Richard Gutman
Richard Gutman
Tribute to Golub and Montgomery
ON November 16, 1989, Rick Gutman served on the Tribute Committee for the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights Tribute to Leon Golub and Lucy Montgomery, held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago.[1]
Honoring Frank Wilkinson
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights organized a "Celebration of the The Dynamic Life of Frank Wilkinson (1914-2006)" on Sunday October 29, 2006. Wilkinson had been a leader of the Communist Party USA, the New American Movement and Democratic Socialists of America[2].
Honoring Committee members included Richard Gutman.
"Red Squad" Symposium
A "Red Squad" Symposium took place June 1, 2013, at the Chicago History Museum. The Red Squad was a secret police unit used to spy on, harass, even target for destruction, organizations that ranged from community and peace organizations to labor unions and the Communist Party USA.
The History Museum has decades of records on the activity of the Red Squad, thanks to a court order.
That court order came from a case that was filed by Attorney Richard Gutman, the keynote speaker at the symposium. Gutman was honored for his 26 years of leadership in the legal fight against the illegal activities of the Red Squad, as a result of which came an out-of-court settlement that paid $306,250 divided among ten organizations and ten individuals. That victory was won despite the fact that Gutman's legal team itself was infiltrated by the police.[3]
References
- ↑ Tribute to Golub and Montgomery: Program, Nov. 16, 1989
- ↑ http://www.ccdbr.org/events/wilkinson/Wilkinson_Committee.html
- ↑ PW, Chicago’s “Red Squad” stories reveal damage to democracy, by: Special to PeoplesWorld.org June 7 2013