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Christian ParentiFellowAward-winning journalist and author Christian Parenti is a new investigative fellow at The Nation Institute. A contributing editor at The Nation, he has reported extensively from the Middle East, Latin America and Africa and his articles have appeared in Playboy, Mother Jones, The London Review of Books, Salon and The International Herald Tribune, among others. He has also worked on several documentaries including Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi. Parenti is the author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (2000), a survey of the rise of the prison industrial complex from the Nixon through Reagan eras and into the present; The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror (2003), a study of surveillance and control in modern society; and The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (2004), an account of the U.S. occupation in Iraq. He is currently working on a new book that explores how climate change will lead to increased social and political violence in years and decades ahead. Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence will be published by Nation Books in June 2010. Parenti has worked as a visiting fellow at CUNY's Center for Place, Culture and Politics and a Soros Senior Justice Fellow. He earned a PhD in sociology at the London School of Economics. He lives in Brooklyn.
Recent articles and appearances: Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi Can China Catch A Cool Breeze? The Drug Coast What Nuclear Renaissance? Chocolate's bittersweet economy Cocoa Industry Accused of Greed, Neglect for Labor Practices in Ivory Coast Our Battles Joined Congo's crisis, Congo's history The Fight to Save Congo's Forests Christian Parenti on Afghanistan Empire Fall Taliban Rising Afghanistan: The Other War The Rough Guide to Baghdad |
Working In The ShadowsA Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do
What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants and desperate U.S. citizens alike, forced to live with chronic back pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour. El Monstruo: Book TourFebruary 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
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