Obituaries

Coffin, Tom, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, March 4, 2016, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.

Remembering Tom Coffin, 1943 – 2025

Tom Coffin was a lifelong troublemaker. In his 82 years of purpose-driven life, he made a lot of very “good trouble”. He leaves a legacy that reflects a commitment to human rights, caretaking the environment, and organized labor. He was a writer, editor, photographer, construction worker, crane operator, teacher, union member, arborist, father, husband, and […]

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Matthew Cardinale sits beside the Savannah River.
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Father George Makhlouf, a retired Antiochian priest born in West Jerusalem prior to the Nakba in 1948 when over 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced from Palestine, speaks to a crowd of protesters gathered in downtown Atlanta to protest Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza
Remembering Father George Makhlouf, Nakba survivor and Antiochian priest who lived in Duluth

Father George Makhlouf, born in Jerusalem in 1943, was a retired Antiochian priest who survived the Nakba in Palestine and lived in Duluth, Georgia. Makhlouf passed away yesterday, Dec. 21. 

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