Jesse LaGreca
Writer, protestor
Jesse LaGreca has worked as a freelance writer for the Daily Kos under the name Ministry Of Truth for the last three years and is one of their most frequent writers. He’s a member of various subgroups on the site, including their Anonymous forum, Environmental Foodies, and the Progressive Policy Zone.
LaGreca was a major activist during the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and a frequent speaker on behalf of the movement. His introduction into mainstream media came when an unaired Fox News interview with Griff Jenkins was put on YouTube. In the clip, LaGreca spoke articulately and intelligently about the OWS movement and criticized Fox News for marginalizing the movement. He was named the face of “The Budding Stars of Occupy Wall Street,” according to the Atlantic Wire and was featured in various interviews from ABC’s This Week to The New York Observer.
LaGreca spoke at The Common Good on June 20th, 2012, alongside Todd Gitlin: The Power of Protest: Todd Gitlin & Jesse LaGreca.
Twitter: @JesseLaGreca
