This website is dedicated to the Memory (as memory fades) of my comrades, friends, lovers, radicals, fellow poets in the circle in and around the Red Balloon Collective and Poetry Conspiracy, the No Spray Coalition, the Brooklyn Greens, and others whose lives intersected projects we were involved in or worked on, who played meaningful roles in our lives or just plain inspired us — or at least me personally — and mostly who died before they could get their full licks in (but who at least got in some good ones while they were here). Thank you for standing up for humanity in an era of robots. Many of those remembered here I knew personally. (Click on their names, for photos and things I’ve written about them over the years. I’ve fallen far behind, here. If you’ve written about them, even a note of appreciation, or have photos you’d like to share, please send it to me and I’ll be glad to link to it on this site.)

Hank Aaron
Lillian and Sam Aber
Bella Abzug
Margot Adler
Muhammed Ali
Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass)
Samir Amin
Werner “Tom” Angress
Basil al-Araj
Stanley Aronowitz
Ed Asner
Annette Averette
Marty Balin
Judi Bari
Frank Barbaro
Wayne Barrett
Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall
Steve Becker
John Belushi
Mary Berg
John Berger
Dr. Alan Berkman
Dan Berrigan
Kate Berrigan
Phil Berrigan
Rosalie Bertell
Theodor Bikel
Steve Biko
Maurice Bishop
Susan Blake
William Blum
Peter Bogdanovich
Julian Bond
Barri Boone
David Bowie
Sandy Boyer
Elombe Brath
Jimmy Breslin
Steffie Brooks
Rita Bo Brown
Dennis Brutus
Dottie Burley
Iris Burlock
Berta Caceres
Peter Camejo
Alan Canfora
George Carlin
Ernesto Cardenal
Claudia Carlson
Crysta Casey
Fidel Castro
Harold Channer
Harry Chapin
Hugo Chavez
Therese Chorun
Daystar Chou
Ramsey Clark
David Cline
Alexander Cockburn
Abe Cohen
Lenny Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Stephen Cohen
Larry Colburn
Tom Condit
Sean Connery
Tim Conway
Cecil Corbin-Mark
Binny Ipcar Corell
Prof. Irwin Corey
Rachel Corrie
Saylor Creswell
Gayle Cronin
David Crowe
Pat Dalto
Enid Dame
Jennifer Davis
Ray Davis
Rennie Davis
Doris Day
Dave Dellinger
Ron Dellums
Chris Delvecchio
Deno
David Dinkins
Diane diPrima
Bruce Dixon
Trish Doherty
Kirk Douglas
Donna Douglass
Michael Drobenare
Patti Duke
Peggy Dye
Bryna Eill
Dr. Samuel Epstein
Judah Espell
Mark Esper
Harry Ettling
Paul Farmer
Anne Feeney
Leslie Feinberg
Paul Feingold
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Liz Fink
Shulamith Firestone
Lisa Fishbein
Andrea Fishman
Robert Fisk
Bob Fitch
George Floyd
Glen Ford
Henry Foner
Dr. Dan Foss
Arly Fox-Daly
Aretha Franklin
Peter Freund
Betty Friedan
Carol Friedman Russell
Fred Friedman
Vicki Gabriner
Charlie Gamble
Bill Gamson
Eric Garner
Erica Garner
Steven Gaskin
John “Tito” Gerassi
Garda Ghista
Ronnie Gilbert
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Todd Gitlin
Marvin Gittelman
Gene Glickman
Bill Godfrey
Barbara Goldberg
Ted Goldfarb
Mollie Goldstein
Dr. Seymour Goldstein
Ibrahim Gonzalez
David Graeber
Dick Gregory
Lani Guinier
Pete Hamill
Saralee Hamilton
Richie Havens
Tom Hayden
Isaac Hayes
Fred Hellerman
Bob Herbert
Ed Herman
Mark Hernandez
Gil Scot-Heron
Heather Heyer
Ray Hill
Fred Ho
Mae-Wan Ho
Abbie Hoffman
Connie Hogarth
Connie Holland
Judy Horenstein Steele
bell hooks
Robert Hunter
Noel Ignatiev
Matt Jones
Al Kaline
Paul Kantner
Chuck Kaufman
Eddie Kay
Michael Kennedy
Ralph Klaber
Dorothy Klein
Robert Knight
Bill Koehnlein
Deena Kolbert
Cliff Kornfield
Ray Korona
Bud Korotzer
Joel Kovel
Larry Kramer
Jim Krivo
William Kunstler
Tuli Kupferberg
Maria Kuriloff
Dani Lamar Williams
Mark Lane
Frank LeFever
Faith Legene
Ursula LeGuin
Jesse Lemisch
Virginia Lerner
Carl Lesnor
Donald Lev
Richard Levins
Alice Levinson
Grandpa Al Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Congr. John Lewis
Vicky Lewis
Richard Lewontin
Warren Liebold
Irving Like
Bernice Linton
Bill Livant
Simon Lockle
Lee Lorch
Sally Luther
Carl Makower
Bill Mandel
Nelson Mandela
Mickey Mantle
Manning Marable
Julius Margolin
Samori Marksman
Jim Marsh
Randy Martin
Fr. Paul Mayer
John McCarthy
Bernie McFall
Bob McGlynn
Dave McReynolds
Meatloaf
Gerald Meyer
Bea Metling
Irene Metling
Dr. Phil Metling
Sheila Metling
Helena Miele (EarthMum)
Henry Miller
Will Miller
Nicole Milner
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Dr. Luc Montagnier
Mary Tyler Moore
Dr. Susan Moore
John Moran
Ward Morehouse
Robert Moses Parish
Zero Mostel
Kary Mullis
Jack Nesbitt
John Neumeier
Paul Newman
Huey P. Newton
Shari Nezami
Leonard Nimoy
David Nolan
Phil Ochs
Jack O’Dell
Phil Oke
Mary Oliver
Sr. Diana Ortiz
Peter O’Toole
Major Owens
Mike Pahios
Grace Paley
Leo Panitch
Rosa Parks
Gloria Pasin
Jean Pauline
Ed Pearl
Sandy Pearlman
Michael Perelman
Gino Perente
Richie Perez
Dorothy Williams Pereira
Delores Perri
Tom Petty
Sidney Poitier
Utah Phillips
Sister Ardeth Platte
William Pleasant
Frank Polanski
Jerry Policoff
Lillian Pollak
Prince
Louis Proyect
Arpad Pusztai
Les Radke
Gilda Radner
Lisa Raines
Justin Raimondo
Ray Rakow
Carol Randeros
Michael Ratner
Ellen Ray
Lou Reed
George Reiter
Alan Rickman
Jolie Rickman
Luis Reyes Rivera
Paul Robeson
Franklin Rosemont
Murray Rosenberg
John Ross
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
Michael Ruppert
Nawal El Saadawi
Vic Sadot
Mario Savio
Bill Schaap
Danny Schechter
Phyllis Schleider
Trent Schroyer
Tom Seaver
Toshi Seeger
Pete Seeger
Lynda Spickard
Afeni Shakur
Jane Sharples
Kathryn Shay
Michael Shenker
Valerie Sheppard
George Shriver
Bernice Silver
Daniel Simidor/Andre Elizee
Patrick Sky
Kent Smith
Ann Snitow
Morton Sobell
Jose A. Soler
Albert Solomon
Martin Sostre
Patty Staib
Randi Steele
Ernest J. Sternglass
Lynne Stewart
Mel Stottlemeyer
Jim Strom
Doug Sullivan
Aron Swarz
Summer Taylor (BLM)
Ray Thomas (Moody Blues)
Rod Thurton
Mary Travers
Alex Trebek
Lares Tresjan
John Trudell
Tula Tsalis
ArchBishop Desmond Tutu
Steve Tvedten
Gene Vanderport
Dave Van Ronk
Rev. Lucius Walker
Paul Walker
Immanuel Wallerstein
Cynthia Wallin
Sam Walters
Leonard Weinglass
Tom Whisker
Gene Wilder
Brad Will
Eric Williams
Paul Williams
Shannon Williams
Ellen Willis
Amy Winehouse
Mary Wilson
Dave Wycoff
Sol Yurick
Frieda Zames
Kevin Zeese
Howard Zinn