Derrick O'Keefe
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Derrick O'Keefe is a well known Canadian writer and social justice activist. He is the editor of rabble.ca, Canada's most widely-read progressive website, 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 co-writer of the autobiography of Afghan women's rights activist and politician Malalai Joya -- A Woman Among Warlords (Scribner 2009) -- and is currently writing a book on the politics and ideas of Michael Ignatieff, to be published by Verso Books in 2010.
O'Keefe was a founding editor and publisher of the on-line zine 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.
O'Keefe is a former co-chair of Stopwar.ca, Vancouver, British Columbia's largest anti-war coalition, and a member of the steering committee of the Canadian Peace Alliance.
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