- Lisa Fithian
Lisa Fithian has been working for social change since the mid 1970s. During 7 years as coordinator of the
Washington Peace Center during the 1980s, Lisa organized hundreds of events and demonstrations on a range of issues both locally and nationally and helped lead an extensive anti-racism process that successfully transformed the Peace Center into a truly multicultural organization. In the early 1990s Lisa joined the labor movement, bringing her experience to the Justice for Janitors campaigns in Washington DC, Denver and LA and to nursing home workers in San Francisco and Detroit. She also provided training and support work to theUnited Auto Workers Union and with the Detroit Newspaper Strikers. Lisa has continued her work for social, economic and environmental justice, providing training and organizing support to many of the global justice mobilization around the world since the shut down of the WTO Ministerial in Seattle in 1999. Over the past year, Lisa has been working with theCommon Ground Collective in New Orleans organizing relief efforts. Currently, Lisa serves as a National Steering Committee member ofUnited for Peace and Justice , a coalition of over 1000 local and national groups working to end the war in Iraq and build a broad movement for social change.She has written throughout the years including the introduction to
Abbie Hoffman 's bookSteal this Book and most recently in the book anthology bySouth End Press . [cite news
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* [http://www.rantcollective.net/article.php?id=5 Roots Activist Network of Trainers]
*cite web | url=http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/s/steal-this-book.shtml | title=Steal This Book Review | author=MacEwan, Valerie | work=Pop Matters site | accessdate=2008-01-03External links
* [http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=1757 United For Peace and Justice]
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