Dennis Loo

Dennis Loo is a scholar, writer and activist. He is the co-editor of Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney and the author of Globalization and the Demolition of Society.
Loo is lead author and initiator of a group of California State University faculty that put forth a major policy document in opposition to the privatization trend of the CSU executives in 2011. It was first posted at a blog, Loo, Dennis, Dorothy D. Wills, Yasha Karant, Mayra Besosa, Päivi Hoikkala, Chris Nagel, Nicholas von Glahn, Ranjeeta Basu, Ralph Westfall. 2011. “Cooking the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs: California’s Higher Education System in Peril; A Master White Paper for the CSU.”
Biography
Loo was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He attended Punahou School and entered Harvard, graduating with honors in Government. While at Harvard he was a Harvard Crimson Photo Editor and was exposed to the 1960s’ era’s protests. After graduating from Harvard he returned to Hawaii and was an Associate Editor and Photographer with the Hawaii Observer. He also taught in the University of Hawaii’s Ethnic Studies Program and was a paralegal before returning to graduate school at the University of California Santa Cruz where he received his Ph.D. in Sociology. While still a graduate student he won an award for best paper in the Law and Society Section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Overview of works
Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney (2006)
Dennis Loo’s 2006 book was Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney which he co-authored and co-edited with Peter Phillips. In it he and Phillips assembled leading political and historical analysts, including Howard Zinn, Greg Palast, Mark Crispin Miller and others, to expose the underside of the Bush White House, including the fact that Bush stole the White House in 2004 through electoral fraud. Unlike other books calling for impeachment, "Impeach the President" was not premised on a legal argument of impeachable offenses, even though the material presented in the book was overflowing with grounds for impeachment, or on trying to get America “back to what it used to be” in some rather romantic version of American history. Rather, the book’s main focus was on showing how the Bush/Cheney presidency was the cutting edge of a radical trajectory that represented a rupture from previous administrations, one that the Democrats and the corporate media were co-operating in.

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