FYI: Remembering 2004 Marden Awardee Bob Zuss on his 73st Birthday (May 28)

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Subject: FYI: Remembering 2004 Marden Awardee Bob Zuss on his 73st Birthday (May 28)

 

For the final twenty years of his life, Robert Zuss (1943-2006) was a public defender at The Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn.

Zuss helped forge leadership within the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (ALAA) that promoted bottom-up democratic decision-making; membership mobilization conducted jointly with support staff members of 1199SEIU; and racial, economic and social justice — at home and abroad.

More: http://bobzuss.wordpress.com/

2013.05.30: Remembering Bob Zuss on his 70th Birthday (May 28)

rom: Letwin, Michael
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:01 PM
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Subject: Remembering Bob Zuss on his 70th Birthday (May 28)

For the final twenty years of his life, Robert Zuss (1943-2006) was a public defender at The Legal Aid Society in New York City.

Zuss helped forge leadership within the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (ALAA) that promoted democratic decision-making; membership mobilization conducted jointly with support staff members of 1199SEIU; and racial, economic and social justice — at home and abroad.

http://bobzuss.wordpress.com/

2014.05.28: Remembering Bob Zuss on his 71st Birthday (May 28)

From: Letwin, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 7:57 AM
To: 1199 Members; ALAA MEMBERS
Subject: Remembering Bob Zuss on his 71st Birthday (May 28)

For the final twenty years of his life, Robert Zuss (1943-2006) was a public defender at The Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn.

Zuss helped forge leadership within the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (ALAA) that promoted bottom-up democratic decision-making; membership mobilization conducted jointly with support staff members of 1199SEIU; and racial, economic and social justice — at home and abroad.

More: http://bobzuss.wordpress.com/

2012.06.01: Remembering Bob Zuss on his 69th Birthday (May 28)

From: Letwin, Michael 

Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 9:15 AM
To: 1199 Members; ALAA MEMBERS
Subject: Remembering Bob Zuss on his 69th Birthday (May 28)

For the final twenty years of his life, Robert Zuss (1943-2006) was a public defender at The Legal Aid Society in New York City.

Zuss helped forge leadership within the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (ALAA) that promoted democratic decision-making; membership mobilization conducted jointly with support staff members of 1199SEIU; and racial, economic and social justice — at home and abroad.

http://bobzuss.wordpress.com/

 

2011.05.28: Remembering Bob Zuss on his 68th Birthday (Today)

From: Letwin, Michael
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 5:14 PM
To: 1199 Members; ALAA MEMBERS
Subject: Remembering Bob Zuss on his 68th Birthday (Today)

For the final twenty years of his life, Robert Zuss (1943-2006) was a public defender at The Legal Aid Society in New York City.

Zuss helped forge leadership within the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (ALAA) that promoted democratic decision-making; membership mobilization conducted jointly with support staff members of 1199SEIU; and racial, economic and social justice — at home and abroad.

http://bobzuss.wordpress.com/

2011.05.26: What Bob Zuss Would Say

From:  Letwin, Michael
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 12:52 PM
To: ALAA MEMBERS; 1199 Members
Subject: What Bob Zuss Would Say

Miles Davis birthday broadcast streaming

1010.05.28: Remembering Bob Zuss on his Birthday (Today)

From: Letwin, Michael
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 9:40 AM
To: 1199 Members; ALAA MEMBERS
Subject: Remembering Bob Zuss on his Birthday (Today)

This site is about Robert Zuss (1943-2006), who for the final twenty years of his life was a public defender at The Legal Aid Society in New York City.

Zuss helped forge leadership within the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (ALAA) that promoted democratic decision-making; membership mobilization conducted jointly with support staff members of 1199SEIU; and racial, economic and social justice — at home and abroad.

http://bobzuss.wordpress.com/

2010.04.07: In Memory of Zuss: Billie Holliday Birthday Broadcast Today

From: Letwin, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 10:26 AM
To: 1199 Members; ALAA MEMBERS
Subject: In Memory of Zuss: Billie Holliday Birthday Broadcast Today

http://kanga.college.columbia.edu/ramgen/broadcast/wkcr.rm

—–Original Message—–

From: Robert Zuss [mailto:RZuss@legal-aid.org]

Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 3:20 PM

To: ALAA MEMBERS

Subject: Billie holliday

WKCR-FM 89.9. it’s the Billie Holliday birthday broadcast,now until 4/15.tune in.

 

2009.08.21: In Memoriam: George Jackson & Yusef Hawkins

From: Letwin, Michael
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 12:53 PM
To: 1199 Members; ALAA MEMBERS
Subject: In Memoriam: George Jackson & Yusef Hawkins

George Jackson (August 21, 1971)

“George Jackson was originally convicted of a $70 gas station heist in his late teens and sentenced to an indeterminate sentence of one year to life. Because of his refusal to bend down and crawl on his knees, so to speak, he never again left the California prison system and was murdered by guards in the yard at San Quentin on August 21, 1971. By that time, George was a member of the Black Panther Party and a revolutionary hero to millions around the world. His book Soledad Brother is still in publication and is remarkable not only for its insights into Jackson’s life and thoughts but also for the emotionally charged writing it contains.”
—Ron Jacobs, The Meaning of George Jackson: One Big Prison Yard, Counterpunch, August 2, 2003, http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs08022003.html

–Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556522304?ie=UTF8&redirect=true

–Bob Dylan’s “George Jackson”

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/george-jackson

–Black Panthers: What We Want!!! (3:42 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mpFCtftF7c

–Black Panthers (1968) part 1 (9:40 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axhhXJqJJ-U

–FBI destroys Black Panther Party (3:14 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3HexApUja0

–COINTELPRO: FBI’s War on Black America (1/5) (9:40 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBUE0ZzUiHc

–The Murder of Fred Hampton pt. 1 of 4 (24:15 min.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn0PiDvVXDY&feature=PlayList&p=D05D6C2CD14CAE1C

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Yusef Hawkins (August 23, 1989)

Yusef Hawkins (also spelled as Yusuf Hawkins) was a 16-year-old African American youth who was shot to death on August 23, 1989 in Bensonhurst, a heavily Italian American working-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Hawkins and three friends were attacked by a crowd of 10 to 30 white youths, with at least seven of them wielding baseball bats. One, armed with a handgun, shot Hawkins twice in the chest, killing him.

—http://www.answers.com/yusef%20hawkins

“Now we have a black president, a black attorney general, a black governor. But institutionally we still have, as the president has said, structural inequality ineducation, in health care, in policing.” –Sewell Chan, The Death of Yusuf Hawkins, 20 Years Later, NY Times, August 21, 2009,http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/the-death-of-yusuf-hawkins-20-years-later/

On August 30, 1989, Zuss and other members of the Brooklyn CDD Affirmative Action Committee [of ALAA] joined a Day of Outrage to protest Hawkins’ murder; the NYPD blocked and attacked marchers at the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge (second image below). –Zuss: 1986-1989 — Confronting Racist Violence,http://bobzuss.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/october-29-1988-protest-against-racist-murder-in-staten-island/

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Preview YouTube video Black Panthers: What We Want!!!

Black Panthers: What We Want!!!

Preview YouTube video Black Panthers (1968) part 1

Black Panthers (1968) part 1

Preview YouTube video The Murder of Fred Hampton pt. 1 of 4

The Murder of Fred Hampton pt. 1 of 4

2009.05.28: Remembering Bob Zuss on his Birthday (Today)

From: Letwin, Michael
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 8:22 AM
To: 1199 Members; ALAA MEMBERS
Subject: Remembering Bob Zuss on his Birthday (Today)

This site is about Robert Zuss (1943-2006), who for the final twenty years of his life was a public defender at The Legal Aid Society in New York City.

Zuss helped forge leadership within the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325 (ALAA) that promoted democratic decision-making; membership mobilization conducted jointly with support staff members of 1199SEIU; and racial, economic and social justice — at home and abroad.

http://bobzuss.wordpress.com/