Margot Pepper

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Margot Pepper

Margot Pepper has been an educator for 31 years and her work has been published by Z-Magazine, Z-net, Common Dreams, Utne Reader, Counterpunch, Monthly Review, Dollars & Sense, Prensa Latina, NACLA, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, City Lights, Hampton Brown, Rethinking Schools, El Tecolote, El Andar and elsewhere. She is the author of a book of poetry, (At This Very Moment,) a memoir about her year working in Cuba during the Special Period, (Through the Wall: A Year in Havana), and most recently a dystopian science fiction thriller, American Day Dream.

ā€œIf Trumbo has a weakness,ā€ writes Tim Cogshell, ā€œit’s the film’s failure to convey the depth and breadth of the Red Scare. Or the fact that it forever diminished America as an idea. America was less after the blacklist and that diminishment can be seen in the myriad investigations.ā€

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