Guest Rebecca Gordon

Published: April 20, 2016, 1 a.m.

She will discuss: her new book on America's war crimes American Nuremberg.\n\nPrior to her career in academia, Rebecca Gordon spent a few decades working in a variety of national and international movements for peace and justice. These include the movements for women\u2019s liberation and LGBT rights; movements in solidarity with the struggles of poor people in Central America; the anti-apartheid movement in the United States and South Africa; and movements opposing U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\n\nIn 1984, Gordon spent six months living in the war zones of Nicaragua, and in 1990, three months teaching desktop publishing at an anti-apartheid newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a founder of Californians for Justice, a statewideorganization dedicated to the political enfranchisement of marginalized people, especially young people, poor people, and people of color.\n\n\nOther organizations she has worked with include the Applied Research Center, the Center for Third World Organizing, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, and the Asian-Pacific Environmental Network.