Article: ABE OSHEROFF'S LIFE AS A REBEL FROM SPANISH CIVIL WAR TO IRAQ, AN ACTIVIST, 88, LOOKS BACK.(News)

Byline: GREGORY ROBERTSP-I reporter

As a teenager growing up in Brooklyn, Abe Osheroff organized a group of his friends into something called the Brownsville Athletic and Cultural Club, with the dual purposes of lifting weights and listening to classical music.

But it was the beginning of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a neighborhood leftist recruited Osheroff and his friends for a different mission: helping evicted tenants by carrying the furniture landlords dumped on the sidewalk back into the rented apartments.

Osheroff thought it was a good idea - but the police didn't agree. He was caught in the act and beaten by cops who called ...

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