Bill Berkowitz is an Oakland, California-based writer covering conservative movements. He grew up in the Bronx, five blocks from Yankee Stadium; was a student organizer/activist at the University of Kansas and co-founder of Reconstruction, the state’s first modern-day underground newspaper; the Berkeley, California UFW boycott organizer; the first promotions director for NACLA (North American Congress of Latin America); and a co-founder of the DataCenter, a research library for social and political activists, where he published CultureWatch, a newsletter tracking right wing movements. He has been a columnist for Working Assets’ WorkingForChange and The Nation, has contributed to several books, and is a contributor to BuzzFlash, Talk2Action, The Smirking Chimp, Z Magazine, Street Sheet, AlterNet and many more online and print publications. In 2005, he received a Special Journalism Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. His Conservative Watch column documents the strategies, players, institutions, victories and defeats of the American Right. He can be reached via e-mail at:
World View March 3, 2014
Hounding baseball players for their autographs was never easy. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't like getting up at four in the morning to deliver the Bronx Home Post, or carrying stuffed cardboard boxes of white bread, canned fruits and vegetables, and multiple quart bottles of Ballantine beer... Read more