Difference between revisions of "Cora Weiss"
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In 1976 Cora Weiss for [[Friendshipment]] and [[Women Strike for Peace]] attended the [[Weather Underground]] and [[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee]] organized [[Hard Times Conference]] Jan 30 - Feb 1 at the University of Chicago.<ref>Outlaws in Amerika, West Goals 1982, Pg33-35</ref> | In 1976 Cora Weiss for [[Friendshipment]] and [[Women Strike for Peace]] attended the [[Weather Underground]] and [[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee]] organized [[Hard Times Conference]] Jan 30 - Feb 1 at the University of Chicago.<ref>Outlaws in Amerika, West Goals 1982, Pg33-35</ref> | ||
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| + | Weiss was involved in the Moscow Women for a Meaningful Summit Conference, May 31 – June 7, 1989.<ref>http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG201-225/dg222cweiss.htm</ref> | ||
==Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama== | ==Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama== | ||
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Cora Weiss is the wife of New York Lawyer, Peter Weiss, founder of the Institute for Policy Studies and daughter of Samuel Rubin, a funder of many left-wing organizations. Weiss was a director of the Samuel Rubin Foundation from its inception. She was also instrumental in the funding decision to create the Institute for Policy Studies. She gained notoriety as a leader of the Vietnam War era anti-American coalitions who traveled to Paris and Hanoi for repeated meetings with communist leaders.
Peace activism
Weiss is a supporter of the United Nations, an early member of Women Strike for Peace, a leader in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States. In the 1970s Weiss was the director of the Riverside Church (New York, NY) Disarmament Program. Weiss was also active with SANE, SANE/Freeze, Peace Action, and The Hague Appeal for Peace. Weiss became president of the International Peace Bureau in 2000. She has always been active in women's peace issues, hosting the first women's radio program in New York City in the 1970s, attending women's disarmament summits in the former Soveit Union, the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, and many other events.[1]
Hard Times Conference
In 1976 Cora Weiss for Friendshipment and Women Strike for Peace attended the Weather Underground and Prairie Fire Organizing Committee organized Hard Times Conference Jan 30 - Feb 1 at the University of Chicago.[2]
Women for a Meaningful Summit Conference
Weiss was involved in the Moscow Women for a Meaningful Summit Conference, May 31 – June 7, 1989.[3]
Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama
In early 2008 Cora Weiss, an U.N. Representative, International Peace Bureau signed a petition circulated by Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama[4].
- In the coming elections, it is important to remember that war and peace are as much \"women\'s issues\" as are health, the environment, and the achievement of educational and occupational equality. Because we believe that all of these concerns are not only fundamental but closely intertwined, this Tuesday we will be casting our vote for Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
Affiliations
Cora Weiss, formerly active with the Emma Lazarus Clubs and Women Strike for Peace, played a leadership role in the CPUSA-controlled anti-Vietnam coalitions New Mobilization Committee, People's Coalition for Peace and Justice which collaborated closely with the WPC. She received considerable media attention for her numerous meetings with Vietnamese Communist officials in Paris and Hanoi and for her controversial role in the Committee of Liaison and in a project to provide material aid to Hanoi, the Friendshipment/Bach Mai Hospital Fund.
She and her husband, Peter Weiss, president of the IPS board, are officers of the Samuel Rubin Foundation, which provides the major financial support to IPSITNI, and of the Fund for Tomorrow, a smaller foundation which is apparently wholly funded by the Rubin foundation, which supports many activist groups spun-off by IPS including WISE.[5]