Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism

FEATURING L.A. KAUFFMAN – There is a powerful history of direct action in the United States that has achieved serious social and political progress, but you might not hear or read about it in your history classes.

A new book by L.A. Kauffman shares that history based on in-depth interviews with key players of past movements and archival research, but also first hand experience.

L.A. Kauffman, journalist, historian, organizer, and strategist. Former Executive Editor of Socialist Review, and was an award winning national political columnist for the SF Weekly. Her new book is called Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism.

**This story was originally broadcast on February 14, 2017.