James Tracy

is an Oakland-based author and organizer. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing (Melville House, 2021) and No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights, 2020). He is the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars (AK Press, 2014), and serves on the coordinating committee of the Howard Zinn Book Fair. He is the chair of the labor and community studies department at City College of San Francisco, and was co-chair of the “Free City” campaign, which made tuition free for most City College of San Francisco students. He has organized with the Eviction Defense Network, Coalition on Homelessness, Community Housing Partnership, Jobs With Justice SF, and his unions. He is a co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust. His articles have appeared in Shelterforce, Race, Poverty, and the Environment, 48 Hills, Maximum Rock and Roll, The Italian-American Review, Contemporary Justice Review, and Punk Planet.