Believing in the role of books and the written word in creating social change, Alexander Dwinell has worked for the past decade as an Editor/Publisher with South End Press (Boston, MA & Brooklyn, NY) and as a collective member of the Lucy Parsons Center (Boston, MA), a radical bookstore and community space. He has also worked as a freelance editor and designer, toured the US in a punk band, and, with hundreds of thousands of people, prevented the passage of the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) agreement.