Tom Gallagher is a native of the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. Coming to oppose the Vietnam War while a student at Regis High School in Manhattan, he became an antiwar activist while attending Boston College, subsequently represented the Allston Brighton section of Boston in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and later chaired the Boston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
After moving to San Francisco, he served as president of the Bernal Heights Democratic Club, authored numerous resolutions on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars adopted by the San Franciso Democratic Party in the face of opposition from Representative Nancy Pelosi, as well as San Francisco’s Proposition U which declared it city policy in 2008 that its “elected representatives in the United States Senate and House of Representatives should vote against any further funding for the deployment of United States Armed Forces in Iraq.”
Currently living in Oakland, he has served as a Democratic National Presidential Nominating Convention Delegate for both George McGovern and Bernie Sanders, as well as an United Nations Election Officer in the 1999 East Timor plebiscite, a voter registration and election supervisor in Bosnia, and an election observer in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, North Macedonia, Russia and Ukraine.
A member of the United Educators of San Francisco, AFL-CIO, he has written articles and reviews for the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, Common Dreams, Dissent, East Bay Express, In These Times, Berkshire Eagle, Boston Business Journal, Demockracy.com, LA Weekly, Moscow Times, The National Pastime, Portside, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Independent, Socialist Review, Social Policy, Urban Ecology, Z Magazine, et al. He is the author of “Sub: My Years Underground in America’s Schools” and “The Primary Route: How the 99 Percent Take on the Military-Industrial Complex.
Tom Gallagher 
June 21, 2011 at 1:58 pm
what high school did you attend?
June 23, 2011 at 11:50 pm
Why I went to Regis, but why do I think that Andy Palumbo has gotten ahold of his own e-mail address creation program?