Ken Yale
Ken Yale is a social justice activist, educator, and independent journalist living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He recorded this interview in March, 2025, while participating in Casa Benjamin Linder’s international delegation to learn about the empowerment of women in Nicaragua.
As a social justice activist for over 50 years, Yale has focused on building solidarity in the U.S. with international movements for national liberation and socialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia; organizing white North Americans to build solidarity and alliances with the liberation movements of people of color within the U.S.; and building support for feminist and LGBTQ movements.
He is currently a member of Jewish Voice For Peace and the Black Alliance For Peace Solidarity Network. Yale recently retired after a 40-year career as an educator, specializing in using alternative and popular education pedagogy, primarily with students who were failed by their school systems. He is also an independent journalist, most recently a producer for several programs on the Pacifica Radio network."
“Democracy in the U.S. has never been functional. It’s just in some laws, but it has never been implemented. There’s a huge misinformation campaign going on in the U.S., and media is manipulating people all of the time. I think the U.S. and Nicaraguan people can work together to...
