Rick Brown
E. Richard "Rick" Brown
Students for a Democratic Society
While studying at Harvard in the late 1960s Miles Rapoport was active in the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Harvard SDS campaigned against U.S. miltary involvement in Vietnam and the presence of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) on campus.
In an April 7 1969 letter to the Harvard Crimson, opposing Harvard president Pusey's support for the ROTC, Miles Rapoport and fellow SDSers Naomi Schapiro, Carlin Meyer and Rick Brown wrote[1];
- To conclude: President Pusey and the Corporation want ROTC to stay because they support the U.S. military and the policies it carries out; we feel that ROTC must go because we oppose the policies of the United States and we oppose the military that perpetrates them. The lines are clearly drawn; the time to take sides is now.
National Fight Back Conference
Rick Brown was a Maryland delegate to the October League's December 1975 "National Fight Back Conference" in Chicago.
Tribute to Ben Dobbs
On Sunday, June 7, 1981, the Los Angeles Chapter of the New American Movement sponsored a Tribute to Ben Dobbs for "His lifelong commitment to socialism". The event was held at the Miramar-Sheraton Hotel, Santa Monica, California. Sponsors of the event included E. Richard Brown.[2]
"Single payer" healthcare
In 1991, Rick Brown was a member of Democratic Socialists of America and was working at the UCLA School of Public Health and was involved in "single payer" advocacy coalition Health Access.[3]
Socialists organize to "challenge for power" in Los Angeles
On March 11, 1998, Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America leader Steve Tarzynski wrote an email to another Los Angeles DSA leader Harold Meyerson.
Tarzynski listed 25 people he thought should be on an "A-list" of "25 or so leaders/activists/intellectuals and/or "eminent persons" who would gather periodically to theorize/strategize about how to rebuild a progressive movement in our metropolitan area that could challenge for power."
Tarzynski listed himself, Harold Meyerson, Karen Bass, Sylvia Castillo, Gary Phillips, Joe Hicks, Richard Rothstein, Steve Cancian, Larry Frank, Torie Osborn, Rudy Acuna, Aris Anagnos, Abby Arnold, Carl Boggs, Blase Bonpane, Rick Brown, Stanley Sheinbaum, Alice Callahan, Jim Conn, Peter Dreier, Maria Elena Durazo, Miguel Contreras, Mike Davis, Bill Gallegos, Bob Gottlieb, Kent Wong, Russell Jacoby, Bong Hwan Kim, Paula Litt (and Barry Litt, with a question mark), Peter Olney, Derek Shearer, Clancy Sigal and Anthony Thigpenn.
Included in a suggested elected officials sub-group were Mark Ridley-Thomas, Gloria Romero, Jackie Goldberg, Gil Cedillo, Tom Hayden, Antonio Villaraigosa, Paul Rosenstein and Congressmen Xavier Becerra, Henry Waxman and Maxine Waters.
Tarzynski went on to write "I think we should limit the group to 25 max, otherwise group dynamics begins to break down....As i said, I would like this to take place in a nice place with good food and drink...it should properly be an all day event."
Progressive Los Angeles Network
Circa 2002 , E. Rick Brown , UCLA School of Public Health, served on the Advisory board of the Democratic Socialists of America dominated Progressive Los Angeles Network.[4]
Support for Barack Obama
In 2009 E. Richard Brown was listed as a signer of the Progressives for Obama website and as affiliated with Public Health UCLA.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=209561
- ↑ Tribute to Ben Dobbs program, June 7, 1981
- ↑ Democratic Left, Jan/Feb 1991, page 6
- ↑ PLAN website, accessed October 2011
- ↑ http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/