BY Sarah Martin | Minneapolis, MN | 3/29/15
Sharon Rice Vaughan, a longtime and respected member of Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) and the Twin Cities peace and justice movements, died in a car crash in Havana, Cuba on March 24. Her sudden and untimely death leaves a big hole in our community.
BY Brad Sigal | Minneapolis, MN | 2/02/15
More than 200 people gathered January 30 to celebrate the life of Twin Cities activist Gabriel Johnson-Ortiz, who passed away Jan. 17 at age 34 after a four-and-a-half-year struggle with brain cancer. His passing is a great loss to his family, friends and comrades from a variety of progressive political and cultural movements.
BY Steff Yorek | United States | 11/19/14
I write with great sadness the news that Leslie Feinberg died on Nov. 15, 2014 at the age of 65, after a protracted illness. Leslie is an icon of the LGBTQ movement, a Marxist and a revolutionary.
BY Masao Suzuki | Berkeley, CA | 6/03/14
I just heard about the passing of Yuri Kochiyama from my father, another Nisei (second generation Japanese American) political activist, who lives in Berkeley about a mile from where Yuri was living.
BY Freedom Road Socialist Organization | Jackson, MS | 2/27/14
It fills us with great sadness to hear of the all too sudden passing of Mayor Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, Mississippi.
BY Richard Berg | Chicago, IL | 2/12/14
Do I remember when I met Pete Camarata? Yeah, I remember. It was in Pittsburgh in the late 1980s before the national convention of our reform caucus, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU). All the Teamster reformers were there.
BY Tom Burke | Grand Rapids, MI | 1/29/14
Singer and folk music icon Pete Seeger passed away today, Jan. 28. Seeger was known for popularizing folk songs and signing everywhere he went.
BY David Hungerford | Newark, NJ | 1/12/14
He was a poet, playwright and political activist. He was my mentor and guide for almost a quarter of a century.
BY staff | Palestine | 1/11/14
Israeli war criminal Ariel Sharon died today, Jan 11, having spent the last eight years in a coma.
BY staff | United States | 12/05/13
Nelson Mandela, a leader of the South African struggle for national liberation, passed away today, Dec 5.
