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Joelle Fishman

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Joelle R. Fishman (born December 5, 1946) is an American politician, writer and editor.

Political career

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Fishman currently chairs the Connecticut Communist Party USA. She also serves as a Commissioner on the City of New Haven Peace Commission. She is a member of the executive board of the Alliance of Retired Americans in Connecticut. From 1973 to 1982, she was the Communist Party candidate for Connecticut's Third Congressional District.[1][2][3] She has been a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States.

Personal life

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She was born in 1946 in Camden, New Jersey. She graduated from Douglass College (the women's college at Rutgers University). She has lived in New Haven since 1968.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Communist Party USA". 24 September 2009. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
  2. ^ Morning Record, October 18, 1974
  3. ^ Record-Journal, October 31, 1980
  4. ^ "Portrait of a Communist" Archived 2013-02-09 at archive.today, Yale Daily News, April 4, 2012