Leo Robinson
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Center for Political Education
In 1998 the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism linked organization, the Center for Political Education hosted a forum entitled "The Workplace as a Site of Social Struggle: 1960’s and 1990’s". The inter-generational dialogue featured the following speakers:
Leo Robinson, International Longshore and Warehouse Union; Katie Quan, Vice President of International Ladies Garment Worker's Union; Frank del Campo, 25 year veteran of labor/community/Latino organizing; Margy Wilkinson, activist and officer of AFSCME; Nato Green, organizer, UFCW campaign; Joy Enomoto, temp workers organizer, Steve Williams, co-director of POWER; and Bharati Narumanchi, student organizer at San Francisco City College; moderated by Lillian Galedo, Filipinos for Affirmative Action.[1]
Endorsed Communist Party fund raiser
In September 1999, Leo Robinson, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and ILWU local 10 (ret.) co-sponsored a Communist Party USA fund raising event in Berkeley. Rep. Lynn Woolsey co-sponsored the same event.[2]
1999 May Day greetings
May Day greeting was included in the Special May Day 1999 Supplement of the Communist Party USA's People's Weekly World. Greeters included Leo Robinson.[3]
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 2008 Leo Robinson, retiree, ILWU Local 10, Raymond, CA signed a statement circulated by the Partisan Defense Committee calling for the release of convicted “cop-killer” Mumia Abu-Jamal.[4]
"Black Workers, Hanging Nooses"
July 19 2008 Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia St., at 20th St., SF "Black Workers, Hanging Nooses & The State of The Labor Movement"
Panel discussion with Leo Robinson, Carl Bryant, Fernando Gapasin, Jack Heyman and others.
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 Leo Robinson, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10 Southern Africa Liberation Support Committee.
References
- ↑ Center for Political Education website: Past Classes (1998 - 2007)
- ↑ Peoples Weekly World, September 11, 1999
- ↑ Special May Day 1999 Supplement of the People's Weekly World
- ↑ Signers of Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Now