During the Bill Clinton administration, Bob Scheer carried on a crusade in the Los Angeles Times to defend Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos Nuclear Scientist accused of giving secrets of miniturized warheads to the Chinese.
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Over fifty years, through twenty books, one a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Susan Griffin has been making unconventional connections between seemingly separate subjects. Whether pairing ecology and gender in her foundational work, Woman and Nature, or the private life with the targeting of civilians, in A Chorus of Stones, she has shed a new light on countless contemporary issues, including climate change, war, colonialism, the body, democracy, and terrorism.
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Ramona Ripston was named Executive Director of the ACLU and ACLU Foundation in 1972, becoming the first woman to direct and ACLU affiliate. She is responsible for litigation, lobbying and education.
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Ron Dellums, the legendary politician and anti-war activist who fought against U.S. intervention around the globe, apartheid in South Africa and the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 82.
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Aris Anagnos was born in Greece. During WWII, he escaped to the Middle East and joined the exiled Greek army which fought on the side of the allies. He joined a mutiny of Greek forces who sympathized with the Greek Resistance Movement. They demanded a free plebiscite to unseat the imposed King.
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Vivian Rothstein was introduced to activism through the civil rights movement of the early 1960s. She was a Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteer in 1965 and later an SDS community organizer in Chicago working to build “an interracial movement of the poor”.
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Leo Frumkin has been a powerful and highly effective force for peace and for social economic and political justice for decades. Leo was born and raised in East Los Angeles and was greatly influenced by his older sisters, members of the Socialist Worker’s Party.
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Pat Krommer, CSJ was born in Berkeley, California into a middle class family. The family moved to the Central Valley. She attended Catholic schools in elementary and high school. From time to time she thought about religious life but considered other paths open to her.
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Mickey Flacks is a red diaper baby born in the Bronx to cosmopolitan parents who immigrated to the U.S. in the teens and 1920’s. She grew up in the milieu of foreign born, Yiddish speaking leftists who believed in education, trade unionism and in keeping their Jewish/Yiddish culture and identity intact.
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Dick Flacks grew up in Brooklyn, the son of teachers. His parents had taught in New York City schools and were active in the Teacher’s Union, a Communist led union. His parents and grandparents were involved in the Workman’s Circle, a Jewish Socialist organization, and his early upbringing was influenced by their community organizing.
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Leonard Beerman was founding Rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple where he served for 37 years. Long active on issues of Peace and Justice, Rabbi Beerman co-founded the Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race and the Los Angeles Jewish Commission on Sweatshops.
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Angela Sanbrano, was born in Juarez, Mexico. She grew up in El Paso, Texas. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from People's College of Law, Los Angeles and bachelor's degree in psychology from Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges. Angela has dedicated her life to the struggle for peace with justice and to improve the quality of life of Latinos.
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