Eileen Boris

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Eileen Boris is the former wife of Nelson Lichtenstein.

DSA member

In the mid 1990s Boris was a member of Democratic Socialists of America[1]

Open Letter to Obama on Iran

In 2008 Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.[2]

Open letter to Andy Stern

On May 1 2008, Eileen Boris, of Women's Studies Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara signed an open letter to SEIU president Andy Stern in protest at SEIU move to force its local United Healthcare Workers into trusteeship.

"We are writing to express our deep concern about SEIU's threatened trusteeship over its third largest local, United Healthcare Workers (UHW). We believe that there must always be room within organized labor for legitimate and principled dissent, if our movement is to survive and grow. Putting UHW under trusteeship would send a very troubling message and be viewed, by many, as a sign that internal democracy is not valued or tolerated within SEIU. In our view, this would have negative consequences for the workers directly affected, the SEIU itself, and the labor movement as a whole. We strongly urge you to avoid such a tragedy."

Campaign for Peace and Democracy

Boris is listed as an endorser of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy, as of March 15, 2010.[3]

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References

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  1. Voices of women historians: the personal, the political, the professional page 196
  2. Open Letter to Obama on Iran
  3. Endorsers