During his leadership at WIN, authors such as Grace Paley, Barbara Deming, Andrea Dworkin, Abbie Hoffman, and many others from the nonviolent Left appeared in its pages.
It also published excerpts from secret files stolen by persons unknown from the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania.
According to Tad Richards:[1] As part of his work with Win, the War Resisters League and the Committee for Non-Violent Action, Cakars helped organize demonstrations at the Pentagon and in New York, including a demonstration at a Manhattan military induction center where Dr. Benjamin Spock was arrested.
At a time when America seemed to be divided into hostile camps between radical peaceniks and the establishment, Cakars joined the St. Remy Volunteer Department, and rose to the rank of lieutenant.
Cakars was born in Riga, Latvia, which he left with his parents in 1944 to escape Soviet occupation.