Marcello Rollando talks with Pat Elder re Military poisoning USA Water

Pat Elder grew up in Hyattsville, Maryland. He attended Catholic schools until junior year when his family moved to Dunkirk, in Calvert County. Pat graduated from Calvert County High School in 1973 and from St. Mary’s College of MD in 1977. He earned an MA in Government from the University of MD in 1986. 

Pat has always been politically active. He worked as an intern for Common Cause at age 16 on a lobbying campaign directed at reforming campaign finance laws. Pat still advocates for these same positions 45 years later. At age16, Pat first became involved in non-violent direct action against the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam.

Mr. Elder’s professional career has been rich and varied. During three separate stints spanning 40 years, Pat spent 12 years as an 8th and 9th grade classroom teacher. It was the work he loved best. He taught English at the Islamic Education Center in Potomac for three years. To provide for his family, Pat started a real estate title abstract firm which he operated for 20 years. It eventually grew to employ a dozen workers. Pat knows what it means to meet a payroll and he appreciates how tough it is for very small businesses to properly compensate workers without state-supported health care and day care.

Most of Mr. Elder’s time over the last 25 years has been spent as a political activist.  He was an organizer of mass protests in Washington with the DC Antiwar Network, (DAWN), United for Peace and Justice, and Code Pink Women for Peace. In 2005, Pat embraced the counter-recruitment movement and joined the Coordinating Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth. www.nnomy.org 
 

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