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Sunil Freeman (active 1989-present) is an American socialist political candidate, activist, and poet who was the Party for Socialism and Liberation nominee for vice-president in the 2020 Presidential election. [1] [2] Freeman is the Assistant Director of The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. [3]
Freeman was born to Flora Navita, an Indian teacher working at a refugee camp in Varanasi, and Charles Freeman, an American who visited India as part of an American peace group in Raleigh, North Carolina. [3] [4] Accourding to Sunil, his mother retained her Indian citizenship and was raised in New Delhi, where she attended Isabel Thoburn College. [4] Freeman grew up in Maryland outside of Washington, D.C., and both of his parents strongly opposed the Vietnam War. [5] [6]
During the 1980s, he worked for The Washington Post as a critic. [7] As of 2010, Freedman is the Assistant Director of The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. [3]
He joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation in 2005 after becoming an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition in the anti-Iraq War movement. [5] [8] He also took part in opposition to the United States embargo against Cuba and against sanctions levied by the US against multiple foreign nations. [9]
Freeman joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation ticket in replacement of Leonard Peltier, who was experiencing health issues. [10] [11] The ticket obtained no electoral votes in the election, and a total of 85,623 nationally, or about 0.05% of the total, being sixth most voted candidate, after Rocky de la Fuente, and ahead of Kanye West. [12] [13]