LENNI BRENNER
Scholar / Public Intellectual
Editor:
"Jefferson
& Madison on The Separation
of Church and State"
&
Author:
"The Lesser Evil -
A Study of the Democratic Party"
www.smithbowen.net/linfame/brenner
brennerl@aol.com
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More about:
LENNI BRENNER
Lenni Brenner...
...was born into an Orthodox Jewish family. He became an atheist
at 10, and a left political activist at 15, in 1952. His involvement
with the Black civil rights movement began on his first day in the
organized left, when he met James Farmer of the Congress of Racial
Equality, later the organizer of the "freedom rides" of the early
60s. He was active in the mid 50s with Bayard Rustin, later the
organizer of Martin Luther King's 1963 "I had a dream" March on
Washington.
He was arrested 3 times during civil rights sit-ins in the San
Francisco Bay Area. He spent 39 months in prison when a court
revoked his probation for marijuana possession, because of his
activities during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement at the
University of California in 1964.
Immediately on imprisonment, he spent 4 days in intense
discussion with Huey Newton, later founder of the Black Panther
Party, who he encountered in the court holding tank. Subsequently,
upon release, he worked with Kathy Cleaver. More recently, in the
90s, he and Panther cofounder Bobby Seale defended their activities
during the 60s on Morton Downey's TV show.
He was an antiwar activist from the 1st days of the Vietnam
war, speaking frequently at rallies in the Bay Area. In 1963 he
organized the Committee for Narcotic Reform in Berkeley. In 1968 he
co-founded the National Association for Irish Justice, the American
affiliate of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.
He worked with Kwame Ture (AKA Stokely Carmichael), the
legendary "Black Power" leader of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, in the Committee against Zionism and Racism,
from 1985 until Ture's death in 1998.
Brenner is the author of 4 books:
- Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
- The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to
Shamir
- Jews in America Today
- The Lesser Evil, a study of the Democratic Party
His books have been favorably reviewed in 11 languages by
prominent publications, including the London Times, The London
Review of Books, Moscow's Izvestia and the Jerusalem Post.
He has written over 100 articles for many publications,
including New York's Amsterdam News, the Anderson Valley Advertiser,
The Atlanta Constitution, CounterPunch, The Jewish Guardian, The
Nation, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Middle East
Policy, Middle East International, The Journal of Palestine Studies,
The New Statesman of London, Al-Fajr in Jerusalem and Dublin's
United Irishman.
In 2002 he edited 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the
Nazis, which contains complete translations of many of the documents
quoted in Zionism in the Age of the Dictators and The Iron Wall.
In 2004 he edited Jefferson & Madison On Separation of Church
and State: Writings on Religion and Secularism.
Some of Lenni Brenner's writings online
Reviews of Lenni Brenner's books
