Paul Ortiz
Template:TOCnestleft Paul Ortiz is an associate professor in history and director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. Lives in Gainesville, Florida From Bremerton, Washington.
Education
Studied History at Duke University.
Career
- Past President at Oral History Association
- Vice President at United Faculty of Florida at UF
- Former Radio Operator, Mobile Training Teams at US Army Special Forces (Green Berets)
Gainesville Veterans for Peace
Paul Ortiz January 14, 2017:
Because a military veteran's place is marching in the annual Gainesville, Florida Martin Luther King, Jr. march with his wife and comrade Sheila Payne and Alachua County Labor Coalition member Jeremiah Tattersall and hundreds of activists! — with Joe Courter, Sherry Steiner, Mary Bahr, Sheila Payne, Faye Williams, John Fullerton and Kali Blount at Veterans For Peace.
Paul Ortiz Follow · May 27, 2017:
Another president, more hype, more war. Come visit Gainesville Veterans for Peace Memorial Mile this weekend. — with Sherry Steiner, Sheila Payne, John Fullerton and Scott Camil at Veterans For Peace.
Teaching for Change
Paul Ortiz January 6 2018:
Grounding with educators and organizers at Teaching for Change office in Washington, DC. Deborah Menkart brought us together with SNCC veteran Charlie Cobb one of my movimiento heroes! We discussed my newly-published An African American and Latinx History of the United States (Beacon Press) Thank you Deborah Menkart for keeping us organized! January 4, 2018. This was the very first book event for An African American and Latinx History of the United States.. — with Fayette Colon, Charles Cobb and Maybelline McCoy at Teaching for Change.
UFW
In 2008 Paul Ortiz's wiife canvassed for the Obama campaign four or five days a week for several months in Gainesville. She learned many of her organizing skills - as did Paul Ortiz- working with the United Farm Workers of America many years ago.[1] |
Labor organizer
In 1998 Paul Ortiz was a graduate student at Duke and a labor activist, and a North Carolina Farmworker Project board member.
Praise for "The Cost of Privilege"
"The Cost of Privilege" an anti-racist book was written by North Carolina Freedom Road Socialist Organization member Chip Smith.
Several people, mostly Freedom Road Socialist Organization members wrote advance "praise blurbs" for the book's website .
- The Cost of Privilege is U.S. history without jargon and blinders. It demonstrates how a stronger grasp of the past may be used to inform social justice organizing in the present. Chip Smith is not interested in moralizing about white supremacy; he wants to dismantle it. Smith presents historical and personal case studies about how to challenge racism as well as anti-immigrant hysteria. Community activists, union organizers, and educators will find this book indispensable in their work."
Paul Ortiz, author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920.[2]
Maestre screening
Catherine Murphy October 24, 2016:
Howard University Education Department will present Maestra this Thursday at 2pm - free & open to the public!
Come on over friends in the DMV! — with James Early, Kymone Tecumseh Freeman, Medea Benjamin, John Lists, Deborah Menkart, Paul Ortiz, Makani Themba, Karen Hampton, Karen Mafundikwa, Doris Derby, Luisa Crespo, Talaya Grimes, Annette Martin, Rhone Fraser, Mimi Machado-Luces, Saad Hayes Sodaye, Matthew White, Lisa Brock, Netfa Freeman, Sira Orozco, Luisa Campos, Eve Goldberg, Luci Murphy, Alison Kibbe, Curtis Muhammad, Mwiza C K Munthali, Mia Henry, Michelle Darden Lee, Alli Jarrar, Banbose Shango, Shah Boo and U.S. Women and Cuba Collaboration at Howard University.