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Peter Rothberg

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Peter Rothberg

Peter Rothberg

Associate Publisher, Special Projects

Peter Rothberg, the Nation's Associate Publisher for Special Projects, has been writing a blog covering the world of activism since 2003. His previous positions with The Nation  include web editor, publicity director, special projects director and intern. A former contributor to Air America radio's daily Nation Minute commentaries, Rothberg is a former speech-writer for civil rights leader Julian Bond. A member of the Brooklyn Literary Council and the board of Living Liberally, Rothberg lives in Brooklyn, where he was born and raised.

Articles

News and Features

An activist ahead of his time, Richard L. Grossman, a community organizer, galvanized work on a variety of progressive causes during his remarkable four-decade career.

The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, a giant of the civil rights movement known for his decades of work in support of desegregation, died Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama.

Luper’s courage at a young age helped change the course of race relations in Oklahoma City.

Best known for a photograph of her and Bob Dylan that became the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Rotolo devoted her life to the progressive causes which had engaged her since well before she met the folk singer.

Blogs

These ten songs, taken together, help distill the American experience and make clear both what’s great about the US and what we...
New mini-doc, The Sky Is Pink, makes clear that there’s no such thing as safe fracking.
Why high-school honor students are being thrown in jail.
Young activists and civilian delegates at Rio+20 came together to publicly oppose and critique the official agenda, and to offer...
New York City’s ban on cellphones in schools is taking an amazing $4.2 million a year out of frequently impoverished childrens'...
A grand coalition of religious and human rights groups is sponsoring a month of actions aimed at ending torture sponsored or enabled by the...
This Father’s Day, join Trayvon Martin’s father, Tracy Martin, and add your name to this national petition demanding that all...
Thirty years ago today, more than one million people rallied in New York City's Central Park against nuclear arms and for an end to the...