Linda Mitchell
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Linda Mitchell
Potential editor, New Democrat
An October 31, 1985 list of potential editors for the New Democrat, proposed newspaper of the New Democratic Movement was found in the Communist Workers Party papers in the Tamiment Library New York.
Linda Mitchell was on the list, LA.
"Los Angeles Remembers"
- Ed Asner - More than 50 people gathered in the James Cagney Room of Actor Ed Asner and L.A. Benefit Attendees (sic) the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) on Nov. 13, 1999 for a benefit reception that raised more than $4,000 for the Greensboro Justice Fund. The program featured three women survivors of the Greensboro Massacre:
- Dr. Martha Nathan, widow of Dr. Michael Nathan.
- Willena Cannon, who was arrested on Nov. 3;
- Frankie Powell, "who was 8 months pregnant when she was shot by the Klan and Nazi caravan".
- Mary Trevor, "who wrote several songs about the Greensboro Massacre and performed 20 years earlier at the funeral march, provide musical entertainment"
Also in attendance were:
- Ed Asner - actor
- Jackie Goldberg - LA City Councilmember
- Zeke Zeidler - Redondo Beach Schoolboard member
- Stewart Kwoh - Greensboro civil rights suit attorney along with
- Tom Ono - suit attorney
- Rev. Nelson Johnson - Greensboro Justice Fund Board President provided his greeting via a videotaped message.
- Mayor Judy Chu - Monterey Park, "dedicated the evening to Linda Mitchell a longtime ardent supporter of the GJF, who passed away suddenly in July, 1999. A candle-lighting ceremony evoked the memory of the lives of each of the Greensboro martyrs".
- Prof. Jose Calderon read a poem.