Leslie Sue Cagan ( born 1947, Bronx , New York , USA ) is an American human rights activist , feminist , pacifist , writer and sociologist , organizer of the movement for peace and social justice. Former National Coordinator, . Former co-chair of and chairman of .
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| Birth name | Leslie Sue Keygen |
| Date of Birth | 1947 |
| Place of Birth | The Bronx , New York , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Education | New York University |
| Nationality | Jewish American |
| Religion | atheist |
| The consignment | |
| Occupation | LGBT activist, feminist , sociologist |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 The early years
- 1.2 Activities
- 1.3 Personal life
- 2 notes
- 3 References
Biography
The early years
Born in 1947 in the Bronx area in New York, in a family of Jewish immigrants who were members of the US Communist Party [1] . In the 1950s, as a child, she took part in a rally, together with her parents [2] [3] . Grandmother Keygen worked as a seamstress and was one of the founders of the United Tailors Union. In 1968, Keygen graduated from New York University with a degree in art criticism [4] .
Activities
In 1969, Keygen was one of the first members of the brigade, a group of American youth who visited Cuba on the pretext of harvesting sugarcane. During her trip to Havana, she told the Associated Press: “We all support the Cuban revolution and we feel that by working with the Cubans we can demonstrate this support.” She did not go to graduate school and began social activities, promoting various projects, mainly in the anti-war, anti-nuclear and feminist movements, LGBT rights movements and normalization of relations with Cuba. The New York Times wrote of her as one of the “great women of the progressive movement in the country [USA]” and the “national figure in the anti-war movement”.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Keygen actively participated in the activities of the Black Panther Party. She protested the imprisonment of Mummy Abu Jamal, a member of this party convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. June 12, 1982, Keygen became the main organizer of the anti-nuclear rally in New York, which was attended by hundreds of thousands of activists. She co-chaired the 1987 protest for the rights of gays and lesbians.
Keygen was one of the founders of the United Organization for Peace and Justice in 2002, a left-wing coalition of more than 1300 international and American organizations that opposed what they called "the policy of our government in a regime of constant war and building an empire." The organization was founded in the months preceding the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Opponent of military intervention, Keygen strongly opposed the presence of US forces in Iraq. Her opinion of Iraqi rebels fighting the coalition forces under US command was fundamentally different from the official American position and the opinion of most Americans. Keygen said: “What I consider legal is that the occupied people will find a way to counter this occupation. If you call it a rebellion, then so be it. ” Keygen also accused US funds of supporting Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Keygen is a co-founder of the Correspondence Committee for Democracy and Socialism, the socialist group that left the Communist Party after the collapse of the USSR. In 1997, she became the organizer of the XIV World Festival of Students and Youth. Keygen is a member of the New York Liberation Committee of the Cuban Five, a human rights group that seeks the release of five Cubans convicted in 2001 of spying on Cuban refugees and US military bases for the Cuban regime.
Personal life
Leslie Sue Keygen is an open lesbian and was in a relationship with the American poetess, academician and social activist , until the latter's death in 2018. Her civic partner was the founder and head of the organization "Jews for Racial and Economic Justice" [4] . The couple lived in the Brooklyn area in New York. In 2004, Keygen was included in the list of 100 most influential representatives of the LGBT community according to the version of Out magazine [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Leslie Cagan. Something New Emerges: The Growth of a Socialist Feminist // They Should Have Served That Cup of Coffee: 7 Radicals Remember the 60s / Cluster, Dick. - Boston: South End Press , 1979. - P. 225-260. - ISBN 978-0-89608-082-9 .
- ↑ Clyde Haberman . The Lady Doth Protest, but It's Harder , The New York Times (March 18, 2008). Date of treatment December 31, 2009.
- ↑ Ando Arike. Leslie Cagan: co-founder of United for peace and justice // The Progressive : magazine. - The Free Dictionary, 2006. - September. - ISSN 0033-0736 .
- ↑ 1 2 Chris Hedges . A Longtime Antiwar Activist, Escalating the Peace , The New York Times (February 4, 2003). Date of treatment December 31, 2009.
- ↑ OUT 100 (English) // Out : magazine. - Google Books , 2004 .-- December ( vol. 13 , no. 6 ). - P. 110 . - ISSN 1062-7928 . Archived on November 8, 2013.
Links
- Guide to the Leslie Cagan . www.dlib.nyu.edu . - Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives. Date of appeal September 9, 2019.
- Archive of commentary by Leslie Cagan . www.zmag.org . - Z Magazine. Date of appeal September 9, 2019.
- Video interview with Leslie Cagan from "Waging Peace" . www.archive.org . - Internet Archive. Date of appeal September 9, 2019.
- Audio speech by Leslie Cagan . www.archive.org . - Internet Archive. Date of appeal September 9, 2019.
- Video speech by Leslie Cagan . www.web.archive.org . - Free Speech TV. Date of appeal September 9, 2019.
- Audio interview with Leslie Cagan . www.archive.org . - Internet Archive. Date of appeal September 9, 2019.