[6] As part of their mission to instigate social change, members of Newsreel would present films to political organizations and community groups across the United States.
[7] The retrospective, Exit Art / The First World had Newsreel members Norman Fruchter, Roz Payne and Lynn Phillips discuss the films.
[8] He was a member of SDS along with Tom Hayden, Jesse Allen, Robert Kramer, also full-time organizers for the group: Carol Glassman; Terry Jefferson; Constance Brown; Corinna Fales; and Derek Winans.
Fruchter recommended Christine Choy to the Newsreel group, after meeting her at Ironbound neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey.
He helped to form Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which sued the city of New York over inadequate school funding.