Melissa Roberts was born at an early age. Her primary passions are activism, laughter, and looking for connections between single issue politics in order to empower the oppressed, and build a healthy, free society.

Melissa believes laughter and humor (particularly self-irony) are essential to our survival during these dark times. The Yes Men (theyesmen.org) are among her heros!

Melissa’s particular areas of interest include active engagement to address root causes of today’s problems: climate justice—she is an active member of climate-justice-action.org and is waaaay beyondtalk.net; anti-war—she has been active in Olympia Port Militarization Resistance (olypmr.org), and a supporter of Courage to Resist (couragetoresist.org); labor—she has been an IWW member (iww.org) over 20 years, as well as a democratic trade union organizer; globalization-from-below (a.k.a. anti-globalization movement)—protests against WTO and FTAA with asje.org; environment—her forest activism included work with the late Judi Bari (judibari.org) and efforts to unite timber workers with environmentalists against corporate logging greed (albionnation.org); sustainable agriculture; civil liberties—exposing government repression of activists via fear-mongering through false “terrorism” labels (ranging from illegal dention of ‘war prisoners’, to the Green Scare, etc.); advocacy for independent citizen media like democracynow.org, indymedia.org and globalvoicesonline.org; anti-racism; anti-poverty; anti-imperialism …among many other interests.

She currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and works fulltime to fix the world.