[Marxism] Abe Osheroff

[Louis Proyect]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/156359_osheroff13.html
 From Spanish Civil War to Iraq, activist Abe Osheroff looks back

By GREGORY ROBERTS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

As a teenager growing up in Brooklyn, Abe Osheroff organized a group of 
his friends into something called the Brownsville Athletic and Cultural 
Club, with the dual purposes of lifting weights and listening to 
classical music.

But it was the beginning of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a 
neighborhood leftist recruited Osheroff and his friends for a different 
mission: helping evicted tenants by carrying the furniture landlords 
dumped on the sidewalk back into the rented apartments.

Osheroff thought it was a good idea -- but the police didn't agree. He 
was caught in the act and beaten by cops who called him a "dirty 
Communist Jew bastard" -- "all of which was true," Osheroff said, 
"except for the bastard part."

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