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| Affiliation | Green |
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| Name | James Marc Leas |
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South Burlington, Vermont , United States |
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
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| Info | Active for peace and social justice since he was a student at MIT during the 1960's, James Marc Leas is well known
as a leader of IBM employee campaigns to restore pension and retirement medical benefits and compensate older
IBMers laid off because of their age. He was active in campaigns against the Vietnam War, nuclear power, South
African apartheid, the Israeli military occupations of Lebanon and Palestinian territories, and the war in Iraq. He
helped organize a campaign in which all 50 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in
a suit filed by Vietnam Veterans injured by Agent Orange. He also did legal research for the Brigham case, brought
by the ACLU of Vermont, which overturned the previous grossly unfair education funding system. He did research for
the Vermont AG's office to help defend Vermont's rBGH milk labeling law. A patent lawyer, Jimmy is a member of the
Vermont Bar, the ACLU, the National Lawyers Guild, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the
Vermont Green Party. He serves as a delegate to the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of the United
States. Jimmy has two daughters, ages 16 and 12.
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