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Template:TOCnestleft Unity Organizing Committee was the revisionist faction formed out of the 1990 split in the League of Revolutionary Struggle.
Split
In September 1990 League of Revolutionary Struggle split, with one group ( including most of the Asian comrades) dropping Maoism, and maintaining control of Unity, becoming the Unity Organizing Committee. The other faction kept a more traditional outlook, becoming the Socialist Organizing Network, which later merged with Freedom Road Socialist Organization .
Democratic Party
At the September 8 1990 conference, the majority of League members voted to disavow Marxism-Leninism, and devote themselves to electoral politics, especially the left wing of the dDemocratic Party.[1]
"A call to build an organization for the 1990s and beyond"
Unity, January 28 1991, issued a statement "A call to build an organization for the 1990s and beyond" on pages 4 to 6.
This group was a split in the League of Revolutionary Struggle which soon became the Unity Organizing Committee.
Those listed as supporters of the call included;
- Mae Ngai, UAW 65, New York Unity correspondent
- Roberto Flores, Asst Director of Chicano Student Services, Marymount Loyola University Los Angeles
- Fahamisha Brooks, Executive Director, House of Crossroads, drug counselling Pittsburgh
- Carlos Perez, former administrative chair East Coast Chicano Student Forum, Harvard
- Jim Cason, American Committee on Africa, New York
- Julius Davis, President United States Student Association, Washington DC
- Roger Green, New York state assemblyman, Brooklyn
- Oscar Rios, vice mayor, Watsonville, California
- Dr. Bill Flores, president Chicano/Latino Faculty Association, Cal State Fresno
- Alice Ip, Chinese committee Coalition of Labor Union Women, New York
- Robyn Gabel, Executive director Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition, Chicago
- Rafael Espinoza, VP HERE Local 2, San Francisco
- James Newton, musician San Pedro, California
- Sonia Sanchez, poet Temple University, Philadelphia
- Maria Corralejo, executive director Watsonville Area Interfaith Disaster Recovery
- Bernard Walker, coordinator Free South Africa Movement, Los Angeles
- Epifanio San Juan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Connecticut
- Jean Yonemura, editor Unity
- Venustiano Olguin, Jr., editor La Unidad, graduate student, New College of California, San Francisco
- Rosa Yolanda Pineda, president Community Association of Progressive Dominicans, New York
- Susan McDonough, peace activist San Francisco
- Frances Estrella, Fuerza Unida, San Antonio
- Dr. Howard Johnson, African American community activist. Former dancer at the Cotton Club
- Gail Tremblay, professor Evergreen State College, Olympia Washington
- Wil Depusoy, US marine applying for c.o. status Seattle
- Gilbert D. Sanchez, MEChA, Cal State Los Angeles
- David Sandoval, director EOP Cal State Los Angeles
- Stacey Shears, Wisconsin Black Student Union, Madison
- Rob Jones, anti-Apartheid activist, New York
- Marian Pitts, community activist Newark New Jersey
- James Deanes, chair Parent Community Council of Chicago
- Pat Diaz, president Mexican American Political Association 56, Los Angeles
- Pat Cusick, South End community organizer Boston
- Mark Prudowsky, labor organizer Chicago
- Pedro Noguera, Berkeley School Board, asst. professor UC Berkeley
- Jennifer Brouhard, president Glenview Elementary PTA, Oakland
- Guillermo Linares, President Community School Board 6, New York
- Pat Cody, co-founder Cody's Books, Berkeley
- Joe Lambert, executive director, Life on the Water Theater, San Francisco
- Keith Archuleta, Director Black Community Services Center, Stanford University
- Lyle Butch Wing, national executive committee SANE/FREEZE
- Naisha Brooks, student, graduate school of social work, University of Pittsburgh
- Jean Kollontai, parent working on infant loss issues, Anchorage Alaska
- Larry Nance, film maker, Chicago Unity correspondent
- Bert Nakano, national spokesman National Coalition for Redress/Reparations
- Betty Del Rio, president Citizens Action to Serve All Students, Hayward California.
- Javier Del Rio, Citizens Action to Serve All Students, former Prime Minister of Brown Berets Hayward California chapter
- Jean McGuire, Boston School Committee
- DeDe McClure, president United Community Democratic Club, San Diego
- Pete Tagalog, president Ota Camp/Makibaka Association, Wapahu Hawaii
- John Witeck, peace and labor activist Hawaii
- Jose Antonio Burgiaga, artist and writer, Stanford California
- Catalina Chavez, family prevention specialist Tucson, Arizona
- Genny Lim, poet, educator San Francisco
- Edsel Matthews, Koncepts Cultural Gallery, Oakland, San Francisco
- Mark Masaoka, unit leader Van Nuys auto assembly plant, UAW local 645 Los Angeles California
- Pirkle Jones, artist, professor of photography, San Francisco Art institute
- Richard Adams, state chair Pennsylvania Rainbow Coalition, former school board member, Pittsburgh
- Willas DeMorst, president SEIU 535, San Diego
- Samoa Koria, Samoan community leader, teacher, San Diego
- Elaine Ruiz, education activist, New York
- Sadie Sanders, community activist Brooklyn
- David Brown, former student body co-president Stanford University
- Cliff Joseph, artist, art psychotherapist, New York
- Richard Jacquez, UAW Panorama City California
- Jitu Weusi, community activist Brooklyn
- Laura Leon, Mexican-American activist, Chicago
- Mike Murase, state coordinator California Rainbow Coalition, Los Angeles
- Colin Hampson, Stanford American Indian Organization
- Victor Hernandez Cruz, poet
- Mary Hoover, professor of Black Studies, San Francisco State
- Doug Gills, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, Chicago
- David King, labor activist, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
- Doug Mesner, health worker, Unity correspondent Pueblo, Colorado
- Jane Cortez, poet New York City
- Don Stephenson, political campaign organizer, Watts
- Jerry Yu, president Korean American Coalition Los Angeles
- Susan Hayase, chair Nihonmachi Outreach Committee, San Jose, California
- Lucy Clarke, art director Unity
- Ellen Sebastian, founder Life on the Water Theater, San Francisco
- Fahari Jeffers, United Domestic Workers, San Diego
- Darrell Grigsby, author of "For the People: Black Socialists in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean"
- Michael Liu, director Asian American Resource Workshop Boston
- Marcia Hall, Lower East Side United Neighbors, New York
- Sanjulo Ber, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Pittsburgh
- Rico Ross, executive board TWU local 100, New York
- Carmelita Gutierrez, San Jose State University MEChA
- Nancy Bell, director Our Kids First, San Francisco
- Eddie Wong, national field director 1988 Jesse Jackson for President campaign
- Lea Blumenfeld, branch head Hazlewood Branch of Carnegie Library Pittsburgh
- Dr. Hannibal Williams, pastor New Liberation Presbyterian Church, San Francisco
- Stan Shikuma, community activist, Seattle
- Yuri Miyagawa, staff researcher Unity
- Francisco Garcia, Vietnam veteran, photographer San Francisco
- Jon Jang, musician San Francisco
- Steven N. Washington, HERE Boston
- Kwai Ho Tam, former P&L Sportswear worker Boston
- Diane Tomoda, Asian Pacific Partnership for Leadership and Education, Sacramento
- David Kakishiba, director Berkeley Asian Youth Center
- Steven C. Phillips. writer, education activist San Francisco
- Suzanne Lee, Chinese Progressive Association (Boston)
- Patricia Vattuone, chair Berkeley District Bilingual Advisory Committee
- Margaret M. Chin, Columbia University East Coast Asian Student Union, New York
- Tracy Takano, chair Hawaii Rainbow Coalition, Aiea
- Lydia Lowe, chair Massachusetts English Plus Coalition, Boston
- Alicia Ybarra, coordinator USSA, recruitment and retention project, Washington DC
- Tom Ryan, Cannery Workers Organizing Project, Watsonville
- Minyon McPherson, drama student Loyola of Chicago
- Alexandro Gradilla, co chair UC Berkeley MEChA
- Stacey Leyton, West Coast organizer USSA
- Ingrid Nava, student body co-president Stanford University
- Mae Lee, Chinese Progressive Association (New York)
- Ralph Palladino, delegate DC37 AFSCME, New York
- Andy Piascik, delegate SEIU 1199 New York
- Francisca Vargas, teacher, Organizacion Popular Raza Si, San Jose
- Paulette Carter, community organizer Chicago
- Amanda Kemp, playwright, Los Angeles
- Catherine Salvin, Asian/Pacific Island Student Association UC Santa Cruz
- Wanda White, Chicago city administrator
- Sarah McFarland, ant-war activist Seattle
- Les Greene, executive board AFSCME DC 37 New York
- Alex Hing, Asian Labor Resource Center/HERE New York
- Nora Cody, director DES Action, Oakland
- Erich Nakano, student editor Unity
- Larry Hendel, business agent SEIU Oakland
- Maria Laxo, speaker of the legislature, Associated Student Government, SF State
- Billy Sparks, musician, New York
- Lee Kiburi, chair Malcolm X Coalition, publicist Kuntu Repertory Theater Pittsburgh
- Mark Izu, director Kearny Street Workshops, San Francisco
- Sergio C. Tapia II, student UC Berkeley
- Vivian Wu, U Mass/Boston, East Coast Asian Student Union, Boston
- Virginia Fung, editor Pan Asian Express, San Diego
- Jhimye Collins, artist San Diego County Public Arts Advisory Council
- Linda Camacho, Mexican American Political Association, Los Angeles
- Eva Martinez, Mission community activist San Francisco
- Gina Hernandez, Chicano/Latino student desk Unity
- Elizabeth Armistead, academic adviser, City College of San Francisco, originator of African American Achievement Program
- William Chin, director Extended Educational Opportunities Program, City College of San Francisco
- Anthony Stevens, teacher The Bronx
- Mae Lee, student senator Asian American Student Association Stanford University
- Maria Milleage, co-op coordinator San Jose State University
- Savander Parker, director of student affirmative action, San Jose State University
- Christina Beltran, UC Santa Cruz MEChA
- Deborah Moy, chair Asian/Pacific Caucus of California Democratic Party, San Francisco
- Estella Mejia, housing activist Watsonville
- Lois McClendon, chair Women for Racial and Economic Equality, Pittsburgh
- Sasha Hohri, Asian/Pacific activist, New York
- Kim Geron, executive board HERE Los Angeles
- Jennifer Haan, Asian Pacific Student Union, Cal State Los Angeles
- Francis Wong, musician San Francisco
- Reginald Herring, supervisor Alternative Program Associates, Pittsburgh
- Alva Jenkins, director EOPS, Skyline College, San Bruno
- Jacqueline C. Simon, CEO, Community Alliance Program for Ex-offenders, San Francisco
References
- ↑ Statement on dissolution of the League of Revolutionary Struggle, nd. typewritten. Quoted in The Asian American Movement By William Wei]