Tommy Raskin, former intern for Antiwar.com and a former staffer at the National Friends Committee on Legislation. He was 25. No cause of death was given. Tommy had been attending Harvard Law School.
Tommy was the son of Rep. Jamie Raskin, (D-MD), who announced Tommy’s death today. He was also the grandson of prominent activist and writer Marcus Raskin. Marcus Raskin was the founder of the Institute for Policy Studies.
During and after his Antiwar.com internship he was an occasional writer on our pages. Tommy wrote an article for The Libertarian Institute last week.
Tommy was active in recent efforts to lobby congressional opposition to US support of the Saudi war on Yemen. We will miss him, and his tremendous dedication to the cause of peace.
I am sorry to hear of his passing although I have never heard of him. I hope there was no foul play involved. I wish there were a lot more antiwar politicians in our government.
Just because he was antiwar doesn’t mean his congressman father is. The real measure of any antiwar activist is if they switch sides when “their” president is waging the war.