{"id":37189,"date":"2021-04-09T06:20:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=37189"},"modified":"2021-04-09T06:26:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T14:26:33","slug":"antiwar-activist-reese-erlich-dead-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/09\/antiwar-activist-reese-erlich-dead-at-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiwar Activist Reese Erlich Dead at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longtime antiwar activist Reese Erlich passed away on April 6 after a long battle with cancer. He was 73.<\/p>\n

Reese was most recently a bi-weekly columnist at a number of publications, including Antiwar.com<\/a>. He wrote his last column<\/a> two weeks ago saying goodbye to his friends and readers. <\/p>\n

I met Reese in 1980 when we worked together in the Bay Area Mobilization Against Militarism and the Draft.<\/p>\n

Reese was arrested in 1969 as part of the “Oakland Seven,” for organizing anti-draft demonstrations. His arrest and trial (resulting in his acquittal) are the subject of a documentary,
\n Movement on Trial: The Oakland Seven<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reese worked as a staff writer and research editor for Ramparts<\/em>, a national investigative reporting magazine published in San Francisco. His magazine articles appeared in Vanity Fair<\/em> online, San Francisco Magazine<\/em>, California Monthly<\/em>, Mother Jones<\/em>, The Progressive<\/em>, The Nation<\/em>, and AARP’s Segunda Juventud<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Erlich’s book Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You<\/em>, co-authored with Norman Solomon, became a best seller in 2003. His book The Iran Agenda: the Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis<\/em> was published in October 2007 with a foreword by Robert Scheer. In a San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> book review, Ruth Rosen wrote, “Some people are treated as pariahs when they tell the truth; later, history lauds them for their courage and convictions. Reese Erlich is one of those truth tellers.”<\/p>\n

Reese also published Dateline Havana: The Real Story of US Policy and the Future of Cuba<\/em> in 2009, Inside Syria: the Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect<\/em> in 2014, and The Iran Agenda Today: the Real Story from Inside Iran and What’s Wrong with U.S. Policy<\/em> in 2018.<\/p>\n

Reese worked with Walter Cronkite on four public radio documentaries. Cronkite has written, “Reese Erlich is a great radio producer and a great friend.”<\/p>\n

His passing is a great loss to the antiwar movement. He will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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