13 Facts About Carl Dix

Carl Dix was born on 1948 and is a founding member, and a representative, of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.

Carl Dix is a regular contributor to Revolution newspaper and a longtime associate of Bob Avakian.

In 1996, Dix co-founded the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.

Carl Dix along with Cornel West was a central figure in the campaign to Stop "Stop and Frisk" aimed at opposing the New York City stop-and-frisk program to stop hundreds of thousands of people in New York City and frisk them.

Carl Dix is a member of Refuse Fascism, a coalition group co-initiated by the RCP in 2016 to drive out the Trump administration.

Carl Dix was a member of the Black Workers Congress, the African Liberation Support Committee, and Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

Carl Dix grew up in an African-American working class community of West Baltimore, Maryland.

Carl Dix was drafted into the US Army in 1968 while attending college and at the height of the Vietnam War.

Carl Dix received orders to report to Fort Bragg Army base in North Carolina.

Carl Dix was one of six GIs who refused orders to go to Vietnam in June 1970 and faced courts-martial.

Carl Dix was immediately thrown into the military stockade at the base for pre-trial confinement, an unusual move contrary to military regulations.

Carl Dix was imprisoned for two years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary.

In 2011 Carl Dix played a key role in initiating the "Stop Mass Incarceration Network" and wrote "Taking the Movement of Resistance to Mass Incarceration to a Higher Level Thru Unleashing Determined Mass Resistance".