Paul K. Schulte Minneapolis, Minnesota Project Coordinator Medtronic, Inc. Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Configuration Assurance

Statement for REFORM

I am running for the Board as a REFORM candidate in a troubled time. In the past two years, the AIUSA Board and Executive Committee have too often operated in secret, yielding inconsistent decisions and bringing negative press coverage to AIUSA, including in the NY Times. Accountability and transparency should be required in a leading human rights organization. We need to REFORM the Board.

If you vote me to the Board, I will seek immediate election as AIUSA General Secretary, a key Board position. If elected, I will restore transparency and accountability to the Board through prompt and thorough reporting of Board meetings and decisions (including Executive Committee decisions, which are currently kept secret). Restoring real accountability and transparency is critical to rebuilding a Board that AIUSA members and activists can trust —-it is essential to REFORM —-and I have the in-depth knowledge of AIUSA, the experience, the computer skills, the time, and the commitment to get this job done.

I will also bring to the AIUSA Board the experience of serving on six other Boards, excellent finance/accounting skills (which are particularly useful as AIUSA is now in deficit), and expertise in North Korean human rights issues.

Please support the other REFORM candidates: Steve Abrams, Govind Acharya, Rick Halperin, Phyllis Pautrat, and Magdaleno Rose-Avila. We will each play an important role in building a Board of which AIUSA members can be proud.

Phone: 763-514-3236
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   Summary of human rights experience inside AI

• Local Group #206, Charter Member: 1980 – 1998.
• Local Group #37, Group Coordinator: 2000 – present.
• Minnesota Area Coordinator (AC): 1989-1990, 1998-1999.
• Minnesota State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator (SDPAC): 1990 – 1995.
• National (now Sectional) Resolutions Committee: 1996 – 1999.
• Board Elections Task Force (BERT): 1996 – 1997.
• Board Nominating Committee: 2000 – 2003; Chair, 2002 & 2003 Elections.
• Koreas-Japan Country Specialist Group: Chair and Treasurer, 2002 – present; Regional Action network (RAN) Coordinator, 2002 – present.

    Other relevant experience and activities

• AIIM International "Distinguished Service Award," presented in NYC on Mar. 8, 2004. 2003. [photo]
• Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (Minnesota’s Democratic Party)
  State Executive Committee (our Board): 1984 – 2003.
  Website: www.dfl.org
• DFL Feminist Caucus: 1982 – 1993.
  Secretary was my last position.
• The gray space Performance Company (Human Rights and the Arts),
  Charter Board Member and Chair, 2001 – present.
• Minnesota Chapter of AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management), Treasurer: 2001 – present.
  Website: http://www.aiim.org/chapters/minnesota.asp?ID=26367
• Philippine Scholars, Charter Board Member and Treasurer, 2002 – present.
• Minnesotans Against the Death Penalty, Treasurer, 2003 – present.
• Center for Victims of Torture, Volunteer since the early 1990’s.
  Website: www.cvt.org