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REMEMBERING ARTIST, ACTIVIST PAT CAREY

Monday, January 20th, 2014

Pat Carey, who died in May 2013 in San Francisco at age 93, was “one of the greatest peace activists and homeless advocates,” said Paul Bernardino of The People’s Investigation of 9/11, the Thomas Merton Peace & Social Justice Task Force, and www.stopthefourthreich.com. He credited Carey as a founder of the 9/11 Truth Movement as well as active with Food Not Bombs and in other progressive movements.

Born in New York City to emigrant parents, Carey was young when the family moved to Los Angeles. An artist, she worked for major Hollywood studios before moving to San Francisco and opening the Pat Carey Gallery. A biographical documentary A Portrait of Pat Carey explores Carey’s “vibrant” role in the San Francisco art scene.

Bernardino described Carey as part of “the inner circle of Mae Brussell’s anti-fascist movement.” Brussell was a Beverly Hills housewife when the assassination of President John Kennedy in 1963 and subsequent Warren Commission hearings woke her to the dark side of American politics.

“Brussell saw the international terrorist network comprising the Axis powers during World War Two had gone underground and continued their world-wide fascist campaign, overthrowing one country after another including America,” according to www.maebrussell.com the website established to preserve her work.

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