Activist Video Archive

Preserving progressive, multicultural voices of Los Angeles area activists, and philanthropists.

Preserving progressive, multicultural voices of Los Angeles area activists and philanthropists.

Bob Zaugh

Bob Zaugh was born and grew up in Los Angeles. As a young teenager, he was swept up in the rabid Anti - Communism of the 1950's and only shifted his views in junior college when he took a Political Science class from a brilliant and charismatic teacher who saw the divisions and power balances in national and world politics from the standpoint of the disenfranchised.

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Haskell Wexler

Haskell Wexler - Academy Award winning Cinematographer and filmmaker, Haskell Wexler grew up and made his first films in Chicago.  He tried to enlist in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at 15 years of age.

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Max Palevsky

Max Palevsky was born and grew up in Chicago to poor immigrant parents. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and Yale. After graduate studies in philosophy and logic at UCLA, he became interested in the field of computer science.

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Reverend Al Cohen

Reverend Cohen has also been an anti-nuclear activist and an environmentalist since the 1970's, and currently is the Executive Director of the Ecumenical Council of Southern California, an NGO with the United Nations.

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“Everything that is tearing us down today will become a memory, and this memory will be shared as an anecdote or a story or a poem or a play or a warning. It will be shared with another human being, who will then understand that he is not alone in his sadness. This is why we show up for others and tell our tales and listen to others. The great congregation meets daily, and you are someone’s angel today.”

-Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom

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