Recently our comrade Don Jennings aka prole-cat was found in his home dead and so far we have not heard how he died. Don was a steadfast fighter for justice, a prolific writer, a founding member of Atlanta's Capital Terminus Collective, former member of Workers Solidarity Alliance, a student of life, adventurer, philosopher, loyal friend and companion to many and a true mensch. May his memory remain to encourage us in our struggles to create a better, more beautiful world. RIP dear comrade.
My condolences about losing your comrade.
Condolences to you and all his friends and family. Really sad news xxx
Shit. I hate these constant reminders of my own mortality. I grieve.
David in Atlanta
My will is easy to decide
For there is nothing to divide
My kin don’t need to fuss and moan
“Moss does not cling to a rolling stone.”
My body? – Oh. – If I could choose
I would to ashes it reduce
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow
Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again
This is my Last and final Will
Good Luck to All of you
sorry to hear that :( condolences
Condolences comrade, all the best to the friends and family.
I am sorry to hear that.
Thanks for posting this David. I only heard about this earlier tonight, I'm really glad one of our comrades made sure to talk to me on the phone about it, before I saw it here.
Don was one of the first people that I was ever able to call "Comrade", and he was not only one of the most dedicated people I've ever met, but also an incredibly nice and warm person. I plan to write something more substantive about him in the next few days, and several of his comrades are going to work to collect his writings, etc.
This is really a loss, and should remind us not to take our time here, or our political and ethical commitments, for granted.
I am sorry to hear of this loss to our movement and the sadness this brings to his friends and family.
Love Jason.
sorry to hear about this. RIP
It's tragic to hear of a death of a comrade.
In solidarity and respect.
Dan.
very sad ... moege die Erde dir leicht sein!
that's terrible, david, my condolences
he was also in LCF until very recently, we will be putting up his interview with bell hooks as soon as possible.
rip
I corresponded with Don when he started to get active. Met him in Washington, DC at the "Million Worker March" and hung together for a bit with him there.
I liked him on a personal level and am saddend to learn about his death.
I'm very sorry, condolences David, Oliver and everyone else who knew him.
Oliver or anyone else we would happily host an obituary or writings here if you like.
Obituary on commonstruggle.org
Includes 17 of his articles published by North Eastern Anarchist, Anarkismo.Net, The Dawn, etc...
Yes Oliver the plan is that those of us in atlanta will compile his political writings and his fictional writings and publish them. we're going to have to get permission from his family for his fictional works .. i am going to ask his family about the novel he was writing as well, even if just to read what he had written so far.
I had the pleasure of meeting him once, when I lived in Kentucky. It was hard to get the phone call from a friend out there last week. His daughter is only 12.
RIP, condolences to those who knew him
It is always a shocker when one of "us" falls, no matter what. That has certainly been the effect on those in our group I mentioned it to, as these things almost always are.
Our best to his family, and day-to-day comrades. I guess we all just hike our boots up and keep going, as that would, among all the other things it would do, honour his memory. RiP, Prolecat.
Sad. condolences to all the comrades and friends.
i just learned that this is 'randy' who used to post here. a sorry thing in any event, but it was tougher after i realized that. r.i.p. he leaves children, i understand.
It is always terribly difficult when someone you know passes away but those who knew Don should be proud to have known someone who clearly made a difference in many people's lives.
Very sad to hear. Was he a Kentucky native? I feel I'm discovering there are more interesting people living here than I realized
If i remember correctly Don was an Alabama native who lived in Georgia and Kentucky at various times in his life.
Farewell dearest comrade farewell until I hear the strum of your dulcimer in the wind farewell.
http://libcom.org/library/hurricane-katrina-and-good-churchgoers-u-s-south-prole-cat
I don't think this was posted up earlier. It's a great piece, and a quiet testament to Don's courage and ethical commitment. When Katrina hit, he immediately did what he could to help people (as did many others) and only later worried about trying to draw out the lessons.