Frank Morales

Frank Morales

Frank Morales is an Episcopal priest and activist in New York City.

Morales was born in 1949 and grew up in the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.cite journal
last = Anderson
first = Lincoln
year = 2004
month = December
title = From skelly to squats to SWAT: Radical father finds a home at St. Mark’s
journal = The Villager
volume = 74
issue = 30
publisher = Community Media LLC.
location = New York, NY
url = http://www.thevillager.com/villager_83/fromskellytosquats.html
accessdate = 2007-12-27
] His father was Puerto Rican and his mother Peruvian. He first became involved in politics after the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as a member of the Assassination Information Committee.

Morales became an assistant pastor in 1978. In the Bronx he worked with squatters. In one interview he recalled, “I used to walk out of services with a crowbar and we’d open up abandoned buildings…” He now volunteers at St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. [Canon John Osgood, Episcopal Diocese of New York]

In 2003, he founded the Campaign to Demilitarize the Police in NYC.

ee also

* Liberation theology

External links

* [http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=25142 Radio interview of Frank Morales about his unusual tactics for obtaining housing.]

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