Ramsey Clark

Ramsey Clark

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IVI-IPO

In 1981 Ramsey Clark was a Vice President of Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization.

All-Peoples Congress National Advisory Board

In 1983, the Workers World Party influenced All-Peoples Congress' National Advisory Board, icluded;

• Bella Abzug WOMEN. U.S.A.
• Isaiah Bennett President. A. Philip Randolph Institute. South Carolina President, Local J5A., Retail.Wholesale and Department Store Employees Union.
• Josephine D. Butler Chairperson. D.C. Statehood Party
• Reverend Victor Carpenter , Senior Minister, Arlington Street Church
• Ramsey Clark, Former U.S: Attorney General
• Lynda Clendenning, Vice President; AFSÇME Maryland State Employees Council
• Emile D'Antonio, Film Director
• Dick Gregory
• Dr. Michio Kaku Prfessor of Nuclear Physics. City College, of New York.
• Corita Kent, Artist
• Paul O'Dwyer Former President. New York City Council
• Margaret Ratner, Attorney
• Jewel Ryan White, President, National Black Communications Coalition President. Local 5011, Communications Workers of America
• Wilard Uphaus, World Fellowship of Faiths
• George Wald, Nobel Prize Laureate, Harvard University
• Quentin Young, M.D.

Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights Bicentennial Celebration

On November 10, 1991 Ramsey Clark was listed as a member of the 1991 Tribute Committee for the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights Bicentennial Celebration.

Peace for Cuba Appeal

In 1994 Ramsey Clark was the founder of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal, an affiliate of the Workers World Party dominated International Action Center.

Other prominent initiators included Cuban Intelligence agent Philip Agee, academic Noam Chomsky, Congressman John Conyers and Charles Rangel.

Memorial for Pat Chin

Close to 200 people gathered at the Lang Center in New York June 25 to remember Workers World Contributing Editor Pat Chin, who died of breast cancer May 16. The meeting, billed as a celebration of her life, featured talks, performances, photo and literature displays and a videotape, all paying tribute to this remark able revolutionary and her contributions to the struggle for socialism.

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Haiti’s National People’s Party Secretary General Ben Dupuy, Korea Truth Commission leader Yoomi Jeong, anti-death-penalty lawyer Joan Gibbs, and Yugoslav anti-imperialist writer Nadja Tesich addressed the gathering. A long lineup of Workers World Party members also paid tribute.

"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.

Ramsey Clark of the University of Chicago signed the statement.

Supporting Lucius Walker

On Sept. 17 2010, Harlem’s Convent Avenue Baptist Church filled with people celebrating the example, ongoing legacy and life of the Rev. Dr. Lucius Walker. Walker, 80, died suddenly Sept. 7 at his home in New Jersey.

The headline in Granma, the daily newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, announcing his death stated, “We do not want to think of a world without Lucius Walker.”

"Joining the wide representation of Cuba solidarity, socialist and progressive activists" were Cuba’s United Nations Ambassador Pedro Núñez Mosquera; Nicaraguan Ambassador María Eugenia Rubiales de Chamorro; many members of, and the spirited choir from, Walker’s Salvation Baptist Church; New York City Councilperson and Freedom Party candidate for governor, Charles Barron; Ramsey Clark; and Akbar Mohammed of the Nation of Islam. Messages and resolutions from churches, individuals and elected officials, including congressional Reps. Charles Rangel, Jose Serrano and Maxine Waters, and author Jane Franklin were acknowledged.

Meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

On September 21, 2010, Ramsey Clark attended a meeting at a midtown hotel with President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and approximately 130 members of the U.S. "peace and social justice movements", as well as "major figures in the Black activist community." Clark was also among those who made opening remarks at the meeting.

Ramsey Clark followed with reflections on the history of U.S. interventions in Iran from the overthrow of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 to our government’s support of the brutal Shah until his ouster in January of 1979.

PSL conference

The Party for Socialism and Liberation held a National Conference on Socialism, December 6-7, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA.

The International Solidarity Session was chaired by Ena Valladares (Los Angeles), Kerbie Joseph (New York City), and Javier Lavoe (New York City) and featured a presentation by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Speaking on the plenary were;

• Yousef Abudayyeh, National Coordinator, Free Palestine Alliance
• Christine Araquel, Chair, KmB Pro-People Youth and Secretary General, Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines
• Jollene Levid, Secretary General, GabriPela Network U.S.
• Sarah Sloan, Party for Socialism and Liberation
• Sakoda Hidefumi, International Affairs Department, Japanese Communist League
• Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Attorney and Co-Founder, Partnership for Civil Justice
• Miguel Edgardo Mira Lopez, Director, Center for the Study of Investment and Commerce and leader of the Movement for Peace and Social Justice in El Salvador
• Berny Moto, FMLN - Los Angeles
• Ben Becker, Managing Editor, Liberation Newspaper
• Muna Coobtee, Party for Socialism and Liberation and National Council of Arab Americans
• Jim Lafferty, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild - Los Angeles
• Marcella Daneshinia, Party for Socialism and Liberation
• Proving Ground, a Marxist multimedia performance piece

Statements were read by Jennifer Zaldana from the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE), and the People’s Socialist Party of Mexico (PPSD).

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