Michael Moore

Michael Moore is an American political activist filmmaker and author most notable for addressing social and political issues in the US using his novels and documentary films. Moore was born in Flint Michigan to Richard Moore who worked in an assembly line and Helen Moore a secretary. Moore who has English, Scottish and Irish ancestry was brought up Catholic. He went to the St. John Elementary School, a parochial primary school before proceeding to Sat Paul’s Seminary and then Davison High School, where he was an active member of the debate and drama clubs. After graduating from high school as an 18-year old, he became a member of the Flint school board, the youngest ever elected official. He soon began attacking the injustices of the American capitalist system in what was viewed as a populist assault. In 1976 he enrolled at the University of Michigan at Flint though he never graduated as he quit to found the “Flint Voice,” a radical newspaper that he has been editor of for the past decade. He was also made editor of the “Mother Jones” a left-wing magazine from Francisco though he never lasted more than a few months and was fired.