Todd Gitlin
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Opposing loans to Chile
In 1987, Joanne Landy, Thomas Harrison and Gail Daneker, Directors, Campaign for Peace and Democracy/East and West, New York, circulated a statement Against Loans to Chile calling upon the Reagan Administration to oppose all loans to Chile.
It has been signed by leading "peace, labor, human rights, religious and cultural figures from the United States, Western Europe and Latin America." They were "joined by a large number of activists and writers from the USSR and Eastern Europe, many of whom have been persecuted in their own countries for work in independent peace and human rights movements."
Todd Gitlin endorsed the call.
The majority of signatories were affiliated with Democratic Socialists of America.[1]
Socialist Scholars Conference 1990
The Socialist Scholars Conference 1990, held September 6-8, at the Hotel Commodore, New York, included panels such as:[2]
Pantheon, Publishing and Corporate Censorship
- Moderator: Leo Cawley, Interlocutor, WBAI Radio Station
- Todd Gitlin, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- John Leonard, Columnist, Newsday
- Jim Peck, former Senior Editor Pantheon
DSA member
Todd Gitlin was named as a member of Democratic Socialists of America, in Democratic Left, January/February 1991 issue, page 16.
Socialist Scholars Conference 1992
Todd Gitlin, University of California, Berkley was a speaker on the Politics of Identity; Ethnicity and Democracy panel sponsored by Democratic Socialists of America at the Tenth Annual Socialist Scholars Conference. The conference was held April 24-26, 1992 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City[3]
Campaign for America's Future
In 1996 Todd Gitlin, New York University was one of the original 130 founders of Campaign for America's Future.[4]
DSA’s Cuba Letter
Todd Gitlin signed an April 2003 Statement on Cuba, initiated and circulated[5] by prominent Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member Leo Casey, calling for the lifting of trade sanctions against Cuba.
- “a statement circulating among democratic left/socialist folks, largely by members of Democratic Socialists of America, condemning the recent trials and convictions of non-violent dissenters in Cuba”.
The petition criticized Cuba's poor human rights record, but shared the blame for Cuba's problems with reactionary elements of the U.S. administration...
- The democratic left worldwide has opposed the U.S. embargo on Cuba as counterproductive, more harmful to the interests of the Cuban people than helpful to political democratization. The Cuban state's current repression of political dissidents amounts to collaboration with the most reactionary elements of the U.S. administration in their efforts to maintain sanctions and to institute even more punitive measures against Cuba.
Many of the petition's 120 odd signatories were known members of DSA.
JournoList
Todd Gitlin of Columbia University, former leader of SDS Students for a Democratic Society, longtime Professor of Journalism, New York University, was an identified member of JournoList - an email group of approximately 400 "progressive" and socialist journalists, academics and "new media" activists.
JournoList members reportedly coordinated their messages in favor of Barack Obama and the Democrats, and against Sarah Palin and the Republican Party. JournoList was founded in 2007 and was closed down in early 2010.[6]
"Dissent" magazine
In 2009 the Democratic Socialists of America aligned Dissent Magazine masthead[7] Editorial Board members were;
Bernard Avishai, Joanne Barkan, David Bensman, Marshall Berman, Paul Berman , H Brand, David Bromwich, Luther Carpenter , Jean L Cohen, Mitchell Cohen, Bogdan Denitch , Jeff Faux, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Todd Gitlin, Murray Hausknecht, Agnes Heller, Jeffrey Isaac, Michael Kazin , Martin Kilson, Erazim Kohak, William Kornblum, Jeremy Larner, Susie Linfield, Kevin Mattson, Deborah Meier, Harold Meyerson, Nicolaus Mills , Jo-Ann Mort, Brian Morton, Carol O'Cleireacain, George Packer, Martin Peretz, Anson Rabinbach, Ruth Rosen, James Rule, Alan Ryan, Patricia Cayo Sexton, Jim Sleeper, Ann Snitow, Cornel West, Sean Wilentz, Dennis Wrong.
Progressives for Obama
In 2009 Todd Gitlin was listed as a signer of the Progressives for Obama website.[8]
References
- ↑ New York review of books, Vol 34, Number 10, June 11, 1987
- ↑ Second Annual Socialist Scholars Conference program.
- ↑ SSE Tenth Annual Conference Program, 1992
- ↑ CAF Co-Founders
- ↑ http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/000912.shtml
- ↑ [1] New additions make for 107 Journolist names, Clarice Feldman, American Thinker, July 22, 2010
- ↑ http://www.dissentmagazine.org/display.php?id=masthead
- ↑ Progressives for Obama