Margo Nikitas

Template:TOCnestleft Margo Chris Nikitas passed away June 19, 2010, age 79, in Chicago.

Margo's life was dedicated to causes of peace, social justice, and helping the poor.

WREE - Women for Racial & Economic Equality newspaper Staff, 1979

The April-June, 1979 edition of WREE-VIEW listed Margo Nikitas as a member of the WREE-VIEW Staff, p. 2

Communist Party reformer

In 1991 Margo Nikitas, New York was one of several hundred Communist Party USA members to sign the a paper "An initiative to Unite and Renew the Party" - most signatories left the Party after the December 1991 conference to found Committees of Correspondence.

WIDF affiliated United States "Regional Workshops"

Circa 2007 these people were members of the US "Regional Workshop" of the former Soviet front Women's International Democratic Federation;

• Women for Racial and Economic Equality, President: Vinie Burrows

• Mujeres Radicales, Vinie Burrows, Margo Nikitas, Presidenta – Emily Woo Yamasaki

• National Committee of Women for Democratic Iran

• Internacional Action Center, Berta Joubert Ceci – Philadelphia

• Goldstar Mother, Nydia Velasquez - "Congressista"

• Grandmothers Against the War. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick - Presidente

• Granny Peace Brigade, Howard Dean - Presidente, Lillian Rydell, Elaine Johnson

• IAC-NWFN, Joan Wile - Fundadora e Diretora

• Madre, Susan Abulhwa, Anna Wilson

• Radical Women / líder comunitaria Comunidad de Harlem, Nellie Gray Hester

• University of California, Digna Sanchez- Membra

• WEDO, Kathy Engel Fundadora

• Women of Color Resource Center in CA, Betty Maloney - Membra

• EEUU, Angela Davis - History of Consciousness Dep Humanities Division

• African American Poets, Judith LeBlanc

• Granny Peace Brigade, Monica Sofia Somocurcio

• Radical Women, Betty Maloney

• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - WILPF, Carol Price

• Women's Studies Prgrm, Jenny Heinz

• Coalición anti-guerra A.N.S.W.E.R., Gloria La Riva

• Women for Racial and Economic Equality, Tresa Martinez

• Community activist; active in the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, Wilma Esther Reveron Collazo

• Community activist lawyer in El Barrio;; active in immigration issues, Gloria Eneida Quinones - member Women for Racial and Economic Equality

• International President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom , Regina Birchem

• LUZ DE LAS NIEVES AYRESS MORENO, Nieves Ayress - nacionalidad chilena

"Support Bill Ayers"

In October 2008, several thousand college professors, students and academic staff signed a statement Support Bill Ayers in solidarity with former Weather Underground Organization terrorist Bill Ayers.

In the run up to the U.S. presidential elections, Ayers had come under considerable media scrutiny, sparked by his relationship to presidential candidate Barack Obama.

We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack...

We, the undersigned, stand on the side of education as an enterprise devoted to human inquiry, enlightenment, and liberation. We oppose the demonization of Professor William Ayers.

Margo Nikitas of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum signed the statement.

Anti-nuke march

On Sunday, April 26, UE Young Activists and other UE members participated with thousands of other people in a march in New York City for a nuclear-free, just, and sustainable world. This year is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The United Nations holds a conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty every five years, since the treaty went into effect in 1970.

UE Young Activists who participated in these event were Gary DeLuke, Local 170; Kathleen Coonrod, Local 203; Ryan Macdonald, Local 234; Autumn Martinez, Local 255; Emma Paradis, Local 255; Naomi Grayck, Local 255; Cettina Costagliola, Local 255; Charity Dugener, Local 267; Lyndsey O’Day, national office administrative assistant; and Margo Nikitas, associate general counsel. Other UE participants were Director of Organization Bob Kingsley; Northeast Region President Peter Knowlton; General Executive Board Member Marie Lausch of Local 222; International Strategies Director Leah Fried; Field Organizer Chad McGinnis; and retired International Reps. Carol Lambiase and Leanna Noble.

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