Troublemaker by Bill Zimmerman

Troublemaker by Bill Zimmerman

In this spellbinding memoir, Bill Zimmerman relates his many adventures in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the sixties and offers invaluable lessons on the art of effective protest for today's activists.

In Troublemaker, Zimmerman vividly describes registering black voters in Mississippi, marching with Martin Luther King, Jr., organizing for the March on the Pentagon, protesting at the Chicago Democratic convention, and flying food to protesting Indians at Wounded Knee. He relates how he abandoned his career as a scientist to prevent military misuse of his research, then smuggled medicines to North Vietnam, established an international charity that rebuilt a Vietnamese hospital bombed by Nixon, and helped lead the grassroots lobbying campaign that finally ended the war. Breaking down the complex strategies and tactics of the antiwar movement, Zimmerman provides an invaluable look at the sixties and its continuing relevance today.

Bill Zimmerman is one of the most seasoned political media consultants in the country. In the 1980s, he had a number of successful clients, including Sen. Sen. Tim Wirth is a member of the United States Senate. Gov. Gary Hart Mayor Harold Washington, Toney Anaya, and Representatives.

Sam Gejdenson and Lane Evans. Bill changed his concentration to ballot initiatives in 1988. That year, he ran the campaign for California's Proposition 103, which succeeded despite $99 million in opposing spending. The initiative created the new statewide office of Insurance Commissioner and established the state's first rate regulation for automobile insurance.

Throughout the first 20 years of its implementation, it saved ratepayers more than $60 billion. Since then, Zimmerman & Markman has helped enact landmark legislation, including the first physician-assisted death statute in Oregon in 1994 and the first medicinal marijuana law in California in 1996. Bill managed 17 ballot proposals in ten states between 1996 and 2008, working with the Drug Policy Alliance, to alter various areas of our country's broken drug policies. Thirteen of the seventeen teams were victorious.

Bill led the victorious Proposition 36 campaign in California in 2000, which offered treatment instead of jail to many nonviolent marijuana possession offenders. Since then, 35,000 offenders have been diverted from prison each year, saving taxpayers millions of dollars each year. Bill was the driving force behind Proposition 63 in California, which imposed a 1% surtax on income over $1 million to fund mental health initiatives for the homeless and at-risk students. Bill worked as a strategic communications consultant for MoveOn.org from 2002 through 2008.

MoveOn.org's early anti-war advertising was designed by Zimmerman & Markman. Bill oversaw MoveOn.org's $23 million campaign to defeat George W. Bush in 2004, while Zimmerman & Markman generated practically all of the campaign's advertising. Bill Zimmerman is a Ph.D. holder. from the University of Chicago, where he also taught for a short time, as well as at Brooklyn College.

He was a member of the Vietnam Peace Campaign and Medical Help for Indochina as an activist in the early 1970s. He orchestrated the food airlift that ended the FBI siege at Wounded Knee, which was besieged by the American Indian Movement, in 1973. Troublemaker: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties, as well as two additional books and several magazine articles, are among his works. He also founded and served as Chairman of Medical Help for El Salvador (1981-1993), a humanitarian relief organization.

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ISBN 13	9780385533485
ISBN 10	0385533489
Title	Troublemaker
Author	Bill Zimmerman
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Doubleday Books
Year published	2011-05-26
Number of pages	452
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