Leslie Cagan

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Leslie Cagan is the national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, the largest anti-war coalition in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

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Leslie Cagan was born in New York City, and graduated from college in 1968. She chose to join the anti-war movement as an organizer rather than enter graduate school. ^[1]

In 1969-1970, Ms. Cagan spent two months with the first Venceremos Brigade, a group of U.S. activists that traveled to Cuba to volunteer.^[2]

In 2002, Ms. Cagan was among the founders of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of more than 1,300 international and U.S.-based organizations opposed to what they describe as "our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building."

Ms. Cagan has organized and spoken at many anti-war rallies, and has been the national coordinator of UFPJ since its inception. She is also involved with defending public higher education in New York, as well as protecting rights of women and the gay, lesbian and transgender community.^[3]

On March 20th, 2004, Ms. Cagan was one of the lead organizers of a march in New York City against the Iraq war which drew over 100,000 protesters^{[citation needed]} as well as an August 29th, 2004 protest at the Republican National Convention that the organizers claimed drew over 500,000 participants.^[4]

Ms. Cagan was a founder of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a spin-off group of the Communist Party in America.