Jack Hammond is the author of Fighting to Learn: Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El Salvador and Neighborhood Movements in the Portuguese Revolution. He teaches sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

David Harvey is distinguished professor in the anthropology program at Graduate Center, CUNY and author of several books such as The Limits to Capital; The Condition of Postmodernity; The New Imperialism; and A Brief History of Neoliberalism.

Kornelia Hauser is Professor of Sociology of Education and Gender Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research topics include neocapitalism, new forms of socialisation, and the triangulation of race, class and gender.

Rachel Haut is a native New Yorker and has been an active member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) since February 2006. She began her career in activism working on the Ralph Nader presidential campaign in 2000. She is currently a junior at Queens College, and has been organizing students and workers against tuition hikes.

Howie Hawkins is a Teamster and Green Party activist in Syracuse, New York. He is the editor of Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate (Haymarket, 2006).

He Ping teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Wuhan University and is the author of numerous studies on Marxist and feminist theory (in Chinese).

Bill Henning is the elected 2nd Vice President of Local 1180 of the Communications Workers of America, and hosts the union's weekly radio program the “Communique” on WNYE. He teaches at the City College Center for Worker Education and participates in the Fulbright Institute on the Civilization of the United States, speaking on “Class Consciousness and Organized Labor in the United States.” He chairs the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, and serves on the Boards of the Mount Sinai and Bellevue Occupational Health Clinics, and of the Working Theater.

Paget Henry is Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Brown University, and the editor of the CLR James Journal. He is the author of Peripheral Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Antigua and also of Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy.

Doug Henwood edits the Left Business Observer (www.leftbusinessobserver.com), a newsletter he founded in 1986, and hosts a weekly radio show on WBAI in New York. He is the author of Wall Street (Verso, 1997) and After the New Economy (New Press, 2003). He currently writing a book on the American ruling class, whoever that may be.

Lourdes Hernández-Cordero is an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She is the director of a major project in active living, City Life Is Moving Bodies, which seeks to increase physical activity in Northern Manhattan.

Adam Hochschild is the author of six books, including King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) and Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (2005). He has written for Mother Jones, the New Yorker, The Nation, The Progressive, the New York Review of Books, and other magazines and newspapers. He teaches narrative writing at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley.

Amber Hollibaugh has been active on the Left since the Sixties. Currently Senior Strategist at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, she was previously director of SAGE, the first national organization for LGBT elders, and director of the Lesbian AIDS project at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. She is the author of My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home, and was co-producer and director of The Heart of the Matter, a documentary about women and HIV-AIDS, which won the 1994 Sundance Freedom of Expression award.

Nancy Holmstrom is Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University and Board Member of the Left Forum. She is editor of The Socialist Feminist Project and a regular contributor to Monthly Review.

Howard Horowitz is a political scientist by training, from NYU, and a market researcher by profession. He is the President of Howard Horowitz Associates, a media research and consulting firm specializing in the marketing of television, computer and internet services.

Joshua Howard is a co-founder of The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education), a radical educational project in New York City that promotes a real engagement of ideas for the purpose of renewing liberation movements. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he studies social epistemology, Marx’s critique of political economy, and intellectual movements. He sits on the working editorial board of the online journal Critique of Political Economy.

Shea Howell is a community activist and co-founder of Detroit Summer, a multicultural, intergenerational youth leadership program that engages the talents and energies of young people in rebuilding and redefining the city from the ground up. Howell writes a weekly column for the Michigan Citizen and is chair of the Department of Rhetoric, Communication & Journalism at Oakland University. Howell has worked on numerous community and cultural issues in Detroit and around the country.

Andrew Hsiao is the executive editor of the non-profit publishing house The New Press, and a host and producer of the weekly WBAI radio show, Asia Pacific Forum.

Peter Hudis teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Oakton Community College and is the co-editor of Power of Negativity (2002) and the Rosa Luxemburg Reader (2004).

Forrest Hylton is writing a Ph.D. thesis at NYU on indigenous movements for self-government in late-nineteenth-century Bolivia. A regular contributor to New Left Review and NACLA Report on the Americas, he is the author of Evil Hour in Colombia(Verso, 2006). With Sinclair Thomson, he is co-author of Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics (Verso, 2007), and with Thomson, Felix Patzi, and Sergio Serulnikov, he is co-author and editor of 'Ya es otro tiempo el presente': Cuatro momentos de insurgencia indigena (Muela del Diablo, 2003).

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Fatin Jarara is a 19-year-old Palestinian American who immigrated to the United States nine years ago. She is an alumni of AWAAM (Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media) and was on the Khalil Gibran International Academy design committee. Fatin is currently studying mathematics and education at Brooklyn College in hopes of teaching at the collegiate level in the Middle East.

Saru Jayaraman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In 1992 she founded WYSE, a national organization for young women of color. At The Workplace Project she organized a law and organizing program for custodial, factory, and restaurant workers. After 9/11, she co-founded the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) and launched a cooperative restaurant. She co-directs the national Restaurant Opportunities Center United and co-edited The New Urban Immigrant Workforce.

Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin, is completing a book tentatively titled “All My Bones Shake”: Radical Politics in the Prophetic Voice. He is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007); The Heart of Whiteness: Race, Racism, and White Privilege and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (both from City Lights Books); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang).

Natalie Jeremijenko is a new media artist, inventor, and engineer whose work focuses on the design and analysis of tangible digital media. Jeremijenko directs NYU’s Environmental Health Clinic. Jeremijenko’s mission is to reclaim technology from the idealized, abstract concept of ‘cyberspace’ and apply it to the messy complexities of the real world, often with disquieting results. Her work has been included in media festivals and museums throughout Europe and America, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, the Whitney Biennial '97, Documenta '97 and Ars Electronic prix '96.

Biodun Jeyifo is Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He was Professor of English at Cornell University for eighteen years, as well as Associate Chair of the English Department. He works on the complex connections between literature, critical theory, humanities scholarship, and 20th century progressive social philosophy. His most recent book is Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism (2004).

Elissa Jiji, before becoming National Co-Chair of Billionaires for Bush, was the “richly-upholstered” Chair of the New York City chapter, running meetings and organizing such actions as the Vigil for Corporate Welfare, the signature Million Billionaire March, and the croquet game on Central Park's Great Lawn during the 2004 RNC. Jiji has led workshops on activism at NYU, Barnard and elsewhere. As "Meg A. Bucks," she has been heard on WNYC, KPFA and NPR. Jiji lives, teaches, and works her food co-op shift in her hometown, New York City.

Ayana Jordan is an M.D.-Ph.D. Candidate at the Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. She is president of the Einstein chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program and a Board member of PNHP’s Metro-New York chapter.

Peniel E. Joseph is associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University. He is author of the award winning Waiting Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era.

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Esther Kaplan is investigative editor at the Nation Institute. She is the author of With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right.

Marina Karides is assistant professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University. She is an active participant in the World Social Forums and Sociologists Without Borders. Her recent work considers gendered dimensions of globalization and the global justice movement. She has published articles in Social Problems, Social Development Issues, and International Sociology and Social Policy and multiple chapters that critically examine microenterprise development and the plight of informally self-employed persons in the global south.

Emily Kawano is a co-founder of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (USSEN) and its Executive Director. She is a Board Member of the North American Network for the Solidarity Economy (NANSE) and Director of the Center for Popular Economics (CPE).

Kerwin Kaye has been involved with the movement for sex workers’ rights, both as an activist and as an academic researcher, for over ten years. His essay on the history of male prostitution won the Journal of Homosexuality's “Best of Journal” award for 2003. He is also the editor of Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation.

Sara Kershnar is the Director of Generation Five, which works to end child sexual abuse in five generations through the practice of Transformative Justice, which provides survivors of child sexual abuse with immediate safety and long-term healing while holding offenders accountable within and by their communities. Kershnar became active in the harm reduction and HIV movements after her father tested positive for HIV. She was founding director of the National Harm Reduction Training Institute and co-authored an extensive cross-cultural study of child sexual abuse for UNICEF.

Ruth Kinna is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University (UK). She is the author of Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld, 2005) and William Morris: The Art of Socialism (University of Wales Press, 2000), editor of Early Writings on Terrorism (Routledge, 2006), editor of the journal Anarchist Studies, and convenor of the Anarchist Studies Network.

C. Clark Kissinger was a National Secretary of SDS and the principal organizer of the first March on Washington against the Vietnam war in 1965. He worked with the Black Panther Party and visited China twice during the Cultural Revolution. He was a founder of Refuse & Resist! and more recently initiated the Not In Our Name statement and the Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration. He is a writer for Revolution newspaper, and recently organized a demonstration of waterboarding outside the Justice Department.

Michael Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, a joint appointment at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, based at Hampshire College. He is the Defense Correspondent of The Nation and the author of Resource Wars (Metropolitan Books, 2001) and Blood and Oil (Metropolitan Books, 2004). His newest book, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Oil, will be published by Metropolitan Books on April 15.

Jennifer Klein is Associate Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author of For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (Princeton University Press). She was awarded the Ellis Hawley Prize and the Hagley Prize. Her articles have appeared in International Labor and Working-Class History, Journal of Policy History, and Politics and Society. Klein’s forthcoming book, Caring for America: How Home Care Attendants Changed the Face of American Labor, co-authored with Eileen Boris, will be published by Oxford University Press.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is slated to be translated into seventeen languages to date. Klein's previous book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into more than twenty-eight languages, with over a million copies in print. Klein's regular column for The Nation and The Guardian is distributed internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004 she released a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, The Take, co-produced with director Avi Lewis.

Lisa Maya Knauer was a founder of the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum and helped organize a graduate union at NYU. Her scholarly work looks at black cultural performances, urban redevelopment and public space. She is co-editor of the forthcoming book Race, Nation and Memory in Public Space (Duke). She recently took a group of students to New Orleans and is developing a service learning course on New Orleans at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she teaches.

Lucy Komisar’s beat is the secret underbelly of the global financial system—offshore bank and corporate secrecy—and its links to corporate crime; tax evasion by the rich and powerful; empowerment of dictators and oligarchs; bribery and corruption; drug, arms and people trafficking; and terrorism. Her articles on the subject have appeared since 1997 in publications from The Nation to The Wall Street Journal (see http://thekomisarscoop.com). She is founder and co-chair of the Tax Justice Network-USA, American branch of the Tax Justice Network headquartered in London, which combats tax evasion by multinationals and the superrich. (taxjustice-usa.org)

William Kornblum is a professor of sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the author of numerous books and articles on American inequalities, including (with Terry Williams) Uptown Kids, and Growing Up Poor, and Blue Collar Community. He is a member of the editorial board of Dissent Magazine and a member of the executive board of the Association for Union Democracy.

Pat Korte is a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the New School in Manhattan. Since high school, he has been actively organizing against the occupation of Iraq by the United States. He is currently studying economics, with a focus on non-market, non-statist forms of participatory planning.

Joel Kovel is Editor-in-Chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism. His two most recent books are The Enemy of Nature (Zed) and Overcoming Zionism (Pluto). He is a founding member of Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism (CODZ).

Michael R. Krätke is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam, International Institute of Social History. He collaborates on the publication of the MEGA, the project to publish all of Marx and Engels’ work. He is the author of several books and many articles dealing with the theory and history of crises and modern finance. He is also the editor of unpublished work by Otto Bauer, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Natalie Moszkowska and others.

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Lauren Langman is a professor of sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. His publications are too numerous to list. He has long worked in Marxian critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School. He will soon release his latest book on Capitalism and the Carnival Character: The Escape from Reality. His articles study popular culture, pornography and alienation.

James Lardner is a Senior Fellow at Demos and, with Jose Garcia, one of the co-authors of Up to Our Eyeballs: How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt (New Press).

Magali Sarfatti Larson is a sociologist who was born in Italy and grew up in Uruguay, France and Argentina. She has lived in the United States since the 60s and taught at Temple University until 1998 and at the University of Urbino until 2001. She is an activist in the Philadelphia area and works with Latino organizations in adult education and immigrant issues.

Eric Laursen is a longtime writer, activist, and journalist living in New York City. He organizes around and writes frequently on global trade, the war on terror, and the politics of the corporate media. Laursen is part of the New York City Anarchist Bookfair collective and involved with the New York Metro Anarchist Alliance. Currently. He is completing a history of the U.S. Social Security debate.

Marnia Lazreg is a professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center. She is a former fellow of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies; the Rockefeller Bellagio Center (Italy); the Bunting Institute (Harvard University); and the Pembroke Center (Brown University). Lazreg has published on colonial history (especially French), cultural movements, development, and gender (especially in the Middle East). She is the author of numerous articles and four books. Her latest book, Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad (Princeton University Press) was released in December 2007.

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. He is author of Black Liberation and the American Dream, Rosa Luxemburg: Reflections and Writings, A Short History of the U.S. Working Class, From Marx to Gramsci, and Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience.

Isis Leslie is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Lubbock, an interdisciplinary scholar who draws on film studies, history, and literature to examine questions of social justice. Her work includes issues of globalization, the intersections of racial politics and political theory, comparative political thought, human rights (their definition and abuses), and the relationships between psychoanalysis and politics. Leslie is currently working on The Vicissitudes of American Romanticism, which will examine the resistance African American intellectuals have historically presented to mainstream American romanticism and the consequences of American romanticism for contemporary political culture, economic justice, welfare, and punishment.

Kenneth Levin is an Assistant Professor of Economics teaching International Finance at Queens College. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Farmingdale State College. His doctoral dissertation involved a class analysis of the 1990's high-tech bubble and collapse. Current research interests include the decline of the U.S. dollar and middle class.

Lee Levin spent twenty years working in the labor movement, most of that with the Coalition of Labor Union Women and the New York State Nurses Association.

Antonia Levy is a German transplant, a doctoral student in sociology at CUNY Graduate Center, an adjunct instructor at Queens and Brooklyn College, and a social justice activist. She was the co-chair of the international conference "Sex Work Matters: Beyond Divides" and the "Second Annual Feminist Pedagogy Conference" in 2007. Her research and activism focus on feminism, queer theory, sex workers' rights, and political art.

Lynn Lewis is Director and Civil Rights Organizer for Picture the Homeless. She has worked in the social justice movement for twenty-seven years in New York, Florida, and revolutionary Nicaragua in a range of capacities, participating in organizations and initiatives led by poor people. Lewis has worked with Picture the Homeless, since its founding in 2000, to “relocate” homelessness as a racial and economic justice issue through grassroots organizing. In 2006, she was honored with the Charles H. Revson Fellowship at Columbia University.

Li Dianlai teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Wuhan University, is a Visiting Scholar at Purdue University (2007-08), and the author of a book on Habermas (in Chinese).

Richard Lichtman is Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Wright Institute. He is the author of several books, including The Production of Desire and various articles in philosophy, psychology, social theory, politics, aesthetics—which the standard cliché describes as too numerous to cite. He is the Director of a Graduate Degree Program in Critical Psychology in a degree granting flexible university which is centered in California but is available to students throughout the country.

Lars Lih worked for six years in the Washington office of Congressman Ron Dellums of Berkely California. He afterwards received a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, taught at Duke University and Wellesley College, and is now an independent scholar living in Montreal Quebec. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Russian history and Bolshevik ideology, including Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921, Stalin's Letters to Molotov, and Lenin Rediscovered: What is To be Done in Context. He is now working on a short biography of Lenin.

Meaghan Linnick-Loughley is a student at the New School and an organizer with Students for a Democratic Society

Martha Livingston is Associate Professor of Health and Society at SUNY College at Old Westbury and Vice-Chair of Physicians for a National Health Program, Metro-New York chapter.

Ana López is a long time community activist in NYC. She teaches at John Jay College of the City University of New York in the Puerto Rican and Latin American Studies Program.

Michael Löwy, born in Brazil, has lived in France since 1969. He is emeritus research director in sociology at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. A prolific author of many books in several languages, his latest English publications include: The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (Haymarket Books, 2005) and Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's “On the Concept of History” (Verso, 2005).

Stephanie Luce is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently Distinguished Lecturer at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY. She is the author of Fighting for a Living Wage, on the editorial board of Against the Current, and a member of Solidarity.

Staughton Lynd is a radical historian from Ohio, who has written numerous books on labor struggles, civil rights, and movement building. He has also edited, with wife Alice, four volumes of oral histories. Lynd received a BA from Harvard, an MA and PhD from Columbia, and a JD from the University of Chicago. Since retiring, Staughton has been Local Education Coordinator for Teamsters Local 377 in Youngstown. The Lynds are also deeply involved in efforts to respond to the growing number of prisons in Youngstown, and regularly visit a number of incarcerated men.

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Kimberly Macellaro is a graduate student in the English Ph.D. program and a participant in the Rice Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Certificate program. She holds an M.A. in English from Rutgers University, Newark.

Howie Machtinger was active in the student and radical movements of the Sixties, including Students for a Democratic Society. He has taught high school and worked at the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been active in a succession of antiwar movements, and has worked on issues ranging from Palestine to educational equity and popular education. He has worked in Viet Nam with his wife, Trude Bennett, on public health and education issues, particularly the impact of Agent Orange. He has long been obsessed with issues of race.

Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and the Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. 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. 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).

Rickke Mananzala is Executive Director of FIERCE, a membership-based grassroots community organization focused on stopping the causes and impacts of gentrification, police brutality, and homelessness for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) youth of color in New York City. Mananzala believes organizing is a crucial strategy for the social justice movement because it allows people to develop their leadership potential and power to improve their own lives and communities. Mananzala is a member of the Coordinating Committee of Right to the City NYC and of the national Steering Committee for the Right to the City National.

Mehret Mandefro is Founding Director of TruthAIDS, a preventative health non-profit, a physician, public health practitioner and advocate who has worked with HIV infected and affected communities in Botswana, South Africa, Ethiopia and the South Bronx. Her work is the subject of a feature-length documentary that explores the transmission of HIV among African-American women and is scheduled for independent film release in 2008.

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.

Luz Marquez-Benbow is the co-founder and Associate Director for the National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA). SCESA is a women of color led non-profit committed to ensuring that systems-wide policies and social change initiatives related to sexual assault are informed by critical input and direction of women of color. SCESA utilizes a multi-strategy approach of leadership enhancement and support for women of color. She has provided statewide testimony of the realities of women of color, people with disabilities, and urban teens of color as they relate to sexual assault.

Esperanza Martel was born in Puerto Rico and first came to the United States at the age of four. It has been said that she has been an activist ever since, drawing inspiration from the Black Panther Party and the Cuban Revolution. She currently works on healing women with cancer as a result of the U.S. military bombing tests in Vieques, Puerto Rico. She helped establish the Latin Women’s Collective. She also established the House of Womyn’s Power in the South Bronx. She is also a former City College faculty member who was purged for supporting student activists.

Julie Matthaei is a co-founder of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (USSEN) and a member of the Coordinating Committee. She is a professor of economics at Wellesley College. She is also Co-Director of Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy.

Jack McCallum, senior writer at Sports Illustrated since 1981, has covered virtually every sport from Archery to ... well, he can't think of any sport that begins with Z. But he has covered the World Championship of Squash. His primary beat, however, is basketball, and in 2005 he was named to the writers’ wing of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He has written seven non-fiction books and one novel, has taught journalism at several colleges, and occasionally gets himself into trouble writing political columns for his local newspaper, The Morning Call, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Jamie K. McCallum studies Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and teaches at Hunter and Brooklyn Colleges. As an agitator for social justice, he's been a labor organizer in New York and California, and helped build worker-activist alliances before the WTO protest in Seattle in 1999. He has published fiction, journalism, and photography. At parties, he is fond of telling people he is “working on a novel.” This is his fourth year as a coordinator of Left Forum.

Alfred McCoy is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. He wrote, at the risk of his life, the well know book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. His recent book, A Question of Torture, documents how the American government paid hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, with the aid of scientists at top American universities, the various methods of torture that are used by the CIA today.

Heather McGhee is Managing Editor of Around the Kitchen Table, Demos' monthly e-journal on economic issues. For Demos, she co-authored Retiring in the Red: The Growth of Debt Among Older American. Her writing has appeared in the Detroit Free-Press and CampusProgress.org. Her research has been cited in numerous national and regional news outlets. McGhee worked for the John Edwards campaign as Deputy Policy Director for Domestic and Economic Policy.

Patricia McFadden is a leading African feminist voice, known for her critique of nationalism and her insistence on examining issues of sexuality. Born in Swaziland, she came of age in the South African liberation movement and was forced into exile because of her political activities. Since 1993 she has lived in Zimbabwe, where she was in charge of gender programming at SARIPS (Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies) and was the founding editor of SAFERE (Southern African Feminist Review). She held the Cosby Chair at Spelman College, 2005-2007.

Andree-Nicola McLaughlin is First Holder of the Dr. Betty Shabazz Distinguished Chair in Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. McLaughlin is also Professor and Director of Women's Studies. She also serves as the Founding Coordinator of the International Cross-Cultural Black Women's Studies Institute, a twenty-one year old global network which has convened more than a dozen world conferences, study tours, and international symposia on Black and Indigenous women's issues in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, North America, South America, and the Pacific Islands. McLaughlin considers herself to be a Black feminist and change agent.

David McNally is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. He is the author of four books including, most recently, a second edition of Another World is Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism published by Merlin Press and Arbeiter Ring Publishing (2006).

David McReynolds has been active in anti-war and international solidarity movements since the early 1960s. His work as a staff member of the War Resisters League and his writings on non-violent resistance have inspired multiple generations of peace activists. In 2004 McReynolds ran for the Senate on the Green Party ticket as an explicitly anti-war candidate.

Richard J. Meagher teaches political science at Marymount Manhattan College. He is completing his doctorate at the CUNY Graduate Center; his dissertation concerns the alliance between economic and religious conservatives.

Rosemary Mealey is a writer, poet, educator, attorney, and former member of the Black Panther Party.

Miguel "Mickey" Melendez is an activist for Latino and Puerto Rican rights. He has held senior positions in the New York City government and has taught in the black and Hispanic studies department at Baruch College, CUNY. He is also the recipient of the Charles Revson Fellowship (2004-2005) at Columbia University. He is the author of We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords (Rutgers University Press, 2005).

Michael Menser, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, serves on the executive boards of the Environmental Studies Program at BC, the Center for the Study of Place, Culture, and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center, and the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network. Among his most recent publications are “Disarticulate the State! Maximizing Democracy in ‘New’ Autonomous Movements in the Americas,” and “Transnational Participatory Democracy in Action: The Case of La Via Campesina.” He helped organize the U.S. Social Forum and was a participant-organizer in the World Social Forum 2005, NYC 2001, 2003, 2004, and Boston 2004.

Matt Meyer is an educator-activist, based in New York City. Currently Co-Chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, the major North American consortium of university- and K-12-based peace programs, Meyer has long worked to bring together academics and activists for lasting social change. With Bill Sutherland, Meyer authored Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan-African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation. Meyer is also editor of War in Africa and An African Peace. He is a member of the collective Resistance in Brooklyn, and has recently re-joined the National Committee of the WRL, as representative of WRL's Publications Committee.

Ethan Miller is a co-founder of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (USSEN) and a member of its Coordinating Committee. He also works with the Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) and the Data Commons Project.

Sam J. Miller is Lead Organizer with Picture the Homeless. He organized a Housing Campaign for nearly three and a half years, spearheading the Manhattan Vacant Building Count and Anti-Warehousing legislation, as well as dozens of protests, press conferences, policy briefings, and fundraisers. Miller has represented the organization at conferences in San Francisco, Washington DC, and Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.

Cindy Milstein is the co-organizer of the annual Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference and the Radical Theory Track at NCOR, a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, and a collective member of both the Free Society Collective and all-volunteer Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, VT. She also taught for many years at the “anarchist summer school” known as the Institute for Social Ecology. Her essays appear in several anthologies, including Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority (AK Press, 2007), Globalize Liberation (City Lights, 2004), and Confronting Capitalism (Soft Skull, 2004).

Lori Minnite has taught at Barnard College since 2000. Before that she was Associate Director of the Center for Urban and Policy Research at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Her research is concerned with issues of equality, racial and social justice, political conflict, and institutional change. This fall The New Press will publish her book, ‘As Many As We Could’: Keeping Down the Black Vote in America, co-authored with Frances Fox Piven and Margaret Groarke. Minnite is completing a manuscript on the politics of electoral rules tentatively entitled, The Politics of Voter Fraud.

Carl Mirra is an associate professor at the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education at Adelphi University. He edited Enduring Freedom or Enduring War? The Prospects and Costs of the New American 21st Century (Maisonneuve Press, 2005) and wrote U.S. Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Peace Education(McFarland Press). He is completing an oral history of the Iraq War. His articles have appeared in Left History, American Diplomacy, Peace Review, ZNet, Journal of Peace Education, History News Network and elsewhere. Mirra became a peace activist while serving in the Marines during the first Gulf War.

Nahyshene Molina is an eighteen-year-old Puerto Rican American and senior at George Washington High School. Since the age of ten, Molina has been a part of FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality). As the daughter of a founding member, Molina would come to FUREE with her mother and brothers. She became more involved with its organizing work when, two years ago, she interned for its electoral campaign, NY VOTE. Since then, Molina has represented FUREE at the NYC Urban Youth Collaborative; she co-founded FUREE's Youth Organizing Project. She was recently profiled in The Exchange Magazine.

Brian Moore has been a civic activist and a political volunteer all of his adult life. An opponent of the Iraq War since early 2002, he organized the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace & Justice, a grassroots group of 160 people from three separate counties in Florida. He is currently active in the St. Pete for Peace group and is the Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party USA in the 2008 elections.

Vanessa Moses, as a member of Generation Five's Program Team, is organizing g5's Transformative Justice Study to Action process and the emerging Bay Area Transformative Justice Collaborative. She joined the Program Team after several years of experience in leadership development and anti-oppression work. Vanessa was trained as an organizer at the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles and is now also a staff organizer with Just Cause Oakland, a membership-based organization fighting for racial and economic justice.

'M'ampela Mpela is a long time civil rights activist from Lesotho. Mpela is a board member of Global Information Network and co-producer of the Africa Roundtable.

Micere M. Githae Mugo is a poet and playwright. She is also a full professor and has taught in the Department of African American Studies, Syracuse University since the fall of 1993. Although a Kenyan by birth and upbringing, she is a citizen of Zimbabwe, a Pan-Africanist by identification, an internationalist in orientation, and a Black feminist.

Cathy Mulder, an assistant professor of economics at Washington College, specializes in labor economics and political economy. She had previously been a union activist for thirty years, from IBEW shop steward to President of her graduate student union, GEO-UAW, and, most recently, as a paid representative for the American Federation of Musicians, Local 802. Her most recent article, “Wal-Mart’s Role in Capitalism,” will appear in Rethinking Marxism. Her book manuscript, Trade Unions and the Strategy of Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians is currently under review by Routledge Publishers.

Soniya Munshi is a graduate student in sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her current research is interested in the political economy of the domestic violence industry in the United States, especially in relationship to the Global War on Terror.

Donna Murch teaches African-American history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she is affiliated with the Center for Race and Ethnicity.

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Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His research examines the working class and labor unions from a historical-comparative perspective. He is the author of Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market (Temple) and Chains of Migration (forthcoming). Ness is editor of Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.

Donna Nevel, a community psychologist and popular educator engaged in social justice work, has helped coordinate projects related to public education and racial justice, women's empowerment, Palestine/Israel, and indigenous rights. She is a co-founder of the Center for Immigrant Families and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is a Kenyan author of several books including Hurling Words at Consciousness (2006), Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change (2003) and editor of a forthcoming anthology, New Kenyan Fiction (Ishmael Reed Publications, 2008). He is co-editor of Pambazuka News and a political columnist for the BBC Focus on Africa Magazine. His political essays and columns have appeared in the LA Times, Progressive Magazine, New Internationalist, Monthly Review, Radical History Review, Chimurenga Journal, and Kenya's Business Daily Africa, among other places. His fiction and poetry will appear in the New York Quarterly, Wasafiri Journal and Kenyon Review.

August H. Nimtz is Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies and member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Minnesota. His most recent book is Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic'.

Not4prophet was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and raised on the streets of East Harlem and the South Bronx, NYC. As a teen-ager he was homeless, (then) a squatter, and his first artistic endeavor was as a graffiti writer. He went on to form(ulate) and front the underground anti-corporate political punk/hip hop/salsa/reggae fusion band known as Ricanstruction and later founded the outlaw art and agitation collective called Ricanstruction Netwerk. Not4Prophet is currently MC for the radical rap/hardcore hip hop group called X-Vandals.

Iris Nowak received her Ph.D in 1971 at the University of Hamburg. She is the co-editor of analyse & kritik, a Left German newspaper. She works on feminist views on precarization and organizing, and on gender and care relations in neoliberalism.

Tavia Nyong'o is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at NYU who writes on racial and ethnic studies. He is a member of the editorial collective of Social Text. His writing on Kenya has appeared in The Nation and the literary journal N+1, and he blogs at bluegum.typepad.com/kenya.

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Mary O'Brien is an attending physician at Columbia Univeristy Health services and a faculty member at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is a Board member of Physicians for a National Health Program, Metro-New York chapter, and chairs its media committee.

Tom O'Donnell, who received his Ph.D in Nuclear Physics, writes and lectures widely on the global oil order and US Middle East and Latin American relations (TomOD.com). He is currently US Fulbright Scholar in Caracas at The Center for the Study of Development (CENDES) at the Universidad Central de Venezuela researching the political economy of oil in Venezuela in comparison to Algeria. He teaches at The New School's Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA). He is writing a book, The New Globalized Oil Order and the Middle East.

Sebnem Oguz is finishing her PhD on globalization and restructuring of Turkish state at York University, and teaching at Trent University.

Bertell Ollman is a professor in the Department of Politics at NYU and author of Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method, How to Take an Exam...and Remake the World, and other works. He is also the inventor of the Class Struggle board game, and convener of the Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU. For his writings, see www.dialecticalmarxism.com.

Sowore Omoyele is the former leader of a national student organization critical of Nigeria's military rulers and the subsequent administration of democratically elected Olusegun Obasanjo. He was repeatedly jailed and tortured by government police and hired thugs. Omoyele helps operate a human rights school in Lagos, which trains young people to be government watchdogs, since democracy withers without strong civic institutions. He also writes on and publishes Saharareporters.com, an online community of Nigerian and international reporters founded in the spirit of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Martin Oppenheimer is professor emeritus of sociology, Rutgers University, and Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania. He is on the editorial board of Critical Sociology. His latest book is The Hate Handbook (Lexington). He is the author of “Does Immigration Hurt U.S.-born Workers,” in the Winter 2008 issue of New Politics (www.newpol.org).

Major Owens is a former Congressman, who retired after twenty-four years. Representative Owens was a member of the vital Education and the Workforce Committee, which guides all federal involvement in education, job training, labor law, programs for the aging, and people with disabilities, and equal employment opportunities. Owens is presently Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress, where he is writing a book about the Congressional Black Caucus and the guiding force of Communications Services Center.

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Leo Panitch is Canada Chair and Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Political Science at York University in Toronto. He is Chief Editor of the international annual journal Socialist Register and has published many books and articles on numerous themes in the field of international and comparative political economy.

Party Study Party is a study group of NYC-based left activists and organizers who came together based on relationships formed in mass work to collectively study how to build a successful liberation movement in the United States. The first 8-month study focused on the united front as a model of left organizing and the second, just concluded with a larger group, on left political organization and organization building, with the stated goal to develop our capacity to make informed decisions about building or starting left organization.

Josh Pavan is a member of Q-Team, a Montreal collective that organizes politically-engaged queer events, public forums, and parties in order to foster and contribute to a radical, anti-capitalist, anti-racist and trans-positive queer community. He is also a coordinator of a community-run kitchen, sits on the board of the 2110 center for Gender Advocacy, has been involved in grasroots organizing in montreal since 2003, and appears occassionally as the ravishing Ms. Ana Ki.

Michael Pelias is co-managing editor of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination. He teaches philosophy and film studies at Long Island University-Brooklyn.

Anne Peterman is Co-Director of the Global Justice Ecology Project. She has been working for the protection of forests and for indigenous peoples' rights since 1989. She has been participating in and writing about the UN climate conventions since 2004 and is a co-founder of the Durban Group for Climate Justice, as well as the recently formed Climate Justice Now! Network that came together during the UN Climate Convention in Bali.

Suzanne Pharr founded the Women’s Project in Arkansas in 1981. She served on its staff until 1999, when she became the first woman director of the Highlander Center, whose work centers on workers’ rights, Civil Rights, environmental justice, immigrant rights, and the leadership of grassroots community people, including youth. Suzanne is the author of Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism and In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation. She successfully campaigned against Oregon’s antigay ordinance in 1991 and is currently working with SONG to create a mobile organizing school in the South.

Stephen Philion is an assistant professor of sociology at St. Cloud State University. He is currently writing a book, entitled Workers Democracy and China's Transition from State Socialism (Routledge, 2008). He lived for five years in Taiwan and almost two years on mainland China researching the impact of privatization (and more broadly globalization) on workers across the Taiwan Straits. He has spent much time interviewing laid-off workers and labor movement organizers and supporters throughout mainland China.

Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of Breaking Open the Head (Broadway Books, 2002) and 2012 : The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006). His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, ArtForum, Esquire, and many other publications. He is the editorial director of Reality Sandwich, and writes a monthly column for Conscious Choice Magazine. He is also working on a series of animated shorts and a documentary feature, which can be previewed at http://PostModernTimes.com.

Frances Fox Piven, political activist and scholar, is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her recent books include Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006) and The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush’s Militarism (2004). She also co-authored several books with Richard Cloward, including Why Americans Still Don’t Vote; Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare; and Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail. She is a past president of the American Sociological Association.

René Francisco Poitevin is an assistant professor at New York University. His work looks at the intersection of gentrification, labor markets, and Marxist theory. He is also board member of the Brecht Forum.

Thomas Ponniah is co-editor of the book Another World Is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum (Zed Books, 2003). He is Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in social theory, globalization, and development. He is a member of the Network Institute for Global Democratization—one of the founding organizations of the World Social Forum.

Ai-Jen Poo is an organizer for the new union, Domestic Workers United, which is bringing new energy into the labor movement. The DWU, which came out of an organizing project at CAAAV (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) unites women immigrant domestic workers from five communities: Pan-Asian, Filipina, South Asian, Haitian, and a workers cooperative in Long Island. The union is currently campaigning to amend NY labor law to cover domestic workers. In April, 2007, Ai-Jen Poo announced the formation of a new National Alliance of Domestic Workers at the US Social Forum.

James Gray Pope is Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar at the Rutgers University School of Law. His articles on worker rights have appeared in numerous publications, including the Columbia Law Review, Labor History, and Yale Law Journal among others. Pope has a JD from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. From 1974 to 1980, he was a metal-trades worker and member of the IAM and the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers. He has written numerous articles about workers' rights, constitutional law, and labor history.

Mimmo Porcaro is a “free-lance” student in political theory and political sociology. He is a former member of the National Political Committee of Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC) and present political secretary of the only PRC Minister in Italian Government. His latest publication (in English) is Experiences of the European Left (2003).

David Pratt is a member of the Steelworkers union and a former Teamster, with many years experience as an occupational health and safety specialist. As a volunteer with the New York Committee for Occupational Health and Safety (NYCOSH) he has been very involved in projects monitoring the issues facing different groups of workers in New York City following 9/11.

Nikita Price is the Rental Subsidies Organizer for Picture the Homeless. Nikita worked in the food and beverage industry for over twenty-five years in New York and New Orleans. After returning to NYC, he and his 15-year-old daughter became homeless. While navigating the NYC shelter system, Nikita joined Picture the Homeless. Working as a member for over a year, Nikita was selected to become an organizer trainee which he successfully completed and was hired as a full time organizer.

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Katie Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center, specializing in labor strategies in the global economy, policies that promote the rights of immigrant workers, and equity issues for women workers. She was an international vice-president of UNITE who rose through the ranks, having been a rank and file seamstress, shop steward, union organizer, and manager of the union’s Pacific Northwest District Council. She has organized on mainland China and currently is a fellow at the Cornell ILR School, doing oral histories of Chinese garment workers.