Contact the Backbone Campaign
Send checks and correspondence to:
Backbone Campaign
P.O. Box 278
Vashon, WA 98070-0278

(206) 408-8058
info@backbonecampaign.org

Executive Director  

Bill Moyer

Bill Moyer Bill Moyer is the Executive Director and co-founded the Backbone Campaign in 2003. Bill has had a dual and intersecting path as both an activist and artist. Bill's involvement with social change work stretches back to the 80's, when as a student he was deeply involved in the anti-nuclear movement and the anti-interventionist movement, lived at Big Mountain to assist Dineh elders refusing to relocate off their traditional land, and attended the Institute for Social Ecology. Bill also brings his background as percussionist and sound designer to his political work, applying lessons of composition, performance, and pedagogy to the Backbone Campaign, a project he considers a kind of "theme and variation composition."

 

Board of Directors  

Annie Brule

Annie Brule brings her lifelong engagement in creative visual arts to her work with the Backbone Campaign. A fine artist by training and a commercial artist and designer by trade, she is thrilled to offer her visual flair to Backboneýs outreach and publicity. No stranger to community projects and organizing, Annie's latest endeavors include bringing her hometown of Vashon Island into the worldwide democratic mapmaking movement, with Vashon Green Map, and helping to build the Northwest presence of the Social Ecology movement. She also gets hands-on with Backbones activist training camps, serving as kayaking instructor for the 2009 Localize This! Action Camp. interested in cross-cultural understandings of humanity through art, Annie has facilitated and curated several art exhibitions in the Seattle and Portland areas, featuring work by artists from marginalized social and ethnic populations both within and outside the United States. She is committed to using fine art, maps, and other tools of visual expression to bring the voice of the people to those in decision-making positions.

John Sellers

John Sellers is the President of The Ruckus Society. John worked Greenpeace during the nineties, directing their Washington DC office, sailing with their Marine Division and coordinating dozens of nonviolent actions throughout th US. In the last 10 years he has coordinated creative actions for Rainforest Action Network, the ILWU, ACORN, Students for a Free Tibet, Code Pink, International Rivers Network, Jobs with Justice, Global Exchange, permanently banned from entering Canada (his favorite country is North America). He achieves great satisfaction from kicking "The Man" in his funny bone when he ain't looking.

Jim Diers jimdiers135

Jim Diers has a passion for participatory democracy. Since moving to Seattle in 1967 he put that passion to work for an Alinsky- style community organization, a community development corporation,a community foundation, and Groug Health Cooperative. He was appointed the first director of Seattle's department of Neighborhoods in 1988 where he served under three mayors over the next 14 years. Currently, Jim works for the University of Washington where he teaches courses in community organizing and development and connects university resources with the community initiatives. As a memeber of the faculty for the Asset-based Community Development Institute, Jim delivers speeches and conducts workshops throughout North America and Beyond.

Traveling Puppetista: Doug Skove Doug Skove

Doug has been on many of the Backbone actions including the Inauguration Day protest of 2005 in Washington, D.C. (logistics manager), Democracy Fest in San Diego (puppet lead), in support of Cindy Sheehan at Crawford, Texas (event coordinator), MLK and anti-war marches in Seattle, and most recently lead the BB team at the anti-war march on Jan 27 in D.C. Doug also leads the coordination of the Chain Gang sets at events; the Backbone Campaign has four Chain Gang sets to ship to events and causes we support around the country. He is also the "go-to guy" for shipping our visibility tools around the country on Alaska Airlines. If he can't get someone else to do it, Doug will also be a puppetista.

David Swanson

David Swanson is the Washington Director of Democrats.com and of ImpeachPAC.org. He is co- founder of the AfterDowningStreet .org coalition, creator of MeetWithCindy.org,

and a board member of

Progressive Democrats of America. He was the organizer in 2006 of Camp Democracy. He serves on the steering committee of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice and on a working group of United for Peace and Justice. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as Communications Coordinator for ACORN,

the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson serves on the Executive Council of the Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild. He obtained a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1997. His website is www.davidswanson.org.


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Staff  

Office Coordinator: Jared Middle Calf

Jared has been a local Entrepreneur on Vashon Island for the past eight years. Currently an office assistant for the Backbone Campaign, and in 2009 traveled cross country with Count Bleed Ya Dry and his beautiful wife Kajsa Ingemansson who is an ensemble member with U.M.O.

Bookkeeper: Rob Peterson

Webmaster: Dan Schueler


Audio Engineer: Roger Fulton

Roger has managed much of the website content and group email content, as well as assisted in merchandising products, such as T- shirts and buttons. He currently serves as audio engineer for the Conversations with the Cabinet interview program, handling the live broadcasts as well as recording and editing the podcasts.