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, by BROOKS Chris, FERRISS Susan, GORDON Rachel
Peter Miguel Camejo, a leading figure in the Green party and its vice-presidential candidate in 2004, died at home in California on September 13. He had been a leader of the Fourth International during the 1970s.
The 2004 Nader-Camejo campaign was covered repeatedly in International Viewpoint, (…)
, by Louis Proyect
(These are some personal/political reflections about Peter Camejo. Tomorrow I will be writing an obit for Swans.)
Even though I had steeled myself in anticipation of Peter Camejo’s death, I was still shaken by the news that he was gone. For a period of time between 1981 and 1987, I considered (…)
, by BACHER Dan
Peter Camejo, an advocate for the poor and oppressed in the U.S. and throughout the world, passed away this morning at his home in Folsom.
Peter Camejo, Green Party gubernatorial and vice-presidential candidate and longtime progressive political activist, passed away this morning in Folsom, (…)
, by Against the Current, TAX Meredith
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
Meredith Tax: Though I was inspired by the Civil Rights movement, I did not get involved in the left until I was a grad student in London, studying (…)
, by FERGUSSON Ann
THE ONE CLEAR memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his (…)
The following is excerpted from the author’s essay “It’s Never Ever Boring! Triple Jeopardy from the Korean Side” in Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment (UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2006). The author employs the term “Bi-“ with the explicit meaning of her multiple (…)
, by THOMPSON Wendy
I BECAME A political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my grade school. At the local YWCA girls club my sister and I were the only whites. The young Black (…)
, by DAWSON Kipp
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
Kipp Dawson: I was living in New York City, working on staff as a national coordinator of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
During the 40th anniversary of the turbulent year 1968 — some highlights of which we discussed in the editorial statement of our previous issue (ATC 133, March-April 2008 ) — we are looking back at how its events shaped the consciousness of a generation of activists.
The ways in which 1968 (…)
, by Against the Current
THE YEAR 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and (…)
, by ALLEN Chude Pam
I LOVE THE name Against the Current and would add that to be active in the Women’s Liberation Movement at the beginning of 1968 was to be “against the current.” And “the current” then was as much the Left and the Black Nationalist Movement as it was the society as a whole. We were mostly white (…)
, by MICHAELS Sheila
MY WORK AREA is a shambles. Projects I’ve been meaning to get to for forty years tumble from wherever I’ve shoved them.
Last year an announcement floated down, circa 1970, for a New York Radical Women/Domestic Workers Union demonstration. I was not at that planning meeting, but I can imagine (…)
, by MARTINEZ Elizabeth “Betita”
THE YEAR 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
In Monroe, North Carolina Williams as head of the (…)
, by ORTIZ Roxanne Dunbar
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz: By the end of 1967, I was a history graduate student at UCLA at the stage of writing my dissertation. I was active in the (…)
, by WINSLOW Barbara
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
Barbara Winslow: I was a graduate student at the University of Washington in Seattle.
ATC: How did you see yourself as a woman who was a (…)
, by BRECHER Jeremy
Jeremy Brecher’s short history of the successful nationwide illegal wildcat strike of American postal workers: the first major strike of federal government workers.
New York postal workers on wildcat strike, 1970
The independent action of discontented workers across the US from the late (…)
, by POST Charles
THE COMMUNIST PARTY (CP) of the United States was the largest and most influential radical organization active in the tumultuous labor and social struggles of the 1930s and 1940s. While never a mass party by the standards of the French or Italian CPs, the U.S. CP had a real and significant (…)
, by YATES Michael D.
The year is 1922. In southern West Virginia, coal miners and coal operators have been at war for the past five years. (1) The miners are on strike; they want a union and an end to the industrial serfdom which defines their lives. They live in squalid and isolated mining towns, owned lock, stock, (…)
, by NEWTON Huey P.
Speech given by Huey Newton, founder of the Black Panthers, August 15, 1970.
During the past few years strong movements have developed among women and among homosexuals seeking their liberation. There has been some uncertainty about how to relate to these movements.
Whatever your personal (…)
, by ROBINSON Candi
Though not yet coined as “womanism”, the Black Panther Party in later years developed a focus on gender equality, specifically the plight of the black woman. With motifs such as “A Woman’s Place Is In The Struggle”, the group became known for their support and inclusion of women and marked (…)
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