Ruby Dee
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Ruby Dee is an actress, poet, playwright. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
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Guardian
In March 1979, the New York radical magazine the Guardian issued an emergency appeal to funds in an effort to save the publication.
Over fifty supporters endorsed the appeal including Ruby Dee[1]
District 1199 Cultural Center
In 1982 Advisers to the District 1199 Cultural Center, Inc. New York were:[2]
- Moe Foner, Executive Director
- Miriam Colon
- Ossie Davis
- Ruby Dee
- Madeline Gilford
- Jack Golodner
- Micki Grant
- Herbert H. Gutman
- Michael Harrington
- Patricia Hills
- Irving Howe
- Harold Leventhal
- Stanley Levison
- Harold Lewis
- Eve Merriam
- Walter Rosenblum
- John Schultz
- Brendan Sexton
- Piri Thomas
- Arthur Waldhorm
We Will Make Peace Prevail!
On March 28, 1982 the New World Review organized a gala luncheon "We Will Make Peace Prevail! Disarmament Over Confrontation, Life Over Death", at the Grand Ballroom, Hotel Roosevelt, New York City. Virtually all participants were identified as Communist Party USA.
Ruby Dee was listed on the Committee of Sponsors.[3]
Peace for Cuba Appeal
In 1994 Ruby Dee was an initiator of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal, an affiliate of the Workers World Party dominated International Action Center.
Other prominent initiators included Cuban Intelligence agent Philip Agee, academic Noam Chomsky, Congressman John Conyers and Charles Rangel[4].
Communist "Manifestivity"
On October 30 and 31, 1998 the Brecht Forum presented the "Communist Manifestivity to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto" at Cooper Union's Great Hall, New York.
Individual endorsers of the event included Ruby Dee.[5]
