Brian Caterino is an independent researcher living in Rochester, New York. He taught for several years at SUNY-Brockport, the New School and the University of Rochester. He also worked in a public access channel for many years. A protest over the seizure of this public access channel was indirectly the spur for the Supreme Court case Town of Greece v. Galloway, for which he provided video materials. His most recent book publication was The Failure of the Neo-Liberal Approach to Poverty.
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