Clark Kissinger

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► Active supporter of SNCC (1960)
► Co-founder of POLIT, University of Chicago (1961)
► Joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) (1962)
► Chairman of the Wisconsin Socialist Club, U. of Wisc. (1963)
► National Secretary of SDS (1964-65)
► Organized the first March on Washington Against the Vietnam War (1965)
► Spoke at anti-war rally in Madison Square Garden (1965)
► Anti-war candidate for Alderman, Chicago (1967)
► Chaired nat'l conference of the Student Mobilization Committee (1968)
► Covered the Chicago Police Riots for the National Guardian (1968)
► Attended Hemispheric Conference to End War in Vietnam (1968)
► Testified in the Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial (1969)
► Attended national RYM-II conference in Atlanta (1969)
► Worked closely with the Black Panther Party in Chicago (1968-1971)
► Attended the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention (1970)
► Visited China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1972, 1975)
► Vice-Chairman, U.S.-China Peoples' Friendship Association (1974)
► Supported Bob Avakian's work to build a real communist party in the U.S.
► Led delegation to Tehran during the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy
► Organized national conference on the nature of the Soviet Union (1983)
► Went to Germany in late 1983 to protest new U.S. nuclear missiles
► An initiator of No Business As Usual in 1985
► Was a founder of Refuse & Resist! in 1987
► Co-founder of the Washington, DC, abortion clinic defense
► Organized the first national conference against the "War on Drugs" (1989)
► Worked to defend prisoners of the 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion
► Contributing writer for the Revolution newspaper
► Organized national conference in 2000 to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
► Served 3-month federal sentence for a speech outside the 2000 RNC
► Coordinator of the 2002 "Not In Our Name" statement of conscience
► Initiated 2004 demonstrations at Supreme Ct on "enemy combatant" cases
► An initiator of the campaign to Drive Out the Bush Regime (2005)
► Convener of the Int'l Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity
Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States (2006)
► Organized demonstration of waterboarding outside the Justice Dept (2007)
► Organized emergency town hall meeting against Israeli attack on Gaza (2009)
► Business manager of Revolution Books NYC (2014-2021)
► Volunteer staff Revolution Books NYC (2022- )

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