Barbara Lubin
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Barbara Lubin is a Northern California activist.
Palestine
Maudelle Shirek was 77 when she joined the first delegation from North America to visit the newly occupied Palestinian territories in protest of Israeli policies there.
"Everybody was 35 to 40 years younger than Maudelle," recalled the trip's organizer, Barbara Lubin, director of the Berkeley-based Middle East Childrens Alliance. "She was the only one who never fell asleep. She was out in front of all of us."[1].
CoC National Conference endorser
In 1992 Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children's Alliance, Berkeley, endorsed the Committees of Correspondence national conference Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s held at Berkeley California July 17-19.[2]
Progressive Alliance of Alameda County
The Progressive Alliance of Alameda County held its founding conference June 1 and 2,1996, Federal Building Auditorium, Oakland California.
Individuals came from the New Party, Peace and Freedom Party, Green Party and the left wing of the Democratic Party.
Supporting individuals included;[3]
Endorsed Communist Party fund raiser
In September 1999, Barbara Lubin, director Middle East Children's Alliance, co-sponsored a Communist Party USA fund raising event in Berkeley. Rep. Lynn Woolsey co-sponsored the same event. [4]
War Times
In January 2002, a group of San Francisco leftists, mainly involved with STORM or Committees of Correspondence, founded a national anti-Iraq War newspaper[5] War Times.
Endorsers of the project included Barbara Lubin.
Not In Our Name
In August 2004 Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children's Alliance endorsed an anti “Bush Team” Protest at the Republican National Convention in New York, organized by Not In Our Name, an organization closely associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party[6].
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 2008 Barbara Lubin, Executive Director of Middle East Children's Alliance, Berkeley, CA signed a statement circulated by the Partisan Defense Committee calling for the release of convicted “cop-killer” Mumia Abu-Jamal.[7]
References
- ↑ http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Maudelle-Shirek-Idealist-Berkeley.htm
- ↑ CCDS Background
- ↑ CrossRoads April/May 1996, page 6
- ↑ Peoples Weekly World, September 11, 1999
- ↑ WAR TIMES January 29, 2002
- ↑ http://www.revcom.us/a/1247/rnc_protest_nion_call.htm
- ↑ Signers of Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Now
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