Long active in political life, Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone have been
involved in international resistance to imperialism and the workers'
movement in the United States.
Ralph Schoenman was Secretary General of the International Tribunal on
U.S.
War Crimes in Indochina. He spent seven months in Bolivia in 1967 and was
imprisoned there after the death of Che Guevara. He worked with Malcolm X
with respect to the battle for the Congo and in the anti-imperialist
struggle in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. He negotiated the release
of political prisoners in many countries.
He and Mya Shone were directors of the Committee in Defense of the
Lebanese
and Palestinian Peoples during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, of
the Palestine Campaign, which at the time of the first Intifada called for
an end to all aid to apartheid Israel and for a democratic secular
Palestine, and of Workers and Artists for "Solidarity" (that is,
Solidarnarsc, the Polish Workers' movement) and were the North American
organizers of the International Conference Against Repression in Haiti which
took place in Port-au-Prince during the oppressive Raoul Cedras regime.
Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone were founders and editorial members for
ten
years of the labor and socialist newspaper "The Organizer."
Schoenman also has lectured widely on the assassinations of President
John
F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. His
books
include "The Hidden History of Zionism", "Iraq and Kuwait: A History
Suppressed" and "Death and Pillage in the Congo: A Study of Western
Rule"
which he co-authored with Khalid Ahmed Zaki, as well as, "Prisoners of
Israel" and "Homage to Palestine" which he co-authored with Mya Shone.
Ralph Schoenman's analysis and discussion of the events of 9/11 and the
invasion of Afghanistan, "World Trade Center: Uncensored History," left
WBAI's audience riveted to their radios waiting for the next installment.
Mya Shone is an economist and has a long history as an activist involved in
political, community and labor issues. Among her activities over the years,
she worked closely with both Casa Nicaragua and Casa El Salvador during
the
struggles taking place in Central America, was the coordinator of the
Tri-County (Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Luis Obispo) Labor Party chapter,
was a founder of and on the steering committee of Health Care for
All-California, a member of an international steering committee organizing
campaigns against exploitation and in defense of workers' rights, and was a
co-coordinator of the International Conference for Trade Union
Independence
and Democratic Rights that took place in San Francisco in 2000.
Mya Shone also has been involved in media production. She was a
documentary
filmmaker who, in the pioneering video collective "Optic Nerve," produced
and directed award winning social-issue documentaries. She was a
newscaster
and reporter at KPFK in Los Angeles. Her lecture/slide presentation "The
War
in Lebanon: An Inside View," including her slides from the massacre of
Palestinians and Lebanese in Sabra and Shatila, received worldwide
attention. Today, Mya Shone handles press and conference organization for
labor unions and community advocacy organizations.
In addition to Taking Aim, their weekly broadcast over WBAI-NY, Ralph
Schoenman and Mya Shone provide commentary for Pacifica Radiošs
national
broadcast, the Peace Report.
