[lbo-talk] Barbara Epstein & MR

[// ravi]

On Aug 1, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I've just been informed (by someone who wants to remain anonymous)  
> that Barbara Epstein resigned from the board of MR because of the  
> nonsense that Yoshie has been posting to MRZine about Iran. When she  
> made her complaints known to the board, they made it clear that they  
> supported Yoshie's work, so Epstein felt that she had no choice but  
> to quit. She's not interested in campaigning against what she still  
> regards as a venerable institution, but she feels that Yoshie's  
> position on Iran has so discredited the organization that she  
> couldn't abide a formal association anymore.
>

Who is this Barbara Epstein? There is one in Wikipedia, but she seems  
to have expressed her intolerance for Yoshie by dying:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Epstein


> She died from lung cancer at the age of 77 in New York City.

	--ravi

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