Mr. Larry Hales, national leader of Bail Out The People and Occupy Wall Street Participant, In WI Dec. 2-4

Biography Sheet:

https://wibailoutpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mr_larry_hales_biography.pdf

Longtime progressive activist Mr. Larry Hales is a leading organizer for New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts. Mr. Hales is also participating in the Occupy Wall Street Movement most recently joining the Occupy Oakland General Strike Nov. 2.  Hales has vast experience organizing and working with student-workers in many capacities including facilitating skill building workshops in public speaking, writing, outreach and numerous other forms of activism.

Mr. Hales, a national leader of the Bail Out The People Movement, is a principal leader in various movements for progressive social, political and economic change. He is on the front lines protesting police brutality, fighting for affirmative action, supporting and visiting political prisoners such as Mr. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Mr. Leonard Peltier, and working in solidarity with the women’s liberation, LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer) and union movements. Mr. Hales is well-known for his solidarity work in support of Palestine and the Hip-Hop movement.

Mr. Hales, as a journalist, has written extensively on the above issues as well as cultural and international issues for various print and on-line publications. His latest journalism work is focused on the fight for jobs and the education crisis in the United States and how the banks, corporations and U.S. wars are responsible for this crisis affecting millions of student and their loved ones, in particular poor and working students and students of color.

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