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NEWS & LETTERS, April - May 2008Gina Ross in memoriamQueer/Anarchist/Feminist activist Gina Ross passed away at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago Dec. 8 at the age of 33 due to complications from leukemia. Ross worked as a canvasser for the Social Justice Organization during the last years of her life. She participated in the College of Lake County campus-based Amnesty International during the mid-1990s. She joined the Anti-Racist Action Chicagoland chapter in 1997 and the Loyola University campus chapter in 1999. Ross joined the Autonomous Zone, the anti-authoritarian infoshop/resource center collective, in 2001 and helped organize the Queer Zone activities and events in 2003 as well as feminist-oriented forums. Ross cared about the environment and was an artist. She co-founded the Pomegranate Radical Health Collective in 2003. Activist and friend Darrell Gordon said, "Gina was interested in learning about the successes and failures of the Left, including the early Queer Movement when other upcoming activists don't want to know about past struggles." There was a memorial gathering for Ross held last March at a local cafè. Her paintings will also be showcased in the near future. --Darrell |
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