James Tracy
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James Tracy

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James Tracy is a long-time social justice organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area, and author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco's Housing Wars. He co-authored with, Amy Sonnie, ofHillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times (Melville House, September 2011). He is the founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust and has been active in the Eviction Defense Network and the Coalition On Homelessness, SF. He has edited two activist handbooks for Manic D Press, The Civil Disobedience Handbook, and The Military Draft Handbook. His writing has appeared in Left Turn, Race Poverty and the Environment, Contemporary Justice Review, and the Political Edge, a City Lights Foundation anthology. "James Tracy will wake up any audience-- they will see their tired assumptions blow away, and be better, happier, and stronger for it." --Diane DiPrima, Poet "James Tracy is a poet and speaker who leaves the audience stunned, then energized...Given the invisibility of this history, this book couldn't be more timely and more necessary." --Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author Blood on the Border "James Tracy is one of the best public speakers I ever heard. His exquisite speaking skills are matched only by his remarkable and passionate writing about hidden moments of our history." --Andrej Grubacic, San Francisco Art Institute, co-author of Wobblies and Zapatistas.
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