![]() Remembered Effective Altruism president Andrew H. Cho and Alexandra Topic, “In addition to serving as a teaching fellow, Raskin was a board member of Effective Altruism and a member of the Harvard Animal Law Society.” Offered Harvard Crimson staff writers Emmy M. Please look after each other, the animals, and the global poor for me. “He left us this farewell note ‘Please forgive me. Unfortunately, Jamie and Sarah Bloom Raskin narrated, “Tommy began to be tortured later in his 20s by a blindingly painful and merciless disease called depression, a kind of relentless torture in the brain for him, and despite very fine doctors and a loving family and friendship network of hundreds who adored him beyond words and whom he adored too, the pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable. He also cheerfully opposed sectarian holier-than-thou sanctimoniousness among a handful of vegans he met and would say, ‘I’m working for a vegan world, not a vegan club.’” “He recruited gently and lovingly - but supremely effectively - dozens and dozens of people, including his parents,” Jamie and Sarah Bloom Raskin added, “to the practice of not eating animals, and it will be hard to find anyone his age who has turned more carnivores into vegans than him. “I’m working for a vegan world, not a vegan club” “Last summer, he was a summer associate at Mercy for Animals and found a knack for actual lawyering,” Jamie and Sarah Bloom Raskin continued, both Harvard-educated lawyers themselves. “Tommy became an anti-war activist, a badass autodidact moral philosopher and progressive humanist libertarian, and a passionate vegan who composed imperishable, knock-your-socks-off poetry linking systematic animal cruelty and exploitation to militarism and war culture. Recalled Jamie and Sarah Bloom Raskin of their son, “He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he majored in history and wrote a compelling senior thesis on the intellectual history of the animal rights movement. Sarah Bloom Raskin was a governor of the Federal Reserve Board and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Department during President Obama’s administration.Linked cruelty to animals with “war culture” Before entering Congress in 2016, Raskin represented parts of Takoma Park and Silver Spring in the Maryland State Senate. Raskin’s statement did not list a cause of death, and said that funeral and memorial service arrangements will be released at a later date.Ĭongressman Raskin represents Maryland’s Eighth Congressional District, which includes much of Montgomery County. ![]() The family is grateful for the outpouring of support and love from neighbors, constituents, and friends but asks everyone to observe strict COVID-19 protocols during this time of grief.” “Tommy is survived by his beloved sisters Hannah and Tabitha, dozens of loving aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and grandparents Arlene Bloom and Lynn Raskin. We are devastated and demolished to be without him. He passionately loved his family, friends, and animals, and was devoted to the cause of the global poor. His brilliance and compassion knew no bounds. In a statement, Congressman Raskin wrote, “Tommy was pure magic. ![]() He was a second-year student at Harvard Law School.Īt Blair, Tommy lead a peer tutoring program and was the president of the Young Democrats Club, according to Silver Chips articles from the time. Tommy was 25.Īfter graduating from Montgomery Blair High School, Tommy attended and graduated from Amherst College. Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin announced the passing of their son, Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin, this morning at their home in Takoma Park.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |