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Frank Blumer
NAM contacts
In the early days of NAM, contacts for the organization included Lynne Shatzkin and Jerry Coffin, NY, Michael Lerner, then working from the Cambridge Policy Studies Institute, a branch from the Institute for Policy Studies, Andy Starr, Philadelphia, Alice Lynd and Staughton Lynd, Chicago, Frank Blumer, Seattle, and Jim Williams, by 1975 a co-editor of the Communist Party USA trade union publication, Labor Today.[1]
Early NAM leadership
In 1971, the New American Movement National Interim Committee was composed of:
- Lynn North, Ann Arbor Mich.
- Harry Boyte, Chapel Hill, No. Carolina
- Martha Williams, Wash. DC
- Harold Henderson, Peoria, Ill.
- Marjorie Fields, New York City
- Staughton Lynd, Chicago, Ill
- Diana Adams, Cleveland, Ohio
- Frank Speltz, Davenport Iowa
- Chip Marshall - Field Staff Coordinator –
- Frank Speltz – Coordinator of the national conference
Travelers for NAM:
- Frank Blumer, Northwest
- Michael Lerner, California
- Randy Bregman, Midwest
- Lynn North & Jane Slaughter, South
- Jeremy Rifkin, Northeast
- Chip Marshall, Southwest, Mountain & Plains states[2]