2005 speaker bios

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Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches English at Barnard College. He is the author of Palestine Revealed: The Liberation Cinema of Michel Khleifi in Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema, edited by Hamid Dabashi (forthcoming).

Gilbert Achcar teaches political science at the University of Paris-VIII and is currently working on a research fellowship in sociology at the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin. He is a frequent contributor to various publications, including Le Monde diplomatique, Monthly Review and ZNet. His most recent books published in English are The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder (2002) and Eastern Cauldron: Islam, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror (2004), both from Monthly Review Press, New York.

Michael Albert works full time on ZNet, the Z Magazine hosted web site. He helped found and worked on South End Press and Z Magazine in the past. He has written numerous books and articles, and regularly speaks publicly on movement matters. He co-authored the economic vision called Participatory Economics with Robin Hahnel, and his most recent book, Parecon: Life After Capitalism, just published by Verso Books, is about that vision.

Piruz Alemi received his PhD in Political Economy from New School for Social Research and his MS in Comparative Economic Systems from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr Alemi worked for 7 years in the Risk Management, International Operations, Enterprise Development and Finance divisions of American Express. Currently Dr. Alemi conducts seminars on Marx at the Brecht Forum in New York, teaches labor economics at SUNY–Empire State, and will teach a short course on Marx at City College, CUNY.

Que Alequin is youth activist and organizer for the Young Communist League. She also works with Harlem youth at Brotherhood-SisterSol, a grassroots organization. She is a member of Uptown for Peace and Justice.

Tariq Ali was born and educated in Pakistan and later at Oxford University. He is a writer, playwright and film-maker, editor of New Left Review, and author of over a dozen books on politics and world history. His most recent books are Bush in Babylon: Recolonising Iraq (Verso, 2003) and Speaking Of Empire And Resistance: Conversations With Tariq Ali Ali (with David Barsamian; New Press 2005). He has authored three novels as part of a planned quartet of historical novels depicting the confrontation between Islamic and Christian civilizations. They are Shadows of the Pomegranate Trees, The Book of Saladin, and The Stone Woman (Verso).

Maria Helena Moreira Alves is currently Coordinator of Institutional Relations for the grassroots organization Viva Rio, and works to develop and implement social projects in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. She was active in the founding of Brazil's Worker's Party, the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), and was a member of the government of Diadema, the first city government of the PT in Brazil. She has been an advisor to the PT since its founding.

Gregory M. Anderson is Assistant Professor in the Programs in Higher and Postsecondary Education and Associate Director of the Center for African Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He earned a PhD in sociology from CUNY Graduate Center. Anderson’s research interests include issues of race, equity, access, compensatory reform and higher education policy from a comparative perspective (with emphasis on South Africa and the United States).

Jean Anyon is Professor of Education Policy at the CUNY Graduate Center's Doctoral Program in Urban Education. Her latest book, Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement, has just been published by Routledge.

Francisco Armada is a Venezuelan physician and health care administrator with a Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Armada is currently working at the Ministerio de Sanidad y Desarrollo Social, in Caracas, Venezuela. As a participant in the Bolivarian process, he has also conducted research on the health effects of neo-liberalism in Latin America with Carles Muntaner and Vicente Navarro. His analysis of neo-liberalism in Latin America, The Visible Hand of the Market, was recently published in Arachu Castro and Merrill Singer's volume Unhealthy Health Policies (Altamira 2004).

Anthony Arnove is the editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States (Seven Stories). He is also editor of Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War (South End) and Terrorism and War (Seven Stories). An activist based in Brooklyn, he is a member of the International Socialist Organization and the National Writers Union, and writes regularly for ZNet. He is on the editorial board of Haymarket Books and International Socialist Review.

Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center, and author and editor of over 20 books. He was the Green Party’s New York State gubernatorial candidate in 2002. His latest books are How Class Works (Yale 2003) and Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of Jobless Recovery (Temple 2005). He is the Managing Editor of a new journal, Situations: A Project of Radical Imagination.

Michael Avery is Associate Professor of Law at Suffolk Law School in Boston and is President of the National Lawyers Guild, in which he has been active since 1970. He practiced as a civil rights lawyer and criminal defense attorney before joining the Suffolk faculty in 1998. He is a co-author of Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation, a co-author of the Handbook of Massachusetts Evidence, and has authored several law review articles on police misconduct.

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Marcia Bayne-Smith formerly taught in the Department of Health and Physical Education and recently moved to the Urban Studies Department at Queens College. Her research and publications deal with issues of teen pregnancy and immigrant health. She serves as Chair of the Caribbean Women’s Health Association and is a member of a number of city-wide committees on minority health issues. Bayne-Smith teaches courses on Women and Health, Community Organizations, and Introduction to Public Policy.

Joan Beckerman has been a classroom teacher in New York City for over twenty years, and has organized struggles against the military, war and racism in Brooklyn high schools. She is a member of the UFT and Prospect-Lefferts Voices for Peace, and coaches the Clara Barton Debate Team. She has organized anti-war teach-ins and actions in Brooklyn, including a school-wide debate on the right of soldiers to resist. Joan has published a Labor Studies Guide for social studies teachers, and has a MA in Political Science from Brooklyn College.

Medea Benjamin has struggled for social justice in Asia, the Americas, and Africa for over 20 years. She is Founding Director of Global Exchange. She has led a delegation of 9/11 families to Afghanistan after the invasion to highlight civilian casualties, and has traveled to Iraq to organize the Occupation Watch International Center in Baghdad She helped form the coalition United for Peace and Justice, and is the co-founder of Code Pink, a women's peace group. In early 2005, Medea accompanied a delegation of US military families whose loved ones had been killed in Iraq to the Iraqi/Jordanian border to bring a shipment of humanitarian aid for the Iraqi people in Falluja.

Frida Berrigan is a graduate of Hampshire College, Frida worked with a Central America solidarity organization for two years before coming to the World Policy Institute as a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center. She is interested in US foreign policy towards Latin America, and also focuses on nuclear weapons policy, weapons sales to areas of conflict, and military training programs. She has recently published articles in TheProvidence Journal, TheNonviolent Activist and The Hartford Courant.

Andrew Blackman

Ryan Bodanyi is the Student Coordinator of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. Over the past two years, Bodanyi has worked with students from nearly 70 colleges from around the world to form the student network “Students for Bhopal,” a coalition dedicated to advocating for justice for the gas-affected people of Bhopal. A 2003 graduate of the University of Michigan, Bodanyi has also worked for the Ecology Center's Clean Car Campaign and the Greenpeace Toxics Campaign.

Mary Boger

Percy Brazil is a physician and president of the Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation.

Joshua Breitbart is the director of Allied Media Projects, which convenes the annual Allied Media Conference. He is a founder of Brooklyn's Rooftop Films and an organizer in the global Indymedia network.

Aaron Brenner is president of Rank & File Enterprises, a research, writing, and editing firm specializing in financial and equity analysis and strategic corporate research.

Johanna Brenner teaches Women's Studies at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She is a founding member of Solidarity: a socialist-feminist anti-racist organization. Her publications include "After 9/11: Whose Security?” (written with Nancy Holmstrom) in Against the Current (March-April 2005), and Women and the Politics of Class (Monthly Review Press, 2000).

Rose M. Brewer is the Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of African American & African Studies and former Chairperson of the African American & African Studies Department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She also holds appointments in the Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies and is an adjunct faculty member in the Humphrey Institute. She has a edited forthcoming multi-authored book, The Color of Wealth, to be released from the New Press in 2006. As a scholar-activist, for over a decade she’s been a member of the board of Project South. She is also a founding member of the Black Radical Congress and is currently a member of its coordinating committee. In 2004 she received the Josie R. Johnson Social Justice and Human Rights Award from the University of Minnesota.

Michael Brie is a member of the Managing Board of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin and head of the Department for Policy Analysis. He has written extensively in the areas of international relations, history, and social policy.

Stephen Brier is Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies at CUNY Graduate Center. He is co-director of the Graduate Center's New Media Lab. Brier co-founded the American Social History Project at CUNY was its executive director18 years. He is the supervising editor and co-author of the award-winning Who Built America?, a multimedia history curriculum which includes a number of other award-winning historical documentary videos, CD-ROMS, and Websites. He has published numerous articles on new media and history.

Charney V. Bromberg has been the Executive Director of Meretz USA since November 1997. A graduate of Harvard College, he spent most of his undergraduate years in Mississippi (1964-67) where he was director of the Scott County Project and a trainer for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. He began his career in Jewish communal service with the Jewish Labor Committee and has, since, specialized in Israel and Middle East Affairs. He is editor of Meretz USA's fifty eight year old publication, Israel Horizons and has just returned from a two week study mission in Israel, Palestine, and Egypt.

Stephen Eric Bronner is the Senior Editor of Logos, an interdisciplinary internet journal, as well as the author of Socialism Unbound; A Rumor about the Jews: Antisemitism, Conspiracy and the Protocols of Zion; Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. He is Professor of Political Science and a member of the Graduate Faculties of Comparative Literature and German Studies at Rutgers University.

Melanie Bush is the author of Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness (Rowman and Littlefield 2004) examining the link between the everyday thinking of ordinary people (particularly whites) and the perpetuation of racialized structures of inequality. She has been an educator and administrator at Brooklyn College since 1990 and active for three decades in community struggles and academic projects for full employment, education, women’s rights, peace and social justice.

Rod Bush is author of We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century (NYU Press 1999). He is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John’s University. He spent most of his adult life in the movement for Black Liberation and social change. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line.

Joseph A. Buttigieg is Professor of English, Modern British literature, and literary theory at the University of Notre Dame. He is interested in the relationship between culture and politics. His work has focused on modernist aesthetics and Antonio Gramsci's political analysis of culture. He is the author of A Portrait of theArtistin Different Perspective and Antonio Gramsci's Triad: Culture, Politics, Intellectuals, and the editor of Criticism Without Boundaries. He is currently editing and translating The Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, which will appear in five volumes over the next several years.

 

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Jeanette Caceres is a youth activist, spoken word artist and writer. She currently works with young hip hop artist in a youth group called The Lyrical Circle. She is member of Uptown for Peace and Justice.

George Caffentzis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, a coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. He has co-edited (with Midnight Notes) Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War 1973-1992 and Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles in the Fourth World War (both published by Autonomedia).

Dan Cantor is founding Executive Director of the Working Families Party, one of the three minor parties with official ballot status in New York State. The WFP is a community-labor party dedicated to advancing the interests and values of the middle-class, working-class and poor. The WFP operates under New York’s unusual “fusion” voting system, which allows it to avoid the “wasted vote” and “spoiler” problems that otherwise plague third parties under the American winner-take-all system. Cantor has been a community, labor, and political organizer since 1977. He was labor coordinator for Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1988 Presidential campaign, and has worked across the country to build multi-racial, class-oriented coalitions. He has written numerous articles on American politics, and is co-author, with Juliet Schor, of a book on U.S. foreign policy called Tunnel Vision.

Graham Cassano studies semiotics and political economy. He received his doctorate from Brandeis University and spent several years lecturing in Harvard University’s Department of Social Studies. More recently, he has worked with trade union community organizing campaigns in the city of New Haven and helped co-found The New Haven Center for Economic Interpretation, a political economy forum that brings prominent academics and activists to speak on local issues of pressing importance. At present, he is a member of the steering committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics and an adjunct professor of sociology at Southern Connecticut State University.

Luciana Castellina has been an activist in the Italian left since the 1970s. After leaving the leadership of the Communist Youth, she co-founded the political organization and daily newspaper Il Manifesto on whose directorate she remains. She has been elected to the Italian and European parliaments several times. Castellina is active in Italy’s Environmental League and in the International Network for Cultural Diversity. In the European Parliament she presided over the Committee on Culture and Media and the Committee for International Economic Relations. As president of Italia Cinema, she promoted Italian films abroad. She is now president of No-War-TV.

Philip G. Cerny is Professor of Global Political Economy in the Department of Political Science and the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University—Newark. He previously taught at the Universities of York Manchester, and has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at Harvard University (Center for European Studies), the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Paris), Dartmouth College, New York University, the Brookings Institution and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne). He is the author of The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy (Cambridge 1980); The Changing Architecture of Politics: Structure, Agency and the Future of the State (Sage 1990), and editor of Finance and World Politics: Markets, Regimes and States in the Post-Hegemonic Era (Edward Elgar 1993).

Kanishka Chowdhury is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. He has written widely on globalization, postcolonial theory, and South Asian public culture. His most recent writings appear in Cultural Logic and South Asian Review. He has just completed a project on globalization and endless war, and is working on a piece that examines the connections between globalization and the remapping of Calcutta's urban markets.

Haejoo Chung is a PhD student at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Her research interests include class inequalities in health and the political determinants of welfare, population, health and health services. She has conducted public health research in various universities and research institutions in South Korea, the United States and Canada. She is a member of People's Health Coalition based in Seoul, South Korea. Her most recent publications deal with multilevel analyses of the health effects of political and economic structures.

Amanda Ciafone studies globalization and culture at Yale University where she also organizes for the Graduate Employees and Students Organization.

Rosa Clemente is co-founder of the National Hip Hop Convention. She is a New York based grassroots organizer, hip hop activist and journalist. She co-hosts a weekly show on WBAI called "Where We Live."

Stephen Cullenberg is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Riverside. He is a member of the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism. He is the author of The Falling Rate of Profit, co-author of Economics and the Historian, and Transition and Development in India; and co-editor of Globalization, Culture and the Limits of the Market, Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge, Whither Marxism?, and Marxism and the Postmodern Age.

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Ron Daniels is a scholar-activist who has taught History, Political Science and Pan African Studies/Black Studies, and now serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). CCR is a leading force fighting against police brutality and misconduct, church burnings, hate crimes, voter disenfranchisement, environmental racism, and the threats to civil liberties posed by the government’s response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. His weekly column, “Vantage Point,” appears in more than one hundred African American and progressive newspapers nationwide and he is a featured columnist for the internet newspaper, The Black World Today.

Ashley Dawson is Assistant Professor of English at the College of Staten Island. He is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Post-Imperial Britain, and co-editor, with Malini Johar Schueller, of Contemporary U.S. Culture and Imperialism (both forthcoming), as well as of many articles on postcolonial literature and theory.

Benjamin Day is a graduate student at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Patrick Deer

Bogdan Denitch is a founding member and honorary co-chair of Democratic Socialists of America and its permanent representative to the Socialist International, and chaired the Socialist Scholars Conference for twenty-three years. As a trade unionist and socialist he organized in the South during the Civil Rights movement, participated in anti-war struggles, and agitated for democracy in the U.S. and abroad. For more than two decades he has been an active member of the dissident circle around the journal Praxis and has participated in democratic socialist opposition circles in Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. He is director of the Institute on Transitions to Democracy (ToD), with offices in Zagreb, Belgrade, Tusla, and Split. ToD organizes conferences in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, aids labor education, and links non-nationalist democrats in those regions with labor and social democratic groups in Europe and North America.

Michael Denning teaches American Studies at Yale University and directs the Initiative on Labor and Culture. His books include Culture in the Age of Three Worlds and The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century.

Bhairavi Desai is co-founder and Director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. She has been organizing in the taxi industry since 1996, and has worked with Manavi, an organization for South Asian women in New Jersey. She has worked in the support movements of Cuba, Palestine and El Salvador; and in the student struggle at Rutgers University around issues of violence against women

Tom DeZengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's and the Nation , and holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. Heteaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at New York University. His new book, Mediated ( Bloomsbury July 2005) examines the way the media shapes every aspect of our lives.

Lusmaia Diaz studies at Beacon High School and is a members of Students against Nuclear Insanity and for Tomorrow's Youth (SANITY), a project of Educators for Social Responsibility.

William DiFazio is Professor of sociology at St. John's University. He is the author of Longshoremen: Community and Resistance on the Brooklyn Waterfront and co-author, with Stanley Aronowitz, of The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work and Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage (Fall 2005). He is the co-host of a weekly WBAI radio show, “CityWatch,” and member of the editorial collective of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination.

Jackie DiSalvo is Professor in English & Women’s Studies at CUNY. She is a Socialist-Feminist active in anti-war, anti-racist, women’s and labor movements since the 60s, and now in the anti-war struggle in CUNY and the AFT. She has published on gender, class and radical traditions in English Literature, the politics of religion, John Milton, the bourgeois revolution, and its ideologies, as well as Romanticism and William Blake’s radical critique. She also teaches the 1960s and women writers. She is interested in synthesizing Marxism, revolutionary strategies, feminism, materialist spiritualities and transformative psychologies.

Premila Dixit is Coordinator of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's New York City Chapter Campaign to Challenge Corporate Power/Assert People's Rights, which has stimulated the creation of activist study groups across the city. She has a long history of organizing events to explore radical issues in local, national, and international politics and was a key organizer of last year's New York Social Forum, a counter gathering to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Chris Dixon (chrisd@resist.ca) is a longtime anarchist organizer and writer. He co-led a campaign to have Mumia Abu-Jamal as the featured speaker at his 1999 graduation at Evergreen State College (and won), was deeply involved in organizing the mass action against the WTO in Seattle, and has helped build the Colours of Resistance network (http://colours.mahost.org). He currently is a graduate student studying radical social movements in the History of Consciousness PhD program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Stephen Duncombe teaches the history and politics of media and culture at the Gallatin School of New York University. He is the editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader and is currently writing a book on the possibilities of progressive spectacle. Duncombe is also a life-long political activist, in recent years working with the Lower East Side Collective and Reclaim the Streets/NYC.

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Steve Early has been active in labor since 1972 and a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications Workers of America for the last 25 years. He has been involved in organizing, bargaining, and/or major strikes at major telecommunications companies. He serves on the steering committee of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice and editorial advisory committees for three independent labor publications— Labor Notes, New Labor Forum, and WorkingUSA. He is also a member of the board of the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA), an organization of union editors. Early is also a frequent contributor to The Nation, Boston Globe, and many other publications.

Barbara Ehrenreich is a political essayist and social critic, and author or co-author of several books including Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class; Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War, and, most recently, Nickled and Dimed: Surviving in Low-Wage America. Her magazine writings include pieces in Ms., Harper's, The Nation, The Progressive, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times Magazine.

Carolyn Eisenberg is Professor of History at Hofstra University and the author of Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany.

Hester Eisenstein is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her books include Contemporary Feminist Thought (1983) and Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State (1996). Her current research focuses on the relationship between feminism and neoliberal "globalization."

Steve Ellner has taught at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela since 1977. He is the author of several books and scores of articles on the Venezuelan left and labor movement. He is co-editor of The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika (1993) and Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict (2003). He is a regular contributor to In These Times, Commonweal and NACLA: Report on the Americas. He is currently visiting professor at Duke University.

Christoph Engemann is pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen. He is a research associate at the Faculty of Media, Bauhaus University, Weimar, and a Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School. His main research interests are media theory, the political economy of the internet, electronic government, authentication media, and European unification and its media.

Tod Ensign, an attorney, is director of Citizen Soldier, a non-profit GI and veteran’s rights advocacy organization founded during the Vietnam war. Ensign has helped defend GIs and veterans on a wide range of issues. Ensign is author, most recently, of America's Military Today: The Challenge of Militarism, recently published by the New Press. He is also author of Military Life: The Insider's Guide and co-author of GI Guinea Pigs: How the Pentagon Exposed Our Troops to Hazards Deadlier than War. Ensign has also written hundreds of articles on military related issues for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines over the past forty years.

Barbara Epstein teaches in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written on social movements in the U.S. and is now writing a book on the underground movement in the Minsk ghetto during World War II.

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Norm Faramelli is an Episcopal priest serving an urban congregation in Boston. He is a Lecturer in Social Ethics at the Boston University School of Theology, a member of the Religion and Socialism Commission of DSA, and a frequent contributor to its publication Religious Socialism. He is a consultant to religious institutions on social and public policy issues, especially with regard to urban mission and racial, economic and environmental justice. His consulting work also includes assessing the moral values and religious issues related to the development of science and technology.

Oliver Fein is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University; and Associate Dean for Affiliations responsible for Weill Cornell domestic and international affiliations. At Weill Cornell, he coordinates the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium, a weekly interdisciplinary health policy forum.

Barbara Foley is a professor of English at Rutgers University and an authority on post-World War I American writers of the Left.

Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY, has taught at CUNY since 1991. Theorized at the intersection of feminist, critical race and social psychological thought, her work with youth in prisons and schools blends qualitative and quantitative participatory methods, and is designed toward policy, theory and community organizing.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TransAfrica Forum. He was formerly the Vice President for International Trade Union Development Programs for the George Meany Center of the AFL-CIO, and served as Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO. Bill is a graduate of Harvard University and has authored numerous articles published in a variety of newspapers and magazines. He is also the co-author of the pictorial booklet: The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941. While in Boston, Bill served as an adjunct faculty member with the Labor Studies Program of the University of Massachusetts - Boston.

Barbara Foley is a professor of English at Rutgers University and an authority on post-World War I American writers of the Left.

Scott Forsyth teaches film studies and Marxist cultural theory in the Departments of Film and Video and Political Science at York University in Toronto. He has published on film and politics in Socialist Register, CineAction, Canadian Journal of Film Studies and other journals. He is a founding editor of the film studies journal CineAction. Current research focuses on the cultural work of Canadian Communists and he is completing a manuscript on contemporary Hollywood and the ideology of American imperialism.

John Bellamy Foster is co-editor of Monthly Review and associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Marx's Ecology and The Vulnerable Planet and co-editor of Hungry for Profit, Capitalism and the Information Age.

Harriet Fraad is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She is the author, with Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, of Bringing it All Back Home: Class, Gender and Power in the Modern Household. She is a founding mother of the women's movement, and a founder of the journal Rethinking Marxism. She publishes in Rethinking Marxism and The Psychohistory Journal. Her work appears in books such as Class and Its Others and Marxism in the Postmodern Age. Her latest article, “Class Transformation in the Household, An Opportunity and a Threat,” in Critical Sociology illustrates the ideological direction from which she comes in her analysis of the US family.

Ellen Frank holds a PhD in economics and has taught economics at Emmanuel College, Wellesley College and the University of New Hampshire. She has written extensively on US macro-economic policy, financial markets, Social Security, as well as state and local tax policy. Her latest book is The Raw Deal: How Myths about Deficits, Inflation and Wealth Impoverish America, Beacon Press.

Mercedes Frias was born in Santo Domingo. In the 1980s she worked in cooperative projects involving Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic as well as in the human rights and women's movements. From 1990 she has lived in Italy, where she is involved in public projects for intercultural education. An organizer of native and immigrant women's associations, she is active in interventions against racism and discrimination and for the rights of citizenship. Currently, as Assessor of the city of Empoli in Tuscany, she oversees policy on the environment, immigration, and gender.

Sam Friedman is a lifelong activist, as well as a poet and a socialist. He is the author of Teamster Rank and File (Columbia University Press 1982). His current writings are on dialectical processes and what they suggest about how we can reorganize the world after “the revolution.”

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Satya Gabriel

Barbara Garson wrote the anti-war play Macbird, that sold half a million copies. She worked in an anti-war coffee house for Vietnam GIs, and today she's active in the Global Justice Movement. Her latest book is Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy (Penguin). Her 1970s book about work, All the Livelong Day, has been recently republished.

Rina Garst is a long-time URPE member and trace-union activist. She has worked in early federal and New York anti-poverty programs.

Irene Gendzier is Professor of Political Science at Boston University. She writes on US foreign policy in the Middle East and problems of development. Her works include: Notes From the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East,1945-1958 ( Columbia 1998); Development Against Democracy (Tyrone Press 1995); Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study (Evergreen 1985).

John “Tito” Gerassi has been active in the progressive movement since 1964, and was jailed for "leading" the student takeover of San Francisco State University in l966. He was head of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation in the US, and went to North Vietnam in 1967 to investigate US war crimes. He has written or edited 14 books, including The Great Fear in Latin America and Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century. He is Professor of Political Science at Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center.

Martha Gimenez , Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder has published numerous articles and book chapters on the political economy of population, Marxist-feminist theory, poverty, and the political constructions of race, ethnicity, and gender. Her work has appeared in, for example, Science & Society, Monthly Review, The Insurgent Sociologist, Gender & Society, Radical Philosophy, Actuel Marx, Argument and Latin American Perspectives. Together with Jane Collins, she edited Work Without Wages.

Sam Gindin

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg is Professor of Social Policy at the Adelphi University School of Social Work, and director of its doctoral program. Her areas of interest are full employment, public income support, the feminization of poverty, comparative social welfare systems, and social administration. She is the author of Jobs for All: A Plan for the Revitalization of America (with Sheila D. Collins and Helen Lachs Ginsburg, 1994); Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare "Reform" and the Roads Not Taken, 1935 to the Present (with Sheila D. Collins, 2001); and Government Money for Everyday People (4th ed., with Peter Chernack and Deborah Petry, 2004); and editor of Diminishing Welfare: A Cross-National Study of Social Provision (with Marguerite Rosenthal, 2002); and The Feminization of Poverty: Only in America? (with Eleanor Kremen, 1990). She is a co-founder and Chair of the National Jobs for All Coalition ( www.njfac.org).

Richard Goldstein is an executive editor of The Village Voice and the author, most recently, of Homocons:The Rise of the Gay Right (Verso). He has written about the intersection of sex, culture, and politics for the past 35 years.

Peter Gowan is Professor of International Relations at London Metropolitan University in Britain and a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review. His research interests combine analysis of the external political and economic relations of the North Atlantic states with work on international relations theory.

Andrej Grubacic is a historian and a social critic, working with "Planetary Alternatives Network", "Z Communications" and "Peoples Global Action". His affinity towards anarchism stems from his experiences as a member of the Belgrade Libertarian Group that derives from the Yugoslav 'Praxis' experiment. In the past years, he has been active in the post-Yugoslav movement- a coalition of anti-authoritarian collectives called "DSM!" He is currently the European convener of the Peoples Global Action Network and has authored books and numerous articles. Due to his political activism he was forced to leave the University of Belgrade and move to SUNY Binghamton.

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Wadood Hamad is a research physicist and writer who lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Jack Hammond is the author of Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El Salvador and Building Popular Power: Workers' and Neighborhood Commissions in the Portuguese Revolution. He teaches sociology at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center and is an active member of the Professional Staff Congress, the faculty union.

Larry Hanley is the editor of Academe, the union chapter chair at City College, CUNY, and a Professor of English at City College, CUNY.

Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is co-author of Empire and Multitude.

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Dalia Hashad is the Arab, Muslim, and South Asian Advocate for the American Civil Liberties Union. Her position in the Campaign Against Racial Profiling encompasses civil liberties advocacy and protection, the plight of detainees, community outreach and empowerment, and discrimination for Arab, Muslim and South Asian Americans in the wake of post-9/11 backlash. Hashad received her B.A. in Environmental Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, and her J.D. from the New York University School of Law. She was chairperson of CALPIRG, California’s largest environmental and consumer protection group, worked as a human rights advocate in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and is a host on the grassroots radio program, Law and Disorder.

Doug Henwood is the author of Wall Street and After the New Economy; writer/publisher of Left Business Observer; and host of an economics radio show on WBAI.

Conny Hildebrandt is a sociologist in the Department for Political Analysis at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin. She is an expert on the European Left Party.

Nancy Holmstrom is a professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University in Newark. Her publications include articles on exploitation and freedom, rationality and women's/human nature. She co-edited Not for Sale:In Defense of Public Goods (Westview 2000) and edited The Socialist Feminist Project:A Reader in Theory and Politics (Monthly Review 2002). She has been a lifelong activist.

François Houtart is a Belgian priest and Marxist sociologist, global-justice activist, director of CETRI (Centre Tricontenental) and of the journal Alternatives Sud. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications on socio-religious issues and participated in the work of the Vatican II council (1962-1965). He is one of the most active founders of the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre. He presided over the Brussels Tribunal, established to investigate the war crimes of the Vietnam War.

Peter Hudis is co-editor (with Kevin B. Anderson) of The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly Review Books 2004) and The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx (Lexington Books 2004). He has published on social theory, philosophy, and politics; recent articles include "Marx Among the Muslims" ( Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 2004); "The Death of the Death of the Subject" ( Historical Materialism 2005); "Acheh: The Social Form of 'Natural Disaster'" ( Politics and Culture 2005); and "The Philosophic Ambiguities of C.L.R. James" ( Socialism and Democracy 2005). He is a member of the national editorial board of News & Letters.

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Abdeen Jabara is former president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. During the mid-1970s and 1980s he was instrumental in exposing the Nixon administration's "Operation Boulder" program against Arabs and Arab-Americans, which included deportations, surveillance and harassment campaigns. He practices civil rights law in New York City.

Saru Jayaraman is director of the HERE Workers Center in New York City. She worked for the Workplace Project and has taught at the City University of New York. She is co-founder of Youth and Women Supporting Each Other, a Los Angeles-based non-profit dedicated to the empowerment of young women.

Heather Johnson received her PhD in Philosophy from Michigan State University in 2002. Her primary area of study was mental representation, a branch of philosophy dealing with theories about how the mind’s mental states come to represent things in the external world. In 1999, she relocated to the New York area where she became increasingly involved in the open source community, converting 95% of her organization’s online infrastructure to an open source platform. Heather currently teaches Information Ethics at Rutgers University, covering topics such as privacy online, spam, piracy, and the merits of the free and open source software movements.

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Esther Kaplan is the author of With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House (New Press). She is a member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and is the co-host of the WBAI radio show “Beyond the Pale”

Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990); Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class (1994); Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997); and Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century, written collaboratively with Dana Frank and Howard Zinn (2001). His most recent book is Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002).

Christine Kelly is an Associate Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University where she is also director of the American Democracy Project. She is the author of Tangled Up in Red, White and Blue: New Social Movements in America (Rowman & Littlefield 2001) and is currently finishing another book for the same press titled Chimes of Freedom: Student Protest and the Changing American University. She is an active member of the Caucus for a New Political Science, and an Editorial Board member of journal New Political Science. She is a former national student activist, and is currently working with the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute on the Free Higher Education Campaign.

Ynestra King , anarcha and ecofeminist, is the co-author of Dangerous Intersection: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development. She taught for many years at the New School for Social Research and has been a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University and Columbia University.

Frank Kirkland teaches at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Enslavement, Moral Suasion; and Struggles for Recognition: Frederick Douglass' Answer to the Question" in Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, co-edited with B.E. Lawson (Oxford, Blackwell Publishers 1999).

Michael T. Klare is director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst. Defense analyst for The Nation, he is the author of Blood and Oil, Resource Wars, and Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws.

Andrew Kliman, an Associate Professor of Economics at Pace University, is co-editor (with Alan Freeman and Julian Wells) of The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics (2004). A founder of The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education (New SPACE)—http://new-space.mahost.org—he is also active in the struggle for pluralism on the Left as co-organizer of the International Working Group on Value Theory.

Joel Kovel is Editor-in-Chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism, and Professor of Social Studies at Bard College. Originally a physician and psychoanalyst, Kovel’s works include White Racism, The Age of Desire, History and Spirit, Red-Hunting in the Promised Land, and The Enemy of Nature (Zed 2002).

Patricia Krueger is an educator in New York City's public high schools. She has worked in the Dominican Republic, India, and in the United States around health issues, immigration policies, and human rights education. She is currently a PhD student at CUNY Graduate Center in the urban education program.

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Joanne Landy is an editor of New Politics, and co-Director of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy. Before the Iraq invasion, CPD circulated a statement “We Oppose Both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. War on Iraq,” signed by thousands (www.cpdweb.org). Landy calls for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq, supports resistance to the U.S., and opposes the victory of those elements of the resistance organized to impose a repressive, extreme authoritarian regime on the Iraqi people. Domestically, Landy advocates independent politics, believing it is suicidal for progressive movements to continue to support the Democratic Party, a party fundamentally inimical to their interests. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Progressive, The Nation, New Politics, and In These Times.

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Magalì Sarfatti Larson is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Temple University. She is the author ofThe Rise of Professionalism: A Sociological Analysis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977) and Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) among others.

Richard Lichtman has taught philosophy, psychology, social theory, etc. at a variety of schools. His major writings are The Production of Desire, Essays in Critical Social Theory, and Dying in America. He is Professor Emeritus at The Wright Institute and is currently involved in the planning of a graduate program at the Professional School of Psychology in Sacramento based on critical theory.

Martha Livingston, PhD is Associate Professor of Health and Society at the SUNY -Old Westbury, where she teaches and researches U.S. health care, comparative health care systems, international health, health policy, medical ethics, and women’s health. She is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, and a member of the Editorial Board of TheJournal of Public Health Policy. Dr. Livingston lived and studied for several years in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada, has researched and written on the Canadian health care system, and was a recipient, in 1994, of the Canadian Embassy’s Canadian Studies Research Grant.

Karim Lopez , is an activist, youth worker and filmmaker. He is currently directing a short narrative film about a struggling rap artist. He is a member of Uptown for Peace and Justice.

Margarita López-Maya is a Senior Professor at the Center of Development Studies of the Central University of Venezuela. She has dedicated more than 20 years to research on the political and social history of 20th-century Venezuela. Her recent works include “The Venezuelan Caracazo of 1989: Popular Protest and Institutional Weakness” (JLAS 2003), and “ Venezuela: fortunas y penas de un país petrolero (Vanguardia Dossier. América Latina Democracia, Neoliberalismo, Populismo 2003).

Meizhu Lui currently serves as the executive director of United for a Fair Economy. A long-time hospital worker union activist, Lui rose from the rank and file to become president of AFSCME Local 1489, and helped the local take on tough issues that ranged from maintaining affirmative action gains during layoffs to returning Haiti’s President Aristide to power. Lui is a long-time member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

Staughton Lynd is an attorney/activist and member of the Steering Committee of Historians Against the War. He was the chairperson of the first march against the Vietnam war in Washington, DC in April 1965. He is the author of several books, including Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising (Temple University Press 2004).

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Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and editor of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. He is the author of numerous books, including Black Leadership, Black Liberation in Conservative America, Speaking Truth to Power: Essays on Race, Radicalism and Resistance, Beyond Black and White, The Crisis of Color in Democracy, Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990, African and Caribbean Politics, WEB DuBois: Black Radical Democrat, Black American Politics and How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America.

Randy Martin, co-editor of Social Text, teaches at New York University. He is author, most recently, of On Your Marx: Relinking Socialism and the Left (Minnesota 2001) and Financialization of Daily Life (Temple 2002). He is working on the links between financial logics and imperial operations.

Melissa Mason is currently in the PhD program at Yale University in Political Science and African American Studies. Her research interests include the effects on racial and ethnic heterogeneity on comparative welfare development and labor union organization. She is also an organizer and Co-Chair of GESO (Graduate Employees and Students Organization) at Yale.

David McNally teaches at York University. His recent publications include Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism and Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language.

Michael Menser is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Brooklyn College, a member of the editorial collective of Situations: A Journal of the Radical Imagination, and a member of the NYC Social Forum coordinating committee since 2001.

Gregory Meyerson co-edits the Marxist online journal Cultural Logic (eserver.org/clogic) and has published numerous articles on critical race theory, poststructuralism, American literature and academic labor. He teaches critical theory, American Literature and composition at North Carolina A and T University.

Cindy Milstein is co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies, and a member of Free Society Collective and Black Sheep Books collective in Montpelier, Vermont. She also teaches at the Institute for Social Ecology each summer. Her work appears in anti-authoritarian periodicals and several recent anthologies, including Globalize Liberation (City Lights), Confronting Capitalism (Soft Skull), and Only a Beginning (Arsenal Pulp).

Alcy Montas , a member of Uptown for Peace and Justice is a youth activist, who works with Mothers-on-the-Move, a grassroots organization.

Suren Moodliar is a coordinator for the North American Alliance for Fair Employment (NAAFE) and was a coordinator of last summer's Boston Social Forum.

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Ward Morehouse, author and human rights activist, is President of the Council on International and Public Affairs, a research, education, and advocacy group working on environmental and social justice issues. He has written or edited some 20 books, including The Bhopal Tragedy, Abuse of Power: The Social Performance of Multinational Corporations, and Worker Empowerment in a Changing Economy. He is a member of the regular panel of jurists for the Permanent People’s Tribunal headquartered in Rome.

Leith Mullings is Presidential Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her books include: Therapy, Ideology and Social Change: Mental Healing in Urban Ghana (1984); Cities of the United States (editor, 1987); On Our Own Terms: Race, Class and Gender in the Lives of African American Women (1997); Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal, An African American Anthology (2000, co-edited with Manning Marable); Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem (2001, with Alaka Wali); Freedom: A Photohistory of the African American Struggle (2002, with Manning Marable). She has written articles on such subjects as stratification, ethnicity, race, gender, health, globalization, participatory research and public policy.

Carles Muntaner is Chair and Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research deals with the relationship between social class, politics, work organization and mental health. Some of his recent publications have appeared in the American Journal of Public Health, and the International Journal of Health Services, among other venues. He has recently co-edited with Vicente Navarro the volume Political and Economic Determinants of Health and Well Being: Controversies and Developments (Baywood 2004).

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Ralph Nader founded Democracy Rising in 2000, one of more than 100 civic organizations he has helped to found or organize. He has authored countless books and publications. One of his central achievements is the creation of an effective national network of citizen reform groups dedicated to safety and quality of life in the U.S.. His groups have made an imprint on many areas including civic skills, tax reform, pensions, aviation, regulation of atomic power, renewable energy, clean air and water, clean elections, food, medicine and auto safety, safety in the workplace, access to healthcare, civil rights, civil justice, Congressional ethics, campaign finance, discriminatory lending, the tobacco industry, corporate crime and reform, investor protection, corporate globalization, agribusiness and small farms, intellectual property, medicine prices abroad, freedom of information, and government procurement.

Estevan Nembhard is Chair of the Young Communist Uptown Club. He is currently working on the campaign to get a street named after Ben Davis. He also heads Blacklist Records a record company dedicated to uplifting the people.

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College and the editor of Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. His latest book is Immigrants, Unions and the U.S. Labor Market.

Marsha Niemeijer works at Labor Notes in its New York office. For Labor Notes she works with longshore workers (ILA/ILWU),telecommunication workers (CWA, IBEW), United Electrical Workers, and Canadian workers. She has also been working with the Transnationals Information Exchange since 1995.

Sabine Nuss is a political scientist working on a dissertation about (intellectual) property in informational capitalism. She is member of the editorial staff of Prokla, a Journal for Critical Social Sciences

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Tom O’Donnell is Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society (STS), and Social Science at the Residential College, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; teaching technological history, energy and environment, the intellectual history of information, and does fundamental nuclear research. Recent interdisciplinary research and teaching examines the global oil system. New School Graduate Faculty, summer 2005; Michigan, 2005-2006; http://www.umich.edu/~twod/oil.

Juhwan Oh is an active member of the “Korean Institute for Labour Safety (http://kilsh.or.kr) and the Power of Working Class (http://www.pwc.or.kr).He is a PhD student at the Seoul National University School of Public Health. He is also a practicing gynecologist. His research interests include equity issues in health outcomes, health care financing & utilization, public health financing & provision, health economics, and class inequalities in health. Hewas actively involved in the case presented in this session, working closely with hospital trade union activists.

Mojúbàolú Olúfunké Okome is an international political economist whose regional specialization is on the African continent. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College, CUNY , co-editor of the online journals: Jenda: Journal of African Culture and Women Studies, and Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration and author of A Sapped Democracy: The Political Economy of the Structural Adjustment Program and the Political Transition in Nigeria, 1983-1993.

Bertell Ollman is Professor of Politics at New York University, and author of a number of books on Marxist theory, including Alienation: Marx’s Conceptions of man in Capitalist Society, Social and Sexual Revolution, Dialectical Investigations, and Dance of the Dialectic:Steps in Marx’s Method. He is also the inventor of the Class Struggle board game.

Susan O’Malley is chair of the CUNY University Faculty Senate and the faculty trustee. She is one of the original founders of the Radical Teacher. She is also a university-wide officer of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY’s union. Her latest book, Custome Is an IdiotJacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women, was published last May by University of Illinois Press. She is a Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College and a Professor of Liberal Studies at the Graduate School.

Carolyn Toll Oppenheim is a former reporter for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times, and freelance journalist and social activist for some 30 years. She advises and writes about Israeli/Palestinian peace movements and other conflict resolution initiatives. With Public Purpose Communications, she advises advocacy organizations on communications strategy. She founded the U.S.-based Friends of Open House, to publicize the work of a unique Jewish/Arab peace center in Ramle, Israel. She spent a year reporting for ABC radio news in Tehran, Iran.

Ceren Özselçuk is a member of the Rethinking Marxism editorial collective and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation in economics, The Political Economy of Social Movements. Her work connects the political theory of social movements to anti-foundational Marxian political economy. 

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Leo Panitch is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University, Toronto and the co-editor of the Socialist Register published annually by Merlin Press and Monthly Review Press. He is the author of many books including Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy and Imagination (Westview) and (with Colin Leys) The End of Parliamentary Socialism (Verso), and most recently (with Sam Gindin) Global Capitalism and American Empire (Merlin Press and Independent Publishers Group).

Victor Paredes, from New York, is brother of Pablo Paredes, a Navy enlisted sailor who refused to deploy with his Iraq-bound troop ship in December 2004 because of his opposition to the war. Pablo faces courts martial in the near future for his act of resistance.

Christian Parenti is a Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He writers regularly for the Nation magazine, and his recent books are The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (New Press 2004), The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror (Basic Books 2003) and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Verso 2000). He holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics.

Tobias Pflüger is a German Member of the European Parliamentary Group, European United Left Nordic Green Left, Informationsstelle Militarisierung (Tübingen)

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Frances Fox Piven teaches political science and sociology at CUNY Graduate Center,. She is known as a political activist and scholar, and is the author with Richard Cloward of Why Americans Still Don’t Vote; Regulating the Poor, Poor People’s Movements, The New Class War, and Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies.

Sam Pizzigati, a veteran labor journalist, currently edits Too Much, an online weekly on income and wealth distribution. Pizzigati has edited national publications for four different unions and spent 20 years directing the publishing operations of the largest union in the United States, the 2.7 million-member National Education Association. His most recent book is Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives (Apex Press).

Dieter Plehwe is a senior fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University where he contributed to a 3 year research program on the authority of knowledge in a global age (year one: the rule of the market). He currently has a permanent position as Senior Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, in their department of internationalization and organization. With others he has edited the forthcoming volume Neoliberal Hegemony: A Global Critique (Routledge 2005).

Anne F. Pomeroy is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She is the author of Marx and Whitehead: Process, Dialectics, and the Critique of Capitalism (SUNY Press 2004). Her PhD is from Fordham University.

Thomas Ponniah is the co-editor of Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum. He is also the co-writer, with Richard Peet and others, of Unholy Trinity: the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO. He is a PhD student at Clark University who studies social theory and social movements.

Aijen Poo is an organizer with New York City Domestic Workers United, an organization of Third World immigrant women working in the domestic setting as housekeepers, nannies, and elderly companions. She is the staff organizer for the Women Workers Project, a program of the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence that organizes Asian immigrant women working in informal service industries such as domestic work, nail salons, laundries and massage parlors.

Jasbir K. Puar is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She works on queer globalizations, South Asian diasporas, gay and lesbian tourism, and sexual scripts of terrorism. Her articles appear in GLQ, SIGNS, Society and Space, Feminist Review, Radical History Review, Antipode, Social Text, and Gender, Place and Culture.

Jason Pramas is a longtime labor and community organizer based in Boston, MA. He is the networking director of Massachusetts Global Action, and a member of SEIU Local 888. He was a coordinator of last summer's Boston Social Forum.

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Jan Rehmann Jan Rehmann, Dr. phil., habil., teaches philosophy at the Free University Berlin, and social theories and modern languages at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is a member of the editorial committee of the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HKWM) and of the journal Das Argument. His most recent book is a critique of Postmodernism: Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism. Deleuze & Foucault (published in Germany). Current research topics: Farewell to Postmodernism?, Neo-Nietzschanism, Philosophies of Religion, Neoliberal Ideologies.

Bill Resnick produces and conducts interviews for the “Old Mole Variety Hour” (KBOO radio Portland, OR) and writes for the Portland Alliance news monthly. His articles on U.S. politics have appeared in Socialist Review, Against the Current, among others.

Stephen Resnick has co-authored many books and articles on Marxian theory with Richard Wolff. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Rethinking Marxism.

Anthony Riddle is the National Chair of the Alliance for Community Media. He started the first nationwide Youth Channel and was the Executive Director of Manhattan Neighborhood Network. For the past 25 years, he has worked in many media for social change and has concentrated his efforts in the emerging field of community media. Riddle has worked from technician to policy-maker, from producer to political advocate, from community-based teacher to international representative.

Rainer Rilling is a professor of sociology at the University of Marburg, and is a member of the Department of Policy Analysis at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin. He has published extensively in the fields of political communication, international relations and peace and conflict studies.

Michael Joseph Roberto is Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches courses in contemporary world history, the history of modern socialism, and modern revolutions. As a member of the Global Studies faculty, he teaches the introductory survey for the university’s Certificate in Global Studies. He earned his PhD in Modern European History from Boston College in 2001 and is writing a book on Karl Marx’s concept of progress.

Leonard Rodberg holds a PhD in physics and now teaches in the Urban Studies Department at Queens College. In the mid-70s he led the development of the U.S. Health Service Act, usually referred to as the Dellums Bill. In the late 80s he was one of the founders of Physicians for a National Health Program, and he is now active with the New York Metro Chapter of PNHP, where he writes and speaks on health care reform and serves as Treasurer and Co-Editor of its Forum Report series.

Tom Roderick has served as executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility, NYC Metropolitan Area, since 1983. In 1985 Tom co-founded the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, nationally recognized as one of the most effective school-based conflict resolution programs in the country. Tom is the author of A School Of Our Own: Parents, Power, and Community at the East Harlem Block Schools (Teachers College Press 2001). He has a MS from Bank Street College of Education and a BA in history from Yale University.

Justino Rodríguez is a anti-war activist and a student at the City College of New York, where he has been active in counter military recruitment work. He participated this year’s World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, where he spoke at the international youth encampment. He, along side 2 other students and a staff member, was arrested and suspended from City College for peacefully protesting military recruitment on campus.

Joel Rogers is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and founder and director of its Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS). COWS is a research center and laboratory for field experiments in “high road” — i.e., profitable, labor-friendly, environmentally sustainable, and democratically accountable — economic development and state and local public policy.

Nancy Romer is on the Executive Committee of the Professional Staff Congress of CUNY, chairs their Peace and Justice Committee, is their representative to the Steering Committee of US Labor Against the War, and USLAW’s representative to the national steering committee of United For Peace and Justice. She co-convened Educators to Stop the War conference on March 5th and continues to serve on their steering committee. She is Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and Director of the BC Community Partnership.

Victor Rosado is a graduate student at SUNY Stony Brook in Hispanic Languages and Literature, a founder of the Long Island Social Justice Alliance and an organizer in the NYC Social Forum group since 2002.

Kim Rosario , from Brooklyn, is the mother of a son currently serving with the US military in Iraq. She is active with Military Families Speak Out (www.mfso.org)

Hilary Rose is professor of social policy at Bradford University. She is the author of Alas, Poor Darwin Arguments against Evolutionary Psychology

Fred Rosen is Contributing Editor of NACLA Report on the Americas and an independent journalist based in Mexico City. He is a regular contributor to the Mexican daily La Jornada and to the Mexico edition of the Miami Herald.

Andrew Ross is Professor of American Studies at New York University. His books include Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor, No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and its Hidden Costs, The Celebration Chronicles, and the forthcoming The Fast Boat to China. He has also edited several books, including No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers, and, most recently, Anti-Americanism.

Albert Rube is a writer of screenplays for motion pictures and television. He is on the Board of the Daniel Singer Foundation.

David F. Ruccio is the editor of Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Politics, and Culture. He teaches in the Department of Economics and Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame and has published widely on the topics of Marxism, postmodernism, and international political economy. His most recent book is Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics (Princeton 2003).

Chris Rude, a former Wall Street and NY Fed economist, is finishing his PhD in Economics from the New School University. While studying there, he was Assistant Director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA). He was also a consultant to the United Nations on the Asian financial crisis. He is currently teaching and doing research at York University in Toronto.

Alex Ryabov is from Brooklyn, served in combat in Iraq with the Marine Corps. He is a co-founder of Iraq Veterans Against the War ( www.ivaw.net).

Roderick Ryon co-chairs the Religion and Socialism Commission of Democratic Socialists of America. He teaches history and environmental studies at Towson University ( Baltimore) and works for single-payer health care in Maryland.

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Aseel Sawalha Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Pace University. An activist and an urban anthropologist, conducted fieldwork on the following themes women artists’ relations to space in New York City, memories of war in Beirut, Lebanon and the identity and survival strategies among of Palestinian refugee women in Jordan. Teach the following courses in Anthropology, Urban Ethnography: New York, Global Cultures Local Identities, Women and Warfare, Gender and Social Change and Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East.

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Ellen Schrecker is Professor of History at Yeshiva University, where she has taught since 1987. An expert on McCarthyism, she has published Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998), The Age of McCarthyism (1994, rev. ed. 2002), and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (1986) which won the History of Education Society’s Outstanding Book Award for 1987. Schrecker also writes about contemporary academic freedom and is the former editor of Academe, the magazine of the American Association of University Professors.

David Schultz is professor in the Graduate School of Public Administration and Management at Hamline University. He also holds appointments in the Hamline University Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science, and at the Hamline and University of Minnesota law schools. Professor Schultz is the author of over 18 books and 40 articles on various aspects of law, public administration, and American politics.

Stephen R. Shalom teaches political science at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Among his books are Which Side Are You On? An Introduction to Politics, and Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing US Intervention After the Cold War. He is on the editorial board of New Politics and writes frequently for Z Magazine and ZNet (www.zmag.org).

Lucas Shapiro is the National Organizer for the Young Democratic Socialists (YDS), the youth section of the Democratic Socialists of America. He has worked with various activist and community organizations promoting alternative media, LGBT rights, prisoner education, youth empowerment, literacy, student labor solidarity, peace and global justice. Through YDS, he is active in the National Youth & Student Peace Coalition and United for Peace & Justice.

H. Rajan Sharma is a New York attorney, author and an expert on international law, including the subject of international litigation and arbitration. Since 1999, he has served as lead counsel in an environmental class action against Union Carbide in the U.S. federal courts on behalf of survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster. He also served as counsel in the Holocaust-era litigation against French, German, Swiss and Austrian entities that resulted in the creation of $5 billion restitution fund to victims of World War II atrocities.

Marina Sitrin is a PhD student at Stony Brook studying contemporary social movements. She just published a book Horizontalidad: Voices de Poder Popular en Argentina, which is a collection of testimonies of people in the new autonomous social movements. (an English version is on the way). She has a degree in law and teaches part time at Gallatin and New York University.

Michael Steven Smith has testified on human rights issues before committees of the United States Congress and the United Nations. He has written or edited five books, the latest being The Emerging Police State by William M. Kunster. He is on the Board of The Brecht Forum, the New York City chapter of The National Lawyers Guild, and practices law in New York City.

Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where he also directs the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. He recently won the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (2003) for his book American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization (2003). He works on the broad connections between space, social theory and history, and is also author of New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (1996) and Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space (1991) and most recently The Endgame of Globalization (2005).

Preston H. Smith II is National Co-coordinator of the Free Higher Education campaign sponsored by the Debs-Douglass-Jones Institute, educational and cultural arm of the Labor Party. He also directs the community-based learning program and teaches politics and African American Studies at Mount Holyoke College. He teaches and writes on class in black politics and community development. A member of the Labor Party since 1995, he currently sits on the party’s Interim National Committee of the Labor Party.

Richard Smith trained as a comparative historian at UCLA, taught a Rutgers New Brunswick, and has written on the transition to capitalism in China, capitalist development and China's environment, and primitive accumulation in Russian and China for New Left Review, Monthly Review, The Ecologist and other publications. He is now working on a book on capitalism and the global environmental crisis."

Mia Son is Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine at the College of Medicine, Kangwon National University. She works in the fields of social and occupational epidemiology on issues of social class, unemployment, irregular work, shift work, and work intensity. Her research interests also deals with empowering workers’ solidarity in the workplace. She is affiliated with the Korean Institute for Labour Safety (http://kilsh.or.kr), the Korean Institute for Labour Studies and Safety Policy (http://kilsp.jinbo.net) and the Power of Working Class (http://www.pwc.or.kr).

Hobart A. Spalding specializes in contemporary Latin America, especially labor and social movements. He works with NACLA, Latin American Perspectives, and the Brecht Forum, among other organizations. He recently coordinated the special issue of Socialism and Democracy on Cuba in the 1990s.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak teaches Comparative Literature, Marx, Global Feminism, Derrida, and various other subjects at Columbia University. She is the director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, and is an activist in both elementary education and the facilitation of ecological agriculture. Dr. Spivak has published translations of Derrida as well as translations of Bengali fiction and poetry.

Lynne Stewart is an attorney who, in the 1980s, started providing political defense of those criminalized by New York State (Anti-Springbok, May 19 Communist, Black Panther, Black Liberation Army, Weather Underground, Ohio 7, Richard Williams, Larry Davis, Ahmad Ajaj, Nasser Ahmed, Omar Abdel Rahman). In 2002, she was arrested at for aiding terrorism. The charges involved her activity as attorney for Omar Abdel Rahman, and were based on the wiretapping of attorney-client communication and a search of Stewart’s office. This February, the government won a guilty verdict in federal court, as a result of which she faces a maximum of thirty years in jail. Sentencing is scheduled for September 23 with the appeal to follow.

Vincenzo Striano is the President of ARCI-Toscana. He has written extensively on third-sector institutions and “associationism.” Since the 1950s, the Associazione Ricreativa Culturale Italiana (ARCI) has been Italy’s major co-operative association, responsible for much of the country’s progressive civil society network. In the late 1990s, ARCI took on new significance as the most prominent nationwide institution within the new global justice and peace movements. It has well over 2 million members.

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William Tabb is Professor of Economics at Queens College. His books include Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (Columbia 2004); Unequal Partners: A Primer on Globalization (The New Press 2002); The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century (Monthly Review Press 2001); Reconstructing Political Economy: The Great Divide in Economic Thought (Routledge 1999); and The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation (Oxford 1995).

Michael Tanzer is president of Tanzer Economic Associates, Inc, which for 35 years has specialized in consulting to Third World governments in the oil and energy areas. He is the author of five books, including The Political Economy of International Oil and the Underdeveloped Countries (Beacon Press 1969) and Energy Update: Oil in the Late Twentieth Century (Monthly Review Press 1985; with Stephen Zorn). “Solidarity at the Pump: A Proposal for the Oil Exporting Nations of the Third World,” appeared in NACLA Report on the Americas (January/February 2001).

Steve Theberge is the Youth and Counter Militarism National Organizer at the War Resisters League. The WRL’s Youth and Counter Militarism Project, based in New York City, provides youth with the resources and training necessary to agitate against military recruitment in their schools and communities. Our long term goal is to bring youth organizers and young veterans together to help build a unified, national anti-war movement.

Joe Trippi was heralded by The New Republic as the man who reinvented campaigning. He worked on Edward M. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980, as well as the presidential campaigns of Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt and Howard Dean. As National Campaign Manager for Howard Dean, he pioneered the use of online technology to organize what became the largest grassroots movement in presidential politics. Through Trippi’s innovative use of the internet for small-donor fundraising, Dean for America raised more money than any Democratic presidential campaign in history, all with small donations. As a political analyst and commentator, Trippi appears regularly on MSNBC and the Fox News Channel. He has been profiled in GQ, Fast Company, The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine.

Michael Tyner , a member of Uptown for Peace and Justice, is a youth activist, hip-hop DJ, music producer and filmmaker. He works with youth teaching video production and is currently working on the “We Got Next” public access show.

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David Van Arsdale is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Tompkins Cortland Community College and 2004 graduate of distinction from the Social Science Doctorate Program of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

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Antwuan Wallace serves as a the Program Consultant for the Media Justice Fund, which aims to galvanize activists, practitioners and analysts to elevate media issues of equality and fairness within a social justice framework. A doctoral student in Policy Analysis at the New School, his proposed dissertation will investigate how youth-of-color are using information communication technologies within community-based organizations to affect social change.

Michel Warschawski is a veteran journalist and peace activist as well as author of numerous books, including Toward and Open Tomb and most recently On the Border (South End, 2005). He co-founded the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli research and media organization promoting a just resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He lives in Jerusalem . On the Border is an account of the psychological and political pressures that Israeli intelligence agents, the Shin Bet, brought to bear on him and his Palestinian colleagues.

Lois Weiner teaches education at New Jersey City University and has recently joined the editorial board of New Politics. Her recent research, available at www.newpol.org, focuses on neoliberalism’s global design for education and a progressive response to it.

Leonard Weinglass is a criminal lawyer whose clients have included the Chicago 7 and Mumia Abu Jamal. He was an attorney in the Pentagon Papers case.

Seth Weiss works at May Day Books & Infoshop, a radical bookstore in NYC (www.maydaybooks.net). He is also a founder of a new anti-capitalist school in Manhattan, The New SPACE (http://new-space.mahost.org).

Jason West Elected Mayor of New Paltz in the spring of 2003, Jason West has gained international attention, initially as part of the first Green Party majority elected in New York State and later for risking criminal prosecution to marry 25 same sex couples. They are the first legal gay marriages in New York. Mayor West continues to create innovative public policy that combines environmental protection, social justice and fiscal responsibility. He has been the recipient of numerous civil rights awards.

Ellen Willis directs the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University and is the author of three books of essays on cultural and political issues. Her articles have appeared in The Nation, Dissent, Salon, First of the Month, and other publications.

Joseph Wilson is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. He is Director of the Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education and has authored numerous works on labor, race, steel, and a forthcoming book evaluating race and labor in the contemporary era.

Frieder Otto Wolf has been teaching philosophy since 1966 at Saarbrücken, Coimbra and Berlin University. He is active in European politics, and served as a Green MEP from 1994 to 1999. He is a leading member of the German Humanist Organization since 1998, and president of the Humanist Academy of Berlin since 2003.

Max Fraad Wolff is a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a free lance writer in the areas of finance and foreign policy.

Richard D. Wolff is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the co-author with Stephen Resnick of numerous books and articles. They are currently working on a class analysis of contemporary households and of some major historical trends in U.S. capitalism. He also teaches at the Brecht Forum.

Ellen Meiksins Wood taught Political Science for many years at York University in Toronto. Her books include The Retreat from Class; Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy; The Pristine Culture of Capitalism;T he Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View; and most recently, Empire of Capital.

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Eddie Yuen is the co-editor, along with George Katsiaficas and Daniel Burton-Rose, of The Battle of Seattle (2002) and Confronting Capitalism (2004), both on Soft Skull Press. He teaches in the Activism and Social Change program at New College of California in San Francisco

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Ilan Ziv, the filmmaker of Litigating Disaster emigrated from Israel in 1950, graduated New York University’s film school, and co-produced New York’s first Middle East Film Festival in l978. He is the founder of Icarus Films, an educational film distribution company. Since then he has directed dozens of award-winning documentaries dealing broadly with issues of human rights, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and investigations of contemporary history. His film The Junction was Human Weapon, about the history of suicide bombing ran at Film Forum in 2002.

Ross Zucker’s recent book, Democratic Distributive Justice (Cambridge University Press), presents a two-part justification of greater income-equality within a democratic framework, suggesting that greater income equality is warranted by considerations both of economic community and of rewards for economic contributions. Democracy demands, his latest work notes, not just conditions of political equality, but also egalitarian rules for the distribution of income. Zucker received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1990.

Michael Zweig is the founder and director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life and Professor of Economics at SUNY Stony Brook. His most recent books are What’s Class Got to Do with It: American Society in the Twenty-first Century (Cornell 2004), and The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret (Cornell 2000). He is co-convener of Educators to Stop the War and represents his union, United University Professions, on the national steering committee of U.S. Labor Against the War.