Aviva Futorian
Template:TOCnestleft Attorney Aviva Futorian
American Civil Liberties Union
As at April 11, 1983, Aviva Futorian served on the Board of Directors for the Illinois branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.[1]
Chicago Area Friends of SNCC
In 2005 Chicago Area Friends of SNCC organized the "Tell the Story: The Chicago SNCC History Project, 1960-1965" Chicago Area Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Chicago Civil Rights Movement, c. 1960-1965. The event was held October 21-22, 2005 Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.
Members of the advisory committee included Aviva Futorian.[2]
Evening with Sister Helen Prejean
The Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights and the Bill of Rights Foundation presented an evening with anti death penalty campaigner Sister Helen Prejean March 15, 2007.
The event was endorsed by: Timuel Black, Jane Bohman, Locke Bowman, Thomas Breen, Rep. Danny Davis, Tony Fitzpatrick, Aviva Futorian, Bernard Harcourt, Jeffrey Howard, Rabbi Peter S. Knobel, Elizabeth Kooy, Peter Kuttner (IATSE Local 600), Barbara Lannan and John Lannan, Haki Madhubuti, Martin Marty, Lisel Mueller, Sara Paretsky, Father Arturo Perez, Mary Powers, Dick Simpson, Elizabeth Solomon, Thomas Sullivan, Studs Terkel, Scott Turow, Standish E. Willis ; All Saints' Episcopal Church, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Black Radical Congress, Center on Wrongful Convictions, 8th Day Center for Justice, Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, The Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Justice Center, Midwest Center for Justice, Murder Victims Families for Human Rights, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression[3]
Progressives for Obama
In 2009 Aviva Futorian Long Term Prisoner Policy Project was listed as a signer of the Progressives for Obama website.[4]
References
- ↑ Memo from Karen Green sent to Illinois Board Members
- ↑ http://www.ben.edu/programs/cafsncc/
- ↑ http://www.ccdbr.org/events/prejean/main.html
- ↑ Progressives for Obama