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Revision as of 08:20, 5 March 2010
Sabina Virgo has been a writer and an activist since the 60’s during the civil rights movement. She was a Jesse Jackson delegate to the 1984 and 1988 Democratic Party conventions, and served on the national Board of Directors of the Rainbow Coalition. She is currently with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Alliance and other independent political action networks[1].
Los Angeles DSA meetings
On April 8, 1988 Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America convened a meeting at the Workmen's Circle West Los Angeles "Action for Jackson, where does he stand? Where will it lead? - A political analysis of the Jesse Jackson for President campaign, with its possibilities, perils, and promise for the Left."
Speakers:
- Sabina Virgo Board Member, National Rainbow Coalition
- Mark Cohen Peace Activists for Jackson
- Robert Nelson Democratic Socialists of America member, Science advisor to the Jackson campaign
On July 14 circa 1990 Los Angeles Democratic Socialists of America and the American Solidarity Movement convened a meeting at the Workmen's Circle West Los Angeles "Progressives Stratiegies for the Labor Movement"
Panelists:
- Eric Mann Labor/Community Strategy Center
- Sabina Virgo AFSCME Foreign Affairs Network
- Jim Hilfenhaus Association for Union Democracy
- Susanne Paradis Jobs with Justice
- John Duray United Mine Workers - Pittston Strike[2]
CrossRoads
In the mid 1990s Sabina Virgo was[3]a contributing editor to Oakland based Institute for Social and Economic Studies- sponsor of CrossRoads magazine, which sought to promote dialogue and building new alliances among progressives and leftists... and to bring diverse Marxist and socialist traditions to bear while exploring new strategies and directions for the progressive political movements.
CCDS
In 2002 Sabina Virgo was listedon the Advisory Board of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism[4].
Labor for Palestine
On December 14, 2009 Labor for Palestine released an "Open Letter from U.S. Trade Unionists to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Boycott Apartheid Israel".
Signers of the letter included Sabina Virgo, Founding and Past President of AFSCME, Local 2620.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.democracynow.org/1998/1/28/sabina_virgo_on_the_criminalization_of
- ↑ Undated meeting flyer
- ↑ Crossroads March 1996
- ↑ CCDS membership letter Dec 20 2002
- ↑ http://www.iacenter.org/palestine/palestine_labor122209/