William J. Weinberg (born March 19, 1962) is an American political writer and radio personality based in
New York City
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. He writes journalism focusing on the struggles of
indigenous peoples
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, largely in
Latin America
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, but he has also written on the
Middle East
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The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...
and local New York issues. He is the co-editor of the on-line journal ''CounterVortex''. The CounterVortex Family of Websites also includes ''Global Ganja Report''. For twenty years he was the primary producer of a weekly late-night radio show on
WBAI
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in New York, called ''The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade'' (founded in 1988 by Peter Lamborn Wilson, who is also known as
Hakim Bey
Peter Lamborn Wilson (October 20, 1945 – May 22, 2022) was an American anarchist author and poet, primarily known for his concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control. During the 1970s, Wil ...
). He has won three awards from the
Native American Journalists Association. His basic political orientation is left-
anarchist
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.
His work has appeared in publications such as ''
The Nation
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'', ''
Al Jazeera
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'', ''
New America Media
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'', ''
Newsday
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'', ''
The Village Voice
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'', ''
Middle East Policy
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'', ''
In These Times In These Times may refer to:
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*In These Times (Peter, Paul, and Mary album), ''In These Times'' (Peter, Paul, and Mary album), a 2004 album b ...
'', ''
The Ecologist
''The Ecologist'' was a British environmental journal/magazine, published from 1970 to 2009. Founded by Edward Goldsmith, it addressed a wide range of environmental subjects and promoted an ecological systems thinking approach through its news ...
'', ''
Earth Island Journal'', ''
NACLA Report on the Americas
''NACLA Report on the Americas'' is a political magazine produced by the North American Congress on Latin America.
History
The North American Congress on Latin America was founded in November 1966 by leaders of the New Left movement to anal ...
'' and his own ''CounterVortex''.
Bill Weinberg is a co-founder of ''National Organization for the Iraqi Freedom Struggles''.
Publications
Books
Authored
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Edited
*''Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in the City and the World''. Autonomedia. 1999. (co-edited with Peter Lamborn Wilson).
Articles
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Radio shows
Source:
*''The Struggle in Peru II'' 29 September 2009, Bill Weinberg with a travelogue and update on the indigenous struggle in Peru.
*''Critical Mass Under Attack V'' July 29, 2008, Bill Times Up on the latest escalation against Critical Mass.
*''The Tompkins Square Riot: 20 Years Later'' 22 July 2008, Chris Flash, editor of the Lower East Side underground paper The Shadow, and Frank Morales, co-editor of the anthology Police State America.
*''From Darfur to Mauritania'' 19 September 2006, Mamadou Barry and Abdarahmane Wone of the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM
transcript*''Anti-Zionism & Jewish Liberation'' Ella Goldman, Guy Izhak Austrian, Ora Wise and Nirit Ben-Ali of Jews Against the Occupation (JATO) February 4,11 2003
References
External links
Bill Weinberg's web page at MySpaceCounterVortex (co-edited by Weinberg)
Living people
Writers from New York City
American anarchists
Libertarian socialists
American political writers
1962 births
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