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Leslie Cagan's dissent is what unites thousands
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Leslie Cagan's dissent is what unites thousands
A mobilizer at heart organizes anti-war protest in N.Y.

Monday, August 23, 2004
BY WILLIAM KLEINKNECHT
Star-Ledger Staff

NEW YORK -- Leslie Cagan grew up in the 1950s, but her upbringing was not exactly the stuff of "Ozzie and Harriet." While other families went to the movies, the Cagans would take their children, picket signs in hand, to a rally against nuclear testing or to a local Woolworth's to protest segregated lunch counters.

Her earliest memories are of adults gathered somberly in her parents' Bronx apartment to plan a protest against the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. She also recalls, dimly, the time her mother helped stretch a line of schoolchildren across a dangerous intersection to demand a stoplight.

"I was about 4," Cagan recalls. "We went out and held hands across the street and we blocked the traffic. It wasn't until years later that I realized that not only was that a demonstration, but it was an act of civil disobedience."

As national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition planning a huge demonstration on Sunday, the day before the Republican National Convention begins in Manhattan, Cagan can draw on a lifetime of experience in mobilizing dissent.

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