John Ross (activist)

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John Ross (born March 11, 1938) is an American author, poet, free-lance journalist, and activist currently residing in Mexico City, Mexico. Since 1993, when Ross first broke the story in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, he has regularly covered the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (also known as the EZLN or Zapatistas) rebellion in Chiapas with articles appearing in both English and Spanish language news publications. In addition to his coverage of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas' "Other Campaign", Ross has covered political corruption in Mexico and the United States, the effects of NAFTA on Mexico's subsistence agriculture, potential environmental threats from the introduction of genetically modified plants (in particular those utilizing terminator technology), and the Iraq War. He gained some notoriety in early 2003 for traveling to Baghdad just weeks before the Iraq War as part of a group of activists who had volunteered to be human shields[1][2][3][4]. His articles have appeared in San Francisco Bay Guardian[5]The Nation[6], CounterPunch[7], The Progressive[8], and La Jornada[9].

John Ross has written several books about the Zapatistas (1995 American Book Award winning[10] Rebellion from the Roots[11][12], The War Against Oblivion, and ¡ZAPATISTAS! Making Another World Possible[13]), as well as a somewhat autobiographical memoir (Murdered by Capitalism[14]), and several chapbooks of poetry.

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Books

  • Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas (Common Courage Press: 1995)
  • Mexico in Focus (Latin America Bureau: 1996) ISBN: 1899365052
  • We Came to Play: An Anthology of Writings on Basketball (with Qentin R. Hand)(North Atlantic Books: 1996) ISBN:1556431627
  • The Annexation of Mexico: From the Aztecs to the IMF (Common Courage Press: 1998) ISBN:1567511317
  • Tonatiuh's People: A Novel of the Mexican Cataclysm (Cinco Puntos Press: 1998) ISBN:0938317415
  • Mexico in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture (Interlink Publishing Group: 2002) ISBN:1566564212
  • The War Against Oblivion: The Zapatista Chronicles (Common Courage Press: 2002) ISBN:1567511759
  • Murdered by Capitalism: A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left (Nation Books: 2004) ISBN:1560255781
  • ¡ZAPATISTAS! Making Another World Possible: Chronicles of Resistance 2000-2006 (Nation Books: 2007) ISBN:1560258748

[edit] Poetry Chapbooks

  • Jam (Mercury Litho-Bug Press: 1976)
  • 12 Songs of Love and Ecocide (1977)
  • The Psoriacis of Heartbreak (1979)
  • The Daily Planet (1981)
  • Running Out of Coastlines (1983)
  • Heading South (1986)
  • Whose Bones (1990)
  • Jazzmexico (Calaca de Pelón: 1996)
  • Against Amnesia (Calaca de Pelón: 2002)
  • Bomba (Calaca de Pelón: 2007)

[edit] External Links

[edit] References

  1. ^ 'Human Shields' Booted After Criticizing Iraq's Instructions
  2. ^ John Ross interview at Democracy Now!, March 6, 2003
  3. ^ Articles by John Ross collected at Human Shield Iraq
  4. ^ Human shield cracks on Baghdad's cynicism, The Guardian, March 3, 2003
  5. ^ John Ross search in San Francisco Bay Guardian
  6. ^ John Ross search at The Nation
  7. ^ John Ross search at CounterPunch
  8. ^ John Ross search at The Progressive
  9. ^ John Ross search at La Jornada
  10. ^ The American Book Awards
  11. ^ The Shadow War by Alma Guillermoprieto, New York Review of Books
  12. ^ review by Saul Landau
  13. ^ A Review of John Ross' Zapatistas
  14. ^ Review by Colin Bosio-Cady, July 29, 2004