Rafael Pizarro
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Rafael Pizarro is a Los Angeles based activist.
Communist Party reformer
In 1991, Rafael Pizarro, New York, was one of several hundred Communist Party USA members to sign the a paper "An initiative to Unite and Renew the Party" - most signatories left the Party after the December 1991 conference to found Committees of Correspondence.[1]
CoC National Conference endorser
In 1992 Rafael Pizarro, CoC Implementation Committee, New York, 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]
Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s
The Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s was the Committees of Correspondence's first national conference held in Berkeley, California July 17-19, 1992.[3]
Workshops that were held at the conference on Saturday, July 18 included:[4]
Standing Together - Labor Standing together and showing support. How to respond to racism, sexism and anti-immigrant prejudice and other divisions within the labor movement? How to build labor solidarity and links with nationally oppressed communities?
- Lenore Colbert, vice president of occupational safety, Local 1199, NY
- Joan Levenson Cohen, past president, NYCoalition of Labor Union Women, UFT, NY
- Rafael Pizzaro, organizer, Local 1199, NY
- Howard Wallace, field rep., SEIU Local 250, SF
New Party builder
New Party News Fall 1994 listed over 100 New Party activists-"some of the community leaders, organizers, retirees,, scholars, artists, parents, students, doctors, writers and other activists who are building the NP" the list included Rafael Pizarro, Committees of Correspondence.
Committees of Correspondence NCC
In 1994 Rafael Pizarro was a member of the National Coordinating Committee of the Committees of Correspondence.[5]
Supporting Committees of Correspondence
In 1995 Pizarro was listed[6] as one of the "CoC members and friends" donating to Committees of Correspondence. He contributed $25.
The same year Pizarro was chair of CoC's Political Action Task Force.
DSA membership
Like many CoC members Pizarro was also a leader of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). From a report[7]on the 1995 Midwest Radical Scholars and Activists Conferenceby Chicago DSA member Ron Baiman.
- The conference kicked off with an excellent opening plenary in which Rafael Pizzaro from Local 1199 Hospital Workers Union in New York, Co-Chair of the Committees of Correspondence and DSA, related his experience as a member of a DSA/NOC joint youth observer delegation to the Mexican elections.
- After presenting a complex and detailed analysis of the various political forces and factions involved (including the mysterious disappearance of the right-wing PAN presidential candidate from public campaigning after a very successful national debate performance, indicating perhaps collusion between PRI and PAN operatives), Pizzaro concluded that the elections represented a real maturing of Mexican civil society and politics.
LA activism
In 2006 Rafael Pizarro of the Coalition for Clean Air[8]was organizing environmental, labor, and faith-based advocates to fight pollution in Los Angeles ports.
References
- ↑ Addendum to Initiative document
- ↑ CCDS Background
- ↑ Conference program
- ↑ Proceedings of the Committees of Correspondence Conference: Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the '90s booklet, printed by CoC in NY, Sept. 1992 (Price: $4)
- ↑ CoC National committee meeting, January 7-9, 1994, New York minutes
- ↑ CoC Corresponder Vol4 No 5 p3
- ↑ http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng37.html#anchor1087154
- ↑ http://annualreport.hewlett.org/2006/grantmaking/environment/new_constituencies.asp
