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Argentina
Adamovsky, Ezequiel
Ezequiel Adamovsky, born in Buenos Aires in 1971, is a historian and anti-capitalist activist. He studied history at the University of Buenos Aires --where he also teaches-- and has a PhD from University College London. As an activist, he has been involved in the students movement and, more recently, in the neighbours Assemblies movement that emerged in the city of Buenos Aires after the... More
Opening Essays
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Ecology and Marxism, a difficult marriage? on Lowy: Ecosocialism
Ecology and Marxism, a difficult marriage? on Lowy: Ecosocialism
Coraggio, José Luis
José Luis Coraggio. Argentine. Economist. Masters and Doctorate studies in Regional Science at Warthon School, University of Pennsylvania. At present: Researcher-Professor of Urban Economic Systems at Instituto del Conurbano (ICO) of Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS ). Director-Organizer of ICO (1996-1998). Elected Rector of UNGS (June 1998-June 2002). Academic Director... More
Trigona, Marie
Marie Trigona has reported from Argentina for numerous media outlets around the world. A writer, radio producer, and film maker, her work focuses on labor struggles, social movements and human rights in Latin America. Her writing has appeared in publications including Z Magazine and ZNet, NACLA, Monthly Review, Canadian Dimension, The Buenos Aires Herald, Left Turn, Americas Program, Clamor,... More
Opening Essays
Australia
Boyle, Peter
Radical political activist in Australia since early 1970s. Currently national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a group which initiated the publication Green Left Weekly and the left regroupment project, Socialist Alliance. More
Brodie, Paul
I'm a student from Sydney, Australia. I was a lefty with co-ordinatorist tendencies (kind of hard to be otherwise) for about 4 years. Since early 2008 I've become an advocate of participatory vision and strategy. I read Parecon in early 2008 and that introduced me to the debate about what a better society could and should function like, which was a debate simply not happening in the wider... More
Opening Essays
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disorganizing Principles on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: Ideas for Further Development of Snow's Concepts on Snow: Conscious Being Alliance
Re: The Vision on Brodie: The Good Society
Re: The Twitter experiment on Brodie: The Good Society
Re: Ideas for Further Development of Snow's Concepts on Snow: Conscious Being Alliance
Re: From theory to practice on Brodie: The Good Society
Re: Re: Re: Words and their meanings on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Words and their meanings on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
on Snow: Conscious Being Alliance
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on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Coordinatorism on Albert: Imagine and then Act
on Suggett: Post Sexist Society
Not sure that scale has anything to do with it on Purkayastha: The Need for a New Socialist Vision
Burchett, George
George Burchett (born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1955) is a Sydney-based artist. He co-edited "Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist, The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett" (University of NSW Press, 2005) and "Rebel Journalism: The Writings of Wilfred Burchett" (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He is currently working on an exhibition about the 1965 coup in Indonesia that resulted in... More
Opening Essays
George, Justin
Hi, I live in Melbourne, Australia, and I think I first came across Znet courtesy of the linear notes of a Propagandhi album along time ago. Soon after that Michael Albert gave a talk at my university- University of Queensland- where I first encountered in any detail his proposals on Parecon, which opened my eyes to exciting and new possibilities for progressive change. I particularly related... More
Opening Essays
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Re: structure vs. policy on George: Animal Liberation
on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: spheres of struggle and organizing approaches on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: on George: Beyond Nation-State
Re: on George: Beyond Nation-State
Re: Animal liberation, obstacles and opportunities on George: Animal Liberation
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Forced merger between animal liberation and on George: Animal Liberation
Re: Re: Re: Forced merger between animal liberation and leftist on George: Animal Liberation
Re: Forced merger between animal liberation and leftist struggle on George: Animal Liberation
Re: Yes, an excellent article on George: Animal Liberation
Re: An Excellent Article on George: Animal Liberation
Re: on George: Beyond Nation-State
Re: Two Fleas Fighting Over the Dog Their On on George: Beyond Nation-State
Gibson, Katherine
Katherine Gibson is Professor of Human Geography at the Centre for Citizenship and public Policy at the University of Western Sydney. Under the pen-name J.K. Gibson-Graham she is co-author with Julie Graham of _The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy_ (Blackwell, 1996, University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and _A Postcapitalist Capitalist Politics_... More
Hepburn, John
John is an activist who lives on the east coast of Australia. For the past five years he has worked with Greenpeace Australia Pacific, co-ordinating the genetic engineering campaign and more recently the Australian climate change campaign. He has been actively involved in the global justice movement for over a decade, co-founding several worker run co-ops, including the Reverse Garbage re-use... More
Pilger, John
John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism's top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. "John Pilger," wrote Harold Pinter, "unearths,... More
Towsey, Michael
Dr. Michael Towsey is currently a Research Fellow in bioinformatics at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane., and a faculty member at Prout College. His Ph.D. from the University of Queensland was in the field of machine learning. His previous degrees were in biology and agriculture. He has worked at universities and IT companies in New Zealand, Australia, the United Arab Emirates... More
Opening Essays
Belgium
Houtart, Francois
Born in Brussels on 07 03 25, Phd in Sociology of the Catholic University of Louvain. Diploma in philosophy and theology (Malines-Belgium). Diploma in City planning (Brussels). Postgraduate studies in sociology at Chicago University. Prof. em of the Catholic University of Louvain. Founder of the Tricontinental center (Louvainla-Neuve). Executive secretary of the World Forum of Alternatives/... More
Opening Essays
Mestrum, Francine
Researcher, PhD in social sciences, specialized in development studies, poverty, inequality, gender, globalization. Several books on international financial organizations and the need for global redistribution, tax justice, global social justice, etc. More
Opening Essays
Fight Global Income Inequality
Reaction Essays
Comment on Epstein, Reacting to Epstein: Left is Weak
Bolivia
Dangl, Ben
Ben studied writing and literature at Bard College and Latin American history and literature at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina. He is the author of the book The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia (AK Press, 2007), which has been published in Spanish by Plural Editores in Bolivia and in Tamil by The New Century Publishing House in Tamil Nadu,... More
Opening Essays
Vega Camacho, Oscar
Miembro del Grupo Comuna. Fue colaborador de la Representación Presidencial para la Asamblea Constituyente de Bolivia (REPAC). Tiene publicados diversos ensayos políticos y tiene una columna en el periódico estatal Cambio. More
Brazil
Baierle, Sergio
Sergio Gregorio Baierle: Master Degree in Political Science - University of Campinas (UNICAMP). After 10 year working in community theatre, he moved to popular education and socio-political investigation in the 1980's. He has worked for Centro de Assessoria e Estudos Urbanos (CIDADE) since 1991, being responsible for activities of action-investigation on participatory budgeting and local public... More
Cocco, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Cocco é cientista político (université de Paris 8) e possui Doutorado em História Social (Université de Paris 1). Atualmente, é professor da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Trabalha sobre os temas da nova qualidade do trabalho e da globalizaí§í£o no capitalismo contemporáneo. Escreveu, com Antonio Negri, GlobAL:biopoder e... More
Dowbar, Ladislau
Ladislau Dowbor earned a doctorate in Economic Sciences from the Central School for Planning and Statistics in Warsaw, Poland. He is an associate professor at the Pointifical Catholic University (PUC) in Sí£o Paulo, Brazil and consultant to several United Nations agencies. He is author of IThe Broken Mosaic: for an Economics beyond Equations (Zed books), Democracia Econí´mica... More
Mance, Euclides
Euclides Andre Mance is a philosopher and has been a popular educator since the 1990s. He is a member of the Popular Solidarity Economy Network in Brazil, and animator of the website http://www.solidarius.com.br/. He is the author of various texts and books, such as The Network Revolution [A Revolucao das Redes], which has been translated into Italian. His work can be found on... More
Nunes, Rodrigo
Rodrigo Nunes, Brazilian, has lived for the last decade between Brazil and the UK, where he acquired a PhD in philosophy from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In this period, he has been involved (as organiser and popular educator) in various projects and initiatives such as the organisation of the first editions of the World Social Forum, the Justice for Cleaners campaign, and the... More
Opening Essays
Singer, Paul
I was born in 1932, in Viena, Austria, came to Brazil with my family in 1940. I am now a Brazilian citizen and my present ocupation is National Secretary for Solidarity Economy at the Ministry of Labor and Employment. I belonged to the Brazilian Socialist Party from 1954 until it was closed by the military regime in 1965. I am one of the founders of Workers Party in 1980 and still belong to it.... More
Whitaker, Chico
Born in 1931, he participated of catholic students movements and became architect and urban planner in 1957. He worked then in research on standards of living and developpement and in planning for the State Government of Sí£o Paulo. In 1963 he became the director of planning for the brazilian Land Reform. After the military coup in 1964, he worked in the planning of the National Conference of... More
Canada
Bernard, Elaine
Elaine Bernard is the Executive Director of the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. More
Bunge, Mario
Born in 1919 in Buenos Aires. Canadian citizen since 1975. Married, 4 children. PhD in physics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 1952. Professor of Theoretical Physics, Universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata, 1956-59; of philosophy, Univ. of Buenos Aires, 1957-62. Visiting prof. of philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1960-61 and University of Texas (1963); of physics and philosophy,... More
Opening Essays
Burrows, Paul
I am an activist and writer based in Winnipeg, Canada. In 1995, I helped found Winnipeg's Old Market Autonomous Zone (www.a-zone.org), as well as Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House (www.mondragon.ca), institutions -- inspired by participatory economics and anarchism -- which have become focal points of activism in Winnipeg. More recently (in 2007), I helped start up the Rudolf Rocker Cultural... More
Cote, Ethel
íthel Cí´té has been involved in the economic, social, cooperative and cultural fields for 30 years. As general manager for the Cooperation Council of Ontario (CCO) from 1994 to 2000, with a team, she revived this movement and fostered the implementation of some fifty work, services and production cooperatives in addition to supporting agricultural, agri-food, housing and child care... More
D'Arcy, Steve
A parent, activist and democratic theorist who lives and works in London, Ontario, Canada. A member of London Project for a Participatory Society, Mobilization for Climate Justice-London, and the Ecosocialist International Network. More
Opening Essays
Environmental Movement Strategy
Reaction Essays
Community-Based Socialism, Reacting to Wright: Taking the Social Seriously
Comments
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how important is 'unity' on the Left? on Sanbonmatsu: Left Crisis Pt. 1
Re: Re: Words and their meanings on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
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Re: Re: avoiding the sectarianism trap on Evans: Popular Vision
Re: Ecology and Marxism, a difficult marriage? on Lowy: Ecosocialism
Re: Re: Mondragon coops are coordinator-dominated on Wetzel: Anarchist Political Organization
avoiding the sectarianism trap on Evans: Popular Vision
Re: Re: Re: Re: morality, strategy, self-emancipation on Martinez: A Moral Movement
Re: Re: morality, strategy, self-emancipation on Martinez: A Moral Movement
morality, strategy, self-emancipation on Martinez: A Moral Movement
barriers to building inclusive movements on Majavu: Suicidal Tendencies
Your account of why 'Marx and Engels were wrong' on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
Re: Re: A Half-Time Speech.... on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
on Hoodbhoy: Imperialism and Islamism
Re: Re: Non-reformist methods of organizing for reforms on Rai: Think Strategically
Non-reformist methods of organizing for reforms on Rai: Think Strategically
Re: A revolutionary role for unions? on Wetzel: Solidarity Unionism
A revolutionary role for unions? on Wetzel: Solidarity Unionism
Dixon, Chris
Chris Dixon, originally from Alaska, is a longtime anti-authoritarian organizer, writer, and educator, and a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is a member of the administrative collective of Colours of Resistance and serves on the advisory board for the activist journal Upping the Anti. He is currently completing a book based... More
Reaction Essays
response to Adamovsky's article, Reacting to Adamovsky: Autonomous Politics
Response to Epstein's Article, Reacting to Epstein: Left is Weak
Downing, Rupert
Rupert Downing is the Director of the Canadian Social Economy Research Program (http://www.socialeconomyhub.ca/hub/), a partnership between universities and civil society in Canada working to strengthen the social economy as a vehicle to transform social, economic and environmental conditions. He is also the Coordinator of Community Based Research Canada and the Global Alliance for Community... More
Emersberger, Joe
Joe Emersberger was born in 1966 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada where he currently lives and works. He is an engineer and a member of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union. More
Opening Essays
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Re: Great story on Emersberger: WOVOKIA
this prompts an important and I think uncomfortable question on Christini: Assembling the Future
Re: Not just a good idea, on Chrysostomou: A Co-operative Web Portal
Very interesting essay on Sweetman: Psychology for ParSoc
Very insightful on Evans: Popular Vision
Gindin, Sam
Sam Gindin spent most of his working life (1974-2000) as the research director of and then Assistant to the President of the Canadian Auto Workers. He then led a seminar on Social Justice and Political activism at York (which was also open to community activists). He is currently writing a book with Leo Panitch on the making of global capitalism and active in community-labour education and... More
Klein, Naomi
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is slated to be translated into seventeen languages to date. The six-minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an... More
Markland, Dave
Dave Markland lives in Vancouver BLOG: stopwarblog.blogspot.com More
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Great story on Emersberger: WOVOKIA
Paulson, Justin
Justin Paulson is an assistant professor of sociology at Carleton University, where he teaches graduate seminars in Marxist theory and undergraduate courses on social movements and social theory. He grew up in a community of anti-nuclear activists, and has been involved in various solidarity struggles for most of his life; he was also the creator (and webmaster, from 1994-2006) of the... More
Podur, Justin
Justin Podur is a writer and editor for ZNet (www.zmag.org), part of Z Communications, an alternative media organization dedicated to political analysis and support for movements for social change. He has reported from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, India, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Israel/Palestine, and Mexico. He also writes on North America. He has... More
Opening Essays
Polyculturalism and Self-determination
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Poirier, Yvon
Yvon Poirier is the Chair of the International Committee of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet), and a member of the coordination committee of RIPESS North America. He has been actively involved in the International Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS) since 2004. He is also co-publisher of an International Newsletter on Sustainable... More
Reimer, Brendan
Brendan Reimer's early days in Paraguay set the stage for his passion and commitment to social justice. His parents were actively involved in community development and social justice, and their influence echoes through Brendan's life path. Brendan began working in the restorative justice field, and ran a social enterprise with men with various disabilities. Following that, he volunteered with... More
Renn, Marla
Hello, my name is Marla and I live inVancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and I am a student completing my teaching certification. In the fall of 2009 I will begin as a substitute teacher within high schools, with an eye of further exploring how I might enter the educational institution in a way that I will be able to collaborate with others for a revolution within. The educational process of... More
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on Martinez: Creating Education
on Martinez: Creating Education
on Spannos: Reimagining Social Services
Sarkeesian, Anita
Feminist cultural critic and activist Anita Sarkeesian has provided media support work (photography, video recording/editing, webdesign) for various social justice movements across the United States and Canada. In 2007, Anita co-founded the NYC Youth Chapter, a training collaborative dedicated to providing young activists with anti-oppression and media skills. In addition to her workshops... More
Tuathail, Micheál
I am a machinist and (now) an MA student in Latin American Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, currently fighting my way through the academic world. My work focuses on Canada-Colombia solidarity, most recently in challenging the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and the 'locking-in' of corporate domination of both societies. Through this work, I am most interested in... More
Colombia
Bermudez, Nicholas
Born and educated in Andean Highlands (Bogotá, Colombia). Studied sociology and anthropology in the East Coast of the United States (Boston, Massachusetts). Lived and worked with indigenous communities in the Amazon Rainforest for 17 years, helping them implement their fundamental rights to cultural identity and territorial autonomy and their strategies for the protection of rainforest... More
Mondragon, Hector
Hector Mondragon is a Colombian activist and economist. He lives in Colombia, where he works with various peasant and indigenous organizations. More
Rozental, Manual
52 years old, born in Colombia, resident of Colombia and Canada, physician and surgeon, spending most of my time with the Communication Network (Tejido de Comunicación) of the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca. Also member of the advisory comité for the Hemispheric Social Alliance, Pueblos en Camino and Mingas-FTA. Elected member of the National Directorate of... More
Cuba
Hernandez, Raphael
Rafael M. Hernández (Havana, 1948) is the editor of Temas, a Cuban quarterly in the field of social sciences and the humanities; he is also a published poet, essayist and playwright. His university training was in French Literature and History of Philosophy (University of Havana, 1973), Master´s in Political Science (El Colegio de Mexico, 1977) and Latin American Studies (PhD... More
Pineiro-Harnecker, Camila
Camila Piñeiro Harnecker is a researcher and professor at the Center of Studies on the Cuban Economy, located in Havana, Cuba. She has focused her studies on self-management, democratic planning, and participatory democracy and business administration in general. She graduated from the Latin American Studies masters program at the University of California at Berkeley, with an emphasis on... More
Sitrin, Marina
Marina Sitrin - I am a writer, student, teacher, dreamer, militant and translator. I currenntly live in Habana, Cuba, but have spent most of my adult life organizing in New York City. I have spent a great deal of time in various parts of Latin America, often writing and organizing as well.I edited Horizontalism:Voices of Popular Power in Argentina, and the forthcoming, with Clif Ross, Insurgent... More
Egypt
Amin, Samir
Amin was born in Cairo, the son of an Egyptian father and a French mother (both medical doctors). He spent his childhood and youth in Port Said; there he attended a French High School, leaving in 1947 with a Baccalauréat. From 1947 to 1957 he studied in Paris, gaining a diploma in political science (1952) before graduating in statistics (1956) and economics (1957). In his autobiography... More
Opening Essays
Crise Du Capitalisme, Capitalisme En Crise
England
Rai, Milan
Milan Rai, the anti-war activist, author and editor based in Hastings, England, first became politically active in the campaign against Pershing II and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles - nuclear weapons scheduled to be deployed in Western Europe in the late 1980s. A Peace News seller at his school, he's now become co-editor of the monthly magazine. Milan's primary organizational affiliations... More
Opening Essays
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Re: Non-reformist methods of organizing for reforms on Rai: Think Strategically
Anderson, Bridget
Bridget has worked with migrants of all immigration statuses for numerous years, both in the UK and in Europe. She was a founding member of KALAYAAN, the support group for migrant domestic workers in the UK has worked closely with and advised with migrants' organisations, trades unions and legal practitioners at local, national and European levels. She is currently a senior research officer at... More
Chrysostomou, Jason
I live in London, U.K, where I work as a website designer with my brother. We have recently setup our own business and we aspire to implement pareconish ideals in our working lives to the extent that we can. My parents are from Germany and Cyprus which has given me a diverse cultural upbringing, and in 2005-6 I spent a year travelling around the world. I got to see the appalling global... More
Opening Essays
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are markets compatible with our vision of a decent society? on Cradden: Workplace Democracy and Markets?
Re: idea or initiative? on Chrysostomou: A Co-operative Web Portal
Re: Re: Not just a good idea, on Chrysostomou: A Co-operative Web Portal
Cromwell1, David1
David Cromwell is an oceanographer, writer and co-editor, with David Edwards of Media Lens (http://www.medialens.org). He is also co-founder, with Mark Levene, of the Crisis Forum (http://www.crisis-forum.org.uk). Originally from Glasgow, where he obtained a PhD in solar physics, he left in 1988 to take up a research position in Boulder, Colorado. He then worked for Shell in the... More
De Angelis, Massimo
Massimo De Angelis is Professor of Political Economy at the University of East London. His most recent book is "The Beginning of History, Value Struggles and Global Capital" (Pluto 2007). He is the editor of the web journal and blog at www.thecommoner.org . These days his research focus on crisis and the commons. More
Edwards, David
David Edwards was born in Maidstone, England in 1962. He worked for six years for several large British and US corporations in sales, management and management consultancy, before `retiring` in 1991. He is the author of `Burning all Illusions` (South End Press, 1996), published in the UK as `Free to be Human` (Green Books, 1995), and lso `The Compassionate Revolution` (Green Books, 1998). More
Evans, Mark
These things probably tell you something about me -I got my initial education in social justice listening to Bob Marley and the Wailers as a teenager, then in my late 20's reading Chomsky which led me to Z. I identify with the humanist world view. My favouite comedian is John Shuttleworth.I enjoy all kinds of "roots" music including folk, reggae, blues,hip-hop and... More
Opening Essays
Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Reply to Albert's "Imagine and then Act"
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I agree ... but? on Vltchek: Western Propaganda
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Gabriel, George
I'm 22, was born in the UK and have just returned from Venezuela to begin studying a law conversion course in September. I have worked in the UK and Venezuela as an activist, journalist, teacher, rubbish collector, and aspire to be a citizen. I have long been involved in the struggle for refugee rights in Britain and am currently re-integrating myself with UK activism after 2 years of personal... More
Graeber, David
I'm a Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, author of a number of books including "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology," "Possibilities," and the forthcoming "Direct Action: An Ethnography," and participant in numerous activist groups ranging from PGA to the IWW. More
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Jordan, John
John Jordan's work merges the imagination of art and the radical engagement of activism. Co-director of social art group Platform (1987-1995) he then went on to work in the direct-action collective "Reclaim the Streets" (1995-2000). In 2003 he co-edited the book "We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism" (Verso - and translated in 6 languages).... More
Lilley, Sasha
Sasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster. She co-founded the program of radical ideas, Against the Grain, on KPFA Radio, the flagship station of the Pacifica Network, and is the author most recently of Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Leading Radical Thinkers, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. More
Martinez, Raoul
I am a 25-year-old artist/writer currently living in London - the city of my birth. Dissatisfied and disillusioned with my formal education, I left college aged 17 to train as an artist (www.raoulmartinez.com ), whilst also devising and following a curriculum of my own making. My curriculum began with an attempt to question all my beliefs, and led to, for the next seven years, an investigation... More
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on Pearson: Intellectualism for Everyone
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Re: on Martinez: Creating Education
Monbiot, George
George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books Heat: how to stop the planet burning; The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain; as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. During seven years of investigative journeys... More
Segal, Lynne
Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, School of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury More
Sweetman, Joseph
I am currently a PhD student at Cardiff University (http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/psych/). My research, and broader, interest is in psychology and social change. In particular, I am examining the social psychology of collective action, group-based hierarchy, power, culture and ideology. I tend to be interested in all sorts of things, methods and approaches... More
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Therborn, Goren
Born in l941 in Sweden, Swedish citizen and resident, but working at Cambridge University UK. Sociologist. Almost fifty years of leftwing intellectual and political activity, as a socialist and anti-imperialist. Currently I am most involved in issues of inequality, globally, nationally, locally. The vision of l9th and 20th century socialism is no longer clear. While we all know what we are... More
Wittel, Andreas
I am 45 years old. I am German and have been living in the UK for the last ten years. I am a senior lecturer, teaching in media studies and social and cultural theory. At the moment I am working at Nottingham Trent University (UK). Lately my research interest has focused on the political economy of digital 'things'. I come from an autonomist background and have been involved in a number of... More
Opening Essays
Wood, Ellen
Ellen Meiksins Wood, Professor Emerita of Political Science at York University, Canada, is the author of many books, including The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Empire of Capital, and most recently Citizens to Lords, the first volume of a social history of western political thought. She was an editor of New Left Review from 1984 to 1993 and Co-Editor of Monthly... More
Finland
Muukkonen, Marita
Marita Muukkonen is Curator at FRAME, The Finnish Fund for Art Exchange and Editor of FRAMEWORK - The Finnish Art Review. From 2001-2005 she was at NIFCA, The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art. She has also worked as a Researcher and as a Journalist. More
Paterson, Andrew
Andrew Gryf Paterson (34) is a Scottish artist-organiser, cultural producer and independent researcher, based in Helsinki, Finland. His work involves variable roles of initiator, participant, author and curator, according to different collaborative and cross-disciplinary processes. Andrew works across the fields of media/ network/environmental activism, pursuing a participatory arts practice... More
Stodolsky, Ivor
Ivor A Stodolsky is a writer, curator and philosopher. He is currently based at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki, Finland, where he is researching a case history in the Russian and former Soviet non-conformist cultural intelligentsia. A pluri- or a-national (FR/US-UK/RU/DE/US/CZ/FI), he is perpetually 'in the field'. Political experience includes work as associate editor... More
France
Greeman, Richard
Fifty years of activism: civil rights, labor, antiwar, antinuke, you name it. Author of anti-capitalist satire: BEWARE OF VEGETARIAN SHARKS www.lulu.com/contents/923573 More
Opening Essays
Hall-Jones, Peter
I'm 49, and grew up during the neo-liberal experiment in New Zealand; part of a generation for whom the market had no use, at any price. With almost no experience of class struggle, most of us sank into various forms of chemical euphoria. Others learned to act stupid enough to fit under every conceivable radar. Depression is so-oo becoming. Personally, I owe everything to a handful of... More
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Re: Ends and Means on Evans: Popular Vision
on Cradden: Workplace Democracy and Markets?
Lowy, Michael
Michael Lowy, born in Brazil, lives in France since 1969. Emerited research director in sociology at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). Co-author, with Joel Kovel, of the International Ecosocialist Manifesto (2001). Author of several books, among which "Fire Alarm.Walter Benjamin" London, Verso, 2004. More
Opening Essays
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Re: Re: Ecology and Marxism, a difficult marriage? on Lowy: Ecosocialism
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Germany
Adams, Tyrone
I was born in 1972 in Germany, where I also currently reside. I was employed in the field of banking for several years and have recently switched to working as a teacher. Being Afro-German and having been raised with social ideals by my wonderful mother, who was one of few who dared to publicly call herself a member of the German communist party DKP, I was involved early in political rallies... More
Opening Essays
Altvater, Elmar
Born 1938, Study of Economics and Sociology at the University of Munich, Germany. Doctoral Thesis 1968 on "Social Production and Economic Rationality - External Effects and Central Planning in the Socialist Economic System" (published by Europí¤ische Verlagsanstalt Frankfurt/Wien 1969). From 1970 until 2004 Professor at the Free University Berlin, department of Political Science.... More
Demirovic, Alex
Born in 1952, PhD in Philosophy in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Actually teaching Political Theory at the Technical University Berlin. Publications on democracy, industrial democracy and trade unions, state theory, critical theory, Michel Foucault, Niklas Luhmann, regulation school, discourse analysis. More
Kipping, Katja
Katja Kipping, born 1978 in Dresden, is Left Party vice chair (DIE LINKE) and member of the federal parliament (Bundestag) in Germany. In her early years involved with environmental and youth movements, Kipping joined the east german democratic socialist party (PDS) at the age of twenty. The following year she was elected as an councilwoman in Dresden and also won a seat in the state... More
Opening Essays
A basic income as an allowance for democracy
Krysmanski, Hans Juergen
Born 1935 in Berlin, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Muenster, Germany. Numerous publications on sociological theory, peace and conflict, social structure and class analysis, the media and power structure research. Member of the Academic Advisory Council of ATTAC, Germany, and of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Homepage: www.uni-muenster.de/PeaCon/krysmanski/ 1953-54 HICOG... More
Opening Essays
Muller, Tadzio
Tadzio Mueller lives in Berlin, where he is active, after many years of being a counterglobalist summit-groupie, in the emerging climate justice movement. Having escaped the clutches of (academic) wage labour, he is currently writing a report about 'green capitalism' for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and otherwise doing odd translation jobs. He is also an editor of Turbulence - Ideas for... More
Rilling, Ranier
Sociologist and Senior Research fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin which is close to the party "Die Linke", Institute for Critical Social Analysis. Latest books are "Risse im Empire" (Berlin 2008) and "Crisis", Berlin 2009. More
Siefkes, Christian
Christian Siefkes, 33, born in Southern Germany, lives in Berlin, Germany. Holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Freie Universität Berlin; works as a freelance software engineer and author. Homepage: siefkes.net. He is especially interested in studying and advancing the practices of commons-based peer production, a decentralized and participatory way of production which is giving us... More
Opening Essays
Greece
Konstantinou, Dimitri
Dimitris Konstantinou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1972. The last 5 years he lives in Athens with his wife and two kids. He studies constantly sociology and he is a co editor of the annual collection of essays called “nyktegersia”. He writes monthly articles in the anti-authoritarian newspaper “Babylonia” and he is the editor of a greek edition of Z Magazine-Z Net essays as an... More
Raptis, Nikos
Nikos Raptis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1930. He is a civil engineer. For the last 40 years he has been writing on social matters for papers and magazines (mainly) in Greece. He is the author of "Let Us Talk About Earthquakes, Floods and...the Streetcar" (1981) and "The Nightmare of the Nukes"(1986), both in Greek. He, also, translated into Greek and published Noam... More
Opening Essays
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Re: The Problem of Transportation on Raptis: Transportation
India
Banerjee, Sumanta
Born in 1936 in Calcutta (India), and residing at present in Dehradun near New Delhi. Journalist by profession. Was an activist in the Indian Communist movement - as a member of the undivided Communist Party of India from 1953 to 1964, and as an underground member of the armed Naxalite party (Communist Party of India - Marxist-Leninist). Have been an activist in the civil rights... More
Chander, Naveen
Currently doing his PhD in Political Science on the contemporary history of language politics in India, and was one of the PhD fellow at CSDS under its Institutional Fellowship Programme.He has been active for the past many years with a variety of socialinitiatives, in particular a student group based in Delhi named the Progressive Students' Union working on different issues ranging from... More
Chowdhury, Ashok
Active in the field on the issues of Forest Rights, Land rights & Political and Cultural Rights of Tribals and Dalits as per ICESCR of UNHRC. Founding Convener of National Forum Of Forest People and Forest Workers(NFFPFW), Founding Member 7 Vice president of New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI),a national Trade Union Fedaration of Indipendent Trade Unions, Member IWC of WSF India and also founding... More
Dias, Xavier
Editor of a mining communities newspaper (Hindi) and spokesperson of Jharkhand Mines area Coordination Committee JMACC www.firstpeoplesfirst.in Political activist of the movement of Adivasi (Indigenous) peoples (social movements) for a distinct identity, culture, economy and self-determination (Jharkhand India). Worked as a trade union organiser with the unorganised workers in the mines, on... More
Divakar, N. Paul
N. Paul Divakar (52) is an activist, human rights defender and advocate for Dalit rights. He is currently the General Secretary, of Dalit Economic and Cultural Rights Movement of National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR). He has been involved in various areas of Dalit concerns and Dalit rights since 1985 at state, national and international level. He is one of the founding members of... More
Hashmi, Shabnam
A social activist, a rebel, an organiser and a person who has generated ideas for thousands of creative campaigns and implemented them at the local as well as national level. Shabnam Hashmi has been working as a social activist for more than 25 years. She started her activism from 1981 she has spent most of her time in combating communal and fundamentalist forces in India. After the Gujarat... More
M.J., Vijayan
Vijayan MJ, Age-31, Born in 1978 in Kerala, India. Have been a citizen of India since birth. Born to Christian clergy parents who believed in liberation theology and were active stakeholders in the battle against the casteism and classism propagated by the Church and the upper caste lobby. The battle within the church for the voting rights of the âbackward' people soon became a struggle... More
Mazgoankar, Michael
I and my wife and colleague live and work in a remote area (actually a wild life sanctuary) with an indigenous community of Vasavas (a subtribe of the Bhils) in the western state of Gujarat. We try to work towards increasing self-sufficiency with the people living in the Satpura mountains. We have worked on soil and water conservation, finding alternative local livelihoods, working on building... More
Menon, Meena
Senior Associate, Focus on the Global South, India. Â Also active with the Girni Kamgar Sangharsh Samiti and Rojgar Hakka Samiti- organisations working in the textile area in Mumbai. Activist for 33 years. Working on regional, national and local issues; active in the network of Peoples SAARC, in the World Social Forum process (global, regional and national processes), in various peace... More
Namala, Annie
I am a social activist engaged for the past two decades with Dalit community organisations and campaigns in India. A large part of my time had been hitherto working on issues of discrimination and human rights violations. Currently i am beginning to work on issues of exclusion and policy interventions for inclusive growth and development. I am currently with an organisation called 'Centre for... More
Purkayastha, Prabir
Have been an activist and part of the left movement in India for the last 40 years. Am an engineer and work with the peoples science movement in the country. Involved closely with the World Social Forum. Have written extensively on science, technology and development. More
Opening Essays
The Need for a New Socialist Vision
Raina, Badri
Born 26th feb.,1941 in Kashmir; Ph.D Madison, Wisconsin,1976; Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Fellow (1972 and 1984); Scholarly publication: Dickens and the Dialectic of Growth, Univ., of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1986; Scholarly Articles on Literary Theory, Culture/Language, History, Educational Ideology, Politics of Development and individual English writers; Raina's Ghalib, Writers'... More
Opening Essays
Commemorating T.K.Ramachandran
Comments
Re: A society still in the grip of caste and superstitions on Raina: Commemorating T.K.Ramachandran
Roy, Dunu
Dunu Roy (formally A K Roy), crossed 60, Chemical Engineer by training, social scientist by compulsion, political ecologist by choice. Worked for almost four decades in rural and urban scenarios, experimenting with land and water management, secure settlements, safe work, environmental planning, leadership training, pollution control, on the delicate borderline between environment and development. More
Saldanha, Leo
Leo F. Saldanha works with Environment Support Group in Bangalore, India, a non-profit organisation that he helped initiate along with fellow activists and professionals during 1996. He has over a decade's experience of working with environmental and social action groups and has been an active campaigner on various public interest issues in the State of Karnataka and across India. As Founding... More
Sen, Jai
Jai Sen, male, 63; born in New Delhi, India, and after moving around quite a lot, based here again. An architect and urban planner by training and first practice, then an activist, I am currently in research, writing, and editing, and now see myself as a student of movement and an installation architect ⓠcreating spaces for more critical reflection and action : Through seminars,... More
Shiva, Vandana
Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of many books. In India she has established Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers` rights. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. Her most recent books are Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the... More
Indonesia
Iran
Rahnema, Majid
Majid Rahnema has been diplomat and minister of the Iranian Government and functionary of UNDP, the United Nations Development Program. His critique of the Development adventure, based on firsthand experiences by an insider, is more radical than most criticism by outsiders. Rahnema is the author of several books in Persian, English and French, particularly: The Post-Development Reader (with... More
Ireland
Cradden, Conor
Conor Cradden is a specialist in research and policy development in the fields of industrial relations and management. His particular areas of expertise are workplace democracy, partnership forms of industrial relations and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Cradden's book on the relationship between CSR and economic democracy, entitled Repoliticizing Management: A Theory of Corporate... More
Opening Essays
Workplace Democracy and Markets?
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Israel
Marom, Yotam
Yotam Marom lives in a collective in Brooklyn, NY. He works in the leadership of the Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement and teaches high school students through Without Walls, a collective that uses democratic, alternative educational methods to build community and get at issues of race, class, gender, environment, power, and activism. He is a part time undergraduate student at the New School for... More
Opening Essays
Reaction Essays
Response to Ilan Pappe, Reacting to Pappe: Disarm Israel
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Pappe, Ilan
Ilan Pappe, chair, department of History, univeristy of Exeter. Co-director of the Exeter Centre for Etnno-political Studies. Born Haifa Israel. D. Phil. Univeristy of Oxford. 1984. Senior Lecturer in Haifa University 1992-2000. Chair, Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies, 2000-2009. Selected Books: The Modern Middle East, A History of Modern Palestine and The Ethnic Cleansing of... More
Italy
Colombaro, Pasqualino
I was born and raised in the Abruzzi region of Italy. I am 58 years old and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. I currently coordinate the efforts of the Global Economic Alternatives Network. Since 1974 I have been a community and labor activist in Massachusetts. I organize, mobilize, research and consult on comparative issues of local and global economic development, labor organizing and... More
Opening Essays
Global Social and Economic Independence
Foti, Alex
Alex Foti, Milanese activist born in 1966. Works on precarity, urban ecology, radical europe. Since 2004, he has promoted a Europe-wide MayDay protesting generational precarity and the persecution of migrants (www.euromayday.org). A pink wobbly and a green radical, he has co-authored the Middlesex declaration of Europe's precariat and the Act 4 Radical Europe manifesto. Among his essays:... More
Opening Essays
Climate Anarchists vs Green Capitalists
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Re: Social Economy, Cooperative Market & Participatory Socia on Wright: Taking the Social Seriously
pirate green commonism? on Hardt: Politics of the Common
on climate anarchists and state power on Foti: Climate Anarchists vs Green Capitalists
Re: Capitalist Ideology: a Strange Creature on Foti: Climate Anarchists vs Green Capitalists
Re: Ecology and Marxism, a difficult marriage? on Lowy: Ecosocialism
Re: No limits on knowledge on Lowy: Ecosocialism
Fresia, Jerry
I turned to art professionally after zig-zagging through a few different disciplines. I received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering before receiving a PhD from the University of Massachusetts in political science. I have written on the political-economy of the United States, especially when I taught at several colleges and universities. (See Toward An American Revolution, South End,... More
Opening Essays
Gulli, Bruno
I was born in Calabria (Italy) in 1959. I'm interested in philosophy, poetry, literature, the critique of political economy, and political theory. I studied at the University of Venice (Italy), San Francisco State University, and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. I am an adjunct professor of philosophy at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, and an adjunct... More
Opening Essays
Lanza, Luciano
Luciano Lanza, a journalist and expert in economics, was among the founders of the monthly "A rivista anarchica" (A anarchist review) in 1971 and worked on the editorial staff for ten years. From 1974 to 1979 he collaborated on the quarterly published in four languages, "Interrogations". From 1980 to 1996 he was in charge of the quarterly "Volontà" (Will).... More
Opening Essays
Roggero, Gigi
Gigi Roggero has his Ph.D in Sociology of Labour, and now he has a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Politics, Institution, History of the University of Bologna. He is involved in the editorial board of the transnational project “edu-factory”, in “Uninomade”, and he is a collaborator of the newspaper “il manifesto”. He is co-author of the books: Futuro anteriore. Dai... More
Romano, Zoe
Zoe Romano (studied Philosophy and Media Science and Technology in Milan) is an italian visual artist and media activist working on precarity, branding, online marketing, fashionism, craftivism, and material and immaterial labor in creative and service industries. Since 2000, she has developed several projects in the context of the Italian and European post-1999 movement, such as... More
Japan
Muto, Ichiyo
Muto, Ichiyo, born in 1931 in Tokyo, is a writer on political and social affairs, and activist engaged in the anti-war movement, international solidarity movement, and other social movements since the 1950s. Active in the anti-Vietnam war Beheiren movement (1965-74) and founded English magazine AMPO in 1969. Founded Pacific-Asia Resource Center in 1973. Played a leading role in organizing the... More
Opening Essays
Toward Global People's Autonomy
Kenya
Lebanon
Trabulsi, Fawwaz
Fawwaz Traboulsi is associate professor of Political Science and History at the Lebanese American University, Beirut. He has been a visiting professor at New York University, University of Michigan, Columbia University and Cairo University and a visiting fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and the Wissenshafatskolleg, Berlin (2007-08). He has translated the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin,... More
Mexico
Bowman, Betsy
In the fall of 2003, I moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, to found the Center for Global Justice. Two colleagues from the Radical Philosophy Association, Bob Stone and Cliff Durand, accompanied me. Our motive was and is to study the affects of neoliberal globalization on Mexico, a NAFTA partner, and on the third world. See www.globaljusticecenter.org My trajectory to the study of economic... More
Durand, Cliff
Cliff DuRand is now 71 years old. I was born and raised in the Third World country of North Dakota, USA. For 40 years I taught social philosophy at Morgan State University in Baltimore. I now live in the central highlands of Mexico in San Miguel de Allende. Here I am a Research Associate in the Center for Global Justice which I co-founded in 2004. I was radicalized by the civil rights... More
Esteva, Gustavo
72 years old, born in Mexico, live in Mexico, grassroots activist, deprofessionalized intellectual and independent writer. Active participant in the creation of NGOs and local, national and international networks. Grassroots activist for the last 30 years. Advisor to the Zapatistas in 1996 for their negotiations with the government and active in Zapatismo since 1994. Involved with the Popular... More
Opening Essays
Holloway, John
I am 61, was born in Ireland and live in Mexico, where I am a professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades "Alfonso Vélez Pliego, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. I have been associated with various movements over the years, the most important being the anti-poll tax movement in Scotland and the zapatista movement. I am currently involved in... More
Robert, Jean
Though not extremely young, I'm not a "retiree" and keep working for my tortillas, often struggling with kids 50 years younger than myself. But since a very long time, my interests lay elsewhere. Around 1964, I was making a living in Amsterdan and in The Hague, working in several architectural firms. But, "life was in the streets", in the form of the Provo movement that opposed the city's... More
Opening Essays
Stone, Bob
Activist since 1961 in civil rights, anti-Vietnam, Cuba and Mexico solidarity, alternative energy/anti-nuke, socialist, worker cooperative, and solidarity economy movements. Professor of philosophy since 1967, mostly at C. W. Post College of Long Island University, specializing in ethics, social philosophy, and Sartre. Co-author with Elizabeth Bowman since 1986 on alternative economics and... More
Netherlands
Chavez, Daniel
Daniel Chavez is a Uruguayan anthropologist and political scientist focused on Latin American politics and urban social movements. He joined the Trasnational Institute (TNI, Amsterdam) in 2001 as Coordinator of the Energy Project, looking at democratic and participatory alternatives to electricity privatisation in the Global South. Before moving to Europe he worked for more than a decade for... More
Roio, Denis Jaromil
Jaromil is a developer and media artist inspired by the GNU free software movement: he follows the ideal of creating FOSS for freedom of expression, to let people communicate, freed from consumerist speculations and the need for expensive hardware. He is a public figure among the dyne.org developers, a network of hackers born on the Internet. Among open source software he... More
Nigeria
Abiola, Adetokunbo
Adetokunbo Abiola was born on December 19, 1965 in Farmborough, England. He is a journalist and writer based in Nigeria. He has won numerous international journalism awards and has published Labulabu Mask (Macmillans Nigeria) a novel, as well as short stories in numerous online and print publications. He is a member of Freedom of Information Coalition and Zero Corruption Coalition, Nigerian... More
Norway
Hanssen, Rolv Rynning
For the moment seconded to Public Services International from Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees. Working on issues of quality public services as a tool to prevent and fight back on all forms of privatisation. Working as an trade union officers since 1996, before that as a local rep at a municipal bus company in Norway. Elected leader of the local federation in my... More
Others
Cronan Jr, John
John is a 25 year old restaurant worker and organizer living in New York CIty but orginally from Providence, RI. He is a Pace Univeristy graduate and has has worked in the restaurant industry for almost 10 years (Providence and Manhattan locations). He has done student, labor, and environmental organizing, as well as written on related topics. His interests include sports... More
Opening Essays
Economic Democracy and Environmental Justice
Davidson, Carl
Carl Davidson is a field organizer for the Solidarity Economy Network and a national steering committee member of United for Peace and Justice. In the 1960s, he was a national secretary of Students of a Democratic Society, and a freedom marcher in Mississippi, and a national leader of the Vietnam antiwar movement. Davidson is the founder and executive director of Networking for Democracy. A... More
Opening Essays
Comments
DeLeon Redux on Evans: Reply to Albert's "Imagine and then Act"
capitalism's supporters on Evans: Reply to Albert's "Imagine and then Act"
Let the reader decide on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
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Moving Goalposts on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
On Mondragon on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
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Re: Roads to nowhere on Wetzel: Solidarity Unionism
Re: union hierarchies on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Disorganizing Principles on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
All of the above on Dixon: Response to Epstein's Article
Michael's Three Points on Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics
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Re: building self-managed unionism on Wetzel: Anarchist Political Organization
Re: is Andy Stern a part of the coordinator class? on Wetzel: Anarchist Political Organization
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Markets and neutrality on Baker: Envisioning the Future
Missing the point on Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?
Trotskyist dogma on Wetzel: Anarchist Political Organization
Re: Mondragon coops are coordinator-dominated on Wetzel: Anarchist Political Organization
A Case in Point on Wetzel: Anarchist Political Organization
Hierarchies on Wetzel: Anarchist Political Organization
Re: context? on Wetzel: Anarchist Political Organization
Vanguards on Wetzel: Anarchist Political Organization
Spell It Out on Purkayastha: The Need for a New Socialist Vision
No limits on knowledge on Lowy: Ecosocialism
Re: Your account of why 'Marx and Engels were wrong' on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
Re: What crap. on Epstein: Left is Weak
Organization-building trumps movement-building on Epstein: Left is Weak
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Krimerman, Len
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Martinez, Elizabeth
Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez is a Chicana writer, activist and teacher whose many years of social justice work are legendary. She speaks on racism, multiculturalism, women's struggles and today's new movements. In the 1960s and 70s, she worked in the Black civil rights movement and the Chicano movement. She co-founded and currently chairs the Institute for MultiRacial Justice to... More
Ortellado, Pablo
I am Pablo Ortellado, 35, Brazilian, teaching Public Policy at the University of Sí£o Paulo. I am involved with free culture activism in Brazil and have been earlier involved with 'anti-globalization' activism in the People's Global Action network and media activism in the Independent Media Center network. I hope 'Reimagining Society' can be a forum for systematizing views and... More
Opening Essays
Panitch, Leo
Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto; co-editor Socialist Register; author of Renewing Socialism: Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination, London: Merlin, 2008. More
Opening Essays
Rebick, Judy
Judy Rebick is a long-time feminist and social justice activist living in Toronto who currently holds the CAW Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University. Judy is a writer and was the founding publisher of www. rabble.ca Her latest book is Transforming Power: From the Personal to the Political (Penguin 2009) During the 1990's Judy was... More
Opening Essays
Rothschild, Joycd
I am a Sociology professor at Virginia Tech in the School of Public and International Affairs. For years, I guess decades, I have done research, writing and teaching on alternatives to capitalism such as building economic democracy/ workers' cooperatives/ ultra-democratic grassroots community organization/ etc. So, do put me on your list, and I will receive your stuff in a timely... More
Schechter, Danny
Danny Schechter is a founder and the Vice President/Executive Producer of Globalvision, Inc., a media company formed in l987. At Globalvision, he created the award winning series "South Africa Now," which aired for three years. He co-created and co-executive produces "Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television," anchored by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an award-winning globally... More
Opening Essays
Smith, Ingemar
I am a United States Citizen of Kenyan descent. I was born and currently reside in Atlanta, GA. I begin with the understanding of white supremacy to be the sharpest and most entrenched political barrier to justice in this society. I believe that to realize a just US society political revolution must be made by anti racist US citizens all of whom work to subvert and completely eliminate the... More
Suggett, James
Opening Essays
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on Pearson: Intellectualism for Everyone
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Wainwright, Hilary
Hilary Wainwright is Research Director of the New Politics Programme at the Transnational Institute and editor of Red Pepper, a popular British new left magazine. She is also an Honorary Fellow in Sociology at Manchester University, UK. Her books include Reclaim the State: Adventures in Popular Democracy (Verso/TNI, 2003) and Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free Market Right (Blackwell,... More
Wallerstein, Immanuel
Born 1930, New York City, and resident in the United States. I am a sociologist, retired from teaching and currently Senior Research Scholar at Yale University. Politically, I have always considered myself on the left, from childhood on. And I have always been active in a variety of organizations, but I have always been of the "independent left", whatever that means. Recently, I have... More
Zibechi, Raúl
I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in the summer of 1952. I lived in Spain for 16 years and now I live In Montevideo again. Between 1969/1973, when i was an student, i was a militant of the Frente Estudiantil Revolucionario (FER). In the '80 I begun to publish in some left newspapers an magazines. Since 1986 as a periodist and militant-invetsigator i knew the whole Latin América. My focus... More
Opening Essays
Pakistan
Hoodbhoy, Pervez
Pervez Hoodbhoy is professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He is the editor of Education And The State - Fifty Years of Pakistan, published by Oxford University Press in 1997. More
Opening Essays
Inayatullah, Sohail
Professor Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist from Pakistan, has been a pioneer in the area of futures studies for over 30 years. He is the author/editor of 20 books and CDROMs and over 400 articles. See his website: www.metafuture.org. He teaches at is at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies), Visiting Academic at Queensland University of Technology;... More
Opening Essays
Palestine
Mouammar, Leila
Leila Khaled Mouammar is a Palestinian, born-in-exile as a settler in Toronto. She got her BA from McGill University in 1997 and worked for a year in Palestinian refugee camps with UNICEF in Lebanon, before continuing her MA studies in the Humanities at NYU where she graduated magna cum laude. In 2002, she started her PhD studies at Concordia University in Montreal, working as a teaching and... More
Peru
Hoetmer, Raphael
I am a Dutch activist-researcher, who has been living in Latin-America over the last years. I have participated in different movement, most continuously the dutch student and refugee movement, the global justice movement, and the movement of communities affected by mining in Peru. Currently, I am working as coordinator of the research- and capacitation centre Programa Democracia y... More
Philippines
Bello, Walden
Walden Bello is executive director of Focus on the Global South and professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines. More
Melencio, Sonny
Chairperson, Partido Lakas ng Masa (a new socialist party in the Philippines); Editorial board member, Links, journal for socialist renewal More
Portugal
Quebec
Neamtan, Nancy
Mrs. Neamtan is President/Executive Director of the Chantier de l'économie sociale, a non-profit organisation administered by 32 representatives of various networks of social  economy enterprises (cooperatives and non-profits), local development organisations and social movements. The mission of the Chantier de l'économie sociale, a Quebec-wide organisation that emerged from... More
Serbia
Grubacic, Andrej
Andrej Grubacic is a radical historian- or, more accurately, an anarchist historian- from the Balkans. Among his works are few books in Balkan languages, chapters and numerous articles related to the history and utopian present of the Balkans. His writings on anarchism, its past and future, are many, and could be found on ZNet. He used to be based in Belgrade, post-Yugoslavia, but after... More
Opening Essays
South Africa
Bond, Patrick
Patrick is a political economist based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban, where he directs the Centre for Civil Society (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs). He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, raised in Alabama, and educated in economics at Swarthmore College, finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and geography at Johns Hopkins University. He is... More
Opening Essays
Cherry, Janet
Janet Cherry is a human rights activist, trainer and academic. She was born in Cape Town in 1961. She is currently a senior lecturer at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, in the Department of Development Studies. She is also a trainer for the Centre for Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) based in Belgrade, Serbia. She has been involved in research for, among... More
Opening Essays
Comments
Down with leadership! on Novitch: The Warmth
Grossman, Jonathan
Active in workplace and community struggles. Employed as a university lecturer. More
Iles, Caragh
Born in Johannesburg and currently living in Cape Town, South Africa. Everyday life includes studying at UCT, playing around with vinyls and doing content for âprofitable' websites. Currently she is working on an anti consumerism zine called GoGrey! and has just finished writing on small scale capital in the context of the eviction of Mitchells Plain Hawkers. She has been involved... More
Opening Essays
Comments
Re: Community is essential on Iles: Insulating against isolation
on Heller: Imagining the Impossible
Majavu, Mandisi
Mandisi Majavu is with the Africa Project for Participatory Society. More
Opening Essays
Reaction Essays
How do we organise our movements?, Reacting to Ngwane: Things Hav3 To Change
Comments
on Sweetman: Psychology for ParSoc
Re: Re: Barriers to building inclusive movements on Majavu: Suicidal Tendencies
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Re: Decision making/voting on Majavu: Suicidal Tendencies
Re: Re: barriers to building inclusive movements on Majavu: Suicidal Tendencies
Ngwane, Trevor
Trevor Ngwane is an activist for human and political rights. He was active in the struggle against apartheid and continues the light in post-apartheid society. He has previously worked as a Sociology lecturer at Wits University where he helped found the Wits Workers' School, a project to teach literacy to the cleaners and gardeners working on campus. He worked for a while as the national... More
Opening Essays
Vally, Salim
Salim Vally is a senior researcher at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg and the coordinator of the Education Rights Project. Vally has been a social justice activist since high school; in 1976 he was regional executive member of the South African Students Movement (SASM). In 1979 he left South Africa as a result of police repression and studied at... More
Spain
Duran, Jose-Maria
PhD in Art History. Areas of interest: aesthetic thinking, political economy, Marxist philosophy of art and sociology of art. Visiting lecturer, Institute of Art History at the Free University of Berlin (2007/08). Regular contributor to the journals Nómadas and A Trabe de Ouro. Recent publications Hacia una crítica de la economía política del arte... More
Opening Essays
Sola, Alfred
A computer analyst by trade, I started Spanish ZNet 10 years ago, in an effort to bring into Spanish ideas which I thought we couldn't find in our language back then. Been linked to this project since then, but not very active in the last couple of years. More
Sudan
Gabriel, Iason
I am UK citizen currently working in Sudan as a researcher for the United Nations Development Programme. My project does conflict mapping for the country using participatory workshops and geographic information systems. The information produced is used to identify gaps in service coverage and areas of likely conflict - and to improve programming in these areas. In October 2009 I will begin my... More
Sweden
Sandstrom, Anders
After working ten years in the business world as a financial manager and business controller I came across some books by Noam Chomsky and later on Michael Albert/Robin Hahnel. I became aware of the horrible effects of our present capitalistic society.I quit my job, changed sides and joined the swedish syndicalist union SAC in 2002 with the intention to work for a different... More
Reaction Essays
Receiving Parecon, Reacting to Albert: Imagine and then Act
Comments
Re: on Sandstrom: Receiving Parecon
Re: arguing for parecon among anarchists & syndicalists on Sandstrom: Receiving Parecon
Vinthagen, Stellan
Stellan Vinthagen, born 1964, Senior lecturer in Sociology and peace and development worker. Stellan is doing research on nonviolent resistance, globalisation and social movements at the School of Global Studies' Department of Peace and Development Research, Gí¶teborg University; and at Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, University West, Sweden. His PhD (2005) in Peace and... More
Thailand
Bauwens, Michel
Opening Essays
Comments
Re: "Permissionless" - There's no Such Thing? on Bauwens: Peer to Peer Economies
Re: immaterial value? on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
Re: Please Don't Call Us Childish, Anymore on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: definitions etc... on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
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Re: Re: p2p institutions on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
Re: definitions etc... on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
Trinidad
Julian, Ria
Ria Julien is a writer and editor based in New York. In her native Canada she was a member of several ParEcon collectives. More
Turkey
Arslan, Mutlu
Feminist activist publishing the online journal Feminist Approaches in Culture and Politics (www.feministyaklasimlar.org More
Bilmez, Bulent
Assist. Prof. Dr. Bí¼lent Bilmez is a lecturer in the History Department of Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. He has a Ph.D. from the Institute of Modern Near Eastern Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (1998). Before starting his career in the current university in 2005 he had taught at Free University in Berlin, in Germany, Alexander Xhuvani University in Elbasan, Albania, and... More
Gambetti, Zeynep
Zeynep Gambetti is associate professor of political theory at Bogazici University, Istanbul. She obtained a Ph. D. degree at the University of Paris VII with a dissertation entitled Lies and Politics: The Implications of Visibility in 1999. She is particularly interested in theories of the public sphere, critical theory, ideology and discourse theories and in questions such as... More
Osbudun, Sibel
Marxist activist, anthropologist. Born in 1956 in Istanbul, Turkey. Actually teaching anthropology at Hacettepe University, Ankara. Author of many books. More
Opening Essays
Saysel, Ali K.
Ali K. Saysel is a scholar in Bogazici University, Istanbul where he teaches classes on environmental sustainability and system dynamics. He is a long standing member of an avanguard culture and arts ensemble in Istanbul, which among performance art activites, hosts a progressive publishing house and a web portal (www.bgst.org).Ali K. Saysel earned his B.S. on industrial engineering in... More
Opening Essays
United States
Aguilar-San Juan, Karin
Karin Aguilar-San Juan is a former member of the South End Press book publishing collective and a former editor of dollars & Sense magazine. She is now an associate professor of American Studies at Macalester College, where she teaches a course on the global economy and US racial formations. This summer she is working on a series of black and white photographs that depict struggles for... More
Albert, Michael
Michael Albert is a founder and current member of the staff of Z Magazine as well as System Operator of Z Magazine`s web system: ZCom (www.zmag.org).Albert`s radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine,... More
Opening Essays
Reaction Essays
Solidarity and Participatory Economics, Reacting to Krimerman: Solidarity Economy
Comments
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Reply to Mark... on Evans: Reply to Albert's "Imagine and then Act"
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Re: capitalism's supporters on Evans: Reply to Albert's "Imagine and then Act"
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Re: Re: Re: Intentional Community on Evans: Reply to Albert's "Imagine and then Act"
Re: Re: Re: revolutions and "the support of the majority" on Evans: Reply to Albert's "Imagine and then Act"
Re: Thoughts on Parecon Reloaded on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Re: Thoughts on Parecon on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Re: Re: Re: Response to Albert and Others on Baker: Envisioning the Future
Re: Markets and neutrality on Baker: Envisioning the Future
Re: Re: Re: Re: Role of a progressive lawyer on Torrealba: The Revolutionary Lawyer
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Re: Michael's Three Points on Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics
More on SE on Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics
Re: Re: Role of a progressive lawyer on Torrealba: The Revolutionary Lawyer
Re: Re: Re: Some brief thoughts on Michael's contribution on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Re: Some brief thoughts on Michael's contribution on Albert: Imagine and then Act
on Torrealba: The Revolutionary Lawyer
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Re: strategy & vision don't seem so closely tied on Albert: Imagine and then Act
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Re: Response to Albert and Others on Baker: Envisioning the Future
Re: on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Re: Re: on Sandstrom: Receiving Parecon
on Sandstrom: Receiving Parecon
Re: on Albert: Imagine and then Act
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Re: on Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics
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Lowy and Parecon... on Lowy: Ecosocialism
Re: Imagine and then act together in short cycles on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Some queries for Dean Baker on Baker: Envisioning the Future
Re: Re: on Evans: Popular Vision
Re: Re: on Podur: Polyculturalism and Self-determination
on Podur: Polyculturalism and Self-determination
on Podur: Polyculturalism and Self-determination
on George: Beyond Nation-State
Re: visual representation of Parecon allocation? on Hahnel: Blind Spots
Re: Re: Re: Re: definitions etc... on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
Almonte, Ronnie
I am an undergraduate student at The New School, New York City where I study Economics and democratic alternatives to market and centrally planned economies.I can be contacted via e-mail, Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. More
Apfel, Dan
I'm 25 and born and continue to reside in the United States. As a Program Officer in the Education & Training department at the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions I spend my time helping credit unions better serve their low-income member-owners, through financial education, through free-tax preparation services, and through professional development for credit union... More
Arnove, Anthony
Anthony Arnove is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, with a foreword by Howard Zinn, published in hardcover by The New Press and in paperback from Metropolitan Books and the American Empire Project in January 2007. Arundhati Roy calls the book “urgent.” Cindy Sheehan describes it as “brilliant.” And Eve Ensler finds it “An impassioned, unflinching case for immediate U.S.... More
Baker, Dean
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He is frequently cited in economics reporting in major media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, and National Public Radio. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian Unlimited More
Opening Essays
Comments
Re: Re: Response to Albert and Others on Baker: Envisioning the Future
Response to Albert and Others on Baker: Envisioning the Future
Becker, Marc
Marc Becker is a Latin American historian with a special focus on popular and Indigenous movements in the South American Andes. He is the author of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements (Duke, 2008). He is a Steering Committee member of Historians Against the War. More
Bennis, Phyllis
Phyllis Bennis a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, where she directs the New Internationalism Project. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She works on U.S. foreign policy issues, particularly regarding Palestine, Iraq, Iran and now Afghanistan, as well as United Nations issues, especially regarding democratization of the UN and the... More
Bloch, Nadine
Nadine Bloch has worked in the peace and environmental justice movements since 1980 as an organizer and coordinator of creative non-violent direct action campaigns, both locally and internationally, marine and land based. Most recently she was the Organizing Director at Oil Change International, working to expose the true costs of our addiction to fossil fuels and to overcome the... More
Opening Essays
Boggs, Carl
Born in the United States, currently residing in Los Angeles, age 71. Have spent many years living abroad, including Italy, Germany, and Canada. Occupation: professor and writer. Received Ph.D. in political science at U.C., Berkeley in 1970. Taught at 11 universities, including Washington University, St. Louis, UCLA, USC, U.C., Irvine, Carleton University in Ottawa, and Antioch University.... More
Opening Essays
Bohmer, Peter
Peter Bohmer has been an activist in movements for radical social chance since 1967. These have included anti-racist organizing and solidarity movements with the people of Vietnam, Southern Africa, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Palestine and Central America against U.S. imperialism and intervention. For his activism and teaching, he was targeted by the FBI. He has a Ph. D. in Economics from the University... More
Opening Essays
Reaction Essays
Respone to Epstein, Reacting to Epstein: Left is Weak
Brecher, Jeremy
Jeremy Brecher, writer and historian, 63, was born and lives in the United States. He has been active in peace, labor, environmental, and other social movements for more than half a century. He is currently writing about labor and the environment, US war crimes in Iraq and beyond, and responses to the global economic crisis. The Reimaging Society Project can be a means to help break the... More
Bronski, Michael
While most of my political and cultural work since 1969 has been centered on queer (nee gay) and feminist issues I entered the Gay Liberation Movement from a background of doing leftist, anti-war and community organizing. Thirty years ago this was a common experience for gay politics -- now it is an anomaly. Most of my work has been as a journalist and cultural critic and I have written on... More
Campbell, Al
Al Campbell is a professor of economics at the University of Utah in the United States. His research interests are focused on theoretical and empirical issues concerning the political economy of contemporary capitalism and its transcendence. More
Chomsky, Noam
Noam Chomsky is one of the country's leading intellectuals and scholars. A MIT Professor of Linguistics and long-time activist, prolific writer and popular lecturer, Chomsky speaks widely on a range of social and political issues, both national and international. From linguistics to philosophy, from history to contemporary issues, from international affairs to U.S. foreign policy -... More
Opening Essays
Christini, Tony
Cofounder of Liberation Lit and Mainstay Press. Author of Homefront. Weblog: A Practical Policy. More
Opening Essays
Coleman, Gabriella
Gabriella Coleman is an anthropologist who examines ethics and online collaboration as well as the role of the law and new media technologies in extending and critiquing liberal values and sustaining new forms of political activism. She has conducted the bulk of her research on the politics of free software, has worked with various tech collectives, and currently teaches classes on digital... More
Denton, Marcus
I live in Austin, Texas where I work at a class- and race-segregated inner-city high school. I attended the Z Media Institute in 2003 and founded the Austin Project for a Participatory Society in 2007. More
Comments
Nature as model on McMillan: At War Against Omnicide
Questions for the author on Houtart: Well-Being Of Humanity
Duggan, Lisa
Lisa Duggan is Prof. of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and author most recently of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy. More
Early, Steve
Steve Early was a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years. Prior to working for CWA, he served as a headquarters staffer for the United Mine Workers and staff attorney and newspaper editor for the Professional Drivers Council (merged in 1979 into Teamsters for a Democratic Union). As a free-lance labor journalist,... More
Ehrenreich, Barbara
BARBARA EHRENREICH is a political essayist and social critic who tackles a brave and diverse range of issues in books and magazine articles. She is the author or co-author of twelve books including Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class, and, most recently, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. She has written for... More
Eingold, Eric
Eric is a graduate student at The New School for Social Research in New York's Greenwich Village. Working with the Radical Student Union, Eric is an adovocate for a participatory society, economy, and polity guided by core vaules such as diversity, equity, self-management, efficiency, and solidarity. More
Eisenstein, Hester
Hester Eisenstein is a professor of sociology and Women's Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Contemporary Feminist Thought (1983); Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State (1996); and Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World (Paradigm Publishers, 2009). She is Vice... More
Elijah, Jill Soffiyah
Jill Soffiyah Elijah serves as Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) at Harvard Law School (HLS). In her capacity as Deputy Director at CJI, she is responsible for leading the fulfillment, development and expansion of the Institute's work to address the urgent needs of the powerless, voiceless and indigent in the criminal justice system. Ms. Elijah was a clinical instructor... More
Epitropoulos, Mike
I am a Public Sociologist at the University of Pittsburgh, with specializations in Development, State Theory, and Social Movements. My training has centered on Political Economy and Political Ecology methods. I have been active in local politics, the anti-war movement, and in organizing. I served on the International Committee of the US Green Party for six years. I spent three years teaching in... More
Opening Essays
Epstein, Barbara
I became involved in the peace movement (Student Sane) as a high school student in New York City in the late fifties/early sixties. I also became a socialist, and in 1963, during my first year in college, I joined the Communist. Party. Five years later, by that time a graduate student in Berkeley, I left the CP, having concluded that it was hopelessly dogmatic and unlikely to go anywhere. I was... More
Opening Essays
Epstein, Jerry
Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University in 1981. Epstein has written articles on numerous topics including central bank independence and democracy, inflation targeting, financial regulation, alternative approaches... More
Fehrer, Kendra
Kendra Fehrer is currently researching democracy, decentralization, and citizenship in urban Venezuela. More
Ferguson, Ann
Ann Ferguson is a feminist philosopher who is an emerita Professor of Women's Studies and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her areas of specialization are feminist theory, philosophy of sexuality and queer theory, ethics and social and political philosophy with a focus on race, class and gender and Latin American feminist theory and practice. She has written two books... More
Opening Essays
Labor, Love, Community and Democracy
Comments
Re: Raising Children Collectively on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: Re: Coordinatorism on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Re: Preconditions for a socialist society on Ferguson: Labor, Love, Community and Democracy
Re: Re: Re: Cynthia Peters on Labor, Love, Community and Democra on Ferguson: Labor, Love, Community and Democracy
Re: Comment to Richard Schmitt on Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?
Comment to Richard Schmitt on Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?
Imaging Intimacy, Family and Sex in a Better World on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: Cynthia Peters on Labor, Love, Community and Democracy on Ferguson: Labor, Love, Community and Democracy
Fitz, Don
Don Fitz, 60 years old, was born in Chicago, USA and currently resides in St. Louis, USA. He was a research psychologist for 25 years and now teaches psychology at universities in St. Louis. Don became politically active protesting the Vietnam War and has spent decades supporting labor rights and opposing apartheid, racism, sexism and environmental destruction. He is co-editor of /Within the... More
Opening Essays
Flanders, Laura
Laura Flanders is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide. She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and also BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet.... More
Fletcher Jr., Bill
Bill Fletcher, Jr., is a longtime labor and international activist and the former President and chief executive officer of TransAfrica Forum, a national non-profit organization organizing, educating and advocating for policies in favor of the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Fletcher is also a founder of the Black Radical Congress and is a Senior Scholar for the Institute for... More
Opening Essays
Comments
Re: Re: Some brief thoughts on Michael's contribution on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Some brief thoughts on Michael's contribution on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Folbre, Nancy
Nancy Folbre is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics. Her latest book, Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. More
Franke, Richard
Richard W. Franke: Ph. D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1972. Anthropology professor at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey. Research in Surinam, The Netherlands, Indonesia, France, West Africa, and Kerala. Books and articles on food, ecology, inequality, cooperatives and democratic development in the Third World. Most recent book: Striving for Sustainability:... More
Fraser, Nancy
Nancy Fraser is the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics and at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her books include Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space for a Globalizing World (Polity Press and Columbia University Press, 2008); Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates her Critics, ed. Kevin Olson (Verso, 2008); Redistribution or... More
Gapasin, Fernando
I am Fernando E. Gapasin, a Chicano/Pilipino/American, working class, male, age 62, who was born and resides in the U.S.A. I am also a Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO) President, Labor Educator and author. I come from a family of farm workers who were founders of agricultural unions before the UFW and were themselves founders of the UFW. In 1963, I was involved in my first union strike and I... More
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Gautney, Heather
Heather Gautney is an activists and an assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University. She is author of Between Protest and Political Organization (forthcoming, Palgrave). She is also co-editor of Democracy, States and the Struggle for Global Justice (Routledge, 2009) and Implicating Empire (Basic Books, 2003) and is a member of the editorial board of Social Text. More
Glick, Ted
Ted Glick has devoted 40 years of his life to the progressive social change movement. After a year of student activism as a sophomore at Grinnell College in Iowa, he left college in 1969 to work full time against the Vietnam War. As a Selective Service draft resister, he spent 11 months in prison. In 1973 he co-founded the National Committee to Impeach Nixon and worked as a national... More
Opening Essays
Gomez, Magdalena
Magdalena Gómez, is an internationally acclaimed teaching artist, performer, poet, lyricist and playwright. Ms. Gómez was recently honored with a Proclamation from the Springfield City Council for her over three decades of work in the arts and her local arts contributions to the city of Springfield, MA. In 2008, Ms. Gómez was one of five recipients of the D.C. based Black... More
Gonsalves, Sean
I`m 28. I live in East Falmouth, MA. I`m a reporter for the Cape Cod Times and a self-syndicated columnist, formerly with Universal Press Syndicate. I have to two daughters...one just turned seven yesterday and the other will be eight on Aug. 14. I`ve been writing the column for almost five years now..... why this would be of interest to anyone, I have not idea but that`s it.... More
Gordon, Neve
Neve Gordon teaches in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. During the first intifada, he was the director of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel. He is the co-editor of Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel, the editor of From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and the author of Israel's Occupation,... More
Gordon, Linda
Linda Gordon, Professor of History at New York University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, has specialized in examining the historical roots of contemporary social policy debates, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. Her first book, Woman's Body, Woman's Right: The History of Birth Control in America, published 1976 and still the... More
Graham, Julie
Julie Graham is a professor of economic geography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Under the pen-name of J.K. Gibson-Graham, she is co-author with Katherine Gibson of The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Blackwell 1996, Minnesota 2006) and A Postcapitalist Capitalist Politics (Minnesota 2006). Her current research and activism focuses upon... More
Griffin, Taylor
Born in Honolulu, HI, raised in Winston-Salem, NC, studied mathematics at Wake Forest University. Currently, in Tokyo, Japan, teaching English. More
Gross, Daniel
Daniel Gross is an organizer, advocate, and attorney for low-wage retail and food workers. As a barista, Mr. Gross helped launched the first union campaign at Starbucks which has since expanded across the country and garnered support from around the world. He is the founding director of Brandworkers, a non-profit organization that empowers retail and food employees with social change tools. Mr.... More
Hahnel, Robin
Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at American University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy. He is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. He has been active in many social movements and organizations over the past forty years, most recently with the Southern Maryland Greens and Green Party USA. More
Opening Essays
Halling, Matt
Matt Halling is a third year law student at University of California Hastings in San Francisco and specializes in human rights and international criminal law. His work has been posted on Znet, Counterpunch, VenezuelaAnalysis, and in academic journals. His cv and collected academic papers are freely available on his Berkeley Electronic Press site and his online articles are... More
Opening Essays
Hardt, Michael
Michael Hardt teaches at Duke University. He is co-author, with Antonio Negri, of Empire (2000), Multitude (2004), and Commonwealth (forthcoming). More
Opening Essays
Comments
Reply to Chris Spanno re: Politics of the Common on Spannos: Reply to Michael Hardt
Re: pirate green commonism? on Hardt: Politics of the Common
Harrison, Thomas
Co-director of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy; member of the editorial board of the journal, New Politics. More
Hartzog, Paul B.
Paul B. Hartzog is an independent scholar and developer, and one of the coiners of the word "panarchy," He has a Masters Degree in Globalization and Environmental Politics, and his seminal paper "Panarchy: Governance in the Network Age" is available online. Panarchy is a description of the future that hybridizes complex systems, networks, political philosophy, social theory, economics, and... More
Hawkins, Howie
I am 56, born in San Francisco, California and residing in Syracuse, New York in the USA. I work as a truck unloader at UPS. I've been active in social movements since the late 1960s: antiwar and GI resistance (American Serviceman's Union, Vietnam Veterans Against the War), anti-nuclear (Clamshell Alliance), anti-apartheid, worker cooperatives, labor (Teamsters for a Democratic Union), and... More
Opening Essays
Hayden, Tom
After forty years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden still is a leading voice for ending the war in Iraq, erasing sweatshops, saving the environment, and reforming politics through greater citizen participation. Currently he is writing and advocating for US Congressional hearings on exiting Iraq. This year he drafted and lobbied successfully for Los Angeles and San Francisco... More
Heller, Chaia
Chaia Heller taught ecological philosophy and feminist theory at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont for over two decades. Chaia has been involved in the ecology, feminist, anarchist, and global justice movements an activist, educator, and writer. Chaia received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her new book, /Post-Industrial Peasants,/ Is... More
Opening Essays
Herman, Edward
Edward S. Herman is a Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has written extensively on economics, political economy, foreign policy, and media analysis. Among his books are The Political Economy of Human Rights (2 vols, with Noam Chomsky, South End Press, 1979); Corporate Control, Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press,... More
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Unimagining the Left, by edward herman on Epstein: Left is Weak
Hill, Marcus
I'm somewhere around 26yrs old--born and raised on the central coast of California. Finished a Masters degree in an unconvincing Public Health program in 2008, and am currently working on starting a non-profit focusing specifically on participatory community projects. My political history is more a reflection of life experience, so it's difficult to summarize. I attended Z Media... More
Opening Essays
Jailer, Todd
Todd works as an editor of community health and empowerment materials at the Hesperian Foundation in Berkeley, California. He is active in the People's Health Movement [www.phmovement.org] More
Jensen, Robert
Robert Jensen is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and director of the Senior Fellows Honors Program of the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Jensen is the producer of the film "Abe Osheroff: One foot in the grave, the other still dancing" and publisher of a pamphlet with an extensive interview with the longtime radical activist.... More
Opening Essays
Kanaan, Ramsey
Founder of anarchist publisher and distributor AK Press (in UK and US) and the trailblazing radical publisher PM Press (pmpress.org). Co-founder of the San Francisco Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, among other ventures. More
Kane, John
Opening Essays
Comments
An important, yet often neglected topic... on Spannos: Reimagining Social Services
Kawano, Emily
Emily Kawano is the Director of the Center for Popular Economics and the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network. She received her Ph.D in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a focus on industrial organization, and team production. She has been a member of the CPE collective, for twenty years and has served as the director since 2004. CPE is an economic justice organization... More
Kelly, Brian
Brian Kelly is a 21 year old, revolutionary youth organizer, currently based out of New York, U.S.A. He studies how language, social networks, and communication affect political strategy, vision, and organizing. For the past two years, he has been an organizer with Students for a Democratic Society, and is also on the national council of the Student Environmental Action Coalition - both in the... More
Kelly, Christine
Christine Kelly earned her Ph.D. in Political Theory from Rutgers University in 1996, with minors in American Politics and Women in Politics. Her research and teaching cover a unique intersection of  political and social theory in the context of U.S. institutions, politics and culture. Her courses here at William Paterson include various courses in Political Theory,... More
Keshet, Daniel
I am a 28 year old computer programmer and a lifelong resident of the United States. My involvement in politics has included involvement with third-party electoral movements, international solidarity movements, the labor movement, the free software movement, and the Participatory Economics movement. I hope that the Reimagining Society Project helps develop tools for immediate implementation. I... More
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Imagine and then act together in short cycles on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Re: Re: Imagine and then act together in short cycles on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Imagine and then act together in short cycles on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Vision or organizing tool? on Hahnel: Blind Spots
Kotz, David
I am 65 years old, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During ages 15 to 28 (1958-1971) I was more or less a full-time activist in various movements (while also being a student most of the time): civil rights, antiwar, student movement (SDS), working class organizing. I did this in several places: suburban Long Island where I grew up, Harvard, Mississippi, Yale,... More
Kovel, Joel
Kovel was born in Brooklyn in 1936. As a youth he was fascinated by the physical sciences and mathematics, and set a career path in their direction, only to veer off toward medicine because of a wish to be engaged with the life of humanity. This pattern repeated itself: as a scientifically trained physician he felt the need to go further into the study of humanity and turned toward psychaitry... More
Landau, Saul
Saul Landau, Professor Emeritus at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, an internationally-known filmmaker, scholar, author and commentator, and Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. His film trilogy on Cuba includes FIDEL, a portrait of Cuba's leader (1968), CUBA AND FIDEL, in which Castro talks of democracy and institutionalizing the revolution (1974) and the... More
Opening Essays
Landy, Joanne
Joanne Landy, 67 years old, born in Chicago and lives in New York. I am Co-Director with Tom Harrison of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy (www.cpdweb.org ), and a member of the editorial board of New Politics magazine (www.newpol.org ). She is a left socialist, and believes that the goals of democracy and socialism are deeply intertwined. She is interested in internal radical... More
Lehman, Brooke
Brooke is a a Worker/Owner of Bluestockings Bookstore. A founding member of the Continental Direct Action Network, and other radical organizations, Brooke's focus as an activist has been on designing and facilitating directly democratic organizational structures. A student of the late Murray Bookchin, Brooke spent a number of years teaching at the Institute for Social Ecology, where she now... More
Levins Morales, Ricardo
Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist-activist who uses visual art to strengthen and support organizing, movement building and education for social justice. He was born into the Puerto Rican independence movement and came of age in a time of mass movements in the United States. He has been active in the labor movement for thirty years and was a founder of the Northland Poster Collective which... More
Opening Essays
Linick-Loughley, Meaghan
Meaghan is an organizer for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). She is currently in her sophmore year at The New School - Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts studying anthropology and theatre. She previously attended Pace University where she organized for free speech and for more student power on campus. Meaghan also does work with Rainforest Action Network and... More
Lipow, Gar
Opening Essays
Reaction Essays
No Hair Shirts needed, Reacting to Tanzer: Reducing CO2 Emissions
Comments
Re: Re: Re: larger assemblies? on Shalom: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Re: larger assemblies? on Shalom: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Re: Re: Proposal does not solve either single district or "tele on Shalom: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Re: Re: Proposal does not solve either single district or "tele on Shalom: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Proposal does not solve either single district or "telephones" on Shalom: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
We can replace emission sources quickly, just not under markets! on Tanzer: Reducing CO2 Emissions
Luce, Stephanie
I was born in San Francisco and live in US. I am 43 years old. Currently, I am an associate professor at the Labor Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst. I became politically aware growing up in the 70s, particularly surrounded by the growing women's movement, and my initial activism was around reproductive rights, clinic defenses, and feminism more broadly. From there I looked to find a... More
Lydon, Jason
Jason Lydon is a white-anti-racist, prison abolitionist, anarchist pastor for the Community Church of Boston in Massachusetts. He organizes around issues impacting queer/trans people and those most impacted by the far reaches of the prison industrial complex. Jason can also be found riding his bike around town or catching a rest by the Charles River. More
Marshall, Rob
I have been involved in left activism for the past ten years. I attended Z Media Institute in 2001, where I was first introduced to Parecon and the complementary holist approach. Having given serious attention to the Participatory Society visions, I now consider working to make these visions a reality my top priority as an activist. My work thus far in this area has been to coauthor a booklet... More
Opening Essays
McChesney, Robert
McChesney is the author of several books on media and politics, professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, and cofounder of the media reform organization Free Press. McChesney also writes widely for both academic and non-academic publications. He gives talks frequently on issues related to media... More
McFellin, Atlee
Atlee McFellin is a 26 year old graduate student in Economics at The New School for Social Research. He is originally from Michigan and works with a number of different social movement organizations in New York City and Michigan. He is the author of an upcoming book with Pluto Press on the long-term origins of the economic crisis and its implications for the future of the U.S. global dominance... More
Opening Essays
Comments
Institutions, Our Movement, & the Kinship Sphere? on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
On the Need for Organizations on Epstein: Left is Weak
Social Economy, Cooperative Market & Participatory Socialism on Wright: Taking the Social Seriously
Re: A Brief Review on Snow: Conscious Being Alliance
McGehee, Michael
A father to a beautiful and amazing four year old girl and two-month old baby girl, lesser half to a wonderful woman (i.e. the better half), aiming to be a working class hero, avid reader of anything by Chomsky or AK Press and much, much more... More
Opening Essays
Reaction Essays
On Judicial System, Reacting to Shalom: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Comments
i agree on Dominick: Anarcho-Government
Re: Let the reader decide on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Let the reader decide on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: structure vs. policy on George: Animal Liberation
Re: Moving Goalposts on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: On Mondragon on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: Re: Institutions, Our Movement, & the Kinship Sp on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: Re: Institutions, Our Movement, & the Kinship Sphere? on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: Re: on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disorganizing Principles on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
on participatory economics on Rebick: Road & Destination
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disorganizing Principles on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disorganizing Principles on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disorganizing Principles on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: Response to Albert and Others on Baker: Envisioning the Future
Re: Re: Re: Words and their meanings on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Disorganizing Principles on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Inter-Community Conflicts on Podur: Polyculturalism and Self-determination
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Role of a progressive lawyer on Torrealba: The Revolutionary Lawyer
Re: Re: Re: Disorganizing Principles on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
The Significance and Meaning behind a Local Autonomous Councils on McGehee: La Otra Campana
Re: Re: Tamara Pearson on Suggett: Post Sexist Society
Re: on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: All of the above on Dixon: Response to Epstein's Article
Re: intersectionality and spheres on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
Re: Re: Re: on Evans: Reimagining Revolutionary Left Organising
complementary holism on Mohideen: Socialist Feminist Revival
Re: Re: A Half-Time Speech.... on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
Re: Re: A Half-Time Speech.... on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
i have wondered on Torrealba: The Revolutionary Lawyer
Re: Re: not just Islam, but all ideologies on Hoodbhoy: Imperialism and Islamism
Re: Another Current on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
not just Islam, but all ideologies on Hoodbhoy: Imperialism and Islamism
Re: Krugman column (today) and response (below) on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
market abolitionists on Baker: Envisioning the Future
Re: Orwell and other western propagandist on Vltchek: Western Propaganda
LPPS on McGehee: La Otra Campana
my proposal on Wetzel: Solidarity Unionism
this was on Sweetman: Psychology for ParSoc
Re: Re: Re: Re: Markets are a function of scarcity on Davidson: Socialism Talking Points
Re: Re: Markets are a function of scarcity on Davidson: Socialism Talking Points
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: definitions etc... on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
your paragraph on Graeber: Hope in Common
Re: Re: Re: Re: definitions etc... on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
Re: Re: definitions etc... on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
Re: Re: definitions etc... on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
Re: Re: Re: on Bauwens: P2P Civilization
McIntosh, Jonathan
Jonathan McIntosh is a digital artist, remixer, photographer, curator and media activist. He has worked on numerous new media and social justice related projects in the United States. You can find out more on his website: www.rebelliouspixels.com Jonathan's digital video work focuses primarily on transforming corporate media images by remixing them to tell alternative political and cultural... More
McMillan, Stephanie
Cartoonist and illustrator Stephanie McMillan draws the comic strip "Minimum Security" (see minimumsecurity.net) for United Media's comics.com, where it appears five times per week, and for various print publications. A collection of her cartoons, "Attitude Presents Minimum Security" was published in 2005 by NBM Publishing. She co-created, with writer Derrick Jensen, a... More
Opening Essays
Miller, Ethan
Ethan Miller is a writer, organizer, musician and independent researcher whose work focuses on cultivating a democratic culture and economy of solidarity, dignity and justice. Author of a number of articles on solidarity economics, he is a founding member of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (www.ussen.org), a web editor for Grassroots Economic Organizing Online (www.geo.coop) and a... More
Nembhardt, Jessica Gordon
JESSICA GORDON NEMBHARD is currently a visiting scholar in the Economics Department's Center on Race and Wealth at Howard University, and Master Teacher at the Center's Summer Institute on Race and Wealth. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of Cooperatives at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, and is a research affiliate for that Centre's “Linking,... More
Opening Essays
Novitch, Misty
I am a 22-year-old Emory undergraduate student majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies which was inspired by my learning about Complementary Holism and Participatory Society. Although my goal is to go into international human rights law and help bring about the consistent, universal prioritization of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), what I want to focus on are connections - where... More
Opening Essays
Ollman, Bertell
I have been a professor in the Dept. of Politics, NYU, for four decades, specializing in socialist and Marxist theory, and have also given courses on Marxism at Columbia and Oxford Universities. I have written or edited fifteen books in this broad area, including ALIENATION: MARX'S CONCEPTION OF MAN IN CAPITALIST SOCIETY, SOCIAL AND SEXUAL REVOLUTION: ESSAYS ON MARX AND REICH, and DANCE OF... More
Peters, Cynthia
Cynthia Peters is a freelance writer, activist, and editor of The Change Agent (www.nelrc.org/changeagent), a social justice magazine for adult learners and adult educators. She writes about a wide range of topics including organizing, parenting, marketing, feminism, racism, and gender politics. More
Opening Essays
Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Comments
on Levins Morales: Time of Hamsters
Re: Re: Re: Institutions, Our Movement, & the Kinship Sphere on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: Institutions, Our Movement, & the Kinship Sphere? on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: Re: pay off on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: lessons from Venezuela? on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: the abortioin analogy on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: Re: Cynthia Peters on Labor, Love, Community and Democracy on Ferguson: Labor, Love, Community and Democracy
Re: Thank you on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Re: Imaging Intimacy, Family and Sex in a Better World on Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
on Ferguson: Labor, Love, Community and Democracy
Piven, Francis Fox
I'm on the faculty of the Graduate School of the City University of New York, author of Poor People's Movements, Regulating the Poor, Why Americans Still Don't Vote, Challenging Authority. More
Pollin, Robert
Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics and founding Co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, the analysis of financial markets, and the economics of building a clear-energy economy in the U.S. His books include A Measure of... More
Ponniah, Thomas.
Thomas Ponniah is the co-editor of the first book of alternatives from the World Social Forum: "Another World is Possible: popular alternatives to globalization at the World Social Forum". Ponniah is also a member of the Network Institute for Global Democratization, one of the founding organizations of the International Council of the World Social Forum. More
Resnick, Idrian
73, live and was born in the USA, and received my Ph.D. in economics, with an African speciality from Boston University. I have spent my career as an economist, educator, advocate, innovator, and writer. In addition to participating in a wide range of anti-imperialist activities from the 1960s onward, I was most active in working for the liberation of Southern Africa. However, most of my... More
Rogers, Jamala
Jamala Rogers is a long-time community organizer in St. Louis, MO. She has held and currently holds leadership and membership in many organizations that share her vision for a more just and peaceful world. As a black radical feminist and human rights educator, she views her organizing through these lenses. She is a featured columnist for the award-winning St. Louis American newspaper, the... More
Rothschild, Matt
Editor of The Progressive magazine. Author, You Have No Rights. Editor of the anthology, Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive magazine, 1909-2009. More
Russell, Joshua Kahn
Joshua Kahn Russell is a grassroots organizer and trainer at Rainforest Action Network, working to bridge movements for racial justice and the environment. He currently directs RAN's Action Tank - a movement-building project geared toward innovating new ways of taking creative, strategic action. He spends much of his time on the road, building and supporting networks of activist groups across... More
Sanbonmatsu, John
I am 47 years old, born and bred in the US. I work as a professor of philosophy and politics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts. I first became politicized in the early 1980s, when I got caught up in the international nuclear disarmament movement. I later became involved in the Central American solidarity network, the animal rights movement, and the Green Party. Over th years... More
Opening Essays
Comments
Tom's Comment on Sanbonmatsu: Left Crisis Pt. 1
Dispersion is a Tactic, Not a Strategy on Sanbonmatsu: Left Crisis Pt. 1
Re: how important is 'unity' on the Left? on Sanbonmatsu: Left Crisis Pt. 1
Re: Technology and praxis on Sanbonmatsu: Left Crisis Pt. 1
Re: Well done on Sanbonmatsu: Left Crisis Pt. 1
A nice start, but.... on Fitz: Produce Less; Consume More
Does this critique go far enough? on Saysel: Ecology Vision
A Courageous and Necessary Intervention on Hoodbhoy: Imperialism and Islamism
An important critique of anthropocentrism on Maheshvarananda: Spiritual Values
This is a Must Read for the Left on Adamovsky: Autonomous Politics
Sargent, Lydia
Lydia Sargent is co-founder and editor of Z Magazine. She is a writer, author, playwright, and actor. She was a founder and original member of the South End Press Collective. She organizes the Z Media Institute every year as well as teaching classes there. More
Sassen, Saskia
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.columbia.edu/~sjs2/). Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human... More
Opening Essays
Pulling the Economy Down into Our Communities
Schmitt, Richard
Born in Germany; my father was a Socialist, lived through WWII in Europe. Have been doing Leftist things since the 60s as a teacher, an activist. Am currently working in a peace group and writing stuff for an alternative newspaper in Worcester. More
Opening Essays
Comments
Re: an economy that sustains solidarity on Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?
Re: Missing the point on Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?
Re: Missing the point on Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?
on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Re: Re: Comment to Richard Schmitt on Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?
on Albert: Imagine and then Act
on Albert: Imagine and then Act
on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Re: Re: Re: Imagine and then act together in short cycles on Albert: Imagine and then Act
on Krimerman: Democracy's Dilemma
Re: Imagine and then act together in short cycles on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Preconditions for a socialist society on Ferguson: Labor, Love, Community and Democracy
Schor, Juliet
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Schor received her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts. She is a co-founder of the South End Press and the Center for Popular Economics. She... More
Scipes, Kim
I am a long-time activist who got politicized fighting racism and white supremacy while on active duty in the US Marine Corps (1969-73). Subsequently a printer, high school teacher and office worker, I now teach sociology at Purdue University North Central in Westville, Indiana, although I lives in Chicago. I am a long-time labor activist, working on both domestic and global labor issues, and... More
Shah, Sonia
Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and author whose writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New Scientist, The Nation and elsewhere. Her 2006 drug industry exposé, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients (New Press), was hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a tautly argued study...a trenchant exposé...meticulously... More
Shalom, Stephen
Steve Shalom teaches political science at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Among his publications are Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing U.S. Intervention After the Cold War (South End Press, 1993), The Philippines Reader (1987), and Socialist Visions(1983). Steve writes for Z Magazine (many of his articles are available on ZNet) and is on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of Concerned... More
Opening Essays
Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Smith, Kevin T.
Co-founder and co-editor of SleptOn.com. Grew up in a small town in southwest Louisiana and now based in Washington, DC. I enjoy weightlifting, playing basketball and billiards. More
Snow, Keith Harmon
keith harmon snow was born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, USA, in 1960 (49 years old), on a small farm he has returned to during the past 19 years of travel and work in more than 45 countries. Graduating from the University of Massachusetts, with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, keith worked as Engineer, and then Business Development Manager, 1985-1989, for GE... More
Opening Essays
Comments
Re: reply to Paul's comment on Snow: Conscious Being Alliance
Reply to Barbara Epstein's WHY THE LEFT IS WEAK on Epstein: Left is Weak
Consuming Propaganda, Creating Mental Illness on Vltchek: Western Propaganda
FEEDBACK FROM A READER on Snow: Conscious Being Alliance
Spannos, Chris
Chris Spannos has had over a decade of experience in self-managed media collectives and also as an activist, organizer, and anti-capitalist. He has produced hundreds of radio interviews, written many articles, delivered many talks and workshops. In September 2006 he joined Z as full-time staff focusing on ZNet and ZCom web operations. Other media work includes helping out with Z Video... More
Opening Essays
Reaction Essays
Reply to Michael Hardt, Reacting to Hardt: Politics of the Common
Comments
Re: on Spannos: Reimagining Social Services
Re: An important, yet often neglected topic... on Spannos: Reimagining Social Services
Re: Thoughts on Parecon on Albert: Imagine and then Act
Reply to Michael Hardt re: Politics of the Common on Spannos: Reply to Michael Hardt
Reimagining Society Comment on Chomsky: Notes on Anarchism
Street, Paul
Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of four books to date: Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York:... More
Opening Essays
Comments
Final Reflection on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
Re: Your account of why 'Marx and Engels were wrong' on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
L Karman: please read and write more carefully on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
Response on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
A Half-Time Speech.... on Street: Revolutionary Socialism
Re: Another Current on Street: Revolutionary Socialism