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'''Steff (Stefanie) "Stef" Yorek''' is a leading member of the [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]]/[[Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack!]] for nearly 20 years.<ref>http://www.frso.org/about/docs/2003seminar/frsopaper.htm</ref> She has been active in the movements for peace and justice since she became involved in protests against the Persian Gulf War in 1991, as a student.<ref name=stopfbi/>

She is the wife of [[Jess Sundin]].

==Early Life and Family==
Steff grew up in [[Little Falls]], [[Minnesota]] and is a clerical worker at the [[University of Minnesota]]. She lives in South [[Minneapolis]] with her partner and their six year old daughter.<ref name=stopfbi>[http://www.stopfbi.net/about/profiles Committee to Stop FBI Repression: ''Who are the targets of the FBI and Grand Jury Witch Hunt?''] (accessed on Nov. 23, 2010)</ref>

==We've Carried The Rich For 240 Years! Let's Get Them Off Our Backs!==
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[[We've Carried The Rich For 240 Years! Let's Get Them Off Our Backs!]] is the name of a 2016 Facebook group  for folk to exchange views and memories of the [[Revolutionary Union]]/[[Revolutionary Communist Party]]/[[Revolutionary Workers Headquarters]] lineage of the '70s [[New Communist Movement]]. 

:''This group is for folks who were members of these groups or those who were “never actually in the RCP but I knew a lot of people who were.” Scholars, whether rigorous or casual, of the US left are also welcome.''''

Members included  [[Steff Yorek]]

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==FRSO member==
[[Stef Yorek]] was a member of the original [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]] before the 1999 split.
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==Forward Motion==
[[Steff Yorek ]],  contributed a review of lesbian literature  to [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization]]'s [[Forward Motion]], March/April issue 1993. 

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==AFSCME==
Yorek has been active in the anti-war movement and in the union movement since her student years, including helping to reorganize [[American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees]] Local 1164 at the University of Minnesota Hospital after it was privatized. She has held the positions of Secretary and Union Steward with AFSCME Local 3800 at the University of Minnesota.<ref name=stopfbi/>

==Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout==
Circa September 19, 2009, [[Steff Yorek]], [[AFSCME]] 3800, Minneapolis, MN signed a petition initiated by the [[Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout]] entitled, [[Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout#Petition to Demand a People's Bailout|Petition to Demand a People's Bailout]] which includes the statement, ''"Tax the rich, make them pay for their crisis!"''<ref name=petition>[http://www.mn-peoples-bailout.org/petition/ MN Coalition for a People's Bailout website: ''Petition'', circa Sept. 19, 2009] (accessed on Oct. 5, 2010)</ref>

==September 24, 2010 FBI Raids==
On [[September 24, 2010 FBI Raids|September 24 the F.B.I. raided]] the homes of twelve leftist activists across the U.S.A. looking for links to foreign terrorist organizations. Steff Yorek was one of those whose home was raided and who is being investigated by the FBI.<ref name=stopfbi>[http://www.stopfbi.net/about/profiles Committee to Stop FBI Repression: ''Who are the targets of the FBI and Grand Jury Witch Hunt?''] (accessed on Nov. 23, 2010)</ref>

==FBI raids==
The material that the FBI copied and returned comes from the homes of Twin Cities activists [[Jess Sundin]], [[Steff Yorek]], [[Mick Kelly]], [[Meredith Aby]], [[Anh Pham]] and [[Tracy Molm]] and the office of the [[Anti-War Committee]]. All of them are among the 23 anti-war and international solidarity activists summoned to appear in front of a Chicago grand jury headed by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, investigating ‘material support for terrorism.’<ref>[http://www.fightbacknews.org/2011/11/2/fbi-copies-50000-plus-pages-materials-seized-raids-minneapolis-peace-and-international-sol FBNews, FBI copies 50,000-plus pages of materials seized in raids on Minneapolis peace and international solidarity activists – now they give back the originals
Serious FBI violation of civil rightsBy staff | November 2, 2011]</ref>

==US Social Forum== 
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[[Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack!]] table at the [[US Social Forum]] - Another World is Possible in San Jose, California. — with [[Masao Suzuki]], [[Chrisley Carpio]], [[Jared Hamil|Jared Tony Hamil]], [[Steff Yorek]] and [[Gregory Lucero]].<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/FreedomRoadSocialistOrg/photos/pb.145261140805.-2207520000.1436322641./10152815922165806/?type=1&theaterFRSOFB, June 27]</ref>

==Anti-Trump==
In the aftermath of the dramatic 5000-person protest that caused Trump to cancel his March 11 campaign appearance on the campus of the University of Illinois, [[Steff Yorek]], the political secretary of [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack!]], urged progressive activists around the U.S. to follow Chicago’s example.

“We need two, three, many Chicagos,” said Yorek. “Trump is an open advocate of racism and national chauvinism. Forcing Trump to chicken out of his Chicago campaign appearance was a real victory. Chicago protesters of all nationalities sent a message to the world, that here in the U.S. there is widespread and militant opposition to his reactionary agenda.”<ref>[http://www.fightbacknews.org/2016/3/12/frso-after-chicago-shutdown-keep-trump-runFightbackNews, FRSO: After Chicago shutdown, keep Trump on the run By staff | March 12, 2016]</ref>

==Make the country "ungovernable"==
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[[File:15940446 10154029219785806 4037881459500104139 n.jpg|thumb|400px|Washington DC, Jan 20, 2017, [[Steff Yorek]] Left, [[Tom Burke]] second from left]]
Speaking to a protesters assembled in Columbus Circle, Jan. 20, 2017, the [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack!]] Political Secretary [[Steff Yorek]] said, “We need to stay in the streets the entire four years opposing Trump and making the country ungovernable.”<ref>[http://www.fightbacknews.org/2017/1/20/frso-leader-tells-washington-dc-protest-make-country-ungovernable FightBack News! FRSO leader tells Washington DC protest to make country ‘ungovernable’ By staff | January 20, 2017]</ref>

==Twin Cites FRSO holds event on midterm elections==
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[[Minneapolis]] MN – More than 50 people packed Mayday book store, Nov. 11 2018, for an event hosted by [[Freedom Road Socialist Organization/FightBack!]] on the outcome of the midterm elections. Speakers at the event included leaders of the movements for immigrant rights, labor, and against police terror.

[[Steff Yorek]], the Political Secretary of FRSO told the crowd, “These elections were a referendum on Donald Trump and his policies. Voters provided an important setback to him and reduced the number of friends he has in the House and among state governors.”

[[Brad Sigal]], also of FRSO said, “Working people’s lives are not getting better under this system. Environmental catastrophe looms. We need socialism – a system where political and economic power is in the hands of the working class to serve the needs of the vast majority. While the elections won’t get us there, they are an arena of struggle we have to continue to take seriously as we continue the struggle for a new society.”<ref>[http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/11/12/twin-cites-frso-holds-event-midterm-elections]</ref>
==Minnesota SDS==
Members of the [[Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Minnesota]] Public group in 2017 included '''{{PAGENAME}}'''.
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==References==
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