Author: Dee C. Knight

During some of the years of the U.S. war in Vietnam (1968 – 1974), Dee Knight was an editor of Amex-Canada, the newsletter of American exiles and expatriates who went to Canada in resistance to that war. He lived in Toronto, Canada, during those years. Amex-Canada helped organize American war resisters and their allies, including antiwar veterans, to sustain the resistance. In 1973 Knight helped to launch the National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty, which waged a campaign to end government repression of war resisters and active-duty U.S. soldiers. In January 1977 the campaign scored a partial victory when President Jimmy Carter granted a limited amnesty. Efforts to end punishment for antiwar veterans, active duty soldiers, and militant anti-imperialist activists have continued since those years to the present day. Throughout those years, Knight”s writing has been part of ongoing organizing efforts and publications, including Veterans For Peace News, Courage To Resist, Workers World, Covert Action Magazine, LA Progressive, Hollywood Progressive, and Counter Punch. In 1975 Knight witnessed the “Carnation Revolution” led by Portugal”s Armed Forces Movement and People”s Power organizations. His reports appeared in New York”s Guardian newspaper. He helped found the American Portuguese Overseas Information Organization (APOIO), a group of journalists in defense of the Portuguese revolution. For three years in the 1980s, Knight worked as a technical consultant to the Sandinista newspaper Barricada, as well as other publishing efforts in Nicaragua. For five years in the 1990s, he was a publishing consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in New York. During the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s, Knight was part of national organizing efforts to oppose that war. Those efforts resulted in protest actions of millions of people in the United States. It also established an ongoing anti-imperialist movement. From 1965 to “68 Knight studied at University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. While in Canada he completed a Bachelor”s Degree in English at York University. In 1996 he completed a Master”s Degree in Public Administration at New York University. He worked as a teacher of English and Social Studies in South Bronx alternative high schools for several years. Knight was born in Idaho, and grew up in eastern Oregon. In 1969 he received the Oregon Peace Educators award.