IMPOSING DEMOCRACY
IMPOSING DEMOCRACY
by Mark Lipman, recipient of the 2015 Joe Hill
Labor Poetry Award is a writer, poet, multi- media artist and activist.
He is the author of six books, most recently, Poetry for the Masses and Global Economic Amnesty.
Co-founder of the Berkeley Stop the War Coalition (USA), Agir Contre
la Guerre (France) and Occupy Los Angeles, he has been an outspoken
critic of war and occupation since 2001. Mark uses poetry to connect
communities to the greater social issues that affect all of our lives,
while building consciousness through the spoken word. Currently, he is
a member of POWER (People Organized for Westside Renewal), the IWW
(Industrial Workers of the World); Occupy Venice, the Revolutionary
Poets Brigade and 100 Thousand Poets for Change.