Tim Sampson, onzanizer for justice. (Tim Sampson 1935-2001).TIM TIM Timothy TIM Technical Interchange Meeting TIM Transient Intermodulation Distortion TIM Time Is Money TIM The Invisible Man (movie) TIM Telecom Italia Mobile (Italian cellular provider) SAMPSON, organizer and fighter for justice, cancer at his Oakland home on December 24, 2001. A 30-year member of the faculty at San Francisco State University • • [ (SFSU SFSU San Francisco State University (California) ), Sampson was deeply involved in many of the important progressive movements of his time, including farmworker struggles, welfare rights, racial justice, utility regulation, workers' rights, and environmental and social justice. He trained hundreds of organizers working with the National Welfare Rights Organization, labor unions, senior organizing and community groups, the Legal Services Corporation The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) is a private, nonprofit organization established by Congress in 1974 to provide financial support for legal assistance in civil matters to people who are poor (Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C.A. § 2996 et seq.). , Highlander Center in Tennessee, and in his popular organizing classes in the Social Work department at SFSU. He was part of the organizing committee of the National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support, housed at the Center for Community Change in Washington, D.C. He was a founding director of the Applied Research Center, a racial justice think tank based in Oakland, and a long-term board member of the Center for Third World Organizing, where he utilized his teaching and mentoring skills to work with young organizers of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color . Many of the people he worked with have gone on to found and staff organizations and movements for justice. His roots were in the organizing tradition of Saul Alinsky Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909, Chicago, Illinois - June 12, 1972, Carmel, California) is generally considered the father of community organizing. Biography and work (who was a childhood friend of Tim's father, Jerome Sampson), Fred Ross, Sr., and Cesar Chavez. Tim was often seen on picket lines supporting workers' efforts to organize and win fair contracts. He sang with the Rockin' Solidarity Labor Chorus and the Freedom Song Network. He held statewide office in the California Faculty Association, and was president of its SFSU chapter for 13 years. He was also an officer of an earlier faculty union, United Professors of California. He was a founding member of Californians for Justice and helped organize the Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival. He always had a song, a chant, a poem, or a funny comment to lighten up a meeting, picket line, or event. He was born in Chicago on January 29, 1935 and received his undergraduate education undergraduate education Medtalk In the US, a 4+ yr college or university education leading to a baccalaureate degree, the minimum education level required for medical school admission; undergraduate medical education refers to the 4 yrs of medical school. Cf CME. at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX and the University of Chicago. He received his BA from the University of Chicago and a Masters in Social Work from USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. . He is survived by his loving family, including his wife, Nancy, his children Peter and Joan, and his son-in-law, Larry Froid, as well as a large network of friends, comrades and colleagues around the country. RELATED ARTICLE: Changes (1972) Any spare change? Why don't you try working for a change? I am working for changes I've already worked for my change Everyone is working for just change, that's the problem What kind of change do you want anyway? I want to stop people being put through changes Anyway, I don't have any change Too bad, you need some too Maybe we can make some How? Well, to get change you've got to put something in, Break something up Wait a minute, that sounds like violence No, violence is silence -- Change is music The light is changing, I have to go Sorry, I didn't have any change It's okay, you can always Change your mind |
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