Mark Andersen is a
punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...
community activist and author who lives in
Washington D.C. He was born and raised in rural Montana, and moved to Washington D.C. in 1984 to attend graduate school at the
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Andersen co-founded the punk activist organization
Positive Force D.C. in 1985, and the We Are Family Senior Outreach Network in 2004. Together with his wife, Tulin Ozdeger, he is the co-director of We Are Family, which serves low-income seniors in the Shaw, North Capitol Street and Columbia Heights neighborhoods of Washington, D.C.
He has contributed to several other books including ''Sober Living For the Revolution: Hardcore, Radical Politics, and Straight Edge'' (2010), ''We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the Collected Interviews'' (Expanded Edition) (2008), ''Rad Dad: Dispatches From the Frontiers of Fatherhood'' (2011), and ''Rock Politics: Popular Musicians Who Changed the World'' (2012).
Andersen donated his archives to the
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in 2015.
Works
* ''Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capitol'' (
Soft Skull Press, 2001),
* ''All The Power: Revolution Without Illusion'' Punk Planet Books, (2004),
* ''We are the Clash: Reagan, Thatcher, and the Last Stand of a Band that Mattered.'' Akashic Books, Brooklyn, New York, 2018.
References
External links
Positive Force D.C.
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American activists
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni
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