Peter Bohmer has been an activist in movements for radical social chance since 1967. These have included anti-racist organizing and solidarity movements with the people of Vietnam, Southern Africa, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Palestine and Central America against U.S. imperialism and intervention. For his activism and teaching, he was targeted by the FBI. He has a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, where he wrote a dissertation on the political economy of racism. He has been a member of the faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA since 1987 where he teaches teaches political economy. Peter took classes from Evergreen to Cuba in 2004, and to Venezuela with Anne Fischel in 2009 and 2012. He believes alternatives to capitalism are desirable and possible. Peter’s research interests include alternate economics systems, the political economy of racism, and analyzing economic inequality. Peter is active in organizing for economic justice and against the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the proud parent of a daughter and three sons.
The Human Right to Not Be Poor
The Struggle for Racial Justice at Evergreen State College
There is a Way Out of Here: Trump, Clinton, Stein and Beyond
History of Student Movements and Activism at The Evergreen State College
A Year Later: The Struggle for Justice Continues
After Paris: Responding to Islamophobia and the Refugee Crisis