Jesse Lemisch
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Prof. Jesse Lemisch is Professor of History Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
In November 1967, Jesse Lemisch signed a Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights advertisement in the Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices opposing efforts by Senator Dirksen to re-institute the McCarran Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950.[1]
In The Times Founding sponsors
In 1976 founding sponsors of the Institute for Policy Studies/New American Movement linked socialist journal were;
- Robert Allen
- Julian Bond
- Noam Chomsky
- Barry Commoner
- Al Curtis
- Hugh DeLacy (1910-1986
- William Domhoff
- Douglas Dowd
- David Du Bois
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Frances Putnam Fritchman
- Stephen Fritchman
- Barbara Garson
- Eugene D. Genovese
- Emily Gibson
- Michael Harrington (1928-1989)
- Dorothy Healey (1914-2006)
- David Horowitz
- Paul Jacobs (1918-1978)
- Arthur Kinoy
- Ann J. Lane
- Elinor Langer
- Jesse Lemisch
- Salvador Luria (1912-1991)
- Staughton Lynd,
- Harry Magdoff (1913-2006)
- Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
- Carey McWilliams (1905-1980)
- David Montgomery
- Carlos Munoz, Jr.
- Harvey O'Connor (1897-1987)
- Jessie Lloyd O’Connor (1904-1988)
- Earl Ofari
- Ronald Radosh
- Paul Schrade
- Derek Shearer
- Stan Steiner (1925-1987)
- Warren Susman (1927-1985)
- Paul Sweezy (1910-2004)
- E.P. Thompson (1924-1993)
- Namoi Weisstein
- William A. Williams (1921-1990)
- John Womack, Jr.[2]
Not In Our Name
In August 2004 Jesse Lemisch endorsed an anti “Bush Team” Protest at the Republican National Convention in New York, organized by Not In Our Name, an organization closely associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party[3].
Fasting against “Star Wars”
In 2008, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space promoted a June 22 “Global day of fasting to Stop Star Wars”.
- The global day of fasting to Stop Star Wars on June 22 is one important way for the public to become involved in this debate. All over the world the U.S. is dragging the "allies" into Star Wars and active resistance to the insanity of an arms race in space is growing.
Included on the “fast’ list was Jesse Lemisch of New York, New York.[4]
New Politics
As of 2009 Jesse Lemisch served as a sponsor of New Politics, magazine almost completely staffed and run by members of Democratic Socialists of America[5].
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Lemisch is listed as an endorser of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy, as of March 15, 2010.[6]
External links
References
- ↑ Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices, Nov. 1967
- ↑ [1] In These Times home page, accessed March 6, 2010
- ↑ http://www.revcom.us/a/1247/rnc_protest_nion_call.htm
- ↑ Organizing Notes blog: STAR WARS OR SOCIAL PROGRESS - YOU DECIDE, June 21, 2008 (accessed on April 21, 2010)
- ↑ http://ww3.wpunj.edu/newpol/whoweare.htm#eds
- ↑ Endorsers
