David Reed

David Reed

Open Letter from RWU to the President

In November 2022 David Reed signed the Open Letter from RWU to the President .

Communist Party reformer

In 1991 David Reed, Northern California was one of several hundred Communist Party USA members to sign the a paper "An initiative to Unite and Renew the Party" - most signatories left the Party after the December 1991 conference to found Committees of Correspondence.

CoC National Conference endorser

In 1992 David Reed, San Francisco Anti Apartheid Committee, endorsed the Committees of Correspondence national conference Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s held at Berkeley California July 17-19.

NCC candidate

At the Committees of Correspondence Conference, July 19,1992, david Reed was a candidate for the CoC NCC.

Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s

The Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s was the Committees of Correspondence's first national conference held in Berkeley, California July 17-19, 1992.

Workshops that were held at the conference on Saturday, July 18 included:

Peace and Solidarity Taking apart the military behemoth. How can we win disarmament agreements, end military interventions, and convert our militarized economy to a peacetime orientation?

• Al Fishman, co-chair, Michigan SANE-Freeze, Detroit
• Libby Frank, Peace Information Project, Philadelphia
• David Reed, SF Anti-Apartheid Committee
• Marti Schmidt, National Lawyers Guild, Seattle
• Merle Ratner, co-coordinator, National Network of Indochina Activists

Southern Africa conference

In 1986 organizers of the West Coast Conference in Solidarity with the National Liberation Movements of South Africa (ANC) and Namibia (SWAPO) included David Reed, Chair, San Francisco Anti-Apartheid Committee.