Marilyn Clement
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Palestine Human Rights Campaign
A brochure came out in early 1978 announcing "A National Organizing Conference" sponsored by the Palestine Human Rights Campaign to be held on May 20-21, 1978, at American University, with the theme of "Palestinian Human Rights and Peace".
The list of "Sponsors" was a mix of a several groupings including the Communist Party USA and its sympathizers, the World Peace Council, the Hanoi Lobby, black extremists, mainly marxists, radical Christians, and Arab/Arab-American organizations, plus a few phone-booth sized pro-Palestinian Christian groups.
Individual sponsors of the event included Marilyn Clement.
National Committee Peoples Alliance
Those Serving on the National Committee of the Peoples Alliance in 1978 included Marilyn Clement , Center for Constitutional Rights.
NCIPA (members who joined Peoples Alliance later on
A number of people who attended the Peoples Alliance Strategy Conference of November 9-11, 1979 later showed up as members of the National Committee for Independent Political Action. From the Sept.-Oct. 1984 NCIPA Newsletter we find these individuals listed on the NCIPA Steering Committee.
- Anne Braden - Southern Organizing Committee SOC, Louisville, KY
- Leslie Cagan - National Mobilization for Survival MFS, NY, NY
- Marilyn Clement - Director Center for Constitutional Rights CCR
- Dave Dellinger - Peace activist, Peacham, VT
- Ted Glick - Tenant organizer, Brooklyn, NY
- Alan Howard - Labor journalist
- Grantland Johnson - City Councilman, [{Sacramento]] Cal.
- Mel King - Boston Rainbow Coalition Rainbow Coalition
- Arthur Kinoy - Peoples Lawyer, NJ
Affirmative Action Coordinating Center
The AACC was formed in 1979 as a joint project of the National Lawyers Guild, National Conference of Black Lawyers and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Director Gerald Horne was aided by CCR director Marilyn Clement, lawyers Randolph H. McLaughlin and Doris Peterson, and legal worker Claudette Furlonge who serve as AACC board members and advisers.[1]
People's Progressive Convention
In 1992, a "call" went out to leftist radicals and communist revolutionaries of various orientations to hold a national People's Progressive Convention in Ypsilanti, Michigan, August 21-23, 1992.
Endorsers included Marilyn Clement - Empower.
Michigan Medicare event
Michigan Alliance to Strengthen Social Security and Medicare presented “Health Care for All,” a forum on Rep. John Conyers, Jr.’s U.S. National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) featuring Marilyn Clement (National Coordinator for Health Care NOW), Olivia Boykins (Special Assistant to Representative John Conyers, Jr.), and Democratic Socialists of America member Richard Shoemaker (retired UAW Vice-President and former director of the UAW General Motors Department and UAW Community Action Program) and moderated by Metro AFL-CIO President Saundra Williams—Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 58 (1358 Abbott Street, Detroit). Conact for the event was Democratic Socialists of America member Maurice Geary.[2]
Interim National Council
As at April 2005, the following served as chairs on the National Council of the Labor Party:[3]
- Donna DeWitt, President, South Carolina AFL-CIO - Co-Chair
- Bill Kane, President, New Jersey Industrial Union Council - Co-Chair
- Baldemar Velasquez, President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee - Co-Chair
- Noel Beasley, International Vice President, UNITE HERE
- Ed Bruno, California Nurses Association
- Deborah Burger, President, CNA
- Dave Campbell, Secretary-Treasurer, PACE Local 8-675
- Marilyn Clement, Director, CNHP NOW
- Russ Davis, Vice President, AFGE Local 2782
- Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director, CNA
- Mark Dimondstein, NC Piedmont Triad chapter
- Jed Dodd, General Chairman, Penn. Federation, BMWE
- Lisa Frank, Metro Pittsburgh chapter
- Cheri Honkala, Founder, Kensington Welfare Rights Union
- Bruce Klipple, General Secretary-Treasurer, UE
- C. Robert McDevitt, President, UNITE HERE Local 54
- Bill Onasch, Kansas City chapter
- Cecilia Perry, Public Policy Analyst, AFSCME
- Linda Raisovich-Parsons, UMWA
- Adolph Reed, Jr., Professor, University of Pennsylvania
- David H. Richardson, PhD, Secretary, AFGE Local 12
- Dean Robinson, Professor, UMASS-Amherst
- Anthony Rochon, BMWE
- Preston Smith II, Professor, Mount Holyoke College
- Brenda Stokely, President, AFSCME DC 1707
- Chris Townsend, Political Action Director, UE
- Gerry Zero, IBT Local 705
Independent Progressive Politics Network
In 2009 Marilyn Clement served on the Advisory Committee of the Independent Progressive Politics Network[4].
Healthcare-Now!
In 2009 Marilyn Clement, National Coordinator, Healthcare-NOW served as a co-chair on the board of directors of Healthcare-Now! .[5]
References
- ↑ Information Digest, August 8,1980 page 267
- ↑ GDDSA newsletter archives, 2007
- ↑ Labor Party News April 2005 (accessed on Dec. 31, 2010)
- ↑ http://www.ippn.org/IPPN_People
- ↑ Healthcare-Now! Board