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| + | ==Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Award== | ||
| + | On June 12, 2001 [[Boston Democratic Socialists of America]] presented its annual award to "leaders who fight for democracy, here at home and around the world". [[Ed Clark]] and [[Dessima Williams]] received the Debs- Thomas-Bernstein Award; [[John F. Maher, Jr.|John Maher]] Leaders for Social Democracy at Home and Abroad: [[Ed Clark]], [[Dessima Williams]], [[John F. Maher, Jr.|John Maher]] received the Michael Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award. The reception took place at the home of [[Marcia Peters]] and [[David Karaus]] in Jamaica Plain.<ref>[http://www.dsaboston.org/yradical/yr2001-05.pdf Yankee Radical, June, 2001]</ref> | ||
==DSA== | ==DSA== | ||
Revision as of 21:40, 27 December 2010
Ed Clark has served as the Executive Vice President of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees. Most of his life has been spent working in the United States and European Labor movements. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s he was an organizer and business agent for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.[1]
Student activism
As a student activist in the 1960’s, Clark worked in the South in the struggle to integrate racially segregated public facilities.
Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Award
On June 12, 2001 Boston Democratic Socialists of America presented its annual award to "leaders who fight for democracy, here at home and around the world". Ed Clark and Dessima Williams received the Debs- Thomas-Bernstein Award; John Maher Leaders for Social Democracy at Home and Abroad: Ed Clark, Dessima Williams, John Maher received the Michael Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award. The reception took place at the home of Marcia Peters and David Karaus in Jamaica Plain.[2]
DSA
Ed Clark is an Honorary Vice Chair of Democratic Socialists of America.
He is also is a member of the Boston Democratic Socialists of America Speakers Bureau.[3]