Bruce Dixon
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In the 60s Bruce Dixon was a student activist and a rank and file member of the Black Panther Party in Chicago. In the 70s and 80s he was a community organizer in some of the poorest neighborhoods in urban America, working on issues of housing and publication. In the 80s and 90s he was a volunteer, staffer and consultant to dozens of community groups and political campaigns, and local government in Chicago.
At the end of 2000 Dixon moved to Marietta GA, where he worked for several years as a private sector IT professional. In 2002 he began writing for Black Commentator, and in 2006 co-founded Black Agenda Report with Glen Ford and Margaret Kimberley. Dixon is currently a state committee member of the Georgia Green Party and one of the principals of Campaign Foundations, a company that does strategic communications, web hosting, telephony and custom development.

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Siting Nukes in a Poor Black Town -- If A Black President Does It, Is It Still Environmental Racism?

Posted May 4, 2010 | 15:01:22 (EST)

In the weeks since President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors next to an existing pair of nukes in mostly black Burke County, GA, the inconvenient questions, unanswered and mostly unasked, continue to pile up.

The first and most obvious questions are why nukes,...

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When Reforming Education Means Destroying Communities

Posted April 8, 2010 | 17:27:23 (EST)

On April 10, representatives of communities around the country will converge in D.C. to demand the firing of Arne Duncan and the reversal of the Obama administration's policies on public education. There is an unbroken line of bipartisan continuity, grassroots activists for public education say, between...

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