Befriending China: People-to-People Peacemaking - Paperback

Knight, Dee: - Author bio: Dee Charles KnightDee Knight serves on the Advisory Council of the Friends of Socialist China (FOSC); also on the China Working Group of the International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). He was an editor of Amex-Canada, published by US war resister exiles in Canada, from 1968 to 1974, and a board member of the National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty, from 1973 to 1976. He was a publishing consultant for the United Nations Development Programme from 1991 to 1996; and worked for Nicaragua's Sandinista newspaper, Barricada, from 1987 to 1990. During the years of the U.S. war in Vietnam, Dee Knight was an editor of Amex-Canada, the newsletter of American exiles and expatriates who went to Canada in resistance to that war. He lived in Toronto from 1968 to 1974. In 1973 Knight helped launch the National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty, which waged a campaign to end government repression of war resisters and active-duty U.S. soldiers. The campaign scored a partial victory in January 1977 when President Jimmy Carter granted a limited amnesty. Efforts to end punishment for antiwar veterans, active duty soldiers, and anti-imperialist activists have continued since those years to the present day.In 1975 Knight witnessed the "Carnation Revolution" led by Portugal's Armed Forces Movement and People's Power organizations. His reports appeared in New York's Guardian newspaper. He helped found the American Portuguese Overseas Information Organization (APOIO), a group of journalists in defense of the Portuguese revolution. For three years in the 1980s, Knight worked as a technical consultant to the Sandinista newspaper Barricada, as well as other publishing efforts in Nicaragua. For five years in the 1990s, he was a publishing consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in New York.During the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s, Knight was part of national organizing efforts to oppose that war. Those efforts resulted in protest actions of millions in the U.S. and across the globe. It also established an ongoing anti-imperialist movement.This history is covered in Knight's political memoir, My Whirlwind Lives: Navigating Decades of Storms, published in 2022.Knight's writing has been part of ongoing organizing efforts and publications, including Veterans For Peace News, LA Progressive, Hollywood Progressive, Courage To Resist, Workers World, Covert Action Magazine, and CounterPunch. Some of these articles are online at DeeKnight.blog. Chapter Summaries of A Realistic Path To Peace, plus video recordings of some chapters, can be found at realpathtopeace.com, and on the Patreon site, Dee Knight's Books, Notes and Chats.In the mid-sixties Knight studied at University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. While in Canada he completed a Bachelor's Degree in English at York University. In 1996 he completed a Master's Degree in Public Administration at New York University. He worked as a teacher of English and Social Studies in South Bronx alternative high schools for several years.Knight was born in the state of Idaho, and grew up in eastern Oregon. In 1969 he received the Oregon Peace Educators award.