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Bart Everson
Bart Everson (Green Party) ran for election for an at-large seat of the New Orleans City Council in Louisiana. He lost in the primary on November 13, 2021.
Everson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Bart Everson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Everson's professional experience includes working as a creative generalist. earned a bachelor's degree from Indiana University in 1990 and a graduate degree from Indiana University in 1999.[1]
Everson has been affiliated with the Green Party of Louisiana, Friends of Lafitte Greenway, Earth-Based Spirituality Action Team of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Earth-Centered Special Interest Group of POD Network, Greater New Orleans Interfaith Climate Coalition, and Crescent City Gaian Guild.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: City elections in New Orleans, Louisiana (2021)
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for New Orleans City Council At-large Division 2
Jean-Paul J. Morrell won election outright against Kristin Palmer, Jared Brossett (Unofficially withdrew), and Bart Everson in the primary for New Orleans City Council At-large Division 2 on November 13, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jean-Paul J. Morrell (D) | 50.7 | 37,161 |
 | Kristin Palmer (D) | 31.7 | 23,252 | |
 | Jared Brossett (D) (Unofficially withdrew) | 11.1 | 8,169 | |
 | Bart Everson (G)  | 6.5 | 4,776 | |
| Total votes: 73,358 | |||
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Campaign themes
2021
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Ballotpedia survey responses
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Bart Everson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Everson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Climate change is real, and this reality needs to be at the forefront of every policy discussion and decision at every level of society, from the global level right down to city government.
- Of all the cities in the world, New Orleans is one of most vulnerable to climate change. In light of that fact, New Orleans should be at the forefront of meeting this challenge.
- In terms of specific local policies, we need to hold Entergy accountable, improve public transit, and decarbonize the local economy.
A radical history of civilization. Basically, he's against it. No spoiler, that: it's right there in the title. For what is history, as we usually think of it, as we're usually taught it, if not a patriarchal story of conquest and domination in service of empire building? This author makes the case that most everything we laughingly call "civilization" is in fact systematized oppression of humanity and ecological rape of Mother Earth.
It's bracing worldview, to say the least. I think it's just relatable enough that most people — those who aren't blinded by allegiances to nation-state or religion or ideology — would agree with the basic premise. Most people would agree, that is, if we stopped to question the fundamental premises of the society in which we live. Reading the book makes me realize just how rare it is to hear this perspective so consistently and unwaveringly spelled out, page after page, century after century.
This book is highly idiosyncratic, to say the least. It's unlike any history I've ever read. (That's because it's not a history, check the title!) The author starts in ancient Sumeria and takes us all the way to Marxist revolutionaries in the course of just 300 pages, as a more or less continuous narrative. He uses quirky terminology, employs unique metaphors, and never cites a single year. It's not an academic text per se, which I'm sure is a point of pride, but neither is it an easy read. (Personally I would have appreciated some chapter headings. An index would have been nice. How about a bibliography? Nope, there's not a single citation.) Nevertheless it's a very scholarly work, in the sense that Perlman is clearly well-read and possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of human history. More importantly, perhaps, he has heart. The text demonstrates great empathy for the human condition and respect for those who resist oppressive systems.
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
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