Bill Capowski
Template:TOCnestleft Bill Capowski is associated with Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
Labor Relations Specialist at NYSUT, Nyack, New York.
Partner of Lisa Delmonico.
Exposing the right
These days it would be hard to imagine a group of students taking over the administration building at a local college to protest America's refusal to sign a land-mine ban treaty. Could that be because the political climate at many universities is becoming increasingly conservative, allowing little room for dissenting liberal voices?
That's a question the Center for Campus Organizing set out to answer four years ago. The result of its research is the recently published manual, "Uncovering the Right on Campus: A Guide to Resisting Conservative Attacks on Equality and Social Justice."
The answer?
"The left remains strong on college campuses," says Bill Capowski, executive director of the center. "But the difference is that conservative campus groups are far more organized, have more resources and work together on like agendas."
"When I was a student activist at MIT in the mid-1980s, our counterparts on the right received political training," writes Rich Cowan, project coordinator for CCO.
"The larger motive was to groom young people for future leadership positions. Ralph Reed's 'stealth tactics' did not start with his Christian Coalition efforts to take over school boards; they started years earlier with College Republicans President Ralph Reed's campaign to take over liberal student governments."[1]
Battle of Seattle
Bill Capowski of Center for Campus Organizing was involved in the Battle of Seattle.
Freedom Road magazine
Special thanks from Freedom Road Socialist Organization's Freedom Road magazine Number 1, Spring 2001 went to Cameron Barron, Scott Braley, Ajamu Dillahunt, Bill Capowski, Mike Meiselman, Rajiv Rawat, Vicky Menjivar, Michelle Foy, Jon Liss, Chip Smith.
International Solidarity Movement
International activists Daniel Knutson, from Sweden, Bill Capowski , from New York City, USA, Alex Perry , from Manchester, England, and Tareq Loubani, of New Brunswick, Canada, listened as their Israeli lawyer Leah Tsemel explains the verdict after their deportation hearing July 17, 2003 in the Tel Aviv District Court. They were amongst the eight members of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement who were ordered deported from Israel by the court after they were arrested by the Israeli army in the West Bank.[2].
Bill Capowski was a student at Penn State University at the time.