Dona Spring

Dona Spring

People's Weekly World Banquet 1996

Sponsors of the 1996 Bay area People's Weekly World banquet, at His Lordships, Berkeley Marina, included Oakland City Council members Ignacio de la Fuente, Sheila Jordan and John Russo, Berkeley City Council members Maudelle Shirek, Linda Maio and Dona Spring, San Francisco Supervisors Tom Ammiano and Sue Bierman, Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson, and California State Assemblyman John L. Burton.

Honored were 5 labor leaders - Walter Johnson, Owen Marron, Shirley Ware of SEIU, Abba Ramos of the ILWU and Francisco Martin del Campo of the San Francisco labor Council for Latin American Advancement.

Progressive Alliance of Alameda County

The Progressive Alliance of Alameda County held its founding conference June 1 and 2,1996, Federal Building Auditorium, Oakland California.

Individuals came from the New Party, Peace and Freedom Party, Green Party and the left wing of the Democratic Party.

Supporting individuals included;

• Russell Bass
• Peter Camejo
• Hank Chapot
• Marsha Feinland
• Mark Friedman
• Joe Gross
• Greg Jan
• Barbara Lubin
• Carlos Munoz, Jr.
• Gus Newport
• Michael Parenti
• Wilson Riles, Jr.
• Sushawn Robb
• Stephanie Ruby
• Peggy Saika
• Margaret Shellada
• Larry Shoup
• Dona Spring

War Times

In January 2002, a group of San Francisco leftists, mainly involved with STORM or Committees of Correspondence, founded a national anti-Iraq War newspaper War Times.

Endorsers of the project included Dona Spring, Berkeley City councilperson.

Supporting Sandre Swanson

In 2006, Dona Spring, Councilmember, Berkeley , was one of many prominent Northern California leftists to serve on State Assembly hopeful Sandre Swanson's Honorary Campaign Committee.

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