Volunteers' Biographies
Emeritus
Robert Cymbala
Name: Robert Cymbala
Email:
MIA Volunteer: 2001-2005
Born: Glen Ridge, New Jersey (1966)
Location: Los Angeles, California
Web page:
http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/
Union: United Transportation Union
Political Membership:
Bus Riders Union
MIA Work:
Lenin Internet Archive.
Other Politics: Archivist
for The Alternative Orange student newspaper.
MIA Work History:
During Summer of 2001 became co-director of the Lenin Internet Archives having read all 45 volumes of Lenin Collected Works from 1995 to 1997. Robert transcribed a majority of the 45 volumes of the Lenin Collected Works with meticulous attention to detail, and a single-minded purpose.
In November, 2005, during negotiations between MIA and a third party, Robert secretly sent internal MIA e-mails to that third party. MIA learned of this when that entity informed us, astonished by the audacity of such an unprovoked and unwanted move. Robert righteously defended his decision to leak internal discussion under the auspices of "transparency": stating that the MIA organisation has no right to have internal, private discussions.
A consensus decision led to the expulsion of Robert from MIA. This marks the third time in the 16 years of MIA history, with well over 1,000 volunteers, that someone has been asked to leave and/or expelled. It is only with a heavy heart that the collective sent Robert off, and discussions are nonetheless ongoing regarding how to include his work around "V. I. Lenin Obras Completas" the Spanish version of the LCW. People who are interested in working with Robert on the above work shold write him at the address above.
The photo seen above was taken in front of a garage door on Balmy Street in San Francisco's Mission District. The young boy is writing "resistence" ("RESISTE") as his village is burning, a young woman sits on boxes marked for EXPORT holding an empty plate, and a group of adults use guns to fight the country's U.S.-backed military. Another group of adults hold B&W pictures of their "disappeared" family members, as a man dumps grain or corn onto the ground that was bound for a so-called "rich" country where obesity is epidemic and the poor continue to starve.
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