US Congresswoman at Communist Function
Several members of the US Congress are very close to the Communist Party USA, most are also members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Some of the most prominent include reps , Dennis Kucinich , John Conyers and Barbara Lee.
Barbara Lee is particularly blatant, in the early '90s even serving on the executive of a CPUSA breakaway group, the Committees of Correspondence.
Lee has clearly kissed and made up with the CPUSA since then. Her activities are regularly covered in the CPUSA's Peoples Weekly World and Political Affairs.
Lee's links with the CPUSA continue today. I quote from the People's Weekly World of December 14th 2006
PWW Events Salute People’s Leaders
Dec. 3 was a day the People’s Weekly World can be proud of. Still celebrating the results of the Nov. 7 elections, readers held banquets and dinners in various places across the country, attracting elected officials, leaders of people’s movements and rank-and-file fighters for justice and democracy.
A highlight of the Northern California banquet in Oakland was hearing former Daily Worker sports editor Lester Rodney, now an energetic 95. He told the multigenerational, multiracial audience about the years-long struggle to integrate Major League Baseball, leading up to Jackie Robinson’s first appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers in April 1947.
Calling Robinson “a great American hero,” Rodney, who anchored the Worker’s sports desk from 1936 to 1958, told how Robinson, despite abuse including from opposing players, led his team to the pennant — a feat Rodney called “the most amazing and courageous feat in the history of American sports.”
“Jackie Robinson changed baseball, and when you’ve changed baseball in this country, you’ve changed this country!” said Rodney.
Other honored guests included anti-nuclear-weapons leader Jackie Cabasso, the Blue Diamond Workers Organizing Committee and two Sacramento-based immigrant rights coalitions. All received certificates from U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee as well as from Friends of the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo.
Some of the most prominent include reps , Dennis Kucinich , John Conyers and Barbara Lee.
Barbara Lee is particularly blatant, in the early '90s even serving on the executive of a CPUSA breakaway group, the Committees of Correspondence.
Lee has clearly kissed and made up with the CPUSA since then. Her activities are regularly covered in the CPUSA's Peoples Weekly World and Political Affairs.
Lee's links with the CPUSA continue today. I quote from the People's Weekly World of December 14th 2006
PWW Events Salute People’s Leaders
Dec. 3 was a day the People’s Weekly World can be proud of. Still celebrating the results of the Nov. 7 elections, readers held banquets and dinners in various places across the country, attracting elected officials, leaders of people’s movements and rank-and-file fighters for justice and democracy.
A highlight of the Northern California banquet in Oakland was hearing former Daily Worker sports editor Lester Rodney, now an energetic 95. He told the multigenerational, multiracial audience about the years-long struggle to integrate Major League Baseball, leading up to Jackie Robinson’s first appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers in April 1947.
Calling Robinson “a great American hero,” Rodney, who anchored the Worker’s sports desk from 1936 to 1958, told how Robinson, despite abuse including from opposing players, led his team to the pennant — a feat Rodney called “the most amazing and courageous feat in the history of American sports.”
“Jackie Robinson changed baseball, and when you’ve changed baseball in this country, you’ve changed this country!” said Rodney.
Other honored guests included anti-nuclear-weapons leader Jackie Cabasso, the Blue Diamond Workers Organizing Committee and two Sacramento-based immigrant rights coalitions. All received certificates from U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee as well as from Friends of the People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo.
posted by Trevor Loudon at
12/18/2006 01:12:00 PM
1 Comments:
Barbera Lee at a Communist convention? I am not surprised about this.
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