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Full Name: 
Jordan Flaherty
Bio: 
Jordan Flaherty is a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans. He is an editor of Left Turn Magazine and has written about politics and culture for the Village Voice, New York Press, Labor Notes, Radical Society, and in several books, including the South End Press anthologies Live From Palestine and What Lies Beneath. He is founder and festival director of the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival, and has worked in film and photography, editing several feature films, co-producing the award-winning feature Chocolate Babies, and showing his photography at the cutting-edge art gallery PS122 in New York City. His post-Katrina writing in Colorlines Magazine shared a journalism award from New America Media for best Katrina-related coverage in the Ethnic press. Flaherty’s articles from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina have appeared in periodicals around the world, including Die Zeit in Germany, Clarin in Argentina, Juventude Rebelde in Cuba, Red Pepper in England, and many more from Lebanon to Paris to New Zealand. In the US, his articles have appeared in a wide range of publications from The Indypendent in New York to The SF Bay View in California to literally hundreds of blogs and web-based journals including ZNet, CommonDreams, AlterNet and Counterpunch. In the first months after the hurricane, his writings were translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.
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Organization Mission Statement: 
About Us Left Turn is a national network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the consequences of global capitalism and imperialism. Rooted in a variety of social movements, we are anti-capitalists, radical feminists, anti-racists, and anti-imperialists working to build resistance and alternatives to corporate power and empire.Argentina Through our publication, Left Turn Magazine, our website and other forums, we seek to create spaces for our various movements to reflect and strategize. The magazine serves as a resource to grassroots movements by reporting on and analyzing local and global struggles for justice. It is an all volunteer publication written by activists for activists. We are committed to modelling the world we want to see by organizing collectively, democratically and without hierarchy, both internally and in the larger movement. Whether working on a local community campaign or doing international solidarity work, we seek to fight all forms of oppression through our organizing. We recognize the importance of struggles waged by people and communities most affected by the policies of globalization and empire, whether in Brooklyn or Baghdad. Through each aspect of our work we highlight these struggles and forge connections between them in order to build a stronger more effective movement here in the heart of the empire. Finally, we wish to project politics of hope, inspiration and solidarity based on both the rich history of social movements and the visionary work of everyday people coming together to radically transform society and bring about a more just world.

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