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Ady Barkan


Born
in Boston, The United States
December 18, 1983

Died
November 01, 2023

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Ohad "Ady" Barkan (Hebrew: עדי ברקן; December 18, 1983 – November 1, 2023) was an American lawyer and liberal activist. He was a co-founder of the Be a Hero PAC and was an organizer for the Center for Popular Democracy, where he led the Fed Up campaign. Barkan confronted Senator Jeff Flake on a plane in 2017, asking him to "be a hero" and vote no on a tax bill that threatened cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

Barkan, who was diagnosed with the terminal neurodegenerative disease ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) in 2016 shortly after the birth of his son, was called "the most powerful activist in America" in a headline from 2019 in Politico Magazine. In 2020, he was included on Time's list of the 100 most influential peo
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“It showed that police officers were systematically making stops without even giving sufficient legal justification and that the justifications they were listing were often undermined by the evidence. The evidence also showed that the police targeted black and brown people for stops even when controlling for crime and geography, and treated black and brown people more harshly during stops.”
Ady Barkan, Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance

“Ady’s example is for all of us to follow. There is no act too small, no person too powerless, no moment too late to make a difference. The revolution rests in each of us.”
Ady Barkan, Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance

“Political change, I began to learn, was achievable only through sustained struggle, which required sustainable and powerful institutions that could continue pursuing their objectives for many years.”
Ady Barkan, Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance