Joel Bleifuss

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Joel Bleifuss

DSOC/DSA

Joel Bleifuss attended the 1979 Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee conference in Texas and later attended several Democratic Socialists of America conferences. In his speech to DSA's 2010 conference in Illinois, Bleifuss referered to DSA members as "we".^[1]

JournoList

Joel Bleifuss of In These Times, was an identified member of JournoList - an email group of approximately 400 "progressive" and socialist journalists, academics and "new media" activists.

JournoList members reportedly coordinated their messages in favor of Barack Obama and the Democrats, and against Sarah Palin and the Republican Party. JournoList was founded in 2007 and was closed down in early 2010.^[2]

"Support Bill Ayers"

In October 2008, several thousand college professors, students and academic staff signed a statement Support Bill Ayers in solidarity with former Weather Underground Organization terrorist Bill Ayers.

In the run up to the U.S. presidential elections, Ayers had come under considerable media scrutiny, sparked by his relationship to presidential candidate Barack Obama.

We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack...

We, the undersigned, stand on the side of education as an enterprise devoted to human inquiry, enlightenment, and liberation. We oppose the demonization of Professor William Ayers.

Joel Bleifuss of In These Times signed the statement.^[3]

In These Times

As of 2009 Joel Bleifuss was Editor, Publisher and on the Board of Directors of Chicago based socialist journal In These Times.^[4]

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