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5 unusual facts about Christian Parenti


Afghan presidential election, 2004

Journalist Christian Parenti claimed that many people in Afghanistan were in possession of three or four photographic ID cards.

Christian Parenti

Parenti has taught at the New College of California and at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California.

Civic Media Center

Furthermore, the CMC has an impressive track record of bringing prominent progressive speakers to Gainesville, including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Christian Parenti, David Barsamian, and Diane Roberts.

Prison gangs in the United States

Christian Parenti argues in his book Lockdown America that prison gangs serve a convenient function for the prison establishment and officers.

Prison–industrial complex

Another writer of the era who covered the expanding prison population and attacked "the prison industrial complex" was Christian Parenti, who later disavowed the term before the publication of his book, Lockdown America (2000).


Razorcake

of Repo Man (film), Curtis Harrington), actors (Kevin Murphy (actor) from Mystery Science Theater 3000), graphic designers (Diane Gamboa, John E. Miner), writers (Brad Warner, Chris Walter)—and political thinkers such as Howard Zinn, Christian Parenti, Noam Chomsky, and Candace Falk and Gary Pateman (curators of the Emma Goldman Paper Project).


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