About Us
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Jen Angel
Jen Angel has been booking tours and doing publicity independently since early 2006. When she’s not booking tours, she’s writing for magazines like In These Times and Yes. In a former life, Jen was the co-founder and publisher of Clamor Magazine, along with her friend Jason Kucsma. She wrote a pamphlet about it geared toward strengthening left institutions, called Become the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine, published by PM Press. She lives in Berkeley, CA, and is also the staff publicist for the Hesperian Foundation.
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Matt Dineen
Matt Dineen is a writer and activist based in Philadelphia. In addition to booking tours he volunteers at the Wooden Shoe anarchist bookstore, and writes for Toward Freedom. For over 2 years he served on the board of Valley Free Radio (VFR), a collectively run, low-power FM radio station in Western Mass. He also produced a weekly program called on VFR called Passions and Survival which explored the dilemma of following our passions while surviving under capitalism and creating something better.
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Justine Johnson
Justine Johnson is a former Aid & Abet member who occasionally works on contracts. She has worked in book publicity and promotion for 12 years, and has been an activist/organizer for not quite that long. She does not have a blog and has no plans to start one. When not pursuing a masters degree in library science (a new endeavor), she enjoys gardening, running, and hanging out in libraries and hockey rinks. A native of northeast Pennsylvania, she recently relocated from western Massachusetts to Durham, North Carolina, with her longtime partner, their two unschooled kids, and a bunch of furred and feathered animals.
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Sara Knight
When not booking tours, Sara Knight writes about food politics, renewable energy, and queer rights. Her articles have appeared in YES! Magazine and Earth Island Journal, among others. Before joining Aid & Abet, she worked for many years with a public opinion research firm, helping to craft winning campaign strategies for progressive candidates and ballot measures. She and her wife live in El Cerrito, CA.
