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Mark Taylor-Canfield was born in Seattle in 1973. He started life as a musician but became interested in journalism at mass protests during the 1999 Word Trade Organization Ministerial Conference. He was one of the first journalists to report on the demonstrations for the Independent Media Center from Seattle. The IMC later became a world-wide network of news websites devoted to "citizen journalism" with an open publishing format.

After the historic anti-WTO demonstrations, Taylor-Canfield co-founded a civil rights group called "The Committee For Government Accountability". The CGA wrote a report on constitutional rights violations allegedly committed by the city and by law enforcement agencies during the protests. Their report was forwarded to the Center on Constitutional Rights.

From 1999 to 2011 Taylor-Canfield contributed articles to various alternative media publications and websites. In 2006 he testified before the Federal Communications Commission on the effects of consolidated corporate media ownership. During this period he served as a reporter for KBCS, and "Free Speech Radio News" on the Pacifica Radio Network.

In October of 2011, while reporting on the Occupy Wall Street movement, Taylor-Canfield decided to join the demonstrations. He became a member of the Occupy Seattle Media Working Group and volunteered to serve as one of their spokespersons.

The Huffington Post began publishing his articles in November and he started a blog on The Daily Kos website. Within three months Mark Taylor-Canfield became a nationally recognized spokesperson for the Occupy Wall Street movement. By January he had been interviewed by a growing number of TV news networks, newspapers and radio programs - including the Associated Press, LA Times, CBS, FOX and the BBC. He became a regular guest on the Thom Hartmann Show as a reporter and political commentator.

Mark cites Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman as his current heroine in the field of journalism.

In November 2011 Taylor-Canfield filed a federal class action civil rights lawsuit against the Washington State Patrol. The suit alleges that the WSP violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution when they banned him from attending demonstrations at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia on November 28th. On December 6th U.S. District Judge Robert J. Bryan issued a temporary restraining order overturning the ban and allowing Taylor-Canfield to return to the state capitol to participate in and report on political events. The Seattle law firm representing him in the case is Keller/Rohrback, established in 1919.