About

Dusty Hinz

Hometown: Richfield, MN

Currently live in Philadelphia, PA

Age: 24

In the spring of 2009 I graduated from Augsburg College in Minneapolis with a degree in Political Science and a Spanish minor. My senior thesis was a comparative analysis of the contemporary United States and fascism as it existed in Italy and Germany. I occasionally wrote for the school paper, the Echo. I studied abroad two times (Fall 2007 and Spring 2009) in Merida, Venezuela. In the summer of 2008 I started reporting on community happenings and protests for KFAI Radio in Minneapolis, which is a non-profit, community-based station. In the fall of 2010 I got back involved with KFAI, this time as a co-producer of Lydia Howell’s weekly show, Catalyst: Politics and Culture, which I did for a year. With five other great people I helped start an urban farm — The Concrete Beet Farmers — in Minneapolis, which supplied 17 CSA members during the 2011 growing season. In October of 2011 I moved to Philadelphia to live with my girlfriend who began grad school in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. I recently became a new rider for the Pedal Coop in Philly (http://pedalcoop.org/). I am an active participant in and supporter of the Occupy Movement, and am involved with Occupy Vacant Lots in Philadelphia (look us up on Facebook). Among others, I have been influenced by the writing of Chris Hedges, Naomi Klein, Derrick Jensen, and Bill McKibben. I am overtly opposed to the dictates of globalized industrial corporate capitalism and the infinite economic growth model. I frequently think about how environmentally destructive and unsustainable our way of life is. This blog will consist of my videos, audio, and writings.

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