“Because the bastards will never cease their evil, the decent human being will never stop their sturggle.”
So spoke Abe Osheroff a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Mr. Osheroff was a long time leftist provocateur who fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War died in Seattle on April 6th. He was 92. His political involvement began when he was 12 when he joined a protest against the conviction of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. He organized coal miners and steal workers, stood with evicted tenants and ran on the Communist Party ticket in New York. In 1964 he went to Mississippi to build a community center during Freedom Summer. A carpenter by trade he helped to organize a team of Americans to build houses for a peasant cooperative in Nicaragua when the Sandinista goverment was in power. In 1974 Mr. Osheroff made a movie, “Dreams and Nightmares” which told of his life in the Spanish Civil War. He left the Communist Party in 1956 but remained committed to leftist/peace/justice causes through-out his life. He drove a van around Seattle and spoke out against the war in Iraq through a loudspeaker. Abe Osheroff a true fighter for freedom, justice and peace may your dreams never die and may we have the courage to continue the good fight until the last of the evil bastards are destroyed. Peace.
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