L.A. Kauffman has been a grassroots organizer and movement journalist for more than thirty-five years. She was the mobilizing coordinator for some of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history--the massive Iraq antiwar protests of 2003 and 2004--and has played key roles in many other movements and campaigns. Kauffman's writings on organizing and resistance have appeared in
The Guardian, n+1,
Frieze, and numerous other publications, and she is the author of
Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. Visit lakauffman.org for tour dates and speaking engagements.