Kat Aaron is the Co-Director of People's Production House (PPH), a journalism and media justice organization headquartered in New York City (www.peoplesproductionhouse.org). PPH teaches organizers to make media in order to change public policy and influence public debate. Aaron has extensive experience in print and radio, and has been teaching radio classes since 2005. She began working in radio while still in her teens, and is now a producer for Wakeup Call, the morning news show on WBAI. Until 2005, she was the Communications Director at the nationally-renowned economic justice organization, the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project.

Mimi Abromowitz is Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at Hunter School of Social Work and the CUNY Graduate Center. She received her MSW and DSW degrees from Columbia University School of Social Work. Her books include Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present, the award-winning Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the U.S., and The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy. She is currently writing Gender Obligations: The History of Low-Income Women’s Activism since 1900 and is active in welfare rights and anti-racist work.

Junaid S. Ahmad, a law student at the College of William and Mary, is president of the National Muslim Law Students Association and an executive board member of the Domestic Violence Resource Project. In Pakistan, he has worked with groups such as Educate Pakistan and the Peoples Rights Movement, and he also works with Positive Muslims, a Cape Town-based organization working on issues related to Muslims, HIV/AIDS and gender justice. He is currently involved in a collaborative research project with the International Islamic University, Islamabad, on developing an annual “State of the Muslim World” report.

Fahd Ahmed is a community organizer with DRUM, Desis Rising Up and Moving, a grassroots community-based social justice organization of working-class South Asian immigrants facing detention, deportation, and immigration issues in New York City, and increasingly involved in responding to the police surveillance and infiltration within the community.

Michael Albert is a leading critic on political economy, US foreign policy, and mass media. A veteran writer and activist, he currently works with Z Magazine and ZNet, both of which he co-founded. He has co-authored, with Robin Hahnel, many books on participatory economics. Realizing Hope (2006) and Remembering Tomorrow (2007), a memoir, are his latest books. He lives in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Cathy Albisa is the Executive Director of NESRI (National Economic and Social Rights Initiative), and a constitutional and human rights lawyer with a background on the right to health. NESRI works in partnership with community organizers in the use of human rights standards to strengthen advocacy in the US on issues like the right to housing in New Orleans or New York, using a community-centered and participatory human rights approach.

David Aldridge is an award-winning journalist who currently works for the Philadelphia Inquirer and for Turner Sports (TNT). At the Inquirer, Aldridge writes a general sports column. But his primary coverage area is the NBA and NFL. At TNT, Aldridge serves as the network's "Insider," responsible for all breaking news reported on Turner's weekly NBA broadcasts.

Tariq Ali has been a leading figure of the European Left since the 1960s. Ali has written over a dozen books on history and politics, including Clash of Fundamentalisms, which has been translated into over a dozen languages, and Streetfighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties. He also writes fiction and has been a writer for stage, screen, and television. He is a longstanding editor of New Left Review and writes regularly for The Guardian and London Review of Books.

Milton Allimadi is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, an investigative reporter and publisher of NYC-based The Black Star News. Mr. Allimadi authored The Hearts of Darkness - an explosive investigative book that digs deep into the history of the negative, racist media representations of Africans and people of African descent that persist in contemporary America.

Debbie Almontaser is an educator and the founding principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the first Arabic dual language program in NYC.

Ashanti Alston is the national co-chair of the Jericho Movement and a member of the revolutionary black nationalist Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. A former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, Ashanti was a political prisoner for fourteen years in the United States. He is known as the anarchist panther and is the author of the essay "Beyond Nationalism, But Not without It."

Kevin B. Anderson teaches in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University and is author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism (1995) and co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (2005).

Another Politics is Possible is a study group motivated by the following themes: The importance of non-hierarchical and collective leadership models; The concept of “intersectionality” and taking seriously the politics of race, gender and sexuality alongside class oppression; The idea that it is important to pre-figure the world we are trying to create, both in our politics as well as personal relationships; That all of the work we do on the local level in our communities is connected to a larger vision of social transformation.

Ana Maria Archila is a co-executive director of Make the Road NY, a grassroots group organizing immigrant communities in Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.

Ariel is helping to organize the New York City Anarchist Bookfair, and the Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory and Research and Development (BASTARD) anarchist theory conference, and taught classes in Girl Army (women's self-defense) as well as firearm practice and safety. She has been a member of Anarchist People of Color, and contemplates the possibility of anarchist economics.

Stanley Aronowitz is the co-managing editor of the journal Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination. He is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has directed the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work since 1988. He is the author or editor of over twenty books, including How Class Works (Yale, 2003), Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of Jobless Recovery (Temple, 2005), and, most recently, Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (Paradigm, 2006).

Nicole Aschoff is a doctoral student in sociology at John Hopkins doing research on the restructuring of jobs within the U.S. auto industry.

Jessica Azulay is a writer and activist based in Syracuse, NY. She co-founded The NewStandard in 2003 and was a member of its collective until it shut down in 2007.

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Nellie Hester Bailey is co-founder of Harlem Tenants Council (HTC), created to provide relief for the poor and to combat community deterioration as a result of the accelerated pace of gentrification in Harlem. HTC's goal is to build a broad-based bottom-up tenants' movement that can influence policies and programs that impact low-income residents and neighborhood small businesses. The group organizes educational forums, provides free legal counseling, builds ties with Harlem churches and businesses and organizes demonstrations to draw attention to the housing crisis.

Kazembe Balagun is an independent writer and theorist who is well schooled in the art of Revolutionary Afro Hermeneutics. He is a graduate of Hunter College, with a BA in Philosophy and Africana Studies, and writes frequently for The Indypendent and his blog blackmanwithalibrary.com.

Willie Baptist is co-coordinator of the educational arm of the Poor People’s Economic Rights Campaign, called the University of the Poor, which was launched in 1999 by the Kensington Welfare Rights Union in Philadelphia. Formerly homeless, Willy Baptist came out of the Watts uprising, the black students movement, and the Panthers, and has worked as an organizer for the US Steelworkers Union and the National Union of the Homeless. He is currently Scholar-in-Residence at Union Theological Seminary’s Poverty Initiative.

Maude Barlow is the author of sixteen books including the best selling Blue Gold and most recently Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Her dedication to global water justice has earned her many honors including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (the alternate Nobel Prize) and the Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship. Barlow is National Chairperson of Canada’s largest advocacy organization, The Council of Canadians and the founder of the Blue Planet Project.

David Barsamian is the award winning founder and director of "Alternative Radio," the independent weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. His latest books are Targeting Iran and What We Say Goes with Noam Chomsky, Speaking of Empire & Resistance with Tariq Ali, and Original Zinn with Howard Zinn.

Carol Barton was the founding director of the Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice, a global feminist network linking gender, race, class, and economic justice. She was an organizer for the Feminist Dialogue at the World Social Forums. She works on issues of racial justice and community action in a national faith-based women's organization.

Jennifer Baumgardner is a third-wave feminist author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, and Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism (both with Amy Richards). Baumgardner is the editor of a series of feminist classics, including Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex (2003) and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch (2002) for Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She also wrote Look Both Ways: Girls and Sex. In 2002, she created the “I Had an Abortion” campaign to encourage women (and men) to come out about their procedures, a core element of which is a film documenting women’s stories of abortion.

Chip Berlet is a veteran writer and photographer who investigates right-wing social movements, apocalyptic scapegoating and conspiracism, and authoritarianism. A staffer of the progressive think tank Political Research Associates since 1982, he has written numerous articles for The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Progressive, The Nation, and The Humanist. He edited Eyes Right! Challenging the Right-wing Backlash (PRA and South End Press, 1995), a popular primer on the right. He also co-authored, with Matthew N. Lyons, Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (Guilford Press, 2000).

Frida Berrigan is a Senior Program Associate at the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, where she is currently working on two projects: U.S. weapons exports to regions of conflict and new investments in nuclear weapons. A contributing editor to In These Times magazine, Berrigan also writes for Foreign Policy in Focus. Her articles have recently appeared in the Madison Capital Times, The Nation and the San Francisco Chronicle. She also serves on the board of the War Resisters League and works with Witness Against Torture, a grassroots group organizing to shut down Guantanamo and end torture.

Dave Berry has been active on the Left for over thirty years, most recently in his union local. He teaches French and politics in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at Loughborough University, UK. A founding member of the Anarchist Studies Network, he is also an editor of Anarchist Studies. Author of A History of the French Anarchist Movement (Greenwood Press, 2002), his most recent writings have been on the libertarian communist Daniel Guérin. He helped relaunch the Association des Amis de Daniel Guérin.

Edget Betru, worked as a youth coordinator at Just Act in the Bay Area, California. She moved from Ethiopia to Tennessee at age eight and attributes her activism both to her early experience with racism and to American ignorance about and misconceptions of other countries, especially in Africa. Presently, she is an organizer with Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City.

Andy Bichlbaum couldn't hold down a job until he became a rep for the WTO, George W. Bush, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, and the US federal government. Now he’s one of the Yes Men, using humor, truth and lunacy to bring media attention to the local and global misdeeds of their unwilling employers. Author Naomi Klein has called Bichlbaum, and his partner Mike Bonanno, “the Jonathan Swift of the Jackass generation.” Bichlbaum will show an excerpt of a film, currently in production, that follows the Yes Men on several recent adventures.

Brenda Biddle studies anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and is writing her dissertation on La Via Campesina.

Matt Birkhold is an independent scholar, educator, writer, and activist. He is founder of Political Education Outreach Collective and editor of the forthcoming National Hip Hop Political Convention publication, Elements. He has taught at several universities, and his written work has appeared in several places. His column, “The Corner of Cross and Damon,” runs every Tuesday at marclamonthill.com.

Robin Blackburn is an economic historian and distinguished professor at the New School for Social Research. His most recent book is Age Shock: How Finance Is Failing Us (Verso).

Grace Lee Boggs is an activist, writer and speaker whose more than sixty years of political involvement encompass the major US social movements of this century: Labor, Civil rights, Black Power, Asian American, Women's and Environmental Justice. Born in Providence, R.I. of Chinese immigrant parents in l915, Grace received her B.A. from Barnard College in l935 and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in l940. In l953 she came to Detroit where she married James Boggs, African American labor activist, writer and strategist. Their book, Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century, was published by Monthly Review Press in l974.

Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive bar association established in 1937. She is co-host of the weekly civil liberties radio show Law and Disorder on WBAI in New York and several affiliates. She has published writings and law review articles on policing, capital punishment and dissent, and her books reviews have appeared in The Federal Lawyer and the New York Law Journal. She received her JD from Temple Law School, where she was editor in chief of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review.

Patrick Bond, a political economist, is research professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies, where he directs the Centre for Civil Society. He studied economic geography at Johns Hopkins, finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and economics at Swarthmore College. Bond’s recent authored and edited books include Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society (2008); The Accumulation of Capital in Southern Africa (2007); Looting Africa: The Economics of Explotiation (2006), Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms (2006). He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1961.

Jason Ricciuti Borenstein is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Andrew Boyd, author, humorist, and twenty-year veteran of creative campaigns for social change, co-founded the 2004 media sensation “Billionaires For Bush.” He has written two books of “serious” humor: Daily Afflictions and Life's Little Deconstruction Book. He co-founded Agit-Pop Communications, a “subvertising” agency doing on-line video for social change campaigns. In 2006 he co-produced “The Oil Enforcement Agency,” a mini-mockumentary on global warming. In 2007 he co-produced “Stop the Clash of Civilizations,” the second most discussed political video on YouTube ever. He lives in New York with his wee laptop.

Herb Boyd is a journalist, activist, and author, whose most recent book is Baldwin’s Harlem, a biography of the writer James Baldwin. Boyd has written extensively on Black radical culture and politics. His articles can be found in such publications as The Black Scholar, The Final Call, The Amsterdam News, Cineaste, Downbeat, and the Network Journal, among others. He teaches at the College of New Rochelle in the Bronx and at City College New York, and is also the managing editor of The Black World Today, an online news service.

Jack Z. Bratich is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. He works on the intersection of autonomism, subjectivity, and culture. He has written about public secrecy and the politics of popular occulture. His current book is Conspiracy Panics: Popular Culture and Political Rationality (SUNY Press, 2008).

Noble Bratton serves on the Executive Council of Local 169, UNITE-HERE, on the Editorial Advisory Board of Working USA, and is a member of the Black Radical Congress and of the Working Families Party. He is a former member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the A. Philip Randolph Institute. He is a shop steward at Book Culture (formerly Labyrinth Books) in New York City.

Johanna Brenner teaches sociology at Portland State University. She is a member of Solidarity, a socialist-feminist anti-racist organization, and does politics in Portland, OR. Recent publications include "Socializing Care, Reinventing Family Life," in Toward a New Socialism (Lexington Books, 2007) and "Transnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice," in Challenging Empires, 2nd Ed. (Black Rose Books, 2008) and Feminism and the Politics of Class (Monthly Review, 2000).

Mark Brenner is the director of Labor Notes, a twenty-nine-year old project dedicated to putting the movement back in the labor movement. His work has appeared in the Washington Spectator, Counterpunch, Metro Times, Black Commentator, Z Magazine, and Monthly Review. Before joining the staff at Labor Notes, Brenner spent a decade working with living wage campaigns, and wrote A Measure of Fairness about the impact of living wage ordinances. He is a staff economist with the Real Cost of Prisons Project, specializing in the many costs of the War on Drugs.

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 in Weimar 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.

Kate Bronfenbrenner is the Director of Labor Education Research at Cornell ILR where she teaches, researches, and writes on union and employer strategies in organizing and bargaining and on the impact of capital mobility, corporate restructuring, and global trade and investment policy on workers. A former organizer and union representative with the United Woodcutters in Mississippi and SEIU in Massachusetts, her most recent publication is the edited volume Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns. Bronfenbrenner also runs a research center to train young people in labor research, organizing and bargaining campaigns.

Stephen Eric Bronner is Senior Editor of Logos, an interdisciplinary internet journal, and a member of the advisory board of Conscience International. His books include A Rumor about the Jews: Anti-Semitism, Conspiracy, and the 'Protocols of Zion'; Reclaiming the Enlightenment; Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Rightwing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy; and most recently, Peace Out of Reach: Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation. Bronner is currently Distinguished Professor of Political Science and a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University.

Alrick Brown is an award-winning director and producer of narrative films and documentaries. His service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa informed his creative expression, first fostered by his birth in Kingston, Jamaica and upbringing in Plainfield, New Jersey. He has devoted his life and energy to changing the world by telling stories that otherwise would not be told. Brown will show a short satirical film he wrote and directed about a superhero who encounters his arch nemesis. Entitled “The Adventures of Supernigger: Episode I, The Final Chapter,” the film is an allegory about the shooting death of Amadou Diallo.

Anna Brown teaches political science and directs the Social Justice Program at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ. She was one of 25 people who walked to Guantanamo in 2005 as a member of Witness Against Torture and she is also a member of the Kairos Community.

B. Ricardo Brown teaches at the Pratt Institute's Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies. He is also a member of the editorial collective of Situations.

Dennis Brutus is known as the “singing voice of the South African liberation movement.” Currently living in the US, he is Professor of African Studies and African Literature, and Chair of the Department of Black Community Education Research and Development, at the University of Pittsburgh. Brutus' collections of poetry include, Sirens, Knuckles and Boots (1962), A Simple Lust (1973), China Poems (1975), Stubborn Hope (1978), Salutes and Censures (1984), Airs and Tributes (1989), and Still the Sirens (1993). His latest book is Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader (Haymarket Books).

Sangeeta Budhiraja has done sexual rights/human rights work as an activist, organizer, educator, and advocate with organizations including FIERCE!, The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the Urban Justice Center, Desis Rising up and Moving (DRUM), and Queers for Economic Justice (QEJ). She was formerly Regional Program Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and is currently Program Officer for Building Movements at the Ms. Foundation. Budhiraja holds a JD from CUNY School of Law.

Sean Burns is a teacher, writer, musician, and community organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has great interest in how education is conceived of and practiced in progressive social movements. Burns is currently completing his Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness Department with a dissertation on legendary labor historian and folklorist Archie Green.

Andrew Burridge is a doctoral candidate in geography at the University of Southern California. His work focuses on the US-Mexico border, particularly southern Arizona. His interests are in grassroots and direct-action groups working around immigration solidarity and in combining research and activism through the practice of militant ethnography. Through his organizing with the No Borders Network, and his work with humanitarian groups such as No More Deaths in Southern Arizona, he seeks to show how militarizing and policing national boundaries creates deaths and human rights abuses across the globe.

Melanie E. L. Bush is the author of Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness, numerous articles in scholarly journals, and co-author of a forthcoming book entitled Tensions in the American Dream: The Imperial Nation Confronts the Liberation of Nations. She is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Adelphi University, has presented at a range of national conferences and universities, and has been active for many years with community organizations involved with issues of peace, justice and equality and working for social change.

Roderick Bush is author of We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century. He is an associate professor in the sociology department at St. John's University. He is currently working on a book entitled The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line (2008) and a co-authored book, Tensions in the American Dream: The Imperial Nation Confronts the Liberation of Nations (2009) both by Temple University Press. He has been active in struggles for social justice for many years.

Joseph A. Buttigieg is the Kenan Professor of Literature and Director of the Ph.D. in Literature Program at the University of Notre Dame. He serves on the advisory board of Rethinking Marxism and is a member of the editorial collective of boundary 2. This past year Columbia University Press published the third volume of his complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. Buttigieg is also the general editor of the Pluto Press book series “Reading Gramsci.”

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Valorie Caffee is Organizing Director for the New Jersey Work Environmental Council, an alliance of seventy labor, community, and environmental organizations working together for safe, secure jobs and a healthy, sustainable environment. She has long experience organizing around community and environment issues as a community activist and union organizer.

George Caffentzis is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective and has been a co-editor of Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War 1973-1992 (Autonomedia) and the author of an e-book, No Blood for Oil! (www.radicalpolytics.org).

Horace Campbell is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University in New York. At Syracuse he is a member of the International Relations Faculty in the Maxwell School and is the Chair of the Africa Initiative of Syracuse University. He teaches courses on African Politics, African International Relations, Pan Africanism and Introduction to African American Studies. His most recent books are Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation and Pan-Africanism, Pan-Africanists, and African Liberation in the 21st Century.

Adem Carroll is Chair of the Muslim Consultative Network, a network of New York Muslims working towards inclusion, dialogue, and community strengthening. In addition to being a consultant with several social justice projects, he is also a member of the board of New York Disaster Interfaith Services, of Turning Point for Women and Families, and active with other coalitions, such as Communities in Support of Khalil Gibran International Academy. From September 2001 to April 2006 Carroll served as 9/11 Relief Coordinator for Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA Relief USA), assisting hundreds of Muslim detainees and their families.

Chris Caruso is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is studying poverty, social movements, and neoliberalism. Prior to becoming an Instructional Technology Fellow for the Macaulay Honors College, Caruso taught Urban Studies at Queens College. He is the founder of Human Rights Tech.

Graham Cassano is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He has published extensively on social theory, the culture struggles of the labor movement, and early American sound cinema. He sits on the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism and is an associate editor of Critical Sociology. Currently he is editing a collection on class analysis and household labor with Stephen Resnick, Rick Wolff, and Harriet Fraad. In addition, he is working on a manuscript entitled The Persistence of Republicanism with the labor historian Troy Rondinone.

Marco Ceglie (a/k/a Monet Oliver d’Place) is the National Co-Chair of Billionaires For Bush. As a Billionaire, Ceglie helped stage the group’s 2004 “Get on the Limo” tours, auctioned off Social Security on eBay, and created the first-ever ironic think tank to help fight against Estate Tax repeal. Recently he helped the Center for Constitutional Rights deliver 37,000 copies of the US Constitution to the White House via Santa and sleigh. Ceglie is also Executive Director of Vote 18 (http://vote18.org), a nonpartisan voting education program. He continues to enjoy crafting viral messaging campaigns for nonprofit and issue-advocacy organizations.

Irina Ceric is an activist and lawyer based in Toronto. She is a Ph.D. candidate at York University, a member of Global Balkans and an advisory board member for the journal Upping the Anti.

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.

Kassahun Checole is Publisher and President of the Trenton, NJ-based Africa World Press and Red Sea Press, which he founded in 1983 while a professor of African History at Rutgers University.

Kanishka Chowdhury is Associate Professor of English and Director of the program in American Culture and Difference at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, where he teaches courses in globalization studies, postcolonial theory, and cultural studies. His most recent publications have appeared in Cultural Critique and Science and Society. He is currently working on a book on the New Indian subject.

Alyson M. Cole is an associate professor of political science at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror (Stanford, 2006).

William Copeland is a poet and cultural organizer. He is a board member of the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, one of the founders of the Detroit Artist-Activist Community Dialogues, and a consultant for nonprofits on using art to amplify their messages. He works as a Program Director for University of Michigan’s SERVE, advising college students in community service, learning, and social justice projects.

Ethel Cote is Board Member of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNET). She is North American Representative to the International Network for the Social/Solidarity Economy (RIPESS). Cote also serves as President of Solidarity Economy of Ontario (ESO).

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Dolly Daftary is a doctoral candidate in social work at Washington University, St. Louis. Her work focuses on the relationship between rural communities and the postcolonial state, exemplified through the practices of agriculture, populist democracy, and ideas of citizenship. She is currently examining the process through which the neo-liberal state is attempting to create market-oriented farmer subjects in dryland communities, and the discourse of resistance in rural communities in western India.

Jane D’Arista writes and lectures on economics, has served on the staff of the US Congress, and currently is an analyst with the Financial Markets Center.

Carl Davidson is a co-founder of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (USSEEN) and the Web editor for SolidarityEconomy.net. He sits on the Organizing Committee of the Global Studies Association, the National Steering Committee of United for Peace and Justice and on the National Committee of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.

Lawrence Davidson is a Professor at West Chester University in West Chester Pennsylvania. His specialization is in the history of American relations with the Middle East. He has just finished a book entitled Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing American National Interest for the University of Kentucky Press.

Laurence Davis earned his D.Phil. degree in politics from Oxford University and has taught political and social theory at Oxford University, Ruskin College, and University Colleges Galway and Dublin. He is the editor, with Peter Stillman, of The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed (Lexington Books, 2005), and, with Ruth Kinna, of Anarchism and Utopianism (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2008). He is a founding member of the Anarchist Studies Network and convenor of the "Re-Imagining Revolution" panels for its first international conference in September 2008.

Susie Day has, for about fifteen years, written a monthly political satire column for New York's Gay City News, Z Magazine, Monthly Review, the Monthly Review webzine, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, and other quality commie publications, each of which has made her extremely powerful and wealthy. Rather unfunnily, she also writes about labor and prison issues. She performs her work on WBAI and various other locations.

Trishala Deb works with the Audre Lorde Project (ALP), a community-organizing center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color in New York City. Through mobilization, education and capacity building, ALP works for community wellness and progressive, social and economic justice.

Bogdan Denitch chaired the Socialist Scholars Conference for twenty-three years. A founder and honorary Chair of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Denitch runs a human rights NGO in former Yugoslavia, active in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo. He is an active opponent of U.S. foreign policy.

Frank Deppe is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Marburg. His research and publications are in the fields of Marxism and working class movements and political theory. His most recent book is Political Thought in the Cold War (2 Volumes) (Vol. III of Political Thought in the Twentieth Century). He is an active member of the Left party.

William DiFazio is Professor of Sociology at St. John's University. He is the author of Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage and co-author (with Stanley Aronowitz) of The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work. He is the host of CityWatch on WBAI-New York, 99.5FM. He teaches at the Brecht Forum.

Jacqueline DiSalvo has published widely in the field of early modern and romantic literature. Her books include War of Titans: Blake's Critique of Milton and the Politics of Religion (1984) and Blake, Politics, History (1998).

Chris Dixon, originally from Alaska, is a longtime anti-authoritarian organizer, writer, and educator, and a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is a member of the administrative collective of Colours of Resistance, serves on the advisory board for the journal Upping the Anti, and has recently moved to Sudbury, Ontario, where he organizes with Sudbury Against War and Occupation. His writing appears online, in magazines, in Social Movement Studies, and in Global Uprising (New Society Press, 2001), Letters from Young Activists (Nation Books, 2005), Toward A New Socialism (Lexington Books, 2007), and Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power (Routledge, 2008).

Brian Dominick has been organizing collectives in central New York and elsewhere for nearly fifteen years. He was co-founder of PeoplesNetWorks, the parecon organization that published The NewStandard from 2003 to 2007.

Bogdan Denitch has chaired the Socialist Scholars Conference for twenty three years. He is a founder and honorary Chair of Democratic Socialists of America, and runs a human rights NGO in the former Yugoslavia, active in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo. He is an active opponent of U.S.foreign policy.

Tim Doody was included in a list of “particularly troublesome, even dangerous anarchists,” featured on ABC-TV's “Nightline,” and Rush Limbaugh made fun of him and his last name on the air. Doody has been published in Brevity, Topic Magazine, XY, The Earth First! Journal, The Indypendent and two anthologies: Best Gay Erotica 2006 and That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. He is currently working with the Radical Homosexual Agenda.

Adolfo Doring is a filmmaker living and working in the New York area. His current documentary film, “Blind Spot,” takes a look at energy and the ramifications that oil (as a resource) has had and will have on our culture. To put it succinctly, says Doring, “Oil is the DNA of our culture.”

Michael K. Dorsey is an assistant professor in Dartmouth College’s Environmental Studies Program. Dorsey provides advice to governments, foundations, and others on a variety of climate change matters. In 1992, he was a member of the U.S. State Department Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, “The Earth Summit.” His recent publications on climate change include: “Green Market Hustlers” in Foreign Policy In Focus (June 2007) and “Climate Knowledge and Power: Tales of Skeptic Tanks, Weather Gods and Sagas for Climate (in)Justice” in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (June 2007).

Nijmie Dzurinko is part of the Media Mobilizing Project (MMP), which believes that media must be connected to the economic and social realities of everyday life. The right to free speech means little without the right to be heard. The project consists of organizers who engage in collaborative media making with organizations and individuals whose issues and experiences are purposely submerged from view. They work with a range of groups from taxi workers to anti-gentrification activists.

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Steve Early was a Boston-based international union representative and organizer for the Communications Workers of America between 1980 and 2007. During the 1970s, he was a staff member of the United Mine Workers and assisted reform movements in the Steelworkers and Teamsters. He serves on the advisory board of Labor Notes and has written about labor issues for The Nation, The Progressive, In These Times, New Labor Forum, WorkingUSA, and many other publications. He is currently working on a book about the role of Sixties’ activists in American unions over the last four decades.

Regina Eaton is the Deputy Director of the Democracy Program at Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action, which is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization. Her work concerns policy issues aimed at increasing voter registration and turn out, including Election Day Registration. Prior to her present position, Eaton was a consultant with Break the Chains, a national organization building a national movement within communities of color against punitive drug policies.

Hester Eisenstein is a professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She was director of the Queens College Women’s Studies Program from 1996 to 2000. She is Vice Chair of the Queens College chapter of the Professional Staff Congress, the CUNY faculty and staff union. Her writings include Contemporary Feminist Thought (1983), Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State (1996) and “A Dangerous Liaison? Feminism and Corporate Globalization,” Science and Society (July 2005). She is completing a book on this theme with the working title of Feminism Seduced.

Max Elbaum was part of the radical “generation of 1968” that, in various ways, tried to build/rebuild a coherent and durable left out of the large-scale ferment and broad radicalization of the 1960s. Elbaum offered a history and evaluation of one strand within that effort, the “new communist movement,” in his book Revolution in the Air (Verso 2002; paperback 2006). He is also a member of WarTimes.

Mona Eldahry is Founding Director of AWAAM: Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media. Her background is in video production, live sound, and popular education. She works to empower community members with the technical and community organizing skills necessary to affect social change.

Ronnie Eldridge hosts Eldridge&Co weekly on CUNY-TV. From 1989 to 2001, she served on the City Council representing Manhattan's west side. Her public service includes years as Special Assistant to Mayor John Lindsay, with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as a member of Governor Mario Cuomo's Cabinet and as Director of the New York Division For Women. Eldridge was also the Director of Special Projects at MS Magazine, the first Executive Director of the MS Foundation for Women, and the Executive Producer of “Woman Alive,” a feminist series on network public television.

Caroline Elkins is an associate professor of history at Harvard University. She is the author of Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, which was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. She is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. She has also appeared on numerous radio and television programs including NPR's All Things Considered, BBC's The World, and PBS’s Charlie Rose Show.

Steve Ellner has taught political science at the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela since 1977. His latest book is Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict and the Chavez Phenomenon (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008). He is a regular contributor to In These Times. He is also co-editor of The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika (1993) and Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict (2003).

Barbara Epstein teaches in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has a book coming out on the underground movement in the Minsk ghetto during World War Two (UC Press).

Fuat Ercan is teaching at the Department of Economics, Marmara University, Turkey. His research focuses on Marxist political economy. He has written numerous books and articles on money and capitalism, value theory, economic geography and Turkish capitalist development.

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Faramarz Farbod is an Iranian-American (a native of Iran). He taught politics in Iran for several years in the 1990s, and has been teaching politics in the US since 1998, at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA. He is pursuing his PhD in comparative politics at Rutgers University. His primary areas of interest are American foreign policy in the Third World (especially the Middle East); issues related to globalization, empire, capitalism, and development; politics of dissent here in America; and issues related to the US media.

David Fasenfest is Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Affairs, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, focusing on urban economic development, work force development, and income inequality. He recently published “Race, Ethnicity and Place: New Patterns of Integration in Metropolitan Neighborhoods, 1970-2000”, in America’s Americans: The Populations of the United States (Institute for the Study of the Americas Press, 2007) and edited Critical Perspectives on Local Development Policy Evaluation (WSU Press, 2004). In addition, he edits the Critical Sociology and the book series Studies in Critical Social Science.

Leela Fernandes is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her most recent book, India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform, examines the political implications of the rise of the Indian middle class. She also wrote Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills and Transforming Feminist Practice. Her current research projects concern religion and politics and ethics and knowledge. She is Co-Editor of Critical Asian Studies and Associate Editor of Signs: A Journal of Women, Culture and Society.

Sujatha Fernandes teaches sociology at Queens College CUNY. She is the author of various articles on Cuba, Venezuela, and Latin America, as well as a book, Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke University Press, 2006). She is currently working on two new books. One is based on her field research in Venezuela, and is entitled In the Spirit of Negro Primero: Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela. The other is a memoir, Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a long-time international writer and activist. He is the executive editor of The Black Commentator (www.blackcommentator.com), and a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the co-founder of the Black Radical Congress and the Center for Labor Renewal, and the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum. Fletcher is the co-author of a forthcoming book on the crisis of organized labor called Solidarity Divided from the University of California Press.

Barbara Foley works in the field of US literary radicalism, especially in relation to African American literature. Her most recent book is Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro (2003). She has just completed a study of politics and history in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man that is provisionally titled Wrestling with Prometheus: Ralph Ellison, the Left and the Making of Invisible Man.

Harriet Fraad is a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist in private practice in NYC. She is a founding mother of the women's movement. Her publications include: Bringing It All Back Home: Class Gender and Power in the Modern Household with Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff. A new expanded edition of the book is in process. Harriet publishes regularly in Rethinking Marxism and The Journal of Psychohistory. She is the president of the Association for Psychohistory.

Marisa Franco is an organizer for Domestic Workers United, which is bringing new energy into the labor movement through organizing unorganized groups of domestic workers. DWU coordinates with women immigrant domestic workers’ groups across the metropolitan area to build the power of the workforce and establish fair labor standards. They are currently campaigning to amend New York labor law to establish a domestic workers’ “Bill of Rights,” including basic benefits and health care. In June 2007, DWU was part of the formation of the Domestic Workers Alliance at the US Social Forum.

Richard W. Franke is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 1972. His most recent works on Kerala include Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning (2002, co-authored with Thomas Isaac) and Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in Kerala (2006, co-authored with Srikumar Chattopadhyay).

Kamau Karl Franklin is an activist, attorney, and the new Racial Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, the co-chair of the National Conference of Black Lawyers and he is on the Executive Committee of the National Lawyers Guild. In addition to his work as a lawyer, Franklin is a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a human rights organization committed to fighting “By Any Means Necessary” for the rights of “New Afrikans” (Afrikans in the Americas). Franklin holds a MA in Political Science from Brooklyn College and his JD from Fordham University School of Law.

Harris Freeman is Longterm Visiting Professor, Labor Relations and Research Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is Professor of Legal Research and Writing at Western New England College School of Law. Freeman was a toolmaker and machinist and member of UAW and IAM. He is completing an edited volume the adverse affect of labor law on worker rights and struggles. He edited “In the Shadow of the Anti-Labor Law: 60 Years after Taft Hartley,” the March 2008 issue of Working USA, and is Associate Editor of the journal.

Omar Freilla is the founder and director of Green Worker Cooperatives, a new organization that incubates worker-owned and environmentally friendly businesses in the South Bronx. He is committed to constructing alternatives to modern capitalism through worker ownership and the creation of strong local economies centered on principles of environmental justice and the rights of workers. Omar is also a board member of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives and was a former program director for Sustainable South Bronx and Transportation Justice campaign director for the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance.

George Friday is a longtime activist of independent progressive politics. She is the National Coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network and United for Peace and Justice National Co-Chair 2005-2007. She holds degrees in Political Science, Economics, and African American Studies from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she graduated in 1982. She spent her early career organizing in low income communities. Spending the next 25 years as an activist, her professional efforts brought equity to marginalized communities by helping build capacity to constituencies who had little experience accessing resources and leveraging community political power. She works with grassroots community organizations to provide leadership and skills training ranging from strategic planning and organizing to fundraising, marketing and community building with particular focus on oppression dynamics and the role of "privilege" in transforming power dynamics leading to broad, deep economic and social justice change.

Frank Fried has spent sixty-five years in the socialist movement as a labor, civil rights, and peace activist. He has been an entrepreneur in the entertainment business, including music and theatre. He is a longtime friend and admirer of Daniel and Jean Singer.

Robert E. Fullilove is Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs and a professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles. He has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching. His work focuses on policy implications of current public health practice, with an emphasis on AIDS.

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Jose Garcia is a researcher and policy analyst at Demos, a think-and-action tank dedicated to a more equitable economy, a more inclusive democracy, and a revitalized public sector. He is one of the co-authors of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt (New Press).

Barbara Garson wrote the 1960’s political parody “MacBird,” the OBIE winning Darwinian children’s play “The Dinosaur Door,” and the new economic comedy “Security.” Her books include All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work, The Electronic Sweatshop and Money Makes the World Go Around. Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts and MacCarthur Foundation fellowships and a National Press Club Citation. She edited the Free Speech Movement Newsletter during the Berkeley sit-ins and worked in a GI Coffee House during the Vietnam War.

Heather Gautney is an assistant professor at Fordham University, Lincoln Center in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, where she teaches courses on social movements, politics and media, social theory, and inequality. She is a contributing editor of Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century (Basic Books) and Altered States (forthcoming from Routledge). Heather has written articles on various movements, including the global justice movement, World Social Forum, US anti-war movement and the anti-militarism struggle in Vieques. She is on the editorial board of Situations: A Project of Radical Imagination and Social Text.

Irene Gendzier is a professor of Political Science, Boston University. Her recent publications include Crimes of War, co-edited with R.J. Lifton and R. Falk (Nation Books, 2006), Notes From the Minefield, US Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958 (Columbia University, 1997; 2006), and "Echoes from a Haunted Land," in E. Kfoury, ed., Inside Lebanon, Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky (Monthly Review Press, 2007). She is now writing "Dying to Forget," a study of US foreign policy in the Middle East.

Reza Ghorashi has a Ph.D. in economics from Fordham University and 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 various matters.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South Dakota. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Native American Studies and Communications. He is the host of First Voices Indigenous Radio on WBAI in New York City.

Nigel C. Gibson teaches at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. His books include Fanon and the Postcolonial Imagination and the anthologies Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue, Adorno: A Critical Reader, and Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus. His most recent work is Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in South Africa. He is currently co-editing a volume on Steve Biko.

Marcia Ann Gillespie, a former editor in chief of Essence (1971-1980) and Ms. (1993-2002) magazines, has a long history as an activist and advocate for Gender and Racial Justice and Equality. In addition to being an in-demand public speaker and publishing consultant, she has written numerous columns and magazine articles. A biography of Maya Angelou — Maya Angelou A Glorious Celebration — which she co-authored is to be published by Doubleday on April 1st and she is currently working on a memoir tentatively titled When Blacks Became Americans — Moving on Up in the 1970s for Spiegel & Grau.

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

Ted Glick is a founder and leader of the Climate Crisis Coalition and is Coordinator of the U.S. Climate Emergency Council. He did a 107-day “climate emergency fast” last fall demanding strong federal action on this issue, and he addresses climate issues often in his Future Hope columns. He has been a progressive/revolutionary activist since the Vietnam War and was formerly coordinator of the Independent Progressive Politics Network.

Tami Gold is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. She produced the video Land, Rain and Fire, depicting the democratic insurgency in Oaxaca, Mexico, the latest among her many award-winning documentaries. She is the past recipient of Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships.

Michelle Goldberg is the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She is a contributing writer at Salon.com, and her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Observer, The UK Guardian, In These Times, Newsday and many other newspapers nationwide.

Patricia Gonzalez is member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the New School in Manhattan. She has been involved in leftist movements in the United States and abroad. In addition to working with SDS, she has been active with the New School's Women of Color Organization and the Social Justice Conference. She is currently majoring in cultural and media studies.

Priscilla Gonzalez is a collective member and coordinator of the Center for Immigrant Families' Project to Challenge Segregation in OUR Public Schools. As a popular educator and community organizer, she has collaborated with organizations and coalitions in the US and in the Global South. In particular, her work has focused on violence against women, immigrant workers' rights, public education, and building the multilingual capacity of organizations. In addition to CIF, Priscilla is also an organizer with Domestic Workers United.

Michael González-Cruz received his Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 2005. He is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. He is the author of Nacionalismo revolucionario puertorriqueño (2006). Currently he is working with La Nueva Escuela, a popular organizing and education project.

Amy Goodman began her career in community radio in 1985 at Pacifica Radio’s WBAI in New York. In 1996, Goodman helped launch Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now!”—a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on more than 225 stations in North America. Goodman is the author, with her brother, David Goodman, of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back (2006), and Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (forthcoming).

Olivia Burlingame Goumbri is the editor of The Venezuela Reader: The Building of a People's Democracy and has appeared on various national radio programs as a Venezuela expert, including NPR’s “To The Point” and “BBC World News.” She is currently the Executive Director of The Venezuela Information Office in Washington DC.

Philip Green is Emeritus Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College. He currently lives in New York City and is Visiting Professor of Political Science, the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research. He is on the Editorial Board of The Nation. He has recently published Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood (1998), Equality and Democracy (2000), Primetime Politics: The Truth about Conservative Lies, Corporate Control, and Television's World-View (2005), and “Rethinking Democratic Theory: The American Case,” in Journal of Social Philosophy (2005; with Drucilla Cornell).

Stephanie Greenwood edited 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes while completing a master’s degree in public affairs and urban and regional planning at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. She was previously a researcher at Good Jobs New York, a non-profit watchdog and advocacy group that tracks economic development subsidies. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Dollars and Sense, and Sojourners. She currently works in the City of Newark, New Jersey's Department of Economic and Housing Development.

Daniel Gross is an organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World and a co-founder of the first union in the United States at the Starbucks Coffee Co. Using the solidarity unionism model, the IWW campaign has won important gains in wages and working conditions for Starbucks workers across the country and has garnered support from around the world. Mr. Gross graduated from the Fordham University School of Law where he was a Stein Scholar for Public Interest Law and Ethics. He serves on the steering committee of the National Lawyers Guild Labor & Employment Committee.

A.K. Gupta is an editor and founder of The Indypendent newspaper. He writes for numerous other publications and websites, including Z Magazine, Left Turn, Truth Out and ZNet. He is writing a book on the history of the Iraq War and decline of US power to be published by Haymarket Books.

Jane Guskin is the co-author of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (Monthly Review Press, July 2007).

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is founder and Director of The Women's Research and Resource Center and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman College. She is also founding co-editor of SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women. Her most recent publication is GenderTalk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities, which she co-authored with Johnnetta Betsch Cole.

Selime Guzelsari is teaching at the Department of Public Administration, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey. She wrote her Ph.D. on neoliberalism and public financial management reform in Turkey.