Sunil Freeman

Freeman was born to Flora Navita, an Indian teacher working at a refugee camp in Varanasi, and Charles Freeman, an American who visited India as part of an American peace group in Raleigh, North Carolina.^[3][4] Accourding to Sunil, his mother retained her Indian citizenship and was raised in New Delhi, where she attended Isabel Thoburn College.^[4] Freeman grew up in Maryland outside of Washington, D.C., and both of his parents strongly opposed the Vietnam War.^[5][6]

During the 1980s, he worked for The Washington Post as a critic.^[7] As of 2010, Freedman is the Assistant Director of The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland.^[3]

He joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation in 2005 after becoming an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition in the anti-Iraq War movement.^[5][8] He also took part in opposition to the United States embargo against Cuba and against sanctions levied by the US against multiple foreign nations.^[9]

Freeman joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation ticket in replacement of Leonard Peltier, who was experiencing health issues.^[10][11] The ticket obtained no electoral votes in the election, and a total of 85,623 nationally, or about 0.05% of the total, being sixth most voted candidate, after Rocky de la Fuente, and ahead of Kanye West.^[12][13]