Dan La Botz
| Dan La Botz | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 8, 1945 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Political party | Socialist Party USA |
| Spouse(s) | Sherry Baron |
| Children | Jake,Traven, Reed |
| Residence | Cincinnati, Ohio United States |
| Alma mater |
Southwestern College San Diego University University of Cincinnati |
| Profession |
Teacher, Historian, Journalist, Truck driver |
| Dan La Botz | |
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| Campaign | U.S. senate election in Ohio, 2010 |
| Candidate | Dan La Botz |
| Affiliation | Socialist Party of Ohio |
| Status | Lost |
Daniel H. La Botz (born August 9, 1945) is a prominent American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author. He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico. He is a member of the socialist organization Solidarity, which describes itself as "a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization," which comes out of the Trotskyist tradition. La Botz ran in 2010 for a seat in the United States Senate for the Socialist Party.
La Botz was born in Chicago, Illinois but grew up outside San Diego, California. He attended Southwestern College and San Diego State University. When he was in college, he opposed the American involvement in the Vietnam war and supported the United Farm Workers. He is a leader of the socialist organization Solidarity, which describes itself as "a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization" and which comes out of the Trotskyist tradition. In the 1970s, La Botz worked various jobs in Chicago before working as a truck driver. Within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), he was a co-founder of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), a reform caucus associated with Solidarity. TDU began in 1975 when a small group of freight Teamsters, some from the International Socialists group in Berkeley, CA met in Chicago, Illinois and founded Teamsters for a Decent Contract (TDC).
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