Posted on 11/29/2008 6:59:39 AM PST by Borges
Frank Cieciorka, a graphic artist, art director and watercolorist whose woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute was the model for the New Left's most ubiquitous emblem, died on Monday at his home in Alderpoint, northeast of Garberville. He was 69.
The cause was emphysema, said his wife, Karen Horn.
In 1959 Mr. Cieciorka (pronounced che-CHOR-ka), then a college student, was an opponent of American military intervention in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam and joined the Socialist Party. In 1964 he volunteered as an organizer during the Freedom Summer drive to register black voters in Mississippi and became a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which initiated many integration and voting-rights campaigns.
It was "certainly one of the most profound experiences in my life," he is quoted as saying on The Rag Blog, "and helped shape my political consciousness to this day."
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Interesting symbolism for the pacifist Left.
” joined the Socialist Party”
Let me guess, he was thrilled with the Obama election.
Whoa!
In my dialect, his name Cieciorka (sikorkay, pronounced ‘SI-GOR-KAAY’) means ‘acorn.’
It means:
“DAMNIT, WHERE IS MY MONEY FOR NOTHING!”
Smoked to many of that leftish GORE tobacco leaves!
They weren’t too pacifist if you disagreed with them on Veitnam. (And now obama.)
I wonder how this guy made his living besides doing revolutionary art, which everyone took without paying him.
Good grief...who writes these headlines?
May the flames of Hades welcome him with a warm embrace!
Won’t be missed.
What a revelation.
I would NEVER have recognized that as Frank’s fist.
I can imagine scads of loopy radical chicks at 60s demonstrations though, looking at his hand and saying
“Is that the fist from the poster??”
Now his family will go after the tobacco industry because of his death - free will, dontcha know.
50 years later
Wait a minute! Is he trying to sign out an “0”?
And nothing of value was lost.
A good leftist at last
I’ll see your fist and raise you one.
Now a new generation will fight the power.
He may be dead, but he'll still get to vote for a lot more years...
Alderpoint? My family used to have a cabin near there where we used to spend our summers. (Circa 1961-75)
When I was a kid in the 1960s, Alderpoint was a logging town populated by folks who came there from the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The jukeboxes were always playing country music, and I became a fan of Johnny Cash.
Hippies? Near the end of my time there, you’d see ‘em hitch-hiking on the main highway. They weren’t exactly welcomed with open arms.
A lot must have changed there over the years.
Hey, good news! Now he’s red AND dead!
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