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'''Derrick O'Keefe''' is a [[Canada|Canadian]] Vancouver-based writer and social justice activist. He is the editor of [[rabble.ca]], Canada's most widely-read progressive website{{fact|date=May 2011}}, and his writings on foreign policy, Canadian politics, ecology and other topics have been published in a number of both alternative and mainstream publications.

O'Keefe is the author of a forthcoming book, [[Michael Ignatieff]]: The Lesser Evil? (Verso 2011). He is also the co-writer of the autobiography of Afghan women's rights activist and politician [[Malalai Joya]] -- A Woman Among Warlords (Scribner 2009).{{fact|date=May 2011}}

O'Keefe is the co-chair of Stopwar.ca in Vancouver, British Columbia and the Canadian Peace Alliance, the largest network of anti-war groups in Canada. He was a founding editor and publisher of the on-line zine ''[[Seven Oaks (magazine)|Seven Oaks]]'', 2004-2008, a now discontinued "journal of "politics, culture and resistance" that featured the writing of a group of young, progressive journalists and activists.

==External links==
*http://www.stopwar.ca/
*http://www.rabble.ca/
*http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/


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