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Burt Cohen

Burt Cohen has a long history of political activism. From 1990-2004, Burt Cohen was elected to the New Hampshire State Senate where he established himself as a progressive leader. He has taught 20th Century American History, America's War in Vietnam, and America's Transformation in the 1930s. He is on the board of directors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, premature anti-fascists in the Spanish Civil War.

Burt Cohen was among those arrested at the 1971 Mayday protest against the Vietnam War, served on the office staff of Boston Clamshell and was active in the anti-nuclear movement of the late seventies. He was radio newscaster in the early '80s, served on staff of George McGovern's 1984 campaign. In 1985 he traveled to Nicaragua with Abbie Hoffman and Johanna Lawrenson as part of an effort to stop American support of the Nicaraguan Contras. He also served as an observer to elections in Guatemala in 1995.