Rebecca Pera
Template:TOCnestleft Rebecca "Becky" Pera is a Minnesota activist.
CPUSA Farm Commission meeting
In December 1999, a Communist Party USA meeting was held at the May Day Bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the purpose of re-establishing the Communist Party USA Farm Commission.
Party members present were Erwin Marquit, Helvi Savola, Jack Brown, Peter Molenaar, Morgan Soderburg, Bill Gudex, Mark Froemke, Scott Marshall, Gary Severson, Mike Madden, Becky Pera, Charlie Smith and Tim Wheeler.[1]
Mark Ritchie (now Secretary of State for Minnesota) also attended and addressed the meeting. In a written report on the meeting by Tim Wheeler, Ritchie is referred to as a "non-party friend" of the Communist Party. The report was marked "not for publication". Click here for the entire report.[2]
Communist Party MLK tribute
On January 19, 2002, the Communist Party USA newspaper, Peoples Weekly World published a signed tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr..
We salute Dr. King’s courage and vision. He saw and struggled for an America and world that can be. We pledge in his memory to work to reorder our nation’s priorities “so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.”
Signatories included Rebecca Pera . Almost all signatories were confirmed members of the Communist Party USA[3].
References
- ↑ CPUSA Farm Commission report, Tim Wheeler, December 16, 1999
- ↑ CPUSA Farm Commission report, Tim Wheeler, December 16, 1999
- ↑ http://transitional.pww.org/so-that-the-pursuit-of-peace-will-take-precedence/