Paul Messersmith-Glavin
Paul Messersmith-Glavin is a longtime social movement organizer, living in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. He is a Chinese medicine practitioner and member of the Perspectives on Anarchist Theory collective, the Mutual Aid Acupuncture Collective, and the Social Justice Action Center. His writing has appeared in "The Philosophy of the Beats" and "Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973—2001." He edited and wrote the forward to "Imperiled Life: Revolution against Climate Catastrophe," served as the Institute for Anarchist Studies’ editor for "No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis," and contributed the foreword to George Katsiaficas’ forthcoming "Eros and Revolution." Follow him on Twitter.
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