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Bill & Marie Samuels
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Patricia Greenwald, Gerald Kahn, Jill Lafer, Trudy L. Mason,
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Invite you to a reception in support of
DEBRA COOPER
Candidate for the New York City Council District 6
With Special Guest
BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
Award-Winning Author, Eleanor Roosevelt Biographer
At their home
(ADDRESS DELETED -- CALL FOR INFO)
New York City
Monday, March 4th - 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served
Host: $1000 Sponsor: $500 Friend: $250
RSVP to Joan Dean at info@debracooper2013.com or 212-757-3608.
Please make checks payable to People for Debra Cooper
290 West End Avenue, #9A, New York, NY 10023
You can also make a contribution online at www.debracooper2013.com.
DEBRA COOPER
Democratic State Committeewoman Debra Cooper has been an effective women's leader, progressive neighborhood activist, a tenacious fighter for health care. Working together with West Side leaders, she has fought for economic and social justice to make our community stronger and life better on the Upper West Side. Now she is ready to be a strong voice on the City Council, listening to the community's concerns and fighting for the values, needs and priorities.
A long term member of the Board of NARAL ProChoiceNY, she has been a leader in the fight for women's rights, reproductive freedom and healthcare. Starting with working on the landmark New York City and State Clinic Access bills and more recently working tirelessly to assure that there were no limits on reproductive rights in The Affordable Healthcare Act, she has fought to make sure our voice is heard.
Debra has been a strong community advocate, working to advance the West Side's innovative zoning proposal to protect neighborhood stores.
With term limits taking effect next year, West Siders and New Yorkers across the city will have the opportunity to re-shape city government. By electing Debra Cooper, we are making sure that women's economic social and political rights will be protected in New York City.
BLANCHE WIESEN COOK
Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History and Women's Studies at the John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Her bestseller Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Two, was published by Viking Penguin in July 1999; the Penguin paperback was published in June 2000. Volume One, published in 1992, remained onThe New York Times bestseller list for three months and received many awards, including the 1992 Biography Prize from The Los Angeles Times, and the Lambda Literary Award. It is now available as a Penguin paperback [and as an ebook] Professor Cook is now completing her third and final volume of Eleanor Roosevelt.
BWC has edited and contributed to several anthologies, and is the author of Crystal Eastman On Women & Revolution, and The Declassified Eisenhower, a New York Times Book Review notable book of 1981. For more than twenty years, she produced and hosted her own program for Radio Pacifica, originally called Activists and Agitators, and Women and the World in the 1980s. Professor Cook has appeared frequently on television, on such programs as The Today Show, Good Morning America, C-Span's Booknotes, and MacNeil/Lehrer, where she participated in the joint PBS-NBC coverage of the 1992 Democratic National Convention.
Professor Cook is the former Vice-President for Research of the American Historical Association, and was Vice-President and Chair of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability (FOIA, Inc.) She was also Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Freedom of Information and Access Committee of the Organization of American Historians, which was actively committed to maintaining the integrity of the Freedom of Information Act.
Blanche Wiesen Cook, graduated from Hunter College, and received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University. She lives in New York City.