2006 speaker bios

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Ervand Abrahamian, an Armenian born in Iran and raised in England, teaches world and Middle East history. He has published Iran Between Two Revolutions, The Iranian Mojahedin, Khomeinism, Tortured Confessions, and Inventing the Axis of Evil. He teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center, and has taught at Princeton, New York University, and Oxford University. He is currently working on two books: one on The CIA Coup in Iran; and another, A History of Modern Iran, for Cambridge University Press.

Gilbert Achcar teaches political science at the University of Paris-VIII and is a fellow researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. He is a frequent contributor to various publications, including Le Monde Diplomatique, Monthly Review and ZNet. His most recent books are Eastern Cauldron (2004), The Israeli Dilemma (2006) and The Clash of Barbarisms (2d expanded ed., 2006).

Ujju Aggarwal (see Priscilla González).

Aram Aharonian is The Director General of Telesur, "the first counter-hegemonic telecommunications project known in South America." A multinational Venezuelan-Argentinean-Brazilian-Uruguayan venture, the hemispherical satellite television network began broadcasting from Caracas in May, 2005. A veteran journalist, Aharonian founded the magazine Questión and the Alia2 press agency in Venezuela and is a collaborator of the cyber-journal Red Voltaire

Seema Ahmad is the paralegal for the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative at CCR. She coordinates the representation of over 500 Guantánamo detainees, which involves hundreds of pro bono attorneys nationwide. Prior to working at CCR, she held a sales and trading analyst position at Citigroup Global Markets in 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. His most recent book is Parecon: Life After Capitalism.

Robin Andersen teaches Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University and is the Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program. She has written numerous journal articles and book chapters on media issues and the influence of TV and Advertising on American society and politics. Her book titled A Century of Media: A Century of War is being published (Peter Lang USA in 2006). She is frequently interviewed as an expert source on media issues for radio, television and newspaper reporting. She is also featured in numerous educational documentaries.

S. E. Anderson is Education Director of the Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College, CUNY. He has been an activist (e.g. founding member of the Black Panther Party) and educator (in the CUNY and SUNY systems and beyond) as well as author of Black Holocaust for Beginners and (with Tony Medina) In Defense of Mumia.

Gil Anidjar is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is author, among other titles, of the forthcoming book Blood: A Critique of Christianity and of Jew, the Arab: A
History of the Enemy (Stanford University Press).

David Applebaum teaches modern European history at Rowan University and is an expert on contemporary France. He received his B.A. in history from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1973. He is interested in French cultural, social, and legal history and has published a number of articles in these fields. 

Stanley Aronowitz is co-managing editor of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination. He was appointed Distinguished Professor ofSociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1998. He has the director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work since 1988.

Giovanni Arrighi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He is the author of The Long Twentieth Century (1994) and co-editor with T. Hamashita and M. Selden The Resurgence of East Asia (2003). His current research interests are centered on the causes and consequences of global inequalities in wealth, status and power.

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Gianpaolo Baiocchi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is the author of Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participation in Porto Alegre and of Radicals in Power: The Workers Party and Experiments in Urban Democracy. He has authored several essays, including "The Radical Idea of Having a Voice in Your Government" for the Boston Review and :The Road not (yet?) Taken: Lula's Administration at Two" in The Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies.

Teo Ballvé

Willie Baptist was politicized during the Watts riots, and was a leader of the Homelss Union in the eighties. He is now the Education Directo of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, which fights for basic economic human rights for poor and working-class people.

Brian Becker is the National Coordinator of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. He has been the principal organizer and spokesperson for large anti-war demonstrations in Washington D.C. over the past five years. He has appeared frequently on CNN, C-Span, PBS News Hour and other media as a critic of U.S. foreign policy. He is a contributor to several books on the impact of economic sanctions on Iraq and he is an editor of the magazine Socialism and Liberation.

Phyllis Bennis is a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. Among her books are Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's U.N. and Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis. In early 1999 she participated in a 22-city speaking tour on Iraq sacntions with former U.N. Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday. She works closely with United for Peace and Justice, and since 2002 has played an active role in the growing global peace movement.

Dan Berger is a writer, activist, and graduate student living in Philadelphia. He is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (AK Press, 2006), co-editor of Letters From Young Activists (Nation Books, 2005), and a member of the NYC-based anti-imperialist collective Resistance in Brooklyn.

Chip Berlet is Senior Analyst of Political Research Associates, a progressive think tank that studies the Right. A PRA staffer since 1982, he has written, edited and co-authored numerous articles on right-wing activity and government repression for publications as varied as The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Nation.

Walter Bernstein's screenwriting credits include "Fail Safe," "Paris Blues," "That Kind Of Woman," "The Money Trap," "Little Miss Marker" (which he also directed)." "Return To Kansas City" (also directed), "Doomsday Gun," and "Miss Evers' Boys" for HBO. Blacklisted from l950 to l958, his many earlier shows are credited under different names. Published volumes include Keep Your Head Down (Viking), a collection of articles mainly from The New Yorker, and Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist (Knopf).

Heidi Bogosian is Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild, an association of lawyers, legal workers, law students and jailhouse lawyers committed to fighting social injustice in this country and internationally. Founded in 1937, the Guild has been at the forefront of the legal and political struggles of ordinary people to end oppression and discrimination in our society for over sixty years.

Barbara Bowen is president of the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, the union of 20,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York. Part of a progressive caucus that won leadership of the union in 2000, Bowen has led the PSC's effort to build its political force in both economic and political struggles. The PSC has made contractual gains for its members, and at the same time emerged as a leading voice within organized labor for working-class students and against the war. Bowen is also a professor of English at CUNY and the author of several works of literary scholarship.

Jack Bratich is Assistant professor in Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. His work focuses on theories of power, culture and subjectivity. He is co-editor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality and has published articles on conspiracy theories, the politics of rationality, reality television, and infowar. He is currently working on a cultural study of secrecy. In fall 2005 he co-taught, with Stevphen Shukaitis, a course titled Strategies of Refusal: Explorations in Autonomist Marxism as part of the Bluestockings Popular Education program.

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

David Brennan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Franklin & Marshall College, in PA. He specializes in the political economy of corporate governance, shareholder issues, and financial crises. He also specializes in the history of economic thought with a particular emphasis on national income accounting.

Renate Bridenthal, Professor of History, Brooklyn College, 1967-2002 is co-editor and contributor to Becoming Visible: Women in European History (1998, 1987, 1977), Families in Flux (1989, 1980), When Biology Became Destiny: Women inWeimar and Nazi Germany (1984), and The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (2005). She is currently Chair of the PSC's International Committee, which does solidarity with academic unions abroad.

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.

Bonnie Brower is the Executive Director of the non-partisan public policy organization City Project.

Dennis Brutus is professor emeritus of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a political prisoner in South Africa and remains active on issues of racism, anti-war, and corporate globalization. He is a member of Jubilee South Africa and the African Social Forum. Recent publications include Leafdrift (Whirlwind Press) and Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus reader (Haymarket Press).

Sara Burke is the founder of Gloves Off and a journalist committed to the revolutionary tradition within the field. She studied economics and political economy at the New School in New York. She has been a member of IATSE Local #16 in San Francisco, and worked in 2001-02 on an (unsuccessful) organizing campaign to unionize the TIME Magazine online production group in which she worked. She is currently working on projects about oil, labor and education.

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George Caffentzis is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. He is the author of many books and articles on social and political philosophy and is co-editor, Auororas of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles in the Fourth World War (New York: Autonomedia, 2001).

Leslie Cagan is the director of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition responsible for some of the largest anti-war demonstrations since 9/11. Her organizing skills have put hundreds of thousands of people in the streets in mobilizations across the country, and contributed to building diverse movements: against the Vietnam War, anti-racist, nuclear disarmament, lesbian/gay liberation, combatting U.S. interventions. Cagan was the Field Director for the 1989 Mayoral Campaign of David Dinkins, and coordinated the National Campaign for Peace in the Middle East during the Gulf War, the Cuba Information Project, and the Stonewall 25 demonstration in NYC.

Mat Callahan is the former leader of "world-beat" pioneers the Looters, a band signed by both Jello Biafra (founder Alternative Tentacles, a grandfather of American Punk Rock) and Chris Blackwell (founder Island Records/discovered Bob Marley, U2). The Looters were the first U.S. rock band to play in post-revolution Nicaragua, in front of 28,000 people. He also founded the legendary San Francisco performance space and artists’ collective Komotion International, a spawning ground for groups such as Primus, Consolidated and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. Mat has recently released his 3rd book, The Trouble with Music (AK Press, 2005).

Eric Canepa has been the director of the Socialist Scholars Conference and the Left Forum since 2001. He was coordinator of the 1998 New York City "Manifestivity" (150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto) and has published several articles on left politics in Eastern Germany. As a musician, he has been artistic director of Spazio Musica Antica in Florence, Italy and has played numerous concerts as harpsichordist in the U.S., Belgium, Germany, and Italy. His musicological work has focused on problems of rhythm in 12th - 14th-century music as well as the strategies through which medieval music theory legitimized new practices.

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 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 written numerous articles on American politics, and is co-author, with Juliet Schor, of a book on U.S. foreign policy called Tunnel Vision.

Paolo Carpignano is senior lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Rome. His current research focuses on media, the labor process, and higher education.

Chris Caruso is a Ph.D. student in the Anthropology Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. At Southern Connecticut State University, Graham Cassano is a sociological theorist working at the intersection of political economy and semiotics. He has published essays on Simmel, Veblen, and labor history. At present, he is writing a book length study of John Ford and New Deal Cinema.

Irina Ceric is an activist and lawyer based in Toronto. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at York University where her research forcuses on law and imperialism in the Balkans.

Anjan Chakrabarti is a Reader in the Department of Economics at the University of Calcutta. He is the co-author (with Stephen Cullenberg) ofTransition and Development in India (Routledge 2003) and the forthcoming Recasting Class and Third World. He is the author of many articles on Indian development and politics.

Karen Charman is Managing Editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism and an independent investigative journalist specializing in environmental issues. Her work has appeared in World Watch, TomPaine.com, FAIR's journal Extra!, Sierra, The Nation, and Mother Earth News, among others.

Paresh Chattopadhyay teaches political economy in the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University of Quebec in Montreal. He has written extensively on the work of Karl Marx.

Cheng En Fu, professor of economics, is dean of the Marxism Research Institute of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and standing sub-dean of the Marxism Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He specializes in research on the Chinese and foreign economies and theoretical economics. He has published in different journals such as Chinese Social Sciences, The Dynamics of Economics, and Economist, and has written or compiled several books.

Eric Chester is a retired economics professor and author. His books include Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Commitee, and the CIA (1995), Rag-Tags, Scum, Riff-Raff and Commies: The U.S. Interventioin in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1966 (2001) and True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party Question in the U.S. (2004). He is also active in the Socialist Party USA and was its candidate for Vice President in 1996, running with Mary Cal Hollis.

Vivek Chibber teaches sociology at New York University. He is author of Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India (Princeton University Press, 2003).

Kristen Clarke-Avery is a civil rights attorney based in Washington, D.C.Between 2000 and 2006, she worked in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice where she handled voting rights and redistricting matters, and criminal civil rights matters including hate crime, police misconduct and human trafficking cases. She is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School. Between 1998 and 2000, she served in a variety of capacities at the Columbia Institute for Research in African American Studies.

Marilyn Clement, lifetime organizer, worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, and was formerly the director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Her work emphasizes the need for racial and economic justice. She is the national coordinator for Healthcare-NOW, the national grassroots effort working in 95 cities – to secure a single-payer, national healthcare system by 2009.

Jeff Cohen is a writer, lecturer and media critic who founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986. He was an on-air commentator (and "Donahue" senior producer) at MSNBC in 2003; a weekly "News Watch" panelist on Fox News Channel from 1997 to 2002; and a co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" in 1996. His columns have been published in dozens of dailies, including USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe. In 2003, he was the communications director of the Kucinich for President campaign.

Harvey Cox,Professorof Theology at Harvard Divinity School is the author of The Secular City, and many other books including The Seduction of the Spirit.He is acontributing editorof Religious Socialism.

William Cross heads the Social-Personality Psychology division of the Ph.D. Program in Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and is affiliated with the interdisciplinary concentration in Africana Studies. His 1991 book, Shades of Black: Diversity in African American Identity, is a frequently referenced text on black identity.

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 of Rate of Profit and co-author of Economics and the Historian and Transition and Development in India.

William Cutler is Professor of History and Educational Policy Studies at Temple University. His research focuses on the relationship between education and American culture, including the history of home-schooling since the middle of the nineteenth century and the material culture of American education, stressing school design, public buildings, and civic art. He is the author of Parents and Schools: The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education (Chicago 2000).

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Lawrence Davidson is Professor of Middle East History at West Chester University in West Chester Pennsylvania. He is the author of Islamic Fundamentalism (Greenwood Press 2003) and America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood (University Press of Florida 2001).

Ashley Dawson is Associate Professor of English at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He is author of the forthcoming book Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Post-Colonial Britain (Michigan) as well as co-editor of Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (Duke).

Benjamin Day is completing a Ph.D. at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.  Day is co-editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Strikes in America and Associate Editor of WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society.  He is completing a book on John Stuart Mill.

Geoffroy de Laforcade teaches Latin American, Caribbean and African History at Longwood University in Virginia. His work focuses on labor, migration and revolutionary movements in comparative perspective, and he is also former journalist and civil rights activist in France.

Aidan Delgado, from Sarasota, FL, is an Iraq combat vet who served one year in Iraq, including assignment to the Abu Ghraib prison.Delgado won his CO claim at the end of his Iraq tour.

Bhairavi Desai, a native of India, has been organizing taxi workers since 1996. She is a co-founder and Executive Director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. The largest taxi driver union in the country, NYTWA currently holds 7,000 members. NYTWA is currently campaigning to protect workplace civil and privacy rights for taxi drivers; to establish an industry-sponsored health and wellness fund; build a medical facility; and to legislate a public education program to warn against crimes against taxi drivers. An international federation of TWA branches is also in formation throughout the USA and Canada. Desai and NYTWA recently received the Leadership for a Changing World Award.

Judy Deutsch, Minister Emerita of the First Parish, Unitarian Universalist, Medfield, Mass.She has been a member of DSOC (the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee) and a member of DSA since its inception. She works for single-payer, universal health care as chair of Mass-Care's legislative committee, as vice-chair of Mass-Care, and chair of the Massachusetts and Sudbury League of Women Voters health care committees.

William DiFazio is a Professor of Sociology at St. John's University. He is the author of Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage for Temple University Press. He is the co-host of CityWatch on WBAI-New York, 99.5FM and member of the editorial collective for Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination.

Steve Downs has been a subway train operator for 22 years. He was one of the founders of the New Directions caucus in Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union. Steve served for many years as a dissident on the Local 100 Executive Board. He was a picket captain during December's transit strike and, as a member of Transit Workers for a Just Contract, he campaigned against the proposed contract settlement.

Lisa Duggan is Associate Professor of American Studies, Gender and History as well as Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. She is the author of, most recently, The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy (Beacon, 2003) and is a member of the group Faculty Democracy at NYU.

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz is a long-time activist, university professor, and writer. In addition to numerous scholarly books and articles, she has written three historical memoirs, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (Verso, 1997), Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 (City Lights, 2002), and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War (2005).

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Steve Early has been active in the labor movement as a journalist, lawyer, organizer, or union rep for more than 30 years. He currently serves as administrative assistant to the vice-president of Communications Workers of America (CWA) District 1, which represents more than 175,000 workers in the northeast. Since 1980, Early has been involved in organizing, bargaining, and/or major strikes at NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, AT&T, Verizon, Southern New England Tel, SBC, Cingular, and Verizon Wireless. He is a frequent contributor to Labor Notes, The Nation, New Labor Forum, The Boston Globe, WorkingUSA, and many other publications. He serves on the steering committee of Massachusetts Jobs With Justice.

John Ehrenberg teaches political science at Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus). He has written extensively on democracy and Marxist theory and is the author of The Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Marxism's Theory of Socialist Democracy.

Carolyn Eisenberg is a Professor of US History at Hofstra University and the author of a prize-winning book on the American occupation of Germany. She is a Founder of Brooklyn Parents for Peace and Co-Convener of the United for Peace and Justice Legislative Working Group.

Steven Ellner has taught political scienceat the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela since 1977. He haspublishedregularly in "In These Times" and "NACLA: Report on the Americas."His forthcoming book,Venezuela Reconsidered: Hugo Chavez and the Emergence of Revisionism, will be published by Zed Books.

Tod Ensign is a lawyer and director of Citizen Soldier, a GI/veterans rights advocacy organization, founded in 1969. His latest book is America's Military Today: The Challenge of Militarism" New Press (2004).

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.

Noura Erakat is a Palestinian-American legal-activist. Upon graduating from Boalt Hall Law School at UC Berkeley, she received a New Voices Fellowship to work as the National Grassroots Organizer and Legal Advocate at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura is currently a steering committee member of AMWAJ, Arab Movement of Women Arising for Justice.

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Norm Faramelli,an Episcopal priest and a member of the Executive Committee of the Religion and Socialism Commission of DSA. He is currently a Lecturer in Social Ethics at Boston University,and is also serving as priest-in-residence in an urban congregation in Boston (St. Luke's/St. Margaret's Allston).Over the years, he has worked with a variety of urban and suburban congregations as a pastor as well as a central to the discourse on progressive public policies.

Samuel Farber was born and raised in Cuba. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969 and has been at Brooklyn College since 1978. He is the author of Revolution and Reaction in Cuba. 1933-196O, A Political Sociology from Machado to Castro (Wesleyan University Press, 1976), and Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy (Polity Press/Basil Blackwell and Verso, 1990). His latest book is Social Decay and Transformation. A View From the Left (Lexington Press, 2000).

Arnold Farr is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Africana Studies at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. His book Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture was published in 2000. He has two more book manuscripts under review, Reading Farrakhan/Reading America: An Essay on Racialized Consciousness and the Obstruction of Understanding; and Critical Theory and the Democratic Vision: On Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies. He is founder of the International Marcuse Society.

Kenyon Farrow is co-editor of Letters From Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out (Nation Books 2005) and Culture Editor for Clamor Magazine. As an activist, Kenyon works on prison industrial complex issues, is a member of Critical Resistance and is currently working on issues of homophobic violence in Black communities.

Linda Farthing, cofounder of the Andean Information Network, is based in Ithaca, New York.

Liza Featherstone is a contributing editor at The Nation magazine, and author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books).

Silvia Federici is a Professor of Political Philosophy and International Studies at New College of Hofstra University and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. She is the authro of many books and articles on feminism, education and capitalism. Her latest book is Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia).

Oliver Fein is Chair of the Metro-New York Physicians for a National Health Program. He is a practicing general internist and professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Nina Felshin is curator of xxhibitions at Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery and an Adjunct Lecturer in Art History. She is currently teaching a seminar on art and politics. Her most recent exhibition, "The Disasters of War: From Goya to Golub," incorporated 20 photographs from Abu Ghraib prison. She is the author of But is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism and essays on politically engaged contemporary art.

Deepa Fernandes is a journalist, media activist, and media trainer. She is a radio features producer who has worked in communities around the world to produce award-winning documentaries abour forgotten peoples with marginalized voices. She is currently the host of WBAI's "Wake Up Call."

Daniel Finn, the recipient of the 2005 Daniel Singer Memorial Essay Prize, is a journalist from Dublin, Ireland.

Martin Fishgold is the president of the International Labor Communications Association, Washington, DC.

Kevin Fitzpatrick is a 30-year veteran taxi driver and organizer of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.

Jim Fleming is the founding publisher and a member of the editorial collective of Autonomedia, a Brooklyn-based not-for-profit small press specializing in radical politics, media and culture. He is the editor of the English-language editions of Antonio Negri's Marx Beyond Marx and Jean Baudrillard's Fatal Strategies, among many others, and contributes frequently to the Interactivist Information Exchange. He has taught at the University of Iowa, the New School, Queens College, and since 1980, in the Film and Media Department of Hunter College.

Bill Fletcher Jr., is the 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. He was the Vice President for International Trade Union Development Programs for the George Meany Center of the AFL-CIO. Bill has also served as Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO.

Jennifer Flynn is the Executive Director of the NYC AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN), a membership organization comprised and led by low-income people living with HIV/AIDS. She holds a Masters degree from the New School for Social Research and was one of the first US-based and focused human rights activists selected for the Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights Community Advocates Fellowship in 2002. Jennifer has been a direct action activist with Fed Up Queers and ACT UP and was a co-founder of STAND, a student and community organizing project.

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

Kirsten Forkert is an artist, writer and organizer. Her work explores the effects of neoliberalism on our subjective experience, and also how we might imagine and enact resistance. She also has been a union activist, around the rights of adjunct instructors. Kirsten is currently participating in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and is also a volunteer at Bluestockings bookstore, and a contributing editor for FUSE magazine, a Canadian publication on culture and politics. She is currently working on a net art project questioning the political role of the intellectual and the artist in relation to 'white collar' definitions of work, precarious labor and self-management.

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (2006) and Ecology Against Capitalism (2003) and co-editor of Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire (2004).

Harriet Fraad is a psychotherapist-hypnotherapist in New York City. She wrote Bringing It all Back Home. She writes regularly for The Journal of Psychohistory.

Kamau Karl Franklin is an activist attorney and the former Legal Program Director of New York City PoliceWatch, a sister project of the San Francisco based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. He has conducted Know Your Rightsworkshops and participated with various communities in organized attempts to combat the problem of police brutality. In addition to his work as a lawyer, Kamau is a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, which is a human rights organization committed to fighting By Any Means Necessary for the rights of New Afrikans (Afrikans in the Americas).

Nancy Fraser is Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the Graduate Faculty of the New School University and co-editor of the journal, Constellations. Her books include Unruly Practices (Minnesota, 1989), Feminist Contentions (Routledge 1994), Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition (Routledge 1997), and, with Axel Honneth, Redistribution or Recognition? A Political-Philosophical Exchange (Verso, 2003). Her current research aims to reconceptualize democratic justice for a globalizing age.

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Satya J. Gabriel is associate professor of economics at Mount Holyoke College and academic coordinator of the Rural Development Leadership Network. He is also author of Chinese Capitalism and the Modernist Vision (New York and London: Routledge Publishers, 2006).

Jesús García, the founder of the AfroVenezuelan Network, is a human rights, economic justice, and anti-racist activist. He founded the AfroLatinAmerican Strategic Alliance, an orgainization functioning across South America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean. He is the editor of the magazine Africamerica and the general coordinator of the Afroamerica Foundation.

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 who has experience working for trade unions, early Federal anti-poverty programs, and New York City, always as an active union member.

Heather Gautney is co-editor of Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century (Basic Books, 2003). She is a doctoral candidate in the Sociology Department at the CUNY Graduate Center and is writing her dissertation on the World Social Forum.  She is also a member of the Situations journal collective.

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.

Marvin Gettleman is Emeritus Professor, Brooklyn Polytechnic University. He is a member of the editorial board of Science & Society.

Reza Ghorashi teaches at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His areas of research and interest are international trade, globalization, and the Middle East, particularly Iran. He has published articles in both English and Farsi on the listed subject matters.

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, the Packer chair in Social Justice, Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto, has been one of the influential forces behind the Canadian Auto Workers union.

Carl Ginsburg, formerly with CBS-News, is an attorney, broadcast journalist and documentary film-maker, is now Chief Operating Officer of AirAmerica Radio. Launched in 2004 and broadcast across the country, AirAmerica is a national progressive talk-radio entertainment network.

Eric Glynn is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has served as Review Editor of Rethinking Marxism and taught economics at Northeastern University and Quinnipiac University. His dissertation analyzes the class structure of the U.S. automobile industry.

Michelle Goldberg is the New York-based writer for Salon.com magazine. Her book, Kingdom Coming, about the Christian Right, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in May. Her work has appeared in publications including Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Utne Reader, Newsday and alternative weeklies nationwide.

Michael González Cruz is a professor of sociology at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. He was president of the university’s student pro-independence group, La Federacion Universitaria Pro Independecia (FUPI) during 1992-1994.

Priscilla González and Ujju Aggarwal are part of the collective of the Center for Immigrant Families (CIF), an organizing center based on popular education. Priscilla is Ecuadorian-Cuban and has engaged in political work with communities in Africa and Latin America. She has also collaborated on campaigns addressing reproductive rights, violence against women, immigrant workers' rights, and environmental justice. Ujju is a South Asian woman who is an activist in NYC. She has worked with community-based groups and coalitions in New York City and nationally on issues of violence against women, immigrants' rights, and racial justice.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!. She is co-author of the national best-seller The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them written with her brother David Goodman. The book was chosen by independent bookstores as the #1 political title of the 2004 election season. The book was also chosen as one of the top 50 nonfiction books of 2004 by the editors of Publishers Weekly.

Bill Goodman served as Legal Director at CCR from 1998 to 2003 and returned in the summer of 2005. He was an active movement lawyer in private practice for over 33 years with the Detroit firm of Goodman, Eden, Millender and Bedrosian, the nation’s first racially integrated law partnership. Bill supervises a docket of over 80 active cases and coordinates CCR’s work with lawyers and organizations throughout the U.S.

David Graeber teaches anthropology at Yale University. He has pursued a variety of theoretical projects, ranging from work on the nature of manners (drawing on the anthropological literature on joking and avoidance relations) to work on value theory, which culminated in Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value (1991). For the last three years he has been working on a new project on direct action and the contemporary global resurgence of anarchism, which has already led to articles in New Left Review and various books and European publications and to several book projects.

Dara Greenwald is an artist who recently relocated to Troy, NY. She has been committed to participating in collaborative, political cultural work for many years.

Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist historian and a social critic, working with the Global Balkans-Revolutionary Balkan Diaspora, "Znetand 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!" Due to his political activism he was forced to leave the University of Belgrade and move to Fernand Braudel Center at SUNY Binghamton.

Arun Gupta is an investigative journalist who writes frequently for Z Magazine, Left Turn and the Indypendent in New York. He is an editor at the Indypendent and a former editor at the Guardian weekly in New York.

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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.

Paul Hancock is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Sustainable Community Development at Green Mountain College. He has published articles in labor history and labor migration theory.

Mark Hannay is Director of the Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign. He also co-chairs the Universal Health Care Action Network, New York State Health Care Campaign, and the New York Network for Action on Medicare and Social Security. Mark co-hosts the weekly "Health Action" program on WBAI/Pacifica radio in New York City, and serves on the board of Physicians for a National Health Program-New York Metro chapter.

Dalia Hashad, ahuman rights and civil rights attorney, is a co-host on the radio program,Law &Disorder. She is also the Director of the USA Program for Amnesty International. Until recently, she workedat the ACLU, focusing on post-9/11 backlash. She was previously a legal advisor in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the chair of the state boardof CALPIRG, a Californiaenvironmental and consumer rights advocacy organization.

Doug Henwood is editor of the Left Business Observer and host of the weekly radio show "Behind the News" on WBAI, New York (see www.leftbusinessobserver.com for more on both). His most recent book is After the New Economy (New Press, 2005). His next project is a study of the American ruling class.

Michael Hillard is a Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Maine. He has been at USM for the past 19 years. He received tenure in 1993 and completed a 5-year term as department chair in 2001. He has been published widely in academic journals and academic monographs in the fields of labor relations, labor history and political economy of labor. Michael is also an active participant in economic public policy debates in Maine through his role as a board member of the Maine Center for Economic Policy.

Nancy Holmstrom is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Rutgers-Newark. She has published numerous articles on core concepts of social/political philosophy such as freedom, exploitation, rationality and women's/human nature. She co-edited Not for Sale: In Defense of Public Goods and The Socialist Feminist Project: A Reader in Theory and Practice.

Gerald Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His latest work is entitled Red Seas and explores the life of Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican born Communist head of the National Maritime Workers Union. In his 2005 work, Black and Brown (NYU Press), he illustrates the extensive involvement of black Americans in Mexico’s revolutionary past. He is the author of 21 books which deal with reveal the often ignored and unheralded roles of left/revolutionary movements and personalities throughout US history.

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.

Joshua Howard is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, studying Marx's critique of political economy, Left history, and the relation of mass movements to the movement of ideas. He is a founder and organizer of The New SPACE (New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education, new-space.mahost.org). Currently he is working to build an anti-war group, National Organization for the Iraqi Freedom Struggles.

Julio Huato is an economics doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in the fields of international economics/economic development and finance economics. His main research interests are at the intersection of inequality, growth, finance, political economy, and policy-making. One of his dissertation papers is an empirical study on the impact of maquiladora manufacturing on the local standards of living in Mexico. He is currently working for the Howard Samuels Center at CUNY on a study on the economic status of women in New York.

Emiliano Huet-Vaughan works for Citizen Soldier.

Jörg Huffschmid is a professor of political economy and economic policy at the University of Bremen, specializing in financial markets and European integration. He is also a coordinator of the scientific network "European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe" ( www.memo-europe.uni-bremen.de ) and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Jobs for All Coalition (New York) and of ATTAC Germany, Prof. Huffschmid has written extensively on major current social and economic issues.

Forrest Hylton is author of An Evil Hour: Colombia in Historical Context (forthcoming from Verso), as well as co-editor of Ya es otro tiempo el presente: Cuatro momentos de insurgencia indígena, the second edition of which is forthcoming from Muela del Diablo.

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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.

Anne Jaclard, a feminist and Marxist-Humanist, writes on revolutionary movements and theory for the newspaper News & Letters. She has been active for seven years in solidarity work with grassroots civil society movements in Acheh, Indonesia, and is currently involved in humanitarian relief for Acheh. She also does work and dialogue with feminist groups in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as those at home.

Saru Jayaraman is the director of the HERE Workers Center in New York City. She worked for th 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.

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Jomo K. S. was Founder Chair of IDEAs, International Development Economics Associates. Jomo studied at the Malaysian Royal Military College, Yale and Harvard, and has taught at several Malaysian universities, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Cornell. His most recent edited books include The Origins of Development Economics (with Erik Reinert) and Pioneers of Development Economics, The New Development Economics (with Ben Fine).

Shayana Kadidal is a staff attorney at CCR. He has worked on a number of significant cases in the wake of 9/11, including the Center's challenge to the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. He is also counsel in the Center’s pending challenge to the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program.

Patricia Keeton is Professor of Communication Arts at Ramapo College. She is a former co-chair of the Caucus on Class for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and a member of the MLA Radical Caucus.

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.

Andrew Kliman, a professor of economics at Pace University, is an organizer of and teacher at The New SPACE (New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education) and co-editor of Critique of Political Economy, a new online journal. He has published extensively on Marx's Capital, crisis theory, and value theory.

David Kotz is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Research Associate at the Political Economy Research Institute. He is currently working on Russia’s Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia, co-authored with Fred Weir, Routledge, forthcoming 2007. His recent work has been on economic transformation in the formerly centrally planned economies and models of participatory socialism.

Michael R. Krätke is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam. He is a collaborator of the MEGA (Complete Works of Marx and Engels) and the Historical Critical Dictionary of Marxism, and a regular contributor to several left journals and reviews in Europe. He is the author of many articles and several books on Marxist political economy, the history and actual state of the world economy, public finance, international money and financial markets, welfare states, and social policy in Europe. He is also a Counsellor for several international organizations (ILO, FAO, WHO) and the European Union.

H.J. Krysmanski is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Muenster. He is a member of the scientific council of Attac and of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. He has a large body of publications in class analysis, cultural and media studies and power structure research. He is also the author of numerous documentaries on German national television.

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Jim Lafferty is the Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild in Los Angeles, and host of The Lawyers Guild Show on Pacifica. He was a national Coordinator of the National Peace Action Coalition during Vietnam. Currently, he is a member of the ANSWER steering committee in Los Angeles and. He is the Chair of the N.Y.C.-based Campaign to End U.S. Intervention in the Philippines and a member of the steering committee of the Coalition for Peace in the Middle East.

Nilda Laguer, a 29-year-old Nuyrorican, grew up in BK and has been resisting ever since. She has been part of developing projects like Bronx PrYde in the Boogie Down and Urban Mana in BK. She is a writer, poet, resister, hoper, prayer, and a magic bean buyer.

Maria LaHood has been an attorney at CCR since 2003. Maria represents Canadian citizen Maher Arar in a caseagainst U.S. officials for sendinghim to Syria where he was tortured and detained for a year (Arar v. Ashcroft), the first case challenging an “extraordinary rendition.” She represents CCR before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on issues of arbitrary detention, torture, and rendition.

David Laibman is Professor of Economics at the City University of New York, and Editor of Science & Society. He is author of Value, Technical Change and Crisis: Explorations in Marxist Economic Theory (M.E. Sharpe, 1992), and Capitalist Macrodynamics: A Systematic Introduction (Macmillan, 1997).

Lauren Langman is a professor of sociology at Loyola University of Chicago.He works in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, focusing especially on therelationships between culture, politics/political movements and the psychosocial. He is past chairman of the Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and current President of the Alienation Research and Theory Committee of the International Sociological Association.

Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College (Hartford). His book Canons and Contexts (Oxford, 1991) examines the history of the canon of American literature as well as changes in it generated primarily by ethnic and feminist studies. He is general editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature. His most recent book is From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park--The Cultural Work of American Studies (2001). Other recent projects include a co-edited collection called Literature, Class, and Culture (2001), and a volume of Thoreau's writings for the New Riverside Series (2000). Lauter was the 2001 recipient of the annual Jay Hubbell medal for lifetime achievement in American Literary Study awarded by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association.

Paul LeBlanc is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at LaRoche College. He is a historian and prolific writer on the labor and socialist movements. His book Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience will be published by Routledge this year.  He is author of Black Liberation and the American Dream, Rosa Luxemburg: Reflections and Writings, A Short History of the U.S. Working Class, and From Marx to Gramsci.

Brooke Lehman is a member of the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. She is a co-founder of Continental Direct Action Network (an outgrowth of the 1999 Seattle WTO riots) and an organizer with NYC Direct Action Network. She is a founder of Bluestockings, a radical bookstore, fair trade café©, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Sabine Leidig is a social-movement-activist and from 2003 National Secretary of ATTAC-Germany, where she is responsible for the organization's development and the coordination of its political projects. Before coming to ATTAC, she worked for more than 10 years for the Federation of German Trade Unions (DGB) and was chair of one of its regional divisions. In addition, throughout the 1980s and 90s she was active in the peace-and solidarity-movements, as well as in cultural-political organization and political education.

Josh Lerner is an activist, researcher, and PhD student at the New School. He has spent the past three years researching participatory budgeting, mostly in Canada and Argentina. His current research projects focus on the democratic learning that takes place through participatory democracy and on strategies for participatory budgeting in North America. He moderates an international participatory budgeting listserv, and he has worked on participatory budgeting campaigns in Toronto and New York.

Les Levidow is based at the Open University, UK, where he has been researching the safety regulation and innovation of agbiotech. He is also editor of the journal Science as Culture. He is co-author of a forthcoming book, Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology: Contending Coalitions, Trade Liberalisation and Standard Setting (Routledge, late 2006).

Minqi Li teaches political economy in York University, Toronto. His recent writings include Secular Trends, Long Waves, and the Cost of the State (Review, January 2006), and The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy (Science & Society, July 2005).

Richard Lichtman was a founding member of Socialist Revolution, the author of The Production of Desire, Essays in Critical Social Theory, and Dying in America. He is also the director of the tutorial graduate program in Critical Theory at The Professional School of Psychology in Sacramento, California. His next publication will be Normal Pathology.

Martha Livingston is Associate Professor of Health and Society at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. She is Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the New York Metro chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Public Health Policy.

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).

John Loxley is professor and former head of the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. His career includes stints at Makerere University and the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, as well as service to the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Manitoba as economic advisor. He is the author of Debt and Disorder: External Financing for Development and the coordinator of the Alternative Federal Budget exercise in Canada.

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Arthur MacEwan is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His most recent book is Neo-Liberalism or Democracy? Economic Strategy, Markets and Alternatives for the 21st Century (Zed Books, 1999). He was a founder of Dollars & Sense (D&S) magazine, and writes regularly for D&S and other journals on issues of international development.

Josh MacPhee is an artist and activist who had his first book Stencil Pirates, published in 2004. He is currently co-editing Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority, a collection of writings on art and anarchism for AK Press, as well as acompendium of radical political graphics entitled Reproduce & Revolt. He also runs a radical art distribution system at Just Seeds.

Fred Magdoff is Professor of Soils in the Department of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont. Magdoff was Plant and Soil Science Department Chair for 8 years (1985-1993), a member of the National Small Farm Commission (1997-1999, USDA), and is the Coordinator in the 12-state Northeast Region for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. Magdoff has oriented his outreach activities to explaining how to apply ecological principles to agricultural production.

John Mage is an Officer and Director of the Monthly Review Foundation

Rahul Mahajan is an author and freelance journalist, and publisher of the weblog Empire Notes (<http://www.empirenotes.org/>http://www.empirenotes.org). He has been to occupied Iraq twice and reported from Fallujah during the April 2004 assault. His first book, The New Crusade: Americas War on Terrorism, came out from Monthly Review Press in April 2002 and his second book, Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond, from Seven Stories Press in June 2003. He lectures and does radio and TV interviews frequently, and is currently teaching a course on political journalism and activism at New York University. He can be reached at rahul@empirenotes.org.

Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is also the Director of the Institute of African Studies at SIPA. He is the founding Director of the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda, and was President (1999-2002) of the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Mamdani is an expert in African history, politics and international relations. His most recent publication is Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (Doubleday, 2004).

John F. Manley is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stanford University. His work on welfare states is part of an on-going class analysis of U.S. history with an emphasis on public policy and a critical analysis of pluralism.

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.

Victor Mayorga is a student at City University of New York. He is a student of revolution and a political activist who writes on philosophy and politics and is a student of the Nicaraguan revolution. He just completed a paper on Marx and historical materialism.

Jamie K. McCallum is a student at the CUNY Graduate Center, an instructor at Queens College, and a coordinator of the Left Forum.

Richard McIntyre is Professor of Economics and Associate Director, Honors Center, University of Rhode Island.His book, Class and Convention: Political Economy and Labor’s Rights, is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press.McIntyre is the editor of the Routledge series New Political Economy.

Michael Menser is an assistant professor in Philosophy as Brooklyn College/CUNY and is a member of the coordinating committee of the NYC Social Forum. He also is on the editorial collective of Situations: a Journal of the Radical Imagination and has published on architecture, the global justice movement, technoscience, evolutionary developmental biology and democratic theory. His most recent publication is entitled "The Global Social Forum Movement, Porto Alegre's Participatory Budget and the Maximization of Democracy.”

Eli Messinger is co-chair of the program committee and a teacher at the Brecht Forum. He is also a child psychiatrist.

Til Mette studied art and history in Bremen, and worked on an educational development project in Peru. He became a professional cartoonist for Die Tageszeitung, Taz, a daily paper in Germany, in 1985. He moved to New York in 1992, and since 1995 has been working as a staff cartoonist for the German magazine Stern.

Greg Meyerson is an Assistant Professor of English (critical theory) at North Carolina A & T University. He is coeditor of the Marxist online journal Cultural Logic and has published essays on poststructuralism, postmarxism, critical race theory, academic labor and American literature.

Geoffrey Millard, from Buffalo, NY, is an 8 year Army vet, including 13 months combat duty in Iraq. He is a full time peace and justice activist and IVAW member. He recently attended the World Social Forum in Venezuala.

Charles W. Mills is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He works in the general area of oppositional political theory, and is the author of three books: The Racial Contract (1997), Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998), and From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003). Currently he is working on a joint book with Carole Pateman.

Cindy Milstein is co-organizer of the annual Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference, a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, and a collective member of both the all-volunteer Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, VT, and the Free Society Collective. Her essays appear in various anti-authoritarian periodicals and several recent anthologies, including Globalize Liberation, Confronting Capitalism, and Only a Beginning.

Charlene Mitchell is the former executive assistant to President Charles Ensley of the Local 371. She founded the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and became leader of the organization. While with Local 371, Mitchell helped to coordinate the activities of the Women's Committee and the Black History Celebration Committee, as well as coordinating bus trips and demonstrations.

Fatemeh Moghadam teaches courses on Economic Development, Women and Development in the Middle East, and International Economics. She has published extensively on economic history, and agricultural development, including a book, From Land Reform to The Revolution: The Political Economy of Agricultural Development in Iran (1960-1979) (Tauris Academic Studies, London, February 1996). Her research work includes several field studies in Iran. Her most recent publications include entries in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (New York, 2003), entries in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (to appear 2006), as well as articles on women and work in Iran.

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 a social epidemiologist, currently professor of publichealth sciences and psychiatry at the UniversityToronto, Canada. Since thelate 1990s he has been collaborating with the Venezuelan ministry of healthto reduce social inequalities in health.

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Victor Navasky, editor of The Nation since 1978, became its publisher and editorial director in January 1995. In 1994, while on a year's leave of absence, he served first as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and then as a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University. He is the author of Kennedy Justice (Atheneum, 1977) and Naming Names (Viking, 1980), which won an American Book Award Kennedy Justice, the American Book Award winner Naming Names and, most recently, A Matter of Opinion.

Manny Ness teaches political science and urban studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. His work focuses on low-wage workers, labor migration, and the future of work. He is working on a book on the transformation of work and global labor migration. He is Editor of WorkingUSA: Journal of Labor and Society, and author of Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market.

Julia Nevárez graduated from Environmental Psychology, CUNY and teaches Sociology at Kean University. Her work focuses on the analysis of urban dynamics including public space, culture, globalization and urban development.

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.

Molly Nolan is a professor of history at NYU. She has written on German labor history, on Americanization and anti-Americanism in Europe and on war crimes and memory and is currently writing a book on Europe and America in the Twentieth Century. She is active in Faculty Democracy at NYU and in Brooklyn Parents for Peace.

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Tom O'Donnell is Lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the Science, Technology and Science Program and the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, and the Residential College. He lectured on “The Global Oil System and the Middle East” in graduate economics at The University of Algiers and, as visiting professor, at The New School for Social Research in New York City in spring-summer of 2005. He is currently writing a book on “The New Globalized Oil Order.”  He is also Associate Member of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics. He previously spent a decade as an industrial worker and organizer-activist in Detroit auto plants and on Chicago railways.

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 is the faculty trustee. She is one of the original founders of Radical Teacher. She is also a university-wide officer of the Professional Staff Congress, CUNY’s union. Her latest book, Custome Is an Idiot: Jacobean 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 Center.

Amy Omeara works for Amnesty International USA.

Leonor C. Osorio was appointed Cónsul General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in New York during April 2002. As Consul General in New York, Mrs. Osorio-Granado is having a notable participation in the activities led by the Society of Foreign Consuls. At the Society of Latin American Consuls she is joining efforts with other consuls of Latin American countries in New York to promote a better quality of life for Latin American nationals and to improve relationships between the Venezuelan community and the local and state government officials.

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Michael Palm is a PhD candidate in the American Studies Program at NYU. His dissertation is titled "Phoning it in: self-service, telecommunications and the mobility of work." He is serving as Chairperson for GSOC/UAW Local 2110, the union for teaching, research and graduate assistants at NYU. GSOC has been on strike for union recognition and a second contract since November 9, 2005.

Costas Panayotakis teaches Sociology at the New York City College of Technology and is a member of the New York editorial group of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism.

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).

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 Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics.

Michael Pelias is co-managing editor of Situations and teaches Philosophy and Film Studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn.

Marta Petrusewicz emigrated from her native Poland in 1969 after the wave of repressions, and has studied and worked in Italy, France and the United States. She is currently professor of Modern European History at Hunter College, CUNY and at the Università della Calabria. She is the author of Latifundium: Moral Economy and Material Life in a 19th-Century Periphery (1996), Un sogno irlandese: la storia di Constance Markiewicz comandante dell’IRA (1868-1927) (1998) and Come il Meridione divenne una Questione (1998) and is currently working on a comparative history of the European peripheries in the 19th century.

Jeremy Pikser co-wrote Bulworth which received the LA film critics’ best screenplay of 1998 as well as Golden Globe and Academy Award best screenplay nominations.He also was an uncredited writer on the filmReds. Hehas recently completed Banana Republic, a film about the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala and Brand Hauser, a satire about US policy in the Middle East in collaboration with John Cusack and Mark Leyner. He is a member of the Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience OrganizingCommittee.

John P. Pittman teaches philosophy and humanities at John Jay College, CUNY. He writes on social and political philosophy and Africana philosophy. He is an editor of Science & Society and Philosophia Africana, a moderator of Portside, and a University-wide Officer of PSC-CUNY.

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.

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.

Lic. Orlando Portela is a professor at the Facultad de Derecho, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He is also a member of the Special Commission of the Colegio de Abogados of Puerto Rico created to investigate the assassination of Filiberto Ojeda Rios.

Nicholas Powers is a writer and teacher. He contributes to the Indypendent, the Village Voice and is the author of the poetry book Theater of War published by Upset Press. He is a graduate student at CUNY and an adjunct at City College of New York. He is currently working on a project on the Middle Passage and the sublime.

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Aníbal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist, has taught at the University of Binghamton (SUNY); the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru; Columbia University; Free University, Berlin; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is the editor and found of Sociedad y Politica (Lima, Per), and an organizer of the Movimiento Revolucionario Socialista. He has written extensively on literature, nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, social classes in Latin America, and workers movements in Peru and Latin America. Recent articles include "Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America," International Sociology, vol. 15; "Fujimorism, the OAS and Peru," in Socialism and Democracy, vol. 14; (with Immanuel Wallerstein) "Americanity as a Concept, or the Americas in the Modern World-System," International Journal of Social Sciences.

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Ellen Raider is a member of the Independent Commission on Public Education (iCOPE). She is the co-founder and first Training Director of the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR) at Teachers College.

Uri Ram teaches sociology in Ben Gurion University, Israel, and is currently a Visiting Professor at The New School for Social Research. He is the author of the books: The Time of the "Post": Nationalism and the Politics of Knowledge in Israel (Resling, expected in 2006); and The Globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem (Routledge, expected in 2006; in Hebrew: Resling, 2005). He is the editor of the volumes: Israeli Society: Critical Perspectives (Breirot 1993); The Power of Property: Israeli Society in Global Era (co-editor; Van Leer & Kibbutz HaMeuchad, 2004); and In/Equality (co-editor; Ben Gurion University Press, expected in 2006).

Ibrahim Ramey is the coordinator of the Peace and Disarmament program of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack, New York. He serves as a board member of the Muslim Peace Fellowship and the Temple of Understanding (an interfaith organization promoting dialogue and cooperation among diverse religious traditions), the Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development, and several national peace and justice organizations. He has been a delegate and presenter at international conferences in Tanzania, Sweden, North Korea, and South Africa and is a regular commentator on the Islamic Broadcasting Network.

Michael Ratner is the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. His challenges of constitutional violations include a habeas corpus petition on behalf of the Guantanamo detainees, the continued detention of non-citizen Middle Eastern men within the United States and the Arar torture case. He has litigated numerous cases against major international human rights violators, expanding the reach of customary international law. He was counsel in the suit to close the camp for HIV-positive Haitian refugees on Guantanamo Base, Cuba. His numerous books and articles include Lost Liberties (New Press 2003), The Pinochet Papers: The Case of Augusto Pinochet in Spain and Britain (Kluwer 2000), International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts (Transnational Publishers Inc. 1996), Che Guevara and the FBI (Ocean Press 1998).

Arslan Razmi works in the areas of international trade and finance, open economy macroeconomics, development, and political economy. His recent work, which has focused on balance of payments-related constraints on the growth of developing countries and the limitations of the export-led growth paradigm, borrows from diverse streams of economic theory. Other ongoing research includes an investigation of the effects of currency devaluations on developing economies. His empirical examination of balance of payments-related constraints on Indian growth performance appears in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

Erik Reinert is Professor of Technology Governance and Development Strategies at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, where he and his colleagues are starting a Masters Programme in historical/evolutionary economics in 2006. Reinert also heads The Other Canon Foundation based in Norway. His main research area is the theory of uneven growth, i.e., the factors that cause world economic development to be uneven, contrary to the predictions of standard economic theory.

Stephen Resnick isProfessor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His latest book co-authored with Richard Wolff is New Departures in Marxian Theory(forthcoming from Routledge Publishers).

Roberto Rezzo is journalist covering U.S. politics and the United Nations for the Italian daily l'Unità. He is an activist against the death penalty, and for human rights and minority issues. He was a leading member of the coalition promoting the 1995 referendum for the legalization of cannabis in Italy.

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 an assistant professor of history at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. He teaches courses in contemporary world history, modern socialism, and global studies. He is finishing a book on Karl Marx's concept of progress and beginning a political biography of H. Smith Richardson, a Southern entrepreneur whose life and legacy contributed to the rise of the New Right.

Russell Rockwell has recently taught Sociology at Fordham and St. John Universities, and has published several articles on Marcuse, Hegel and Critical Social Theory. He is currently editing a book that will include some of the correspondence of Marcuse and of Eric Fromm during the 1950s-1970s.

Leonard Rodberg teaches Urban Studies at Queens College. He was one of the founders of Physicians for a National Health Program. He led the development of the US Health Service Act (the Dellums Bill) in the 1970s. He serves on the Board of the NY Metro Chapter of PNHP and is Co-Editor of its Forum Report series. He writes and speaks widely on health care reform.

Gualesca Rodríguez is a community organizer in Puerto Rico. She is a member of La Nueva Escuela a collective that works educating communities while reviving and challenging peoples’ views on the meaning of independence for Puerto Rico. The group also publishes a magazine called Alternativa which includes a section on the Boricua Diaspora.

Heather Rogers is a journalist, filmmaker, and author of Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage (The New Press, 2005). Her documentary film of the same title (2002) screened in festivals around the globe. Her articles have appeared in The Nation, Utne Reader, Z Magazine, Bad Subjects, Punk Planet, and Third Text.

Nancy Romer, Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College, is Senior College Officer of the PSC-CUNY (AFT 2334). She chairs the Peace and Justice Committee of the PSC, is co-convenor of Educators to Stop the War, and serves on the national steering committees of US Labor Against the War and United for Peace and Justice.

Mark Rosenzweig is a founder of the Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG), a national organization of librarian activists and co-editor of its journal, Progressive Librarian. He is running for his fourth term as a Councilor-at-large of the American Library Association (ALA) and serves as a member of the coordinating committee of the ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table. He was the Director of the Reference Center for Marxist Studies in NYC.

Albert Ruben writes screenplays for motion pictures and television and is a former newspaper man.

Nan Rubin has built community radio stations WAIF in Cincinnati and KUVO in Denver. As a founder of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, she is a major advocate for building community media infrastructure and for supporting minority and ethnic media. For the last several years she has been involved with grassroots organizing to promote community control of spectrum and public engagement in media policy.

Annette Rubinstein has been a lifelong activist and supporter of independent socialist politics. She has been a member of the Science and Society editorial board since the 1960s and has published numerous literary articles and reviews. She is the author of The Great Tradition in English Literature from Shakespeare to Shaw.

Chris Rude, a former NY Fed and Wall Street economist, has just finished his PhD in Economics from the New School. At the NY Fed, he conducted research on the sustainability of the US current account deficit and monitored US and foreign intervention activities at the FRBNY's Foreign Exchange Department. While studying at the New School, he was Assistant Director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA), where he organized a conference on the current crisis in the US retirement system in September, 2004. He recently taught political science at York University in Toronto, where he did research on economic mechanisms of US imperialism.

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Thomas Sablowski is a research fellow of the research unit "Regulation of Work" at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin. His work explores the transformation of regimes of accumulation and modes of regulation in capitalist societies, the processes of internationalization, the restructuring of firms and industries, and the transformation of the relation between finance capital and industrial capital.

Catherine Sameh is a PhD student in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. After graduating from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon in 1987, she became immersed in feminist activism as a women's health worker, a writer and, most recently, the director of In Other Words, a non-profit feminist bookstore and activist resource center. Her work focuses on feminism, Islam, and political reform in contemporary Iran. Her dissertation will explore the central role of religiosity in the constitution of new women's and feminist subjectivities in the contemporary Iranian reform movement.

John Sanbonmatsu is the author of The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (Monthly Review 2004). Over the years, he has been peripherally involved in the US peace movement, the struggle for animal liberation, and the Greens. He teaches philosophy and politics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Surajit Sarkar was at one time a photocopier salesman, a bank officer, a primary school teacher and developer of curriculum for primary school children and teachers alike. He has worked as a TV professional and video film maker since 1991. From 2004 he has been a founding member of the Catapult Arts Caravan, a traveling video and arts group.

A veteran anti-apartheid activist and campaigner for economic justice in Africa, John S. Saul has taught at Toronto’s York University and also in Africa itself (Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa). He is the author of The Next Liberation Struggle: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa (Monthly Review Press). He is currently working on an analytical history of the “Thirty Years War for Southern African Liberation (1960-1990)” and its aftermath.

William H. Schaap is a New York attorney who has worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights. He is the co-editor (with Ellen Ray) of Bioterror : Manufacturing Wars the American Way (Ocean Press) and Covert Action and The Roots of Terrorism (Pluto Press). He is a co-founder of Covert Action Quarterly, the authoritative magazine which has been a multiple award-winner of "Project Censored" prizes for its decades of groundbreaking investigative reporting.

James Schamus is co-president (with David Linde) of Focus Features (the company whose movies include Brokeback Mountain, The Pianist, and Lost in Translation). He has the unique distinction of being an award-winning screenwriter and producer who is also a film executive, and is currently an Academy Award nominee for producing Brokeback Mountain.

Donna Schaper is Senior Minister, Judson Memorial Church. She is the author of several books, including many on the art and spirit of social change. She is the mother of three activists and partner of another.

Abby Scher is senior editor of Public Eye, the quarterly magazine on the U.S. Right published by Political Research Associates. A former coeditor of Dollars and Sense, she was founding director of Independent Press Association-New York, a network of immigrant, African American and other community press. In 2003-2005, she was honored by the Ford Foundation with a Leadership for a Changing World award.

Trebor Scholz works both collaboratively and individually as an artist, writer, activist, and organizer. In 2004 he founded the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC), a research network that concentrates on cooperation studies. In 2005 the Institute organized “Share, Share Widely,” the first large North American conference about media art education. In April 2004, together with Geert Lovink, he organized the conference Free Cooperation on the art of (online) collaboration. He currently is professor and researcher in the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Ellen Schrecker is Professor of History at Yeshiva University. Widely recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on McCarthyism, she has published many books and articles on the subject. Her most recent book is an edited collection of essays, Cold War Triumphalism: Exposing the Misuse of History after the Fall of Communism (2004). She is currently working on a general study of political repression in America.

Joan Scott's work has challenged the foundations of conventional historical practice, including the nature of historical evidence and historical experience and the role of narrative in the writing of history. Her recent writings include "Feminism's History" Journal of Women's History (2005), "Symptomatic Politics: The Banning of Islamic Head Scarves in French Public Schools" French Politics, Culture and Society (Fall 2005), and "History-writing as Critique," forthcoming.

Anwar Shaikh is Professor of Economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School University. He is also a Senior Scholar and member of the Macro Modeling Team at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. He is the author of two books, the most recent being Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts, Cambridge University Press (with E. A. Tonak).

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.

Gregory Sholette is a NYC based artist, writer and a co-founder of the artist collectives REPOhistory (1989-2000) and Political Art Documentation and Distribution (1980-1986). His work has appeared at the MoMA, Dia Art Foundation, and Exit Art. Sholette is co-editor with Nato Thompson of The Interventionists: A Users Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (MIT: 2004 & 2005); and Collectivism After Modernism co-edited with Blake Stimson (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). He teaches classes in critical theory at New York University.

Stevphen Shukaitis is a research fellow at the University of Leicester Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy. His research focuses on the constitution of collective identities through projects of worker self-management and the changing nature of labor and production under post-Fordist capitalism. He is a member of the Ever Reviled Records Worker Collective, the Autonomedia Editorial Collective, and the Planetary Autonomist Network. For more information on his writing and research please see www.refusingstructures.net.

Beverly J. Silver teaches sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on problems of development, labor and social conflict, using comparative and world-historical methods of analysis. She is the author of Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and co-author of Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), winner of the 2001 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association PEWS Section.)

Marina Sitrin is the author of Horizontalidad: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina, an oral history of the autonomous social movements in Argentina (Spanish edition Chilavert 2005, English edition AK Press spring 2006). Marina has traveled extensively in Latin America, spending time with the various new social movements. Marina teaches part time at the Gallatin School of NYU on justice, law and social movements. She studied law at CUNY law school, and is currently working on her PhD at SUNY Stony Brook.

Jonas Sjösted is a member of the European Parliament since 1995, representing the Swedish Left Party. His professional background is metalworker at Volvo trucks. In the Euroepan Parliament he coordinates environmental policy for the group of left-wing parties. He has been very active in the left campaigns against the European constitution, not only in Sweden but also in other countries as well.

Eli Smith is the host of the internet radio show Down Home Music on AirAmericaRadio.com (should start in a month). He sings and plays various American folk music on banjo, guitar, fiddle and some other instruments and write songs as well. He is currently producing the first ever commercial CD of Akonting music. The Akonting is an African lute from the Jola tribe of Senegambia and is the most direct African predecessor of the American banjo. He has done a lot of soundtracks for the political documentary films of Off Center Productions.

Mark F. Smith is the Director of Government Relations for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). He creates and coordinates legislative programs at the state and federal levels on Association priorities: funding of higher education programs; academic freedom and freedom of expression; distance education; and intellectual property. He also develops Association policy on higher education matters in the areas of distance education and intellectual property.

Michael Steven Smith practices law in New York City.He is the co-host of WBAI'sradio show Law and Disorder.He has co-edited two books by the great civil rights attorney William M. Kunstler, The Emerging Police State and Famous American Political Trials, both published by Ocean Press.Smith is a board memberof The Center for Constitutional Rights, The International Endowment for Democracy, The Brect Forum,and The Left Forum.

Richard Smith conducted his UCLA dissertation on the contradictions of China's bureaucratic system and the transition to capitalism. He has written on Mao's revolution, capitalist development and China's environment, "primitive accumulation" in China and Russia and related issues. He is currently working on a book project on capitalism and the global environment.

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