Greetings from northern California

[Animal Farm Pig]

Hello comrades,

I just discovered this forum. It looks great, and I'm looking forward to posting here.

I'm currently living and working in Sacramento, California. My day job is with an environmental NGO that is more "red" than "green." In the past, I've also worked as a teacher at a radical school and at an HIV/AIDS project in southern Africa that was modeled after the anti-colonial liberation groups. I'm not too involved in any "scene" as such around here, but I have a few comrades living nearby who are also involved in the struggle.

I'm not too interested in theory or internal politics. Generally, I suppose I could be described as a Trotskyist. I look at it this way-- capitalism has been a disaster that has plunged billions of people into poverty. We need to be working to put the power and wealth into the hands of the poor. We need to do this with an international perspective. I'm willing to work with anyone who has similar goals.

I started becoming involved in the struggle when I found a copy of Das Kapital for $0.50 at my local used bookstore at the age of 15. I was further radicalized by spending summers with my father in southern Nigeria and observing the grinding poverty brought about by imperialism, through spending a few years as a construction worker and hearing the stories of the poor immigrants I worked with, and observing the pointy end of the imperialist stick first hand in the Army (and then deserting the Army).

So, that's a bit about me. I'm happy to be here, and I look forward to getting to know the other folks posting here.

[Q]

Welcome