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Sander Hicks speaking at Our Community Place, Harrisonburg, Virginia, January 19, 2009 |
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| Born | 1 February 1971 |
| Occupation | Activist, Playwright, Publisher |
| Genres | Non-fiction |
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www.sanderhicks.com |
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Sander Hicks (b. February 1, 1971) is the founder of Soft Skull Press, and Vox Pop Inc. Raised in the DC area, he is the son of Norman Hicks, a progressive economist and anti-poverty specialist, who is retired from the World Bank organization. Raised Catholic, Sander attended Bishop Ireton High School, where he graduated with honors. During the Gulf War, he transferred from James Madison University to Eugene Lang College, of New School University in New York City.
Hicks has worked as a playwright, editor, carpenter, and journalist. He was a producer and interviewer for the television program INN World Report and has been covered in CounterPunch.[1]
In 1999, Soft Skull Press won awards for "Outstanding Independent Publisher of the Year" when Hicks was at the helm. The award followed Hicks's acquisition and publication of the controversial Bush biography Fortunate Son, by James Hatfield. Hicks, Hatfield, and Soft Skull Press enjoyed positive media coverage in Newsweek, 60 Minutes, Court TV, and the Washington Post. However, in one article in the New York Press, Hicks was accused of not paying his authors during this time. However, no authors went on the record for these allegations.
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In his journalism and his 2005 book, The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up, Hicks levies serious questions about the official account of the September 11th Attacks. Hicks reviewed the 9/11 Commission report, critically, for the New York Press.
He sought election as the United States Senator from New York in the 2006 election. He ran as a member of the Green Party, challenging incumbent Hillary Clinton. However, he lost the Green Party nomination to Howie Hawkins, but later served the Hawkins campaign as media director.
Hicks has done four national speaking tours, on issues of citizen media activism, 9/11 truth, peace and justice.
In January, 2009, Sander Hicks and Chic Migeot hosted a series of "speakouts, as part of a caravan headed to D.C." for the Inauguration of Barack Obama. Under the banner "Inaugurate Yourself!", the caravan and speaking tour stopped in several U.S. cities with the intention to "gather fellow rebels and radicals, spiritual people and political instigators, people who want to speak out." Hicks described his campaign as "Three New Ideas" in which he called for:
Sander Hicks is a political activist and urges the American people to uncover the truth behind political corruption. In his new political party, the Truth Party, Hicks aims to take the USA back to its original roots and admires the kind of activism found in Martin Luther King Jr, Caesar Chavez, and Thomas Jefferson.[2] This party now has official representation in Boston, New York City, Chicago, Madison, and Austin, Texas.[3] The Three Virtues of the Truth Party include:
Much of Hicks's writing focuses on investigating secrets of the government, revealing them, and disclosing the information to the American people.
Sander Hicks, in addition to publishing books and plays, also contributes articles to a variety of websites. He has written about religion for The Huffington Post and about economics for Alternet.org. Hicks wrote, Life Among the Eco-Capitalists: A Revolution Takes Hold in New Jersey' for Alternet.org in May 2009 ref Other published blog articles written for The Huffington Post include:
Hicks was lead singer for the art-punk group White Collar Crime, which went on hiatus in 2003, but re-united in the Summer of 2011 for the Punk Island festival.
Horns and Halos (2002), an award-winning documentary film directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, is primarily about the difficult road the author (James Hatfield) and publisher (Sander Hicks at Soft Skull Press) travelled to bring "Fortunate Son", an unauthorized and controversial biography of George W. Bush to bookshelves again.
In 2004 Hicks launched his new publishing venture Vox Pop, Inc. (originally called Drench Kiss Media Corporation): a publishing company, bookstore, and coffee-house located in Brooklyn, New York. He ran Vox Pop from 2004 until January, 2009.[5]
2. Alternet.org
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