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History
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. Excerpts from "A National Call To A People's Progressive Convention" was sent out under the auspices of the National Committee for a People's Progressive Convention, c/o National African American Network, 5113 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20011 More history to follow:
Initial Endorsers (List in formation, June 1992, by postmark date)
- African American Progressive Action NetworkAAPAN
- African Americans United for Political Power AAUPP
- Alliance for Progressive Action - Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Roger Allison - Missouri Rural Crisis Center
- American Indian Movement AIM
- Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee AAADC ADC
- Clyde Bellecourt - American Indian Movement
- Keith Brooks - N.Y. Unemployed Committee
- Leslie Cagan - Cuba Information Project
- Marilyn Clement - Empower
- Consumer Party of Pennsylvania
- Ron Daniels - Independent candidate for President (Daniels became one of the top black marxist activists on the national scene, paralleling other leftists such as Damu Smith, Jack O'Dell, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Manning Marable and Lennox Hinds)
- Rep.Ronald V. Dellums - i.e. (Hon.), Representative Democrat-CAL
- Joan Drake - Chair, National Policy Committee, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom WILPF
- Kari Fisher - Co-Chair, Socialist Party USA SPUSA SP
- Bill Fletcher, Jr. - Associate Editor, Forward Motion Magazine
- Mary France - N.Y Citywide Coalition of African American Education Organizations
- Hermon George - Professor of Black Studies, University of Northern Colorado
- Neal Gorfinkle - Progressive Alliance of New Jersey
- Victoria J. Gray-Adams - Board Member, Mississippi Community Foundation
- The Greens/Green Party USA Green Party USA GP
- Kevin Gray - independent Congressional candidate, Columbia, S.C.
- Ira Grupper - National Co-Chair, New Jewish Agenda NJA
- Jim Haughton - Harlem Fightback
- Howie Hawkins - The Greens/Green Party USA Green Party USAGP
- Kazu Iijima - Asian American activist
- Alan Jacobson - Detroit Labor Party Advocates
- Niki Jozef - Haitian Environment and Development Initiative
- Christine Kelly - Student Action Union
- Riyadh Khoury - Palestine Solidarity Committee PSC
- Robert Kimbrough - Past President, AFT 223 AFTWisconsin
- Arthur Kinoy - people's lawyer
- Ellen Lavroff - Chair, United Action Caucus, AFT AFT
- Alfredo Lopez - writer and activist
- Mindy Lorenz - Congressional candidate, Green Party of California Green Party
- Majority Coalition for a New New York
- Manning Marable - author, columnist, political activist
- Marcus Garvey Independent Democratic Club
- Rosie Mendez - National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights NCPPR
- M. Pam Miller - President, Marcus Garvey Independent Democratic Club
- Missouri Rural Crisis Center
- Albert Mokhiber - President, Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee AAADC ADC
- Horace L. Morancie - African Americans United for Political Power AAUPP
- Phil Tajitsu Nash - Asian American attorney and activist
- National African American Network NAAN
- National Black Rank and File Exchange
- National Committee for Independent Political Action NCIPA
- National Lawyers Guild NLG
- New African Voices Alliance NAVA
- Organization of Asian Women OAW
- Palestine Solidarity Committee PSC
- Gwen Patton - Southern Rainbow Education Project
- Jeff Perry - Treasurer, Local 300, National Postal and Mailhandlers Union, NY
- Project New Tomorrow
- John Rensenbrink - Green Politics Network
- Maureen Smith - State Chair, California Peace and Freedom Party CPFP
- Socialist Party USA SPUSA
- Solidarity
- America Meca Sorrentini - Puerto Rican Socialist Party PRSP PSP
- Southern Rainbow Education Project SREP
- Student Action Union SAU
- Dr. Milton Terris - Editor, Journal of Public Health Policy
- Miriam Thompson - labor and human rights activist
- Zollo Torres - National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights NCPRP
- Jerry Tucker - Organizer, UAW New Directions Movement UAW New Directions
- United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America UE - (The UE was expelled from the CIO in the late 1940's and remained a hardcore CPUSA bastion for decades, and it still a far-left union today - 2010)
- Unity Party, NY Unity Party
- James Vann - African Americans for Peace and Justice, Oakland, CA.
- Sabina Virgo - Women in Coalition WIC, Los Angeles, CA.
- Rev.Lucius Walker - Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization IFCO Reverend
- Jitu Weusi - Coordinator, Unity Party, NY - (His real name may have been Findley Campbell. Needs to be verified)
- Wisconsin Labor-Farm Party