#TOMMY RASKIN HARVARD LAW FREE#
When the EA gives people money for food, for example, she does right by the Black Panthers, the latter of whom, we will recall, started the Free Breakfast Program for children who might have gone hungry otherwise. In so doing, the EA functions in the spirit of radicals past who have rendered services that governments have shown themselves ill-equipped or unwilling to provide. “In light of the state’s failure to allocate resources properly, the EA takes matters into her own hands, donating to GiveDirectly and other vetted charities in order to reduce the incidence of hunger, disease, and blindness throughout the world. For example, in a recent piece here at C4SS, Raskin explored how Effective Altruism and anarchism can come together to help the global poor and challenge existing inequalities: Raskin wrote on numerous other important issues, always centering the dignity and freedom of the most vulnerable. We should all strive to be such dedicated peacemongers. He never stopped or relented simply because the party in power or the occupant of the White House changed. He never confined himself to one political faction. Tommy Raskin wrote and worked with a wide range of groups, all to stop the brutality and violence of America’s wars abroad. government’s disastrous wars in the Middle East.Īs Scott Horton notes, “Tommy was active in recent efforts to lobby congressional opposition to US support of the Saudi war on Yemen.” The US government’s support for that war entails backing a variety of atrocities, human rights abuses, and war crimes. While there, he facilitated lobbying visits to advocate against the U.S. Raskin also worked on Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker activist group that lobbies for peace.
He was also a former intern at the Cato Institute, whose foreign policy team strongly opposes war. īeyond writing, Tommy Raskin worked in a variety of capacities to advance the cause of peace. He wrote various essays against war, militarism, imperialism, and colonialism at Foreign Policy in Focus, the Libertarian Institute, CounterPunch, , and the blog. And this essay was just the tip of the iceberg. Just last week, he published a piece at the Libertarian Institute arguing that anti-war activists should strive to use the First Amendment to protect various forms of resistance to American militarism. He was a dedicated opponent of war and militarism. I never met Tommy Raskin, but when I read his work, that brilliance and compassion shines through. He passionately loved his family, friends, and animals, and was devoted to the cause of the global poor.”
His brilliance and compassion knew no bounds. Tommy was an anti-war activist, a vegan, a writer, and a student at Harvard Law School.Īs his family said in a statement, “Tommy was pure magic. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), whose office announced his death on Thursday, December 31st. Last week, Thomas “Tommy” Raskin died at the age of 25.
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