A 73 year old lifetime New Yorker. I've been a construction worker, a GI (an early member of the American Servicemen's Union Union and the Clerk's / E-4 Mafia) I was editor of the ASU's monthly anti war paper that was read by thousands of GIs in Vietnam and worldwide. Former shop steward Utility Workers Union and Union delegate local 371 Social  Services Employee's Union. I was a frontline child protective services worker for ten years and a taxi driver on the night time streets of New York. Also having grown up in the projects I had a unique growing up for a Jewish kid. My beloved partner has family in Venezuela who we strive to keep from starvation