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The Marxist sociologist, William DiFazio, died March 10th of 2020 at the age of 72 from complications related to diabetes. I met Bill in 1975, when we were both students at the CUNY Graduate Center. We remained friends for the next 45 years. Bill Difazio wrote three books: Longshoremen: Community and Resistance On The Brooklyn Waterfront 1985, The Jobless Future (with Stanley Aronowitz) 1995, and Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Shelter 2005. He hosted a popular radio show, City Watch, on WBAI from 2000-2016, where he interviewed community activists as well as radical intellectuals. There is a Wikipedia page for Bill at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_DiFazio Bill contributed to a number of journals, including Social Text and Situations, where he served on the editorial board. At the time of his death, he was writing a book to be called, Conversations in Diners: Ordinary People and The Crisis in Capitalism. Bill DiFazio was a popular teacher at St. Johns in Queens, New York. He served as Chair of the Sociology Department at St. Johns for six years. He also volunteered at a food program run by St. Johns in Brooklyn for several years, where he did the field work for, Ordinary Poverty. Bill DiFazio is survived by his wife, Susan Heller, a Brooklyn artist, and his daughter, Liegia DiFazio, an attorney in Atlanta. GS _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
