About The Partisan Blockhead-James Tracy

The main purpose of this website is to collect various articles and interviews I’ve written for the alternative press and save them in one handy place. All articles are considered Creative Commons: just be sure to give credit where credit is due if you republish.

Of particular interest: radical, yet practical politics, self-management, Italian and Irish history, global justice movements, poetry, Battlestar Gallactica, chihuahuas, Community Land Trusts. Not necessarily in that order. This is a bio used for a conference I spoke at in 2006. It gives you a general idea about where I’m coming from:

James Tracy is a long-time anti-poverty activist and organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is was the co-founder of Eviction Defense Network and is a board member of the San Francisco Community Land Trust. His articles have appeared in Race, Poverty and the Environment, Shelterforce, Contemporary Justice Review, Maximum Rock and Roll and The Political Edge. He has edited two activist handbooks for Manic D Press: The Civil Disobedience Handbook: A Brief History and Practical Guide for the Politically Disenchanted, and The Military Draft Handbook: A Brief History and Practical Guide for the Curious and Concerned. When not organizing, he opens his big mouth as part of the Molotov Mouths Outspoken Word Troupe.