Paul Shannon is an activist, writer, and speaker in various peace, union, prison reform, human rights, and social justice movements (particularly the United Farm Workers’ union drives, the Vietnam anti-war and solidarity movements, the movement to end apartheid in South Africa, the 1980s Central American and Cambodian solidarity movements, the Haitian solidarity movement, the Afghanistan and Iraqi anti-war movements, and efforts to end the US permanent war state). He has been teaching social science courses at a number of colleges for 39 years and is a member of the program staff of the Northeast Region of the American Friends Service Committee.