Chris Ernesto
| Chris Ernesto | |
|---|---|
 Chris_Ernesto.jpg Ernesto in 2016 | |
| Born | Chris Ernesto October 16, 1963 Oakland, California U.S. |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Chris Ernesto (born October 16, 1963) is a founding member of St. Pete for Peace,[1] a non-partisan antiwar organization providing peace oriented education events and services to the Tampa Bay, FL community since 2003. He created and manages the StPeteForPeace.org, OccupyArrests.com[2] and USinAfrica.com[3] websites. Ernesto has also organized numerous demonstrations, published multiple articles and videos, and is a lead researcher for St. Pete for Peace where he has developed dozens of fact sheets.
Ernesto is also currently the owner of Wharf Properties LLC, which creates affordable housing in Washington, D.C. by using innovative design and efficient operation working under the principle that housing is a human right.
Early life[edit]
Ernesto was born in Oakland, CA and raised in San Leandro, CA. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (with a minor in Statistics) from the University of California, Davis where he was a three-year letterman in baseball and member of the 1985 UC Davis baseball Hall of Fame team.[4] He then obtained his Master of Science in Applied Statistics from the University of Alabama.
Biostatistician career[edit]
After completing a research residency at the U.S. Department of Energy as a Statistician/Policy Analyst (Washington, DC),[citation needed] Ernesto continued his first career in the non-profit/educational arena as a Statistician for The Investment Company Institute (Washington DC), as a Research Analyst at Southwestern College (Chula Vista, CA), as a Statistician for the University of California, San Diego Neurosurgery Department, and as a Biostatistician for the University of California San Diego’s Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study[5] (La Jolla, CA).
Antiwar activist career[edit]
After moving to St. Petersburg, Florida in 2002, Ernesto began joining antiwar demonstrations during the lead-up to the war in Iraq and co-founded the antiwar group, St Pete for Peace. St. Pete for Peace was honored by the US Peace Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit that presents the US Peace Prize.[6]
Ernesto helps organize for St Pete for Peace, which presents free, weekly socially conscious movies since 2007,[7] sends out weekly updates on news topics and future events, organizes antiwar protests and rallies in the Tampa Bay area and across the country, facilitates webcasts, podcasts, concerts and guest speakers.
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Ernesto has been webmaster for the StPeteForPeace.org website since 2003 which is a repository of information showcasing upcoming events and demonstrations, fact sheets (sourced information about intriguing or low profile news events), articles published on various news websites, videos spanning a wide range of topics, a chronological listing of past events and photos,[9] and podcasts.[10] A fact sheet created by Ernesto for St. Pete for Peace, "The Real Threat to Americans"[11] was published in Flachmann & Flachmann's "A Rhetoric Reader for Writers" (ISBN 9780205829873 Search this book on 
.).[12] Ernesto also created and manages the USinAfrica.com website [13] which chronicles the US military involvement in Africa and OccupyArrests.com which is a historical archive of the number of Occupy protesters arrested around the US during the Occupy Wall Street movement.[14]
Protests and events[edit]
Since 2003, Ernesto has led protests in Florida against U.S. and Israeli wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen and Palestine. In addition, Ernesto led protests when the city of St. Petersburg, FL attempted to stop antiwar demonstrations on a public sidewalk in front of the Baywalk shopping mall.[15] He also protested in St. Petersburg and Tampa, FL when local police slashed the tents of homeless people and strict anti-homeless laws were enacted.[16]
He has also demonstrated against weapon’s manufacturers, the AIPAC lobby, NSA spying, drones, racial profiling, both the republican and democrat political parties and national conventions, political fundraisers, the Quran burning, BP oil disaster, military speakers, torture, the financial bailout, military recruitment centers at high schools, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, David Petraeus, and police oppression. Events were also held in support of Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Cindy Sheehan, youth in Afghanistan, WikiLeaks, human rights, gay rights, and the US Constitution.[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ "St Pete for Peace". St Pete for Peace. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ↑ "Occupy Arrests". OccupyArrests.com. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ↑ "US in Africa". USinAfrica.com. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ↑ "Baseball Hall of Fame Team". University of California, Davis. 1985. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ↑ "Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study". University of California, San Diego. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ↑ "U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation". U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ "Free weekly film series". St. Pete for Peace. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ↑ "Past events". St. Pete for Peace. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ "Past events". St. Pete for Peace. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ↑ "Podcast". St. Pete for Peace.
- ↑ "The Real Threat to Americans". St. Pete for Peace. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ "Nexus: A Rhetoric Reader for Writers". Flachmann & Flachmann. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ "USinAfrica.com". St. Pete for Peace. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ "Occupy Arrests". St. Pete for Peace. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ "First Amendment protests at Baywalk in St. Petersburg, FL". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ "Struggle for homeless rights". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ "Protests and events". St. Pete for Peace. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
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