2005 Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York City, 1996 candidate for State Assembly, NY

Available to speak on the following subjects:
War and Peace
U.S. History
Race Relations
Foreign Policy

Bio
Tony Gronowicz, Ph.D., was the 2005 Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York City and the 1996 candidate for State Assembly. He serves on the Green Party of the United States International Committee. A Manhattan native, Gronowicz graduated from Columbia College and the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Ph.D. in New York City political history. He edited Oswald Garrison Villard: The Dilemmas of the Absolute Pacifist in Two World Wars (1983); and authored Race and Class Politics in New York City Before the Civil War (1998), and Grand Illusion: American Democracy From its Roots to the Present (2006). He teaches, U.S. history, Global Civilization, Political Science and Human Geography at the City University of New York.

Gronowicz chaired the Chelsea Committee to End the War in Vietnam, attended the first SDS march on Washington (1965), the Pentagon (1967), Mumia in Philadelphia with his daughter (2000), and the Diallo City Hall protests. On June 4, 2001, he was involved in covert direct action at WBAI to end censorship and restore jobs of fired staff. From 1999 to 2001, he chaired the University Seminar on the City at Columbia University, and was appointed to the Speakers??? Bureau of the New York Council for the Humanities (2000-2002) to talk about ???The History of Race Relations in New York City.??? He is active in his union, the Professional Staff Conference of the City University of New York, co-editing a union pamphlet, ???Globalization, Privatization, War: In Defense of Public Education in the Americas??? (2003). On December 9, 2003, he publicly testified at City Hall before Councilman Charles Barron???s Committee on Higher Education.

Gronowicz believes that the Greens are capable of building a multiethnic party grounded in environmental and social justice, and practicing transparent government, transparently arrived at. In eight WBAI programs in 2000, he discussed his race and class book and how average Americans can succeed in building a successful third party to defend their interests against a privately run transnational corporate economy that has downsized and outsourced full-time American jobs over the last generation, while spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually waging war all over the planet.

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