Prasad Venugopal
Template:TOCnestleft Dr. Eswara Prasad Venugopal Associate Professor of Physics, University of Detroit Mercy and serves on the Steering Committee of Detroit Area Peace and Justice Network[1].
CPUSA National Board
Prasad Venugopal, attended a meeting of the National Board of the Communist Party USA in South Chicago, on the last weekend of January, 2003.[2]
UFPJ
In 2005 Prasad Venugopal, Detroit Area Peace and Justice Network was on the Steering Committee of United for Peace and Justice[3]
Michigan Coalition for Human Rights
In 2007/08 Dr. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy , served on the Board of the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights.[4]
Communist Party
In 2009 Prasad Venugopal was responsible for coverage of Health Affairs and was a member[5] of the Editorial Collective of Political Affairs, theoretical journal of the Communist Party USA.
Nature, Society and Thought
In the late 2000s, Prasad Venugopal was an assistant editor of University of Minnesota based Marxist journal Nature, Society and Thought[6];.
"Two conversations"
Venugopal is a leading member of the Detroit Area Peace and Justice Network, and served two terms on the national steering committee of United for Peace and Justice. He is an associate professor of physics at the University of Detroit Mercy.
Speaking at a People's World forum in Detroit in late 2009, Venugopal said it is "very, very important to have two conversations. One, we do need long-term changes in U.S. foreign policy. At the same time, we need to win victories now. We have to find ways to broaden the conversation and link the fight for health care, the Employee Free Choice Act and jobs to the spending on war."[7]
Communist Party speaker
Speak Progress is the speakers bureau of the Communist Party USA. Listed speakers, as of October 2014, included Prasad Venugopal[8]
- Dr. Prasad Venugopal is the Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Detroit Mercy. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published papers in theoretical physics and physics education research, and on the social uses and implications of engineering technology.
- He is a member of the Michigan chapter of the U.S. Peace Council, which is affiliated with the World Peace Council. He served two terms as an elected member of the National Steering Committee of United for Peace & Justice, a national anti-war coalition based in the U.S. He is also active in numerous local peace and justice organizations, including as a Coordinating Committee member of the Detroit Area Peace with Justice Network (DAPJN).
- Dr. Venugopal also served on the editorial boards of Political Affairs magazine and Nature, Society and Thought.
References
- ↑ http://www.peoplesworld.org/events/58
- ↑ PWW, February 1, 2003 "communist meet heats up in Chicago
- ↑ http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=1874
- ↑ MCHR website, accessed Feb. 1, 2011
- ↑ http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/static/17/1/3/,,
- ↑ http://homepages.spa.umn.edu/~marquit/nst20n3-4a.pdf
- ↑ Peoples World, Afghan war hurts domestic agenda, Mich. peace leader says by: John Rummel December 21 2009
- ↑ Speak Progress, Speakers page