I can’t believe I used to live in that grotesque embarrassment’s district. His father, Marcus Raskin, was a Communist, and Jamie seems determined to follow in his footsteps.
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Much of Raskin’s initial work with IPS focused on opposing the Vietnam War. He co-authored the Vietnam Reader with Bernard Fall in 1965, which was used in teach-ins across the country. In 1967, he co-authored with Arthur Waskow, a colleague at the Institute, “A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority,” which urged support for those who resisted the draft and the Vietnam War. The “Call to Resist” was signed by thousands of people, and because of it Raskin and Waskow took part in turning in a thousand draft cards to the Department of Justice. In 1968, Raskin was indicted -— along with William Sloane Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Michael Ferber, and Mitchell Goodman—for conspiracy to aid resistance to the draft. The group became known as the “Boston Five”. In the case, Telford Taylor, prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, served as the defense attorney for Raskin. Not long after his acquittal, Raskin published the book Washington Plans an Aggressive War with Barnet and Ralph Stavins. These two books would begin Raskin’s critique of the “national security state”, a term he coined
In 1971, Raskin received from Daniel Ellsberg, documents that became known as the Pentagon Papers. Raskin put Ellsberg in touch with New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan, whom Ellsberg had first met in Vietnam.
Raskin’s most recent scholarship included serving as the editor of a series of books laying out how to achieve peace and justice for the think tank’s Paths for the 21st Century. The goal of this project was to generate ideas and proposals, across disciplinary lines and founded upon Raskin’s notion of “reconstructive knowledge”, which catalyze citizen action and help other scholars and activists pursue a progressive basis for a new society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Raskin