Phone: (310) 497-7255

Email: peterthottam@gmail.com

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(1) (a) ASSEMBLY 2010 WEBFLYER - Side 1;

(b) See Also: WEBFLYER - Side 2;

(2) February 4, 2010 (5 page PDF Campaign letter to West L.A. Democratic Club);

 

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Short Form Bio

Peter Thottam is a progressive attorney, community activist and organizer, and 2010 CA State Assembly candidate. He was the founder and Executive Director of the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center and has been a longtime activist with the Progressive Democrats, the Sierra Club as well as numerous anti-war and progressive groups. At Yale University Peter majored in (1) Economics and (2) Ethics, Government & Philosophy. He has a law degree from UC Berkeley, an MBA from UCLA Anderson and has worked for investment bank Goldman Sachs and several of California's leading law firms.

 

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Long Form Bio

THOTTAM FOR ASSEMBLY  -  Long Form Biography

8 + YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL, LEGISLATIVE KNOW-HOW, EXPERIENCE & AUTHENTIC STREET GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM.  Peter Thottam is a long-time resident of both Mar Vista and of Venice where he, his wife Kirstin and their newborn son, Luke, live. He is a progressive attorney, community activist and organizer, and prospective 2010 California State Assembly Candidate. Mr. Thottam was the founder and Executive Director of the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center and has been a long-time activist in a number of progressive causes as well as the Anti-War movement.  In 2007 and 2008, Peter organized and led over 300 volunteers in an entirely self-funded grassroots organizing mobilization with Cindy Sheehan focused on the national antiwar movement and Impeachment campaign against Bush and Cheney. He founded both the White Rose Coalition and LANIC (the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center) and coordinated the gathering of over 16,000 verified signatures and address throughout LA County, securing the passage of Impeachment resolutions by West Hollywood and San Fernando and endorsements by congressional reps Maxine Waters & Diane Watson. 

Peter received his undergraduate degree with honors from Yale University where he majored in (1) Economics and (2) Ethics, Government & Philosophy. In addition to a law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt School of Law, Mr. Thottam has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Business. A longtime activist, Peter was so appalled at the deteriorating media coverage in the USA and so convinced that a tragic and mistaken war with Iraq was pending that he resigned from his job as a Los Angeles Corporate Attorney in 2002 in order to focus exclusively on his antiwar work with various antiwar and progressive groups. Peter spent over two years completely dedicated to organizing marches, teach-ins and political lobbying efforts in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York and working actively with Progressive Democrats, with Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace and numerous other progressive organizations.

Born in Africa and coming from an Indian background, Mr. Thottam is also fluent in Spanish. He believes it is critical for Americans everywhere to become much more involved politically, informed, engaged and pro-active citizens. He is working with a range of progressive groups focused on helping internationalize American citizens' poltiical consciousness and their awareness of local as well as global economic and environmental problems. He has traveled extensively in Europe, Mexico, the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi/Dubai) and throughout Africa (Mali, Ethiopia), India, China and Japan.

 

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