“”An activist I believe has to be one who moves away from narrow single issue focus and links up with other people in a larger struggle. Th challenge to poor people, working people, immigrant people, people of color, the challenge against youth, the challenge against gays and lesbians, is not a single issue any more [...]
Archive for the ‘Obituary’ Category
¡Don White Presente! images from the memorial
Posted in Building Community, Don White, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Obituary on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two events: Commemorate the life of poet, Mahmoud Darwish
Posted in Art and Activism, Building Community, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Obituary, Palestine, Poetry, The Americas, U.S. empire on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are dead who light up the night
of butterflies,
and the dead who come at dawn
to drink your tea
as peaceful as on the day your
guns mowed them down.
O you who are guests in this place,
leave a few chairs empty
for your hosts to read out
the conditions for peace
in a treaty with the dead.
-Mahmoud Darwish, from Speech of [...]
Don White Presente!
Posted in Art and Activism, Building Community, Don White, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Obituary, The Americas, U.S. empire, UTLA on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Evening to Celebrate the Life of Our
Compañero Don White
PRESENT
Sunday, August 10th
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90010
(Corner of Berendo Street, 2 blocks west of Vermont Avenue)
SPEAKERS and [...]
Compañero Don White Film Tribute
Posted in Art and Activism, Building Community, Don White, Human Rights, Obituary, The Americas, U.S. empire, UTLA on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Compañero!
Don White Film Tribute
Don’s contribution to the Human Rights Movement was so far reaching that we are creating a 10-minute film called
COMPANERO!
For Don’s August 10th Memorial we’re collecting visuals of Don from everyone, editing footage,
and adding Spanish subtitles.
Could you please donate to the budget for his film?
[...]
¡Don White Presenté!
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Building Community, Disability Rights, Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Obituary, Palestine, The Americas, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
¡Don White Presenté!
We were shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Don White, revolutionary dreamer and activist. He seemed imortal. What a hole he has left in the Los Angeles Peace and Justice movement. Don was a tireless activist and advocate, an internationalist who understood the connections between racism, imperialism, [...]
Obituary and Memorial
Posted in Human Rights, Obituary on October 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Alfred M. Loeb, Presente
December, 10 1926 – October 25, 2006
In lieu of flowers, the family is asking that donations be made to Sojourner House in Rochester N.Y.
http://www.sojournerhouse.org/contr.html
My father died this morning. He had been on a respirator for several days and decided to be taken off the machine. He and I had a complicated relationship [...]
