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Maris Cakars (Latvian: Māris Čakars) (1942-1992) is best known as having served as editor of WIN (Workshop in Nonviolence) Magazine, a bi-weekly journal of the nonviolent anti-Vietnam War movement, from 1970 to 1976. During his leadership at WIN, authors such as Grace Paley, Barbara Deming, Andrea Dworkin, Abbie Hoffman, and many others from the nonviolent Left appeared in its pages. It also published excerpts from secret files stolen by persons unknown from the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania. The files were described by the New York Times as "a virtually complete collection of political materials" from the FBI's regional offices, dealing with secret FBI surveillance of student, civil rights and anti-war groups. According to Tad Richards:〔Obituary, The Woodstock Times, April 2, 1992, sourced at (a memorial site ) on January 28, 2007.〕
Cakars was born in Riga, Latvia, which he left with his parents in 1944 to escape Soviet occupation. The family arrived in America in 1949, and he was raised in Oceanside, Long Island, New York. He studied at Lafayette College and Columbia University. He married Susan Kent, and together they had two children, a daughter, Andrea, and a son, Jānis.〔〔New York Times obituary, March 26, 1992〕 After he left WIN in 1976, he lived in Brooklyn. He edited ''Women's World'' and managed production for ''Seven Days'' magazines, and served as sports editor for the ''Guinness Book of World Records''.〔〔 He died of internal hemorrhaging in 1992 at the age of 49. == See also == * War Resisters League * Committee for Non-Violent Action 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maris Cakars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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