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| User: | patrickmurfin (9286766) "Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout"
An Eclectic Journal of Opinion, Poetry, and General Bloviating |
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| Name: | patrickmurfin | |||||
| Location: | Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1949-03-17 | |||||
| E-mail: | pmurfin@sbcglobal.net | |||||
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| Bio: | Patrick Murfin is a 59 year old living in the far northwest Chicago suburbs. He is a life long social activist for peace, civil rights, labor and other causes. He was an active member of the Industrial Workers of the World and served as General Secretary Treasurer, organizer, editor of the INDUSTRIAL WORKER, an co-authored with Fred Thompson THE IWW: ITS FIRST SEVENTY YEARS. He is an active Unitarian Universalist and has served his congregation in many capacities and is involved in many UU e-lists and denominational activities. He is President of the Interfaith Council for Social Justice in McHenry County, a founder and Executive Director of the anual Diversity Day Festival in Woodstock, the spokesperson of the McHenry County Peace Group, Secretary of the Democratic Party of McHenry County and has run unsuccesfully for Crystal Lake City Council and the McHenry County Board. He is a poet whose book WE BUILD TEMPLES IN THE HEART was published by Skinner House Books of Boston in 2004. Murfin is married and the father of three daughters and grandfather of four. He retired after 20 years as an elementary school custodian. He is currently Communications Manager and Non-Profit Consultant for Oaktree Capital Corp. in Woodstock | |||||
| Pictures: | over 400 public | |||||
| Interests: | 20: american history, civil liberties, civil rights, current events, democratic party, democrats, iww, labor, labor history, literature., peace, peace movement, poetry, politics, social activism, unions, unitarian universalism, unitarian universalist, unitarian universalist history, writing poetry and prose | |||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 7: deor, golightly2000, pseudobohemian, romsfuulynn, squirrelbandit, stuff_sucks, uu_mom | |||||
| Also Friend of: | 3: direckshun, hypatia360, princessnico | |||||
| Member of: | 5: chalice_circle, ljdemocrats, religious_left, unitarian_jihad, wobblies | |||||
| Account type: | Plus Account | |||||
