I have been active in social movements since 1969 when I participated in the anti-Vietnam movement. A target of the FBI's COINTELPRO program (Counterintelligence), I was honored to be classified "Priority 1 ADEX" meaning in the event of a national emergency, people like me were to be immediately arrested. For 11 years, I worked in Ocean Beach, California (as described at the end of Andre Gorz's book Ecology as Politics) in a radical countercultural community that fought against war, police brutality, and rape as we built up a network of alternative institutions (free school, food store, bookstore/cultural center and others). After living in Berlin for 1 1/2 years and learning first-hand about the autonomous movement there, I wrote about that movement (The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life). For years, I was active for the cause of Palestinian rights. A graduate of MIT and UCSD (where I studied with Herbert Marcuse), I wrote my dissertation about the global movement of 1968 (published as The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968). I have been teaching at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
In 2001, I did research at the May 18 Institute at Chonnam National University
in Kwangju South Korea, especially focusing on the 1980 uprising, and am now
writing about Korean social movements. For 6 six years, I have been editor of
New Political Science and have also been part of bringing many unknown issues
into public view, with special issues on the Sudan and one on the Black Panther
Party (published as a book by Routledge--Liberation, Imagination and the Black
Panther Party--coedited with Kathleen Cleaver.) A peace advocate by nature,
I am also unwilling to tolerate injustice and work incessantly for the realization
of my ideals.
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