Vivian Rothstein
Template:TOCnestleft Vivian Rothstein is the wife of Richard Rothstein. She was a founder of the Chicago Womens Liberation Union, one of the first feminist organizations of the 1970’s. Rothstein was CWLU’s first staff member, coordinated its representative decision-making body, and helped establish the organization’s Liberation School for Women. Her activist career started with the Mississippi Freedom Summer project in 1965 and was followed by community organizing in Chicago to build “an interracial movement of the poor.” For the past 14 years she has been with the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, an advocacy organization working to lift standards for workers in the region’s major low wage industries. She serves as a Board member of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice.[1]
An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left
An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left.
Now it is time for all those who yearn for a more equal and just social order to face facts.
By Former leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society. April 16, 2020.
On April 13, 2020, Senator Bernie Sanders urged his supporters to vote for the presumptive Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden. Writing as founders and veterans of the leading New Left organization of the 1960s, Students for a Democratic Society, we welcome Bernie’s wise choice—but we are gravely concerned that some of his supporters, including the leadership of Democratic Socialists of America, refuse to support Biden, whom they see as a representative of Wall Street capital. Some of us are DSA members, but do not believe their position is consistent with a long-range vision of democracy, justice, and human survival....
We salute Bernie Sanders and our friends and comrades in DSA and in the diverse movements for social justice and environmental sanity that enabled them to rise. We look forward to joining together to build on and defend our accomplishments. And now we plead with all: Get together, beat Trump, and fight for democracy—precious, fragile, worth keeping.
The signers of this letter were founders, officers, and activists in Students for a Democratic Society between 1960 and 1969.
Signers included Vivian Rothstein.
SDS days
Joe Chabot was ERAP’s first organizer in Chicago. Chabot opened the first JOIN office just a few doors away from the Unemployment Compensation Office on North Kedzie Avenue. With co-organizer Dan Max, one JOIN organizer would leaflet the UCO and the other would stay behind to talk with workers who visited in response to the leaflet. In the first week, roughly one hundred people came into the JOIN office. According to an internal ERAP paper, about 80 unemployed people took on a regular role in JOIN with about ten to fifteen assuming leadership roles.
After less than a year, however, Chabot seemed defeated by one of ERAP’s first lessons—that change would be painfully slow, at least at first. Chabot left and JOIN moved out of the Downtown Loop. The chapter was permanently relocated to the Uptown neighborhood, focusing attention on a wider range of pressing, and therefore actionable, community issues: welfare, housing conditions, unemployment and police brutality. As more student organizers began to arrive in Chicago, JOIN also welcomed an influx of community members who became a steady force in the organization. From Uptown, Peggy Terry, Dovie Coleman and her niece Dovie Thurman, Dorothy Perez, Dominga Alcantar, Mary Hockenberry and Candy Hockenberry, Virginia Bowers, Terry’s son Doug Youngblood, Junebug Boykin and Bobby McGinness were joined by SDS organizers Richie Rothstein and Vivian Rothstein, Mike James, Diane Fager, Pat Sturgis, Steve Goldsmith, Todd Gitlin and Nancy Hollander, among others from both the community and the student movement[2]
"Westside Friends of Jackie Goldberg"
Signatories to a letter from Westside Friends of Jackie Goldberg, dated January 15, 1993 were;
- Mayor Judy Abdo
- Cynthia Anderson and Tim Barker
- Nancy Angelo
- Abby Haight Arnold
- Elaine Attias
- David Clennon
- Steve Ediger and Sharon Seto
- Margo Feinberg
- Larry Frank and Catherine Hess
- Jan Goodman and Jerry Manpearl
- Bob Gottlieb
- Woody Hastings
- Kelly Hayes-Raitt
- Elizabeth Hirsch
- Paula Litt and Barrett Litt
- Abby J. Leibman
- Suzy Marks and Wally Marks
- Sarah Pillsbury and Richard Kletter
- Laurie Pincus and Phil Brimble
- Elena Popp
- Michele Prichard and Rod Lane
- Vivian Rothstein
- Jane Small and Hugh Hallenberg
- Moe Stavnezer
- Gary Stewart
- Steve Tarzynski and Kathie Sheldon
- Julie Thompson and Brogan De Paor
- Andrea Tuch
- Barbara Zheutlin
- Bill Zimmerman
Progressive Los Angeles Network
Circa 2002 , Vivian Rothstein, Hotel & Restaurant Employees Union, served on the Advisory board of the Democratic Socialists of America dominated Progressive Los Angeles Network.[3]