Leslie Cagan, Keynote Speaker: Pride At Work Convention 2006

Keynote Speaker: Leslie Cagan

For more than 40 years Leslie Cagan has worked in a wide range of peace and social justice movements locally and nationally in the U.S.: from the Vietnam war to racism at home, from nuclear disarmament to lesbian/gay liberation, from fighting sexism to working against U.S. military intervention.

Her coalition-building and organizing skills have mobilized hundreds of thousands of people in many ways of the nation’s largest demonstrations and countless other public events and activities including: the million person June 12, 1982 Nuclear Disarmament demonstration in NYC; the historic lesbian /gay rights march on Washington on October, 1987; the march on Washington against the Gulf War in January, 1991; and the largest mobilization against the war in Iraq (Feb. 15 and March 22, 2003; August 29, 2004; Sept. 24, 2005; and most recently, April 26, 2006).

Since the early 1990’s, Leslie’s major organizing projects included: work against Operation Desert Storm and the first War against Iraq, normalization of U.S./Cuba relations, the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, work in New York City against police brutality and for budget equity, and serving in the leadership of United for Peace and Justice.

Leslie has worked on several progressive electoral campaigns, including serving as field director for the successful David Dinkins Mayoral campaign in 1989 in NYC. Her writings appear in 8 anthologies, and in scores of journals, newspapers and on-line outlets. She played a major role in winning back the U.S.’s first listener-sponsored media network and was chair of the Interim Pacifica Radio National Board. Leslie was one of the founders of the United for Peace and Justice – the largest antiwar coalition in the U.S. with more than 1,400 local and national organizations – and since Feb. 2003 has served as it National Coordinator.

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