Zoe Cording

Zoe Cording (nee Straley) was one of the founding members of the Unified People's Liberation Front with her sister Julie Straley. The older of the two sisters, Zoe had been briefly married to New York City State Police Officer Anton Cording. The two married when Zoe was nineteen, and Anton was twenty-three. In 2243, their son Jack Cording was born, and Anton was killed in the line of duty while attempting to put down "an incident" at one of Deleray Corporate Labs which prompted Zoe to begin streamlining her activist work into the Liberation Front.

While Julie considered herself to be the one who could organize and facilitate the group, Zoe was the ideological center of the organization. Before the Liberation Front, she had employed non-violent resistance in protest to a number of the city-state's policies.

Work with United People's Liberation Front
Zoe injected the group with the ethos of peaceful non-violence. The group was known for protests and highly publicized activism against, quote, "economic oppression, the squandering and hoarding of the few resources which are left in North America, the horrors which are being committed day in and day out in the name of science and state security, and powerfully dehumanizing nature of New York's paternalistic 'outreach' which more often than not results in drug addiction, poverty, and a sense of helplessness," (Zoe Cording).

Two of the group's larger accomplishments were orchestrated directly under Zoe. In the early history of the group, a painted mural was created across three cement buildings on Old Wall Street. It was promptly painted over. This began the cycle of new murals appearing on the newly repainted buildings. It has sense be deemed more cost-efficient to leave the mural (deemed vandalism) than repaint.

Immediately before Zoe's death, the group had arranged for the domestic workers of state employees to stage sit-ins during their hours of service. The strike lasted nearly three consecutive days. However, it was not until the second day that viewers learned that the sit-ins would exist literally during the hours of a worker's service. The strike ended after three eight-hour sit-ins. No demands were issued; the group's statement insisting that the act was only bring awareness to, quote, "these domestic servants and the fact that their work allows for the city's oligarchy to run without hitch," (Zoe Cording).

Death
Directly following the Domestic Worker's Strike, Zoe was found dead in her New York City apartment. The official cause of death was ruled as complications from exhaustion and dehydration. Her death was never investigated, but her brother spread rumors of conspiracy and murder. It can be assumed that it was this warning that kept others from taking up the mantle of a leadership position.