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Michael Johnson: born in the panhandle of Texas in 1942…Entered a Kansas monastery in '63, left in '66…became an 'outside agitator’ at Columbia University in April of '68…worked with the desegregation unit of the Austin public school system '76-'80…co-founded the Ganas intentional community in Staten Island, NY in '80 and still there…has been active in the co-operative and solidarity economic movements since 2007 through the Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives (VAWC), Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective (GEO), and SolidarityNYC…regular blogger, writer, and editor at GEO…currently working on two future books, Owning our Power and Building Transformative Cultures of Empowerment and Cooperation