Radical Elders in Action

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No U.S. War on Venezuela • December 6, 2025

On Saturday, December 6,2025  Radical Elders joined a rally in Times Square calling for No U.S. War on Venezuela. Speakers noted several dangerous lies including that Venezuela is smuggling drugs into the U.S., that Venezuela’s President heads a drug trafficking gang, and that Venezuela is sending criminals to the U.S.

Radical Elders hold an RE banner in front of a giant wooden USA flag . Other ralliers hold signs saying The People Demand ICE Out of Our Communities, a Venezuelan flag, and more
Radical Elders hold an RE banner and sign reading Viva Puerto Rico Libre in Spanish and English; others hold flags of other countries; all in front of Carlo’s Bake Shop in Times Square

No More Crumbs Rally • November 21, 2025

On Friday, November 21,2025 Radical Elders joined other Safety Net Activists at Trump International Hotel to protest Trump’s destruction of Safety Net Programs.  The theme was NO MORE CRUMBS! Food, Housing, and Healthcare for All NOW! The rally called on NY leaders to protect and improve programs. After the rally there was a march to Governor Hochul’s office.

ralliers outside Trump International Hotel, in foreground a banner reads “Stop the abuse. House the homeless.”
ralliers, including one man using a wheelchair, hold banners outside Trump Hotel as a man passes by
Radical Elders holding an RE banner

No Kings Day • October 18, 2025

Los Angeles

Radical Elders members holding signs reading No Kings and 1940s. . . 2020s. . . Let’s Beat Fascism Again!

Radical Elders Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly attended the No Kings rally in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles—it was very much larger than they expected. It was just one of a number of demos within the City of Los Angeles, and many more in Los Angeles County.

Ossining, New York

Crowd of people, most standing, some sitting on folding chairs or on the ground, in a grassy area. People hold signs, most homemade, most prominent one reads Silence is not security. Woman in foreground holds a U.S. flag in front of her.

More than 2500 people were in Ossining, New York for the No King’s Day rally. Radical Elders Andy Torres and Carmen Vivian Rivera (not pictured) were among them: NO Kings, NO Fascists, NO Oligarchs, NO Nazis! Photo by colleague from Westchester.

New York City

Radical Elders gather along sidewalk with homemade signs, a No Kings sign, and a Radical Elders banner.
Crowd carrying signs behind a banner reading “Hands Off! Medicare and Medicaid”.
Smiling Radical Elder poses with a homemade sign reading $ Fund Medicaid and Medicare! Not Bloodsucking Billionaires!
Radical Elders and others in New York City No Kings march.

On October 18, 2025 over 2 dozen Radical Elders and supporters participated in NYC No Kings march.
From Radical Elder Sam Anderson: “My wife, Rosemari and I, were at a Harlem Forum that was planned months ago. Otherwise, we would have been there or in the Brooklyn No Kings demo. Ruth Messinger, who was also part of our forum came directly from the march. We had several people who were in the morning sessions immediately leave to join the No Kings demo taking place on 125th St.”

Make Billionaires Pay March • September 20, 2025

Radical Elders holding RE banner and handmade signs in front of marchers with signs saying “Make Them Pay” and cartoons of Harold Hamm, Richard Kinder, Jim Ratcliffe, Amin Nasser, and Kelcy Warren
Radical Elders hold RE banner and handmade signs outside Joe & the Juice before the march
Radical Elders holding RE banner, and signs in a crowd of marchers with “Seeds of Resistance” and “Make Polluters Pay” signs

Radical Elders joined the Make Billionaires Pay March on Saturday September 20, 2025. More than a dozen members of Radical Elders and allies marched up Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan supporting activism and themes Billionaires Must Pay, Protect Migrants, Against Militarism, and Polluters Must Pay— Defend Mother Earth.

Mass March for Humanity • August 16, 2025

Radical Elders joined the Rally/March in support of Gaza and against the genocide (8/16/25). Speakers included Mahmoud Khalil and Chris Smalls. Radical Elders helped carry a 15-foot Cape designed by Artist Mimi Fortunato containing the names of hundreds of infants and children under 1 year old who died in Gaza .

Medicare/Medicaid 60th Birthday March • July 30, 2025

Ana and Gabriel holding Radical Elders banner and signs reading “Health Care for Everyone NOW” and “New York Health Act Now!”, in line with marchers with more signs
People holding signs protesting health-insurance cuts, identifying their groups, in downtown New York City
Angel and Ana holding a Radical Elders banner near someone propping up a giant sign reading Happy 60th Birthday Medicaid + Medicare

Radical Elders (Ana Juarbe, Gabriel Koren and Angel Roman) join Medicare/Medicaid 60th birthday march on 7/31/25.

Visibility Brigade • July 9, 2025

Paramus Visiblility Brigade on an earlier afternoon, with letter signs spelling out “Stop Thief in Chief Musk” (photo from their documentation).
Sally and Visibility Brigade activists on the Route 4, Paramus overpass.
Sally and Kevin on the Route 4 overpass.

Indivisible NJ5’s Visibility Brigade, holding signs over Route 4 on the Bergen Town Center’s overpass, was the first in the nation back in the first Trump administration. Recently, the national Media and Democracy Project’s monthly call highlighted the group and its toolkit. RE members Kevin Norton and Sally Gellert joined the action on a weekday afternoon.

Independence Day • July 4, 2025

ew York, N.Y.

Many people holding signs in front of Trump Towner, which read “Black bagged by ICE”, “Universal Coverage through New York Health Act”, “Drowned in Flood; No NOAA Alert”, “Musk stole my Medicaid”, and more.
Signs, along with Radical Elders banner, at Trump Tower rally read “Trump closed my nursing home” and “Migrants aren’t robbing you. Billionaires are.”
Die-in in front of Trump Tower, most signs shaped like gravestones, also people holding Radical Elders banner and sign saying “No dictators in the USA”.

Radical Elders (Lizette Colon, Ana Juarbe, and Angel Roman) joined Physicians for National Health Program and others on July 4, 2025 for a rally and die-in at Trump Tower.

Montclair, N.J.

Members of POP gather for the Montclair parade holding signs reading “We have no kings” and “Stop fascism”.

POP (People’s Organization for Progress) presented a contingent in Montclair’s (New Jersey) July 4 parade. POP’s chairperson, Larry Hamm, led the chants as we marched through the streets and held the mike up to enthusiastic supporters of all ages, races and genders alone the route. Power to the People! 

National Single Payer Day of Action • May 31, 2025

Radical Elders demonstrating on the National Single Payer day of action
Radical Elders rally outside the midtown Manhattan Social Security office with a Radical Elders banner and signs supporting nonprofit health care
Radical Elders outside midtown Manhattan Social Security office with signs supporting Medicare expansion, healthcare justice, and health care as a human right

Radical Elders rallied at the Midtown Manhattan Social Security office for National Single Payer on 5/31/25. More than 50 demonstrators participated including Radical Elders Ana Juarbe, Kathy Gruber, Fred Levy, Roberta Pickser, Jose Alfaro, Gabriel Koren, and Angel Roman.

May Day 2025 Rally and March • May 1, 2025

Smiling Radical Elders hold our banner on New York street with marchers holding signs in the background.

“More than two dozen Radical Elders and Friends participated in May Day 2025 Rally and March in New York City. It was spirited and inspiring. Mucho Solidarity!”—from Angel.

#HandsOff Rallies, New York, N.Y. et al. • Apr. 5, 2025

More than a dozen members of Radical Elders joined various groups and walked at the #HandsOff 4/5 March.

Smiling Radical Elders members hold “Hands Off” signs and a Radical Elders banner across the street from police vehicles and the protest crowd in Bryant Park

In New York participants included Ana Juarbe, Lizette Colon, Kathy Gruber, Fred Levy, Leslie Cagan, Kathy Karlson, Bobbie Greenberg, and Angel Roman, among others. It was a spirited action.

POP March of Resistance, Newark, N.J. • April 4, 2025

Activists holding People’s Organization for Progress banners on street corner as cars drive by. The messages are “NO DICTATORSHIP” and “TRUMP MUST GO!” More activists in conversation behind those holding banners.
Activists hold about a dozen People’s Organizaiton for Progress banners with messages honoring Dr. King and calling for justice, no more war, refusing to go back, etc.

Every year on April 4th, the People’s Organization for Progress remembers the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a rally and march through Newark. This year marks the 57th anniversary of that tragedy in Memphis, Tennessee.

50501 Rally, New York, N.Y. • Feb. 5, 2025

RE member Angel Román holds a Radical Elders banner over his head at New York City’s “50501” rally—50 rallies, 50 states, 1 day. The rallies were in opposition to Project 2025. Most were at state capitals, but sibling rallies such as this one in New York also happened.

MLK March of Resistance, Newark, N.J. • Jan. 18, 2025

Marchers rally around the Martin Luther King statue in Newark, N.J. before the MLK March of Resistance on Jan. 18, 2025.

RE member Kevin Norton writes, “On Saturda,y Jan. 18, 2025 we gathered for a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March of Resistance in Newark, N.J. More than 300 organizations endorsed the event, initiated by POP (People’s Organization for Progress). According to one newspaper article, “hundreds” of people participated (many more went to New York City’s march, see below). Radical Elders was represented by Ted Glick and myself, but I can tell you there were participants in their 90s as well as very young people. It was a very powerful coalition on all levels.”

Radical Elders member Ted Glick speaks at the MLK March of Resistance rally in Newark, N.J., on Jan.18, 2025.
Speakers from the National Action Network South Jersey at indoor rally at Essex County College in conjunction with the Newark, N.J. MLK March of Resistance on Jan. 18, 2025.
speaker at the People’s March rally in Newark, N.J., on Jan.18, 2025. Signs read “Martin Luther King: His Struggle Continues” and “Martin Luther King March of Resistance”.
People’s Organization for Progress member speaks at the MLK March of Resistance rally in Newark, N.J., on Jan.18, 2025.

The People’s March N.Y.C. • January 18, 2025

RE members marching with signs reading “Radical Elders”, “Save Our Traditional Medicare”, and “WE are all ONE.”

Radical Elders (RE) joined the Women’s/People’s March in New York City. RE members included Ana Juarbe, Carmen Vivian Rivera, Bobbie Greenberg, and Angel Román.

Radical Elders arch with signs, led by 2 people pushing wheelchairs with signs saying “Available Upon Request”.

Rally to Protect City Retirees’ Medicare • October 23, 2024

Retired city employees and allies rally outside NYC city hall. Signs read “Save our Traditional Medicare”, “Retirees Vote, No Bait and Switch”, etc.

Radical Elders Ana Juarbe, Sarah Shapiro,  and Angel Román joined other NYC Municipal Retirees on  10/23/24 at a noon rally in City Hall. NYC Councilman Christopher Marte announced that he would  be introducing a bill protecting retirees in keeping our Medicare.

Retired NYC employees and allies at a rally outside City Hall. Sign reads Save Our Traditional Medicare.

Hands Off Venezuela • August 17, 2024

Radical Elders joined the rally held on Saturday August 17, 2024 in support of  Venezuela’s sovereignty and democracy against the imperialist assault. The group met inside and then outside Fox TV headquarters (NewsCorp) at 1211 6th Ave) at 11 a.m. 

National Day of Mourning • July 28, 2024

semicircle of activists, many holding signs surrounding intersection of Broad and Market streets in Newark, N.J.
activists gather across the street from an Essex County building in Newark, N.J.; man in red shirt is with a boy holding a POP sign calling for justice, 3 people wearing POP T-shirts, 1 with a drum, 1 with 2 flags (POP and PanAfrican), and 1 with a sign
quarter of Broad and Market streets’ intersection, Newark, N.J., with PanAfrican, Black Lives Matter, and People’s Organization for Progress flags in the center, surrounded by activists, many holding POP signs with different text on each
half of Broad and Market streets’ intersection, Newark, N.J., with PanAfrican, Black Lives Matter, and People’s Organization for Progress flags in the center, surrounded by activists, many holding POP signs with different text on each
Activists at rally in Newark intersection, holding signs calling for Justice for Sonya Massey, passing Police Review Board legislation, and justice for Andrew Jerome Washington III.

On July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, an unarmed 36 year-old Black mother of two, who called 911 for assistance, was shot in the face and killed by a Sangamon County deputy sheriff in her home in downtown Springfield, Illinois.

Sean Grayson, a white police officer, shot Massey in the face three times when he killed her. He has been fired from his job and charged with murder. It has been revealed that he held jobs with five other police departments in the last four years.

This protest, this past Sunday was sponsored by the People’s Organization For Progress (POP) and co-sponsored by the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) Study Group, Newark Communities for Accountable Policing, All Politics Are Local, Newark Anti-Violence Coalition and other groups.

We had a good, powerful gathering and we shut down the usually busy Newark intersection at Broad and Market for something like 45mins to an hour. Justice for Sonya Massey! Stop Police Brutality! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! 

Summer of Heat

Wall Street, Stop Funding Death! • July 15 – 13, 2024

Elders Week! • July 8 – 13, 2024

We have been at a number of Summer of Heat events, not just during Elders Week, but all summer long! Join Stop the Money Pipeline, New York Communities for Change, Third Act, and more to be sure that Citigroup gets the message: stop funding fossil fuels!

Activists outside Citigroup entrance stand around 3 lying on the floor as part of a “die-in”.
Activists carrying signs opposing fossil fuels gather surrounding a chalk outline.
Activists with cardboard gravestones and other signs stand in rows outside Citigroup headquarters entrance during the rally before the civil disobedience action.

Radical Elders (including Ana Juarbe, Ted Glick and Angel Roman) joined Climate activists from the elder group Third Act who held a mock-funeral in front of Citibank’s headquarters in Manhattan to protest the climate crisis on Monday, July 8.

Third Act  said it was “demanding that #WallStreet​ banks and financiers stop using our hard-earned retirement savings to fund the #climatecrisis​,” calling Citibank “the world’s biggest funder of fossil fuel expansion.”

Lnk to Footage below taken by New York Communities for Change

Newark Rebellion Anniversary • July 12, 2024

Two activists hold a sign reading END POVERTY; People’s Organization from Progress.
Activists outside Newark’s Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery at the end of the march; some hold People’s Organization signs, the central one saying “STOP POLICE BRUTALITY!”. The speaker, in black slacks and top with a red jacket, holds a microphone; to her left, along with the sign, activist hold a PanAfrican red-black-green flag and a People’s Organization for Progress flag, with their logo on a yellow field
Activsts poose for a group shot, fists raised and holding People’s Organization for Progress flags with various slogans, as we as a Black Lives Matter flag and a Veterans for Oeace flag.
Black activists, one with a microphone, stand in a Newark crosswalk, just off the curb. Visible on one People ’s Organization for Progress sing is the word Justice, with NT before it—it might say “IMMIGRANT JUSTICE”.
Activists—woman in African print blouse and white bucket hat, and man in jeans, yellow POP T-shirt, and blue baseball cap, stand behind a People’s Organization for Progress sign with a photo of Malcom X that also says “MALCOM X: OUR FREEDOM FIGHTER”.
Activists in Newark on grassy area, seen from the side of the action, as though the photographer is in the group.

RE Kevin Norton and his comrade Ren represented Northern NJ DSA at the commemoration march and rally that started at the Rebellion Memorial at 250 Springfield Ave. Larry Hamm read off the names on the memorial (26, but disputed), and theh the group marched to the old police precinct at 17th Ave (now the Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery). 

Take Back Tech Conference • June 21–23, 2024

Radical Elders leaders Ana Juarbe, Maritza Arrastia, Alfredo Lopez, Makani Themba and Angel Roman (left to right) led the RE workshop at the Take Back Tech conference.

The June 21 – 23 Take Back Tech II conference in Chicago — sponsored by Mijente and Media Justice — drew over 400 activists. Radical Elders was there with a highly successful and well-attended workshop.

Supporting Columbia Students • April 30, 2024

Group of elders march with our red Radical Elders banner.

A delegation of some 20 members of Radical Elders assembled at the main gate to Columbia University at 12 noon on April 30th at 116th Street and Broadway. We remained for several hours after making a statement in support of the students inside the University’s locked-down main quad.

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