Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a long-time racial justice, labor and international activist and writer. He has been a socialist since before he understood what that meant. He is also a Star Trek fan.
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Bruce Hobson
Bruce Hobson is a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. In 1968 he sold his ’55 Ford and hitchhiked to Mexico City, where he was exposed to revolutionary politics. He later worked for many years with rural health programs in Western and Southeastern México. His car is red.
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Comrade Trip
Comrade Trip is part of Ignite, a collective of revolutionary students and youth in New York, fanning the flames of struggle and building fighting organizations against the capitalist order.
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David Bacon
David Bacon is a California writer and documentary photographer. He was a union organizer for two decades, and today documents the changing conditions in the workforce, the impact of the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. His books include Illegal People – How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008), The Children of NAFTA (University of California Press, 2004) and Communities Without Borders (Cornell University Press, 2006). He belongs to the Pacific Media Workers Guild, Communications Workers of America, and was an organizer of the Free South Africa Labor Committee, the Labor Immigrant Organizers Network, and board chair of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights.
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Eric Odell
Eric Odell was the founding editor of the Student Environmental Action Coalition’s national magazine Threshold and is a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
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Evan Sarmiento
Evan Sarmiento is an avid Occupier and member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization/OSCL in Boston, MA.
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Fernando Marti
Fernando Martí is an artist, community architect, and activist. He was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and has made his home in San Francisco since 1992. As a member of PODER and the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition, he has been deeply involved in organizing, policy, and cultural production in San Francisco’s Mission District. Fernando also creates art through the San Francisco Print Collective and Just Seeds Artists Cooperative.
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Insurgente Lola
Insurgente Lola is a queer, black communist who does her troublemaking in Durham, North Carolina as a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization and People’s Durham. She organizes with working class communities of color in public housing and public schools to defend the public sector and build working-class political power.
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Johanna Brenner
Johanna Brenner is a socialist-feminist, community activist, and writer who lives in Portland, OR. She is author of Women and the Politics of Class (Monthly Review Press) as well as many articles in academic and non-academic journals. Her most recent published article on families is “Caught in the Whirlwind: working-class families face the economic crisis,” Socialist Register 2011. She is a founding member of Solidarity and is on the Advisory Board of Against the Current.
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Lefty Lucy
Lefty Lucy is the managing editor of Ask A Socialist. She came to revolutionary politics through campus organizing in opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and since then, she has worked in United Students Against Sweatshops and various immigrant rights and anti-racism groups. She believes it’s crucial for white, middle class people like herself to become allies in the struggle against all forms of oppression, to examine privilege and work towards liberation for all. She’s also a musician, dancer, and poet – every revolution’s gotta have art!
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Mary Jo Connelly
Mary Jo Connelly is a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization who lives in Somerville, MA. For over thirty years she has worked a lot with groups that are trying to win and/or improve jobs, although life in an immigrant city has brought her into many other kinds of organizing as well. Mary Jo would much rather help plan actions than potlucks.
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Meizhu Lui
Meizhu Lui is a founding member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. She is the co-author of The Color of Wealth: the Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. Her views have also appeared in mainstream news media such as the Washington Post, CNN, and Politico.com She describes herself as a “professional troublemaker!”
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Michelle Foy
Michelle Foy is a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad, a mother and activist. She is on the collective of the Center for Political Education, a resource for social movements and the left in the SF Bay Area.
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Plebeian View
Plebeian View writes for the blog Lenny Green. He’s been a labor and civil rights activist for over forty years. Most people know him as Muata Greene.
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RAF
RAF stands for “Radical Asian Feminist.” RAF was a student activist who organized for an Asian community center to combat racism on her campus. After graduating, she organized with other socialists and radicals against CUNY tuition hikes. RAF currently writes for the blog, The Fuckin’ Loudest Asians, and works on a farm.
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Stephanie
Stephanie is an educator and activist in New York City. She has been a student activist, feminist, labor organizer, and more, and is always looking to jump in the right fight.
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