Party candidate in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_general_election%2C_2004">Alberta provincial election</a> in the riding of Calgary Buffalo. While it was a positive experience for me in many ways, teaching me a lot of valuable things, running for public office is something I’m hoping to avoid doing again.</p></div></wg:chunk>
<wg:chunk type="raw" content_type="text/html" part="sidebar" position="1"><p><img width="345" height="460" src="/pic/grant-peaceflag.jpg" alt="" /></p><p>At a Peace Day gathering in 2007 with the Italian peace flag a friend gave me.</p><p>Photo by Gordon Christie.</p></wg:chunk>
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