Some of Chesa’s friends from his book You wonder if any them are working on the Obama campaign or for ACORN as they are all “COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS!” if you go to the link below you will see all of their activist activities.
http://www.lettersfromyoungactivists.org/about-contributors.html
List of Contributors
Kat Aaron
Badr Albanna
Doyle Canning
Joya Colon-Berezin
Andy Cornell
Andrew Curley
Chris Dixon
Kaira Espinoza
Kevin Etienne-Cumming
Najah Farley Samad
Emma Fialka-Feldman
Jeffrey Frank
Stephen Funk
Peter Gelderloos
Jonah Gindin
Stephanie Guilloud
Nell Hirschmann-Levy
Walidah Imarisha
Chloe Cook Joy
Matan Kaminer
Samuel D. Kass
Anna Rosario Kennedy
Ismail Khalidi
Tiffany King
Michelle Kuo
Nilda Laguer
Khary Lazarre-White
Dara Levy-Bernstein
Arthur Liou
Andrea Listenberger
Ashley Lucas
Mervyn Marcano
Not4Prophet
Sara Marie Ortiz
Laurel Paget-Seekins
Eboo Patel
Gerardo Reyes Chavez
Guadalupe Salcedo
Gabriel Olga Khougaz Sayegh Eugene Schiff
Sarah Stillman
Myron Strong
Marian Yalini Thambynaygam
Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr
Ella Turenne
Jessica Vasquez
Marc Washington
That bunch looks like they are nothing more than a young United Nations in the making.
This chick ‘struggles for social justice’ at the age of 25.
Nell Hirschmann-Levy, 25, was born to politically active parents in New York City. Struggles for social justice have always been central to her life. She now lives and organizes in Oakland, CA, with SEIU (Service Employees International Union) and is devoted to finding creative ways for us to support one another’s efforts.
These would be funny to read if they weren’t serious!
At least we find out they absolutely support criminals!
What the hell is ‘social justice’ to these idiots?!
One of them wants to ‘eliminate prisons’. OKAY...!
“Stephanie Guilloud is a white, middle class queer from Houston. An organizer of the Seattle WTO shutdown, Stephanie edited an anthology of first-hand accounts. She also edited Through the Eyes of the Judged, incarcerated young men’s autobiographies. She works as a popular educator & organizer with Project South in Atlanta.”
“Walidah Imarisha, a 25-year-old Philly resident, is a spoken word sista and political poet. Part of the Human Rights Coalition, prisoners’ families against the prison industrial complex, she helped found AWOL Magazine, the poetry duo Good Sista/Bad Sista, and hopes to help found an autonomous anti-state someday soon.”
“Tiffany King, 28, is an African American activist, educator, and writer living in Wilmington, Delaware. She is currently working with students in Wilmington’s public Vocational and Technical High Schools, doing organizing work with women in “public” and federally subsidized housing, and is the founder of Resistahs.”
“Arthur Liou, 26, is a Chinese-American activist in Oakland, CA. He is a former union organizer and a member of the socialist organization Solidarity. He is currently studying at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, Boalt Hall.”
“Ashley Lucas is a twenty-five-year-old activist, academic, playwright, and actor from El Paso, Texas. She does prison-related organizing with Families to Amend the California Three Strikes (FACTS) and All of Us or None, and she is an outside supporter of the Angola Human Relations Club.”
“Mervyn Marcano is a Blackfag working, living, and making art in Brooklyn. He has organized nationwide around issues of police brutality, gentrification, and public space. He is also the co-founder of several art collectives. He is currently focusing on being a filmmaker and is working on his next piece.”
“Guadalupe Patricia Xochihuiztli Salcedo is a 24-year-old Xicana, is completing her Masters in Social Welfare, and lives in Los Angeles, CA. She has worked with several immigrant and indigenous rights based non-profit organizations in California, Arizona, and Mexico, and will continue to struggle for social justice.”
“Gabriel Olga Khougaz Sayegh, 29, works to eliminate prisons and end the war on drugs. A queer Arab/European-American, gabriel grew up in the small farmtown world of California’s gorgeous central valley and now lives in Brooklyn, where the farm landscape has been traded for a brick and steel skyline. gabrielsayegh@gmail.com “
“Marian Yalini Thambynaygam, 27, a queer British-born, American-bred, Sri Lankan Tamil woman livin’ in Brooklyn by way of Texas. She lives in borderlands where poetry is theater is love is movement is song is prayer is rebellion. She looks to reshape reality seeking peace through justice in lands of earth, psyche, spirit, and dream.”
“Marc Washington, 31, is a husband and father to his two-year-old daughter Mia. Marc’s roots are in the Bronx and Queens, NY. His activism inspired ABC’s 20/20 to produce a feature named Street Miracles chronicling the work that happens at Friends of Island Academy.”
I think I’m going to PUKE!