Aimless Obama walks alone

Undoubtedly on Obama’s contacts list in Blackberry: these are the enemies of America:http://keywiki.org/index.php/Movement_for_a_Democratic_Society

If you are not frightened for our country already, you will be after you read this politburo roundup...

Elliott Adams, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Elliott_Adams
Panama Vicente Alba, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Panama_Vicente_Alba Alba began his political activism in protest against the Vietnam War in the late sixties. In 1970, he joined the Young Lords Party. In 1977, Mr. Alba became a political prisoner as the first person arrested in the United States with alleged ties to Fuerzas Amadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN). He spent six months in jail. Five years later he was acquitted.

Tariq Ali, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Tariq_Ali
Tariq Ali is a writer, activist and filmmaker. He has written more than two dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels (translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in London.
Born in Pakistan he attended Oxford University where he became involved in student politics and the movement against the Vietnam war. He is a critic of neoliberal economics and his book The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity was a response to 9/11. His latest book is The Obama Syndrome: War Abroad.

Stanley Aronowitz, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Stanley_Aronowitz
Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at CUNY Graduate Center, where he is Director of The Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work. He has taught at Staten Island Community College, University of California-Irvine, University of Paris, Columbia University, and University of Wisconsin[1].
He works with the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies.[2]

David Barsamian, http://keywiki.org/index.php/David_Barsamian
Barsamian has been a contributor to the liberal magazine, The Progressive.

Rosalyn Baxandall, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Rosalyn_Baxandall
In October 2008, several thousand college professors, students and academic staff signed a statement Support Bill Ayers in solidarity with former Weather Underground Organization terrorist Bill Ayers.
In the run up to the U.S. presidential elections, Ayers had come under considerable media scrutiny, sparked by his relationship to presidential candidate Barack Obama.
We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack...
We, the undersigned, stand on the side of education as an enterprise devoted to human inquiry, enlightenment, and liberation. We oppose the demonization of Professor William Ayers.
Rosalyn Baxandall of the SUNY Old Westbury signed the statement.[8]

John Bracey, Jr., http://keywiki.org/index.php/John_Bracey

John Brittain, http://antiauthoritarian.net/NLN/?p=179

Robb Burlage, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Robb_Burlage
Rekindling Reform is a non-profit joint project of 72 organizations in New York. Its mission is to “encourage debate and discussion on how our country can best provide affordable health care for all”.
Rekindling Reform adopted six principles that are “the bedrock of our vision as to how the American health care system should be reconstructed”:
Universal and equitable coverage for all.
Comprehensive benefits and quality health care providing a full range of services effective in preventing illness and improving health.
Affordable costs and equitable financing.
Administrative simplicity and sensibly organized work.
Accountability to the public that is to be served and to the service providers.
A strong public health system.

Noam Chomsky,http://keywiki.org/index.php/Noam_Chomsky
Opposing Israeli Policy in Gaza
In January 2009 Noam Chomsky MIT, signed a statement circulated by the Magnes Zionist Blog, opposing Israeli policy in Gaza:[22]
As human beings, we are shocked and appalled at the mass destruction unleashed by the State of Israel against the people of Gaza in its military operation, following years of Israeli occupation, siege, and deprivation.
As progressives, we reject the same justifications for the carnage that we heard ad nauseam from the supporters of the Second Iraq War: the so-called “war on terror,” the “clash of civilizations,” the “need to re-establish deterrence” – all of which served to justify a misguided and unnecessary war, with disastrous consequences for America and Iraq.’
Against the Current
In 2009 Noam Chomsky was listed as an advisory editor of Against the Current, bi-monthly analytical journal of U.S. Trotskyite organization Solidarity .[23]
New Politics
As of 2009 Noam Chomsky served as a sponsor of New Politics, magazine almost completely staffed and run by members of Democratic Socialists of America[24].
Social Policy
The Editorial Advisory Group of the magazine Social Policy includes[25];
Noam Chomsky, Janice Fine, S. M. Miller, Peter Olney, Frances Fox Piven, Heather Booth, Peter Dreier, Maya Wiley, Robert Fisher, Ashutosh Saxena, Ken Grossinger

Jayne Cortez, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Jayne_Cortez
http://keywiki.org/index.php/The_Black_Scholar

Carl Davidson, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Carl_Davidson
In 2006 members of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism National Coordinating Committee were[6];
Marilyn Albert, Mael Apollon, Carl Bloice, Barbara Blong, Barry Cohen, David Cohen, Otis Cunningham, Carl Davidson, Mort Frank, Todd Freeberg, Pat Fry, Marian Gordon, Ira Grupper, June Hemmingson, Ed Hemmingson, Fred Hicks, Duncan McFarland, Anne Mitchell, Maxine Orris, Ted Pearson, Gina Pesulima-Palencar, Edith Pollach, Marty Price, Merle Ratner, Jay Schaffner, Jae Scharlin, Mike Stein, Harry Targ, Walter Teague, Meta Van Sickle, Steve Willett and Mildred Williamson.
Chicago New Party/Obama
In the mid 1990s Carl Davidson was leading activist in the Chicago New Party, where he worked closely with New Party member and candidate Barack Obama.[7]
I’m from Chicago, too, and known Obama from the time he came to the New Party to get our endorsement for his first race ever. I’ve been in his home, and as an IL legislator, he’s helped or community technology movement a number of times. He said all the right things to the ACORN and New Party folks, and we endorsed him, but I noticed too, that he seemed to measure every answer to questions put to him several tmes before coming out with it.

Angela Davis, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Angela_Davis
Angela Y. Davis serves on the Advisory Board[1] of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and[2]on the Advisory Board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children.
Relationship to Joe Walker
During his life, long time Communist Party USA associate Joe Walker enjoyed professional and personal relationships with a number of dignitaries, civil rights activists, and freedom fighters to include Martin Luther King, Jr., Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. James Baldwin, Hulan Jack and David Dinkins, the former Mayor of New York City[24].

Bernardine Dohrn, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Bernardine_Dohrn
Bernardine Rae Dohrn (born January 12, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois) is an activist, academic and “child advocate”. She has traveled on human rights delegations to Colombia, Rwanda and South Africa[1]. She was the acknowledged leader of the Weather Underground Organization. Dohrn was arrested during the WUO “Days of Rage” in Chicago during October, 1969. She submerged into the WUO in early 1970 and remained therein. Her name has appeared on a number of the communiques sent by the WUO.[2] She is the wife of Bill Ayers.
Dohrn also went under the names Lorraine Anne Jellins, Sharon Louise Naylor, Karen Lois DeBelius, “Mons” and Bernadine Rae Ohrnstein.
December 27-31, 1969, about 400 of the national membership of the Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society held a “War Council” at a ballroom dancehall in Flint, Michigan. Posters of a giant cardboard machinegun, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevera, and Fidel Castro hung everywhere.
Among the attendees of the “War Council in Flint” identified by the Flint police department and/or its informant were: Michael Avey, Karen Ashley, Bill Ayers, Edward Benedict, Margaret Bennett, Douglas Bernhardt, Jeff Blum, Harvey Blume, David Chase, Peter Clapp, Judy Clark, Bernardine Dohrn, Diane Donghi, Linda Evans, Brian Flannigan, David Flatley, John Fuerst, Lynn Ray Garvin, Bert Garskof, Michele Garskoff, Mark Glasser, Theodore Gold, Lenny Handlesman, Ann Hathaway, Karen Hardiman, Daniel Hardy, Tom Hayden, Phoebe Hirsch, Arthur Hochberg, Anne Hodges, John J. J. Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Sam Karp, David Klafter, Dianne Kohn, Peter Kuttner, Bradford Lang, Stephen Lang, Karen Latimer, Jonathan Lerner, Naomi Lev, Bradford Long, Allan Maki, Eric Mann, Howard Machtinger, Carol McDermott, L.R. Meadows, Lisa Meisel, Jeff Melish, James Mellen, David Millstone, Russell Neufeld, Diana Oughton, John Pilkington, Edward Purtz, Jonah Raskin, Natalie Rosenstein, Dennis Roskamp, Mark Rudd, Karen Selin, Mark Shapiro, Janet Snider, Mike Spiegel, Jane Spiegelman, Marsha Steinberg, David Sole, Susan Stern, Clayton Van Lydegraf, Cathy Wilkerson and Mary Wozniak[3].
Former members of Michigan State University Students for a Democratic Society, present day members of Movement for a Democratic Society and organizers from Ignite, the recently formed MSU SDS chapter all came together for a counter-recruitment protest and later, a moving MSU SDS reunion on Friday, November 30, 2007, in East Lansing[17].
A demo outside a Marine Corps recruiting center, on busy Grand River Avenue, opposite the MSU campus, was abbreviated due to the frigid temperatures. But later in the day, an SDS reunion held in MSU’s South Kedzie Hall, “warmed hearts and fired up the activists – young and old”. Bob Meola, an MSU SDS alumnus, emceed the affair which featured speeches by Cole Smith of Ignite, Al Haber, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and the “man of the hour” – Bert Garskof who had been the faculty advisor to the original MSU SDS chapter. Garskof, fired by MSU for his “devotion to his students and the Movement”, was described by Ayers as “a mentor, an inspiration”.
Dorhn spoke at the re-union, referring to the new SDS and MDS, the “overthrow of capitalism”, visits to Chavez’s Venezuela and building a “new movement”.

Barbara Epstein, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Barbara_Epstein
As of 2009 Barbara Epstein served as a sponsor of New Politics, magazine almost completely staffed and run by members of Democratic Socialists of America[7].

Gustavo Esteva, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Gustavo_Esteva

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti
As of May 1964, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, editor Puh., City Lights Books, was listed as a sponsor of the Communist Party USA front, National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Stephen Fleischman, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Stephen_Fleischman

Bill Fletcher Jr, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Bill_Fletcher_Jr
William (Bill) Gerald Fletcher, Jr. is a leading U.S. Marxist and Barack Obama supporter.
Background
Bill Fletcher, Jr. was born in 1954 in New York City. Motivated by the civil rights movement Fletcher became an activist at age 13, “dabbling” in the Black Panther Party and organizing rallies and events. While a student at Mount Vernon High School he helped form the Black Student Alliance and was active in student politics. He earned his high school diploma in 1972[1].
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is Executive Editor of BlackCommentator.com and a leading member[2]of Democratic Socialists of America.
Fletcher was a co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal and is and the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum. He is the co-author of Solidarity Divided, which analyzes the crisis in organized labor in the US.
Vivek Chibber, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Bill Fletcher Jr., Frances Fox Piven and David Graeber were speakers on the closing plenary, Visions for the Future at the Left Forum. The forum was held March 9 - 11, 2007 at Cooper Union College, New York City[12]

Tom Hayden, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Tom_Hayden
Thomas Hayden is a California based veteran of the “progressive” movement. Hayden was one of the “Chicago Seven” of the Weather Underground Organization in the 1960s and 70s.[1]
The “Chicago Seven,” tryptichally photographed by Richard Avedon, Sept. 25, 1969. L-R: Lee Weiner, John Froines, Abbie Hoffman, Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, and David Dellinger
He now teaches at the Claremont Colleges and is the author of numerous books, including Reunion: A Memoir.
Tom Hayden is the former husband of Actress Jane Fonda and is the father of actor Troy Garity.
Progressives for Obama
In early 2008 Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Danny Glover and Tom Hayden Initiated Progressives for Obama.
The Nation
In 2009, the Editorial board of The Nation[16] included Tom Hayden, Lani Guinier, Richard Falk, Deepak Bhargava, Norman Birnbaum, Barbara Ehrenreich, Frances FitzGerald, Eric Foner, Philip Green, Tony Kushner, Elinor Langer, Deborah Meier, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Victor Navasky, Pedro Antonio Noguera, Richard Parker, Michael Pertschuk, Elizabeth Pochoda, Marcus Raskin, Kristina Rizga, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, David Weir and Roger Wilkins.

Gerald Horne, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Gerald_Horne
Affirmative Action Coordinating Center
The AACC was formed in 1979 as a joint project of the National Lawyers Guild, National Conference of Black Lawyers and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Director Gerald Horne was aided by CCR director Marilyn Clement, lawyers Randolph H. McLaughlin and Doris Peterson, and legal worker Claudette Furlonge who serve as AACC board members and advisers.[1]
Black Studies
In 1989 Gerald Horne was Chairman of the Black Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Addressed Communist Party USA, front meeting
An ad/notice was placed in the Guardian, November 8, 1989, concerning an upcoming U.S. Peace Council national conference. The text of the notice was:
“End The Cold War Fund Human Needs” U.S. Peace Council’s Tenth Anniversary National Conference - Boston, Mass., Nov. 10-12, 1989
2010 Chicago NAARPR awards
Democratic Socialists of America member Timuel Black received the Human Rights Award from the Chicago branch of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, on Saturday, April 17, 2010 at their annual Dinner. The organization also honored Charlene Mitchell, Mark Clements, and Bernardine Dohrn. Professor Gerald Horne was the keynote speaker.[16]

Florence Howe, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Florence_Howe

Mike James, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Mike_James
In 2008 Michael James of Athletes United for Peace, Heartland Cafe, Chicago, IL signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.[5]
“Support Bill Ayers”
In October 2008, several thousand college professors, students and academic staff signed a statement Support Bill Ayers in solidarity with former Weather Underground Organization terrorist Bill Ayers.
In the run up to the U.S. presidential elections, Ayers had come under considerable media scrutiny, sparked by his relationship to presidential candidate Barack Obama.
We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack...
We, the undersigned, stand on the side of education as an enterprise devoted to human inquiry, enlightenment, and liberation. We oppose the demonization of Professor William Ayers.
Michael James of the Heartland Cafe signed the statement[6].
Progressives for Obama
In 2009 Mike James Heartland Cafe, 49th Ward Democrats was listed as a signer of the Progressives for Obama website.[7]

Robin D G Kelley,
Robin D G Kelley is professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Early life
Robin Kelley grew up in New York, in the Harlem/Washington Heights area. His mother was a single parent whose “politics were informed by her spiritual convictions”. She was a member of the Self-Realization Fellowship. Paramahansa Yogananda. Back in the 1960s, everyone was reading Autobiography of a Yogi[1], “which wasn’t political, but it informed a kind of bohemian, collectivist politics and a concern with the public”.
Radicalization
Makani Themba, who is the Founding Director of the Praxis Project, is Robin Kelley’s older sister, “so she was a role model as well in terms of her high school and college activism, mainly around issues of race”.
The siblings became involved in the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and then the Communist Workers Party[2].
Like a lot of young African Americans, especially growing up in New York City, where the Black Panther Party had a presence and had a free breakfast program in our area, where Black Nationalism was in the fabric of social life, you just can’t help it. Race becomes the dominant factor. It was not until I got to college and then listening to my sister, that we began to move towards Marxist/Leninist politics. That led both of us to join the Communist Workers Party. To go from the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party to the Communist Workers Party made sense in the early 1980s. It may not make sense to young people today.
Supporting Obama
Robin D.G. Kelley—delivered Hampshire College’s eleventh annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture on October 15, 2008. His talk was titled “Confronting Obama: A Primer on Race and Empire for the New U.S. President[9].”
In 2009 Robin D. G. Kelley, Historian was listed as a signer of the Progressives for Obama website.[10]
Center for Labor Renewal
In 2009 Robin Kelley was listed as an endorser of the Center for Labor Renewal[11].
Against the Current
In 2009 Robin Kelley was listed as an advisory editor of Against the Current, bi-monthly analytical journal of U.S. Trotskyite organization Solidarity .[12]

Alice Kessler Harris, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Alice_Kessler_Harris
Alice Kessler Harris a Professor of History at Columbia University, is a prominent labor and feminist historian. She has published numerous books on women and work, including Women Have Always Worked: A Historical Overview. This essay draws on some of the themes of her forthcoming Pursuit of Equity: How Gender Shaped American Economic Citizenship (Oxford University Press). Insofar as we understand economic citizenship as a prelude to democratic participation, we need to adopt political strategies that enhance the independence of all women. [1]
In early 2008 Alice Kessler Harris, of Columbia University signed a petition circulated by Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama[5].
In the coming elections, it is important to remember that war and peace are as much \”women\’s issues\” as are health, the environment, and the achievement of educational and occupational equality. Because we believe that all of these concerns are not only fundamental but closely intertwined, this Tuesday we will be casting our vote for Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.

Rashid Khalidi, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Rashid_Khalidi
On April 10, 2008 Senator Barack Obama spoke at a farewell event for Rashid Khalidi who was leaving Chicago for a job in New York. Obama was a friend of Khalidi and his frequent dinner companion. He had many in-depth conversations over meals prepared by Khalidi’s wife, Mona at their home in Chicago.
Khalidi also stated that while he strongly disagrees with Obama’s current views on Israel, and has often disagreed with him during their talks over the years, he thinks that Obama would be more understanding of the Palestinian experience than typical American politicians due to his unusual background, with family ties to Kenya and Indonesia. He commented,
“He has family literally all over the world. I feel a kindred spirit from that.”[1]
In 2000 Rashid Khalidi held a fundraiser for Obama’s unsuccessful run for congress.[2]
The Woods Fund of Chicago made grants totaling $75,000 to Khalidi’s Arab American Action Network in 2001 and 2002, while Obama served as the Director of the Fund
In September, 2004 Rashid Khalidi gave a talk entitled “Resurrecting Empire: Our Perilous Path in the Middle East”, sponsored by the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.[3]

Mike Klonsky, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Mike_Klonsky
Michael Klonsky is a Chicago activist and Director of the Small Schools Workshop, author of Small Schools: The Numbers Tell a Story, and a researcher and educator in Chicago, Illinois.
He is the son of former Communist Party USA leader Robert Klonsky, husband of Susan Klonsky and brother of Fred Klonsky.
Knowing Dorothy Healey
Mike Klonsky, Fred Klonsky and Susan Klonsky knew[1]well known California Communist Party USA leader Dorothy Healey in the 1960s-when they were all active in Students for a Democratic Society.
Our lasting visual memory of Dorothy has her standing in a midst of a room full of young activists in 1966. Cigarette in hand and using that throaty voice to rally us against the latest act of injustice or brutality against the community by the guardians of the capitalist system. She was scolding, encouraging and praising. She was one of those veterans of the struggle that was able and willing to cross the generational divide.
For us red-diaper babies and SDS activists coming of age in the radical movement in L.A. in the 60s, Dorothy was at once a revolutionary role model, a leader, teacher, critical friend and a member of the family.
Dorothy taught us that being a revolutionary was a life-long proposition, a genuine commitment to siding with the underdog, fighting racism, war and every form of social injustice and inequity. She taught us to stand firm on matters of principle, while being good at uniting with those in the movement with whom we disagreed. We probably didn’t learn that last one well enough.
Mike, Fred & Susan Klonsky
September 22, 2006
SDS days
In 1968 Mike Klonsky was the national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society. In May 1969 was one of five SDS members arrested when police raided SDS offices in Chicago.
“Outright hate for all pigs”
In Chicago, October 1969, Mike Klonsky spoke at a Sunday night gathering in Mandel Hall with Tom Hayden and Mark Rudd. Klonsky, the final speaker of the evening told the students[2];
“Look, i’ve heard a lot of people say, that the campus pigs are O.K., that they’re on our side, But I tell you, when the trouble comes, they’ll bring the guns down on our heads with the rest of them. To resist successfully, you have to have an outright hatred for all pigs.
Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
In late 1969, Klonsky founded the October League, a a pro-Mao communist organisation which in 1977 became the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist (CP-ML). Klonsky chaired the CP-ML which was recognised by the Chinese Communist Party as their U.S. fraternal party. Klonsky made several trips to China beginning in July 1977 (with Eileen Klehr), where he was feted by Communist Chinese officials
Small Schools Workshop
In 1991, Mike Klonsky co-founded the Small Schools Workshop in Chicago with Bill Ayers.
Until June 2008 Mike Klonsky ran a Blog on Barack Obama’s campaign website. It was pulled at very short notice after adverse publicity began surfacing on the blogosphere.
The Rag Blog
In 2010 Mike Klonsky was listed as a contributor to the Movement for a Democratic Society linked, Austin Texas based, The Rag Blog website.[9]

Betita Martinez, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Betita_Martinez
Betita Martinez is the Director of the Institute for MultiRacial Justice in San Francisco.
Martinez has received numerous awards for her “social justice” work. In 2005 she was a nominee for the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize. Martinez lives in San Francisco where she continues to write, lecture, edit and teach.
After a brief first marriage, Martinez married Hans Koning, author of 40 fiction and non-fiction books. In 1954 they had a daughter, Tessa, before divorcing.
Early life
Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez was born December 12, 1925, to a Mexican-born father and a white Euro-American mother. She grew up in Washington, D.C.[1]
During World War II, Martinez attended Swarthmore College-the only non-white student on campus. After graduation in 1946, she worked United Nations, researching decolonization efforts and strategies. In the late 1950s she became an editor at Simon & Schuster and later Books and Arts Editor of The Nation magazine.
Early activism
Martinez became active in the U.S. civil rights movement, directing the New York office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and joining in SNCC’s Freedom Summer in Mississippi in 1964.
From 1968 to 1976, Martinez lived in New Mexico, becoming founding editor of El Grito del Norte (The Cry of the North), a monthly community newspaper that linked the Chicano land movement to similar struggles around the world. She also served as founding director of the Chicano Communications Center in Albuquerque.
In 1976 Martinez moved to California, joining the Democratic Workers Party, a women led Marxist group, also becoming involved in Central American solidarity work
War Times
January 2002, a group of San Francisco leftists, mainly former Maoists or involved with STORM or Committees of Correspondence, founded a national anti-Iraq War newspaper War Times.[8]
The pilot issue of War Times, a new biweekly newspaper opposing the “war on terrorism,” will roll off the press on February 14... Featuring an exclusive interview with Danny Glover and a letter to President Bush from Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, the premier of this bilingual, free publication will be distributed in several dozen cities across the country.
Serving on the War Times Organizing Committee were;
Jan Adams, former associate director, Applied Research Center
Linda Burnham, executive director, Women of Color Resource Center
Jung Hee Choi, Women of Color Resource Center
Max Elbaum, former managing editor, CrossRoads magazine
Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Adam Gold, STORM
Rebecca Gordon, Seminarians for Peace
Felicia Gustin, co-director, Speak Out
Van Jones, national executive director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Betita Martinez, director, Institute for MultiRacial Justice
Steve Williams, executive director, POWER
Bob Wing, former executive editor, ColorLines magazine

Ethelbert Miller, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Ethelbert_Miller
Eugene Ethelbert Miller is a Poet and self-proclaimed literary activist. He is married to Denise King-Miller[1].
E. Ethelbert Miller is chairman[2]of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Policy Studies. Director, African American Resource Center, Howard University; Poet.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Roxanne_Dunbar-Ortiz
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born September 10, 1939) grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather[1], a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist Party USA activist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her to lifelong social justice activism.
Married at eighteen, she moved to San Francisco, California, where she has lived most of the years since, although the marriage ended.
Education
Dunbar-Ortiz graduated, majoring in History, from San Francisco State College, but was selected for History graduate school at University of California at Berkeley, transferring to University of California, Los Angeles to complete her doctorate in History.
From 1967 to 1972, Dunbar-Ortiz was a full time activist living in various parts of the United States, traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba.
This time of her life and the aftermath, 1960-1975, is the story told in Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years.
Dunbar-Ortiz was also a dedicated anti-war activist and organizer throughout the 1960s and 1970s. During the war years she was a fiery, indefatigable public speaker on issues of patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and racism. She worked in Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade and formed associations with other revolutionaries across the spectrum of radical and underground politics, including the militant Students for a Democratic Society, its terrorist offshoot the Weather Underground, the Revolutionary Union, and the South African Communist Party-controlled African National Congress.[2]
Dunbar-Ortiz, her friend Betita Martinez and others connected to Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, have worked closely with young Bay Area activists involved in STORM, SOUL and POWER.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz says;
“I talk to the young people at SOUL all the time...I keep bringing up the problem. The reliance on nonprofit funding is frightening to me because of what I’ve seen in the past. It’s hard not to become dependent, to be undermined by the foundations. It’s like an invasion of the body snatchers.
“In the ‘60s, we intimidated liberal funders into giving us blood money, so we wouldn’t come and kill them,”
According to Dunbar-Ortiz[9], Abby Rockefeller used to write checks without asking what it was for — sometimes it was for weapons.
In 2002 Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of “Outlaw Woman, A Memoir of the War Years” and member of the Annual Marxist Study Group: Organization Building, was the speaker at a book reading entitled: “The War Years from a Woman’s Perspective.” The reading was held at the San Francisco based Center for Political Education, an organization closely associated with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.[15]
In 2003 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of “Outlaw Woman, A Memoir of the War Years”, Signe Waller, author of “Love and Revolution: A political memoir/people’s history of the Greensboro Massacre” and Max Elbaum, author of “Revolution in the Air: Sixties radicals turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che” gave talks entitled: “Love and Revolution: Three activists/authors discuss lessons from the 1960s-70s.” The classes were held at the San Francisco based Center for Political Education, an organization closely associated with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.[15]
In 2006 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Eric Quezada gave talks entitled: “From Managua to Baghdad”, on the U.S. intervention in Central America in the 80’s, the resistance to it and some parallels with today’s events in both Latin America and the U.S. War in Iraq. These talks were held at the San Francisco based Center for Political Education, an organization closely associated with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.[15]

Barbara Ransby, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Barbara_Ransby
Barbara Ransby is an associate professor of History and African American Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a writer, historian and longtime activist and author of a biography ofElla J. Baker. She has worked with theBlack Radical Congress, Progressive Media Project, Crossroads Fund, Public Square, African American Women in Defense of Ourselves and other activist organizations[1].
Education
Barbara Ransby attended Columbia University in New York from 1980 to 1984.
Ella Baker-Nelson Mandela Center
Barbara Ransby was a co-founder of the Ella Baker-Nelson Mandela Center, Ann Arbor[2].
Malcolm X conference
A conference, Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle was held in New York City, November 14 1990.
Communist front MC
On April 18 2009 the Chicago branch of National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a front first for the Communist Party USA, latterly for the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, awarded several local activists its highest honour.
According to a report from the Communist Party USA’s People’s Weekly World[17].
Human Rights awards were granted to honorees at the event whose work includes ending the death penalty, overturning wrongful convictions, the fight against racism and efforts to help victims of the prison industrial complex.
The honorees included;
Patricia Hill, executive director of the African American Police League; Jane Raley, senior staff attorney with the Northwestern Law School; Judith Stuart, an anti-prison activist, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, retired Pastor with the Trinity United Church of Christ; and Karen Yarbrough, Illinois state representative.
Dr. Barbara Ransby, a professor in the African American Studies Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, emceed the award ceremony.

Patricia Rose, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Patricia_Rose

Michael Rossman, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Michael_Rossman

Studs Terkel, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Studs_Terkel
Studs Terkel was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948.[1]
GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee
Circa 1969, Studs Terkel, Author, Chicago, was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee.[2]
Honoring Frank Wilkinson
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights organized a “Celebration of the The Dynamic Life of Frank Wilkinson (1914-2006)” on Sunday October 29, 2006. Wilkinson had been a leader of the Communist Party USA, the New American Movement and Democratic Socialists of America[10].
Honoring Committee members included Studs Terkel .

Charlene Teters, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Charlene_Teters
Charlene Teters is an artist and Professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe, and senior editor of Indian Artist Magazine. She is on the board of the National Coalition on Racism In Sports & Media.
Charlene Teters is a Spokane, indigenous to the plateau region of what is now Washington state and works to support Indian children striving to transcend poverty and unemployment. Her politically powerful art attacks racist stereo-types that undermine Indian self esteem. “Indians are human beings, not mascots. Warriors within our society are about peace and life.”[1]

Jerry Tucker, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Jerry_Tucker
More than 1,200 people attended the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee initiated Democratic Agenda Conference held November 16-18, 1979, at the International Inn and Metropolitan AM Church in Washington 1 DC. The conference focused on “corporate power’; as the key barrier to “economic and political democracy,” concepts many Democratic Agenda participants defined as “socialism.’
The Democratic Agenda meetings attempted to develop anti-corporate alternatives” through influencing the direction of the Democratic Party during the period leading to the July 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York.
Workshops included “Enforcing Full Employment” - Jerry Tucker, Ellen Vollinger [1]
In 2009 Jerry Tucker, former UAW Exec-Board Member & CLR served on the Steering Committee of Labor Campaign for Single Payer.

Immanuel Wallerstein, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Immanuel_Wallerstein
mmanuel Wallerstein is currently a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University.
Background

Wallerstein first became interested in world affairs as a teenager in New York City, and was particularly interested in the anti-colonial movement in India at the time. He attended Columbia University, where he received a B.A. in 1951, an M.A. in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in 1959, and subsequently taught until 1971, when he became professor of sociology at McGill University. As of 1976, he served as distinguished professor of sociology at Binghamton University (SUNY) until his retirement in 1999, and as head of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations until 2005. Wallerstein held several positions as visiting professor at universities worldwide, was awarded multiple honorary degrees, intermittently served as Directeur d’études associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and was president of the International Sociological Association between 1994 and 1998. During the 1990s, he chaired the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. The object of the commission was to indicate a direction for social scientific inquiry for the next 50 years. In 2000 he joined the Yale Sociology department as Senior Research Scholar. In 2003 he received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association.[1]
Progressives for Obama

In 2009 Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University was listed as a signer of the Progressives for Obama website.[6]
World Social Forum

Wallerstein, was one of 60-100,000 people attending the the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal from Feb. 6-11, 2011.
Wallerstein wrote “The World Social Forum, Egypt, and Transformation”, for Commentary No. 299 15 February 2011;[7]
By unforeseen coincidence, this was the week of the Egyptian people’s successful dethroning of Hosni Mubarak, which finally succeeded just as the WSF was in its closing session. The WSF spent the week cheering the Egyptians on - and discussing the meaning of the Tunisian/Egyptian revolutions for their program of transformation, for achieving another world that is possible - possible, not certain.
To hold such an event, the WSF requires strong local social movements (which exist in Senegal) and a government that at least tolerates the holding of the Forum. The Senegalese government of Abdoulaye Wade was ready to “tolerate” the holding of the WSF, although already a few months ago it reneged on its promised financial assistance by three-quarters.
But then came the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings, and the government got cold feet. What if the presence of the WSF inspired a similar uprising in Senegal? The government couldn’t cancel the affair, not with Lula of Brazil, Morales of Bolivia, and numerous African presidents coming. So it did the next best thing. It tried to sabotage the Forum. It did this by firing the Rector of the principal university where the Forum was being held, four days before the opening, and installing a new Rector, who promptly reversed the decision of the previous Rector to suspend classes during the WSF so that meeting rooms be available.
The result was organizational chaos for at least the first two days. In the end, the new Rector permitted the use of 40 of the more than 170 rooms needed. The organizers imaginatively set up tents across the campus, and the meeting proceeded despite the sabotage.
Was the Senegalese government right to be so frightened of the WSF? The WSF itself debated how relevant it was to popular uprisings in the Arab world and elsewhere, undertaken by people who had probably never heard of the WSF? The answer given by those in attendance reflected the long-standing division in its ranks. There were those who felt that ten years of WSF meetings had contributed significantly to the undermining of the legitimacy of neoliberal globalization, and that the message had seeped down everywhere. And there were those who felt that the uprisings showed that transformational politics lay elsewhere than in the WSF...
There was nonetheless one underlying complaint among those in attendance. People said correctly we all know what we’re against, but we should be laying out more clearly what it is we are for. This is what we can contribute to the Egyptian revolution and to the others that are going to come everywhere...
For the moment, all eyes are on the Arab world and the degree to which the heroic efforts of the Egyptian people will transform politics throughout the Arab world. But the tinder for such uprisings exists everywhere, even in the wealthier regions of the world. As of the moment, we are justified in being semi-optimistic.

Cornel West, http://keywiki.org/index.php/Cornel_West
Cornel West is a leading U.S. Marxist academic and activist. He is an honorary chair of Democratic Socialists of America. He is the author of “The Ethical Dimensions of Marxism” (1991, Monthly Review Press).
DSOC Religious Commission
In 1977, John Cort attended the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee convention in Chicago. At the convention Cort and others organized a DSOC Religion and Socialism Committee (later Commission). Cort was elected coordinator and editor of the newsletter.
Among early leaders, co-editors and contributors to the newsletter were Peter Steinfels, Sister Mary Emil, Rosemary Ruether, Harvey Cox, Cornel West, Arthur Waskow, Joe Holland, James Luther Adams, Jim Gorman, Maxine Phillips and Jim Wallis. Monsignor George Higgins was also a contributor.[1]
“Socialist theory of racism”
In the 1980s DSA issued a pamphlet[2]by Cornel West “Toward a Socialist Theory of Racism”
What is the relationship between the struggle against racism and socialist theory and practice in the United States? Why should people of color active in antiracist movements take democratic socialism seriously? And how can American socialists today learn from inadequate attempts by socialists in the past to understand the complexity of racism? In this pamphlet, I try to address these crucial questions facing the democratic socialist movement.
First, I examine past Marxist efforts to comprehend what racism is and how it operates in varying contexts. Second, I attempt to develop a new conception of racism which builds upon, yet goes beyond the Marxist tradition. Third, I examine how this new conception sheds light on the roles of racism in the American past and present. Last, I try to show that the struggle against racism is both morally and politically necessary for democratic socialists.
“Liberation Theology”

In late 1989, New York Democratic Socialists of America, CUNY branch hosted a talk by Cornel West on “Liberation Theology”. [5]
CrossRoads
In the mid 1990s Cornel West was a contributing editor to Oakland based Institute for Social and Economic Studies- sponsor of CrossRoads magazine, which sought to promote dialogue and building new alliances among progressives and leftists... and to bring diverse Marxist and socialist traditions to bear while exploring new strategies and directions for the progressive political movements. [6]
Socialist International
Led by Bogdan Denitch, DSA’s permanent representative to the Socialist International, the Democratic Socialists of America delegation to the October 1990 Socialist International meeting in New York, included DSA Honorary Chair, Cornel West, Pat Belcon, a DSA NPC member, Motl Zelmanowicz, a “DSAer active in the Jewish Labor Bund”, Jo-Ann Mort, a DSA NPC member, Jack Sheinkman, president of ACTWU, NYC Commissioner of Finance, Carol O’Cleireacain, Terri Burgess, chair of the DSA youth Section, Skip Roberts, Chair of DSA’s Socialist International Committee, welcomed the Council to the United States on behalf of Democratic Socialists of America.[7]
Socialist Scholars Conference
Paul Berman, Editor, Debating P.C., Ray Franklin, Michael Harrington Center, Joanne Barkan, Editorial Board, Dissent, Cornel West and Daniel Singer, European Correspondent for the Nation were speakers on the What Future for the Socialist Idea? panel sponsored by the Democratic Socialists of America and the Michael Harrington Center at the Tenth Annual Socialist Scholars Conference. The conference was held April 24-26, 1992 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City[8]
Cornel West and Barack Obama

Cornel West Introduces “comrade” Barack Obama at the Apollo Theater, November 29th, 2007
Barack Obama called on Charles Ogletree and Cornel West, during his 2008 Presidential campaign. Ogletree and West both joined Obama’s Black Advisory Council[21].
Ogletree has advised Obama on reforming the criminal-justice system as well on constitutional issues. He is a member of the Obama campaign’s black advisory council, which also includes Cornel West, who teaches African-American studies at Princeton University. The group formed after Obama skipped a conference on African-American issues in Hampton, Va., to announce his presidential candidacy in Illinois.
Progressives for Obama
In 2009 Cornel West Author, ‘Race Matters’ was listed as a signer of the Progressives for Obama website.[22]President Obama shook hands with Princeton University professor Cornel West after speaking at the National Urban League’s 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington in July 2010.
On the weekend of March 18th-20th, 2011, the Young Democratic Socialists held their annual Winter outreach conference “Their Crisis, Our Pain: The Democratic Socialist Response to the Great Recession”. Cornel West “will be the featured speaker on Saturday the 19th, and we will also host John Nichols, Bertha Lewis, Mark Engler, and Dan Cantor from the Working Families Party.
Other listed speakers included Komozi Woodard, Corey Walker, Fabricio Rodriguez, Christian Parenti, Stephanie Fairyington, Christine Kelly, Sheila Collins, Billy Wharton, Liz Shuler, Martin Weinstein, Michelle O’Brien, Skip Roberts, Joseph Schwartz.
Panels on race, the environment, organizing, and other topics will allow participants to learn from and communicate with fellow activists on some of the most important domestic and international issues.

Leonard Weinglass http://keywiki.org/index.php/Leonard_Weinglass
Leonard Weinglass died in March 2011. As a Lawyer he represented many notorious figures during his career. His four-decades long track record defending Mumia Abu-Jamal, The Cuban Five, Angela Davis, The Chicago Seven, Kathy Boudin of the Weather Underground, and Julian Assange. [1]

Howard Zinn http://keywiki.org/index.php/Howard_Zinn
Professor Howard Zinn (1922-2010) of Massachusetts was listed as a sponsor of the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland California.[1][2]
Herbert Aptheker Testimonial Dinner
On April 28, 1966 Howard Zinn was a sponsor of the Herbert Aptheker Testimonial Dinner. The dinner was held on the occasion of Herbert Aptheker’s 50th birthday, the publication of his 20th book, and the 2nd anniversary of the American Institute for Marxist Studies. It was held in the Sutton Ballroom, The New York Hilton, Avenue of the Americas, 53rd to 54th Street, New York City. Most speakers, organizers and sponsors were known members or supporters of the Communist Party USA.[3]
GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee
Circa 1969, Prof. Howard Zinn, Boston University , was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee .[4]

World Can’t Wait

The 2008 Advisory Board of the Revolutionary Communist Party front World Can’t Wait, anti war organization consisted of:[16]
James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator, South Dakota
Rosemary Candelario, pro-choice activist
Warren Hern MD, Physician and pro-choice activist
Mark Leno, CA State Assembly
Mark Crispin Miller, professor & writer
Tomas Olmos, attorney
Boots Riley, hip hop performer
Lynne Stewart, attorney
Gore Vidal, writer
Sunsara Taylor, writer
Howard Zinn, historian
Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congressional Representative, Georgia

Bob Avakian http://keywiki.org/index.php/Bob_Avakian
Bob Avakian is the Chairman of the anti-capitalism, Maoist Communist party formed in 1975 within the United States, the Revolutionary Communist Party.
In “From Ike to Mao and Beyond” (2005), Avakian tells the story of a middle-class California boy who moved left during the ‘60s, first in the Free Speech Movement and Students for a Democratic Society at Berkeley, then with the Black Panther Party, and finally into the far-left Maoism of the party he founded in 1975 the revolutionary Union - later to become the Revolutionary Communist Party.[1]
Origins of the Revolutionary Union
Students for a Democratic Society met in June 1969 in Chicago. By this time, S.D.S. had more than a hundred thousand members, making it the largest leftist organization in the United States. Its politics were anti-imperialist and somewhat Marxist, although anarchist currents existed in the organization, as well. During the convention, three ideological groupings became clear. One was led by the Progressive Labor Party faction and espoused a Maoist philosophy, another was the Weatherman faction, also Maoist, but also a follower of third-world revolutionary nationalism, and the third dominant grouping was Marxist-Leninist. This latter grouping was originally known as Revolutionary Youth Movement 2 (RYM 2). As time progressed, RYM 2 splintered into smaller formations, with one of the largest organizations calling itself the Revolutionary Union (RU).
R.U. began in the San Francisco Bay Area under the leadership of Jane Franklin, Bruce Franklin and Bob Avakian.[2]
Arrest and exile
In 1979 Avakian was arrested at a demonstration against Deng Xiaoping’s visit to the White House; charged with assaulting a police officer, he fled the United States for France.

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