Ralph was already an activist when he was in his Chicago grade school... He studied at Columbia under the legendary C. Wright Mills and worked at a settlement house in New York while taking his degree. He moved back to Chicago to work in another Settlement House.
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Descendant of slaves and slave owners, Oneil Cannon came to Los Angeles after service in WWII from Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana. He became a printer, working for Charlotta Bass, who owned the California Eagle Newspaper which served South Central, Watts, Willowbrook area of Los Angeles.
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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 - 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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Betty is the daughter of Warner Bros. Co Founder Harry Warner, is an artist and philanthropist. With her husband, Stanley Sheinbaum, who many regard the "Godfather" of West side progressives,
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Cheri Gaulke is a performance artist who addressed themes of religion, sexual identity, and cultural transformation in her work. In 1975, she was one of the founding participants of the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Women's Building.
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Jeff has a long history in the anti war, Queer and AIDS activist movements. He was a silkscreen artist in Berkeley, California, creating posters and art for many groups in the anti -Vietnam War era.
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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 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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