Roger Green
Roger Green ...
SWP event
A celebration of their publication of "Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution: Writings and Speeches of Ernesto Che Guevara" was to be held on Sunday, December 6, 1987 in Manhattan, New York City, sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party run Pathfinder Bookstore, 79 Leonard Street, NYC, NY.[1] Speakers for the event were listed as:
- David Deutschmann - book editor
- Gus Newport - former mayor of Berkeley, Cal.
- Roger Green - NY State Assemblyman, NY State Assembly
- Teresa Walsh - Venceremos Brigade
- Ray Santiago - Secretary-Treasurer, FLOC Farm Labor Organizing Committee
- representatives of SWAPO and ANC
New Party builder
New Party News Fall 1994 listed over 100 New Party activists-"some of the community leaders, organizers, retirees,, scholars, artists, parents, students, doctors, writers and other activists who are building the NP" the list included Roger Green, NY State Assembly
2000 WFP Convention
The New York Working Families Party 2000 Convention was held at the Desmond Hotel, March 26.
Attendees included;
- Jim Duncan, WFP co-chair and statewide political director of the United Auto Workers
- Bertha Lewis, WFP co-chair and chair of New York ACORN
- Bob Masters, WFP co-chair and statewide political director of the Communication Workers of America
- State Senator Eric Schneiderman
- Chris Silvera, Treasurer of Teamsters local 808
- Dennis Hughes, president New York Federation of Labor
- Jose Velazquez, Lithographers local 1 organizer
- Ed Vargas, director of the state council of UNITE
- Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action New York
- Jim Hightower
- Maude Hurd, national chair of ACORN
- Bradley Erck, a rep. on the Niagara County legislature and UAW Local 686, legislative committee chair
- Larry Handley, President Amalgamated Transit Union
- Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communication Workers of America local 1180
- Hillary Clinton
- State Assemblyman Roger Green
- Senator Chuck Schumer
- Antoine Thompson, new board president of Citizen Action, upstate New York
There were sizable delegations from ACORN and Citizen Action.[2]