A
Manhattan native, Anthony Gronowicz graduated
from P.S. 6, Trinity School, Columbia College, and the University of
Pennsylvania
where he received a Ph.D. in New
York City political history. He edited Oswald Garrison Villard: The
Dilemmas of the Absolute Pacifist
in Two World Wars (1983) and authored Race and Class
Politics in New York City Before the Civil War (1998). He has
recently submitted a 173,000 word U.S. history for
publication. He has taught New York City, American, African-American
and Global history; and writing — from junior high through
graduate school — and
was nominated in 2003 for
a distinguished teaching award at Bronx Community College.
Gronowicz chaired
the Chelsea Committee to End the War in Vietnam,
attended the first SDS march on Washington (1965), the Pentagon (1967),
Mumia in Philadelphia with his daughter
(2000), and the Diallo City Hall
protests. On June 4, 2001, he was involved in covert direct action at
WBAI to end censorship and restore jobs of fired staff. From 1999 to
2001, he chaired the University Seminar on the City at Columbia
University,
and was appointed to the Speakers’ Bureau of the New York Council for
the Humanities (2000-2002) to talk about “The History of Race Relations
in New York City.”
On October 7, 2001, at CUNY’s Graduate Center,
he chaired a panel with the same title that included Elombe Brath
(Patrice Lumumba Coalition), Omowale Clay (December 12 Movement), Jeff
Perry (Local 300), and Cleo Silvers (Local 1199). At the New York
Society Library since 2001, he has led a dozen paid seminars on the
ethnic history of New York
City, New York City's intellectual
history, U.S.
third parties, and the U.S. Constitution. He is active in his union,
the Professional Staff Conference of the City University of New York,
co-editing a union pamphlet, “Globalization, Privatization, War: In
Defense of Public Education in the Americas” (2003). On
December 9, 2003, he publicly testified at City Hall before Councilman
Charles Barron’s Committee on Higher Education.
Gronowicz believes
that the Greens are capable of building a multi-ethnic party grounded
in environmental and social justice, and practicing transparent
government, transparently arrived at. In 1996, he ran for state
assembly in the 73rd A.D. (where he is
currently state
committee man). In eight WBAI programs in 2000, he discussed his race
and class book and how average Americans can succeed in building a
successful third party to defend their interests against a privately
run transnational corporate economy that has downsized and outsourced
full-time American jobs over the last generation, with no end in sight.
The
Greens join
over 80 other national green
parties to stop the destruction of our planet, its peoples, and other
species. Gronowicz was responsible for suggesting and drafting 2 of the
3 original proposals that the International Committee of the Green
Party submitted to their Florida comrades to be presented in turn to
the Organization of American States (OAS) at their June 2005 meeting.
A
living wage,
affordable housing, free health care, smaller class size and increased
teacher salaries, as well as restoration of free tuition and open
admissions at CUNY can be funded by stiff inheritance taxes, replacing
sales taxes with carbon taxes, fining people according to their ability
to pay, restoring the stock transfer tax and the top federal income tax
bracket to 91% where it was during Eisenhower’s presidency.
Anthony
Gronowicz
