Andy Thayer
Template:TOCnestleft Andy Thayer is a Gay rights and anti-war activist,a co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network[1]
Committees of Correspondence Connection
In 1994 Andy Thayer, Chicago was listed on a "Membership, Subscription and Mailing List" for the Chicago Committees of Correspondence, an offshoot of the Communist Party USA.[2]
Bradley Manning Support Network
As of January 2012 the Advisory Board of the Bradley Manning Support Network included ;[3]
- Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace
- Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, board member for the National Whistleblower Center
- Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistle blower
- Kathleen Gilberd, co-chair of the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild
- Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and activist
- Robert Meeropol, executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children
- Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker
- Pete Perry, Veterans for Peace activist
- Andy Thayer, co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network
- Jose Vasquez, executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War
- US Army Colonel Ann Wright (ret.), former US State Department official
"How to fight back"
Northside Chicago Democratic Socialists of America shared an event. April 9, 2018.
- Join activists from every corner of the city to discuss how to fight back. What's next after the election? What other demands should be on the table in our fight for housing justice? What kind of struggles are taking place in various neighborhoods? Come to discuss, learn and strategize ways forward.
Speakers include:
- Andy Thayer (Uptown Tent City Organizers)
- Moises Moreno (Pilsen Alliance)
- Loreen Targos (CDSA/Lift the Ban Campaign)
- Jawanza Malone (Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Obama Library CBA Coalition)
Moderated by Robin Peterson (CDSA and Solidarity)
Sponsored by the CDSA Housing Working Group and the Chicago branch of Solidarity.
Solidarity Midwest Day School
The Solidarity Midwest Day School was held at People’s Church in Chicago on Saturday 28 July 2018. The event brought together about 50 people from Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee.
This session was followed by “The fight against US imperialism today”, with talks by Andy Thayer (Gay Liberation Network, Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism), Vicki Cervantes (La Voz de los de Abajo) and David Finkel (Solidarity, Jewish Voice for Peace). “Our mission,” Thayer concluded, “is to get the yoke of the US off the necks of oppressed peoples around the world so that they can decide their futures for themselves.”[4]
References
- ↑ (www.GayLiberation.net).http://www.Facebook.com/andy.thayer1
- ↑ Chicago CoC "Membership, Subscription and Mailing List" 10.14.94
- ↑ stand with accused whistle-blower US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning page. BMSN website, accessed January 24, 2011
- ↑ on our Midwest Day School Ian Cornelius August 15, 2018