Ray Otake
Template:TOCnestleft Ray Otake died circa 2014. He was Chief Technology Officer of Paras and Associates.
Ray Otake also served as Chief Information Officer for the Community Health Center Network, made up of the key community clinics in Alameda County. With Health Access California, Otake helped develop work around video medical interpretation. With former Health Access California executive director Melinda Paras, he created the technical design for the shared video interpreter call center network – the Health Care Interpreter Network. Because of his work and the efforts it helped enable, many patients throughout California can now access care in a language they can understand–in multiple languages, with minimal wait times or scheduling hassles.
He was the last person to hold the distinction of serving on both the Health Access California and Health Access Foundation boards.[1]
National Committee to Overturn the Bakke Decision
In the late 1970s Ray Otake was the leader of the National Committee to Overturn the Bakke Decision.
Call for a Conference on Racism and National Oppression
Call for a Conference on Racism and National Oppression was a 1980 call by Marxist-Leninists of The Trend, most of whom were Line of March activists, for a national conference on "Racism and National Oppression" to be held in the summer of 1981 in New York or the Bay Area.
Signers from New York were;
Line of March regional contacts
In 1980, Line of March regional contacts included;[2]
- Boston - Marian McDonald
- Los Angeles - Marcia Altman
- New York - Ray Otake
- SF Bay Area - Ellen Kaiser
- Seattle - Mike Withey