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For a complete listing of all Davis-Putter grantees, trustees and sponsors and to to and sponsors and trustees grantees, Davis-Putter all of listing complete a For those in solidarity with working peoples’ struggles around the world were funded. funded. were world the around struggles peoples’ working with solidarity in those

next 50 years. 50 next commitment to workers’ rights, many students involved with union organizing and and organizing union with involved students many rights, workers’ to commitment

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peace and justice. and peace union organizing and the peace movement and received a grant in 1986 to study study to 1986 in grant a received and movement peace the and organizing union

at the center of social change and our grantees have been integral to this work for for work this to integral been have grantees our and change social of center the at Ruth Gallo Ruth who worked for civil rights, women’s rights, rights, women’s rights, civil for worked who was grantee such One

prisoners and organizers on the frontlines. Student driven movements have been been have movements driven Student frontlines. the on organizers and prisoners in multiple movements concurrently. movements multiple in

progressive social movement. They are artists, scholars, people’s lawyers, political political lawyers, people’s scholars, artists, are They movement. social progressive militarization and corporatization. There were also many students who were active active were who students many also were There corporatization. and militarization

Davis-Putter grantees have been at the forefront of virtually every major major every virtually of forefront the at been have grantees Davis-Putter Puerto Rico and Native Americans, but all committed to resistance of growing US US growing of resistance to committed all but Americans, Native and Rico Puerto

activism and feminism, transnational feminism and state theory. state and feminism transnational feminism, and activism divestment campaigns to end South African apartheid, struggles for sovereignty for for sovereignty for struggles apartheid, African South end to campaigns divestment

American Studies at the University of Maryland where she researches Black women’s women’s Black researches she where Maryland of University the at Studies American Putter Scholarship Fund in 1986. Many of the activists granted were leaders in in leaders were granted activists the of Many 1986. in Fund Scholarship Putter

and is completing a PhD in in PhD a completing is and Complex Industrial Non-Profit the Beyond Funded: rights and peace activist, the name of the Fund was officially changed to the Davis- the to changed officially was Fund the of name the activist, peace and rights

The Revolution Will Not Be Be Not Will Revolution The reader, INCITE! the to contributor a was Toronto, of the commitment of time and resources brought by trustee Norton S. Putter, a civil civil a Putter, S. Norton trustee by brought resources and time of commitment the

Mumia Abu-Jamal. She was granted in 2006 and 2007, to study at the University University the at study to 2007, and 2006 in granted was She Abu-Jamal. Mumia The 80’s brought much change to student activism and to the Fund. To honor honor To Fund. the to and activism student to change much brought 80’s The

Radical Congress in Philadelphia to build support for another Davis-Putter grantee, grantee, Davis-Putter another for support build to Philadelphia in Congress Radical coordinating the Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition. Coalition. Day Hiroshima Toronto the coordinating

Tiffany-Lethabo King Tiffany-Lethabo who worked with the Black Black the with worked who is path this on grantee One in the YorkU MFA Program and continues as a peace and anti-nuclear activist, activist, anti-nuclear and peace a as continues and Program MFA YorkU the in

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professors, writing our histories, teaching theories and encouraging students to to students encouraging and theories teaching histories, our writing professors, In In including documentaries dozen a directed and produced has and drama and

has had a longtime commitment to funding activist scholars who become activist activist become who scholars activist funding to commitment longtime a had has and received a grant in 1971. Anton has edited 10 books on Canadian theatre theatre Canadian on books 10 edited has Anton 1971. in grant a received and

Understanding what connects all of these movements is essential and Davis-Putter Davis-Putter and essential is movements these of all connects what Understanding Anton Wagner Anton who organized Vietnam War resisters in Canada Canada in resisters War Vietnam organized who like activists

movement to save public education expanded. expanded. education public save to movement scholarships to anti-war activists, war resisters, women’s rights and anti-nuclear anti-nuclear and rights women’s resisters, war activists, anti-war to scholarships

as Undocumented and Unafraid, working for passage of the DREAM Act and the the and Act DREAM the of passage for working Unafraid, and Undocumented as war. “Hell no, we won’t go”, rang from college campuses and the Fund awarded awarded Fund the and campuses college from rang go”, won’t we no, “Hell war.

police brutality and organizing against gentrification. Immigrant students came out out came students Immigrant gentrification. against organizing and brutality police Throughout the 70’s student activism exploded with protests to end the Vietnam Vietnam the end to protests with exploded activism student 70’s the Throughout

institutionalized racism of the Prison Industrial Complex, creating strategies to stop stop to strategies creating Complex, Industrial Prison the of racism institutionalized repressed and needing financial support to continue their academic work. academic their continue to support financial needing and repressed

people of Palestine, Colombia and the Philippines. Students were challenging the the challenging were Students Philippines. the and Colombia Palestine, of people students leading movements for social change especially those who were politically politically were who those especially change social for movements leading students

wars escalated, so did anti-war coalitions as well as solidarity campaigns with the the with campaigns solidarity as well as coalitions anti-war did so escalated, wars would continue on with the goal of finding and awarding scholarships to those those to scholarships awarding and finding of goal the with on continue would

Sweatshops campaigns and revived National Lawyers Guild and SDS chapters. As As chapters. SDS and Guild Lawyers National revived and campaigns Sweatshops emergencies, for example, students actively opposing the Vietnam War”. They They War”. Vietnam the opposing actively students example, for emergencies,

activism, campus organizing flourished with newly formed Students United Against Against United Students formed newly with flourished organizing campus activism, disbanding. Ever forward thinking, they decided to continue, “to support new new support “to continue, to decided they thinking, forward Ever disbanding.

issues of class, race, gender and sexual orientation. Building on decades of student student of decades on Building orientation. sexual and gender race, class, of issues the availability of other funding sources for Civil Rights workers and considered considered and workers Rights Civil for sources funding other of availability the

in Seattle and a commitment to the creation of a mass movement, intersecting intersecting movement, mass a of creation the to commitment a and Seattle in last no more than 5 years, so it was not surprising that in 1966, the trustees discussed discussed trustees the 1966, in that surprising not was it so years, 5 than more no last

Davis-Putter grantees entered the new millennium, inspired by WTO protests protests WTO by inspired millennium, new the entered grantees Davis-Putter Memorial scholarship funds, especially those without large endowments, tend to to tend endowments, large without those especially funds, scholarship Memorial

is now collecting their oral histories. oral their collecting now is Freedom On My Mind. Mind. My On Freedom

of farmworker women, including Mujeres Mexicanas and Líderes Campesinas and and Campesinas Líderes and Mexicanas Mujeres including women, farmworker of and The Road To Mississippi: Mississippi: To Road The and Prize The On Eyes including documentaries winning

organizer with the United Farmworkers and assisted in building countless networks networks countless building in assisted and Farmworkers United the with organizer while in jail. Matt’s songs have been featured in many films and prize prize and films many in featured been have songs Matt’s jail. in while songs freedom

- Fullerton and Rural Development from Antioch College. She has worked as an an as worked has She College. Antioch from Development Rural and Fullerton - the SNCC Freedom Singers, and was arrested 29 times, writing many of his 500 500 his of many writing times, 29 arrested was and Singers, Freedom SNCC the

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About the Fund —­ Keep the Fund strong Still 50 years and still for the next 50 years:  Give a generous donation – there is no on the journey endowment, your contributions determine how on the In 1961, veterans of the student sit-in movement much we can award. boarded buses with hopes of desegregating the  Invite your friends to support the Davis-Putter south, putting their lives on the line, building an ever Scholarship Fund. growing student movement, and that same year, a journey one of a kind scholarship fund was created. The first  Connect the student activists in your life to the meeting of the Marian Davis Scholarship Fund was Fund–applications are available on the website convened on August 26, 1961 at the Davis home in and must be postmarked by April 1. Sandwich, MA. Horace B. (Hockey) Davis along with  Plan for the future of student activism by his children, Chan, Terry and Quentin (Mina and including the Fund in your will. Barbara would also become trustees) came together to create a fund in memory of their wife and mother, Make an online contribution at who was a fierce activist and beloved teacher. They www.davisputter.org were joined by friends who helped raise money and award the first grants toGlenford Mitchell, Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund a civil rights activist and Columbia University Post Office Box 7307 student and Connie Bradford a student at Sophie New York, NY 10116-7307 Newcomb College and a leader in the Congress of [email protected] Racial Equality (CORE). The Davis’ as well as other founders of the Fund had been persecuted by attacks under McCarthyism, so it was natural that the next Sponsors grantee would be Ed Yellin, an engineering student Huwaida Arraf, , Margaret Burnham, Mina D. Caulfield, Noam Chomsky, Johnnetta B. Cole, at the University of Illinois whose National Science Angela Y. Davis, Chandler Davis, Terry Davis, Quentin Foundation grant was revoked when they learned Davis, Ed Dubinsky, Lennox S. Hinds, Nancy J. Hodes, he had been a steelworker, labor organizer and Ruth Hubbard, Robin D. G. Kelley, Mel King, Richard Communist Party member. Ed finished his degree C. Lewontin, Lee Lorch, Jill Nelson, Jan Phillips, Ruth Putter, , Paul Schachter, and became a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. Pete Seeger, Andres Torres, Mary Helen Washington. In the early years, the Fund supported scores 1961/62 of activists involved with Southern Conference Trustees Education Fund (SCEF), Mississippi Freedom Davarian Baldwin, Lisa Brock, Simone Weil Davis, Democratic Party and the Student Non-Violent James A. Donaldson, Monica Enriquez, Carol 2011/12 Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Giardina, Allison Guttu, Sora Han, Carol J. Kraemer, Clarence Lang, Laura McSpedon, Walter L. Putter, One of those students was Matthew Jones, a Allen Silverstone, Rachel L. Stocking. grantee in 1967 who died just this year. Matt was a leader of the Nashville Student Movement, sang with

 Continued Davis-Putter grantees continue on the journey as part of a 50 year legacy of courageous and creative student activists, forging new paths in the struggle for peace and justice.

Ryah Aqel, a leader in the Arab-American activist migrant workers, while writing an oral history on class other communities after completing a master’s in Public network, builds coalition and organizes Palestinian formation and Mexican contemporary immigration to Health at University of Michigan. Luke Patterson solidarity through rallies, demonstrations, educational the US toward completion of a PhD in Anthropology has worked against police brutality and war, for forums and film festivals while working on a Masters in at CUNY. Adrian Lowe has worked for 20 years in affirmative action, freedom for Mumia and justice Near Eastern Studies at NYU. Ashraf Ashqar builds movements for LGBTQ civil rights, economic justice, for Oscar Grant, and co-founded Social Workers for movements for justice in Palestine through strategic prison abolition and public health and plans to work in Anti-Oppression and Equality at Columbia University non-violence, conflict resolution and policy advocacy civil rights and criminal law focusing on the needs of where he is working toward an MSSW. Christian and organizes with the Vermont Worker Center’s underrepresented transgender people after completing Peruyero has led protests of budget cuts and tuition healthcare campaign while completing a leadership law school at Temple. hikes to make CUNY a liberated space for oppressed degree at the School for International Training. Rickke Mananzala has spent the last decade nationalities while continuing solidarity efforts for Mariana Bruno co-founded the South Central Farm building coalitions to advance public policy in the Puerto Rican independence and will complete a BA in Community Center in LA to make affordable organic LGBTQ, racial and economic justice movements and is Puerto Rican Studies at Lehman College/CUNY this produce available, organize against police brutality and completing a BA and MA in Urban Studies and Public year. develop an independent media outlet while working Policy at NYU with plans to work with grassroots Carlos Roa works to stop deportations of students toward a History and Chican@ Studies degree at groups on multi-issue organizing. David Morales and pass the DREAM Act, was a “Trail of Dreams” UCLA. co-founded a counter-recruitment coalition as a high organizer and participant and currently works with Martine Caverl has organized for workers rights, school junior, restricting the Jr ROTC program and Presente.org maintaining its social media organizing, reproductive and health justice, against the prison eliminating marksmanship training in the entire San while seeking an Associate’s Degree in Architecture at industrial complex and military recruitment, founded Diego Unified School District, and has become active Miami Dade College. Matt Smucker created Beyond Rising in Solidarity with Ayiti, organizing support for in anti-racist and student access movements while the Choir.com to mobilize those not already involved Haiti’s struggle for sovereignty, and is attending Johns enrolled in the Latin American Studies program at UC in progressive movements, organizes with the Bradley Hopkins School of Nursing. Sonja Diaz led campaigns San Diego. Felipe Matos will complete a BA this Manning Network and has been Occupying Wall in solidarity with striking AFSCME workers and for year at St. Thomas University, while working to end Street, while completing a BA in Social Movement educational equity at UCLA and now studies at UC deportations, promote the DREAM Act and to push Theory at Goddard College. Tania Unzueta co- Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, where she organized back racial profiling perpetrated in programs such as founded the Immigrant Youth Justice League to stop the Berkeley Law October 2010 walkout delegation for Secure Communities and 287g which gives local law student deportations, created the “Undocumented and educational equity in California. Shereen D’Souza enforcement increased power to carry out federal Unafraid” campaign and continues building immigrant supported land reform and water access campaigns in immigration law. rights, LGBT and labor movements in Chicago where Costa Rican farming communities, led food access and Ezinne Nwankwo organized efforts to defeat a she is working on an MA in Latin American & Latino urban agriculture movements in the Bay area and plans proposed building project that would construct homes Studies at the University of Illinois. to work on national food justice policy after completing on a radioactive site in her community and plans to Read more about our grantees on the website at a Masters of Environmental Science Degree at Yale. continue working on the environmental impact on www.davisputter.org Brooke Eliazar-Macke organized actions in support of the Morning After Pill Coalition of the National Women’s Liberation, has advocated for national healthcare and now at CUNY School of Law, is involved with the National Lawyers Guild and Women in Prison project. Remeike Forbes organized against cuts in campus service worker pay and jobs, co-founded the Harvard Anti-War Coalition Ryah Aqel Ashraf Ashqar Mariana Bruno Martine Caverl Sonja Diaz Shereen Brooke Eliazar- and is studying graphic design at the Rhode Island D’Souza Macke Institute of Art with plans to use his art to organize and educate workers. Melissa Gilbarg challenges disparities in housing, health and education based on race and economic status and recruits and develops grassroots leaders to build effective campaigns that create systemic economic change while completing an MSW at Boston University. Remeike Melissa Gilbarg Christina Rodolfo Adrian Lowe Rickke David Morales Christina Heatherton has organized for Forbes Heatherton Hernandez Mananzala tenancy and civil rights and against police brutality, Corchado displacement and gentrification, co-editing,Downtown Blues: A Skid Row Reader, featuring the voices and experiences of residents alongside prominent scholars, while completing a PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. Rodolfo Hernandez Corchado organizes immigrant day laborers and promotes solidarity Felipe Matos Ezinne Luke Patterson Christian Carlos Roa Matt Smucker Tania Unzueta Nwankwo Peruyero and autonomous education among undocumented

The 2011-12 Jessie Lloyd O’Connor Scholar

Each year the Fund selects a grantee who exemplifies the lifelong commitment to peace and justice modeled by Jessie Lloyd O’Connor, a labor journalist, organizer and an early member of our Board. Our Jessie Lloyd O’Connor Scholar this year is Maricela Aquilar. Concerned about how her undocumented status would impact college admission, Maricela contacted Voces de la Fronteras where she learned to organize actions and mobilize students to work for instate tuition in Wisconsin, which they won in 2009. She led student efforts in Wisconsin protests last spring, organizing buses daily to go to Madison and coordinated a student walk out, marching to the University and taking over the concourse while she led a teach-in on the new budget. She said that was the most inspiring movement moment so far and gives her hope that people from labor, immigrant communities, teachers and students coming together can create the future of Wisconsin. She currently organizes with United We DREAM, has co-developed a College Organizers Program with Voces and has recently become their board chair. She is studying Political Science and English at Marquette University with a goal to create and sustain a strong foundation for immigrant youth movements, a goal modeled by Jessie’s lifelong support of student activism.