Congratulations, Bennet!

• BENNET ZUROFSKY •Prosecute Them Now —30 October 2009 — by Stuart Hutchison — In the great spirit of progressive Americanism, a real lawyer, the real deal.

At The Tides Estate in North Haledon, NJ on November 19th, 2009, New Jersey’s great progressive layer, Bennet Zurofsky, will be given the Sol Stetin Award.

This award represents further acknowledgment of Bennet’s work both as a labor and civil rights lawyer and as a musician, particularly as the Director of the Solidarity Singers of the NJ Industrial Union Council.

Over the years, working from his office in Newark, Bennet Zurofsky has come to the aid of numerous individuals and organizations throughout our state, people who were victimized by a legal system that far too often preys on people who haven’t resources to “fight city hall” or illegal arrests by police who are untrained or who don’t care about our Bill of Rights and our Constitution. Bennet Zurofsky is certainly New Jersey’s #1 pro bono attorney. For many union people, the poor and dispossessed, he gives his legal expertise at no charge.

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• STATE HIGHWAY 23: IMPEACHING THEM IN BUTLER, NEW JERSEY •










































ImpeachThem.com and ProsecuteThemNow.com benefitted from Mr. Zurofsky’s legal counsel. In 2008, when we placed a huge sign on a footbridge over NJ State Highway 23 in Butler, the police ordered us to remove the sign or face arrest. Bennet contacted the town’s attorney and its police chief, informed them of our constitutional rights, and threatened legal action if Butler denied our right to peaceably exercise our first amendment rights. The cops stopped bothering us, and we mounted our sign regularly there until President Obama’s election.




• Bennet Zurofsky •
This award was founded in honor of Sol Stetin, the great Textile Workers Union leader, who Bennet represented late in his career, and because Bennet’s mentor, Sidney Reitman, was a recipient of the award about 25 years ago. Haledon’s Botto House, served as the headquarters and rally site for the IWW-led Paterson Silk Strike of 1913, and was likely the place where the Pageant of the Paterson Strike was conceived and organized. The Solidarity Singers have been proud to perform there annually on Mayday to commemorate and cultivate that radical tradition.

The public is invited to attend. Make your reservation HERE
• BOTTO HOUSE IN 1913 — ORGANIZING THE GREAT PATERSON SILK STRIKE •