12 Facts About Al Giordano

Al Giordano was an American journalist, political commentator, and anti-nuclear and environmental activist and organizer.

Al Giordano was born on December 31,1959, in the Bronx, New York City, and attended Mamaroneck High School in Mamaroneck, New York.

Al Giordano met Abbie Hoffman in April 1981; they worked together frequently until Hoffman's death in 1989, collaborating on a number of campaigns, including the ultimately unsuccessful effort of the Del-AWARE environmental group to prevent the building of the Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania, pumping station on the Delaware River, with Al Giordano running a petition campaign to demand the referendum which was placed on the May 1983 ballot.

Al Giordano worked on two John Kerry election campaigns, for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1982 and for the US Senate in 1984.

Al Giordano died from lung cancer on July 10,2023, in Mexico, where he had lived for many years.

From 1989 to 1993, Al Giordano was a staff reporter on the Franklin County, Massachusetts, Valley Advocate, based in their Springfield, Massachusetts, office.

In 1997, Al Giordano spent four months in Chiapas, Mexico, intending to join the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

The rebels insisted that Al Giordano could serve them best as a journalist.

Al Giordano lost enthusiasm in 1994, when Sanders refused to "align with" Barney Frank and other Democrats working together to oppose House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

In June 2016, journalists Joy-Ann Reid, Noah Berlatsky, and others reported that Al Giordano planned to challenge independent Senator Bernie Sanders for his United States Senate seat from Vermont if Sanders failed to endorse Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Al Giordano told Reid and Berlatsky that he saw his candidacy as a way to defend the "Obama coalition" against supporters of Bernie Sanders.

Later Al Giordano said that he was battling cancer and so would not challenge Sanders for his seat.