Eleanor Preiss

Eleanor Preiss

Open Letter from RWU to the President

In November 2022 Eleanor Preiss signed the Open Letter from RWU to the President .

Peace activism

Preiss' involvement with peace movement started in 1961, coinciding with move to New York from the midwest.

My husband was Coordinator of the Greenwich Village Peace Center for a year, and I was immersed in that group’s thinking and have been involved in one way or another ever since. For obvious reasons, the demonstration that I particularly remember was in April 1965 in DC, because I was VERY pregnant at the time.

My “career” has been bookkeeping related, and as well as doing that for a living I have contributed that skill to the Neighborhood Nursery School, the Brooklyn Heights Youth Center, the Nevins Day Care Center, and Concerned Friends of WBAI. I started volunteering and was elected Treasurer for Brooklyn Parents For Peace very soon after retiring from employment, in 2004. .

Open Letter to Obama on Iran

In 2008 Eleanor Preiss of Brooklyn, NY signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.