Vivian Weinstein

Vivian Weinstein

Template:TOCnestleft Vivian Weinstein is a San Antonio Texas activist. She was born and raised in New York City. She moved to New Jersey and raised two sons. A working mom, Vivian held jobs in factories and offices, and finally, as a welder in the Brooklyn Shipyard.

Later, she graduated as an RN from Bronx Community College specializing in ICU/CCU. She then got a BA from University of Oregon.

Throughout her life Vivian Weinstein has been active in the civil rights movement and for peace, most notably organizing against the war in Vietnam.

She moved to Texas to be close to her son and his family after she suffered a catastrophic illness and lost all her money and her house. She began to expand her writing into journalism with her son's gift of a digital camera.

She is the daughter of lifelong Communist Party USA member Estelle Katz.

Mother's Day for Joanna Stanford

2009 Mother's Day Greetings and Love to the multi-talented Joanna Stanford — now in hospice care — whose life has combined love of family with distribution of the People's Weekly World and predecessor papers, and with the struggle for a world of peace, justice, freedom, art, dance, dolls and handicrafts.

Signatories included Vivian Weinstein.

Reyes connection

In a 2011 to Congress to support Planned Parenthood, Communist Party USA supporter Vivian Weinstein stepped into the office of Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, just before the April 8 vote on the budget cuts.

She was given a letter that Rep. Reyes had sent to Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, describing the devastating effects of slashing funds that would not only affect his district in South Texas but nationally. His letter included the number of people affected and the jobs that would be lost.

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