Jean Pirano, The Hard Left(ist) Comes to Surf City

Jean  Pirano (84) is a quiet, but  consistent activist,  a “slack-tivist,” as she says with a big smile. Pirano came to Santa Cruz in the late-1960’s, worked for the Grey Bears managing their warehouse, and became a card-carrying member of the Santa Cruz Communist Party. Jean is so old, she says, that she walked out […]