Richard L. Grossman, organizer who sought to curtail corporate power, has died

[The Straight Story]

Richard L. Grossman, organizer who sought to curtail corporate power, has died

Richard L. Grossman, a community organizer who sought to curtail big business by raising public awareness about what he regarded as corporate abuse of power, died Nov. 22 at a hospital in New York City.

He was 68 and had metastatic melanoma, said his daughter, Alyssa Grossman.


Mr. Grossman worked on a variety of progressive causes during his four-decade career. In the 1970s, while living in the Washington area, he founded Environmentalists for Full Employment, a group that sought to unite environmental activists and unions. In the 1980s, he worked at the Highlander Research and Education Center, a social justice organization in Tennessee, and was executive director of Greenpeace USA.

Through those organizing efforts, Mr. Grossman reached a troubling conclusion.



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