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• Tim and the Copenhagen Discord

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  Friends of Tim, friends of labor and social justice  - I heard about Tims death just a few days before I was about to travel to the Copenhagen climate talks with a large US and international labor delegation.  A large demonstration on Saturday, December 11, in Copenhagen reminded me of Seattle 1999, and my thoughts ...
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• From the Gloucester Days

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  I knew Tim best in the 80s and 90s, working together painting, lobstering and running in the woods and roads of Cape Ann. His warm heart, dry wit and keen observations made up just a few parts of this outstanding and remarkable man. He will be greatly missed and our loving thoughts go to Susanne and Pia during this ...
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• Tims New York Times Obituary

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  COSTELLO--Tim, of Cambridge, MA died December 4 of cancer. Husband of Susanne Rasmussen; father of Pia and Gillian Costello; grandfather of Evan and Cathryn Sherman; brother of Sean Costello; friend to many. Founder of Global Labor Strategies, labor activist, and author.
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• Tim, you will be sorely missed!

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  The last time I saw Tim was at the World Social Forum last January. I had no idea he was ill and his death has come as a shock. I will always remember him as a really special man -- totally committed to rank and file democracy, very smart creative and thoughtful, and a warm and wonderful person. Tim, you will be ...
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• Annie Zirin pays tribute to an activist dedicated to the movement from below

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  [Original Posted here ] December 17, 2009 LABOR AND global justice activist Tim Costello passed away on December 4 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Tim was a founding member of many activist organizations during his lifetime--among them the Massachusetts chapter of Jobs with Justice, and most recently, a ...
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• Michael Hirsch Recalls Tims SDS Days

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  I knew Tim when we were both SDS militants at the New School and later in Boston. Unlike others of us, Tim was both an active SDS member and a trucker who believed deeply in the union movement and in the possibilities for working people to change the social order and rule in their own name. When SDS occupied a ...
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• Remembering Tim Costello

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  [by Jason Pramas; original posted on Open Media Boston ] Last week, only a few days after hearing that he was ill, I got word that my friend and mentor TimCostello had passed away. He was 64. Unfortunately, I did not get achance to speak to Tim in the last few months before he died. A privateperson as regards health ...
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• An angel passes from the world

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  I am rarely moved like this. But I miss Tim. It is not because I spent a lot of time with him. I am retired now and I would see Tim once and a while at the grocery store. We would bring each other up to date. Years ago, when I was organizing my fellow security guards at the Boston Museum of Fine arts, Tim and Jason ...
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• A good neighbor

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  I ran into Tim frequently around Cambridge, in the Coop or when he was walking Pia from school. Aside from his important work which clearly inspired so many, Tim was a good neighbor- a man who always had time to say hello in the most genuine way. He was never too busy or distracted to greet me or to engage in a ...
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• What we learned from Tim

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  We had the honour and privilege to share beautiful moments with Tim, to make common plans and to work together with him. We could not see each other often, but when we met we felt so comfortable and well with him... That was one of the many talents of Tim. It is a great loss for us personally and for the social ...
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• From Primitivo Rodriguez in Mexico

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  My deep sentiments of solidarity for Tim Costelloss family, foryou, and for all of Tims working sisters and brothers throughout theworld.    Viva for ever Tim Costello! Viva the working peoples struggles everywhere! We Shall Overcome! Hasta la Victoria, Siempre! Primitivo Rodriguez North American Affairs ...
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• Opening the Big Door to China

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  A couple ofyears ago Tim saw and seized a moment to open a big door to China, and that gesture really did changea bit of history. In 2006 Tim had picked-up on an unusual struggle unfolding inChina – a debate about strengthening labor rights which so provoked theAmerican and European Chambers of ...
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• Mourning a loss to the movement

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  Dear friends, Ive been a reader and admirer of Tims work since I came in the movement more than 25 years ago. So I was pleasantly surprised to find myself sitting next to him on a plane back to the U.S. from the World Social Forum in Brazil back in February. Our conversation ranged from the state of the Latin ...
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• Short Video Clip of Tim in China

  
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• Tim Interviewed about Worker Protests in France

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  French Workers Rebel
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• It always made me smile, and still does, to refer to Tim as my "student."

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  To Tims family and friends,I have been waiting and thinking, as I read the wonder tributes to ourTim, about what I could add. I met Tims on some picket line or at somemeeting probably in the early 1980s, and then got to know him when hebecame my "student" in the Labor Studies Program at UMass Boston, whenthe College ...
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• bye Tim

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  Walking in Malmoe during the final march of ESF, speaking with my bad inglish... We miss someone special, I was lucky knowing you, even just for few words Anna Camposampiero, Italy
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• Get out and about with the Rocky Mountain Gay and Lesbian Sierrans

  
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  Join GLS for the first snowshoe outing of the winter season as the group visits beautiful Nymph, Dream, and Emerald Lakes in Rocky Mountain National Park. The scenery is breathtaking, and so is the crisp winter air. Start the winter season with an easy 3.6-mile trip having an elevation gain of 600 feet but be ...
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• Cosmic Tim

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  To Tims friends and family: Such a shock to hear about Tims death. Just last night I let a few friends know who hadnt heard, and the shock and sadness hit them as it hit me: Tim? Cant be! One friend is a leader of my local union who had known Tim as a dissident Teamster in the 1970s and traveled with him to TDU ...
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• An irreplaceable human being

  
  Global Labor Strategies — Authority: 430
  Anyone who met Tim was immediately charmed by his beautiful voice (with that wonderful old-school Boston accent), his powerful intellect and his ability to tell fascinating stories. I knew him not as an activist, but as a neighbor, a fellow Red Sox devotee and as the father of my daughter’s best friend. I will ...
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