Naomi Jaffe

Naomi Esther Jaffe
Born	June 1943 Glen Wild, New York State, USA
Other names	Naomi Esther Safier, "Leona"
Occupation	Activist
Known for	Former member of the 1970s group the Weather Underground Organization

Naomi Esther Jaffe (born 1943) is a former undergraduate student of Herbert Marcuse and member of the Weather Underground Organization. Jaffe was recently the Executive Director of Holding Our Own, a multiracial foundation for women.

Jaffe was born in upstate New York on a small family farm run by her Jewish parents. Her father was a poultry farmer and her mother an elementary school teacher. As a child she was influenced by her Communist relatives, their influence was reflected in her later revolutionary involvement. After high school she went on to attend Brandeis University and studied Marxism in a few classes with the professor and political theorist Herbert Marcuse.

After receiving her undergraduate degree Jaffe founded a chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society at The New School for Social Research where she was pursuing her graduate degree in sociology. During graduate school she formed a friendship with future Weatherman, David Gilbert. While in the SDS Jaffe worked for the independent publication New Left Notes and published an article about equal rights for women called “The Look Is You” coauthored with Bernardine Dohrn. Jaffe, a known member of the group Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W.I.T.C.H.), participated in the 1969 demonstrations at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. The demonstrations were held to speak out against the consumer driven oppression of women, and to say that the Miss America Pageant perpetuated false stereotypes about the capabilities of women. In 1969, as a member and leading feminist of the SDS, Jaffe traveled with a group of people to Hanoi to talk to young Vietnamese about the American antiwar movement.

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