Celia Stodola Wald 1946-1992

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Celia Stodola Wald, a long-time member of the Trotskyist movement, died on May 7, after a long battle with scleroderma. She was 45 years-old and is survived by her husband, Alan Wald, and their daughters, Sarah and Hannah.

Celia was born Aug. 27, 1946, in East Orange, N.J., and graduated from high school in Fargo, N.D., in 1964. I first met her in the 1960s, when she was a fellow student at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Celia was a leader of the campus chapter of the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. We soon became close friends.

Celia and Alan joined the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) in March 1968. Within a couple of months, the membership of our YSA chapter at Antioch grew from three to 22 students. This was due in no small part to Celi leadership.

Celia joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Los Angeles in 1969. She soon became a member of the Oakland-Berkeley branch of the party. In 1971, she was a full-time staff member of the National Peace Action Coalition in San Francisco.

In 1975, Celia moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where she attended the University of Michigan School of Nursing. From 1979 until the fall of 1982, Celia practiced nursing in the ante-partum unit, Women's Hospital, University of Michigan Medical Center.

She was a founder of the Ann Arbor Committee for Human Rights in Latin America. In 1986, Celia became a founding member of Solidarity, a socialist group based in Detroit. She participated in Solidarity's Fourth International Caucus until her death. in Iraqi people.

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Mendes may have thought his international reputation would protect him. He made no attempt to leave. He wrote letters to officials in Brasilia and Sao Paula reporting the death threats. He got no answer. He