Ady Barkan
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Ady Barkan
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Ohad "Ady" Barkan was an American lawyer and activist. He was co-founder of the Be a Hero PAC and was an organizer for the Center for Popular Democracy, where he led the Fed Up campaign. Barkan confronted Senator Jeff Flake on a plane in 2017, asking him to "be a hero" and vote no on a tax bill that threatened cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Barkan, who was diagnosed with the terminal neurodegenerative disease ALS in 2016 shortly after the birth of his son, was called "the most
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American activist and attorney (1983–2023)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ady_Barkan
date created:
2019-02-10T05:32:37Z
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2024-08-30T20:18:06Z
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