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Dara Cooper

Dara Cooper, for about half of her life, Dara has been active in feminist, international, local, campus, union, economic justice and public health human rights struggles (although born into human rights struggles and comes from a long ancestral lineage of freedom fighters). In August of 2006, Dara began working full-time for the Hands Off Assata (HOA) Campaign, launching a national tour celebrating Assata’s 60th birthday while calling for an end to political repression against Assata, our local communities, and Cuba. The campaign operates within a larger social justice analysis of ending oppression, drawing attention to issues inherently connected to Assata’s case including women and the prison industrial complex, political prisoners, political repression, imperialism, liberation and healing.

Many localized and issue-specific struggles around the country and the world are the movement building blocks -- patches of our movement quilt. And in the woman-centered quilting tradition, we need to take time to stitch those patches together to make something whole and functional.