Martin Eder
Martin Eder is the San Diego contact for Liberation Road.[1].
One of the founders of Activist San Diego -- what he calls "an information center for progressives in San Diego" and a training center for young activists -- has been involved with social-justice issues since high school. Eder, 53 in 2000 , lives in Ocean Beach but has just stationed Activist San Diego in the World Beat Center in Balboa Park. "I did go to Seattle," Eder says, "and was terribly enthused to see such a cross-fertilization of youth and experienced activists on a new global agenda."
He won't characterize the state of youth activism in the beach communities, but Eder admits it's a difficult time to organize youth and there's a lot less street activism and visibility here than there used to be. "There are few issues that are affecting such a wide number of people right now as civil rights and Vietnam [did], so large numbers of people aren't being galvanized."[2]
He was married to the late Susan Friedman. Father of Daniel Eder.
Now in a relationship with Michelle Svoboda.
Academic
Martin Eder is a retired professor of Sociology who taught at MiraCosta College, Palomar College, City College, and National University, over the span of a 25-year career.
At Mira Costa College, he taught courses in Social Problems, Sociology of the Media, Race and Culture, and Social Change in the School of Education. At National University, he taught Multicultural and Bi-lingual Education, and Chicano/Latino History at the Masters Level in their Teacher Credential program. [3]
In 1993 he was an advisor to Mira Costa MEChA.[4]
Activism
KNSJ 89.1 FM Community Radio, President; Activist San Diego Exec. Director; Social Justice Activist at KNSJ and Activist San Diego, Equity Builders of California, San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice.
Education
- North Carolina Central University Sociology, Race and Cultural Relations 1990 – 1991
- University of Colorado at Boulder Bachelor of Science (BS), Political Science and Government 1968 – 1972
Liberation Road stand, Socialism 2024
Chicago, August 2024.
Martin Eder, Agustin Arreola, Bennett Carpenter.
Public Facebook Group
Members of the DSA San Diego - North County Branch public Facebook Group - January 13 2021 included Martin Eder.
Supporting Caballero
Martin Eder September 5 2019·
Jose Caballero is the most respected activist in this race. Today Susan Davis relented and leaves this race wide open and a huge possibility for Jose to take a progressive agenda to Congress from San Diego! Please pass this on and send some significant $upport as I did today! Progressiveness You can trust!
Mexican Solidarity Coalition
In 2019 Martin Eder was a leader of the Mexican Solidarity Coalition.
Mexican solidarity event
Mexican Solidarity Coalition / Coalicion en Solidaridad con Mexico
Mexican Solidarity Coalition / Coalicion en Solidaridad con Mexico]] July 28 2019 · Opportunity to participate in a Mexican Solidarity Event in San Diego on Sept. Thurs 19 - Fri. 20
Professor Javier Bravo, a long-time activist and a rep for MORENA will be in San Diego, Sept. 19-20 as part of a national tour. Speaking about current struggles in Mexico & how we build a movement against Trump to stop the right-wings ethnic cleansing against Mexican & other immigrants.
LA event on Sept. 22, 12-3 pm at CASA, 2102 E. 1st St.
Exact times and locations in SD to be announced. Want to help organize Solidarity or co-sponsor? Call 619-251-0404, 619-871-9354 Martin Eder - ActivistSD@gmail.com
Cultural work
In December 1988 Forward Motion carried an article written by four members or friends of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, in California, discussing cultural work.
They were Robin Podolsky a poet and lesbian activist in Los Angeles, Martin Eder a video maker and activist among students in San Diego, Jeff Harley formerly active in the New York arts scene, then labor activist, now video maker, David Stock labor, electoral, solidarity worker, photographer, LA dockworker .
Moving Forward
In June/July 1994 Silvia Cida, Hugh Page, Patricia Cofre, Martin Eder , Stephanie Jennings, Noreen Sullivan, served on the production committee of Moving Forward, the newsletter of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Socialist Organizing Network.
Forward Motion
In January 1995 the Editorial Collective of Freedom Road Socialist Organization magazine Forward Motion consisted of Dan'etta Adewole-Jimenez, Martha Cameron, Martin Eder, Jon Levine, Rebecca Minnich, Dennis O'Neil, Eric Odell, Maria Elena Mendez.
Colombia/FARC
The FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), in spite of savage repression by the Colombian government, death squads and the US military, continues to wage the longest continuous guerrilla insurgency for national liberation in the world. In a FARC-controlled zone of Colombia in 2001, Martin Eder interviewed a major leader of the group for Freedom Road magazine.
- Martin Eder: Thank you for your time in the middle of this national crisis. Tell us what is your role and position within the FARC?
- Comandante Raúl Reyes: I am a member of the Secretariat of the Central Command of the FARC, responsible for the dialogues with the government, and head of foreign relations for the FARC.[5]
Freedom Road magazine
Freedom Road magazine Number 13, Winter 2003 gave special thanks to Martin Eder.
Open Letter to Obama on Iran
In 2008 Martin Eder of San Diego, CA signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.
May Day 2011
The world is in crisis,” said Martin Eder, founder and director of Activist San Diego but speaking on this occasion for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). “The social movements are our only salvation. The Left needs to present a vision of what the world should be. Che Guevara said that all true revolutionaries are motivated by the power of love. We’re out here through a great love of the people, and if we listen carefully we will hear people on May Day declaring themselves for peace, justice, freedom and a new society with no exploitation. More than anything, as a San Diego community it’s up to us to build a united front against the oppressor, and to show how moneyed capitalism has stolen all the good things of the world from us, and brainwashed us to accept it.” [6]
Revolutionary Strategies to Beat the Rising Right Wing
Revolutionary Strategies to Beat the Rising Right Wing, was a nationwide conference call organized by Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Sunday October 30, 2016.
- What's the nature of this right-wing threat? What has this election cycle changed about the political terrain we're fighting on? How do we need to prepare for whats coming after the election? Hear about these crucial questions from our panel of top political strategists, including Nelini Stamp, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Linda Burnham, and Sendolo Diaminah.
Those invited, on Facebook included Martin Eder.[7]
Supporting Lori Saldana
In 2018 Martin Eder supported Lori Saldana for Supervisor.
Activists
Activist San Diego· September 19, 2018 ·
With Darwin Fishman, Michelle Svoboda, Henri Jourdain, Adrienne Richardson Durso, Buki Domingos, Benny Tea, Sarah Kadous, Lalo Velasco, Martin Eder and Daniel Eder.
Racial Justice Coalition
Yusef Miller September 29, 2018:
With Martin Eder, Adrienne Richardson Durso and Brittany Lashawn.
Affiliates
Racial Justice Coalition of San Diego November 1, 2018 ·
RJC members at the last CRB meeting. Please read the press article below. Thank you to all our members and allies 👊🏾👊👊🏻👊🏿🙏🏾. In this picture are;
Yusef Miller (CAIR - San Diego), Bishop Cornelius-Tshombe Bowser, Sr. (CAST), Amie Zamudio (Justice4EarlMcNeil), Dr. Darwin Fishman (Activist San Diego, KNSJ radio, GGJ, Justice4EarlMcNeil), Gina Cameron ( Showing Up For Racial Justice), Blair Overstreet (Showing Up For Racial Justice), Adrienne Richardson Durso (Indivisible Peace Keepers, Activist San Diego), Martin Eder & Daniel Eder ( Activist San Diego, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, GGJ, KNSJ Radio), Marc Kohnen ( Attorney- Robert Branch- chokehold victim), Oletha Wade- Matthews ( Justice4EarlMcNeil), Clovis Honoree ( NAACP), Alara Chilton ( San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association),
Liberation Road
Martin Eder is a member of Liberation Road.
References
- ↑ http://freedomroad.org/component/option,com_contact/catid,160/Itemid,3/
- ↑ http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2000/nov/09/hard-town-activism/?page=2& San Diego Reader, Hard Town for Activism, By Justin Wolff, Nov. 9, 2000]
- ↑ Mira Costa's Social Activist Martin Eder: "Ecosocialism" May 26 · 6:30 PM
- ↑ Forward Motion Sep/Oct 1993]
- ↑ An Interview with Comandante Raúl Reyes Posted on Sunday September 1st, 2002 by Freedom Road Socialist Organization
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ FB Revolutionary Strategies to Beat the Rising Right Wing Went 109