Michael Parenti | How I Became an Activist for Social Justice

Michael Parenti, Berkeley California, 2003 Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad. "A prolific author, a charismatic speaker, and a regular guest on radio and television talk shows, Parenti communicates his message in an accessible, provocative, and historically informed style that is unrivaled among fellow progressive activists and thinkers." — Aurora Online, January 2004 "Michael Parenti is a towering prophetic voice in American life. We need him now more than ever." — Cornel West "Parenti offers a valuable rebuttal to the drumbeat...from the right." — New York Times Book Review "A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks." — The Catholic Journalist "Michael Parenti is one of the greatest writers that this country has ever produced. As a historian he is a preeminent interpreter of our times. . . . He has an undeniable sense of reality and he speaks with tremendous authority of feeling. What he has offered our world is absolutely extraordinary." — Justin Desmangles, Chair, Board of Regents, Before Columbus Foundation, 2014. "Here at home and throughout the world people are fighting back against the forces of wealth, privilege, and militarism — some because they have no choice, others because they would choose no other course but the one that leads to peace and justice." — Michael Parenti