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Cheri Lynn Honkala (; born 1963) is an American anti-poverty advocate, co-founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) and co-founder and National Coordinator of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. She has been a noted advocate for human rights in the United States and internationally. Her interests have led her into politics; she is possibly best known for being the Green Party's nominee for vice-president in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. In 2011, Honkala was the Green Party candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, running on the promise of refusing to evict families from their homes. She was featured prominently in the 1997 book ''Myth of the Welfare Queen'' by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-zucchino/the-myth-of-the-welfare-queen )〕 She is the mother of actor Mark Webber.〔 ==Early life== Cheri Honkala was born into poverty in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1963. Her father, Maynard Duane Honkala, was of Finnish ancestry, and her mother had Cheyenne Native American ancestry.〔http://www.kansanuutiset.fi/uutiset/ulkomaat/2666532/cheri-honkala-amerikan-koyhien-sisukas-puolustaja〕〔http://www.indecisionforever.com/blog/2012/07/13/exclusive-jill-stein-and-cheri-honkala-on-romney-biden-and-being-un-pacd〕〔http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/obituary/id/82642/〕 She grew up watching her mother suffer from domestic violence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/489 )〕 Honkala's mother quietly endured this abuse for fear of losing her kids. Honkala was removed from the household and spent most of her youth incarcerated in a total of nine youth detention facilities.〔 When Honkala was 17, her 19-year-old brother Mark, who suffered from mental health issues, committed suicide.〔 Because he was uninsured, he could not afford to get the professional help he needed. At the time of Mark's suicide, Honkala was already a mother (with a son, Mark, named after her brother), living out of her car and going to high school. Despite her difficult upbringing, she managed to graduate.〔 After living in an apartment in Minnesota, Honkala and her young son were forced to move out and live out of their white Camaro. She and her son became homeless after the Camaro was demolished by a drunk driver.〔〔 Honkala could not find a shelter that would allow them to remain together that winter. To stay together and keep from freezing, Honkala decided to move into an abandoned Housing and Urban Development (HUD) home. She would later comment, "I chose to live, and I chose to keep my son alive."〔 She called a press conference, in which she said, according to her, "This is me, this is my nine-year-old son, and we're not leaving until somebody can tell us where we can live and not freeze to death."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cheri Honkala」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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