Paul Jacobs
Paul Jacobs ...
Open Letter from RWU to the President
In November 2022 Paul Jacobs signed the Open Letter from RWU to the President .
Pentagon Papers involvement
While defending himself against government charges over the leaked Pentagon papers, Daniel Ellsberg followed the recommendation of the Institute for Policy Studies and others, and hired communist lawyer Leonard Boudin as his legal counsel. Boudin's advice was that Ellsberg's best defense would be through the legislative immunity of a congressman disclosing the papers. IPS felt that Mike Gravel of Alaska was a likely candidate, for he was a co-sponsor of the McGovern - Hatfield "end the war" amendment.
Ellsberg contacted then Senator Gravel and offered him the papers for the anti-draft filibuster he planned for June 30, 1971.[1]
On the night of June 29, 1971, Senator Gravel, as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Buildings and Grounds of the Senate Public Works Committee, convened a meeting of the subcommittee and there read extensively from a copy of the Pentagon Papers. He then placed the entire 47 volumes of the study in the public record. IPS fellow Leonard Rodberg had been added to the Senator's staff earlier in the day and assisted Gravel in preparing for and conducting the hearing.3 Some weeks later there were press reports that Gravel had arranged for the papers to be published by Beacon.[2].
Gravel had contacted Roberg through journalist and IPS associate Paul Jacobs.[3].
In The Times Founding sponsors
In 1976 founding sponsors of the Institute for Policy Studies/New American Movement linked socialist journal were;
- Robert Allen
- Julian Bond
- Noam Chomsky
- Barry Commoner
- Al Curtis
- Hugh DeLacy (1910-1986
- William Domhoff
- Douglas Dowd
- David Du Bois
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Frances Putnam Fritchman
- Stephen Fritchman
- Barbara Garson
- Eugene D. Genovese
- Emily Gibson
- Michael Harrington (1928-1989)
- Dorothy Healey (1914-2006)
- David Horowitz
- Paul Jacobs (1918-1978)
- Arthur Kinoy
- Ann J. Lane
- Elinor Langer
- Jesse Lemisch
- Salvador Luria (1912-1991)
- Staughton Lynd,
- Harry Magdoff (1913-2006)
- Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
- Carey McWilliams (1905-1980)
- David Montgomery
- Carlos Munoz, Jr.
- Harvey O'Connor (1897-1987)
- Jessie Lloyd O’Connor (1904-1988)
- Earl Ofari
- Ronald Radosh
- Paul Schrade
- Derek Shearer
- Stan Steiner (1925-1987)
- Warren Susman (1927-1985)
- Paul Sweezy (1910-2004)
- E.P. Thompson (1924-1993)
- Namoi Weisstein
- William A. Williams (1921-1990)
- John Womack, Jr.[4]
Institute for Policy Studies
In 1993 Paul Jacobs was listed as a among "former Visiting Fellows and Visiting Scholars and current TransNational Institute Fellows" on the Institute for Policy Studies 30th Anniversary brochure.
References
- ↑ Covert Cadre, page 51, Scott Steven Powell, Green Hill Publishers, 1987
- ↑ GRAVEL v. UNITED STATES 408 U.S. 606 (1972) GRAVEL v. UNITED STATES. No. 71-1017. Supreme Court of United States.Argued April 19-20, 1972
- ↑ Covert Cadre, page 51, Scott Steven Powell, Green Hill Publishers, 1987
- ↑ [1] In These Times home page, accessed March 6, 2010