Howard Croft
Howard Croft
DC NAM
Washington DC Area New American Movement contacts in 1981 include:[1]
- Tim Wilson - Labor Commission
- Howard Croft - Urban Commission
- Bernie Demczuk - Anti-Racism Commission
- Roger Kraus - Health Commission
- Margie Silverton - DC Health Coalition
- Joy Ann Grune - Socialist-Feminist Commission
- Richard Kinane - Energy Commission
- Barry Rigby - International Commission
- Jude Franco - Culture Commission
- Brian Doherty - Political Education Commission
DSA Racial Diversity Task Force
In 1992 Howard Croft was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America Racial Diversity Task Force - charged with finding ways of recruiting (and retaining) more "people of color" into the organization[2].
Attended high level Democratic Socialists of America meeting
Paul Pinsky was named as attending a Democratic Socialists of America National board meeting in Washington D.C. in 1992. member in Democratic Left, July/August 1992, page 11.
The text indicates that Pinsky, representing the New Party attended this high level D.S.A. meeting, which involved discussions on electoral organizing, strategies and tactics. Other attendees included Bob Fitrakis, a "DSAer" and Democratic Party Congressional candidate in Ohio, D.S.A. member Mary Jo Kilroy, from the Columbus Ohio school board and Howard Croft from the D.S.A. National Political Committee.
Council run
In 1997 Croft ran for DC City Council in a special election. He was at the time member of the DC Parole board and was also president of Greater Washington Americans for Democratic Action.[3]
Croft ran in third, behind Sharon Ambrose and George Stallings, Jr. Croft, until recently a professor of urban affairs and geography at the University of the District of Columbia and a longtime D.C. political activist, was backed by DSA, Progressive D.C. (the local chapter of the New Party), ACORN and most of the city's union locals. [4]
SEIU
In 2010 Howard Croft was Assistant Director Long Term Care Division at SEIU.[5]