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Rick Nagin

Rick Nagin, is a prominent Ohio activist and member of the Communist Party USA. Nagin isOhio correspondent for the Peoples World, has written for the paper and its predecessors since 1970. Nagin is a member of theNewspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America, he is a delegate to the North Shore AFL-CIO and serves on its political coordinators committee. He also represents the Peoples World on the steering committee of Cleveland Jobs with Justice.

In 2012 [[Rick Nagin[[ was the Democratic Leader in Cleveland Ward 14 and serves on the County Democratic Party Executive Committee.

In 2014, he still served as the Democratic Leader in Cleveland Ward 14 and serves on the [[Cuyahoga County Democratic Party[[ Executive Committee

John F. Kennedy's presidency and the Vietnam War were defining moments of Nagin's years studying science at Harvard University and Rockefeller University in New York. Kennedy's assassination, he said, "really drove home to me the right-wing danger in this country."

Nagin was obsessed with stopping the war and curious about socialism. The war, he thought, was "really to extend corporate capitalism to southeast Asia" and "a threat to democracy in the U.S." He began reading communist publications after receiving one at a peace rally.

Leaving behind his biochemistry degree and doctorate in biology, Nagin joined the Communist Party USA in 1970 and began writing for its newspaper, known today as the People's Weekly World.

Nagin's party involvement led him to Cleveland, where communists hoped to gain traction with steelworkers.

In 1980, Hall recruited Nagin, who had become Ohio Communist Party chairman, for a national slate of communist candidates. Nagin made the U.S. Senate ballot as an independent and received more than 40,000 votes in his race against John Glenn, the incumbent Democrat.

Nagin was encouraged. A year later, he challenged Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, a Republican. His candidacy generated little interest, as did subsequent bids for the Ohio House.

"To me, it was a way of breaking down a lot of Cold War prejudices," Nagin said of his early, long-shot political campaigns. "At some point, I figured, I was going to have to connect with the people. I finally realized that I needed to run from the grass roots."

Noticing a large influx of Puerto Ricans in his West Side Cleveland neighborhood, Nagin organized a voter registration drive for Hispanics. In 1989, he launched the first of three failed bids for the Ward 14 council seat. Eight years later, Nelson Cintron became the city's first Hispanic councilman and chose Nagin, one of his opponents, to be his City Hall aide.

Nagin resigned as head of the Ohio Communist Party to take the council job. He served as Cintron's go-to guy for seven years before being fired because he had begun to assemble a campaign to seek the Ward 15 council seat without the blessing of council leaders

Ward 14 Councilmanic Assistant for over seven years. Nagin helped elect Cleveland's first Hispanic city councilman, Nelson Citron and served as his executive assistant for over seven years.

Rick Nagin speaks Spanish and has traveled in Puerto Rico and Latin America. He as worked closely with Hispanic social clubs and agencies and NAACP Voter Fund.

Nagin was a member of the San Lorenzo Club and helped found the Cleveland chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) affiliated with the AFL-CIO^[1].

In 2006, Nagin was on the staff of AFL-CIO Labor 2006 campaign for Sherrod Brown and Ted Strickland

Nagin helped Congressman Kucinich set up a Steel Summit that "succeeded in saving the Cleveland steel mill, preserving the union contract and saving the jobs of thousands of area workers".^[2]

Nagin had been a key organizer for Dennis Kucinich’s campaigns for Congress and president and for the 2004 John Kerry presidential campaign.

Rick Nagin was Labor Coordinator for Dennis Kucinich's 2008 primary campaign

Dennis Kucinich, (center rear), endorsed Rick Nagin (second from right) in his 2009 City Council race

I've known Rick Nagin for more than 30 years. He's honest, hard-working and conscientious. The people of Ward 14 have a chance to elect a Councilman who will be totally dedicated to them. What more can you ask for?

I'm proud to join with the AFL-CIO in supporting Rick Nagin

Dennis Kucinich, Congressman, 10th District

Rick Nagin was a fulltime volunteer in the AFL-CIO Labor 2008 campaign for Barack Obama^[3].

During Nagin's 2009 run for a seat on the Cleveland City Council, his Communist Party USA membership again became an issue.

A former chairman of the state Communist Party has come closer than ever to taking a city council seat after years of trying for public office.

Registered Democrat Rick Nagin finished a strong second in this month’s primary race in Council Ward 14. He faces a Nov. 3 nonpartisan general election runoff against the top vote-getter, Brian Cummins.

Nagin, 68, failed in three previous bids for a council seat. He resists being labeled a communist, saying Monday the word was demonized by 60 years of Cold War propaganda designed to prepare people for war and intimidate those with liberal ideas.

It’s an epithet in this country,” he said, “like using the N-word.”

Nagin, who joined the Communist Party in 1970, has written for the People’s Weekly World newspaper, which describes itself as having a “special relationship with the Communist Party USA,” as recently as May.

He said the Communist Party USA has an honorable and distinguished history of working for economic, civil and democratic rights. But he suggested the party needs a new name, perhaps the New Socialist Party.

In the city council campaign, he said the issues are much more local — safety, vacant houses, jobs, programs for young people, block clubs.

“My philosophical outlook is to stand up for working people,” he said. “If elected, I would work not only very hard for my constituents but be a voice for organized labor.”

Nagin was unsuccessful, but received 45 percent of the vote.

Peoples World personnel

As at December 2010, personnel of the Communist Party USA paper, Peoples World, ;^[4]

Editorial Board

Co-editors, Joe Sims, Susan Webb, Teresa Albano
Mundo Popular Coordinators, Rossanna Cambron, Barbara Russum
Labor Editor, John Wojcik
Political Correspondent Tim Wheeler
Business Manager, Jenn Delgado
Contributing Editors, Marilyn Bechtel, Pepe Lozano, Barbara Russum, W. T. Whitney, Joel Wendland, Roberta Wood
Volunteer Translators and Copyeditors (list in formation), Sijisfredo Aviles, Jesus Alvarado, Bill Appelhans, Jim Lane, Owen Williamson

Bureau Chiefs and National Contibutors, Juan Lopez (N. Calif.), Rossanna Cambron (S. Calif.), Joelle Fishman (Conn.), John Bachtell (Ill.), John Rummel (Mich.), Tony Pecinovsky (Mo.), Dan Margolis (N.Y.), Rick Nagin (Ohio), Libero Della Piana, Scott Marshall, Elena Mora, Emile Schepers, Jarvis Tyner, Sam Webb

Democrat

2015 Vietnam Tour

Statement by the US peace activist delegation to Vietnam for the 40th anniversary of the end of the war (April 19-30, 2015)

Visiting Vietnam today, it is sometimes hard to remember the long and terrible US war that ended 40 years ago. Today's Vietnam is a proud socialist nation growing its economy toward prosperity and responsible integration into the global community.

Vietnam and the US are today building a warm multidimensional relationship. Since normalization of relations in 1995, there have been substantial US investments and bilateral trade as well as significant cultural and educational exchanges ,tourism and family visits by Vietnamese Americans.

This historical development makes us wonder even more about the terrible US policy decisions that led to such widespread destruction and the loss of millions of lives--Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodians as well as Americans and by allies.

The legacy of the war is the darker side of today's Vietnam. Unexploded ordnance--land mines, shells and bombs--continue to injure or kill thousands of people every year. Dioxin laden herbicides, such as Agent Orange, are now affecting a third generation with birth defects and severe developmental disabilities.

We call upon our government to increase aid to Vietnam for the clean up of unexploded ordnance and Agent Orange as well as to treat the victims of both.

It is clear to us that the situation today in the region is of great concern to the Vietnamese. Officials of the Vietnamese government and friendship organizations in the north, center and south expressed great concern about China's recent aggressive behavior in the East Sea (South China Sea) and welcomed support from the international community for stability and the peaceful resolution of regional conflicts.

We worry about how the US in future administrations will exert its role in this complicated situation. We call upon US policy makers to help resolve issues through multilateral regional and global diplomatic efforts, including close cooperation with the ASEAN nations.

Our Vietnamese hosts were very clear that the role of the anti-war movement was a critical element in the successfully liberation and reunification of their country.

Our struggle continues, both to teach our own history and to help Vietnam continue to recover from the damage inflicted by our government. It is critical that generations born since 1975 learn the truth about this war so they can ensure it never happens again.

Harriet Applegate, Steven Ault, Sally Benson, Ross Canton, Kenton Clymer, Frances Early, Janet Gardner, Anne Hill, John McAuliff, Rick Nagin, Ann Pallotta, Danis Regal, Mike Rubicz, Pari Sabety, Mark Shanahan, Larry Wittner^[5]

The 12-day visit to Vietnam in April 2015 consisted of former anti-Vietnam-War activists organized by the Fund for Reconciliation and Development in coordination with the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the end of the war.

In 2017 Cleveland City Councilman Brian Cummins faced a spirited challenge from Jasmin Santana, a longtime ward resident who has been endorsed by the ward's Democratic club and its influential leader, Rick Nagin, who finished second to Cummins in the 2009 election

Wrote Joelle Fishman in a February 1 2018 article on the Communist Party USA website "Building the party at the grassroots and winning elections";

We will hear from Cleveland, Ohio about a big victory electing the first Latina to city council and how the West Side Club has been at the center of that campaign and successfully took on red baiting in that key election.

(Rick Nagin|more...)

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-[[File:Sparaco.JPG|thumb|180px|Emiliana Sparaco]]
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-'''[[Emiliana Sparaco]]''' is a [[San Diego]] based member of the [[Communist Party USA]] and an [[SEIU]] organizer. Until 2016, she was a national leader of the [[Young Communist League]] and active in [[CPUSA Environmental Action]] a closed Facebook group which is "a meeting place for members and friends of the [[Communist Party USA]] to discuss environmental issues (especially climate change), share information, and coordinate activities."
-[[Emiliana Sparaco]]‎ was involved in the [[San Diego]] anti-cop group [[United Against Police Terror]] and in 2016 was a California [[Fight for $15]] organizer.
+'''Rick Nagin''', is a prominent Ohio activist and member of the [[Communist Party USA]]. Nagin is[[ Ohio]] correspondent for the [[Peoples World]], has written for the paper and its predecessors since 1970.
+Nagin is a member of the[[ Newspaper Guild]], [[Communications Workers of America]], he is a delegate to the North Shore [[AFL-CIO]] and serves on its political coordinators committee. He also represents the Peoples World on the steering committee of Cleveland [[Jobs with Justice]].
-In October 2017, [[Emiliana Sparaco]]‎ flew to [[Sochi]], [[Russia]]. She was one of eight young people chosen by the [[Communist Party USA]] to join over 50,000 youth expected from over 183 countries for the 19th [[World Festival of Youth and Students]]. Running from Oct. 14-22, this "worldwide gathering of young leaders" engaged in "discussions about how to work together to solve problems of war, racism, inequality, lack of jobs and educational opportunities, and many other urgent issues."
+In 2012 [[Rick Nagin[[  was the Democratic Leader in Cleveland Ward 14 and serves on the County Democratic Party Executive Committee.
-[[File:Russiauuu.JPG|thumb|center|440px|[[Emiliana Sparaco]]‎, front, second from left, with comrades in [[Sochi]]]]
-Festival-goers gathered under the slogan “For peace, solidarity, and social justice, we struggle against imperialism – Honoring our past, we build the future!”
-:''Centered around the struggle against imperialism, fascism, and racism, and highlighting the role of the youth in the struggle for gender equality, the 19th Festival will honor the 100th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the 70th anniversary of the Festival Movement.''
+In 2014, he still served as the Democratic Leader in Cleveland Ward 14 and serves on the [[Cuyahoga County Democratic Party[[ Executive Committee
-The event was addressed and partially organized by Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]].
+[[John F. Kennedy]]'s presidency and the Vietnam War were defining moments of Nagin's years studying science at [[Harvard University]] and [[Rockefeller University]] in New York. Kennedy's assassination, he said, "really drove home to me the right-wing danger in this country."
-[[Emiliana Sparaco]] endorsed and supported [[Sarah Saez]] in her 2015 [[San Diego City Council]] race.
+Nagin was obsessed with stopping the war and curious about socialism. The war, he thought, was "really to extend corporate capitalism to southeast Asia" and "a threat to democracy in the U.S." He began reading communist publications after receiving one at a peace rally.
-[[File:Fliipposa.JPG|thumb|center|540px|[[Emiliana Sparaco]]‎, front left, with [[Flip the 49th]]]]
-In 2018, Sparaco was a leader of [[Flip the 49th]], which helped secure the Democratic nomination for [[Mike Levin]] for California's 49th Congressional District, then got him elected to Congress.
-('''[[Emiliana Sparaco]]'''|more...)</div></div>
+Leaving behind his biochemistry degree and doctorate in biology, Nagin joined the [[Communist Party USA]] in 1970 and began writing for its newspaper, known today as the People's Weekly World.
+Nagin's party involvement led him to [[Cleveland]], where communists hoped to gain traction with steelworkers.
+In 1980, Hall recruited Nagin, who had become [[Ohio Communist Party]] chairman, for a national slate of communist candidates. Nagin made the U.S. Senate ballot as an independent and received more than 40,000 votes in his race against [[John Glenn]], the incumbent Democrat.
+Nagin was encouraged. A year later, he challenged Cleveland Mayor [[George Voinovich]], a Republican. His candidacy generated little interest, as did subsequent bids for the Ohio House.
+"To me, it was a way of breaking down a lot of Cold War prejudices," Nagin said of his early, long-shot political campaigns. "At some point, I figured, I was going to have to connect with the people. I finally realized that I needed to run from the grass roots."
+Noticing a large influx of Puerto Ricans in his West Side Cleveland neighborhood, Nagin organized a voter registration drive for Hispanics. In 1989, he launched the first of three failed bids for the Ward 14 council seat. Eight years later, [[Nelson Cintron]] became the city's first Hispanic councilman and chose Nagin, one of his opponents, to be his City Hall aide.
+Nagin resigned as head of the [[Ohio Communist Party]] to take the council job. He served as Cintron's go-to guy for seven years before being fired because he had begun to assemble a campaign to seek the Ward 15 council seat without the blessing of council leaders
+Ward 14 Councilmanic Assistant for over seven years. Nagin helped elect Cleveland's first Hispanic city councilman, [[Nelson Citron]] and served as his executive assistant for over seven years.
+[[Rick Nagin]] speaks Spanish and has traveled in [[Puerto Rico]] and [[Latin America]]. He as worked closely with Hispanic social clubs and agencies and [[NAACP]] Voter Fund.
+Nagin was a member of the [[San Lorenzo Club]] and helped found the Cleveland chapter of the [[Labor Council for Latin American Advancement]] (LCLAA) affiliated with the AFL-CIO<ref>http://realneo.us/content/why-rick-nagin-best-candidate-ward-14</ref>.
+In 2006, Nagin was on the  staff of [[AFL-CIO]] Labor 2006 campaign for [[Sherrod Brown]] and [[Ted Strickland]]
+[[Image:Denrickuse 0.preview.PNG|right|250px]]
+[[Image:2.jpg|right|250px]]
+Nagin  helped Congressman Kucinich set up a Steel Summit that "succeeded in saving the Cleveland steel mill, preserving the union contract and saving the jobs of thousands of area workers".<ref>http://www.naginforcouncil.com/resume_compare.html</ref>
+Nagin  had been a key organizer for [[Dennis Kucinich]]’s campaigns for Congress and president and for the 2004 [[John Kerry]] presidential campaign.
+Rick Nagin was Labor Coordinator for Dennis Kucinich's 2008 primary campaign
+[[Dennis Kucinich]], (center rear),  endorsed Rick Nagin (second from right) in his 2009 City Council race
+:''I've known Rick Nagin for more than 30 years. He's honest, hard-working and conscientious. The people of Ward 14 have a chance to elect a Councilman who will be totally dedicated to them. What more can you ask for?
+''
+:''I'm proud to join with the AFL-CIO in supporting Rick Nagin
+''
+:''Dennis Kucinich, Congressman, 10th District''
+[[Rick Nagin]] was a fulltime volunteer  in the AFL-CIO Labor 2008 campaign for [[Barack Obama]]<ref>http://www.naginforcouncil.com/aboutrick.html</ref>.
+During Nagin's 2009 run for a seat on the Cleveland City Council, his [[Communist Party USA]] membership again became an issue.
+:''A former chairman of the state Communist Party has come closer than ever to taking a city council seat after years of trying for public office.
+''
+:''Registered Democrat Rick Nagin finished a strong second in this month’s primary race in Council Ward 14. He faces a Nov. 3 nonpartisan general election runoff against the top vote-getter, Brian Cummins.''
+:''Nagin, 68, failed in three previous bids for a council seat. He resists being labeled a communist, saying Monday the word was demonized by 60 years of Cold War propaganda designed to prepare people for war and intimidate those with liberal ideas.''
+:''It’s an epithet in this country,” he said, “like using the N-word.”''
+:''Nagin, who joined the Communist Party in 1970, has written for the People’s Weekly World newspaper, which describes itself as having a “special relationship with the Communist Party USA,” as recently as May.''
+:''He said the Communist Party USA has an honorable and distinguished history of working for economic, civil and democratic rights. But he suggested the party needs a new name, perhaps the New Socialist Party.
+''
+:''In the city council campaign, he said the issues are much more local — safety, vacant houses, jobs, programs for young people, block clubs.''
+:''“My philosophical outlook is to stand up for working people,” he said. “If elected, I would work not only very hard for my constituents but be a voice for organized labor.''”
+Nagin was unsuccessful, but received 45 percent of the vote.
+==Peoples World personnel==
+As at December 2010, personnel of the [[Communist Party USA]] paper, [[Peoples World]], ;<ref>[http://www.peoplesworld.org/contact Contact the People's World, accessed Dec. 27, 2010]</ref>
+Editorial Board
+*Co-editors,  [[Joe Sims]],  [[Sue Webb|Susan Webb]], [[Terrie Albano|Teresa Albano]]
+*Mundo Popular Coordinators, [[Rossanna Cambron]], [[Barbara Russum]]
+*Labor Editor, 	[[John Wojcik]]
+*Political Correspondent [[Tim Wheeler]]
+*Business Manager, [[Jenn Perna|Jenn Delgado]]
+*Contributing Editors, 	[[Marilyn Bechtel]], [[Pepe Lozano]],  [[Barbara Russum]], [[W. T. Whitney]], [[Joel Wendland]], [[Roberta Wood]]
+*Volunteer Translators and Copyeditors (list in formation), [[Sijisfredo Aviles]], [[Jesus Alvarado]], [[William Appelhans|Bill Appelhans]], [[Jim Lane]], [[Owen Williamson]]
+Bureau Chiefs and National Contibutors, [[Juan Lopez]] (N. Calif.), [[Rossanna Cambron]] (S. Calif.), [[Joelle Fishman]] (Conn.), [[John Bachtell]] (Ill.), [[John Rummel]] (Mich.), [[Tony Pecinovsky]] (Mo.), [[Dan Margolis]] (N.Y.), [[Rick Nagin]] (Ohio), [[Libero Della Piana]], [[Scott Marshall]], [[Elena Mora]], [[Emile Schepers]], [[Jarvis Tyner]], [[Sam Webb]]
+[[Category:Communist Party USA]]
+[[Category:People's World]]
+==Democrat==
+==2015 Vietnam Tour==
+:'''Statement by the US peace activist delegation to Vietnam for the 40th anniversary of the end of the war  (April 19-30, 2015)'''
+:''Visiting Vietnam today, it is sometimes hard to remember the long and terrible US war that ended 40 years ago.  Today's Vietnam is a proud socialist nation growing its economy toward prosperity and responsible integration into the global community.
+''
+:''Vietnam and the US are today building a warm multidimensional relationship. Since normalization of relations in 1995, there have been substantial US investments and bilateral trade as well as significant cultural and educational exchanges ,tourism and family visits by Vietnamese Americans.''
+:''This historical development makes us wonder even more about the terrible US policy decisions that led to such widespread destruction and the loss of millions of lives--Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodians as well as Americans and by allies.''
+:''The legacy of the war is the darker side of today's Vietnam. Unexploded ordnance--land mines, shells and bombs--continue to injure or kill thousands of people every year. Dioxin laden herbicides, such as Agent Orange, are now affecting a third generation with birth defects and severe developmental disabilities.
+''
+:''We call upon our government to increase aid to Vietnam for the clean up of unexploded ordnance and Agent Orange as well as to treat the victims of both.''
+:''It is clear to us that the situation today in the region is of great concern to the Vietnamese.  Officials of the Vietnamese government and friendship organizations in the north, center and south expressed great concern about China's recent aggressive behavior in the East Sea (South China Sea) and welcomed support from the international community for stability and the peaceful resolution of regional conflicts.
+''
+:''We worry about how the US in future administrations will exert its role in this complicated situation. We call upon US policy makers to help resolve issues through multilateral regional and global diplomatic efforts, including close cooperation with the ASEAN nations.''
+:''Our Vietnamese hosts were very clear that the role of the anti-war movement was a critical element in the successfully liberation and reunification of their country.''
+:''Our struggle continues, both to teach our own history and to help Vietnam continue to recover from the damage inflicted by our government. It is critical that generations born since 1975 learn the truth about this war so they can ensure it never happens again.''
+[[Harriet Applegate]], [[Steven Ault]], [[Sally Benson]], [[Ross Canton]], [[Kenton Clymer]], [[Frances Early]], [[Janet Gardner]], [[Anne Hill]], [[John McAuliff]], [[Rick Nagin]], [[Ann Pallotta]], [[Danis Regal]], [[Mike Rubicz]], [[Pari Sabety]],  [[Mark Shanahan]], [[Larry Wittner]]<ref>[http://borderconflict.blogspot.com/2015_05_01_archive.html, Viet Nam Today, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015, Statement by the US peace activist delegation to Vietnam for the 40th anniversary of the end of the war  (April 19-30, 2015)]</ref>
+The 12-day visit to Vietnam in April 2015 consisted of former anti-Vietnam-War activists organized by the [[Fund for Reconciliation and Development]] in coordination with the [[Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations]] on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the end of the war.
+In 2017 Cleveland City Councilman [[Brian Cummins]] faced a spirited challenge from [[Jasmin Santana]], a longtime ward resident who has been endorsed by the ward's Democratic club and its influential leader, [[Rick Nagin]], who finished second to Cummins in the 2009 election
+Wrote [[Joelle Fishman]] in a February 1 2018 article on the [[Communist Party USA]] website "Building the party at the grassroots and winning elections";
+:''We will hear from Cleveland, Ohio about a big victory electing the first Latina to city council and how the West Side Club has been at the center of that campaign and successfully took on red baiting in that key election.''
+('''[[Rick Nagin]]'''|more...)</div></div>
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