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In 2008 Mab Segrest, Professor, Connecticut College, New London, CT signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.<ref>[http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/obamairan/signatures?page=106 Open Letter to Obama on Iran]</ref> | In 2008 Mab Segrest, Professor, Connecticut College, New London, CT signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.<ref>[http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/obamairan/signatures?page=106 Open Letter to Obama on Iran]</ref> | ||
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Template:TOCnestleft Mab Segrest is a Connecticut academic.
600 Local Activists Reclaim Dr. King's Radical Legacy
According to Will Jones, a graduate student at UNC and an activist with the Carolina Socialist Forum, Internationalist Books, and the North Carolina chapter of the Committees of Correspondence.
Chapel Hill - Six hundred people came out Monday, January 20, 1998 for a march and rally in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King's dedication to radical social change. The Chapel Hill/Carrboro NAACP, in coalition with more than thirty other organizations, organized this year's march to mark recent gains by the UNC Housekeepers Association and the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Black Public Works Association. According to long-time Chapel Hill activist Joe Straley, this was the largest such event the town had ever seen.
The size of the march reflected two months of dedicated coalition work. The NAACP, the BPWA, and the HKA worked with the Carolina Socialist Forum, the Coalition for Economic Justice, the Lesbian Avengers, the Feminist Alliance and other groups to build a coalition to plan the celebration. Organizers sent over 800 letters and flyers asking community and work place organizations, churches, and campus groups to spread the word and to join the march. They spoke before congregations, on the radio, and local cable access television, and passed out thousands of flyers advertising the event.
The day before the march, Carolina Socialist Forum began the celebration with a panel discussion entitled Civil Rights for the 1990s: A Call for Economic Justice. Dr. Gerald Horne, director of the Black Cultural Center, began the forum with an historical view of the relationship between racism and economic exploitation in the United States. Lesbian feminist activist Mab Segrest followed by pointing out the need for a global perspective on social inequality in the present period. Lizbeth Melendez, who is helping Guatemalan poultry workers organize a union in Morganton NC, concluded with a local view of the relationship between racial justice and the union movement. All three speakers stressed the centrality of economic justice in civil rights struggles for people of color, women, lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals, and other targets of discrimination.[1]
Open Letter to Obama on Iran
In 2008 Mab Segrest, Professor, Connecticut College, New London, CT signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.[2]