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. He is currently a well-known Internet activist and the Co-Director of May First/People Link, a progressive Internet users' organization and the Internet's oldest progressive provider. Lopez is the author of six books and thousands of articles. He was a top leader of the

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during the 1970s. The main organizer of the Day of Solidarity with Puerto Rico in

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, the largest demonstration of its type in history, and the 1976 Counter-Bicentennial. He coordinated the U.S. delegation to the International Solidarity Conference on Puerto Rico in 1975, the first international conference on the issue. And, during that same period, he edited the U.S. edition of the PSP newspaper ''

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''. In more recent years, he was the architect of the campaign to keep NYC public hospitals from being privatized in the 1990s. And he has participated in organizing and leading scores of similar campaigns over his 40 years of activism. He is a founder o
The Brooklyn New School
as alternative school in Brooklyn. Most recently he was an organizer of the technology group for the

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in 2007.

Publications

Beginning with his publication of "The Case of Carlos Feliciano" (1971) and then the ground-breaking ''Puerto Rican Papers'' (Bobbs-Merrill, 1973), Lopez has published in a variety of media almost continuously. He has written two mystery novels: ''Turn Around Once, Then Keep Running'' and ''Kings of Crotona Park'' (both published by EntreMundos Publications). He is probably best known for his history of Puerto Rico, ''Doña Licha's Island'' (South End Press) and the more recen
''The Organic Internet - Organizing History's Largest Social Movement''
He has published for a wide variety of publications including ''

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'', '' Seven Days'' (at which he was an editor) and he worked for eight years as a reporter at the (Bergen) ''Record''. Lopez has produced two weekly radio programs and a weekly television show (CityLook) broadcast in New York during the late 1980s from union local He has produced six documentaries. He was an editor of the news magazine ''Seven Days'' (1980) and has written hundreds of articles. Lopez has taught at many colleges and Universities over the years most notably

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(at the Graduate School of Journalism) and several colleges in the

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system (John Jay, Lehman, Hunter College) and has lectured extensively nationwide. In 1994, Lopez launched People Link, a progressive Internet provider which has been in continuous existence since then and merged, in 2006, with members of the former May First Technology Collective to create May First/People Link.May First/People Link web site
/ref> That organization, with over 500 members, is the largest Internet membership organization in the United States and generally considered the predominant progressive Internet provider. His most recent work, as a technologist/organizer, has been exploring the Internet from a critical perspective, an exploration that is described with the term "Organic Internet". He has been involved in the leadership of both United States Social Forums, the World Social Forum, and, as MF/PL rep, the Association of Progressive Communications.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez, Alfredo 1949 births Living people American businesspeople American socialists 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American people of Puerto Rican descent 20th-century American male writers

Publications

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