Ed Tant
Ed Tant is an American writer, journalist, and activist. He was a long-time columnist for the Athens Banner-Herald and is currently a columnist for Flagpole Magazine.
Life and career
[edit | edit source]He attended the University of West Georgia and was involved in student activism there.[1]
Tant has written for publications including the Athens Banner-Herald,[2] Flagpole Magazine,[3] Astronomy,[4] and The Atlanta Constitution.[5] He has been a nominee for the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.[6] In 2009, Tant contributed photographs to an exhibition at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art about the role of media.[7]
He worked as a security guard at the Georgia Museum of Art for seventeen years.[8][9][10] The New York Times has published letters by Tant about his experience as a museum guard.[11][12] In 2014, a couple donated a piece of art to the museum in honor of Tant.[13]
Tant participated in protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and in protests against the Iraq War in the early 2000s.[14][15] He has been a volunteer at the Athens Human Rights Festival, whose guests have included David Dellinger and Lawrence Colburn.[16][17]
He was arrested in New York while covering protests around the 2004 Republican National Convention as a columnist for the Athens Banner-Herald.[18][19] The arrest of demonstrators and bystanders, including Tant, led to a successful class action lawsuit for false arrests.[14]
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External links
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