Mosess Fishman - Later Life

Later Life

Fishman remained active in a number of progressive organizations, including Veterans For Peace New York City Chapter 34, the Joint Antifascist Refugee Committee and United for Peace and Justice.

During the 1980s Fishman, together with many other Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, protested U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. The VALB raised money for ambulances to be sent to the Nicaraguan government to aid those wounded by the American-funded Contras. He also participated in protesting the U.S. Navy’s use of Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico as a bombing range until 2003.

In August 2004 Fishman helped carry a Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade banner in a protest at Madison Square Garden against the 2004 Republican National Convention. In 2003 and 2006, together with other VALB members and supporters he marched in demonstrations opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.

He lived in the Penn South co-op in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.

Mosess Fishman died in Manhattan aged 92 on August 6, 2007, from pancreatic cancer.