Cindy Wiesner

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Contents 1 STORM 2 Center for Political Education 3 POWER 4 Youth Empowerment Center 5 Opposing the "War on Terror" 6 Women of Color Resource Center 7 Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program 8 External links 9 References

STORM

In the late 1990s Cindy Wiesner was an active member of STORM-Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement-a Bay Area Marxist-Leninist group and of HERE.^[1]

Center for Political Education

In 1998 Cindy Wiesner, a HERE, local 2850 and STORM member, gave a talk entitled "From Rank-and-File to Leadership: Women of Color and Unions". The talk was sponsored by the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism linked organization, the Center for Political Education.^[2]

In 2001 Cindy Wiesner of People Organized to Win Employment Rights and STORM and Max Elbaum gave talks entitled: "Post 9-11 Analysis and Strategy." The talks were held at the San Francisco based Center for Political Education.^[3]

POWER

In 2001 Cindy Wiesner was still active in STORM and was with Steve Williams a leader^[4]of POWER- People Organized to Win Employment Rights.

Youth Empowerment Center

In the early 2000s Cindy Wiesner served on the Board of Directors of the Oakland based Youth Empowerment Center. Assigned roles were;

Other directors included Harmony Goldberg, President, Van Jones, Secretary Adam Gold, Treasurer and executive director, Cindy Wiesner, Director, Lateefah Simon, Director.^[5]

Opposing the "War on Terror"

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 supporters^[6]of STORM and the Bay Area Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism established Ad Hoc Committee 'On Poitical Strategy' to fight against Bush's war against terrorism.

The committee included Betita Martinez, Cindy Wiesner, Max Elbaum, Edget Betru, Harmony Goldberg, Clarissa Rojas, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, John Trinkl, Hany Khalil and Bob Wing.

The group issued an October 5, 2001 statement to other activists;

As we immersed ourselves in the fightback to Bush's war against terrorism, we felt the need to get our political bearings as leftists. So we organized a discussion attended by 27 diverse left activists in the San Francisco Bay Area on Sept. 30.

September 11, and the Bush administration's reaction to it, is a defining historical moment, ushering in a new and dangerous period in international politics. Washington's agenda is to entrench the national security state and a new level of international dominance on the basis of a permanent war on terrorism--bringing the "new world order" to fruition.

The defining political axis of this new period is Washington's international war on terrorism--and the fight against it...The political and ideological balance of forces, demands, and outcomes of all struggles will be affected by this central issue, to one degree or another.

Given this, the fight for peace should be the central demand for the people's movements...However, peace is not a centrist, liberal demand, but in fact is central to an anti-imperialist agenda. Its main content is that of staying the hand of imperialist war and fighting U.S. militarism in all its forms.

Women of Color Resource Center

In 2006 the Women of Color Resource Center Board of Directors included^[7]Caroline Acuna-Guilartes, Linda Burnham, Jung Hee Choi, Angela Davis, Derethia DuVal, Chris Lymbertos, Genevieve Negron-Gonzales, Margo Okazawa-Rey and Cindy Wiesner.

Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program

Cindy Wiesner is an alumni of the Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program.^[8]

External links

• Center for Third World Organizing website
• Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program website

References