Vol. 71/No. 35      September 24, 2007

Jaquith was an editor for the Militant from 1979 through 1985, and an editorial volunteer from 1971 to 1991. She was a Militant correspondent in Iran during the 1979 revolution there. From 1985 to 1987 Jaquith was the chief of the paper’s Managua Bureau in Nicaragua. She is now back in New York after working as a sewing machine operator in Pittsburgh, where she was active in the work of the Socialist Workers Party branch for the past six years.

Nelson joined the communist movement in 1995 as a student in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1998 to 2003, Nelson volunteered in the print shop that produced Pathfinder books and pamphlets. He ran for city council in New York in 2001 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket, and was part of the Militant’s volunteer staff in 2004-2005. Most recently he lived in Washington, D.C.

O’Shaughnessy is the organizer of the Young Socialists National Steering Committee. He joined the Young Socialists in October of 2005 as a student at the State University of New York in Albany. He has edited the “Young Socialists in Action” column since it was established in January of this year.

In April, O’Shaughnessy reported for the Militant on an international conference in Havana on the fight to win freedom for the Cuban Five. These five men have been locked up since 1998 in U.S. prisons, accused of conspiracy to commit espionage and a range of other frame-up charges. In August he participated in a conference in Venezuela marking the 60th anniversary of the World Festivals of Youth and Students.  
 
 
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