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Q&A: Marisa Handler explores global activist journey in memoir

By T.M. Lindsey 9/20/08

For Marisa Handler, 31, her coming-of-age as a global activist happened just after the 9/11 attacks in the United States, when she was working in India as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Global political organizer Marisa Handler reads from memoir tonight in Iowa City

By T.M. Lindsey 9/15/08

Born in Cape Town, South Africa during the apartheid era, Marisa Handler eyewitnessed injustices firsthand, and it was these experiences that helped feed her passion for activism and global political organizing.
“I have come to believe that every one of us is an activist, and that every action taken in the name of our interconnection — [...]

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