Carol O'Cleireacain

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Carol O'Cleireacain is an economic and management consultant specializing in financial and budget operations, taxation and investments with the Brookings Institute^[1]. She is married to economist Seamus O'Cleireacain.

Democratic Agenda

More than 1,200 people attended the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee initiated Democratic Agenda Conference held November 16-18, 1979, at the International Inn and Metropolitan AM Church in Washington 1 DC. The conference focused on "corporate power'; as the key barrier to "economic and political democracy," concepts many Democratic Agenda participants defined as "socialism.'

The Democratic Agenda meetings attempted to develop anti-corporate alternatives" through influencing the direction of the Democratic Party during the period leading to the July 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York.

Workshops included "Health Care Forum "- Peter Hickman, moderator; Marilyn Elrod, Carol O'Cleireacain^[2]

Jesse Jackson adviser

In 1988, Carol O'Cleireacain was chief economic adviser to the Jesse Jackson presidential campaign, heading the team that wrote the candidate's Budget proposals. At the time she was assistant to the executive director of New York's District 37 AFSCME^[3]

Dinkins Administration

Carol O'Cleireacain was New York Finance Commissioner in the David Dinkins Administration^[4].

DSA member

In 1987 Carol O'Cleireacain was a member of Democratic Socialists of America and an assistant to the executive director of AFSCME, District Council 37, Stanley Hill.^[5]

In 1990, Carol O'Cleireacain a member of Democratic Socialists of America, was appointed Commissioner of Finance for New York City.^[6]

In 1994 "O'Clearicain" was listed as a potential member of a Democratic Socialists of America committee on the Socialist International^[7].

Socialist International

Led by Bogdan Denitch, DSA's permanent representative to the Socialist International, the Democratic Socialists of America delegation to the October 1990 Socialist International meeting in New York, included DSA Honorary Chair, Cornel West, Pat Belcon, a DSA NPC member, Motl Zelmanowicz, a "DSAer active in the Jewish Labor Bund", Jo-Ann Mort, a DSA NPC member, Jack Sheinkman, president of ACTWU, NYC Commissioner of Finance, Carol O'Cleireacain, Terri Burgess, chair of the DSA youth Section, Skip Roberts, Chair of DSA's Socialist International Committee, welcomed the Council to the United States on behalf of Democratic Socialists of America.^[8]

Center for Democratic Values

The Center for Democratic Values, a progressive think-tank developed with Democratic Socialists of America sponsorship, made its first public appearance at the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York, April 12 - 14. 1996 . CDV cosponsored two panels at the conference and held a reception to introduce the Center to the assembled socialist scholars and activists.

The first panel dealt with rethinking the role of government. The discussion centered around a paper authored by DSA member and CDV organizer David Belkin which challenged the left to seriously reopen the issue of the role of government in a democratic society. Carol O'Cleireacain, former New York City Budget Director, another member of the panel, stressed the need for the left to pay more attention to organization and management as well as policy and structure, the traditional focuses of socialist theories. Joseph Schwartz, a DSA member and professor at Temple University, also spoke^[9].

"Dissent" magazine

In 2009 the Democratic Socialists of America aligned Dissent Magazine masthead^[10] Editorial Board members were;

Bernard Avishai, Joanne Barkan, David Bensman, Marshall Berman, Paul Berman , H Brand, David Bromwich, Luther Carpenter , Jean L Cohen, Mitchell Cohen, Bogdan Denitch , Jeff Faux, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Todd Gitlin, Murray Hausknecht, Agnes Heller, Jeffrey Isaac, Michael Kazin , Martin Kilson, Erazim Kohak, William Kornblum, Jeremy Larner, Susie Linfield, Kevin Mattson, Deborah Meier, Harold Meyerson, Nicolaus Mills , Jo-Ann Mort, Brian Morton, Carol O'Cleireacain, George Packer, Martin Peretz, Anson Rabinbach, Ruth Rosen, James Rule, Alan Ryan, Patricia Cayo Sexton, Jim Sleeper, Ann Snitow, Cornel West, Sean Wilentz, Dennis Wrong.

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