Ed Garvey, Labor Lawyer and Progressive Firebrand, has died

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Source: Madison.com (Madison, Wisconsin)

Ed Garvey, an icon among Wisconsin’s progressives and longtime nationally known labor attorney, died this morning at a Verona nursing home where he had been living the past two weeks. He was 76.

Garvey, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and its Law School, was the National Football League Players Association’s counsel and executive director from 1970 to 1983, leading the players through two strikes in 1974 and 1982, and then returning to Madison in 1983 as assistant to then Attorney General Bronson La Follette. He left the AG’s office for private practice as a labor attorney, often representing principled causes pro bono because of his steadfast belief in helping the beleaguered “little guy.”
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Garvey was a founder of the annual progressive political event known as Fighting Bob Fest and for several years ran FightingBob.com, a website that featured progressive political content and a daily blog that he wrote.

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1. RIP :(

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2. I heard him speak many times at the Bob Fest. I will miss him. Peace to his family. Wisconsin

lost one of its best role models.

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3. More on his legacy, from Dave Zirin of The Nation. . .

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https://www.thenation.com/article/the-towering-legacy-of-ed-garvey/


“Some will tell you that you can’t fight City Hall. Well if you don’t fight, you can’t win.”
– Ed Garvey