This blog follows the travels of Antonino D'Ambrosio while on his U.S. book tour in support of "Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer."
Monday, February 14, 2005
4,000 miles plus and running
Logged over 4,000 miles as I travelled all over the mid-west. Met hundreds of great people from Ohio to Wisconsin. I definitely will be passing through after my West Coast swing.
Antonino D'Ambrosio is from Philadelphia, PA, where his parents made their home after immigrating from Coli al Volturno, Italy. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree form La Salle University in 1989 and went on to New York University where he received a Masters Degree in Public Policy in 1997. As a Deans Scholar at NYU, he focused on community media, politics and arts/culture advocacy working with Professors including Neil Postman, Rae Zimmerman and Walter Stafford on media, social justice issues, and policy.
In 1997, he founded La Lutta New Media Collective, a documentary film production and media activist group. Now in its seventh year, with D'Ambrosio as its executive director, La Lutta NMC has 45 creative-activists and 33,000 members worldwide...[read more: http://www.lalutta.org/fury/bio.html]
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