 |
This article may not meet the general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged or deleted. (July 2008) |
Derrick O'Keefe is a well known Canadian writer and social justice activist. He is the editor of rabble.ca, Canada's most widely-read progressive website, and his writings on foreign policy, Canadian politics, ecology and other topics have been published in a number of both alternative and mainstream publications. O'Keefe is the co-writer of the autobiography of Afghan women's rights activist and politician Malalai Joya -- A Woman Among Warlords (Scribner 2009) -- and is currently writing a book on the politics and ideas of Michael Ignatieff, to be published by Verso Books in 2010.
O'Keefe was a founding editor and publisher of the on-line zine Seven Oaks, 2004-2008, a now discontinued "journal of "politics, culture and resistance" that featured the writing of a group of young, progressive journalists and activists.
O'Keefe is a former co-chair of Stopwar.ca, Vancouver, British Columbia's largest anti-war coalition, and a member of the steering committee of the Canadian Peace Alliance.
External links
 |
This article about a Canadian writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
