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Steve Fake grew up in eastern Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was involved in student activism. He became interested in radical politics after seeing Good Will Hunting, where he first heard of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. Like so many others, his political outlook has been heavily influenced by these two individuals. He lives and works in Boston.

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