{"id":256,"name":"Haley Pessin and Mel Bienenfeld","url":"","description":"<strong>Haley Pessin<\/strong> is a socialist activist living in Queens, New York and is a member of the Tempest Collective. They co-edited the book <em>Voices of a People\u2019s History of the United States in the 21st Century: Documents of Hope<\/em> published by Seven Stories Press.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mel Bienenfeld<\/strong> has been a socialist activist since the late 1960s. He belonged to the International Socialists in the 1970s and 1980s and was involved then in labor and anti-imperialist struggles. More recently he has been president of the Westchester Community College Federation of Teachers, retiring from that position in 2019","link":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/author\/pessin_bienenfeld\/","slug":"pessin_bienenfeld","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a8f02d2450b887d57bcb22ad670d926c9d5f6d3afbe0f30f7fc016a9823165dc?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a8f02d2450b887d57bcb22ad670d926c9d5f6d3afbe0f30f7fc016a9823165dc?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a8f02d2450b887d57bcb22ad670d926c9d5f6d3afbe0f30f7fc016a9823165dc?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}