Making Contact

Fallen Heroes of 2014 Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irreplaceable hole in their movements.On today’s edition of Making Contact we honor and revisit the lives of just a few of those fallen heroes who passed away this year. Featuring Chokwe Lumumba, former mayor of Jackson MS Morgan Powell, Bronx River Sankofa founder Charity Hicks, Detroit People’s Water Board co-founder Darby Tillis, death penalty opponent Yuri Kochiyama, civil rights activist Ted Gullickson, San Francisco Tenants Union director George Carter; Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools participant Leslie Feinberg, author of Stone Butch Blues Eddie Ellis, prison reform advocate Mark Naison, Fordham University African-American history professor  Lila Cabbil, Rosa Parks Institute president emeritus Diane Fujino, author of Heartbeat of Struggle, the revolutionary life of Yuri Kochiyama Taiyo Na, author Randy Shaw, Tenderloin Housing Clinic exec