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| − | '''Sidney Lens''' (born on Jan. 28, 1912 in Newark, New Jersey | + | '''Sidney Lens''' (born on Jan. 28, 1912 in Newark, New Jersey). His real name is Sidney Okun and, while testifying under oath on Feb. 15, 1965 before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, said that he could not remember if he had ever changed his name legally. Lens-Okun married [[Shirley Ruben]].<ref name=bioleft>''Biographical Dictionary of the Left'', Francis X. Gannon, Vol. 1, pp. 418-419</ref> |
==AFL-CIO== | ==AFL-CIO== | ||
Revision as of 03:19, 11 March 2010
Sidney Lens (born on Jan. 28, 1912 in Newark, New Jersey). His real name is Sidney Okun and, while testifying under oath on Feb. 15, 1965 before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, said that he could not remember if he had ever changed his name legally. Lens-Okun married Shirley Ruben.[1]
AFL-CIO
Since 1941, Lens served as director of Local 329 of the United Service Employees Union, AFL-CIO.
Running for Illinois
Lens has run unsuccessfully for the Illinois legislature and for the United States House of Representatives. He has also been a member of the board of directors of the Chicago Council for Foreign Relations.
Support for peace movement
In 1962 Shirley Lens and Sidney Lens served [2]on the Advisory Council of the Hyde Park Community Peace Center, with Timuel Black and Quentin Young.
Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices
In January 1969, the Chicago radical newspaper, Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices, listed those who had helped produce its first 16 monthly issues as "writers, researchers, photographers, artists and clerical workers".
The list included Sidney Lens.[3]
Guardian
In March 1979, the New York radical magazine the Guardian issued an emergency appeal to funds in an effort to save the publication.
Over fifty supporters endorsed the appeal including Sidney Lens[4]
Institute for Policy Studies
In 1993 was listed as a among "former Visiting Fellows and Visiting Scholars and current TransNational Institute Fellows" on the Institute for Policy Studies 30th Anniversary brochure.
Publications
- Left, Right and Center
- The Counterfeit Revolution
- A World in Revolution
- The Crisis of American Labor
- Working Men
- Africa - Awakening Giant
- The Futile Crusade
- A Country is Born
Lens has also written for such magazines as Commonweal, Harvard Business Review and Liberation Magazine, the masthead of which features a representative list of pacifists, Socialists, "civil rights" agitators, and notorious Communist-fronters, including Dorothy Day, Waldo Frank, Bayard Rustin, Lewis Mumford, Staughton Lynd, Michael Harrington, James Peck and Martin Luther King Jr..