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Rasheed Abdul-Wahaab
Mitch Abidor
Younes Abouyoub
Bio
Rasheed Abdul-Wahaab, President of
Roots Community Films is a community
activist that has worked with youth
communities for over 30 years. His
mission is to empower youth to use their
talents and abilities to contribute
positively to society. He is the producer
of the 8 year running show on BCAT that
has been a platform to address
community issues.
Mitch Abidor is a writer and translator
living in Brooklyn. He is the author of two
books, "The Great Anger, UltraRevolutionary Writing in France from the
Atheist Priest to the Bonnot Gang," and
"Communards; the Paris Commune of
1871 as Told by Those Who Fought for
It."
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner
who spent 30 years on death row and is
currently serving a life sentence without
the possibility of parole; he has published
seven books and sends columns and
messages on a weekly basis from prison.
Benjamin Eleanor Adam
Benjamin Eleanor Adam is a Phd student
in Sociology at the Graduate Center.
Suzanne Adely
Co-Chair, National Lawyers Guild
International Committee, Suzanne Adely
is a graduate of City University of New
York School of Law. She currently works
with the International United Auto
Workers, Global Law & Organizing
Institute, as their India program
coordinator. She is also a founder of the
Middle East, North Africa Labor Solidarity
Network in the U.S.
http://www.nlg.org/node/803
Konrad Aderer
Konrad Aderer is a documentary director
and television news producer. Through
his nonprofit multimedia project Life or
Liberty (lifeorliberty.org), Konrad
produces documentaries on communities
targeted by deportation and detention.
His feature documentary Enemy Alien
was recently honored with a Courage in
Media Award from Council for American
Islamic Relations (CAIR). Konrad holds an
MA in Sociology from Brooklyn College.
Moshe Adler
Ramona Africa
Moshe Adler teaches economics at the
Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor
Studies at SUNY Empire State College and
Columbia University. He is the author of
Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking
the Science That Makes Life Dismal (The
New Press). [email protected]
Sole Survivor of the MOVE Bombing in
Philadelphia in 1985
PAM Africa has been the Minister of
Defense for the Free Mumia Coalition
ever since his incarceration. She has
travelled all over the globe establishing
and maintaining the Movement to Free
Mumia Abu Jamal. She is a tireless fighter
for all human rights movements including
animal rights, save the ecology and the
struggle for human economic rights all
over the world. She is an active member
of the M.O.V. E. Organization.
Pam Africa
Stefan Agapie
Héctor Agredano
Shahzad Ahmad
Fahd Ahmed
Zohra Ahmed
Héctor Agredano Rivera is a PhD student
at the CUNY Graduate Center in
Geography. His dissertation research
explores transportation networks during
the Mexican Revolution. He is from
Jalisco and California.
Shahzad Ahmad is the Country Director
of Bytes for All, an acclaimed human
rights organization and technologists
network in Pakistan most recently
recognized for its "Take Back the Tech"
campaign around women's rights and
access to the Internet. Shahzad is a
development communications expert, a
Diplo Fellow, an executive board member
of the Association for Progressive
Communications, and a member of the
International Advisory Board of Privacy
International, UK.
Zohra Ahmed is a student at Fordham
University School of Law and a member
of the Pakistan Solidarity Network.
Bengi Akbulut
Bengi Akbulut is an independent
researcher. She completed her PhD in
Economics at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a Visiting
Research Fellow at the University of
Manchester, School of Environment and
Development, and a Consultant at the
Regional Environmental Center (REC)
Turkey. She works on the political
economy of development, currently
focusing on political ecology, state theory
and social movements.
Alan Akrivos is a Greek American socialist
and activist involved in building solidarity
with the struggles in Greece and
internationally. He is a member of
Aristeri Kinisi NY Greek Solidarity
Movement, Occupy Astoria LIC and
Queens Socialist Alternative. He serves
on the executive boards of Justice
Newspaper. He speaks and writes on
labor and international issues and is
involved in the struggle against the rise
of neo-fascism in Greece.
Alan Akrivos
Frango Akrivos
Kali Akuno
Greek-American activist involved in
socialist and labor causes. Member of
SYRIZA-EKM/NY and AKNY Greece
Solidarity Movement and active in
Socialist Alternative and Occupy
Astoria/LIC. Member of GCC/IBT Local 1L.
Kali Akuno is an organizer with the
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement,
educator, and writer.
Heather Alaniz
Heather Alaniz is a PhD Candidate in the
Administration of Justice at Texas
Southern University. Heather has
engaged in several policy panels
concerning international crimes, juvenile
justice, and gun violence. Also, Ms. Alaniz
served as an editor for the Asian Journal
of Criminology.
Claudio Albertani
Claudio Albertani is Research Professor of
History at the Autonomous University of
Mexico City (UACM), co-Editor of Victor
Serge: Carnets 1936-1947,(Agone 2012),
and is writing a book on Victor Serge in
Mexico. He is the founder of the Centro
Vlady at UACM.
Samar Al-Bulushi
Nicos Alexiou
Samar Al-Bulushi is a doctoral student in
the Anthropology Department at Yale
University with research interests in
transnational governance, Islam, and the
‘war on terror’ in the East and Horn of
Africa. Prior to her graduate work, Samar
worked with a number of international
human rights organizations. As an
independent journalist from 2010-2011,
Samar co-produced and co-hosted
AfrobeatRadio and Global Movements,
Urban Struggles on Pacifica’s WBAI in
New York city.
Nicos Alexiou teaches sociology at
Queens College, CUNY. He is also a poet
and the director of the Oral History
Project on Greek Americans.
Kelsey Alford-Jones
William Allen
Milton Allimadi
Kelsey Alford-Jones is the Director of the
Guatemala Human Rights Commission in
Washington, D.C., a solidarity
organization founded in 1983. Kelsey
monitors human rights violations in
Guatemala, raises awareness in the
international community and advocates
for policies in Guatemala and the U,S.
that promote peace and justice.
Bill Allen has been a board member of
the Community Land Trust of the
Southern Berkshires (CLTSB) for more
than 20 years, which is an organization
that maintains both working agricultural
landscapes as well as affordable housing.
He is also a resident of the Forest Row
community, which is located on a 21-acre
parcel owned by CLTSB, and has a deep
multi-faceted perspective on the inner
workings of community land trusts,
including the human element.
Milton Allimadi is an investigate reporter
and the Founding Publisher & Editor-inChief of The Black Star News and
www.blackstarnews.com, an
Investigative weekly newspaper and
website with predominantly African
American, African, Caribbean and other
Diaspora Africa readership. Allimadi is
also founder of Guerrilla Journalism, a
free weekly journalism workshop
focusing on community-based reporting
and writing.
Matthew C. Ally
Matthew Ally has published articles on
Sartre's ethics and dialectical method.
Forthcoming will be his book on the
theme of putting Sartre's method to
work in understanding ecology and the
current environmental crisis. He is
Associate Professor of Humanities at
Borough of Manhattan Community
College.
Matthew Ally
After nearly becoming a temperate
ecosystems ecologist, Matthew Ally
earned an interdisciplinary bachelors
degree in the humanities, a Master of
Divinity degree with a concentration in
philosophies and theologies of liberation,
and a Ph.D. with a concentration in
moral, social, and political philosophy.
Sammy Almashat
Sammy Almashat is a preventive
medicine physician and advocate,
currently working as a researcher at
Public Citizen's Health Research Group, a
non-profit group of physicians and
scientists that work to protect and
improve the public health over corporate
interests. His research and writings focus
on pharmaceutical policy, worker health,
and the human consequences of U.S.
foreign policy.
Distinguished historian and political
economist Gar Alperovitz is co-founder of
the Democracy Collaborative, a research
institute developing strategies to build
community wealth, including a
groundbreaking network of worker
cooperatives in Cleveland. He is an
acclaimed historian of the decision to
drop the atomic bomb and has published
numerous books, including most
recently, "What Then Must We Do?
Straight Talk About the Next American
Revolution."
Gar Alperovitz
Aaron Amaral
Sally M. Alvarez is a labor educator at
Cornell University's School of Industrial
and Labor Relations. She is codirector/producer of "Red November,
Black November" about the 1979
Greensboro, NC Massacre.
Aaron Amaral is a veteran activist and
writer in New York City. Aaron has been
active in many campaigns including
immigrant rights. He is an activist
supporter of the AKNY.org who are
working to keep NYC a Golden Dawn freecity.
Mikal Amin
A Hip Hop/Spoken Word artist,
performer, and educator extraordinaire.
He is the founder of Fresh Roots Music,
Co-founder of Say Word entertainment,
an education facilitator for the
International Hip Hop media company;
Nomadic Wax, and Program Director for
Urban Word. As an artist he has a specific
focus: Roots, Truth, and Culture.
Sally M. Alvarez
Judy Ancel
Kevin Anderson
Matt Anderson
Judy Ancel's international solidarity work
has included interchanges between
union members and maquiladora
workers in Mexico, building solidarity for
labor struggles in Mexico, investigation of
labor and human rights issues in Mexico
and in Honduras and workshops on the
necessity to organize internationally. She
is a founder and board member of the
Cross Border Network based in Kansas
City which works for solidarity with
workers across borders and workers who
cross borders.
Kevin Anderson teaches Sociology,
Political Science, and Feminist Studies at
the University of California, Santa
Barbara. He has written on Marx, Hegel,
the Frankfurt School, Foucault, the
Orientalism debate, and revolution in the
Middle East. His most recent books are
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (with
Janet Afary, 2005) and Marx at the
Margins (2010). He is a member of the
International Marxist-Humanist
Organization.
Dr. Matthew Anderson, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Department of
Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore
Medical Center (Bronx, New York) and
family medicine practitioner; editor,
Social Medicine Journal (online:
www.socialmedicine.info)
Tom Angotti
Donald Anthonyson
Rania Antonopoulos
John Antush
Sofya Aptekar
Tom Angotti is Professor of Urban Affairs
& Planning at Hunter College and the
Graduate Center, City University of New
York, and author of New York For Sale:
Community Planning Confronts Global
Real Estate.
Donald Anthonyson is an organizer with
Families For Freedom (FFF), a New Yorkbased multi-ethnic defense network by
and for immigrants facing and fighting
deportation. FFF seeks to repeal the laws
that are tearing apart our homes and
neighborhoods and to build the power of
immigrant communities as communities
of color, to provide a guiding voice in the
growing movement for immigrant rights
as human rights.
John Antush teaches at City-As-School
High School. He is a delegate of the
United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and
a member of the Movement of Rank and
file Educators (MORE), the social justice
caucus of the UFT.
Sofya Aptekar is a sociologist at Max
Planck Institute and a visiting researcher
at CUNY Graduate Center. She is a
member of Occupy Astoria LIC and
Occupy Kensington.
John Arena
Fenix Nikaurys Arias
Kate Aronoff
Stanley Aronowitz
Alicia Arrington
Jay is an assistant professor of sociology
at the City University of New York’s
College of Staten Island. He lived and
worked in New Orleans for over 20 years
and continues to be involved in various
community and labor organizing
initiatives there. Also a member of Ce3,
Jay is the author of a 2012 book on his
experiences defending public housing,
entitled Driven form New Orleans: How
Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and
Promote Privatization, University of
Minnesota Press.
Fenix N. Arias holds a Doctoral degree
from the CUNY-Graduate Center, a
Masters degree in Higher Education
Administration, with a concentration in
Public Policy, from the School of Public
Affairs at Baruch College, and a Bachelor
degree in Sociology from Columbia
University. Currently, she is the Director
of Assessment/Testing at York
College/CUNY, and adjunct faculty at
John Jay College. She sits at two
community boards, and volunteers at an
Immigration Center.
Stanley Aronowitz is a distinguished
professor in sociology at the CUNY
Graduate Center. His latest book is
"Taking it Big; C. Wright Mills and the
Making of Political Intellectuals", and his
most recent project is a forth coming
book on labor from Verso Books. He is
also a veteran political activist and
cultural critic, and advocate for organized
Labor.
Alicia Arrington is a St. John's student
majoring in Public Relations
John Atlas
Nicole Aschoff is a post-doctoral fellow in
the Department of Sociology at Boston
University. She is a contributor to Jacobin
magazine.
Lawyer, writer, activist, founder
Shelterforce Mag
Arnold August
Arnold August is a Montreal- based
writer, journalist and lecturer is the
author of Democracy in Cuba and the
1997–98 Elections (Editorial José Martí).
His latest book (2013) is entitled Cuba
and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion
(Fernwood Publishing/ZED books,
distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave
Macmillan) For full information on this
publication including the complete Table
of Contents and Reviews, visit
www.democracycuba.com.
Rishi Awatramani
Rishi is the Organizing Director for
Virginia New Majority, and has previously
organized with Just Cause Oakland, the
Youth Media Council, and SEIU 715 and
1199. He co-founded the Beyond
Capitalism project, tasked with
developing a vision of 21st Century
Socialism in the US. He’s been a member
of the US Social Forum’s national
planning committee, a coordinator of
Leftist Lounge, an editor of
OrganizingUpgrade.com, and has
participated in several other activist
organizations.
Nicole Aschoff
Miriam Axel-Lute
Axel-Lute is editor of Shelterforce, a
national magazine on community
development and neighborhood
revitalization. Based in Albany, N.Y., she
is a board member of the Community
Loan Fund of the Capital Region and the
Community Development Alliance of the
Capital District, and an award-winning
columnist for the alt-weekly Metroland.
Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of the PanAfrican News Wire, an electronic press
agency founded in 1998. , He is cofounder of several Detroit-area
organizations, including Michigan
Emergency Committee Against War &
Injustice, and Moratorium NOW!,
Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions
and Utility Shut-offs. Azikiwe has hosted
and co-hosted programs on WHPR Radio
in Highland Park, Michigan, WCHB, WDTR
and WDTW in Detroit, Michigan, and
CKLN in Toronto.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Barbara Nimri Aziz
Barbara Nimri Aziz: PhD in Social
Anthropology, U. London; author of
"Swimming Up The Tigris: Real Life
Encounters with Iraq"; WBAI Radio
Producer (NY); see also regular blogs on
www.RadioTahrir.org; resident media
instructor in Damascus, Syria 2010-2012.
Dario Azzellini is a political scientist and
lecturer at Johannes Kepler University in
Linz, Austria, writer and filmmaker based
in Berlin and Caracas. He holds a PhD in
political science from the Goethe
University in Frankfurt (Germany). His
research and writing focuses on social
and revolutionary militancy, migration
and racism, people’s power and selfadministration, workers control and
extensive case studies in Latin America.
Dario Azzellini
Nellie Bailey
Geoff Bailey
Nellie Hester Bailey, correspondent with
Black Agenda Report, is a founder of
Occupy Harlem and Inside Housing and
Communities.
Geoff Bailey is a contributor to the
International Socialist Review (ISR). He is
a filmmaker, writer, and activist based in
Brooklyn, NY.
Kazembe Balagun is a writer/cultural
organizer and communist who live in the
Bronx. He currently serves as director of
education and outreach at the Brecht
Forum in New York City and has been
featured in The New York Times, Time
Out New York, L Magazine, and the UK
Guardian. He is also a member of the
Ground Floor Collective, a revolutionary
Black Arts groups.
Kazembe Balagun
Fabian Balardini
Fabian Balardini is Assistant Professor of
Economics at the Borough of Manhattan
Community College. His research
interests include the economics and
geopolitics of the global oil industry and
the role played by energy in the historical
development of capitalism.
Tarun Banerjee
Tarun Banerjee is a sociologist who works
on social movements and corporate
power. His focus is on demonstrating
how large corporations work together in
the political process in a number of ways,
from forging strategies in response to
social movements to spending large sums
of money in voter referendums.
Ms. Banks has been working in the nonprofit social service industry for over 15
years. She has directed program various
programs including those focused on
chemical dependency, homelessness,
maternal health, youth development,
and older adults among others. Ms.
Banks is the Founder and Executive
Director of resident.connect.care, which
is a grassroots organization that focuses
on providing resources, advocacy, and
nutrition education about healthy eating
to people that live in food deserts.
Eboni Banks
Ras Baraka
J Bardia
Ellen Barfield
The National Vice President of Veterans
for Peace and a full-time peace and
justice activist, Ellen served in the U.S.
Army from 1977-1981. She is also a
member of the national boards of
Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom (WILPF), the War Resister's
League, and the School of the Americas
Watch.
Riham Barghouti
Riham Barghouti is a founding member
of the Palestinian Campaign for an
Academic and Cultural boycott of Israel,
as well as a founding member of Adalah
– NY, the New York campaign for the
boycott of Israel.
David Barkin
David Barkin is Distinguished Professor of
Economics at the Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana, Xochimilco Campus,
Mexico City where he has been since
1975. He works with students and
communities in Mexico and elsewhere in
Latin America to strengthen projects
designed to promote sustainable regional
resource management.
Lorraine Barlett
Joseph Barrera
Ret. Lt. Col. Lorraine Barlett served 27
years in the Army and until recently
worked as a defense attorney for the
Office Defense Counsel, U.S Military
Commissions, in which she served as an
ethics advisor and represented a
detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
She has been an outspoken critic of the
U.S military tribunal system there and is
now a peace activist and private civil
rights attorney in Atlanta, Ga.
Liam Barrington-Bush
Pat Barry
Ben Barson
Liam is an activist, facilitator and social
media consultant. He has just finished
writing and crowd-funding 'Anarchists in
the Boardroom: How social media and
social movements can help your
organisation to be more like people.’ Due
out in July, the book aims to help NGOs
and unions move away from the rigid
hierarchies of Industrialism, towards new
forms of horizontal organizing that are
both better equipped for our emerging
realities and which reflect the values
these organizations espouse.
Pat has a degree in Finance, has worked
as a Financial Analyst for the Blackstone
group, as a Financial consultant for a
brokerage firm, co-founded a family
owned and operated Independent
Advisory Firm (RIA). The BSAS recognized
him for predicting the market drop of
2008. He is affiliated with American
Benjamin Barson is a baritone
saxophonist, producer and event
organizer. He is a founding member for
Scientific Soul Sessions, and has been
working with Ecosocialist Horizons since
its founding.
Andi Weiss Bartczak
Benjamin Barson is a baritone
saxophonist, writer, producer, and
activist. He has played with diverse crosssection of leading New York City jazz
musicians, such as Fred Ho, Arturo
O’Farrill, and Frank Lacy, and has
performed at New York's premiere
musical institutions, including the
Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, and Lincoln Center.
He regularly performs at and curates the
music program for the iconic Red Rooster
and Ginny's Supper Club in Harlem.
Independent science consultant and
activist. Environmental toxicologist.
Tracy Basile
Tracy Basile is an Adjunct Professor for
Environmental Studies and English at
Pace University in Pleasantville, NY. Tracy
has been actively involved with WESPAC
Foundation, as a member, Advisory
Board member, and Committee Chair.
Tracy has more than 12 years' experience
as a journalist and animal welfare
consultant for organizations such as the
American Society for the Prevention of
Animal Cruelty and Animal Welfare
Institute.
Benjamin Barson
Stephen Baskerville
Freddy Bastone
Alyssa Battistoni
Josef Baum
Rosalyn Baxandall
Moustafa Bayoumi
He began as a scholar of political theory.
More recently, he has turned his full
attention to the politics of the family in
global perspective, and his most recently
book is Taken Into Custody: The War
against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family
(Cumberland House, 2007). He has
served as president of the American
Coalition for Fathers and Children (20052007) and serves as managing editor for
the International Journal for Religious
Freedom. He is currently at work on a
book on sexual politics.
Alyssa Battistoni is an assistant editor at
Jacobin. Her work has appeared in Salon
and Mother Jones, among other venues.
Josef Baum is an industrial economist
and geographer. In addition to working
for the European Network "transform!"
he is senior researcher and lecturer at
the Department of East Asian Studies and
the Institute of Geography and Regional
Studies, University of Vienna. For many
years he was also municipal councilor.
Special interests: Sustainable
development, energy, climate change
and distribution, distribution of
resources; China, Balkans,
www.josefbaum.at
Professor emeritus of American Studies,
SUNY-Old Westbury
Moustafa Bayoumi is an award-winning
writer, and associate professor of English
at Brooklyn College, City University of
New York.
Brenden Beck
vagabond is an artist, writer and
filmmaker. He worked closely with NYC
based Puerto Rican punk band
RICANSTRUCTION and has produced agtiprop for a myriad of progressive
movements. His first feature film
MACHETERO about the violent aspects of
the Puerto Rican independence
movement won awards in South Africa,
Wales, England, Thailand, Ireland and
New York. MACHETERO will be selfreleased theatrically at Clemente Soto
Velez, Kabayito’s Theater in NYC’s Lower
East Side for one week June 12 - 19.
Brenden Beck is an organizer with Milk
Not Jails, a grassroots campaign working
to build a new urban-rural alliance in
New York State. He lives in Brooklyn and
drinks 2%.
Jérémie Bédard-Wien
Jérémie Bédard-Wien has served as
spokesperson and finance secretary for
ASSÉ, also known as CLASSE. During last
year's Quebec student strike, he served
on CLASSE’s mobilization committee,
boosting momentum across the province
and traveling abroad to raise awareness
of the movement’s radical analysis, direct
democracy principles and combative
tactics. He is now working to create a panCanadian coalition of community groups
and unions against Stephen Harper's
government’s neoliberal policies.
vagabond Beaumont
Megan Behrent
Megan Behrent is a public school teacher
and activist in Brooklyn, NY. She is a
contributor to Education and Capitalism:
Struggles for Learning and Liberation,
published by Haymarket Books.
Christine Bell
Christine V. Bell is engaged in community
empowerment. Christine works in the
non-profit sector within Hudson County
and is engaged in prison reentry work.
She is currently pursuing her second
Masters in Social Work.
Charles Bell
Chuck Bell is a consumer advocate active
in campaigns for economic justice,
financial services reform and affordable
housing. He is Vice-Chair and legislative
coordinator for the National Jobs for All
Coalition, and co-author of Shared
Prosperity: The Drive for Decent Work
(2006). He has worked with grassroots
organizations to build support for
national job creation legislation,
including HR 1000, the HumphreyHawkins 21st Century Full Employment
and Training Act.
Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both
CODEPINK and the international human
rights organization Global Exchange. She
is the author/editor of eight books. Her
latest book is called Drone Warfare:
Killing by Remote Control, and she has
been campaigning to get lethal drones
out of the hands of the CIA. Her articles
appear regularly in outlets such as The
Huffington Post, CommonDreams,
Alternet and OpEd News.
Jani Benjamins
Jani Benjamins is an artist,
environmentalist, and a rights advocate.
He is interested in sustainability,
permaculture, and empowering local
communities. His work has been shown
nationally and internationally.
Chip Berlet
Activist and author. His articles have
documented political repression, police
abuse, surveillance and disruption of
dissident groups, authoritarian and
totalitarian ideology, right wing spy
operations, subversion panics, and
countersubversive movements. He has
served as VP of the NLG and co–chair of
the NLG’s Civil Liberties Committee.
Berlet was a co–founder of Police
Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report;
and worked as an investigator on several
lawsuits against illegal government
spying.
Andy Bichlbaum
Andy Bichlbaum (AKA Jacques Servin) got
his start as an activist when, as a
computer programmer, he inserted a
swarm of kissing boys in a shoot-'em-up
video game just before it shipped to
store shelves, and found himself fired,
famous, and hugely amused. Now, Andy
helps run the Yes Lab for Creative
Activism as part of his job as professor of
subversion at New York University.
James Birmingham
Eirik Bjorkman
Laura Blackwood
Chris Blankenhorn
Gary Blick, MD
James Birmingham is a grad student in
STS at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a
four-field anthropologist and a cofounder of the All Power to the
Imagination! Conference held at New
College of Florida - James' research
interests are primarily in the field of
material culture studies. James enjoys
cooking, collecting books and dancing the
night away.
Laura Blackwood is a first generation
Caribbean-American Student. She is a
Junior and Economics major with a
concentration in Economic Analysis at
John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Laura
is a research assistant to Professor
Gordon-Nembhard whose upcoming
book focuses on establishing wealth and
revitalizing African-American
communities through use of
cooperatives. Ms. Blackwood was
recognized on the Dean's List for the
2010-2011 academic year.
Chris Blanekenhorn is the founder of the
Radical Student Union housed at the
University of Illinois at Springfield. As an
experience activist and community
organizer has led him to fight on issues
regarding social and economic justice,
plus government reform. His leadership
has be viewed highly by many
community leaders in both Springfield
and in the state of Illinois.
Dr. Blick is the Founder and Executive
Director of World Health Clinicians and
Circle CARE Medical Center.
Nadine Bloch
Nadine Bloch has walked hundreds of
miles, trained volunteers, built giant
puppets, climbed skyscrapers, juggled
media, developed curricula, and sailed
oceans, all in support of social and
economic justice. Her affiliations include
work with Bread & Puppet Theater,
Greenpeace, Labor Heritage Foundation,
Nonviolence International, Ruckus
Society, HealthGAP and Housing Works.
Nadine’s work explores the potent
intersection of art and politics.
Keith Bolender
Keith Bolender is a freelance journalist
living in Toronto and has written
extensively on Cuban matters for a
variety of North American publications.
Lecturer on the Cuban Revolution at the
University of Toronto School of
Continuing Education. He has written two
books on Cuba: Voices From the Other
Side, An Oral History of Terrorism Against
Cuba (Pluto Press 2010). Cuba Under
Siege (Palgrave 2012)
Matthew Bolton
Dr. Bolton is assistant professor in the
Department of Political Science at Pace
University in NYC. He researches the
political economy of conflict,
humanitarianism, and technologies of
violence and teaches on international
relations, political economy, and the
United Nations. He has written Foreign
Aid and Landmine Clearance (I.B. Tauris)
and Apostle of the Poor: The Life and
Works of Missionary and Humanitarian
Charles D. Neff (John Whitmer Books).
Patrick Bond
Mathieu Bonzom
Patrick Bond is a political economist at
the University Of KwaZulu-Natal School
Of Development Studies in Durban,
South Africa, where since 2004 he directs
the Centre for Civil Society
(http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za). Working closely
with advocacy organizations, Patrick’s
research presently covers political
ecology (especially climate, energy and
water), economic crisis, social
mobilization, public policy and
geopolitics. Amongst his books are
Politics of Climate Justice (2012);
Durban’s Climate Gamble (2011), Zuma’s
Own Goal (2010), Looting Africa (2006);
Talk Left, Walk Right (2006); Elite
Transition (2005); and Unsustainable
South Africa (2002). He was a co-host of
the 'BRICs-from-below' counter-summit
at the March 2013 Brazil-Russia-IndiaChina-SA summit in Durban, and edited a
booklet, "BRICs in Africa: Anti-imperialist,
sub-imperialist or in between?" His
research interests include political
economy, environment, social policy, and
geopolitics.
Mathieu Bonzom teaches American
Studies at Paris-Est Créteil University. He
is an author, a trade unionist and a
veteran left activist in France.
Becca Bor
Thabiti Boone is a strong supporter for
President Obama White House
Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative. He
is the International Representative for
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Fatherhood and
Mentoring Initiative. He is a Fatherhood
Adviser to NBA Legend Allan
Houston/Allan Houston Foundation. He is
an adviser to Fathers and Men of
Professional Basketball Players, Inc.
Becca is a teacher in the Chicago Public
School system.
Glenn Borchardt
Glenn Borchardt has 40 years of practical
and theoretical experience in earth
science. He has produced over two
hundred scientific reports, including
journal articles, book material, and
computer programs. He is the Author of
"The Scientific Worldview" and "The Ten
Assumptions of Science".
Thabiti Boone
Dan Boscov-Ellen
Jonah Bossewitch
Dan Boscov-Ellen is a PhD student in
Philosophy at the New School for Social
Research. In his work, he argues for the
continued relevance of Marx to
contemporary political ecology, as well as
the importance of recovering the
ecological strands in Marx’s writings for
understanding his thought as a whole.
Elizabeth Bowman
Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance
Studies at Cornell University, is the
author of Badiou and Politics, Marx and
Freud in Latin America, and The Actuality
of Communism. He is also the translator
of several books by Alain Badiou: Theory
of the Subject, Can Politics Be Thought?
and What Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Lacan. He
currently serves as the General Editor of
Diacritics.
Bowman has taught French literature at
University of Memphis, Middlebury
College and Hartford University. She has
published several articles on Sartre's
ethics. She is finishing work on an
introduction to Sartre's partly
unpublished "second ethics" titled
"Morality and History" with co-author
Bob Stone. She is Research Associate at
the Center for Global Justice.
Herb Boyd
Herbert Boyd has written or edited 22
books. Among these are Race and
Resistance of African Americans in the
Twenty-First Century and Baldwin's
Harlem: A biography of James Baldwin.
His most recent book is editorship By Any
Means Necessary: Malcolm Real, Not
Reinvented. Boyd is a frequent
contributor to The New Amsterdam
News and has written for numerous
popular and scholarly publications. Boyd
was born in Detroit and active in the
League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
Bruno Bosteels
Andrew Boyd
Sandy Boyer
Yeashea Braddock
William Bradley
Jack Bratich
Andrew Boyd is an author, humorist and
veteran of creative campaigns for social
change. He led the decade-long satirical
media campaign “Billionaires for Bush.”
He co-founded Agit-Pop
Communications, an award-winning
“subvertising” agency, as well as the
netroots social justice movement The
Other 98%. He’s the Editor and Wranglerin-Chief of Beautiful Trouble, and the
author of Daily Afflictions and Life’s Little
Deconstruction Book. You can find him at
andrewboyd.com.
Sandy Boyer is the co-host of Radio Free
Eireann on WBAI 99.5 FM. He was the
Coordinator of the NY H-Block
Committee during the campaign for
political status and led campaigns to free
Irish political prisoners including Marian
Price, the Guildford 4, Birmingham 6 and
Roisin McAliskey. He has taught Irish
history at the Irish Arts Center and
contributed articles on Ireland to
publications including Socialist Worker,
The Pensive Quill. New Politics, Fortnight,
Fourthwrite, and The Blanket.
William Bradley is St. John's Alumni
Jack Bratich is Associate Professor of
Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers
School of Communication and
Information. He is the author of
"Conspiracy Panics: Popular Culture and
Political Rationality."
Peter Bratsis is Assistant Professor of
political science at CUNY, BMCC since
2012. Previously he has taught at the
University of Salford and has also held
positions at the London School of
Economics, Brooklyn College and Queens
College. His publications include the
books "Everyday Life and the State" and,
with Stanley Aronowitz, "Paradigm Lost:
State Theory Reconsidered." Bratsis is
also an editor of the journal Situations.
Peter Bratsis
Ellen Bravo
Rae Breaux
Ellen Bravo is a long-time activist for
working women. She began working for
9to5, National Association of Working
Women in 1982, when she helped found
the Milwaukee chapter, and served until
2004 as its national director. Now Ellen
directs Family Values @ Work
Consortium, a network of state coalitions
working for paid sick days and paid family
leave.
Robert Brenner
Robert Brenner is distinguished Professor
of History and Director of the Center for
Social Theory and Comparative History at
UCLA. He is an editor of Against the
Current and New Left Review. His books
include "The Economics of Global
Turbulence," and "The Boom and the
Bubble."
Lenni Brenner
Lenni Brenner is the author of Zionism In
The Age Of The Dictators and The Iron
Wall: Zionist Revisionism From Jabotinsky
To Shamir.
Rose Brewer
Bob Broadhurst
Peter Brogan
Rose M. Brewer is Morse Alumni
Distinguished Teaching Professor of
African American & African Studies at the
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She
worked as a core organizer for the United
States Social Forums in Atlanta and
Detroit, and is a co-editor of The United
States Social Forum: Perspectives of a
Movement, Chicago: Change Maker
Publications, 2010.
A 4th generation IBEW electrician in
Boston LU 103, My great Grandfather
was a charter member in the 1890s.The
5th just graduated last July. We all have
been rank and file workers from the
start. Also I created and maintained the
Union Labor table, at OWS in Zuccotti
park. I camped 24/7 for 6 weeks until the
eviction on 11/15/11,I had met with
Ricard Trumka there and have been
interviewed by Democracy Now, RT,
Peter Brogan is a PhD candidate and
Teaching Assistant in Geography and
Labour Studies at York University,
Toronto. His research explores
contemporary capitalism through an
examination of the nexus between
urbanization, education policy, and
teachers' unions in Chicago and New York
City. In the past decade he has been
involved in a range of urban struggles in
New York City and Toronto and has
worked as an organizer, researcher and
representative in three different unions
in the United States.
Stephen Bronner
Prominent political theorist and activist;
author of many books and articles about
critical theory, Marxism, aesthetics,
contemporary political issues, socialism,
the Holocaust and other subjects;
lifetime activist in a number of areas;
active in the Caucus for a New Political
Science;
Stephen Eric Bronner
Stephen Eric Bronner is currently
Distinguished Professor (II) of Political
Science at Rutgers University and
Director of Civic Diplomacy and Human
Rights at the Center for the Study of
Genocide, Conflict Resolution and Human
Rights. His books include "Modernism at
the Barricades" (Columbia University
Press), "Socialism Unbound" (Columbia
University Press), "Camus: Portrait of a
Moralist" (University of Chicago Press),
and "Critical Theory: A Very Short
Introduction" (Oxford University Press).
David Brotherton
KB Brower
David C. Brotherton, PhD is the Chair of
the Sociology Department at John Jay
College, CUNY. He was named Critical
Criminologist of the Year in 2011. His
most recent books are: Banished to the
Homeland: Dominican Deportees and
Their Stories of Exile (2011); Keeping Out
The Other (2009); and The Almighty Latin
King and Queen Nation: Street Politics
and the Transformation of a New York
City Gang, with Luis Barrios (2004).
KB Brower is a former member and
current staff organizer for United
Students Against Sweatshops.
Jenny Brown
staff writer, Labor Notes
Bob Brown
Lead member and organizer for the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther
Party (BPP), and a host of other
movements and organizations
throughout Africa, the African Diaspora
and the world, Brown has spent his
entire adult life working for the liberation
of his people. A close life-long associate
of Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael),
Brown was also a Vietnam-era draft
resister and an anti-war activist on the
national staff of the Mobilization for
Survival.
Linda Brown
Linda Brown taught in Uganda, the Bronx
House of Detention, CUNY's Continuing
Education Adult Literacy Program, and
New York City public schools. Her labor
involvement includes full-time work with
the United Farm Workers, helping to
start the United Literacy Workers
Organizing Committee, and serving as
UFT Chapter Chair in two high schools.
She graduated from Cornell University.
Timothy Ray Brown
Timothy is the first person to have been
cured of HIV and Founder of the Timothy
Ray Brown Foundation for HIV research.
Dana Brown
Leigh Brownhill
Tom Buechele
Brown is the Executive Director of the US
Office on Colombia, a progressive
advocacy organization promoting human
rights, an end to impunity and a
sustainable peace in Colombia. She 10
years' experience with US policy towards
Latin America and is a former
Coordinator of the Committee on
US/Latin American Relations. She has
also worked with Amnesty International
and Peace Brigades International in
Colombia and beyond.
Leigh Brownhill is a Research Associate at
the Department of Natural Resource
Sciences, McGill University, Montreal,
where she works on a food security
project in Kenya. She is also the author of
Land, Food, Freedom: Struggles for the
Gendered Commons in Kenya, 1870-2007
(African World Press, 2009). She is on the
editorial board of the journal Capitalism
Nature Socialism.
Tom Buechele is PhD candidate in
Sociology and Research Fellow at the
Center for the Study of Culture,
Technology and Work, CUNY Grad Center
and Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology at
CUNY John Jay.
Pamela Brown
Roger Burbach
Peter Burgess
Pamela Brown is a member of the
national leadership team of Move to
Amend, a columnist for Tidal Magazine,
and an organizer with the People’s
Investigation of Wall Street. She was a
founding member of Strike Debt and the
Rolling Jubilee. She holds her
undergraduate degree in Philosophy
from Dartmouth College, a Master of Arts
in Media Studies from The New School,
and is currently a doctoral student in
Sociology at The New School for Social
Research.
Roger Burbach is Director of the Center
for the Study of the Americas (CENSA)
based in Berkeley, CA. He has written
extensively on Latin America and US
foreign policy for over four decades. He
co-authored with Orlando Núñez Fire in
the Americas (1987) an informal
manifesto of the Nicaraguan revolution.
With the collapse of twentieth-century
socialism he began to write on
globalization, the Latin American social
movements and the renewed quest for
socialism
in thehas
twenty-first
Peter
Burgess
a degree incentury.
engineering and economics from
Cambridge University, and qualified as a
UK Chartered Accountant in London with
PwC. He has experience in the accounting
profession and in corporate management
and was CFO of a US based international
company. He has also been an
Robb was founding editor of the
HealthPAC Bulletin (archives, 1968-93:
www.healthpacbulletin.org) and
professor and founding director of the
Joint Graduate Degree Program in Public
Health and Urban Planning at Columbia
University. He is currently coordinator
and convener of the Community & Labor
Health Study Group
Robb Burlage
Casey Butcher is a freelance writer,
photographer, archivist, and curator. He
co-organized a daily lecture series at
Zuccotti Park as part of the Open Forum
Committee of OWS, was a founding
member of Red Channels (an itinerant
band of cultural insurgents), and is a
student-organizer at the New York
Marxist School, the educational arm of
the Brecht Forum, NYC.
Casey Butcher
Shahid Buttar
Evangeline Byars
Shahid Buttar leads the Bill of Rights
Defense Committee in defending civil
liberties, constitutional rights, and rule of
law threatened by law enforcement and
intelligence agencies. He is a
constitutional lawyer, grassroots
organizer, independent columnist,
musician, and poet. Shahid also serves on
the advisory bodies of the Rights Working
Group, the National Coalition to Protect
Civil Freedoms, the National Campaign to
Restore Civil Rights, and South Asian
Americans Leading Together.
Chris Byron
James Cairns
Leslie Cagan
Anna Calcutt
Charles Callaway
Sam Calvin
William Camacaro
Chris Byron earned B.A. degrees in
Political Science/International Studies
and Philosophy from the University of
Central Florida, where he wrote an
honors thesis on Marx's theory of human
nature. An active participant in Occupy
Orlando, he is now a Philosophy graduate
teaching assistant at the University of
North Florida.
James teaches in the Contemporary
Studies program at Laurier Brantford. His
research focuses on ideology and the
state
(http://www.democraticimagination.com
/). He is active in Faculty 4 Palestine and
the Toronto New Socialists. University
homepage:
http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_i
d=10153&f_id=37
Anna Calcutt is a founding member of
New Yorkers Against the CornellTechnion Partnership (NYACT), a NYbased academic boycott campaign, as
well as a member of Adalah-NY.
Charles Callaway is Community
Organizing and Outreach Coordinator for
WE ACT New York. He has played a key
role in organizing residents around
significant issues in the Harlem
community.
Sam Calvin is a food service worker and
wannabe unionist. He dreams of a strong
union of all foodservice workers in
Greater New York.
William Camacaro is the Coordinator of
the Venezuelan Group Alberto Lovera
Bolivarian Circle of New York.
Victoria Campbell
Al Campbell is an Emeritus Professor of
Economics at the University of Utah. His
research is concerned with the evolution
and dynamics of capitalism including its
nature today as an unnecessary block to
our development of our human
potential, and with alternatives (“postcapitalist") to capitalism, both theoretical
possibilities and the strengths and
weaknesses of real-world experiments.
Victoria Campbell is a member of
Platypus.
Ben Campbell
Ben Campbell is an editor of The North
Star, a web journal for radical left
analysis and discourse.
Al Campbell
Horace Campbell is a noted Peace and
Justice activist who teaches in AfricanAmerican Studies and Political Science at
Syracuse University in New York. He is on
the Board of the Syracuse Peace council,
the oldest Peace Organization in the USA.
He has just published his latest book,
Global NATO and the Catastrophic failure
in Libya (Monthly Review Press 2013). His
previous book was Barack Obama and
21st Century Politics: A Revolutionary
Moment in the USA. (Pluto Press, London
2010) He has written extensively on
question of the Unification of the
peoples of Africa and the African
Revolutionary process. He writes a
regular column for Pambazuka News.
Horace Campbell
Folasade Campbell
Felix Leo Campos
Dario Cankovic
Folasade Campbell is the Executive
Director of Staten Island Council on Child
Abuse and Neglect (SICCAN) and the
former Executive Director of Concerned
Citizens for Family Preservation.
Felix Leo Campos is a media professional
and parent. He graduated from CUNY
and attended Columbia University as a
Charles Revson Fellow. He is a member of
the Real Dads Network and Co-chair of
the Bronx Fathers Taking Action.
Dario Cankovic is a Marxist, writer, and
doctoral student in philosophy.
Jennifer Candipan
Jennifer Candipan received her BA in
Literature from the University of
Southern California and her MA in
Sociology from Brooklyn College.
Professionally, she has worked as a
writer, researcher, union organizer and
communications consultant for Los
Angeles-based labor associations and
advocacy groups. She is currently a
doctoral student in Sociology at USC
where she is studying urban sociology,
globalization, political economy and
neighborhood change.
Timothy Canova
His work crosses the disciplines of law,
public finance, and economic history and
has been published in numerous articles
and book chapters, including journals
from Harvard, Georgetown, Minnesota
and University of California. In 2011, he
was appointed by U.S. Senator Bernie
Sanders to serve on a blue-ribbon
advisory panel on reforming the Federal
Reserve. Prior to teaching, he served as a
legislative assistant to the late U.S.
Senator Paul E. Tsongas and practiced
law in New York City.
Christine Capetola
David Caprio
Fernando Carlo
Toby Carroll
a Brooklyn-based queer and feminist
writer, cyclist, and activist entering a
master’s program in Performance Studies
at NYU this summer. Working with
Queers for Economic Justice, she has
collaborated with homeless people to
increase their participation in decisionmaking. Capetola researches the
interaction of performers and audiences,
and considers the band Sleater-Kinney an
ideal model for expansive queer and
feminist identity, as well as engaged
citizenship.
National Education and Training
Coordinator
Jean Casella
Bill (William R.) Caspary. Gallatin School
at NYU. Professor Emeritus of Political
Science, Washington U. Teaches social
and political theory at the Gallatin School
with a focus on participatory democracy.
Author of Dewey and Democracy, Cornel
University Press, 2000. Founding member
of the Student Peace Union, an early
New Left activist group.
William R. Caspary
Esther Hio-Tong Castillo
Joseph Catalano
Julie Cavanagh
Members, Central Park 5
Jermaine Chambers
Harold Channer
Dr. Robert Chapman
Esther Hio-Tong Castillo is a PhD student
in sociology at Temple University in
Philadelphia. Her research explores and
analyzes actually existing social practices
in relation to the discursive context of
urbanization of capital. She is interested
in studying everyday life as the site of
resistances and opportunities for
alternatives to epistemological and
geopolitical mapping produced by global
capitalism.
Most recent book is "Reading Sartre." His
commentaries on Jean-Paul Sartre's
"Being and Nothingness" and "Critique of
Dialectical Reason" are major reference
works and introductions to Sartre's
philosophy. He is professor emeritus of
philosophy at Kean College of New
Jersey.
Julie Cavanagh is a UFT chapter leader
who has been teaching in Red Hook,
Brooklyn since 2001.
Jermaine Chambers is a former member
of APOC (Anarchist People of Color). He
has organized in New York with “The
Harm Free Zone”, and was a 2003
graduate of the Z Media Institute. He was
an observer of the founding meetings of
the Zapatista “Other Campaign”, and also
participated with the Western Cape Antieviction Campaign in Cape Town South
Africa. He is a veteran of the Afghanistan
war.
Karen Charman
Pratap Chatterjee
Sutapa Chattopadhyay
Karen Charman is an independent
investigative environmental journalist
and editor whose writing currently
focuses on energy issues. She writes for
WhoWhatWhy.com, and her work has
appeared in World Watch, Sierra, The
Nation, In These Times, Extra!, On the
Issues, On Earth, among many other
outlets. For the last nine years, she was
the managing editor of Capitalism Nature
Socialism.
Pratap Chatterjee is the executive
director of CorpWatch in Berkeley, CA.
He is the author of "Halliburton's Army"
(Nation Books, 2009) "Iraq Inc.: A
Profitable Occupation" (Seven Stories
Press, 2004) and "The Earth Brokers"
(Routledge Press, 1994). Pratap is an
investigative reporter specializing in
environmental and human rights issues.
Sutapa currently works on clandestine
immigrants, illegality, legality, precarity,
autonomy and bordering mechanisms
and India's environmental, forestry
policies, violent appropriation of
indigenous lands, & gendered-classethicized struggles for autonomy on food
production & reclaiming commons. She
simultaneously writes on corporatization
of academy and social movements.
Tapoja is an environmental
anthropologist with a focus on South
Asia. Her research intersects the fields of
political ecology, critical development
studies, gender studies, anthropology of
place, politics of biodiversity
conservation and community-based
ecotourism. She has taught at University
of Washington, City University of New
York, & Haverford College. Tapoja
attempts to bridge her intellectual
endeavors with grassroots-level struggles
for social justice and equity in India and
USA.
Tapoja Chaudhuri
Gabriel Chaves
Gabriel is an activist in New York City in
the Movement For Peace in Colombia
(MPC). The MPC in Colombia is an
organization that aims to inform the
American public about the situation of
human rights in Colombia. MPC believes
that the only permanent solution to the
armed conflict is a political dialogue.
Deedra Cheatham
Deedra Cheatham is a member of
Families United for Racial and Economic
Equality (FUREE) and a resident of
Brooklyn's Gowanus Houses.
Joyce Chediac
Presenter Joyce Chediac, is an author and
lecturer. She is co-editor of the book
"Gaza, Symbol of Resistance", author of
US/NATO Wars in the Middle East and
Africa, detailing Washington’s strategy
towards Libya, Syria and Iran, and
http://globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-andsyria-facts-you-should-know/31628, also
http://globalresearch.ca/syria-what-sbehind-the-protests/24966
Grace Cheng
Grace Cheng is Associate Professor of
Political Science. Her specialization is in
comparative politics and international
politics and theory. She is editor and
contributing author of Nationalism and
Human Rights: In Theory and Practice in
the Middle East, Central Europe, and AsiaPacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She
Robert Chernomas is Professor of
Economics at the University of Manitoba,
Canada. He has been a visiting professor
at the Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health and is on the editorial board of
International Journal of Health Services.
This presentation is based on his book
(with co-author Ian Hudson) To Live and
Die in America: Class, Power, Health and
Health Care (2013).
Robert Chernomas
Vivek Chibber
Sonia Cheruvillil
Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology
at New York University. He is author of
the newly published Postcolonial Theory
and the Specter of Capital (Verso: 2013)
and Locked in Place: State-Building and
Late Industrialization in India (Princeton:
2003). He is co-editor of the Socialist
Register, and is on the editorial board of
the Journal of Agrarian Change, Politics
and Society, and other journals.
Staceyann Chin
Matthis is a founding member of the
DISOBEDIENT, a national network of
radical activists FOR direct action within
military communities to inhibit troop
movement to combat theaters. He is a
former Sergeant of the U.S. Army &
known for refusing activation &
deployment to Iraq in 2008, citing the
war as illegal & immoral. He opposed U.S.
global violations of human rights &
advocates a 'people's resistance' to US
crimes & the unmaking of its structures
of violence & oppression.
Matthis Chiroux
Dan Chodorkoff
Dan Chodorkoff is cofounder, former
executive director, and board chair of the
Institute for Social Ecology. He is an
urban anthropologist and activist with
special interests in community
development and utopian studies, and
has authored numerous articles on both
subjects. Dan has been active in the
Green movement and was a longtime
faculty member at Goddard College.
Kanishka Chowdhury
Daisy Chung
George Cicariello-Maher
Colia Clark
John Clark
Kanishka Chowdhury is Professor of
English and Director of the American
Culture and Difference program at the
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, where
he teaches undergraduate and graduate
courses in globalization and cultural
theory. He is the author of The New
India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and
Economic Liberalization (2011), as well as
pieces in journals such as College
Literature, Cultural Critique, Mediations,
Modern Fiction Studies, and Science &
Society.
George Ciccariello-Maher teaches
political theory at Drexel University in
Philadelphia. He is the author of We
Created Chávez: A People's History of the
Venezuelan Revolution.
Colia Clark is a longtime civil rights
organizer. Clark was a 2010 and 2012
Green Party candidate for Senate from
NY. She is working on projects for
reclaiming, reconstructing and restoring
health, land, political and social
institutions around the world. Colia
John Clark is a certain convergence of
elements, the results of causes and
conditions, and which has resulted in a
theoretical production labeled
"dialectical social ecology", exemplified
by the recent work "The Impossible
Community: Realizing Communitarian
Anarchism(Bloomsbury, 2013)".
Colia L.Clark, Producer MNN public TV,
NY Green Party, Pan Africanist has years
working in civil rights, human rights,
women’s rights, workers’ rights, peace
and rights for the homeless and youth.
Co-Coordinator Guadeloupe Haiti Tour.
Worked with Medgar W Evers, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Notes on Colia’s life
appear in histories etc.
Colia Lafayette Clark
Jonathan Cloud is a longtime leader in
sustainability and related issues. He has
pioneered energy efficient building in
Canada and the USA and a range of
community initiatives to address waste
and economic dysfunction. He has long
experience working with various
community initiatives including
complementary currencies. At Fairleigh
Dickinson University, he is Senior Fellow,
Institute for Sustainable Enterprise and
Founding Director, Sustainable Business
Incubator.
Jonathan Cloud
Patricia Ticineto Clough is professor of
Sociology and Women’s Studies at the
Graduate Center and Queens College of
the City University of New York. Clough’s
work has drawn on theoretical traditions
concerned with technology, affect,
unconscious processes, timespace and
political economy. Currently she has
been working on a book project about
Corona where she grew up in Queens
New York. It will be an ethnographic
historically researched experimentalwriting book.
Patricia Clough
David Cobb
Jeremy Cohan
David Cobb graduated from University of
Houston Law School in 1993 and
maintained a successful private law
practice for several years. Today he
serves as a principal with the Program on
Corporations, Law & Democracy
(POCLAD), on the National Planning
Committee of the US Social Forum, and
on the national leadership team of Move
To Amend (MTA). David is currently on
staff at Democracy Unlimited and Move
To Amend, a national coalition calling for
a constitutional amendment to abolish
“Corporate Personhood,” that allows
corporations to overturn democratically
enacted laws. He ran for President on the
Green Party ticket in 2004 and
successfully campaigned for the Ohio
recount. David has sued corporate
polluters, lobbied elected officials, run
for political office, and has been arrested
for non-violent civil disobedience. He ran
for Attorney General in Texas in 2002
pledging to revoke the charters of
corporations that violate health, safety,
environmental protection, and worker
safety laws.
Jeremy Cohan is a Ph.D. candidate in
sociology at New York University studying
politics and class consciousness and the
American scene. He directs the analytic
social psychology study group of SPI, is a
member of the Platypus Affiliated
Society, teaches sociology at NYU, and
directs the Serious Times Lecture Series
in the program on Critical Theory and the
Arts at the School of Visual Arts.
Beatty Cohan
Beatty Cohan, MSW, LCSW is a nationally
recognized psychotherapist, sex
therapist, co-author of For Better, For
Worse, Forever: Discover the Path To
Lasting Love, columnist, speaker and
national radio and television expert
guest. She hosts a live ASK BEATTY radio
show on the Progressive Radio Network,
has a private practice in New York City
and Sarasota, Florida and is always
prepared to confront and debate
conventional political and mental health
dogma.
Sky Cohen
Sky Cohen is a collective member at
Bluestockings Radical Bookstore in
Manhattan and an organizer with the
Rebel Diaz Arts Collective in the Bronx.
Gabriella Coleman
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is the Wolfe
Chair in Scientific and Technological
Literacy in the Art History and
Communication Studies Department at
McGill University. Trained as an
anthropologist, she researches, writes,
and teaches on hackers and digital
activism. Her first book on Free Software,
“Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics and the
Ethics of Hacking” has been published
with Princeton University Press.
Sheila Collins
She has written and taught in the areas
of American politics, environmental
politics and policy, poverty, globalization,
social movements and religion. Author or
co-author of six books and numerous
articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia
entries. She co-chairs the Columbia
University seminars on Full Employment,
Social Welfare and Equity and
Globalization, Labor & Popular Struggles
and is a member of the Global Ecological
Integrity Group and the Board of the
National Jobs for All Coalition.
Kalilah Collins
A mother of two, Khalilah Collins has
served as Executive Director of Women
In Transition in Louisville, KY, working for
economic human rights. She is also a
leader in the Poor People's Economic
Human Rights Campaign. She is the
Public Intervenor for Social Justice in the
Green Shadow Cabinet.
Sigma Colon
Sigma Colón is a Ph.D. candidate in
American Studies at Yale University. Her
dissertation, Rivers Seen and Unseen,
examines how and when North American
rivers become visible and
invisible—focusing on the impact that
knowing rivers in physical, ecological, and
symbolic ways has on human culture and
politics. Her recent publication,
“Environment in Debt,” considers
environmental reparations in the
financial language of debt.
Clifford D. Conner
Prof. George Comninel was Chair of the
Department of Political Science at York
University. He published articles on the
French Revolution Prof. Comninel enjoys
international recognition and was invited
to lecture at conferences in Japan, China,
and Brazil.
Leader of Students for a Democratic
Society at Montclair State University, cofounder of "Red Youth."
On faculty of the School of Professional
Studies at the City University of New York
Graduate Center, where he teaches
history. He is the author of A People’s
History of Science (Nation Books, 2005)
and has written biographies of two 18thcentury Irish revolutionaries, Colonel
Despard and Arthur O’Connor. His most
recent book, also a biography, is Jean
Paul Marat (Pluto Press, 2012). He is also
on the editorial board of The
Brendan Cooney
Brendan Cooney shares his ongoing
exploration of Marx's value theory at his
blog www.kapitalism101.wordpress.com.
His writing and videos are meant to be an
aide to fellow autodidacts in their
struggle to better understand Marx,
capitalism, and the current crisis. He is
also a composer and musician.
George Comninel
Thea Connelly
Distinguished Professor of history and
women’s studies at John Jay College,
CUNY. Books: Crystal Eastman on Women
and Revolution (1978); The Declassified
Eisenhower: A Divided Legacy of Peace
and Political Warfare (1981); Eleanor
Roosevelt, biography (vol. III,
forthcoming). American Historical
Association’s vice-president for research;
Board of The Feminist Press and Science
and Society. Cofounded the Peace
History Society and the Fund for Open
Information and Accountability, life
member of WILPF.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Tess Cooper
Andrea Costello
Frank Coughlin
Eve-Lyne Couturier
Don Courter
Andrea Costello was co-counsel for the
plaintiffs in the landmark Tummino v.
Hamburg court case. The 2013 decision
ruled for the plaintiffs that the morningafter pill should be available over the
counter to ensure the right to birth
control as guaranteed by U.S. law.
Costello is Senior Staff Attorney at the
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund,
Washington, D.C. She is a long-time
organizer for the National Lawyers Guild
and a past staff attorney at the Center
for Constitutional Rights.
Frank is an activist, organizer, and
speaker who has worked for DGR
throughout the Northeast.
Don is a high school student at East
Brunswick High and found of the Young
Communist League at his school.
Randy Credico
Randy Credico is a national renowned
activist, political satirist/impressionist
and the director of the William Moses
Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice. He is
presently running for Mayor on the
Democratic ticket and has been active in
various Occupy movements, protesting
NYPD stop and frisk policies and the
draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws.
Braden Crooks
Braden Crooks is a graduate student in
Design and Urban Ecologies at Parsons,
The New School for Design. He is the
founder of Groundswell PA: a citizen's
organization that banned fracking by
popular vote in two municipalities in
Pennsylvania. Braden's initiatives have
focused on rights-based organizing,
challenging the corporate dominance of
our democracy, and laying the
foundation for a sustainable future.
John Cronan, Jr.
Jeff Crosby
Chris Cutrone
John Cronan, Jr. is the workplace justice
organizer at the Restaurant
Opportunities Center of New York (ROCNY), a membership-based workers'
center dedicated to improving working
conditions and raising standards in the
restaurant industry. He is also a founding
member of the Organization for a Free
Society (OFS), a revolutionary
organization dedicated to building
participatory socialism.
Jeff has been a long time labor leader
and activist.
Brian D’Agostino
Brian D’Agostino teaches history and
political economy at the Harry Van
Arsdale Center for Labor Studies, Empire
State College SUNY. He is the author of
The Middle Class Fights Back: How
Progressive Movements Can Restore
Democracy in America (Praeger 2012),
available at middleclassfightsback.org.
Kate D'Adamo
Kate D’Adamo is Community Organizer
with the Sex Workers Outreach Project –
NYC and Sex Workers Action New York
(SWOP-NYC & SWANK). Prior to this, Kate
has worked on issues of labor and
migration at the Global Workers Justice
Alliance and the Open Society
Foundation. She has a Bachelors in
Political Science from California
Polytechnic State University and a
Masters in International Affairs from The
New School University.
Brian D'Agostino
Brian D’Agostino, author of The Middle
Class Fights Back: How Progressive
Movements Can Restore Democracy in
America (Praeger 2012). Currently an
Adjunct Instructor at the Harry Van
Arsdale Center for Labor Studies (Empire
State College, SUNY), his articles and
book reviews have appeared in Political
Science Quarterly, Review of Political
Economy, Journal of Psychohistory, and Z
Magazine. Co-organizer of The Global
Teach In (New York). website:
www.bendag.com
Russell Eliot Dale
Russell Dale is an activist and a
philosopher who is currently teaching in
the CUNY system and at the Brecht
Forum. He is on the Manuscript
Collective and Editorial Board of Science
& Society, and he sits on the Local
Station Board of radio station WBAI, 99.5
FM (wbai.org).
Kanya D'Almeida
Kanya D'Almeida is an editor for the Inter
Press Service (IPS) News Agency, has
been corresponding with Russell Maroon
Shoatz for years, has published articles
on his case, and is currently working on
editing his forthcoming autobiography:
"The Making of a Political Prisoner".
Omar Dahi
Lichi D'Amelio
Antonino D'Ambrosio
Angelo d'Angelo
Omar S. Dahi teaches economics at
Hampshire College. He is also an editor at
The Middle East Report and co-edits the
Syria Page for e-zine Jadaliyya.
Lichi D'Amelio is a longtime activist
against criminal injustice, and a current
member of the Ramarley's Call
committee in support of justice for
Ramarley Graham. She is the author of
“Who Do You Protect, Who Do You
Serve?,” “The Struggle Against Police
Brutality in New York," an analysis of
Chair of US Friends of the Soviet People;
Retiree Chapter of UFT; Board of Director
Arrow Park Lake Resort, NY State;
Secretariat of National Council of
Communists, USA; Editorial Board of
magazines "Ideological Fightback" and
"North Star Compass".
Jonah Daniel
Jonah Aline Daniel is a nation organizer
with the Stop the JNF Campaign. Jonah is
a member of the International Jewish
Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), with the Bay
Area Chapter and with national Spiritual
and Cultural Organizing. They also do
Healing Justice and Disability Justice
organizing and are an herbalist and
bodyworker. They live and work in
Berkeley, CA.
Harris Daniels
Harris Daniels is the NE Regional Rep of
the African People's Solidarity Committee
(APSC), an organization of white people
& other allies formed by the African
People's Socialist Party in 1976 to stand
in principled solidarity with African
liberation under the leadership of the
African-led Party. He is also National
Membership Chair of the Uhuru
Solidarity Movement, APSC’s
international mass activist org. that
builds solidarity and "reparations in
action" in white communities throughout
the US & Europe.
Ellen David Friedman
Ellen David Friedman is a union
organizer, a founder of the Vermont
Progressive Party and Vermont Workers
Center. She is on the Policy Committee of
Labor Notes and for nearly 10 years
taught labor studies at Sun Yat-sen
University in Guangzhou, helping to
establish the International Center for
Joint Labor Research there, and involved
in various levels of the Chinese labor
movement. She is a Visiting Scholar at
the Institute for Labor Education and
Research at University of CaliforniaBerkeley.
Liliana Davalos
Liliana Davalos is an evolutionary
biologist interested in the ancient history
of biodiversity and its conservation. Her
work has been the first to systematically
and independently examine
environmental impacts of illicit crop
production and anti-drug policy,
documenting threats to biodiversity, and
quantifying indirect deforestation from
coca production.
Joe Davidow
Joe Davidow is an American
composer/film director living in Finland
since 1978. His Documentaries deal with
social issues of poverty, discrimination,
HIV and Aids. His latest film Dreams
Deferred deals with the US Criminal
Justice System and Mass Incarceration
and its effects on the African American
community. His films and compositions
have been represented at numerous
international festivals, and have won
many national and international awards,
including the prestigious PRIX ITALIA.
Carl Davidson is a veteran peace and
justice organizer. He was a leader of the
1960s new left. Today, he is a national cochair of the Committees of
Correspondence for Democracy and
Socialism and a national board member
of the Solidarity Economy Network. He
studied philosophy at Penn State and the
University of Nebraska. He now lives in
Beaver County, Western Pennsylvania,
and a member of Pittsburgh Fightback,
Local 3657of the United Steelworkers,
which is the USW's community action
project. He attended a seminar in
Mondragon in 2010, and that trip along
with many years of other work and
research are reflected in his book, New
Paths to Socialism.
Carl Davidson
Grace Davie
Davie teaches history at CUNY-Queens
College and has been working with the
Occupy Faith network.
Karen Davis
James Davis
Kahleek Davis
Natasha Davis
Crystal Davis
Moe Davis
Karen Davis, Ph.D., is founder and
president of United Poultry Concerns, a
nonprofit organization that promotes the
compassionate and respectful treatment
of domestic fowl and includes a
sanctuary for chickens and turkeys in
Virginia. Her articles appear in numerous
collections. Her many books include
Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An
Inside Look at the Modern Poultry
Industry. Karen Davis is in the U. S.
Animal Rights Hall of Fame.
James Davis is an Irish documentary
filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay
Area. His works include "Safety Orange"
and "Meeting Room."
Brownsville Brooklyn resident food
justice youth advocate, member of the
Brownsville Community Justice Center,
and vegetarian.
Sister of 23 year old Shantel Davis, killed
by NYPD in East Flatbush, Brooklyn on
June 14, 2012.
Sister of 23 year old Shantel Davis, killed
by NYPD in East Flatbush, Brooklyn on
June 14, 2012.
Betty is a Warrior in the struggle for
community control of education. She
worked with Lynne Stewart, the Peoples’
Attorney, and Ralph Poynter, Union
Organizer and co-founder of the UFT, to
form the New Abolitionist Movement.“ I
may still be addicted to potato chips and
chocolate but I am not addicted to a 2
party mythology or the Dixiecrat
Democrats."
Betty davis
Ben Davis
Ben Davis currently lives and works in
New York City where he is executive
editor at Artinfo. He is the author of the
forthcoming book: 9.5 Theses on Art and
Class (Haymarket Books).
Benjamin Day
Benjamin Day is the Director of
Organizing of Healthcare-NOW! He was
previously the Executive Director of MassCare: the Massachusetts Campaign for
Single Payer Health Care, for seven years.
Under his leadership, Mass-Care grew
into a coalition of over 100 member
organizations and five local chapters.
Mass-Care also led successful 2008 and
2010 single-payer ballot campaigns that
passed in every one of the 24 districts
they were organized in.
Jodi Dean
Damian DeCaires
Louis A. DeCaro
Lamis Deek
Jodi Dean teaches political and media
theory in Geneva, New York. She has
written or edited eleven books, including
The Communist Horizon and Democracy
and Other Neoliberal Fantasies.
Attorney and human rights advocate;
NLG-NYC vice president; board member
of the Council on American Islamic
Relations New York; co-founder of AlAwda, NY and US Palestine Community
Network.
Michael DeDora
At rationalist thinktank Center for Inquiry
(CFI) as director of Office of Public Policy
and its representative to the United
Nations. Maintains blog "The Moral
Perspective" and contributes to
"Rationally Speaking." Master’s in
political theory (Brooklyn College) and
degree in rhetoric and communication
(SUNY-Albany).
Patrick Deer
Patrick Deer is an Associate Professor of
English at New York University, where he
focuses on war culture, modernism,
contemporary British literature and
culture, the novel and film. He is the
author of Culture in Camouflage: War,
Empire, and Modern British Literature
(2009) and Guest Editor of The Ends of
War, Social Text 91 (Summer 2007). He is
currently completing Deep England:
Forging British Culture After Empire, and
working on a book project on
understanding America’s cultures of war.
Emelyn Dela Pena
Emelyn Dela Peña was born in Los
Angeles, CA, and currently resides in
Cambridge, MA. She is the Assistant Dean
of Harvard College for Student Life,
Harvard University and Adjunct Professor
in the Higher Education Program,
Merrimack College. Emelyn is currently
with the Boston Chapter of AF3IRM.
Carol Delgado
Carol Delgado has been Consul General
of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in
New York since 2008. Before that she
worked in the international relations
department of Venezuela's state oil
company PDVSA and as international
relations director of Venezuela's National
Council for the Protection of the Rights of
the Child. She is a long-time activist in
leftist causes in Venezuela and has an
M.A. in non-profit management from the
New School.
Carol Delgado Arria
Carol Delgado has been the Venezuelan
Consulate General since 2008. Before she
worked in the international relations
department of Venezuela's state oil
company PDVSA and as international
relations director of Venezuela's National
Council for the Protection of the Rights of
the Child. She is a long-time activist in
leftist causes in Venezuela and has an
M.A. in non-profit management from the
New School.
Tahir Della
Tahir Della lives as a photographer in
Munich and has worked at building a
strong Black community and building an
understanding of racism in Germany. He
has been politically active for the past 25
years through events such as the Black
Film Festivals and the Black Heritage
Days. A member of the organizing team
of the annual Bundestreffen, a meeting
of Black People in Germany, Austria,
Switzerland and other countries, he is
also on the board of the Initiative of
Black People in Germany (ISD).
Michael Denning
Radhika Desai
Michael Denning teaches is American
Studies at Yale, and the author of The
Cultural Front: The Laboring of American
Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997),
and Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
(2004). He is currently working on two
books: The Accumulation of Labor, a
section of which was published in New
Left Review as "Wageless Life," and a
book on vernacular phonograph music,
Decolonizing the Ear.
Radhika Desai is Professor at the
Department of Political Studies,
University of Manitoba, at Winnipeg,
Canada. She is the author of Geopolitical
Economy: After US Hegemony,
Globalization and Empire (2013),
Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From
Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics
(2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and
Socialism: 'Social Democrats' and the
Labour Party (1994), and editor of
Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today's
Capitalism (2010) and Developmental
and Cultural Nationalisms (2009).
Amanda Devecka-Ranier
Bill Di Paolo
Dylana Dillon
Amanda is the Lead Organizer of the
Make Wall Street Pay Campaign for
National People's Action. National
People's Action (NPA) is a network of
grassroots organizations with a fierce
reputation for direct action from across
the country that work to advance a
national economic and racial justice
agenda. NPA has over 200 organizers
working to unite everyday people in
cities, towns, and rural communities
throughout the United States through
direct-action, house meetings and
community organizing.
Bill Di Paola is the Director of Operations
at MORUS. He has 25 years of experience
as the founder and director of Time’s Up!
Environmental organization.
Dylana Dillion is an activist, educator, and
photographer who is currently one
fourteenth of an organizers' cooperative
working full time with Occupy Sandy New
Jersey. Dylana's work can be viewed
primarily through the lens of
environmental justice and she has spent
the past three years working on various
conservation, food sovereignty, and ecoliteracy projects in Central America,
Argentina, and Spain.
Peter Dimock
Eric Dirnbach
Jacqueline DiSalvo
Peter Dimock is a novelist and freelance
editor. He is former Senior Executive
Editor for history and political science,
Columbia University Press; and former
Senior Editor at Random House. He is the
author of two novels published by Dalkey
Archive Press: A Short Rhetoric for
Leaving the Family (1998) and George
Anderson: A Love Song in Imperial Time
(2013). Authors with whom he has
worked include Toni Morrison, Amartya
Sen, Angela Davis, and Eric Hobsbawm.
Eric has worked in the labor movement
for a number of unions for over a decade
as a researcher, campaigner and policy
analyst, working on organizing and
collective bargaining campaigns as well
as international trade, government
procurement, and green jobs projects. He
has also been involved in numerous antisweatshop, international solidarity, and
local worker and community organizing
initiatives. He can be reached at
[email protected].
Associate Professor, Sep 1984 to present
at Baruch College CUNY NYC, works at
CUNY Graduate Center, NYC Professional
Staff Congress, Delegate NYC Central
Labor Council. Is currently active at the
Occupy Wall Street Labor Outreach
Committee.
Bruce Dixon
Ex-Black Panther Bruce Dixon is a
longtime electoral and community
organizer from Chicago. He worked with
public housing residents & public school
parents in the 70s and 80s, & was
responsible for registering hundreds of
thousands of voters. In 2000 he moved
to Georgia, where he now serves on the
GA Green Party state committee. He's cofounder & managing editor at Black
Agenda Report dot com.
Franklin Dmitryev
Franklin Dmitryev has been active in
environmental struggles since Prairie
Alliance in central Illinois in 1979 and
Citizens Against Nuclear Power in
Chicago in the 1980s; has been writing on
environmental and other topics for News
& Letters since the 1980s; has been
active in environmental justice struggles
including with Defense Depot of
Memphis Tennessee Concerned Citizens
Committee and with the community
around the Velsicol plant in Memphis.
Carl Dix
Mike Dola
Ted Dobson
Jaire Donald
Someone from Domestic Workers
Union
Mignon Donald
Longtime revolutionary, founding
member of the Revolutionary Communist
Party, USA. In 2011 co-founder of the
Stop Mass Incarceration Network. One of
the Fort Lewis 6, six GIs who refused
orders to go to Vietnam in 1970; and
then served 2 years in Leavenworth
Military Penitentiary for this stand. Cofounded the October 22nd Coalition to
Stop Police Brutality in 1996. Since 2009:
a series of Dialogues with Cornel West on
the theme of the conditions facing Black
people, “In the Age of Obama …”
Mike Dola is an office worker and
member of Marxist-Humanist Initiative
(http://www.marxist-humanistinitiative.org).
Ted Dobson graduated from the
University of California Santa Cruz Farm
and Garden Project in 1981, where he
studied under master gardener Alan
Chadwick. in 1983, he and his then-wife,
Anne Banks, began organic market
farming in Hillsdale, NY, growing baby
vegetables and greens, blazing a trail to
Boston and Manhattan. Dobson
introduced mesclun and arugula to some
of the region's most innovative chefs,
with whom he continues to work today,
growing on his 15-acre Equinox Farm, in
Sheffield, MA.
tk
Mignon Donald is an independent
scholar, specializing in indigenous and
non-dualist spirituality.
Martin Donohoe
David Doonan
Bill Dores
Joanne Doroshow
Andrew Dowe
Martin Donohoe is Adjunct Associate
Professor in Community Health at
Portland State University, practices
internal medicine, and is on the Social
Justice Committee of (National)
Physicians for Social Responsibility and
the Board of Advisors of Oregon PSR. His
book, Public Health and Social Justice
(Jossey-Bass/Wiley) was published this
year; http://phsj.org/public-health-andsocial-justice-reader/. His slide shows,
articles, and syllabi can be found at
http://www.publichealthandsocialjustice.
org
Andrew E. Dowe is a graduate student in
the Department of African American
Studies and Programs in American
Studies and Women’s, Gender and
Sexuality Studies at Yale University. His
current research focuses on the
relationship between racialized
discourses of sexuality and homophobia
and the makings of empire in the
Anglophone Caribbean, South Africa and
the United Kingdom.
LGBTQ activist and a managing editor of
Workers World newspaper. This year she
delivered an address at a conference in
India to discuss the situation for women,
shortly after the internationally
publicized gang rape and murder of an
Indian woman. She has made solidarity
trips to Cuba, Venezuela and Lebanon. In
2004 she ran for Congress on the Peace
and Freedom slot in the district in
California represented by Nancy Pelosi.
She is a co-author of "What Is Marxism
All About?"
LeiLani Dowell
Stephen Downs
For over a quarter century he
investigated corrupt judges as the Chief
Attorney in Albany for the New York
State Commission on Judicial Conduct
between 1975 and 2003. He is a cofounder of Project Salam and has written
extensively on the case of Yasin Aref and
Muhammad Husain in Albany, NY. Steve
served as Policy Committee Director on
the Steering Committee of NCPCF in the
2010-2011 term, and has been serving as
the NCPCF Executive Director since
January 2012.
Thomas Drake
Steve Downs
Ian Dreiblatt
Drake is a former senior executive with
the National Security Agency who blew
the whistle on massive multi-billion
dollar fraud and violations of the 4th
Amendment and the Constitution. The
Justice Dept. subsequently targeted,
prosecuted & indicted Mr. Drake in 2010
for espionage - extraordinary charges
symptomatic of the rising power of the
national security & surveillance state
since 9/11 & its direct assault on freedom
of speech, thought, civil liberties, human
rights, innovation & privacy.
Ian Dreiblatt is a poet, musician, activist,
and translator based in Brooklyn. His
work has appeared in a wide range of
publications including Lungfull!, Harp &
Altar, Joyland Poetry, and the Agriculture
Reader. His translations of The Death of
Ivan Illych and The Enchanted Wanderer
are both available from Melville House
Publishing, and The Nose is on its way.
He holds a JD from CUNY and is the New
York Manager for Dalkey Archive Press.
Mark Dudzic
Mathieu Dufour
Mark Dudzic is the National Coordinator
of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Health Care, based in Washington, D.C.,
and has been a labor activist for over 30
years. In 1979 he joined Rahway, NJ Local
149 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Workers (now part of the United
Steelworkers) after helping to organize
his precious metals refinery. He served as
full-time president of his local union and
as president of the largest district council
in the OCAW.
John Duda
John Duda is the communications
coordinator at the Democracy
Collaborative, a research institute
dedicated to the development of new
strategies for the democratization of
wealth based in worker and community
ownership.
david duncan
Former director of a community not-forprofit organization that focused
resources on community organizing.
Formerly associated with over 70 local
low/moderate income groups that were
in struggles for community resources. I
have also been a forty-five participant in
groups that produce a community
newspaper. Also I was the co-director of
a community-labor coalition for 14 years.
Stephen Duncombe
Stephen Duncombe teaches the history
and politics of media at New York
University. He is the author or editor of
six books, including Dream: Re-Imagining
Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy
and the Cultural Resistance Reader.
Duncombe co-founded a community
based advocacy group in the Lower East
Side of Manhattan, Reclaim the Streets.
He co-created the School for Creative
Activism in 2011 and is presently codirector of the Center for Artistic
Activism.
Mark Dunlea
Mark Dunlea is a co-Founder of Green
Party of NYS, former national Executive
Committee of Citizens Party and National
Organizer of 1984 Sonia Johnson for
President, former New York State Head
Organizer of ACORN, co-founder of
NYPIRG, former Town Board member of
Poestenkill, author of Madame President:
The Unauthorized Biography of the First
Green Party President, and Secretary of
Agriculture in the Green Shadow Cabinet.
Mark Dworkin
Dworkin has produced award winning
documentary films on social justice and
the environment in North and South
America and Europe for over 25 years.
The films are used by activists and
academics, screened in theaters and
community settings, and on PBS. Most
recent films: SHIFT CHANGE, WE ARE
NOT GHOSTS, GOOD FOOD.
Stephan Edel
Stephan currently works at the Center for
Working Families on developing &
implementing policy on sustainability &
green jobs balancing politics & grassroots
concerns. Previously he worked as a
union & community organizer & as a
producer of video and multimedia
content. He attended law school to
better understand the mechanisms that
impact & often marginalize working class
communities & small businesses. He has
a JD from CUNY Law & a Master’s in
Global Politics from the University of
London.
Ethan Earle
Ethan Earle is a project manager at the
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s New York
office, where he works on issues related
to the North American Left and the
United Nations. He formerly served as
U.S. program director of The Working
World, a loan fund for worker-owned
cooperatives, which he continues to
support in an advisory role. Ethan is also
a contributing member of the editorial
board of WorkingUSA: The Journal of
Labor and Society. He holds an MA in
International Relations from FLACSOArgentina.
Ana Edwards
Ana Edwards is the host of DefendersLIVE
a radio show in Richmond Virginia. She is
also a founding member of the
Defenders for Freedom, Justice &
Equality and the chair of the Sacred
Ground Historical Reclamation Project.
Ana recently returned from a trip to Mali
Stefanie Ehmsen
John Ehrenberg
Syed Ehtisham
Haidar Eid
Josh Eidelson
Stefanie Ehmsen is Co-Director of the
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York
office. She has taught Political Science at
the Free University Berlin and was from
2009-2011 Visiting Professor for Gender
and Diversity at the Beuth University of
Applied Sciences, Berlin. Her latest book
compares the institutionalization of the
women’s movement in Germany and the
United States.
Author of many books and articles on
Marxist theory and American politics;
chair of the Political Science Department
at Long Island University's Brooklyn
Campus; active for many years in the
Caucus for a New Political Science; long
Dr. Ehitsham is a retired orthopedic
surgeon. He has been involved in the left
politics in Pakistan since his student day.
He is an author, a freelance writer and a
public speaker. His areas of interest are
history, political economy and human
rights.
(Via Skype): Dr. Haidar Eid is a refugee
whose parents were expelled from the
Zarnouqa village in 1948. Dr. Eid is a
member of the PACBI Steering
Committee and a co-founder of the One
Democratic State Group. He currently
lives in Gaza, where he is an Associate
Professor of Cultural Studies at Al-Aqsa
University.
Josh Eidelson is a free-lance journalist
who has covered the struggle of WalMart and other low-wage workers. His
articles have appeared in The Nation, The
American Prospect, Salon, and In These
Times among others.
Hester Eisenstein
Professor of Sociology and Women's
Studies, Queens College and the
Graduate Center, CUNY; most recent
book is Feminism Seduced: How Global
Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to
Exploit the World (Paradigm, 2009)
Marwa Elbially
While in law school she had the
opportunity to work in Cairo, Egypt, with
Human Rights Associations on issues
affecting prisoners and assisted with the
Taxpayer Clinic for low income
individuals. She is currently serving on
the Board of Directors of the local
chapter of the NYCLU. As Secretary of the
National Coalition to Protect Civil
Freedoms (NCPCF), she has worked on
the development of an extensive NCPCF
database of pre-emptively prosecuted
defendants.
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
Rosa Miriam Elizalde is a Cuban
journalist, writer and editor based in
Havana, Cuba. She currently manages the
website Cubadebate
(http://www.cubadebate.cu/), an
independent on-line journal of news and
analysis that represents one of the first
attempts in Cuba at Internet-based
journalism and remains among the
country's most popular news websites.
She has written several books about
Cuba and Latin America specifically. She's
also a contributor to the Nation
magazine.
Luke Elliott
Luke has been involved in the labor
movement and independent left politics
ever since he read Antonio Gramsci while
living on $10 an hour. He will begin the
Ph.D. program in Sociology at the CUNY
Graduate Center in the fall of this year.
Steve Ellner has been teaching economic
history in Venezuela at the Universidad
de Oriente since 1977 and the universitybased Misión Sucre since 2008. He is
coordinator of the May 2013 issue of
Latin American Perspectives titled “Latin
America’s Radical Left in Power:
Complexities and Challenges in the
Twenty-First Century.”
Steve Ellner
Ashley Emerson Gilbert
Ashley Emerson Gilbert is the Director of
Seven Hills Global Outreach, she holds an
MA from Clark University in International
Development, Community and
Environment. She specializes in
'community-driven' development, and
manages a variety of international public
health, education, and economic
initiatives. She works extensively
throughout the globe to further
sustainable local initiatives with SHGO
partners in Ghana, Haiti, Sierra Leone,
Kenya, Bangladesh, Guatemala, and
elsewhere.
Gerry Emmett
Gerry Emmett is a long-time
revolutionary activist in Chicago. He
writes the World In View column for
News & Letters and, most recently,
edited the collection Crossroads of
History: Marxist-Humanist writings on
the Middle East by Raya Dunayevskaya.
He has written extensively on the Arab
Spring revolts and revolutions,
particularly in Egypt and Syria. He
supports the Syrian Revolution and has
been honored to represent that struggle
before numerous audiences.
Barbara Epstein is chair and teaches in
the History of Consciousness Department
at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
One of the leading analysts of US social
movements since the 1960s, her essay
'Occupy Oakland: the question of
violence is featured in the 2013 Socialist
Register. She is a leading theorist and
historian of social movements.
Barbara Epstein
Mark Engler
Itzhak Epstein
Megan Erickson
Mark Engler is an editorial board
member at Dissent, a senior analyst with
Foreign Policy In Focus, and author of
How to Rule the World: The Coming
Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation
Books).
Martin Espada
Sergio Espana
Anriette Esterhuysen
David Ewing
Author of more than 15 books. His latest
collection of poems, The Trouble Ball
(Norton, 2011), received the Milt Kessler
Award and an International Latino Book
Award. His previous collection, The
Republic of Poetry (Norton, 2006), was a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The
recipient of fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts, Espada
teaches at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst.
Sergio Espana is the Lead Organizer of
the Healthcare Is a Human Right
Campaign in Maryland, a grassroots
movement-building initiative by the
United Workers, PNHP-Maryland and
Healthcare Now-Maryland.
Based in South Africa, Anriette is APC's
Executive Director. As such she leads the
world's largest technology coalition,
comprised of leading progressive
technology organizations from over 35
countries and holding UN consultative
status, in a wide variety of campaigns,
research projects, support efforts and
organizing projects.
Immigration lawyer chair, San Francisco
CA USCPFA
Zeinab Eyega
Ms. Eyega is the Executive Director and
Founder of Sauti Yetu, an advocacy
organization seeking to empower women
to exercise, advocate and protect their
rights. Eyega facilitates cross-cultural
competency workshops for health care
providers and reproductive health
promotion seminars for African
immigrant and refugee communities
throughout the United States. She also
works on women's protection and rights
in conflict, post conflict regions of Africa.
Nicole Fabricant
Nicole Fabricant teaches anthropology at
Towson University in Maryland. She is
the author of Mobilizing Bolivia's
Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the
Struggle over Land.
Gil Fagiani
Gil was a founder of the political
organization White Lightning (1971-75).
A social worker and addiction specialist,
he directed Renewal House, a residential
program for recovering alcoholics and
drug addicts in Downtown Brooklyn for
21 years. A translator and writer, he has
published six collections of his own
poetry. His latest book, Serfs of
Psychiatry, was inspired by the 12 years
he worked at a state psychiatric hospital
in the Bronx.
Dalia Fahmy
Golnaz Fakhimi
Expert on the Politics of the Middle East,
Islam and Democracy, the Muslim
Brotherhood, Egyptian Politics, and the
Arab Spring. At work on a book about
Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the
Arab Spring. A new faculty member at
LIU's
Brooklyn
Golnaz
FakhimiCampus.
is a staff attorney with
the International Justice Network (IJN), a
human rights organization that has been
advocating since 2006 on behalf of
individuals held without charge or trial by
the U.S. military at Bagram Air Base,
Afghanistan.
Dr. Cathey Falvo is a member of
Physicians for Social Responsibility and
President of the International Society of
Doctors for the Environment. Dr. Falvo
has been working on issues of nuclear
prevention, safety from harmful
chemicals and other environmental
issues for many years.
Dr. Cathey Falvo
Samuel Farber
Jason Farbman
Anthony Farley
Born and raised in Cuba, he has written
numerous books and articles on that
country including his most recent "Cuba
Since the Revolution of 1959: A Critical
Assessment" (Haymarket, 2011). He also
wrote "Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall
of Soviet Democracy" (Verso, 1990).
Jason Farbman is a writer and activist
based in New York and a contributor to
"101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals
Who Changed U.S. History"
Arnold Farr
Arnold L. Farr teaches philosophy and
social theory at the University of
Kentucky. His research interests are
German idealism, critical theory,
Marxism, Africana philosophy,
psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and
liberation philosophy. He is coeditor and
coauthor of Marginal Groups and
Mainstream American Culture, and
author of Critical Theory and Democratic
Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent
Liberation Philosophies (Lexington,
2009). He is founder of the International
Herbert Marcuse Society.
Walter Farrell
Professional interests include: Social
Welfare and Health Policy; Hispanic
Immigration Issues; Management and
Community Practice; Nonprofit
Leadership; Community and Economic
Development and Employment;
Discrimination and Inequality Issues
Sara Farris
Sara R. Farris is Member Scholar in the
School of Social Science, at the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton and
Marie Curie Fellow at the University of
Cambridge. She is the author of Max
Weber's Theory of Personality.
Individuation, Politics and Orientalism in
the Sociology of Religion (Brill, 2013) and
of numerous articles on social and
political theory, international migration
and gender.
Liza Featherstone
Dianne Feeley
Andrew Ferguson
Sujatha Fernandes
Liza Featherstone is a journalist writing a
book exploring the history of focus
groups, including their origins in the
militarized university. She is a
contributing writer to the Nation and a
columnist for amNY. She teaches
journalism at Columbia's School of
International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
Dianne Feeley is active in Occupy
Detroit’s eviction defense committee. A
retired autoworker, she is a member of
Autoworker Caravan, a group of rank-andfile autoworkers who oppose concessions
and urge that idle factories be converted
to produce mass transit and non-fossil
energy. She is an editor of Against the
Current, a bimonthly socialist magazine.
Sujatha Fernandes is an Associate
Professor of Sociology at Queens College
and the Graduate Center, City University
of New York. She is the author of Who
Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social
Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke
University Press, 2010) and Cuba
Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and
the Making of New Revolutionary
Cultures (Duke University Press, 2006).
Her most recent book is Close to the
Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop
Generation (Verso, 2011).
Johanna Fernandez
Danny Ferreyra
Rachel Field
Johanna Fernandez holds a Ph.D. in
History from Columbia University. She
teaches 20th Century US History and
African American History at Baruch
College (CUNY). Prof. Fernandez is the
writer and producer of Justice on Trial:
The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. She is cocoordinator of Educators for Mumia AbuJamal.
Danny Ferreyra is the President of the
Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor
Studies Chapter of the Student Alumni
Association Empire State College and a
3rd Year Electrician Apprentice pursuing
his Associates and Bachelor’s Degrees at
the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for
Labor Studies. Danny was part of the
Rapid Repairs program fixing boilers and
electrical services in the hard hit
communities of Rockaway and Coney
Island post Hurricane Sandy.
[email protected]
I am a community organizing and civil
rights activist. I am a member of the
A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition which is an
organization that seeks to stop war and
end racism. I am also a member of
Anakbayan, a organization that seeks to
bring justice to the Philippines as well as
justice to Filipino youth and workers here
in the United States. I am a hip-hop
activist and artist. I have been an
organizer since I was 16 years old, and I
was inspired by the conditions of the
community I am from.
Ray Figueroa
Janice Fine
Norman Finkelstein
Eleanor Finley
Ray is a food-environment activist and
youth-development strategist. His
experience creating high-impact foodsystem-development models in the field
dates back to the early 1990′s, when, as
founder of the SIEMBRA PROJECT, he was
awarded the NEIGHBORHOOD
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION AWARD from
the CITIZENS COMMITTEE for NEW YORK
CITY for his work organizing the first
Harlem Youth-based organic farming
project.
Janice Fine is associate professor of labor
studies and employment relations at the
School of Management and Labor
Relations, Rutgers University. She is the
author of Worker Centers: Organizing
Communities at the Edge of the Dream
(2006) published by Cornell University
Press and the Economic Policy Institute.
Before becoming a professor, Fine
worked as a community, labor, coalition
and electoral organizer for more than
twenty-five years.
Eleanor Finley has been working with the
Institute for Social Ecology as a student
and an organizer for nearly two years.
She has been an engaged member of the
Occupy Movement as well as an activist
for queer liberation and reproductive
justice in the Southern US. Eleanor was
recently accepted as a graduate student
in anthropology at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
Brendan Fischer
Brendan Fischer is General Counsel with
the Center for Media and Democracy. He
has worked extensively on the
ALECexposed project, documenting ALEC
agenda items like voter suppression,
prison privatization, union-busting, and
gun legislation. He has filed legal
challenges against ALEC's efforts to
disguise their activities from public view
and to facilitate special interest influence
over state legislators. He additionally
works on issues related to campaign
finance and election administration.
Ariane Fischer
Ariane Fischer has been teaching in
Intellectual Heritage at Temple University
since 2008. She holds a Ph.D. in Human
Sciences from the George Washington
University and M.A. degrees in American
Studies and Comparative Studies. Ariane
has published articles in various journals,
including the Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch and
the South Atlantic Quarterly.
Jordan Flaherty
Jordan Flaherty is a journalist based in
New Orleans, a producer on the Al
Jazeera news program EMPIRE, and
author of the book Floodlines:
Community and Resistance from Katrina
to the Jena Six (floodlines.org). He was
the first writer to bring the story of the
Jena Six to a national audience, and his
award-winning reporting from the Gulf
Coast has been featured in a range of
outlets including the New York Times,
Washington Post, Mother Jones, and
Argentina’s Clarin newspaper.
Pojanee Fleury
Pojanee is one of the most progressive
community health- conscious advocates
of today. A dedicated to educator, PJ is
the Founder and CEO of Brown Eyez
Company, parent company of Brown
Eyez Publishing Group, which was
established when Brown Eyez Magazine
was published in 2007. Brown Eyez
Publishing Group has grown since to
publish two other magazines Behind The
Scenes Magazine and 4Haiti Magazine.
P.J. Fleury
Pojanee. J. Fleury is a young Haitian
woman publisher and community
organizer. She is the director of Brown
Eyez 2007 to help children in community
through promotion of positive culture
and health awareness. P.J. is Vice
President of Haitian American Care, Inc.
Sara Flounders
Presenter Sara Flounders, authority on
international sanctions, is author of “War
Without Victory: The Pentagon’s Achilles
Heel”, co-editor of several volumes,
organizer of national anti-sanctions
campaigns, co-director of the
International Action Center, NY
(www.iacenter.org), three-time recipient
of The Project Censored Award.
Margaret Flowers
Margaret Flowers is a Maryland
pediatrician from Baltimore. She left
practice in 2007 to advocate full-time for
a single payer health care system. She
served as Congressional Fellow for
Physicians for a National Health Program
from 2009-2010 and is on the board of
Healthcare-Now. She also serves as codirector of ItsOurEconomy.us, co-host of
Clearing the FOG
(ClearingtheFOGRadio.org), and
Secretary of Health in the Green Shadow
Cabinet.
Reg Flowers
Reg Flowers, artist, community organizer,
involved with numerous groups in Red
Hook. Works with Communities United
for Police Reform & Occupy Wall Street.
Post-Hurricane Sandy, worked with
community leaders, residents, & city
officials on recovery efforts. Was key
facilitator for meetings of community
members and allies. Graduate (BFA),
University of the Arts, and Yale School of
Drama (MFA). He resides in Brooklyn
with his husband, Chris Hammett.
Dr. Margaret Flowers
A Maryland pediatrician who left private
practice in 2007 to advocate full-time for
a single payer health care system at both
the state and national levels. She is on
the board of Healthcare-Now and is on
the coordinating committee of the Md.
Health Care is a Human Right campaign.
Flowers has testified before the state
legislature and in Congress has appeared
on Bill Moyers' Journal, Democracy Now
and Fox Business News. Her writing is
regularly published in TruthOut and AlJazeera English.
Harrison Fluss
Harrison Fluss is a PhD student in
philosophy at Stony Brook University. His
research mostly focuses on issues in
metaphysics and political philosophy.
Currently, he is working on the
relationship between Spinoza, German
Idealism, and Marxism. He has been a
past presenter and panel chair the Left
Forum. This was most recently in 2011,
where he gave a talk on Slavoj Zizek, at
the Marxism, Psychoanalysis, and Human
Nature panel.
Jennifer Flynn
Jennifer was the co-founder and
Executive Director of NYC AIDS Housing
Network (now VOCAL-NY) for 9 years
prior to joining Health GAP as the
Managing Director in September, 2007.
Jennifer holds a Masters Degree from the
New School for Social Research and was
the first US based and focused human
rights activist selected for Columbia
University's Human Rights Advocates
Training Fellowship.
Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black
Agenda Report currently produces Black
Agenda television and co-host Black
Agenda Radio and co-founded
BlackCommentator.com (BC) in 2002. The
weekly journal quickly became the most
influential Black political site on the Net.
In October, 2006, Ford and the entire
writing team left BC to launch
BlackAgendaReport.com (BAR). Ford is
the executive editor of BAR. A long time
radio host and commentator, Ford in
1977 launched, produced and hosted
America's Black Forum, the first
nationally syndicated Black News. Ford is
author of "The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S.
Media Coverage of the Grenada
Invasion." Glen Ford is also the vice-chair
of the Black is Back Coalition, an antiwar
and social justice coalition
Glen Ford
Julianna Forlano
Erik Forman
Julianna Forlano is the creator, host, and
producer of the acclaimed news parody
series, ABSURDITY TODAY! on Free
Speech TV, The Young Turks Online
Network, WBAI radio in NYC, and The
Progressive Voices Radio Network.
(Archives: www.AbsurdityToday.com). A
contributing writer for
CrooksandLiars.com, and
TheContributor.com, Ms. Forlano teaches
Media Ethics, Writing For New Media,
and Comedy Scriptwriting at Brooklyn
College and Hofstra University. She
currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Hannah Forrester
Michael Fox
Columbia student, ISO - Columbia
branch,
Columbia
Michael and
Fox Barnardis a former
editor ofDivest
NACLA
Report on the Americas and a member of
the NACLA Multimedia Team. He has
worked for many years as a freelance
journalist, radio reporter, and
documentary filmmaker covering Latin
America. He is, most recently, co-author
of Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions:
The Future of 21st Century Socialism (Zed
Frances Fox Piven is on the faculty of the
Graduate Center of the City University of
New York. Together with Richard
Cloward, she is the author of Regulating
the Poor, Poor People’s Movements, and
Why Americans Still Don’t Vote. She is
also the author of Challenging Authority
and Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?
She is also long-time activist in
movements for social justice.
Frances Fox Piven
Harriet Fraad is a hypnotherapist &
psychotherapist in Manhattan. She
writes regularly for Truthout, Tikkun and
The Journal of Psychohistory. Her blog
with Richard D. Wolff, Economy and
Psychology appears at HarrietFraad.com
and RDWolff.com. Her latest book is
Bringing It All Back Home ed. Graham
Cussano. Her article on Emotional and
Sexual Life in a Socialist America written
with Tess Fraad Wolff will appear in the
book Imagine A Socialist America(Harper Collins 2013).
Harriet Fraad
Tess Fraad Wolff
Tess Fraad Wolff, LMSW, CAT is a
psychotherapist at the Center for
Psychological Well-Being in NYC, her
specializations include Hypnotherapy and
Art Therapy. Tess’ latest article will
appear in the forthcoming book Imagine
A Socialist America- (Harper Collins 2013
Carlos Frade is Senior Lecturer in
sociology at the University of Salford,
Manchester, UK, where he teaches
Weberian and Marxian thought and
social and political theory. His research is
focused on political subjectivities and
rationalities. His most recent publications
include a paper on Machiavelli’s Prince in
our times; he is currently preparing a
book on Weber for students and
militants.
Carlos Frade
Tess Fraad-Wolff
Tess Fraad Wolff, LMSW, CAT, is a
psychotherapist at the Psychoanalysis
and Psychotherapy Center in New York
City. She is also a mental-health
counselor in Manhattan. Her latest work,
“Capitalist Profit and Intimate Life,”
appeared in The Journal of
Psychohistory, Winter 2013, V. 40, N.1.
Alejandra Franco
Alex Franco conducted a fact-finding
mission and co-authored a U.N. shadow
report on sexual exchange in postEarthquake Haiti in 2012. She worked
with Tequio Jurídico, an indigenous legal
collective in Oaxaca, MX, on land rights
and indigenous women’s international
human rights. She was an immigrant
rights and drug policy organizer in San
Francisco and a graduate of UC Berkeley.
She received a Juris Doctorate from
CUNY School of Law, where she was the
president of the student government.
Joshua B. Freeman is a professor of
history at Queens College, City University
of New York and the CUNY Graduate
Center. He is the former executive officer
of the Graduate Center's history
department. Teaches history at Queens
College and the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York and is
affiliated with its Joseph S. Murphy Labor
Institute. His forthcoming book,
"American Empire," will be the final
volume of the Penguin History of the
United States.
Joshua Freeman
Alan Freeman
Alan Freeman is co-editor, with Radhika
Desai, of the "Future of World
Capitalism" book series and, with Andrew
Kliman, of a new journal "Critique of
Political Economy." He is currently a
visiting professor at London Metropolitan
University. He has written or edited four
books and numerous articles on
economics, politics and culture.
TJ Frawley
Mjiba Frehiwot
TJ Frawley is a founding member of the
OWS Political and Electoral Reform
working group.
Mjiba Frehiwot is the current Director of
Education and Training for the NAACP.
She completed her PhD in African Studies
at Howard University. She is a human
right activist, member of All-African
People Revolutionary Party and the
Revival of Pan Africanism Forum
George Friday
Doris Friedensohn
George Friday holds degrees in political
science, economics, and African
American studies from the University of
North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she
graduated in 1982. Friday is a co-founder
of Wholeworks, which provides grassroots community organizations with
leadership and skills training. She worked
with National Peace Action and the
Piedmont Peace Project in North
Carolina. She is a board member of the
Grassroots Policy Project, the Center for
Voting and Democracy and the New
World Foundation, among other groups,
and has been part of the US Social Forum
process since its beginnings. Her work
particularly focuses on communication,
oppression, change, and the role of
privilege in transforming power
dynamics, fostering broad, deep
economic and social justice change. She
brings more than three decades of
experience to her position as national
field organizer for the Bill of Rights
Defense Committee. She is national field
organizer for Bill of Rights Defense
Committee. Since 1995 George has been
Doris Friedensohn is the author of Eating
as I Go: Scenes from America and
Abroad, University Press of Kentucky,
2006, and Cooking for Change: Tales
From a Food Service Training Academy,
with photos by Steve Riskind, Full Court
Press, 2011. Riskind and Friedensohn's
traveling exhibit, "Cooking for Change" is
currently being shown at the Woodrow
Wilson School, Princeton University.
Jovonna Frieson
Jovonna Frieson has been personally
affected by the child welfare system and
has since been professionally organizing
around creating change within it since
March 2010. She is currently employed
as a Parent Advocate for the agency New
Alternatives for Children.
Robert Frith
Robert Frith is a board member of
African Friends of the United States and
producer of a prominent BronxNet TV
show. He has contributed to social
movements for over 20 years,
documenting the experiences.
Dominic Frongillo
Grover Furr
Cecelia Frontero
HG
Greg Gabrellas
Estelle Gadbois-Bernard
Dominic Frongillo is a community energy
educator who in 2006, at age 26, became
the youngest person ever to serve as a
member of the town council of Caroline,
New York. He is now deputy supervisor of
the Town of Caroline, which in 2011
became the second NYS county to
become completely powered by
renewable energy. Frongillo spearheads
the group Elected Official to Protect New
York.
Grover Furr teaches in the English
Department at Montclair State
University. He has been researching the
history of the Soviet Union during the
Stalin period for many years. His research
can be found on his Home Page,
http://www.tinyurl.com/grover-furrresearch
Sofía Gallisá
Martin Garbus
Elizabeth Garcia
Sofía Gallisá Muriente is an artist turned
relief worker, an active participant in the
Occupy Wall Street movement and a
founding editor of IndigNación, Occupy's
only Spanish language publication. She is
deeply engaged with Occupy Sandy relief
operations in the Rockaway peninsula
and is focused on rebuilding YANA (You
Are Never Alone) a community center
dedicated to job training in green
technologies that was devastated in the
flood and re-emerged as an important
relief
Martinhub.
Garbus is one of the country’s top
trial lawyers, as well as an author. He has
joined the team of lawyers appealing the
convictions of the Cuban Five, filing a
motion in U.S. Southern District Court,
seeking an evidentiary hearing and the
right to discovery on behalf of Gerardo
Hernández. This motion relates
specifically to the issue of U.S.
government payments to members of
the Miami media during the trial of the
BA in Sociology. Grew up in Corona
where attended school until
undergraduate career. Worked in an
after school program where the curiosity
corona as a neighborhood emerged.
Danced since junior high school and have
used it as a way to express myself when
struggled with using words. Took dance
classes while pursuing undergrad. Still
take classes occasionally. Have been part
of St Leo's youth group since ages of 12,
currently attend and as a leader.
Pursuing MA in international Relations
fall 2013.
Lee Gargagliano
Lee is an international organizwer with
IJAN whojust returned from presenting
this workshop at the World Social Forum
Free Palestine in Porto Alegre, Brazil and
at the World Social Forum in Tunis,
Tunisia.
Barbara Garson
Barbara Garson's most recent book is
"Down the Up Escalator: How the 99%
Live in the Great Recession," (Doubleday,
2013.) It is the fourth in a series of books
about American workers at historic
turning points. The others are "All the
Livelong Day: The Meaning and
Demeaning of Routine Work" "The
Electronic Sweatshop" and "Money
Makes the World Go Around." She is also
the playwright of the 1960s satire
"MacBird!" and the OBIE winning
children's play "The Dinosaur Door."
Bernard Gassaway
former DoE English Teacher at Boys and
Girls High School, Principal at Beach
Channel High School and Senior
Superintendent for the Office of
Alternative Schools and Programs.
Gassaway, a Revson Fellow and Doctoral
Candidate at Columbia University in
Administration of School and Community
Partnerships, returned to Boys and Girls
in 2009 as Principal with commitment to
build a 21st Century School/Community
Partnership in service of the needs and
dreams of his young adult students.
Timothy Geller
Emmaia Gelman
Dan Georgakas
Nicholas Georgantzas
Tim Geller is Exec. Director of the
Community Development Corp. of South
Berkshire, building affordable housing
and economic opportunity throughout
the rural southern Berkshires. With
experience in community development
financing, a love of farming and the
outdoors, and a background in the arts,
his passion for community building is
uniquely at home in the Berkshires. He is
President of the Board of BerkShares,
Inc., and President/founder of the
Berkshire Interfaith Community
Investment Corp.
Emmaia is an urban planner for energy
democracy, and Policy Coordinator at the
Alliance for a Just Rebuilding. Prior, she
was Policy Director at the Center for
Working Families, where she built "Green
Jobs-Green NY.” GJGNY has united 200
Coauthor: Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
Author: My Detroit: Growing Up Greek
and American in Motor City Coeditor:
The Encyclopedia of the American Left
Coeditor: Solidarity Forever, An Oral
History of the IWWedi Consulting editor:
Cineaste film quarterly
Janet Gerson, member of TOPLAB since
1996. Studied with Augusto Boal & MarieClaire Picher. As Education Director,
International Institute on Peace
Education, has worked in Colombia, El
Salvador, India, Japan, South Korea,
Turkey, Greece, Hungary, & Spain; was
Co-Director, Peace Education Center, and
Teachers College-10. Director, Dance
Stream, community-based organization
in Upper Manhattan, 1988-98. Current
writing on public deliberation on global
(in)justice and the World Tribunal on
Iraq.
Janet Gerson
Tiokasin Ghosthorse
(Hwokoju Lakota Nation) First Voices
Indigenous Radio
(firstvoicesindigenousradio.org) New
York, NY - Host and Executive Producer of
FVIR which broadcasts on 44 radio
stations in North America. (Moderator)
G.Reza Ghorashi
Hamideh Sedghi, Ph.D. is a Visiting
Professor of Political Science,
Department of Political Science, Brooklyn
College, CUNY. Author of Women and
Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling and Reveiling. Cambridge University Press Reza
Ghorashi, PhD.:Professor of Economics
and Coordinator of International Studies
Minor at Stockton College of NJ. Hamid
Zangeneh, Ph.D. Professor of Economics ,
Widener University and editor of Journal
of Iranian Research and Analysis.
Terran Giacomini is writer, dancer, and
community organizer. She has a Master
of Arts in sociology from the University of
Guelph, and is working on her PhD in
sociology at the University of Toronto.
Her work addresses food sovereignty in
the context of the global movement of
movements. Her latest work analyzes the
link between corporate concentration
and global gendered, ethnicized class
convergence to defend the commons.
Terran Giacomini
Connor Gibson
Connor Gibson does research as part of
Greenpeace's Investigations team. He
focuses on polluting industries and their
front groups, PR firms and political
operatives, particularly the role of the
American Legislative Exchange Council.
Michael Gilbert
Gilbert became a revolutionary at 14
after the 1968 Democratic Convention,
and joined the Student for a Democratic
Society at 15. After it fell apart he was
involved in various revolutionary
organizations, including the
Weathermen, the Yippies and the
Revolutionary Workers Headquarters. In
the 1990s he did political work in
Hispanic communities. He joined News
and Letters Committee after reading
Hegel's Logic, articles and books by Raya
Dunayevskaya and Erich Fromm's "Marx's
Concept of Man."
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York
University. Author, Violence: Reflections
on a National Epidemic; Why Some
Politicians Are More Dangerous to Your
Health Than Others. Former head,
Institute of Law and Psychiatry (Harvard
Med School), and director mental health
services for the Massachusetts prisons.
Expert witness in Plata V. Brown,
ordering reduction of overcrowding in
California prisons and the provision of
mental health services.
James Gilligan
Mike Gimbel
Sam Gindin
A retired member of the Executive Board
of Local 375, AFSCME. The union
represents almost 7,000 professional and
technical workers in New York City
government. He was the president of the
2nd largest chapter in the union. Mike is
a co-coordinator of the May 1st Coalition
for Worker & Immigrant Rights, which
annually organizes the huge May Day
marches in new York City.
Sam Gindin, the former Research
Director of the Canadian Autoworkers
Union and Packer Chair in Social Justice
at York University, Toronto. He is the coauthor with Leo Panitch of The Making of
Global Capitalism; The Political Economy
of American Empire (Verso 2013). His
essay 'Renewing Unions, Registering
Socialism' appears in the 2013 Socialist
Register.
Jeremy Glick
Paula Gloria
Jeremy Matthew Glick is an Assistant
Professor of African Diasporic Literature
and Modern Drama in the English
Department of Hunter College. He
recently completed a manuscript on
C.L.R. James and Brecht entitled:
'Imitations I Can Use': Haitian
Revolutionary Tragedy as History. His
latest essay, "Aphoristic Lines of Flight in
The Coming Insurrection: Ironies of
Forgetting Yet Forging the Past: An
Anamnesis for George Jackson" was
published in Situations.
Dr. Gnaka Lagoke, a specialist in African
political affairs, development, and PanAfricanism is a professor of Spanish at
UDC & African History at Montgomery
College. As a political analyst, he has
appeared on Australian Broadcast
Corporation, Voice of America, Russia
Today, HispannTV, & Democracy Now
with Amy Goodman. He founded “The
Revival of Panafricanism Forum”
(www.revivalofpanafricanism.org) a
public forum which engages a permanent
conversation on Africa from a panafrican
perspective.
Gervais Gnaka Lagoke
Zoltán Glück
Tao Leigh Goffe
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Frances Goldin
Amy Goldsmith
Tao Leigh Goffe is a Ph.D. candidate in
American Studies at Yale University. Her
dissertation looks at Afro-Asian
intimacies in the Americas through
photography and literature. From Islamic
hip-hop to yellowface and postcolonial
theory, her research explores the
intersections between black and Asian
subcultures in Britain, the Caribbean, and
the US.
Her areas of study are full employment,
public assistance, the feminization of
poverty and comparative social welfare
systems. She has authored or coauthored/edited six books and numerous
articles and book chapters. She is coChair of the Columbia Seminar on Full
Employment, Social Welfare & Equity and
Chair of the National Jobs for All
Coalition.
Amy Goldsmith is State Director of the
New Jersey Environmental Federation
and Chair of the NY/NJ Coalition for
Healthy Ports. She serves on the Board of
the NJ Work Environment Council (WEC),
Earthshare New Jersey, the Coalition for
Affordable Housing and the Environment,
and the NJ Working Families Alliance.
From 1994 to 1997, she was National
Coordinator for the Public Health
Institute's Jobs and Environment Training
Consortium.
Fred Goldstein
Author of a pamphlet on the struggle
within the Communist Party of China,
also of the books, "Capitalism at a Dead
End" and "Low Wage Capitalism -- a
Colossus with Feet of Clay." Writes for
Workers World newspaper, with many
articles on the economic crisis and on
developments in China.
Tarin Gonzalez
Jesse Goldstein is working on his PhD in
Sociology at CUNY’s Graduate Center. His
project is titled “Planetary Improvement:
Discourses and practices of green
capitalism in the cleantech space." He
received an MA in Politics at York
University (Toronto), and was an artistmember of Space 1026 in Philadelphia.
Kuba is a high school activist and socialist
at John Jay High School (Cross River,
Westchester County).
A long-time community organizer from
Westchester County, Gonzalez is a
representative of WESPAC, a 30+ year old
grassroots coalition of peace and justice
groups.
Anand Gopal
Linda Gordon
Anand Gopal is a journalist who recently
reported from Syria for Harper's
Magazine. His writing has also appeared
in the Nation, Foreign Policy, the New
Republic, and elsewhere. He is a fellow at
the New America Foundation and the
author of a forthcoming book on the
Afghanistan war.
Professor of history, NYU
Jesse Goldstein
Kuba Goldstein
Jeff Goodwin
Jeff Goodwin is a professor of sociology
at New York University. He has written
and edited several books on social
movements and revolutions, including
The Social Movements Reader,
Contention in Context, and Strategies for
Social Change.
H. Candace Gorman
H. Candace Gorman is a civil
rights/human rights lawyer in Chicago
who represents one Guantánamo
detainee pro bono, Saeed Bakhouche.
Her second client Abdul Hamid alGhizzawi was finally released in 2010.
Having represented these two men with
no end in sight, she shut down her civil
rights practice for many years to focus
solely on getting her clients out of
Guantanamo, closing Guantanamo and
bringing those responsible for and
assisting with these particular war crimes
to justice.
Eliza Goroya
Panayota Gounari
Matt Graber
Jenny Greeman
Eliza Goroya is a Greek anti-fascist
organizer, artist and blogger. She blogs at
http://goroyesque.blogspot.com/
Professor of Applied Linguistics at U Mass
Boston
Activist Scholar, Host of Radio Against
Apartheid, WPEB 88.1 FM
Jenny Greeman is a member of the
Brecht Forum Victor Serge Study group,
is an actor, director and arts
administrator in New York Theater. Jenny
Greeman has been attending Left Forum
events since she was 10 and cheerfully
keeps speakers within time limits and
moderates polemics.
Marcus Grätsch
Richard Greeman
James Green
Marcus Grätsch is a Political Scientist and
activist. He is member of the large postautonomous group "Interventionist Left"
in Germany and "FelS - For a left current"
in Berlin. Recently he took part in
initiating the "Blockupy Frankfurt"
Protest Campaign as part of the
European resistance against austerity. He
has also been directly involved with the
Party Die Linke and many other
organizations in Germany. He currently
works for Left Forum in New York.
Longtime socialist and international
activist Richard Greeman is best known
for his translations and studies of the
Franco-Russian revolutionary and
novelist Victor Serge. He has taught at
Columbia, Wesleyan, the Univ. of
Hartford and currently the Brecht Forum.
He is also the author of ‘Is there life after
capitalism?’ His ecosocialist essay
‘Ecotopia: A Bet You Can’t Refuse’ is
available at State of Nature
http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=5852
and included in his recent anthology
Beware of Vegetarian Sharks: Radical
Rants and Internationalist Essays
(Illustrated).
Doug Enaa Greene
Doug Enaa Greene is a revolutionary
communist historian living in
Massachusetts. Doug Enaa cut his teeth
as an activist at Occupy Boston where he
worked as the event coordinator and the
cinematographer of the Howard Zinn
Memorial Lecture Series. Doug Enaa has
been published in Counterpunch,
MRZine, Socialism and Democracy,
Socialist Viewpoint, Links The
International Journal for Socialist
Renewal, and Greenleft Weekly.
Karen Gregory
Karen Gregory is PhD candidate in
Sociology at CUNY Grad Center,
Instructional Technology Fellow at
Hunter College, and Adjunct Lecturer in
Labor Studies at Queens College. Her
dissertation is entitled “Enchanted
Entrepreneurs: The Labor of Psychics in
New York City” and her research looks to
the intersection of labor, spirituality, and
social media.
Deirdre Griswold
Editor in chief of Workers World
newspaper. Worked on the London
Secretariat of the 1967 Bertrand Russell
International War Crimes Tribunal. Her
many works include Indonesia 1965: The
Second Greatest Crime of the Century
(World View Publishers, 1970); and “How
U.S. destroyed progressive secular forces
in Afghanistan,” Workers World, Sept.
27, 2001. She has visited both north and
south Korea and writes extensively of
U.S. relations with the two parts of the
Korean peninsula.
Bret Grote is an organizer with the
Human Rights Coalition, the Executive
Director of the newly founded
Abolitionist Law Center, and a member of
the legal team for Russell Maroon
Shoatz. He was the 2012 Isabel and Alger
Hiss Government Misconduct Fellow at
the Center for Constitutional Rights, and
graduated from the University of
Pittsburgh School of Law in May 2013.
Bret Grote
New York City native, Anthony
Gronowicz, authored of “Race and Class
Politics in New York City Before the Civil
War” [1998],edited “Oswald Garrison
Villard: The Dilemmas of the Absolute
Pacifist in Two World Wars” [1983], and
written a 348,000 word U.S. history.
Anthony Gronowicz
George Gruenthal
Hébert Guillaume
Assistant chair of U.S. Friends of the
Soviet People. He is currently working on
reprinting Marxist work that are not
available in the U.S. at
www.RedStarPublishers.org.”
Sonia Guinansaca an undocumented poet
from New York. She was born in Ecuador
and raised in Harlem since the age of 5.
Since her involvement in 2008, Sonia has
served as a core member, coordinator of
media & outreach, and coordinator of
the NY END ( Education Not Deportation)
Campaign. In 2011 she helped launch
Dreaming in Ink, a creative writing
workshop that helps undocumented
youth cultivate their voice and reclaim
their stories.
Sonia Guinansaca
Matthew Guldin
Matthew Guldin taught history in junior
high and high school in Brooklyn and
Manhattan from the late 1960’s until
2000. This past decade he was Dean of
Students at East Side Community High.
He presently consults at NYC schools on
disciplinary and school climate issues. He
is part of Teachers Unite, a member
group of Dignity in Schools, working to
eliminate suspensions and detentions
and introduce Restorative Justice
practices. Matthew is also a member of
the
Campaign
to Endinthe
Jim Crow.of
Bruno
Gullì teaches
theNew
Department
Bruno Gulli
History, Philosophy and Political Science
at CUNY-Kingsborough. Among his
publications are Labor of Fire: the
Ontology of Labor between Economy and
Culture (Temple University Press, 2005)
and Earthly Plenitudes: a Study on
Sovereignty and Labor (Temple
University Press, 2010). He is now
working on a third volume focusing on
the notions of disobedience and care:
The Earth on Fire: Essays on Life, Labor,
Cofounder of The Indypendent and The
Occupied Wall Street Journal.
Contributor to The Guardian, Salon, The
Progressive, Truthout, and Alternet.
Profiled by Business Week, PBS, Wired,
and The New York Times. He has received
a Wallace Global Fund grant for his work
with the Occupy movement, and is a
Lannan writing fellow. Regular
commentator on Democracy Now!, the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, AlJazeera, and Russian Television. He is
writing a book on the decline of
American empire for Haymarket Books.
Arun Gupta
Elia Gurna
Elia Gurna is an artist who uses Theater
of the Oppressed in her work as a
teaching artist and youth worker and is a
facilitator with the Theater of the
Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB). In July
she will take on the position of Executive
Director at New Urban Arts, a nationallyrecognized community arts studio for
high school students and emerging artists
in Providence, Rhode Island.
Jane Guskin
Jane Guskin is co-author with David
Wilson of The Politics of Immigration:
Questions and Answers, published in July
2007 by Monthly Review Press. She is a
former co-editor of Weekly News Update
on the Americas, a summary of Latin
American news; former editor of
Immigration News Briefs; and a founder
of the Coalition for the Human Rights of
Immigrants, an all-volunteer NYC group
which mobilized against workplace raids
and for immigrant rights from 1997 to
2004.
Teresa Gutierrez
Allison Guttu
Natacha Gwet
Teresa Gutierrez grew up in a Chicano
family in Texas and currently lives in
Queens, New York, the part of the city
with the highest concentration of new
immigrants from all parts of the world.
She is currently a leader of the May 1
Coalition for Worker and Immigrant
Rights in New York.
Guttu was one of the nine women
arrested for participating in a sit-in in
front of the FDA in 2005, where the
protesters refused to leave until the
Morning-After Pill was put over the
counter. She has been organizing for
women's liberation for over a decade and
co-chairs the Women of Color Caucus of
NWL. Guttu practices as a public interest
lawyer in New York City and is a board
member of the Davis-Putter Scholarship
Fund for social justice activists.
Natacha is one of the pioneers of the USAfrica Ambassadorship Program The USAfrica Ambassadorship is a Leadership
Program that deals with youth
empowerment. Natacha is dedicated to
community service and has won
numerous awards as a result of her
activism. Chief amongst them is the City
Council Citation for Being A Rising Star by
Bronx Council Member Helen Diane
Foster. Natacha hails from Cameroon.
Mark Hage
Larry Hales
Alterique Hall
Mark Hage is a BDS activist with
Vermonters for a Just Peace in
Palestine/Israel (www.vtjp.org). For the
past 10 years, he has also produced an
hour-long news program,
"Salaam/Shalom: Report on
Palestine/Israel," for public access
television in Vermont. Mark works as a
union advocate for Vermont-NEA.
He has traveled around the U.S. in the
last year to promote the idea and
support the actions of the People's
Power Assembly, which brings people
involved in different areas of struggle
together to form their popular
organizations to fight for them on all the
issues. Hales has been an organizer with
New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts and
Defend Education and a leader of the Bail
Out the People Movement. He has made
solidarity trips to Palestine, Cuba and the
Philippines.
Mike Hamlin was cofounder of the Dodge
Revolutionary Movement and the League
of Revolutionary Black Workers. He later
served as president of the Black Workers
Congress. He has taught at Wayne State
University and served as conflict
resolution mediator in conflicts involving
trade unionists. He recently published A
Black Revolutionary's Life in Labor: Black
Workers Power in Detroit.
Mike Hamlin
Sasha Hammad
Suheir Hammad
John L. Hammond
Sharon Hand
Sasha Hammad is an organizer with the
Retail Action Project, a membership
based organization of retail and fashion
workers improving opportunities and
standards. She works with members to
take action in stores for more stable,
predictable and livable schedules. Before
RAP, Sasha co-directed Young Workers
United, working to improve jobs for low
wage young and immigrant workers in
San Francisco. She received her BA from
NYU, and will graduate Baruch College's
MBA program in Dec 2013.
John L. Hammond is a longtime social
movement activist. He is also active in his
union, the Professional Staff Congress.
He has studied social movements in the
United States, Europe, and Latin America,
and is the author of Fighting to Learn:
Popular Education and Guerrilla War in El
Salvador and Building Popular Power:
Workers' and Neighborhood Movements
in the Portuguese Revolution. He teaches
sociology at Hunter College and the
Graduate Center, City University of New
York.
Fashion industry worker, distressed
homeowner; member, People's
Organization for Progress.
Christina Hanhardt
Christina B. Hanhardt is an assistant
professor of American Studies and LGBT
Studies at the University of Maryland,
College Park. She is the author of the
book Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood
History and the Politics of Violence,
forthcoming from Duke University Press
in fall 2013.
Andrew Hannon
Andrew Hannon received his BA in
History in 2003 from Drew University and
his MA American Studies from University
of Massachusetts Boston in 2007. While
at UMB he was co-chair of the United
Auto Workers unit representing graduate
students and a member of the contract
negotiating team. His interests are in the
relation between cultural products,
producers and consumers and political
action. His currently working on a project
about the New Left and the
Counterculture.
Noelle Hanrahan
Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio, started
recording Mumia from death row at
Huntingdon State Prison in 1992. These
tapes inspired the controversial censored
series on NPR and the best seller “Live
From Death Row.” She has amplified his
voice for more than 20yrs. Noelle has
edited Abu-Jamal’s books and produced
3 audio CDs, as well as weekly radio
commentaries and speeches to a
worldwide audience. She is a graduate of
Stanford University (B.A.) and Boston
University (M.A). She is also a licensed
P.I.
James Hare
Shaun Harkin
James P. Hare is a project manager at the
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s New York
office, where he works on issues related
to the United Nations and the North
American left. He was on the organizing
committee of Graduate Student
Employees United, UAW 2110, which
sought to establish a union of teaching
and research assistants at Columbia
University, and subsequently became a
member of ACT-UAW (Local 7902) while
teaching at the New School and New
York University.
Shaun Harkin is an activist and writer
based in Chicago. He has been active in
the labor, anti-war, and immigrant rights
movement. He has organized with the
March 10 Committee, the Moratorium
Against Deportations Campaign and the
Chicago May Day Organizing Committee.
He is a frequent contributor to Socialist
Worker, the International Socialist
Review and his articles have appeared in
other publications including Truth-Out,
The Bullet, Z magazine, Counterpunch
and Green Left Weekly. He recently
contributed a series of articles in Socialist
Worker crisis in Greece and the rise of
Golden Dawn. He joined the RI Labor
Party Advocates in 1996 and was a Ralph
Nader campaign supporter in 2000 and
2004.
Ronald Harpelle
Roger Harris
Joan Harrison
Ron Harpelle is the Director/producer of
Hard Time and In Security. He is an
academic who has published several
books and articles and is the producer
and co-director of "Banana Split," which
won "Best Feature Length Documentary"
at the Latin America Environmental
Media Festival in New Orleans, The
Deborah Fletcher Award of Excellence in
Filmmaking on International
Development.
Roger D. Harris is a recovering political
scientist who taught at a historically black
college in the ‘60s. In a mid-career shift,
he became a conservation biologist and
is active in environmental issues. He is
president of the Task Force on the
Americas
(http://www.mitfamericas.org/),on the
state central committee of the Peace and
Freedom Party
(http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/hom
e/), and is involved in the Marxist Library
(http://marxistlibr.org/), an aspiring
leftist think tank.
Joan Harrison taught philosophy and
classics for several years, and published a
collection of poems, a chapbook, and
numerous individual poems, under
various pen-names. Currently homeless,
she advocates for New York City's more
than 100,000 homeless people, and for
animals, especially farm animals. More
than a decade ago she made some
startling textual discoveries regarding the
9/11 attacks that led to high-level whistle
blowing.
Scott Harris
Betsy Hartmann
Shafeka Hashash
Co-founder and executive producer of
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine,
a 23-year-old syndicated weekly public
affairs program broadcast on 50+
stations across the U.S. Host of a weekly
political talk show on WPKN Radio,
Bridgeport, CT. Founder of the Norwalk,
CT - Nagarote, Nicaragua Sister City
Project which celebrated its 27th
anniversary in 2013. Former program
director of three mens and women's
community corrections halfway houses.
Betsy Hartmann
(http://www.BetsyHartmann.com) is the
director of the Population and
Development Program
(http://popdev.hampshire.edu) and
professor of Development Studies at
Hampshire College. An activist in the
international women’s health movement,
she writes and speaks frequently on the
intersections between reproductive
rights, population, immigration,
environment and security concerns. She
is currently working on a book about
apocalyptic thinking in the U.S.
Shafeka Hashash is a Palestinian
American activist in NYU's Students for
Justice in Palestine organization. She has
been active in their campaign to get
university professors and staff invested in
pension giant TIAA-CREF to divest from
companies doing business in apartheid
Israel.
Philip Harvey
James Haslam
Professor of Law and Economics at
Rutgers School of Law in Camden, New
Jersey, Philip Harvey is a labor lawyer and
human rights economist who have
written extensively on policy options for
securing the right to work recognized in
international human rights law. He was a
founding member of the National Jobs
for All Coalition and currently serves as
Counsel to its Board of Directors. He is
the author of Securing the Right to
Employment (1989), co-author of
America’s Misunderstood Welfare State
(1990), and has published over three
dozen scholarly articles and book
chapters on the subject of economic and
social human rights, with a particular
focus on policy options for securing the
right to work. Copies of his work can be
accessed at www.philipharvey.info. He
received his Ph.D. in economics from the
New School for Social Research and his
J.D. from Yale Law School. A labor lawyer
and human rights economist, he has
published extensively on the subject of
economic and social human rights, with a
particular focus on policy options for
James Haslam is the Executive Director of
the Vermont Workers’ Center, which was
founded in 1998 and has grown into a
statewide community-based workers
organization with thousands of members
committed to standing for justice and
organizing for human rights.
Abi Hassen
Abi is Mass Defense Coordinator with the
National Lawyers Guild's (NLG). He is a
former computer programmer and has a
J.D. from NYU as well as an extensive
background in labor, political, and
community organizing. He helped start
the NLG NYC's Muslim Defense Project as
well as the NLG's hactivist legal support
network, anonlg. Abi currently works on
enhancing the NLG's efforts to provide
legal support for activists, and other
subjects of politically motivated
repression.
Michael Hattem
Michael D. Hattem is a doctoral student
in American history at Yale University. He
is a contributing editor at The Junto: A
Group Blog on Early American History
and also writes on intersections between
American history and contemporary
political culture.
Eljeer Hawkins
Eljeer Hawkins, community and anti-war
activist, born and raised in Harlem, New
York, member of Socialist
Alternative/CWI for 18 years. Eljeer is a
former shop steward with Teamsters
local 851 and former member of SEIU
1199, currently is a non-union healthcare
worker in New York City. He contributes
regularly to Justice Newspaper, Socialist
Alternative and socialistworld.net
Howie Hawkins is an American politician
and activist with the Green Party of the
United States and Socialist Party USA and
an organizer in movements for peace,
justice, labor, the environment, and
independent politics since the late 1960s.
He co-founded the anti-nuclear Clamshell
Alliance in 1976 and the Green Party in
the United States in 1984. He recently
ran as the Green Party's candidate for
2010 Governor of New York and restored
ballot status for the party by receiving
more than the necessary 50,000 votes
and received enough votes for the
Greens to be the only third party in New
York to secure ballot access without crossendorsing the Democratic or Republican
candidates.. He is a member of the Full
Employment Council of the Green
Shadow Cabinet.
Howie Hawkins
Richard Hayes
Richard N. Hayes, Ph.D. Associate
Professor of Management,
Entrepreneurship, and General Business:
Hofstra School of Business and Ghana,
West Africa. Ph.D.: Kellogg at
Northwestern Univ. BA with honors:
Morehouse. MBA: Emory. M.Div.: Duke.
Research: entrepreneurial activity both in
the United States and in emerging
economies, management of innovation
and the management of family-owned
enterprises. Work experience:
Pricewaterhouse Coopers, BofA,
Northern Trust, intern for Congressman
Mel Watt.
Joshua Headley
Curtis Haynes, Jr.
Joshua Headley is a writer and activist
with Deep Green Resistance New York.
He has written a number of papers and
articles including ‘Breakdown: A
Convalescent Collapse’ and recently
spoke on the history of the
environmental movement at the Eco
Socialist Convergence. He is also active
with the International Socialist
Organization and the DIVEST movement
at
University.
Dr.Columbia
Curtis Haynes
Jr. is an Associate
Professor of Economics at Buffalo State
College, a former City of Buffalo Council
Member, and president and founder of
the Conscious Investment Group (CIG), a
finance and education company
dedicated to the vision of a Buffalo
Teresa Healy is the author of Gendered
Struggles against Globalisation in Mexico;
She is presently doing research on North
American integration, health care
privatization, and Canadian Communities
in Crisis. She has taught at various
universities and is a recording singersongwriter.
Teresa Healy
Chris Hebdon
Chris Hebdon is a doctoral student in
environmental anthropology at Yale
University. He has previously worked
with Chris Hedges at the Nation Institute
writing about the corporatization of
higher education.
Cay Hehner
Stan Heller
Chaia Heller
Henry Heller
Dir. of Education, Henry George School of
Social Science, NYC, 2004-Spring 2011;
Board Member, Robert Schalkenbach
Foundation 2009, Aug 7-Address, "The
End of Capitalism as We Know It" Council
of Georgist Organizations Conference,
Cleveland, OH. 2006, 21 July-Address:
"Henry George and Karl Marx" Council of
Georgist Orgs Conference, Evanston, IL
2005-Article: "Monopoly Globalization,"
Henry George News, Jan.-Apr. Master's
degree in Economics & a PhD. in
Philosophy, Free University, Berlin
Stan Heller is the chair-person of the
Middle East Crisis Committee and he
hosts The Struggle TV news magazine
and website, www.TheStruggle.org.
Chaia Heller is a feminist/anarchist
writer, activist, and teacher, and is the
author of Food, Farms and Solidarity and
the Ecology of Everyday Life. She has
been on the core faculty at the Institute
for Social Ecology For over thirty years
and has been on the faculty of Mount
Holyoke College for nearly a decade.
Heller holds a PhD in anthropology and is
currently writing about the politics of
cultural stigma associated with chronic
illness and disability.
Henry Heller is the author of 'The Birth of
Capitalism' in the Future of World
Capitalism Book Series
Anne Hendrixson
Anne Hendrixson is Assistant Director of
the Population and Development
Program at Hampshire College. She is a
reproductive health advocate, writer,
and speaker focused on the politics of
global health and population. Ms.
Hendrixson is an alumna of Hampshire
College and has a Masters from the
International Development and Social
Change Master’s Program at Clark
University. Among her publication is “The
‘Youth Bulge’ “Defining the Next
Generation of Young Men as a Threat to
the Future.”
Doug Henwood is an American journalist
who writes frequently about economic
affairs. He is publisher and editor of Left
Business Observer, which analyzes
economics and politics from a left-wing
perspective, and is a contributing editor
at The Nation. Among other books, he is
the author of After the New Economy
and Wall Street: How It Works and for
Whom.
Doug Henwood
Denise Hernandez
Elizabeth Hernandez
Denise Hernandez is director of
operations of Cooperative Home Care
Associates in the Bronx, an SEIU-affiliated
worker coop of home health aides. CHCA
is the largest worker owned coop in the
country.
Venceremos Brigade member.
Nellie Hester Bailey
Charles Herr
Alan Hewson
Gary Hicks
Bailey host and produce Inside Housing
and Communities that airs on WHCR 90.3
Radio in Harlem. She also co-host with
Glen Ford Black Agenda Radio. In 2011
she co-founded Occupy Harlem. Bailey is
the recipient of a 2011 Union Square
Award and a 2005 Proclamation from NY
City Council for aiding indigent tenants in
Harlem. Since 1995 she has headed up
the radical grassroots Harlem Tenants
Council. Her writings have appeared in
the Amsterdam News, The Black Star
News and the People's Voice.
Charles F. Herr, Ph.D. is currently Director
of Psychological Services & Director of
the Psychology Internship at Gouverneur
and has a private practice as well. His
PhD is in clinical psychology from
Columbia University and he has a
certificate in psychoanalysis from the
William Alanson White Institute (which
Erich Fromm co-founded). He has had
intensive training in Nonviolent
Communication. He is a member of the
Socialist Party-USA.
Research Associate, Niebyl-Proctor
Marxist Library. Focus on Afro-Asian
international politics
Richard Hill
Richard Hill is a producer with Between
the Lines Radio Newsmagazine and a
radio host of three programs on WPKN
(89.5 FM): Youth Radio CT, The Organic
Farm Stand and First Tuesday Magazine.
He teaches Media Arts at an arts magnet
high school in New Haven, CT where he
produces youth radio shows for
broadcast and posting on line
(www.youthradioct.org). He chaired the
Lyna has been a major organizer for
350.org nearly since its inception. She
resides and works in New York City. Lyna
organizes events for 350.org such as
busses to Washington DC, planning
sessions, talks and panels at Cooper
Union, small group discussion and brainstorming sessions. Lyna is an excellent
organizer who pays attention to people
and to details in a laid-back manner that
facilitates effective communication and
promotes results.
Lyna Hinkel
Michael Hirsch
Michael Hirsch is a veteran labor
journalist, editorial board member of
New Politics and Democratic Left, and
contributor to the Encyclopedia of
American Strikes. A former sociology
professor and steelworker, his writing
has appeared in the Village Voice, Crain's
New York Business, The New Statesman,
The New York Observer, and other
venues. He formerly worked as a staff
writer for a public sector union and
currently blogs for Talking Union and
New Politics.
Stan Hister
John Hlinko
Joan Hoffman
Sarah Hogarth
Stan Hister has been a writer and radical
activist for many years. He has written
extensively on subjects ranging from
contemporary Marxism to art, happiness,
gender and psychoanalysis. His work has
appeared in both mainstream and radical
publications such as Znet.
John Hlinko is the founder of Left Action,
a network of over 1,000,000 activists,
built primarily through viral marketing. A
frequent pundit, Hlinko is the author of
the recently released book, Share,
Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Message Read
and Spread, ranked by Amazon.com as
the # 1 "hot new release" in both the
"web marketing" and "retail" categories.
John holds a BA from Wesleyan
University and an MA in public policy
from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of
Government.
A human rights strategist/ advocate
specializing in helping community groups
and attorneys protect the rights of
political activists, women, low-income
people, and racial and ethnic minorities,
with a background in combating police
misconduct, organizing squatters and
tenants, environmental defense, and
providing legal support to immigrants
and social movements. Sarah is author of
numerous human rights reports and is coauthor of Leading Today’s Volunteers:
Motivate and Manage Your Team.
Marvin Holland
Larry Holmes
Marvin is the political action director of
Transport Workers Union Local 100 and a
longtime community activist.
Leading spokesperson of the Bail Out the
People Movement, co-coordinator of the
International Action Center, organizer of
the All-People's Congress in the 1980s.
Has run for vice president and president
of the United States for Workers World
Party and is currently WWP's first
secretary.
Professor Emeritus and former Chair of
the Philosophy Department at Rutgers
University, Nancy Holmstrom has long
been a socialist and feminist activist and
is a member of the boards of the Left
Forum and the Daniel Singer Millennium
Prize Foundation. With Joanna Brenner,
she most recently co-authored "Socialist
Feminist Strategy Today" in the "Socialist
Register 2013", published by Monthly
Review Press.
Nancy Holmstrom
Justin Holt
Keith Honeywell
Justin Holt teaches political philosophy at
The Gallatin School of New York
University. He has written articles on
Rawls and G.A. Cohen. His next book, The
Social Thought of Karl Marx, will be
published in 2014.
An on-screen father participating in the
making of the documentary "Real Dads Black Men on Fatherhood". Addressing
the call from many other fathers to
change the image of fatherhood in this
country. Keith has had previous
leadership successes in building
organizations and programs in the fields
of public education, social services and
for-profit supplemental educational
services.
Cheri Honkala is an anti-poverty advocate
and co-founder of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign and
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
(KWRU). She was the Green Party's
nominee for vice-president in the 2012
U.S. presidential election. In 2011,
Honkala was the Green Party candidate
for Sheriff of Philadelphia, running on the
promise of refusing to evict families from
their homes. She was featured in the
1997 book Myth of the Welfare Queen.
She is the proud mother of actor Mark
Webber.
Cheri Honkala
Steve Horn
Tim Horras
Sylvia Hooper
Ryan Howard
Steve Horn is a Madison, Wisconsinbased research fellow at DeSmogBlog
and contributing editor at CounterPunch;
he previously worked for the Center for
Media and Democracy, which published
ALEC Exposed.
Tim Horras is the Chair of Philly Socialists,
an independent, Philadelphia-based
grassroots political organization founded
in 2011.
Ms. Hooper is an adoptive child who
went back into the system after her
adoptive parents passed away at age 15.
She was then placed in kinship foster
care, where she did not have a good
experience. She has made it her personal
mission to advocate for children,
individuals and groups who are unable or
incapable of doing so.
M.A. Student in Sociology at St. John's
University
Tiffany Caudill, Howard Waitzkin
Michael Howells
Michael Hudson
The Civilian Medical Resources Network
responds to requests by active-duty
military personnel for medical and
mental health services in the civilian
sector. Our team of physicians,
psychiatrists, psychologists, and social
workers provides diagnoses, second
opinions, treatment, and letters of
recommendation. These services can
help GIs get the treatment they need,
assist them in medical discharge and
disciplinary hearings, and help end
harassment by their chain of command
and peers.
Mike has a doctorate in political science,
and has been active in many New
Orleans progressive grassroots
campaigns since the mid-1980s, including
the defense of public housing in New
Orleans against its privatization. Mike is a
founding member of C3. Mike is currently
employed in the entertainment industry.
Michael Hudson (Michael-Hudson.com) is
a former Wall Street economist and has
advised the US, Canadian, Mexican and
Latvian governments, as well as the UN
Institute of training and Research
(UNITAR). President of the Institute for
the Study of Long-term Economic Trends
John Hudson has presented at previous
Left Forums on cultural paradigm shifts.
He is a strategic advisor to MORUS. He
previously worked for BT, AOL, the UK
Department of Environment, the Open
Society Initiative and the Center for an
Urban Future. He has degrees in
sociology, in organization change and in
theater.
John Hudson
Nancy Hudson-Rodd
Dr. Nancy Hudson-Rodd is Senior
Honorary Research Fellow at the School
of Psychology and Social Science at Edith
Cowan University. Among her areas of
research are Development Studies,
Human Geography, International
Development, Political Science &
International Relations, Gender and
Development, Eco-imperialism, Labour
Markets. She has worked on the largescale economic displacement and
dispossession of farmers in Burma over
the past 10-15 years.
Carmen Huertas-Noble
Prof. Huertas-Noble is founding director
of CUNY Law's Community & Economic
Development Clinic. She has played a
leading role in providing legal support
and shaping democratic governance
structures with worker-owned
cooperatives in New York. A former staff
lawyer with Urban Justice Center, she
worked with ROC-NY in creating COLORS,
a worker-owned restaurant in
Manhattan, and with other immigrantled coops.
David Hungerford
Michelle Hughes is the Commons
Program Director at the Schumacher
Center for a New Economics, where she
is working to strengthen our agricultural
commons in order to preserve land
access, affordability and equity for future
farmers. Previously she was the Director
of the New Farmer Development Project
in NYC, where she helped to establish 19
new farms on 400 acres. She has a B.S. in
Conservation Ecology, is a Spanish
interpreter, and a board member of the
National Young Farmer Coalition.
Involved in struggles for human and civil
rights, against aggressive U.S. wars;
Marxist political economy is a particular
interest. Retired school teacher, taught in
Newark NJ schools.
Monica Hunken
Monica Hunken is writer, performer,
educator and activist. She has organized
with Time's-Up! Direct Action
Environmental Group, with Reverend
Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping in
chain stores and banks throughout the
world, with the Occupy Wall Street
movement as a trainer in non-violent
creative tactics, and with Occupy the
Pipeline targeting the Spectra pipeline.
She writes and performs solo plays that
she tours globally on bicycle while also
teaching storytelling.
Michelle Hughes
Leah Hunt-Hendrix
Chioke I'Anson
Diego Ibanez
Rachel Ibrahim
Pete Ikeler
Nick Iuviene
Alicia Ivory
Leah Hunt-Hendrix is a doctoral
candidate at Princeton University in the
Religion, Ethics, and Politics program. She
is an advisor to the Sister Fund, and is on
the board of Free Speech for People, an
organization dedicated to restraining the
overextension of corporate power and
the role of money in politics, and the
EDGE Funders Alliance, a funder affinity
group committed to supporting translocal and global social movements.
Chioke I'Anson is a PhD candidate in
philosophy at the University of South
Florida. Through reflections derived from
German idealism and Africana
philosophy, he aims to lay bare and
topple the corrosive ideologies that
govern western humanitarian action.
Venceremos Brigade Member
Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY
Old Westbury.
Nick Iuviene is Program Director of Just
Urban Economies at the Community
Innovators Lab at MIT, where he works
on urban economic democracy projects
like the Bronx Cooperative Development
Initiative, based on his graduate thesis,
which is developing cooperative
networks in the Bronx for socially
equitable and environmentally
sustainable economic development.
Previously Nick worked as a community
organizer in the Bronx and co-founded
BlackLeaf Studios, a technology
development firm.
Rank and File Member, 1199 SEIU
Khon Ja
Khon Ja is Coordinator of Kachin Peace
Network (KPN), a voluntary network,
which consists of about 200 members,
established in June 2011 in response to
the conflict in Kachin. She holds a M.A in
Development Studies from KDSC, Dublin,
Ireland, and has almost 20 years of
experience in social work with churchbased organisations, local NGOs as well
as with INGOs in various positions in
Myanmar.
Isaac Jabola-Carolus
Project Assistant with the Participatory
Budgeting Project (PBP), a non-profit
organization that works with cities,
organizations, and public institutions to
develop participatory budgeting
processes. Isaac works with the
participatory budgeting initiative in New
York City, through which thousands of
ordinary New Yorkers are controlling the
allocation of their tax dollars.
Guio Jacinto
Guio Jacinto is a PhD candidate at York
University, Toronto Ontario in the
Department of Political Science. His
dissertation The Bitter Necessity of
Organization: Working Class Struggle and
Political Organization in Post-Fordism,
explores the transformations to working
class composition and forms of struggle
since the 1970`s and the possibilities of
political recomposition and class
organization under contemporary
capitalism.
Alex Jackimovicz
Lynne Jackson
Daphne Jackson
Eric Jackson
Alex Jackimovicz is a co-founder of and
organizer with the Alliance for Economic
Democracy (AED), as well as a volunteer
organizer with the Maine People's
Alliance (MPA). With the AED, Alex
focuses on generating a critical mass of
connections among those engaged in the
various spheres of economic democracy
movement building. With MPA, Alex
focuses on development of regional food
Lynne Jackson graduated from the
University at Albany in 1977 with a
bachelor's degree in Environmental
Studies and a minor in psychology. After
college, she worked in public health for
17 years as an administrator and
educator. In 2007, horrified at the
sentencing of Yassin Aref and
Mohammed Hossain, Lynne began to
correspond with Yassin in prison,
eventually meeting his family and
becoming part of the Muslim Solidarity
Committee.
Daphne Jackson is a member of the
International People's Democratic Uhuru
Movement (InPDUM) and the African
People's Socialist Party. In addition to her
role on the Executive Committee of
InPDUM as International Director of
Information and Education, she also
serves as Secretary for the Chicago Local
Branch, Producer of the African
Resistance Now Broadcast Team ,
InPDUM Media Coordinator and
Managing Editor of the InPDUM Blog.
Anne Jaclard is Organizational Secretary
of Marxist-Humanist Initiative
(http://marxist-humanist-initiative.org).
She is a long-time activist in and writer
on the U.S. women’s movement and
international solidarity movements,
including, most recently, support of
women in Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia
and Kenya. Her current work
concentrates on the theoretical and
practical relationship of philosophy to
revolution.
Anne Jaclard
Wuyi Jacobs
Aaron Jaffe
Aaron Jaffe is a PhD student at the New
School for Social Research in the
Philosophy Department and is currently
working on a dissertation on Marx's
theory of alienation.
Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is an independent journalist,
a rabblerouser and frequent Twitterer.
She is the former Labor editor at
AlterNet, and has written about work,
the economy, organizing and social
movements for The Nation, Dissent, The
American Prospect, Truthout, Jacobin,
and many other publications.
Mazibuko Jara
Mazibuko is Editor of Amandla, a Capebased political journal. He has a long
history of grassroots activism with the
HIV/AIDS and cooperative movements
and several community-based
development organizations. He was
media officer of the South African
Communist Party but has fallen out of
favor with SACP leadership. He has
extensive global experience working with
alliances that articulate alternatives to
corporate-led globalization, and are
rooted in principles of social justice and
sustainability.
Member of New York Chapter, Ernest
Becker Foundation. Executive producer
at Creative Media Productions, a
business communications company
.Producer of communications media in
the New York area; 30 years in corporate
communications for private and
nonprofit enterprises. Former manager,
major telecommunications corporation
and a leading streaming media
application service provider. He has won
26 national and international awards for
his productions.
Steve James
Valery Jean
Valery Jean is the executive director of
FUREE, Families United for Racial and
Economic Equality. Valery serves on the
steering committee of Living Wage NYC,
a labor, clergy and community coalition.
She is also a coordinating committee
member of Right to the City New York.
Valery is a life-long Brooklyn resident and
a child of Haitian and Dominican
immigrants.
Biola Jeje
Biola Jeje currently serves as the Regional
Organizer for New York Students Rising
(NYSR), a statewide network of students
dedicated to defending public higher
eduction. She is a Political Science major
at Brooklyn College graduating this spring
where she has been a student organizer
for the past 4 years. She has been
published in Alternet, Salon, and the
Nation, in addition to blogging regularly
for NYSR. You can find Biola on twitter
@biolajeje
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Eli Jelly-Schapiro is a doctoral candidate
in American Studies at Yale University.
His writing has appeared or is
forthcoming in a variety of publications,
including the Los Angeles Review of
Books, Social Text online, Transition, the
Journal of American Studies, and The
Nation. His commentary has been
featured on the BBC World Service,
amongst other places.
Jason Jenkins
Jason Jenkins is a political science and
legal studies student at the University of
Illinois at Springfield. His role on the
Radical Student Union has been proven
by university faculty, students, and
community leaders in Springfield. Jenkins
has led many initiatives both in the
community of Springfield and at the
University of Illinois at Springfield that
raises concerns regarding privatization of
higher education as well as reforming
government's role in society.
Pamela Jennings
Pam coordinates PBP's work in New York
and Vallejo (CA). She holds a Master’s
degree in Public Administration from the
University of Rhode Island, where she
began her study of PB in 2009. During
that time, she served on a research team
at Brown University that traced the
trajectory of PB around the world. Since
joining PBP in 2011, she has also served
as a facilitator and organizer with the PB
District Committee in New York's 39th
Council District, where she lives.
Sandy Jimenez comic book artist, writer
and director and has been a contributing
editor to WW3. His Shit House Poet
autobiographical series has been a staple
of the magazine since the 1990's.
Sandy Jimenez
Geoff Johnson
Geoff Johnson is a teacher and activist.
He is an ally member of Havaar.
Pattrice Jones
Pattrice Jones is an eco-feminist writer,
teacher, scholar, and activist, and author
of Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a
Violent World: A Guide for Activists and
their Allies (Lantern, 2007). Her activism
over several years includes tenant
organizing, anti-racist education, and
varied sorts of direct action. She is a cofounder of VINE Sanctuary, a Vermont
LGBT-run organization for farm animals
which offered refuge to Bill and Lou, the
famous embattled oxen of Green
Mountain College.
Christian Jones
Sabrina Jones
Brownville Brooklyn resident, tenth
grader, food justice youth advocate, and
member of the Brownsville Community
Justice Center
A contributing editor to WW3 since 1983,
Sabrina has been one of the vital forces
in the magazines history. She has done
books on Isadora Duncan, Studs Terkel,
FDR and the New Deal, Yiddishkeit,
Bohemians, and Radical Jesus. Her most
recent book, Race To Incarcerate, with
Marc Mauer was just published
Brian Jones is a teacher, actor and activist
in New York City. He has taught
elementary grades for almost a decade in
NYC public schools and is pursuing a PhD
in Urban Education at the CUNY
Graduate Center. Brian co-narrated the
film, The Inconvenient Truth Behind
Waiting for Superman, and has
contributed to the book Education and
Capitalism. He is currently writing a book
about the radical legacy of the Civil
Rights Movement.
Brian Jones
Iyanna Jones
Kaylie Jones
Author of five novels, including A
SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES, and
the memoir LIES MY MOTHER NEVER
TOLD ME. She also edited LONG ISLAND
NOIR. She teaches in the MFA program at
Stony Brook Southampton and in the
Wilkes University low-residency MFA
program in professional writing.
Tobin Jordan
Phil Josselyn
Tim Judson
Shayana Kadidal
Andreas Kalyvas
Nabil Kamel
John Kane-Karhiio
Ghassan Karam
Tobin Jordan has been working with the
Occupy movement and Street School
collective throughout the US since
January 2012. She has studied
extensively in theater and popular
education and aims to provide teach ins
on theater and revolutionary movements
with Street School Collective in 2013.
Tobin was also an intern at Bread and
Puppet theater company.
Phil is a long-time activist with the
Committee in Solidarity with the People
of El Salvador (CISPES).
President-Citizens Awareness Network.
Co-founder-Alliance for a Green
Economy. Analyst/organizer in labor,
energy & environmental issues. Policy
Specialist at Progressive States Network.
Provides technical analysis for Central
New York Public Power Coalition.
Provides comment on nuclear licensing,
waste & safety issues, and analysis of
energy markets and power plant
operations. Publishing analysis of costs of
nuclear vs. renewable generation in NY
State.
Nabil Kamel is an assistant professor at
Arizona State University. He has a PhD in
urban and regional planning from UCLA
and his work deals with the reproduction
of uneven development in post-disaster
recovery, spaces of resistance in the city,
and insurgent planning practices.
Host and producer of Lets Talk Native at
WWKB 1520 AM - Buffalo, NY
Kathe Karlson
Andreas Karras
Venceremos Brigade member.
Andreas Karras teaches political science
at John Jay College. His work is mainly on
the politics of labor.
A sociologist, translator and activist
participating in social movements that
promotes self-management, solidarity
economy and defense of the commons. A
member of the Initiative of Solidarity of
Vio.Me, a Self-managed Factory
(viome.org) and the Initiative 136 for
social control of Thessaloniki’s water
services (136.gr). He helps organise the
annual Direct Democracy Festival, an
international event that brings together
collectives, activists and academics from
around the world.
Theodoros Karyotis
George Karyotis
Ramzi Kassem
Associate Professor of Law at the City
University of New York where he directs
the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights
Clinic, attorney for Shaker Amer.
Danny Katch
Danny Katch is an activist and writer
whose articles have appeared in Socialist
Worker, Truth-Out, ZNet, and the
International Socialist Review. He is the
author of America's Got Democracy! The
Making of the World's Longest Running
Reality Show.
Walda Katz-Fishman is a scholar activist,
popular educator and author, professor
of sociology at Howard University, and
was a founding member and former
board chair of Project South: Institute for
the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide.
She serves on the National Planning
Committee of the U.S. Social Forum, the
Advisory Board of Wayside Center for
Popular Education and other social
justice movement organizations. She is
author/co-author of numerous chapters
and articles on the global capitalist crisis,
race, class and gender, and
transformative social movements.
Walda Katz-Fishman
Mario Kawonabo
Mario Kawonabo is a long-time labor
solidarity activist, with Batay Ouvriye
(Workers Fight, Haiti) Solidarity Network.
He is also an organizer for the Brooklyn,
NY chapter of the anti-capitalist/antiimperialist group One Struggle.
J. Kehaulani Kauanui
The sole producer and host of the public
affairs radio program, "Indigenous
Politics: From Native New England and
Beyond." On air for over six years, the
show is produced in the studios of WESU
in Middletown, CT, and is syndicated on
eleven stations across the country
through the Pacifica radio network.
David Kelley
Brian Kelly
Christine Kelly
David I. Kelley is one of the country's
leading authorities on pension present
value issues. Mr. Kelley received his M.A.
from the University of Connecticut. He is
a registered representative and a
registered principal with the National
Assoc. of Security Dealers, as well as a
Certified Financial Planner. He is a
frequent lecturer on pensions and
present values for family law bar
associations, Judicial Colleges, and
companies across the U.S.
Brian is a longtime activist in the labor,
anti-racist and Irish solidarity movements
in Boston before moving to Belfast in
1999. His book, Race, Class and Power in
the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921 won
the 2002 Isaac Deutscher Prize. He is coeditor of the forthcoming After Slavery:
Race, Labor and Citizenship in the
Reconstruction South. A member of the
Irish Socialist Worker's Party, his article
"Neoliberal Belfast: Disaster Ahead?" was
published in Irish Marxist Review.
Christine Kelly is a professor, author and
activist. Her research focuses on US social
movements, social movement theory,
and youth protest and engagement. She
has published her work with Rowman
and Littlefield and University Press of
Kentucky. Articles and review articles
have appeared in journals such as New
Political Science, Logos, New Politics and
Peace Studies among others. She is also a
published poet and singer-songwriter.
Esteban Kelly
Esteban Kelly has been an important
leader in food justice and co-op
movements, and he was inducted into a
Cooperative Hall of Fame. Esteban
volunteers with Philly Stands Up,
applying transformative justice to sexual
assault situations. He is a founding
member of AORTA (Anti-Oppression
Resource and Training Alliance), a worker
co-op of consultants serving social justice
organizations. Esteban is a facilitator,
queer rad dad, nerd, and blogger, who is
a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at
CUNY.
Robert Kemp
Health services research consultant in
outcomes research & the econ of the
pharmaceutical industry. Former Director
of Pricing and Reimbursement for global
pharmaceutical firms (Pfizer,Sanofi). Grad
faculty member of the U of Newcastle
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics. Former member of Health
Economics sub-group of the International
Clinical Epidemiology Network. PhD with
emphasis on an Institutionalist approach
to Public Finance, Economic History &
Regulation of Industry.
Leslie Kern
Emma Ketteringham
Razmig Keucheyan
Shyam Khanna
Yeong Ran Kim
Leslie Kern is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Geography &
Environment at Mount Allison University.
Her research deals with gentrification in
Canadian cities, and looks specifically at
the ways in which changing sets of
discourse shape material inequalities.
Recent publications include “All aboard?
Women working the spaces of
gentrification in Toronto’s Junction
neighbourhood” (Gender, Place and
Culture).
Razmig Keucheyan is an assistant
professor in sociology at the University of
Paris-Sorbonne. He is the author of Le
constructivisme. Des origines à nos jours
and has recently edited a selection from
Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks in
French.
Yeong Ran Kim is a researcher and a
media artist based in New York City. Her
research interests center on analyzing
normalized violence under the neoliberal
governance that affects the construction
of the urban everyday life. She explore a
new terrain of knowledge production
through an engagement with new media
technology that offers a ground for
multiple voices, murmurs, movements,
and rhythmicity to be alive and to exist
together, generating new forms of
scholarly arguments.
Stephen Kimber
Margaret Kimberley
Ed Kinane
Edward King
Stephen Kimber is an award-winning
Canadian author, journalist and
journalism professor. He is the author of
one novel and eight books of nonfiction.
His latest book—What Lies Across the
Water: The Real Story of the Cuban
Five—will be published by Fernwood in
August 2013.
Margaret Kimberley, Editor & Senior
Columnist at Black Agenda Report since
2006 writes her own blog, Freedom
Rider. Her work has been featured in
Alternet, Counterpunch and in other
media outlets including The Dallas
Morning News and The Chicago
Defender. She has appeared on Al
Jazeera English, Russia Today, the Real
News
and“out"
GRITtv.
Ed
hasNetwork
worked to
the Reaper drone
at NY’s Hancock airbase & is one of the
"Hancock 38." Ed has been arrested for
protests against Guantanamo & in
support of Bradley Manning & served 2
federal prison terms for direct actions
Edward King is a doctoral candidate in
the English program at Yale University.
His research interests are Anglophone
modernism, post colonialism and media,
in particular the history of literary and
cultural programming on the BBC World
Service.
Gary Kinsman is the author of The
Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero
Sexualities, co-author (with Patrizia
Gentile) of The Canadian War on Queers:
National Security as Sexual Regulation,
and editor of Whose National Security?
and of Sociology for Changing the World.
He is working on a new book project
called The Making of the Neo-Liberal
Queer. A long-time queer liberation, antipoverty and anticapitalist activist, he
teaches sociology at Laurentian
University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
on the historic territories of the
Atikameksheng Anishnawbek nation.
Gary Kinsman
Nate Kleinman
Andrew Kliman, professor of economics
at Pace University, Pleasantville, is author
of The Failure of Capitalist Production:
Underlying Causes of the Great Recession
and Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital”: A
Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency.
He and Alan Freeman edit Critique of
Political Economy, a new scholarly online
journal. Many of his writings are at
akliman.squarespace.com and With
Sober Senses, publication of MarxistHumanist Initiative, at marxist-humanistinitiative.org/our-publication.
Andrew Kliman
Jennifer Klein
Jennifer Klein is a Professor in the field of
20th Century US history at Yale
University.
Charles Komanoff
Charles Komanoff - Director of the
Carbon Tax Center and co-founder of
NYC's bike-advocacy group
Transportation Alternatives and the
pedestrian-rights group, Right Of Way.
Charles Komanoff is the Director of the
Carbon Tax Center, re-founder of the
bike-advocacy group Transportation
Alternatives, and the pedestrian-rights
group, Right Of Way. He is a long-time
activist and policy analyst.
Dan Kovalik
Originally trained as a physician and
psychoanalyst, has played a leading role
in the emerging ecosocialist movement
through The Enemy of Nature (2002,
2007), editing the journal Capitalism
Nature Socialism (2003-2011);
cofounding organizations such as
Ecosocialist Horizons. His other books
include History and Spirit (1991) and
Overcoming Zionism (2007). In the 1980s
he began working with radical priests in
Nicaragua, in 2012 he formally converted
to Christianity, joining the Episcopal
Church.
Joel Kovel
Shane Knight
Shane Knight, MAS, was raised in rural
Mississippi. He holds a Master’s degree in
Mass Communication from Virginia
Commonwealth University. Shane
currently works in New York City serving
duel creative roles as a writer and an art
director. His prior experience includes
serving for four years in the United States
Marine Corps as an infantryman and an
instructor. His service record with the
Marines includes tour in Afghanistan.
Michael Kraetke
Toby Kramer
Michael Kramer
Jacob Kramer
Professor and Chair of Political Economy,
and member and past-Director of the
Institute for Advanced Studies, at
Lancaster University. Collaborator and coeditor of the Marx-EngelsGesamtausgabe, the historical-critical
edition of the Complete Works of Marx
and Engels. Author of numerous books
and other publications in political
economy, political ecology and Marxist
studies.
Toby Kramer is an organizer with the
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
and a member of the international
campaign to Stop the Jewish National
Fund JNF.
Jacob Kramer is an Assistant Professor of
History at the Borough of Manhattan
Community College (CUNY). He received
his MA from Columbia University and his
PhD from the City University of New
York. His work focuses on the history of
American radicalism.
Michael Krätke
Michael Krätke, Professor/Chair of
Political Economy, University of
Lancaster, Fellow International Institute
of Social History, Amsterdam,
collaborator of MEGA (Marx Engels
complete works edition). He has
published widely on the theory and
history of modern capitalism and the
state, on public finance and financial
markets, and has edited unpublished
work by Marxist economists (Luxemburg,
Bauer, Moskowska, Rubin). As a
journalist he has regularly commented on
the present crisis since 2007.
Vitali Kremez
Vitali Kremez is a student of John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, majoring in
Economics: Forensic Financial Analysis.
He is a member of international
economics honor society, Omicron Delta
Epsilon. Currently, he is also serving as
Senior Representative of John Jay College
and President of Pre-Law Society. In
addition, he is working as an accountant
assistant and a part-time paralegal.
Lefteris Kretsos
Lefteris Kretsos is a Senior Lecturer of
Industrial Relations at the University of
Greenwich. His research is focused on
the rising trends and patterns of
precarious employment and radical
unionism, especially among young
workers in the context of economic crisis
in Southern Europe. He is currently coediting a book on radical unionism in
Europe.
Elijah Kuan Wong
Elijah Kuan Wong is a hip-hop singersongwriter and poet born and raised in
Queens, NY. He holds a B.A. in Political
Economy from Sarah Lawrence College.
His work, and forthcoming debut album,
AK47RU486, focuses on autobiographical
themes of ghetto ontology, spirituality,
compassion fatigue, and the
psychophysiology of trauma and
violence. He currently teaches emotional
literacy to young incarcerated men at
Rikers Island.
Deepa Kumar
Deepa Kumar is an Associate Professor of
Media Studies and Middle Eastern
Studies at the Rutgers University. She is
the author of Islamophobia and the
Politics of Empire and Outside the Box:
Corporate Media, Globalization, and the
UPS Strike.
Arun Kundnani
Arun Kundnani teaches at New York
University and John Jay College. His book
The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia,
extremism, and the domestic War on
Terror is forthcoming from Verso. He is
also the author of The End of Tolerance:
racism in 21st century Britain (Pluto,
2007) and Spooked: how not to prevent
violent extremism (Institute of Race
Relations, 2009), and a former editor of
the journal Race & Class.
Benjamin Kunkel
Cathy Kunkel is an independent
consultant on energy efficiency and
utility regulation, working with Energy
Efficient West Virginia, a coalition
focused on improving state policy on
energy efficiency in West Virginia. She
has testified multiple times before the
West Virginia Public Service Commission.
Earlier, she was a research associate at
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
and a graduate student at UC Berkeley.
She has bachelor's and master's degrees
in physics.
Benjamin Kunkel is a founding editor of
n+1.
Peter Kuper
Peter Kuper is co-founder of the political
graphics magazine, World War 3
Illustrated. Since 1997, he has written
and drawn Spy vs Spy for Mad Magazine
every issue. Kuper has produced over
twenty books including The System and
an adaptation of Franz Kafka's The
Metamorphosis. Kuper has been teaching
comics courses for 25 years in New York
and is a visiting professor at Harvard
University.
Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels
The Impressionist, Transmission, My
Revolutions, and most recently Gods
Without Men (Vintage paperback, 2013).
Granta has named him one of its twenty
best young British novelists. His short
stories and journalism have appeared in
the NYT, the Guardian, the New Yorker,
Wired, etc. He has written about
Vaneigem's book in BookForum.
Cathy Kunkel
Yetta Kurland
Leigh Claire La Berge
Dan La Botz
Yetta Kurland is a civil rights attorney,
educator, radio host, small business
owner and community activist. She was
at the center of the campaign for
Marriage Equality and virtually every
other fight for LGBTQ equality over the
past two decades. More than that, Yetta
has been a key figure in building bridges
between the LGBTQ community,
communities of color, low-income
communities and other
underrepresented communities on a
wide range of social justice issues.
Leigh Claire La Berge is assistant
professor of English at Saint Mary’s
University. She is currently completing a
manuscript entitled “Scandals and
Abstraction: Financial Form in
Contemporary American Literary
Cultures,” and she has published essays
on American Psycho, Slavoj Zizek, The
Financier, and The Wire; she recently cocurated an arts installation, “To Have and
To Owe” which examined the
relationship between aesthetics and debt
Dan is the editor of the most important
source on Mexican labor and the author
of many articles and books on US and
Mexican labor.
Gary Labao
Gloria La Riva
Alnoor Ladhar
Gary Labao is a founding member of the
rural and environmental info desk of
BAYAN USA, the US chapter of BAYAN
Philippines and an alliance of 18 Filipino
social justice organizations in the US. He
was a student activist with the League of
Filipino Students and youth arm of
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP),
the largest peasant and farm worker
organization in the Philippines in the
1980's before migrating to the US.
Coordinator of the National Committee
to Free the Cuban Five, formed in 2001.
She has traveled extensively to Cuba,
Venezuela, Mexico, and other Latin
American countries and written about
U.S.-Cuba and Latin American relations
for various publications. La Riva and the
National Committee have spearheaded
the investigation into the U.S.
government's massive misconduct during
the Cuban Five's trial, currently under
federal appeals. La Riva is a union
president for over 30 years in San
Francisco.
Alnoor Ladha is an activist and social
entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of
/The Rules, a global citizens movement
to address the root causes of inequality.
He is also a board member for
Greenpeace USA, and a partner at
Purpose, an incubator for new types of
social movements.
Corbin Laedlein
Corbin Laedlein organized the Occupy
Food Justice working group and
coordinated demonstrations to support
ongoing lawsuits filed by organic farmers
against Monsanto. He also coordinates
youth development, organizing, and
urban agriculture projects in Brooklyn.
He is originally from Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Rachel LaForest
Executive Director of Right to the City
Alliance (RTTC). RTTC emerged in 2007 as
a unified response to gentrification and a
call to halt the displacement of lowincome people, people of color,
marginalized LGBTQ communities, and
youths of color from their historic urban
neighborhoods. Rachel has worked with
progressive labor, directing the
Organizing and Public Policy departments
of the Transport Workers Union (TWU)
Local 100 and Actors Equity Association
(AEA).
Ray LaForest
Ray LaForest, Union Activist and
organizer was born into a respected Port
Au Prince Family. He was forced to flee
Haiti in early 1960's because of his
involvement in the development of the
Haiti Youth liberation movement. His
challenge of the authority of Haitian
dictator, Papa Doc Duvalier resulted in a
serious threat to his life.
David Laibman
David Laibman is Professor Emeritus,
Brooklyn College and Graduate Faculty,
City University of New York, and Editor of
Science & Society. His latest book is
Political Economy After Economics:
Scientific Method and Radical
Imagination (Routledge, 2012).
Despina Lalaki
Despina Lalaki is a Sociologist and a
Lecturer at the A.S. Onassis Program in
Hellenic Studies, NYU. She has published
with the International Journal of Politics,
Culture and Sociology, the Journal of
Historical Sociology and Hesperia: The
Journal of the American School of
Classical Studies. She currently works on
a co-edited volume tentatively titled
"The Greek Culture in Crisis and the
Culture of Crisis in Greece. Exploring
Ambiguities and the Political in
Representation."
Andrew Lamas
Andrew T. Lamas teaches critical theory
(radical political economy, alternative
economic development, critical
pedagogy) at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is a board member of
the Bread & Roses Community Fund
(Philadelphia), and he is on the editorial
board of the Radical Philosophy Review.
He also founded and directs Penn’s Social
Justice Research Academy. He is the
general editor of “Critical Refusals,” the
2013 double special issue (vol. 16, nos. 1
and 2) of the Radical Philosophy Review.
Anne Lamb
Anne is an activist with the NYC Chptr of
the Jericho Movement for Recognition &
Amnesty for U.S. Pol. Pris. & Pris. Of War.
She has been doing political pris. work
since 1970 & is totally committed to the
liberation of all Freedom Fighers being
held illegally by the U.S.A.. Her work
includes visiting the pol. prisoners
especially in NYS.
Beth Lamont is an Non-Governmental
Organization (NGO) Representative to
the United Nations for The American
Humanist Association. Along with Mary
Beaty, the AHA's other NGO
Representative, she is one of the
founding members of a newly formed
alliance of NGOs at the UN called CEBO,
or the Council of Ethics Based
Organizations, which issues joint
recommendations and statements. She is
also the president of her late Husband,
Corliss Lamont's, Half Moon Foundation.
Beth K. Lamont
Ishay Landa
Ben Landau-Beispiel
Ishay Landa is a senior lecturer in the
Dept. of History, Philosophy and Judaic
Studies at The Open University of Israel.
He has published on Nietzscheanism,
Marxism, political theory and popular
culture, including two books: “The
Overman in the Marketplace:
Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture,”
and “The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Fascism
and Liberal Tradition.”
Ben Landau-Beispiel received his B.A. in
history and African American studies
from Harvard University in 2010, and is a
director of the Society for Psychoanalytic
Inquiry.
Joanne Landy
Elena Landriscina
Joanne Landy is Co-Director of the
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
(http://www.cpdweb.org/), and an
editorial board member of New Politics
(http://www.newpol.org/) magazine. She
visited Greece in the summer of 2012
and since that time has been active in
solidarity work with radical democratic
Greek initiatives.
Enrique Lanz Oca
Enrique Lanz Oca holds a Ph.D. in Earth
and Environmental Sciences (EES) from
the Graduate Center (CUNY). The main
topic of his doctoral dissertation was the
current transformations of the "energy
landscape" especially in the hydroelectric
sector. Currently Enrique Lanz is
analyzing the largest dam removal
project in history, the Elwha River
Restoration Project in Washington State.
Don Lash
Don Lash has been a lawyer specializing
in education law for 20 years, and has
been employed within the foster care
system since 2006. He has written on a
variety of issues, including education and
child welfare, for socialistworker.org.
Sophie Lasoff
Sophie Lasoff has been very active in the
NYU divest campaign, heading up weekly
meetings, planning and participating in
meetings with administration and
speaking on panels, such as at the New
School for the follow-up panel after the
screening of the "Do the Math"
documentary and is included in this film.
Eric Laursen
Eric Laursen is an independent financial
and political journalist, activist, and
commentator. He is co-author of
Understanding the Crash (2010). and his
work has appeared in a wide variety of
publications, including The Nation, The
Village Voice, Z Magazine, The
Indypendent, and the Huffington Post.
He lives in Buckland, Massachusetts.
Peter LaVenia
Dr. Peter A. LaVenia is currently the
Secretary of the NY State Green Party,
and a lecturer in Political Science at
Union College in Schenectady, NY. He
was co-chair of the NY State Green Party
for 6 years, and has worked on nearly a
dozen independent political campaigns in
the last decade, and run for office twice
including a run for State Senate in NY
that garnered 10% of the vote against a
long-time Democratic incumbent.
Lena Lavinas
Lena Lavinas teaches in the Institute of
Economics at the Federal University of
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. She is a visiting
fellow at the Princeton Program in Latin
American Studies.
Cecile Lawrence Holds a Ph.D. and J.D.
and is a health care and anti-fracking
activist testifying at hearings of the SRBC,
DEC, and State Energy Plan. Originally
from Jamaica, her mother took the family
from the island in haste shortly after the
Rodney Riots. She has worked as an
administrator in higher education and
mental health and taught at the college
level. Her articles on philosophy of
medicine have been published in journals
and she has presented at many
conferences on health related topics. She
co-edited a book on revolution titled
Movements in Time. She was a Green
Party NY candidate in 2010 and 2011.
Cecile Lawrence
Larry Lawrence
Dan Lazare
Dan Lazare is a journalist and author of
books about the US Constitution and
American urban/energy policy, most
recently The Velvet Coup: the
Constitution, the Supreme Court and the
Decline of American Democracy (Verso).
He's written for a wide variety of
publications, including the Nation,
Harper's and The London Review of
Books. He's presently completing a
volume about religion for Pantheon.
Alexandra Leader
Alexandra Leader first became active in
the fight for the morning-after pill when,
as a leader in her Campus National
Organization for Women chapter, she
organized a campaign to get a Right-toLife pharmacist fired at the University of
Florida Infirmary who refused to
dispense it. Leader is a past Executive
Director of the National Organization for
Women-NYC chapter. She recruited the
nine plaintiffs in the Tummino case.
Okenfe Lebarty
Formerly a candidate for the New York
State Assembly is the co-founder and
Vice President of Council of Young
African Leaders, president of AfriMETRO
Inc.He previously worked as Govt
Relations Manager at New Yorkers for
Parks. Okenfe worked on the Obama’s
campaign as a regional field organizer in
Minnesota, and was elected an Obama
delegate to the 2008 Democratic
National Convention.
Kent Lebsock
(Lower Brule Lakota Nation) Owe Aku
International Project
(oweakuinternational.org) a Lakota
activist for more than 20 years, is the
Director of Owe Aku International Justice
Project which serves the traditional
governing council of the Lakota Oyate,
the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty
Council. His particular contribution lies in
international human rights forums
ensuring international law and standards
are applied to Indigenous peoples,
treaties, lands and territories.
Eric Leenson
Eric Leenson is President of Sol
Economics, a company that promotes
responsible enterprise Solution and
Solidarity in the Americas. Currently he
leads a multinational initiative supporting
socially responsible enterprise and local
development in Cuba. He is also actively
researching the role of social and
solidarity economics in Brazil and
Ecuador and is an Associate of the Center
for the Study of the Americas (CENSA).
Olivia Leirer
A proud alumna of Antioch College, Olivia
was among the first to join the staff of
New York Communities for Change when
the organization was founded in 2010.
Responsible for integrating new
technologies into NYCC’s on-the-ground
organizing, Olivia has made instrumental
contributions to the growing body of
knowledge around the intersection of
new media and organizing.
Charles Lenchner
Charles Lenchner is executive director of
Organizing 2.0, a New York City based
group of trainers in digital strategy and
online organizing. Lenchner has been
working for political and advocacy
organizations for 25 years in Israel,
Palestine and the United States in the
fields of human rights, environmental,
social justice, labor and peace. You can
find him @clenchner on twitter and
organizing20.org.
Jesse Lessinger
Solome Lemma is currently a grantmaking program advisor at The Global
Fund for Children (GFC). Solome is also cofounder and coordinator of HornLight, an
online platform that promotes diverse,
nuanced, and dignified narratives on the
Horn of Africa. She currently spends most
of her time working to establish Africans
Sarah Leonard is an Associate editor of
Dissent Magazine and a frequent
contributes articles on feminism and
economic justice issues to left
publications. She was an active
participant in Occupy Wall Street. She
was co-editor of the OWS Gazette. She is
also a co-editor of Occupy!: Scenes from
Occupied America (Verso, 2011). She
writes about politics, technology, and
feminism.
Spencer Leonard is a Collegiate Assistant
Professor in the Social Sciences at the
University of Chicago.
Jesse is a writer for Justice newspaper
and New York regional organizer for
Socialist Alternative. He has been a
socialist activist for 8 years.
Michael Letwin
Former President, Association of Legal
Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325; Cofounder, New York City Labor Against the
War, Labor for Palestine and Jews for
Palestinian Right of Return.
David Letwin
Teacher, artist, writer. Co-founder, Jews
for Palestinian Right of Return and
member of Al Awda NY: The Palestine
Right to Return Coalition. Participant in
the 2009/2010 Gaza Freedom March.
Solome Lemma
Sarah Leonard
Spencer Leonard
Les Levidow
Les Levidow is a Senior Research Fellow
in the Development Policy and Practice
(DPP) unit at the Open University, UK. His
research has included joint projects with
civil society organisations on the EU's
bioeconomy agenda and on food
relocalisation. He is Editor of the journal
Science as Culture.
Norman Levine
Prof. Levine is the author of seven books
and 37 articles. His most recent book
MARX'S DISCOURSE WITH HEGEL was
published in 2012 and he signed another
contract with Macmillan/Palgrave for an
eighth book which is entitled MARX'S
REBELLION AGAINST LENIN. For one
month each year Prof. Levine is a Visiting
Professor at Beijing Normal University
and Fudan University in Shanghai.
Kenneth Levin
Kenneth Levin is Assistant Professor of
Economics for Borough of Manhattan
Community College. He has lectured in
several countries and around the United
States. His most important work involves
class structural issues of start-up firms in
high-tech industry. Levin is known for
developing a theory of both "enterprise
hybrids" and "alternative growth
dynamics.
Nicholas Levis is a writer and a translator
of many works from the German. Author
of Working for The Enemy: Ford, General
Motors and Forced Labor in Germany
during the Second World War (New York,
2000). Active with AKNY-Greece
Solidarity Movement, Occupy Astoria LIC,
and Occupy Wall Street Alternative
Banking. Born and currently living in
Astoria, Queens; lived fifteen years in
Cologne and Berlin, Germany.
Nicholas Levis
Bertha Lewis, former CEO of ACORN and
current president of The Black Institute,
is an activist and community organizer
who for decades has been on the front
lines of the struggle for civil rights and
economic justice.
Bertha Lewis
Peter Lew
Anne Lewis
Jessica Lewis
Toni Lewis
Peter Lew is an instructor of Tai Chi
Chuan and Chi Gong, Certified
Practitioner of Access Consciousness, Coauthor of Raw Extreme Manifesto, and a
live food coach and caterer. He has
worked as an activist with food
sovereignty movements in developing
communities focused on urban
gardening.Peter blogs at
www.empowernetwork.com/peterlew
Anne Lewis is an independent filmmaker,
a member of TSEU-CWA Local 6186 and a
senior lecturer at the University of Texas
at Austin. She is co-director of the just
completed documentary, Anne Braden:
Southern Patriot.
Shirley Leyro
Jeffrey Lichtenstein
Sabine Lilly
Eugene Lim
Shirley P. Leyro is a doctoral student at
the Graduate Center in the Criminal
Justice Department at John Jay College,
and is the Immigration Policy & Practice
Fellow. Ms. Leyro is an adjunct instructor
for CUNY in John Jay’s Sociology and
Political Science Departments and Hunter
College’s Sociology Department. Her
present research interests include the
effects of deportation on the social
organization of immigrant communities,
immigration and crime, social
disorganization and the Latino Paradox.
Jeffrey is a student activist at the
University of Memphis.
Eugene Lim is founder and managing
editor of Ellipsis Press. His fiction has
appeared in Fence, The Denver
Quarterly, EXPLORINGfictions, The
Brooklyn Rail and elsewhere. He is the
author of the novels Fog & Car (2008,
Ellipsis Press) and The Strangers
(forthcoming, Black Square Editions). He
works as a librarian in a high school and
lives in Queens, NY.
www.eugenelim.com.
Martha Livingston
Martha Livingston, Ph.D., is Professor and
Chair of the Public Health department at
SUNY College at Old Westbury. She is
Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of
the New York Metro chapter of
Physicians for a National Health Program,
a member of the Editorial Board of the
Journal of Public Health Policy, and
member of the Steering Committee of
the Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Health Care.
Francesca Lo Basso
Currently a political organizer and
legislative advocate for National Nurses
United, the largest union and
professional association of registered
nurses in US history, and the former
Director of Organizing for HealthcareNOW! (a national grassroots organization
advocating for single-payer healthcare).
Other organizing experience includes
work with Iraq Veterans Against the War
(IVAW), Casino-Free Philadelphia, and
Protecting Our Waters.
Francesca LoBasso
Francesca is the coordinator of the U.S.
Robin Hood Tax campaign and an
organizer with National Nurses United.
Kimberly Lok
Joe Lombardo
Anne Looser
Professor Ana M Lopez
Clarissa Lopez
Kimberly Lok currently interns with the
Food Chain Workers Alliance, a coalition
of worker-based organizations focused
on improving the working conditions for
all workers in the food chain, and
Brandworkers International, a non-profit
focused on advancing the rights of food
employees. She is a PhD student in
sociology at Temple University. Her
research interests focus on labor and
social movements and food justice. Kim
lives in NYC and firmly believes in the
“right to food production” for all.
Joe Lombardo is the co-coordinator of
UNAC. He is a longtime labor and antiwar
activist and recently returned from an
anti-drone trip to Pakistan with Code
Pink. He is a former staff person for the
National Peace Action Coalition, one of
the anti-Vietnam war coalitions.
Anne Looser is a high school special
education teacher in the Bronx. She is
the recipient of a 2011 Blackboard
Award.
Professor Ana M. Lopez has been an
Assistant Professor of the Humanities
Department/Latin American and
Caribbean Studies Unit at Hostos
Community College. She has been a long
term community and human rights
activist.
Clarissa is a human rights activist in
Puerto Rico and is the daughter of
political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera.
Alfredo Lopez
Judith Lorber
Dana Louis
Philip Louro
Fran Luck
Orie Lumumba
Rukia Lumumba
Nurit Mablu
Richie Machado
Veteran activist Alfredo Lopez is Co-Chair
of the Leadership Committee of May
First/People Link. His column on
technology is published at This Can't Be
Happening
(http://thiscantbehappening.net)
M.A. Public Policy and International
Affairs.
Fran Luck is a long-time housing and
feminist activist in New York City. She
founded the Street Harassment Project in
2000 and is Executive Producer of Joy of
Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio
@ WBAI. In 2010 she led the first
feminist demonstration against the
Obama Administration to protest the
Stupak Amendment.
Director of Youth Services for The Center
for Community Alternatives (CCA) is a
leader in the field of community-based
alternatives to incarceration. Our mission
is to promote reintegrative justice and a
reduced reliance on incarceration
through advocacy, services and public
policy development in pursuit of civil and
human rights.
Nurit is studying mathematics at CCNY.
Richie Machado has been organizing with
the Occupy movement since the
inception.
Chase Madar
Victor Madeson
John Maerhofer
Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu
Chase Madar is a NY-based civil rights
attorney who writes about constitutional
liberties and war, and is the author of
The Passion of Bradley Manning: The
Story behind the Wikileaks
Whistleblower (Verso, 2013). He is a
former staff attorney at Make the Road
New York where he specialized in youth
law, disability law, housing law and LGBT
rights. He is also a member of Brooklyn
for Peace.
Author: MBA (Corporatism) @ Lehigh
University '84; MA Soc (+ Economics &
Psychology) @ NCSU '77; BS @ USMA '70.
Former Foreign Area Officer & linguist for
Europe w/TS clearance. Books/articles on
Military & Political Sociology (list on
website).
John Maerhofer teaches Global and
Postcolonial Studies at Roger Williams
University. He is the author of Rethinking
the Vanguard, published by Cambridge
Scholars Publishing in 2009.
A community activist, organizer and
scholar, Molefi Mafereka Ndlovu is a
leading figure in the use of technology
and communications by people in
struggle.
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of
plant and soil science at the University of
Vermont and a director of the Monthly
Review Foundation. His outreach
activities are oriented to explaining how
to apply ecological principles to
agricultural production. His book What
Every Environmentalist Needs to Know
About Capitalism is co-authored with
John Bellamy Foster, and he is senior
editor of Hungry for Profit: The
Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food,
and the Environment.
Fred Magdoff
Alice Maggio
Upon graduating Wesleyan University,
Alice Maggio’s culinary interest in
authentic and regional tastes led her to
work in New York and the French Alps.
Drawn back to her home region in the
Berkshires, her interest in creating
healthy community around sustainable
local food systems introduced her to the
transformative economic work of the
Schumacher Center for New Economics
(SCNE). She is now the Local Currencies
Program Director for SCNE and the
Coordinator of the local currency
BerkShares.
Manissa Maharawal
Manissa Maharawal is writer, Occupy
Wall Street activist and doctoral student
in the Anthropology department at the
CUNY Graduate Center.
Erin Mahoney has been fighting for the
morning-after pill to go over the counter
for over a decade, with the goal of
allowing birth control, and the autonomy
for women that comes with it, "to be at
our fingertips." She is a co-founder of the
Women's Liberation Birth Control
Project, of Redstockings Allies and
Veterans, in 2003. She led the charge for
a sit-in, resulting in arrest, of nine
women at the FDA in 2005.
Erin Mahoney
Nathaniel Mahlberg
Chris Maisano
Alex Main
Kiki Makandal
Nathaniel Mahlberg has been involved in
Occupy Faith and the Protest Chaplains in
New York City. He does anti-war and
housing defense work.
Chris Maisano is a Brooklyn-based union
researcher and writer for AFSCME District
Council 37. He is a contributing editor of
Jacobin magazine and co-editor of
Democratic Left, the quarterly
publication of Democratic Socialists of
America.
Pramilla Malick
Imran Malik
Christopher Malone
Pramilla Malick is a journalist, blogger,
community organizer, and a mother of 4
children. She studied anthropology at the
New School for Social Research. She
founded two grass-roots organizations in
upstate New York to fight frackingrelated gas infrastructure: StopMCS
(opposing a compressor station) and
ProtectOrangeCounty (natural-gas-fired
power plant). She is also a petitioner in a
federal case against the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission in the U.S.
District Court of Appeals.
Dr. Malone is an associate professor and
chair of the Department of Political
Science at Pace University's New York
City campus. He teaches courses in
American politics and political theory. His
academic research focuses primarily on
race and American political development
and democracy and citizenship. He is the
author of Between Freedom and
Bondage: Race and Voting Rights in the
Antebellum North (Routledge 2008) and
serves as Policy Director for Bronx State
Senator Gustavo Rivera.
Timothy Maloney
Retired professor of Electronics
Technology, Monroe County Community
College. Author of several books and
publications, including "Modern
Industrial Electronics", eds 1-5. Inventor
of "Digital Method for DC Motor Speed
Control", IEEE Transactions on Control
Instrumentation, Feb 1976, Vol 23, No. 1.
BS, Engineering; MS Electrical
Engineering; PhD, Educational
Psychology. Chair for panel "ThoriumFueled Nuclear Energy" at 2012 Left
Forum.
Author of 19 plays produced in this
country and Europe on topics of war and
peace and social justice. Most recent:
"Prophecy" (London 2008, New York
2010) "Another Life" (three New York
productions, 2011-2013, London upcoming); "Extreme Whether" (in-process,
three public readings). Editor: Acts of
War: Iraq & Afghanistan in Seven Plays.
Co-founder Theater Three Collaborative,
adjunct professor of theater, John Jay
College.
Karen Malpede
Cam Mancini
Cam has been a part of anarchist projects
in Providence, Rhode Island for the past
three years. He is a member of the
Industrial Workers of the World and has
organized in the food service industries.
Kathy Manley
Geoff Mann
Patricia S. Mann
A passionate advocate for peace and
justice, Kathy is one of the attorneys for
Yassin Aref in Albany, NY. She has been
involved in a number of community
groups, including the Muslim Solidarity
Committee and Project SALAM, as well as
the Capital Region chapter of the NY Civil
Liberties Union, where she serves on the
Board and as a volunteer attorney on the
Legal Committee.
Geoff Mann lives in Vancouver BC. He
teaches political economy and economic
geography at Simon Fraser University,
where he directs the Centre for Global
political economy. His book Our Daily
Bread: Wages, Workers and the Political
Economy of the American West (UNC,
2007) won the Paul Sweezy prize from
the American sociological association and
the Michael S. Harrington award from
the American political science
association.
Ben Manski is a scholar, lawyer and prodemocracy advocate. He is the executive
director of the Liberty Tree Foundation, a
strategy center he founded in 2004, a cofounder of Move to Amend, and an
Associate Fellow with the Institute for
Policy Studies. Manski was one of the
leaders of the Wisconsin uprising of 2011
and continues that struggle through the
Wisconsin Wave. In 2012, He was the
campaign manager for Jill Stein for
President and is a former co-chair of the
Green Party of the U.S.
Ben Manski
Eric Mann
Sarah Manski
Akuba Manu
Chris Mansour
Peter Marcuse
Sarah Manski is a teacher, union
member, progressive businesswoman,
and advocate. She has taught courses as
a college instructor, worked for AFSCME
as its International Campaign
Coordinator, as well as for the National
Labor Committee, and Worker
Independent News. In 2009, Manski
founded the online green marketplace
PosiPair.com, and in 2011 she organized
the Wisconsin Positive Business Alliance
to unite business owners against Scott
Walker’s attacks on the public sector.
Chris Mansour is an independent curator
and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He
received his MFA from Parsons, and
currently is a member of the Platypus
Affiliated Society.
Peter Marcuse is Professor Emeritus of
Urban Planning at Columbia University.
He is past President of the Los Angeles
City Planning Commission, former chair
of Community Bd. 9’s Housing
Committee in Manhattan, and long active
in Planners Network. He was active as a
lawyer in the labor movement and the
civil rights movements. He is now much
into the Occupy Wall Street and right to
the City Movements. His most recent
book is Cities for People, not for Profit.
His blog is at pmarcuse.wordpress.com.
Robyn Marasco
Robyn Marasco is an assistant professor
of political science at Hunter College,
CUNY. She recently completed her first
manuscript, The Highway of Despair:
Critical Theory after Hegel. She is
currently working on the ideas of passion
and play in Machiavelli and the Left
Machiavellian tradition.
Jackelyn Mariano
Irene Marcuse received an MSW degree
from Columbia University's Graduate
School of Social Work, and was Assistant
Director of a community-based
organization serving the elderly. The
granddaughter of philosopher Herbert
Marcuse, she was nominated for an
Agatha Award for her first mystery novel
about social worker Anita Servi, The
Death of an Amiable Child.
Jackelyn Mariano is the Deputy Secretary
General of BAYAN USA, an alliance of 18
Filipino social justice organizations in the
US and overseas chapter of BAYAN
Philippines.
Carlos Marentes
Carlos Marentes is a PhD candidate in the
Economics Department of the University
of Massachusetts Amherst. He also forms
part of La Via Campesina technical team
in the North American Region.
Irene Marcuse
Erminia Maricato
Norman Markowitz
Yolanda Martin
Brendan Martin
Erminia Maricato is Professor of Urban
Planning at the University of São Paolo.
She was part of the transition team in the
first Lula government and formulated the
proposal for a Ministry of Cities, where
she served as deputy minister. She is the
author of several books on cities.
Professor of History
Yolanda C. Martín has a PhD in Sociology
from the Graduate Center, CUNY; Her
research explores the collateral damage
of mass deportations of Dominicans in
the United States. Yolanda is currently
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at
BMCC, CUNY. She also taught at John Jay
College, and has held international
affiliation to the Autonomous University
of Santo Domingo (UASD). Her teaching
experience includes courses in
Criminology; Social Deviance; Urban
Sociology; and Drugs and Society.
Brendan Martin, President and Founder;
International Director of the Working
World, which finances businesses that
are owned and run by their workers,
extending democracy to the workplace.
Having worked on Wall Street for ten
years, Brendan spent much of the past
seven years establishing cooperatives in
Argentina and Nicaragua and now works
in New York City.
Carl Martin
Logan Martinez
Angel Martinez
Paul Martorana
Josh Mason
John Mason
Thaddeus Matney
Carl Grey Martin is a scholar of medieval
literature and culture, as well as of
contemporary marxist theory, with a
particular interest on ecological issues.
Logan Martinez is Outreach Coordinator
for the National Jobs for All Coalition and
co-convener of the ad hoc coalition of
progressive organizations and individual
activists that has formed to build political
support for HR 1000. He lives in Dayton
Ohio where he was a Green Party
candidate for Congress in 2006.
Angel Martinez is a poet and professor
who teaches about the Puerto Rican
presence in New York.
Paul V. Martorana, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor Wagner College. Ph.D.: Kellogg
at Northwestern Univ. BA Univ. of
California, Berkeley. Research: effects of
social and personal power on actiontaking, creativity, team performance, and
altruism; highlighted in the Economist,
Tavis Smiley, Forbes and Wall Street
Journal. Teaching: Wagner, Kellogg at
Northwestern, UT Austin, UC Berkeley,
Fordham, Baruch, Chinese University of
Hong Kong.
Professor of Political Science, William
Paterson University.
Moved to the city about a year ago and
has steadily become more involved in
activism ever since. He is an active
member of Deep Green Resistance New
York as well as the ISO.
Hany Massoud
Hany Massoud is a producer for the
independent radio & tv news
program Democracy Now! Hany has
traveled extensively covering
international breaking stories throughout
the world. He currently focuses most of
his time working to raise youth's passion
Jalen Matney is a New York City activist
and member of Deep Green Resistance
NYC. He got his start in activism after
moving to New York City from Orlando
for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
He studies Marxism and the
environmental crisis independently. He is
active in the International Socialist
Organization as well as Columbia DIVEST.
Jalen Matney
Graciano Matos
Mr. Matos will speak about the campaign
in New York City for Oscar Lopez Rivera
freedom.
Gloria Mattera is co-chair of the Green
Party of New York State. Has been active
in independent politics for 15 years, first
with the Labor Party and then with the
Green Party. A longtime advocate for
single payer health care, Gloria is on the
Executive Board of Physicians for a
National Health Program Metro Chapter.
Gloria is currently co-chair of the Green
Party of New York State and is part of the
growing movement of eco-socialism.
Gloria Mattera
Caleb Maupin
Political Analyst for PressTV, Workers
World Party youth organizer, and A coauthor of "What Is Marxism All About?”
He was Marxist-Leninist Youth leader in
New York City.
Jesse Mattleman
Jesse Mattleman earned her BA in
International Development and Social
Change from Clark University, specializing
in Global Health, Ethics, and Public Policy.
She has extensive field experience in
community-driven international
development and public health practices
in Latin America and Africa, with a focus
on sustainable project development and
cross-cultural partnership-building.
Claudia Mausner
Claudia Mausner, Ph.D. Environmental
Psychology Consultant Adjunct Associate
Professor of Environmental Studies, Pace
University
www.linkedin.com/in/cmausner
Andy Mazzone
Andrew Mazzone
Bernie McAleer
Justine McCabe
Instructor & Board member of the Henry
George School of Social Science (2009present); Chairman/President of Xiom
Corp from inception (1998-Oct. 30,
2009); Chairman of the Board (Jul. 1,
2003-Jan. 2004), Steam Clean USA, Inc.;
Worked at Metco (1970-Feb. 15, 1995), a
subsidiary of the Perkin Elmer Corp (A
Fortune 500 company), ending as
President; Degrees from Babson College,
Babson Park, Massachusetts, in Finance
& an advanced degree in Economics, with
a specialty in economic history.
Bernie is a NYC SOA Watch Activist.
Justine McCabe is a member of the
International Committee, Green Party of
the US. She is it's point person for the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Michael P McCabe
Manissa McCleave Maharawal
James McCormick
Shepard P. McDaniel
Co-author of "Manifesto for Economic
Democracy and Ecological Sanity," and
Director of Civic Education, Logos: A
Journal of Modern Society & Culture.
Manissa McCleave Maharawal is a writer,
activist and doctoral student in the
Anthropology department at the CUNY
Graduate Center. She is a founding
member of the editorial collective In
Front and Center and has been involved
with various working groups of Occupy
Wall Street since September 2011.
Megan McGee
is a mental health clinician and advocate
as well as an active member of Deep
Green Resistance New York
Kim McGill
In 2002 Kim helped co-found the
grassroots movement Youth Justice
Coalition based in Los Angeles. Kim also
serves on the Advisory Committee of
"the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of
Youth" and the Coordinating Committee
for the Dignity in Schools Campaign. Kim
is a strong and persistence voice in the
struggle for justice for young people of
color.
Michael McGrath, PhD
Cyrus is the Director of Development and
Outreach for NCPCF. Previously, he
served as the Advocacy Director for the
New York chapter of the Council on
American Islamic Relations, where he
fought against the warrantless
surveillance and infiltration of Muslim
communities by local and federal
agencies, worked to resolve hundreds of
cases of religious and racial
discrimination, and built interfaith and
intercultural partnerships.
Dr. McGrath is the Founder and CEO of
Pathologica and Professor of Medicine at
the University of California- San
Francisco.
Basir Mchawi
Basir Mchawi has woven a distinguished
career as an educator, activist and
communicator. He is currently a
professor of English at Queens College
and teaches in a special program
designed for police officers at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice. Mchawi has
served as the chair of the International
African Arts Festival, Brooklyn NYC for
the last twelve years, and is producer and
host of the award winning Education at
the Crossroads heard on WBAI.
Cyrus McGoldrick
Ray McKay
Richard McIntyre
Andrew McKinney
Stephanie McMillan
Ray McKay of Marxist-Humanist Initiative
(http://www.marxist-humanistinitiative.org) has a long history in the
Black Liberation and Marxist movements.
From his start in as a young worker in the
Maryland Freedom Union, he went on
became a colleague of the late Raya
Dunayevskaya, a tenant organizer in
Detroit, an activist in New York, and a
theorist and writer.
Richard McIntyrer is Professor of
Economics, University of Rhode Island,
and author of Are Workers Rights Human
Rights?
Andrew McKinney is a Doctoral
Candidate in Sociology and Digital Fellow
at the CUNY Grad Center. His research is
concerned with the collapse of the
differences between labor and play, work
and leisure, production and
consumption, and the role technology
has played in this process. His
dissertation studies the role of that fan
Stephanie McMillan has a new graphic
novel coming out this fall: "Resistance to
Ecocide" (Seven Stories Press). She is a
cartoonist ("Code Green" and "Minimum
Security") and writer ("The Beginning of
the American Fall," "As the World Burns,"
"The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation
Squad,"), as well as an organizer for the
anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist collective
One Struggle (Fort Lauderdale, FL
chapter).
David McNally
David McNally is an activist, teacher, and
author of many books, including
Monsters of the Market: Zombies,
Vampires and Global Capitalism, which
won the 2012 Deutscher Memorial
Award.
Cecily McMillan
Cecily McMillan is a graduate student at
the New School for Social Research
studying social movement theory. She is
a representative on the Graduate Faculty
Student Senate working towards greater
administrative openness and
accountability, as well as working with
New School Student Workers to support
student worker campaigns, develop
fairer labor practices, and form a student
union.
David McReynolds
An American democratic socialist and
pacifist activist who described himself as
"a peace movement bureaucrat" during
his 40-year career with Liberation
magazine and the War Resisters League,
David was the first openly gay man to run
for President of the United States. His
many inspiring writings include the book
"We Have Been Invaded By the 21st
Century."
Robert Melamede, PhD
Educator, artist and activist who teaches
first-year composition and literature
surveys at CUNY. Also taught English in
Chile. Notable projects include fighting
for same-sex marriage in California;
counseling survivors of GLBT-related
violence in New York; and chairing the
Sustainability Committee at First
Unitarian Universalist Society in
Brooklyn. He has played snare drum in
the Rude Mechanical Orchestra and is
currently working on a queer reading of
the Robin Hood legend for the stage.
Dr. Melamede is the Founder and CEO of
Cannabis Science and Professor of
Biology at the University of ColoradoColorado Springs.
Cynthia Mellon
Cynthia Mellon is the Community and
Environmental Justice Organizer for the
Ironbound Community Corporation
(ICC),a community organization in
Newark, New Jersey. Cynthia works with
residents, scientists, and health workers
to expose and transform conditions that
are impacting residents' health and
wellbeing. In 2010, she was named a
Heningburg Civic Fellow, an award given
to people who use innovative means to
improve the lives Newark residents.
David Meadow
spiritchild mental notes
spiritchild, as he is known, is a freedom
singer from the south Bronx by way of
Brooklyn, who uses the arts to cultivate a
cultural revolution. He integrates
activism and hip hop music production as
the founder of the Movement In Motion
Artist & Activist Collective, member of
the Universal Zulu Nation and leader of
Mental Notes hip hop band.
Michael Merrill
Michael Merrill is the Dean of the Harry
Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies
at SUNY Empire State College. He has a
B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in economic history
from Columbia University and is currently
engaged in an intellectual and political
history of the slogan “a fair day’s wages
for a fair day’s work.”
[email protected]
Matt Meyer, a native New York Citybased educator, activist, and author, is
the War Resister League (WRL),
International Africa Support Network
Coordinator, and a United
Nations/ECOSOC representative of the
International Peace Research
Association. The founding chair of the
Peace and Justice Studies Association and
former Chair of the Consortium on Peace
Research, Education and Development
(COPRED), Meyer has long worked to
bring together academics and activists
for lasting social change. Matt is the cochair of the International Campaign to
Free Russell Maroon Shoatz, a specialist
in contemporary African affairs, he also
authored & edited several books.
Matt Meyer
Gerald Meyer
Gerald Meyer: Author of Vito
Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 19021954 and many articles on Marcantonio
and related subjects. Meyer is a founding
member of the faculty of Hostos
Community College.
Jacob Meyer
Jacob Meyer brings a background in law
and policy to the challenge of identifying
and encouraging investment that honors
sustainable agriculture as the root of
social and economic health. He was a
staff attorney with the National State
Attorneys General Program at Columbia,
a legal research and policy center, where
he worked on the Labor and Charities
Oversight Projects. He was a legal fellow
at the National Center for Law and
Economic Justice in NYC, and is a
graduate of Columbia Law School.
Eli is a political theorist who writes on,
and participates in, struggles around
higher education. He has co-authored
some articles. His theoretical
engagements are rooted in movements
within and against higher education
(graduate student& contingent faculty
unions), and for abolishing the existing
education system& creating noncapitalist, decolonial alternative
infrastructures for study (with a free,
anarchistic university called Experimental
Community Education of the Twin Cities).
Eli Meyerhoff
Sylvain Miaka Oureto
Myriam Miedzian
Victoria Miller
Emmanuelle Mimieux
President of the Ivorian Popular Front,
Associate Professor of Economics at
University of Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
Victoria is a co-secretary of the New York
City Branch of the Industrial Workers of
the World. She has worked on and been
a part of a variety of workplace
organizing campaigns. She is excited to
be a part of the dynamic group of
participants in Occupy Your Workplace all
of whom share her belief that worker-led
direct action is the most powerful force
for social change.
Emmanuelle Mimieux is an anarchist and
anti-fascist.
Jamel Mims
Sahar Mirza
Siddhartha Mitra
Laurie Mittelmann
Wazir Mohammed
Nastaran Mohit
Artist and educator. 2008, awarded a
Fulbright to study hip-hop in China. His
research resulted in The Misadventures
of MC Tingbudong, a participantobservant study and multimedia
ethnography, exhibited in New York and
Beijing. Work from visual arts to political
expression, with themes of youth culture,
social transformation, and the urban
environment. In NYC, he works with
Fresh Prep, an educational program that
uses hip hop music to help students
review for the New York State Regents
Exams.
Sahar Ahmed is the wife of Political
Prisoner Farooque Ahmed. She was born
and raised in the UK, and has recently
started to speak out about her husband's
conditions of incarceration.
Siddhartha Mitra is a regular contributor
to Sanhati. He currently lives in New York
City.
Laurie Mittelmann is director of
administration at MORUS. She graduated
from Sarah Lawrence College and Oxford
University, and worked as an
ethnographic researcher in Christiania,
the largest squat in Europe, and as a
reporter for The Villager, a local
downtown New York City newspaper.
Nastaran Mohit is the Community
Outreach Organizer for New York State
Nurses Association
Omar Montana
Omar Montana is a doctoral candidate in
Sociology at The Graduate Center of the
City University of New York. He is
interested in US-Colombian relations and
is currently in the early stages of a multisited project that entails urban biking visà-vis the production of space, urban
transportation, and climate change.
Anthony Monteiro
Anthony Monteiro is a Distinguished
Lecturer in African-American Studies and
Associate Director of the Institute for the
Study of Race and Social Thought at
Temple University, where he teaches
courses on African-American social and
political thought. He is well known for his
work on W.E.B. Du Bois.His many
publications include two forthcoming
books—one on analytical Marxism and
another on the importance of W.E.B. Du
Bois’s thought for a philosophy of human
science.
Terry Moon
Activist and writer in the women’s
liberation movement since 1967;
member of the first NOW chapter in
Detroit, founder of the Women’s
Liberation Coalition of Michigan; cofounded the Detroit Women’s Press,
activist with ADAPT and Women’s Action
Coalition in Memphis, TN for 13 years,
currently managing editor of News &
Letters and its “Woman as Reason
columnist,” writing often on women and
environmental issues.
Roscoe M. Moore. Jr., DVM, PhD,
MPH
Christina Montorio is an International
Representative of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, Port Division.
She is a 3rd generation Teamster who
works to bring justice to truck drivers.
Dr. Moore is the Assistant U.S. Surgeon
General (Retired) and one of the
architects of PEPFAR.
Monica Moorehead
As a leader of the New York chapter of
the Women’s Fightback Network,
Moorehead attended the International
Women’s Assembly's First General
Assembly in July 2011 in Quezon City,
Philippines. Moorehead is the African
American editor of "Marxism,
Reparations & the Black Freedom
Struggle." Coordinator of Millions for
Mumia, an anti–death penalty project of
the International Action Center. She was
a Workers World Party candidate for U.S.
president in 1996 and 2000.
Frank Morales
Frank Morales is an American writer,
squatter activist, ordained Episcopal
priest (1977) and author of Police State
America (Arm the Spirit, 2002) and
numerous published articles on housing
and social justice matters. Frank worked
with the homeless population of NYC
back in the late 70s and early 80s, while
living in the South Bronx, first as a legal
“urban homesteader” and then as a
squatter. His experience and work have
made him a legend of housing activism in
NYC.
Christina Montorio
Ted Morgan
Joaquin Morante
Ted Morgan is professor of Political
Science at Lehigh University where he
teaches classes on Propaganda, Media &
American Politics; Social Movements and
Legacies of the 1960s; and Organizing for
Democracy. He has long been an activist
in environmental, social justice, and
peace movements. His current writing
reflects on lessons from his recent book
for left organizing today.
Frank Morris
Bio. Chef. Teacher. Investment Advisor.
Founder of the Global Ecological Mutual
Fund EPENX. Dedicated to the Common
Good.
William Morrish
William Morrish is a nationally
recognized urban designer whose
practice encompasses inter-disciplinary
research on urban housing and
infrastructure, collaborative publications
on human settlement and community
design, and educational programs
exploring integrated design, which are
applied to a wide range of innovative
community-based city projects.
Janks Morton
He's a groundbreaking international and
award winning documentary film maker
and Social-Political Activist. As founder of
iYAGO ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, LLC, he
states "the company came into existence
to reflect both the conscious and the
unconscious soul of Black America. His
production credits include "Daddy
Dearest" and "Guilty Until Proven
Innocent" both dealing with the issue of
fatherhood.
McDonald Morris
Mac Morris is a B'klyn native, black queer
artist, educator and movement
enthusiast. With a degree in creative
writing and philosophy, his disciplinary
focus and writings have been on psychosocial traveling, trauma and recovery
with Race, Gender and Sexuality as a
locus. He is the recipient of the 2010
Wells College William Nicholas Liberi '05
Memorial Prize for T.L.G.B.Q. Activism
and Scholarship and is currently engaged
in youth development work emphasizing
critical social justice education.
Bitta Mostofi
Bitta Mostofi is currently a nonprofit,
immigrant rights attorney. She has also
worked as a civil rights attorney and
served on the board of directors of the
Council on American Islamic Relations.
Bitta has participated in anti-war and antisanctions campaigns, and was a cocoordinator for the Voices in the
Wilderness; Iraq Peace Team from 20022003. In recent years Bitta has cofounded and worked with Where is My
Vote, New York, which formed after the
2009 Iranian presidential elections.
Nick Mottern
Ghias Moussa
Five Mualimm-ak
In Viet Nam in the Navy 1962-63,
Mottern graduated from Columbia’s
School of Journalism in 1966, reported
for the Prov. Journal & Evening Bulletin,
researched/wrote for the US Sen. Select
Committee on Nutrition & Human Needs,
lobbied for Bread for the World &
wrote/organized speaking tours on US
involvement in Africa for Maryknoll
Fathers & Brothers. Author of Suffering
Strong, his experiences in Africa, he
manages consumersforpeace.org &
KnowDrones.com. His articles appear in
Truthout.
Medical doctor, trained in Syria;
speaker/writer with Syrian American
Forum. Contact is Khalil Matar of Syrian
American Forum
Tadzio Mueller
Tadzio Mueller is a political scientist,
climate justice activist and translator
living in Berlin, where he works as a
research fellow for the Rosa Luxemburg
Foundation. He has coedited Contours of
Climate Justice, is a founding member of
Turbulence: Ideas for Movement, and
has published widely on green capitalism
and the German 'Energiewende'. His
current research focuses on strategies of
social transformation in social
movements working on questions of
climate justice and energy democracy.
Bill Mugford
Pastor Mugford is the Pastor for
Saddleback Church's HIV/AIDS Initiative.
Catherine Mulder
Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Amy Muldoon
Catherine Mulder is an assistant
professor of economics at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice-CUNY, also
teachers in the Masters of Labor Studies
program at CUNY's Murphy Institute. She
specializes in labor economics and
political economy. A former cable splicer
for the telephone company, Cathy has
been a worker advocate and labor
activist for over 30 years. Her upcoming
book "Transcending Capitalism Through
Cooperative Practices" is under contract
with Palgrave.
Director of the Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture. His 1st book,
Condemnation of Blackness, discusses
the role of the social sciences in shaping
and sanctifying racial "data," with terrible
consequences for African Americans.
Working on his second book,
Disappearing Acts: The End of White
Criminality in the Age of Jim Crow, which
traces the historical roots of the changing
demographics of crime and punishment
so evident today. Associate Editor of The
Journal of American History
Amy Muldoon is a member of
Communications Workers of America,
and an activist in Queens. In 2011-12 she
was the CWA District 1 Liaison to Occupy
Wall Street.
Layne Mullett
Soniya Munshi
Divine Muragijimana
Member of Decarcerate PA, a grassroots
campaign working to end mass
incarceration in Pennsylvania.
Decarcerate PA demands that PA stop
building prisons, reduce the prison
population, and reinvest money in our
communities.
Deirdre Murphy
Deirdre Murphy is a professor of Liberal
Studies at the Culinary Institute of
America. She is the guest editor for the
forthcoming issue of Transformations on
teaching food.
Karen Murray
Karen Murray is Associate Professor of
Political Science at York University. Her
current research examines the
governmental interplay of race, space
and gender relations in urban contexts.
Emblematic of this work are two recent
publications: “Making Space in
Vancouver’s East End: from Leonard
Marsh to the Vancouver Agreement” (BC
Studies, 169), and "The Silence of Urban
Aboriginal Policy" (Urban Aboriginal
Policy Making, Evelyn Peters, ed.
Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's
University Press).
Caroline Murray
Caroline Murray was Executive Director
of the Alliance to Develop Power (ADP)
from 1993 to 2011. Based in Springfield,
Massachusetts, ADP has generated $65
million in community-owned enterprises,
and has converted 1,400 units of at-risk
housing into tenant-owned, permanently
affordable co-op housing units. The
group also operates United for Hire, a
worker-controlled cooperative business.
Caroline recently left ADP to become
Organizing Director of Rebuild the
Dream.
Abraham Mwaura
Abraham Mwaura has been a grassroots
movement organizer for decades,
working on the front lines of struggles for
social and environmental justice, from
the movement to end mountaintop
removal in Appalachia, to the movement
to organize immigrant workers in the
logistics industry in the midwest. For the
last year he has been working with
Ecosocialist Horizons to organize
convergences.
Travis Mushett
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Travis Mushett is an editor of
Blunderbuss Magazine, a writer of fiction
and non-fiction, a student of social
movements, and a PhD candidate in
communications at the Columbia
University School of Journalism. He
currently feels the wind in his hair as he
hurtles toward 30, and has decided that
he’s pretty all right with the breeze. You
can find his tweets at @CurriculumVeto.
Suresh Naidu
Premilla Nadasen
Suresh Naidu is an assistant professor of
economics and public affairs at Columbia
University and has been active in Occupy
Wall Street.
Associate Professor of History, Queens
College
Devaki Naik is an international student
from India and a graduating senior at
John Jay College with a specialization in
‘Investigation of Economic Crimes’. She is
the current President of the Economics
Club and also serves on the Student
Government at John Jay. Her research on
‘Medical Tourism in India’ was published
in John Jay’s Finest (2013).
Devaki Naik
Manijeh Nasrabadi
Manijeh Nasrabadi is a member of Raha
Iranian Feminist Collective and Havaar.
She is a Ph.D. candidate in American
Studies in the Department of Social and
Cultural Analysis at New York University.
Her essays and articles have appeared in
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa
and the Middle East, Social Text online,
jadaliyya.com, About Face (Seal Press),
Hyphen Magazine, Tehran Bureau,
Callaloo and vidaweb.org. She is the
former co-director of the Association of
Iranian American Writers.
Katherine Nastovski
Katherine Nastovski is a PhD Candidate at
York University in Toronto. Her doctoral
research explores the history of labour
internationalism in the Canadian trade
union movement since the early 1940s.
She has also been active as an organizer,
educator, executive officer, and
international solidarity activist in the
Canadian trade union movement and is a
member of Labour for Palestine.
Meghana Nayak
Dr. Nayak is an associate professor in the
Department of Political Science and
teaches in the Women's and Gender
Studies Department at Pace University in
New York. She has published on the
politics of gender violence and critical
analysis of U.S. policy in International
Feminist Journal of Politics, International
Studies Review, and Politics and Gender,
has written a chapter in Theorizing
Sexual Violence, and is coauthor with Eric
Selbin of Decentering International
Relations.
Okey Ndibe
Novelist, political columnist, published
poet and essayist. Of Igbo ethnicity,
Ndibe is the author of Arrows of Rain, a
critically acclaimed novel published in
2000. He teaches fiction and African
literature at Trinity College in Hartford,
CT. Ndibe is co-editor of a collection of
essays titled Writers, Writing on Conflicts
and Wars in Africa.
Immanuel Ness
Alondra Nelson
Bruce Neuburger
Monica Perez Nevarez
Sara Niccoli
Immanuel Ness’ research focuses on the
political economy of labor. He is author
of Guest Workers and U.S. Corporate
Despotism and Immigrants, Unions, and
the New U.S. Labor Market, and, as
editor, Encyclopedia of Global Human
Migration and International Encyclopedia
of Revolution and Protest, and the
quarterly journal: Working USA: The
Journal of Labor and Society and author
of New Forms of Worker Organization
and Migration in a World of Inequality
(forthcoming, PM Press).
Bruce Neuburger is the author of 'Lettuce
Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in
the Fields of California,' about his
experiences as a farmworker and radical
organizer in the 1970s.
Sara Niccoli is Director of the LaborReligion Coalition and has worked for
numerous social justice groups
nationally. She holds an M.P.A. from the
Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service
at New York University and a B.A. from
the State University of New York at
Albany. She is a member of Brooklyn
Meeting of the Society of Friends, and
lives on a small farm in New York state.
John Nichols
Donald Nicholson-Smith
Pam C. Nogales
John Nichols writes about politics for The
Nation magazine as its Washington
correspondent. He is a contributing
writer for The Progressive and In These
Times and the associate editor of the
Capital Times, the daily newspaper in
Madison, Wisconsin. He is a frequent
media commentator and has authored
several books, most recently (with Robert
McChesney) "Dollarocracy: How the
Money and Media Election Complex is
Destroying America."
Donald Nicholson-Smith is a translator
from French and Spanish and a New
Yorker by adoption. A Situationist in his
now distant youth (1965-67), he has
translated a good deal of French critical
thought as well as many literary works.
Pam Nogales is a founding member of
the Platypus Affiliated Society and
coordinator for Platypus chapters in
Europe. She is currently a first year PhD
student in the history program at NYU,
and is working on nineteenth century
American Reconstruction and
comparative research on the transition
from slavery to free labor.
Chris Norwood
Chrisitine Noschese
Dr. Scott Noren is an Oral Surgeon,
environmental and political activist, and
former U.S. Senator candidate. He has
been outspoken against fracking,
repealing Citizen's United, overhauling of
campaign financing, stiffer regulations
against Congressional insider
information, and capping student loan
interest. Dr. Noren concentrates on
providing a pathway for non Wall Street
backed Congressional seats, as well as
fighting against corporate democracy as
a whole.
Ms. Norwood is the Founder and
Executive Director of Health People in
the Bronx and was a nominee for the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Filmmaker: Metropolitan Avenue -
Gary Null
Gary Null, Ph.D is the host of the longestrunning, nationally syndicated daily
health radio program, "Natural Living
with Gary Null." A lecturer, educator,
environmentalist, and manufacturer of
his own bestselling line of vitamins and
supplements, he is the author of over 75
books and the winner of dozens of
awards for his penetrating documentary
films on a variety of political, health and
environmental issues. He is the founder
of the Progressive Radio Network prn.fm
Dr. Scott Noren
Ismael Nunez
efia nwangaza
Alexa O'Brian
Member of the Popular Education
Project to Free the Cuban 5, the July 26th
Coalition and other Cuba and Puerto Rico
related organizations and projects.
Michelle O'Brien
Denis O'Hearn
Denis O'Hearn is an activist on isolated
imprisonment in the US and elsewhere
and a former activist in Belfast
concerning community development. He
is also Professor of Sociology at the
University of Binghamton-SUNY. His
many publications include Nothing But
an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the
Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a
Generation (Nation Books), The Atlantic
Economy: Britain, the US, and Ireland and
Il Diario di Bobby Sands: Storia di un
Ragazzo Irlandese.
Ebiere Okah is a first-year medical
student at the Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai. She is the co-president of
Mt. Sinai's student chapter of Physicians
for a National Health Program. Prior to
attending Mt. Sinai, she was a volunteer
with Healthcare-NOW! NYC, a single
payer advocacy group.
Ebiere Okah
Marcela Olivera is the Latin American
coordinator for the Water for All
campaign at Food and Water Watch.
After graduating from the Catholic
University in Cochabamba, Bolivia,
Marcela worked for four years in
Cochabamba as the key international
liaison for the Coalition for the Defense
of Water and Life. She was active in the
water wars of 2000 that took place in
Cochabamba. Since 2004 she has been
developing and consolidating an interAmerican citizens’ network on water
justice named “Red VIDA.”
Marcela Olivera
Susan O'Malley
Susan O'Malley is on the editorial board
of the Radical Teacher and is one of its
founding members. She recently retired
from CUNY (Kingsborough, GC, Liberal
Studies) where she was on the executive
committee of the PSC and the chair of
the University Faculty Senate. Currently
she is vice-chair of the NGO CSW/NY
(United Nations). She has published on
higher education, early modern women's
studies, Shakespeare, and women's
studies.
Sowore Omoyele
University activist in Nigeria, Sowore
Omoyele if the founder of Sahara
Reporters, an interactive website
featuring the contributions of citizen
journalists, of SaharaTVonline and
SaharaFM Radio to provide a platform for
new voices from Africa and the Diaspora.
A teacher of African history in local area
colleges, he speaks on the role of social
media and new media technologies at
conferences in the U.S. and abroad.
Catherine ONeil
Cathy O'Neil was a quant for the hedge
fund D.E. Shaw in the middle of the
credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a
risk software company that assesses risk
for the holdings of hedge funds and
banks. More recently she’s been working
as a data scientist in the New York
startup scene. She writes a blog at
mathbabe.org and is involved with the
#Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking
Working Group.
Cathy O'Neil
Various Occupy Sandy Organizers
Cathy O'Neil is a data scientist, Occupy
Wall Street activist, and ex-finance
quantitative analyst. She runs the
mathbabe.org blog.
Grainne O'Neill
Gráinne O'Neill is an attorney on the
defense team for accused hacktivist
Jeremy Hammond. She received her JD
from Columbia Law and her BA in
Mathematics and Computer Science from
Cornell. Prior to her joining the
Hammond team, Gráinne worked in New
Orleans as a Public Defender then as a
staff attorney at the Charles Hamilton
Houston Institute at Harvard Law School
where she creating computer resources
for indigent defense attorneys
nationwide.
Kathy Orlando
Kathy is the Executive Director of Land
Protection for the Sheffield Land Trust,
an organization dedicated to the
preservation of working agricultural
landscapes as well as wildlife habitat. She
is currently working to preserve Bow
Wow Farm, a 400 acre parcel that is
strategically important for the long term
resilience of the local food system. Kathy
is also a board member of the
Community Land Trust of the Southern
Berkshires, and holds a JD from Pace
University.
Pilar Ortiz
Pilar Ortiz is a Phd student in the
Department of Sociology at the Graduate
Center, City University of New York.
Irene Ortiz Rosen
Feminist activist since 1975; Organizer of
Domestic Workers in Cuernavaca &
Mexico City (1979-2002). Author of "Asi
es, pues" about the socio-economic
situation of the domestic worker. Author
of various articles (for NACLA, etc).
Lectured in Latin American Departments
in Columbia, Berkley (1994) & UNM
(2008). Currently living in New York &
involved with Domestic Workers United.
Organizes workshops using Popular
Education methodology to help women
develop the knowledge & capacity for
empowerment.
Alyssia Osorio
Alyssia Osorio is the lead organizer at City
College of New York with Students for
Educational Rights (SER). She has led
numerous campus campaigns and direct
actions regarding tuition affordability and
accessibility, gender-based violence,
queer visibility and resources, access to
educational resources, and
administrative transparency.
Katy Otto
Katy has over a decade of experience in
violence prevention, women’s issues,
youth development, and the arts. Three
years ago she moved to Philadelphia. She
runs her own independent record label
Exotic Fever Records and has toured
internationally with her band, Trophy
Wife. She co-founded the national
Visions in Feminism conference. She has
done sexual assault prevention
workshops and survivor solidarity work.
Kathy Ozer
Franc Palaia
Julian Palmer
Kathy Ozer is the Executive Director of
the National Family Farm Coalition. Kathy
Ozer has worked on farm, rural, and fair
trade policy for over 20 years at the
National Family Farm Coalition. In the
mid-1980's she worked for the United
States Student Association (USSA) on
education access issues.
Executive Director, New York Common
Cause; Communications Director,
Columbia University's National Center for
Children in Poverty; Strategic
Communications and Advocacy
Consultant
Costas Panayotakis teaches Sociology at
New York City College of Technology. He
has published on political economy,
ecology and social movements and has
been interviewed by numerous radio and
TV programs in the United States and
abroad. He is the Book Review editor of
the international journal Capitalism
Nature Socialism.
Costas Panayotakis
Scott Paltrowitz
Leo Panitch, editor of the Socialist
Register since 1985. He is Canada
Research Chair in Comparative Political
Economy and Distinguished Research
Professor of Political Science, at York
University, Toronto. His books include
Renewing Socialism: Transforming
Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
(Merlin 2008) and (with Sam Gindin) The
Making of Global Capitalism: The Political
Economy of American Empire (Verso
2012).
Leo Panitch
Neni Panourgia
Neni Panourgia is an Associate Professor
of Anthropology at The New School for
Social Research and Fellow at the
Institute for Comparative Literature and
Society at Columbia University. She is the
author of Fragments of Death, Fables of
Identity. An Athenian Anthropography
(1995) and Dangerous Citizens. The
Greek Left and the Terror of the State
(2009).
Fernanda Pardo Herrera
Fernanda Pardo Herrera is the Deputy
Chair of the Revolutionary Student
Coordinating Committee. She is a CUNY
student majoring in International
Criminal Justice with a concentration on
Economic Development.
Scott Parkin
Adam Parsons
Susan Pashkoff
Scott Parkin, an experienced organizer
with anti-war, environmental and labor
movements will be speaking about his
experiences on direct action organizing in
the North American climate movements.
He is a core organizer with Rising Tide
North America.
Adam Parsons is a PhD candidate at
Syracuse University. He studies modern
American cultural history.
MA (1990) and PhD (1992) in Economics,
New School for Social Research,
Graduate Faculty. Former senior lecturer
in Economics, life-long political activist
and blogger on several sites in the US
and UK.
Jacqui Patterson
Justin Paulson
Currently the Director of Environmental
and Climate Justice at the NAACP, Jacqui
Patterson has worked on issues including
women’s rights, HIV-AIDS, violence
against women, racial and economic
justice, and environmental and climate
justice with the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities, Baltimore City Healthy
Start, IMA World Health, and ActionAid.
She serves on the US Climate Action
Network Board of Directors and the
Steering Committee of Interfaith Moral
Action on Climate Change.
Justin Paulson is an assistant professor
with the Department of Sociology and
the Institute of Political Economy at
Carleton University in Ottawa. He writes
on social movements and social theory,
and co-edited a recent collection of
essays on social movement responses to
the financial crisis (Capitalism and
Confrontation). He is an editor of
Mediations and Studies in Political
Economy.
Aidge Patterson
Aidge Patterson has been a part of the
struggle against police brutality in LA, the
Bay Area and New York for 15 years. He
is currently Coalition Coordinator for the
police watchdog and community
empowerment coalition Peoples' Justice.
Michael Pelias
Michael Pelias teaches philosophy at LIU
Brooklyn and is currently working on a
book on the history of Materialism. He is
the managing editor of "Situations:
Project of the Radical Imagination".
Michael Peck
Themis Pellas
Michael Peck founded MAPA Group
(www.mapagroup.net) in 1994 as a
“doing well by doing good” business
development company. Michael has
served since 2000 as the North American
delegate for Mondragon, the world’s
largest industrial worker cooperative. In
October 2009, Michael participated in
forming the Mondragon and United
Steelworkers Union (USW) partnership to
create union-coop hybrids with the goal
of revamping U.S. manufacturing through
worker cultural empowerment and equal
share ownership.
Holladay Penick
Holladay Penick is the Creative Director
of GiantChair, Inc., a company that
specializes in innovative technology
solutions for the publishing industry. She
has worked with the Institute for the
Future of the Book and led workshops on
open source technology at USC,
Columbia, and Georgetown.
Michael Perelman
Michael Perelman is a professor of
economics who has working on his 21st
book. In 2011, the World Association for
Political Economy gave one of his books,
Manufacturing Discontent, and award as
Outstanding Contribution in Political
Economy.
Chuck Pennacchio
Chuck Pennacchio, Ph.D., Associate
Professor of History and Politics, The
University of the Arts in Philadelphia;
Executive Director, Healthcare for All
Pennsylvania, www.healthcare4allpa.org;
author 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007 PA Senate
Bill 400: “Family and Business Health
Security Act,” Legislative Printing Office,
Harrisburg, PA.
Michael Perino
Pérez-Rocha helps to coordinate the
Networking for Justice on Global
Investment project, as part of the IPS
Global Economy Project. He works
together with allies at the Democracy
Center in Bolivia and others. Previously,
he directed "The NAFTA Plus and the SPP
Advocacy Project,". He is a Mexican
national who has led tri-national efforts
to promote just and sustainable
alternative approaches to North
American economic integration for more
than a decade.
Rutgers University senior; student
activist, political science major.
Jenny Perrino
A graduate of Suffolk University School of
Law, Jenny Perrino is the member of Rep.
Conyers' legislative staff charged with
principal responsibility for HR 1000. Prior
to joining Rep. Conyers' staff she was a
member of the staff of the House
Judiciary Committee.
Manuel Perez-Rocha
Sue Peters
Sue Peters has been a student of
monetary history for the last 6 years, and
has spoken publicly on the topic at
colleges and civic groups. She graduated
from NYU with a degree in history and
from Bank Street College with a degree in
education, worked for 32 years on Wall
Street as a systems analyst, and has been
applying her expertise as a systems
analyst to the money system. She is a
member of the American Monetary
Institute.
Anthony Persaud
Anthony studied political science as an
undergraduate. He became interested in
economics and attended the Henry
George School for the past 4 years where
he is now teaching an introductory
course. Anthony spends his free time
exploring economics and social issues
and their root causes. He earns a living
working as an IT professional.
Leia Petty
Geoffrey Pfeifer
Leia Petty is a member of the United
Federation of Teachers. Her work has
been published in The Indypendent,
Socialist Worker, and Rethinking Schools.
Geoff Pfeifer is Assistant Teaching
Professor of Philosophy at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. He specializes in
Social and Political Philosophy, Global
Justice, and Development Ethics. His
work has appeared in The Journal of
Global Ethics, Current Perspectives in
Social Theory, and Human Studies.
Marie-Claire Picher
Betsey Piette
Charles Pinderhughes
Eric Pineault
Marie-Claire Picher is a co-founder (1990)
of the Theater of the Oppressed
Laboratory (TOPLAB) and has worked and
collaborated closely with Augusto Boal
until his death in 2009. One of the most
experienced Theater of the Oppressed
practitioners in North America, she has
presented thousands of hours of TO
facilitation training in New York and
throughout the United States, as well as
in Chiapas, Tabasco, Mexico City,
Guatemala and Cuba.
Received first prize at Havana Book Fair
for her essay on "Drilling into the abyss:
Why hydraulic fracturing is not a solution
for global energy needs or global
warming." She covers the anti-fracking
work in Pennsylvania for WW, along with
the ongoing work to free Mumia abuJamal.
Professor of Sociology at Essex County
College in New Jersey, former member of
the Black Panther Party. Currently
finishing book on Internal Colonialism.
Carmen Pineiro
An activist for over 11 years and more
recently an organizer, Carmen works as
CVH’s Sustainable Communities
Organizer. She is pursuing an MPA at
John Jay College and has participated in
the Minority Worker Environmental
program and the Non-traditional
Employment for Women program. Her
current work and passion, focused on
low- and moderate-income communities,
stem from her experiences growing up in
the Morrisania Air Rights Projects in the
South Bronx and navigating the shelter
system.
Lou Pingeot
Lou Pingeot is an independent researcher
interested in the privatization of security,
corporate influence on global
policymaking and the United Nations.
Born and raised in Paris, she earned her
M.A. in international relations from
Sciences Po. From 2010 to early 2013,
she was Program Coordinator at Global
Policy Forum, where she published an
investigative report on UN use of private
military and security companies
(“Dangerous Partnership”) in conjunction
with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-NYC.
Angelo Pinto
Jennie Pirkl
Dick Platkin
Angelo is leading the Correctional
Associations Raise The Age Campaign
which seeks to increase the age of
criminal responsibility in NYS, ensure that
children are not housed in adult jails, and
advocate for alternative programming for
youth charged with juvenile offenses.
Angelo was born and raised in New York.
He received a J.D. from the City
University of New York Law School and a
B.A. in Criminal Justice and Sociology
from Clark Atlanta University.
Jennie Pirkl is the statewide health care
organizer for Maine People's Alliance,
which was founded in 1982 and now is
the state’s largest grassroots
organization with more than 32,000
members. MPA has joined forces with
the Maine AFL-CIO and the Maine State
Nurses Association, with support from
the South Maine Worker’s Center and
Maine AllCare to form the Maine Health
Care is a Human Rights Campaign.
Richard Platkin is an advocacy planner on
land use and public policy issues and
adjunct instructor at the USC Price School
of Social Policy. He has three decades of
professional experience in urban
planning, applied social research, and
college teaching.
Executive Director of Causa Justa: Just
Cause, Maria Poblet has worked more
than a decade in community organizing
for racial and economic justice in the San
Francisco Bay Area. She is passionate
about building an internationalist social
movement, and does that work through
the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance,
and various independent left projects.
Her blog, “Todo El Pueblo Al Sueño!” is
on OrganizingUpgrade.com.
Maria Poblet
Asher Platts
Mike Podhorzer
Asher Platts is an activist in Portland,
Maine where he hosted his own online
site called The Punk Patriot. Platts
founded the University Student Activists
(U.S.A.). He also consulted for many third
party campaigns, which led him to run
for State Senate in Maine during the
2012 election. His current work is within
the Occupy movement in Maine and at
the University of Southern Maine.
National Political Director
Jerry Policoff
Research Director, Healthcare for All
Pennsylvania Organizer; Lancaster
County Peace and Justice Coalition
Organizer; Lancaster-based Progressives
for Pennsylvania Board member and
Chair of Research Committee; Op Ed
News Editorial Board
Thomas Ponniah
Andrew Pollack
Gareth Porter
Julia Posca
Charles Post
Dr. Thomas Ponniah is an Affiliate of the
David Rockefeller Centre for Latin
American Studies and an Associate of the
Department of African and AfricanAmerican Studies at Harvard University.
He is the co-editor of "Another World is
Possible: popular alternatives to
globalization at the World Social
Forum"(Zed books 2003) and The
Revolution in Venezuela"(Harvard
University Press 2011).
Gareth Porter is an independent
investigative journalist and historian
specializing on U.S. foreign and military
policy. He has been a regular contributor
to Inter Press Service since 2004. He was
Co-Director of the Indochina Resource
Center during the Vietnam War and later
taught at American University and City
College of New York. He is the author of
three books on Vietnam, including Perils
of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and
the Road to War in Vietnam.
Charles Post is professor of sociology at
CUNY's Borough of Manhattan
Community College. He is the author of
The American Road to Capitalism,
Haymarket, 2012) as well as the essay
'What is left of Leninism? New European
left parties in historical perspective' in
the 2103 Socialist Register.
He is the producer of Whispers of
Revolution and an earlier documentary
film Dystopia: What is to be done? As
well as an author of the boo by the same
name. He is also author of TheBet: truth,
In Science, Literature and Everyday
Knowledges, The Philosophy of Social
Science: New Perspectives. He is also coeditor of After Postmodernism. He is an
Associate Professor oif the Sociology
Department of Wilfrid Laurier University.
Garry Potter
Will Potter
Will Potter is an award-winning
journalist, author, and public speaker
who has become a leading authority on
the animal rights and environmental
movements, and civil liberties post-9/11.
His reporting and commentary have
appeared in media outlets including
Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The Los
Angeles Times, The Vermont Law Review,
and The Washington Post. He frequently
is a guest on television and radio
programs, including NPR, Pacifica Radio,
RT, ArteTV, and Democracy Now.
Ralph Poynter
Born in Western Pennsylvania, the son of
a union organizer. I remained true to the
principles of unionism as founding
member of the UFT. I continued
supporting true union principles when
the UFT joined management by
supporting the racist Central Board of
Education in NYC against the community.
After leaving jail, I supported Lynne
Stewart in her lifelong struggle against
the double standard so often practiced in
the U.S. injustice system pasts and
present.
Nick Potts
Nick Potts is Professor of Economics in
the Faculty of Business, Sport and
Enterprise of Southampton Solent
University, England. He is interested in
how to apply Marx’s analysis of the inner
workings of capitalism to the economic
issues of today, including globalisation,
the environment, the Euro, knowledgebased production and understanding the
current credit crunch/recession/crisis.
Andrew Pragacz
Wayne Price
SUNY Binghamton Sociology Department
PhD student with research interests
including the language(s) of
neoliberalism, and the political economy
of fracking. Writer for The People's Press
newspaper in Binghamton NY
Long time activist and writer from the
60s to today, in labor, human rights, and
antiwar movements, involved in a series
of revolutionary libertarian socialist
organizations. Most recently, author of
'The Value of Radical Theory: An
Anarchist Introduction to Marx's Critique
of Political Economy.'
Catarina Príncipe
Catarina Príncipe has followed a very
eclectic path over the last years: from the
student movements in Portugal, passing
through the LGBT-Feminist scene, and
dedicating herself since 2007 to the
struggle against precarity. She took part
in the organization of mass mobilizations
against austerity. She is a member of the
anti-precarity organization "Precários
Inflexíveis" and of the left party in
Portugal "Bloco de Esquerda." She
currently lives in Berlin.
Kevin Prosen is a chapter leader in the
UFT and an organizer in the Movement if
Rank-and-File Educators. He was a
candidate for the UFT executive board on
the MORE slate in the 2013 elections.
Kevin Prosen
Laurel Ptak
Laurel Ptak is curator at Tensta Konsthall
and teaches in the Art, Media and
Technology department at The New
School. Recent projects include: To Have
and To Owe, an exhibition and lecture
series realized with artists, theorists and
activists that considers debt’s aesthetic
and affective dimensions as part of its
economic register. Ptak is co-editor of
the book Undoing Property (Sternberg
Press) which explores artistic practices in
relationship to immaterial production
and political economy.
Dave Publow
Dave Publow is an experienced antifracking activist and organizer with
Occupy the Pipeline in NYC. He previously
served as an organizer and board
member with United for Action.
David Pugh
Eugene Puryear
Tahir Qazi
David Pugh is a distinguished graduate
fellow in the sociology department at the
University of California, Riverside. His
research interests include globalization,
postmodernity, the rise of authoritarian
regimes, transnational social movements,
global warming, climate justice, and the
collapse of complex societies. As a
resident of New York City from 2007 to
2012, David was an active participant in
numerous street demonstrations
including the Occupy Wall Street
encampment at Zuccotti Park.
Eugene Puryear is a Howard University
graduate, human rights activist, member
of the Party for Socialism and Liberation
(PSL) and Answer Coalition. He was the
vice-presidential nominee for the Party
for Socialism and Liberation in 2008
Dr. Tahir Qazi was born and raised in
Pakistan currently living in the US. He is a
Neurophysiologist and Neuromuscular
Disease specialist. He is a freelance writer
and a public speaker. His areas of interest
range from fundamentalism, political
economy and human rights.
Autumn Quezada-Grant
Autumn Quezada-Grant is an Assistant
Professor of History. She received her
Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi in
2010, in Latin American History. Among
her other projects, Professor QuezadaGrant is currently working on a book
project entitled Seasons of Discontent:
Life, Labor and Litigation amongst Indians
and Ladinos in Chiapas, Mexico, 18321911. She loves to teach and travel and
has a study abroad course in El Salvador.
Tristan facilitates the Land and Resource
Reform team of the US Food Sovereignty
Alliance. He has an M.A. in Political
Philosophy, The New School for Social
Research and a B.A. in Philosophy and
Political Science, University of Maine. He
has written on numerous issues related
to land and food sovereignty.
Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau
Radack is a former ethics adviser to the
US Dept. of Justice who came to
prominence as a whistleblower after she
disclosed that the (FBI) committed an
ethics violation in their interrogation of
John Walker Lindh (the "American
Taliban" captured during the 2001
invasion of Afghanistan) without an
attorney present, and that the Dept.of
Justice attempted to suppress that
information. The Lindh case was the first
major terrorism prosecution after 9/11.
Jesselyn Radack
Adam Quinn
Adam Quinn has been involved in
anarchist projects for several years and
studies anarchist history and theory at
Hampshire College. Adam is currently
writing on the history of immigrant
anarchism in the United States and on
the relationship between police and
austerity.
Roberto Ragone has over twenty-five
years’ experience in government and nonprofits. Roberto worked for the NYC
Council and the NYC Mayor's Office.
Roberto served as publicist for FIERI, an
organization of young professionals
promoting Italian culture.
Roberto Ragone
Ted Rall
M V Ramana
Ted Rall is the author of more than 15
books, including "To Afghanistan and
Back," "Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia
the New Middle East," and the "AntiAmerican Manifesto." He produces
editorial cartoons and writes a column
for syndication. He is also a war
correspondent, and was an organizer for
Occupy the East End.
M. V. Ramana is with the Program on
Science and Global Security at the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Princeton University
and the author of The Power of Promise:
Examining Nuclear Energy in India
(Penguin 2012).
Family of Ramarley Graham
Max Rameau is a Haitian born PanAfrican theorist, campaign strategist,
organizer, author, and co-founder of the
organization Take Back the Land (TBTL).
In October 2007, TBTL initiated a bold
campaign that sparked a national
movement: "liberating" vacant
government owned and foreclosed
homes and moving homeless families
into them. Rameau is currently working
on his second book, to be published by
AK Press.
Family of Ramarley Graham, killed in his
home in the Bronx on February 2, 2012,
by the NYPD.
Benjamin Ramos
Benjamin Ramos Rosado is a coordinator
of The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign (a
campaign dedicated to the release of the
Puerto Rican Political Prisoners), The
Popular Education Project to Free the
Cuban 5 (a campaign dedicated to the
release of the Cuban 5), a radio journalist
with WBAI, and a blogger. Benjamin is
also a member of the Venceremos
Brigade and has traveled with them and
participated in the Travel challenge for
times.
Max Rameau
Yasmin Ramirez
Yasmin Ramirez Ph.D. is an art historian
and independent curator. Growing up
during heyday of the Alternative Art
Space Movement in New York, Yasmin
Ramirez has worked at Taller Boricua, El
Museo Del Barrio, The Studio Museum,
The New Museum, Art in General, and
Alternative Museum, Franklin Furnance
and the East Village Eye. She is currently
writing a book based on her dissertation:
Nuyorican Vanguards: The Puerto Rican
Art Movement in New York.
Katt Ramos
Joe Ramsey is an educator, activist,
writer, and editor residing in the Boston
area. He is co-editor of Cultural Logic: an
electronic journal of marxist theory and
practice, www.clogic.eserver.org , and
has been a contributor to The Boston
Occupier newspaper, to journals such as
Radical Teacher, Socialism and
Democracy, and newsletters
Counterpunch.org and Dissident Voice.
He is currently at work on a volume on
"Social Movements and Scholasticism."
He can be reached at
[email protected].
Joe Ramsey
Sheldon Ranz is a software consultant,
free-lance writer and activist with the Sex
Workers Outreach Project - NYC. His
writings for Jewish Currents, Shmate and
New Politics and his WBAI radio
programs have explored the connections
between the sex industry and prophetic
Jewish dissent. He was a film critic for
Adult Video News (1990-1997) and
sponsored porn star Nina Hartley's
appearances at the Socialist Scholars
Conference (1991, 1994).
Sheldon Ranz
M.A. in Class and Gender/Economic
Development, New School Graduate
Faculty,1990.Taught labor studies at
Empire State College, NY, and U.of
W,Seattle. Developed women’s, minority
and labor studies curriculum for NYC
Public Schools. Cited in Feminists Who
Changed America:1963-1975;co-founded
women’s centers in Seattle and Denver,
produced Pacifica lesbian feminist radio
show; organizer for the J P Stevens
Boycott. Currently works on GI Rights
Hotline, counter recruitment, Dailykos
Peg Rapp
Norma Rantisi
Norma Rantisi is an Associate Professor
in the Department of Geography,
Planning and Environment at Concordia
University in Montreal, Canada. Her
research centres on local economic
development and the restructuring of
mature industries, such as apparel.
Virginia Rasmussen
Michael Ratner
Virginia Rasmussen is a principal with
POCLAD, the Program on Corporations,
Law and Democracy and cofounded the
Women’s International League for Peace
and Freedom’s Corporations v.
Democracy campaign. She directed the
Education Program at the New Alchemy
Institute on Cape Cod and the
Environmental Studies Program at Alfred
University. She serves as a trustee on the
Village Board of Trustees, Alfred, NY.
Rajeev Ravisankar
Rajeev Ravisankar is a writer and activist
based in Ohio.
Partho Sarathi Ray
Partho Sarathi Ray is one of the
cofounders of Sanhati. Sanhati was
created in 2006 to resist neoliberalization
in the Indian state of West Bengal and to
provide a voice for the spirit of dissent
that had been sparked by the anti-land
acquisition struggles in Singur and
Nandigarm. Struggle against corporate
capital and upholding democratic rights
of people are the primary objectives of
Sanhati, along with our participation in
the search for alternatives.
Laura Raymond
Janet Razbadouski
Helen Redmond
Betsy Reed
Laura Raymond is the Advocacy Program
Manager for CCR’s International Human
Rights docket. Since 2008 she has
coordinated CCR's advocacy work on a
broad range of international human
rights issues. Her work mostly focuses on
the international impact of U.S. policies,
corporations and individuals and on
building strategies for change in
solidarity with impacted communities.
Laura holds an MA in Service, Leadership,
and Management, with a focus on Policy
Advocacy, from SIT Graduate Institute.
Janet Razbadouski is an energy engineer
and environmental activist in Iowa City,
IA.
Helen Redmond has written extensively
on the war on drugs from Afghanistan to
Mexico to the United States. She is a
drug policy reporter for Alternet.org and
writes frequently on the war on drugs for
SocialistWorker.org. She recently
returned from Afghanistan.
Author and Executive Editor of The
Nation.
Dr. J. Ward Regan
Dr. J. Ward Regan teaches history and
philosophy at NYU. He has a chapter
“Thomas Paine: life during wartime” in
the upcoming anthology Experiencing the
French Revolution, (SVEC, Oxford
Univ.2013) and an article on
Transportation in the forthcoming
Encyclopedia of the Civil War (ABC-CLIO
2014) and his next book, as editor and
contributor, Great Books Written in
Prison will be published by McFarland
Press. He was the first president of UAW
7902 the adjunct faculty union at NYU
and the New School.
Jan Rehmann
Jan Rehmann, Dr. phil. habil, Visiting
Professor for Critical Theory and Social
Analysis at Union Theological Seminary in
New York, lecturer at the Free University
in Berlin; co-editor of the HistoricalCritical Dictionary of Marxism (HKWM);
books on theories of ideology,
postmodernist Neo-Nietzscheanism, Max
Weber's theory of modernization,
Pedagogy of the Poor, the Churches in
Nazi Germany.
Fitz Reid
Fitz Reid is president of the Health
Services Employees Local 768 in AFSCME
District Council 37. Born in Jamaica, he
worked at the local fire department and
became a shop steward and national
organizer for the Jamaica Association of
Local Government Officers. Emigrating to
the United States in 1983, Reid has a
bachelor's from the Harry Van Arsdale Jr.
Center for Labor Studies at SUNY Empire
State College, where he is an adjunct
instructor, and a masters from Hunter
College.
Gabriela Rendon
Gerardo Renique
Gabriela Rendon is a Mexican-Dutch
architect, urban planner and co-founder
of Cohabitation Strategies, an
international non-profit cooperative for
socio-spatial research, design and
development based in Rotterdam and
New York City. Gabriela’s work combines
research and practice at different scales
focusing on urban design, strategies and
processes counteracting conditions
produced by market driven urbanization.
Gerardo Renique is Associate Professor
of HIstory at CCNY, CUNY.
Born 1938 in Detroit. His Italian parents
imparted to him a working-class identity,
a sense of social justice, a belief in the
possibility of social change, a
commitment to democracy, and a hatred
of the undemocratic ruling class. He
embraced socialism in his early teens,
during the McCarthy era, and has
remained committed to that vision. He
practices law and is part of the radical
community in Detroit.
Ron Reosti
Jean-Guy Rens
TBD Representative
Jen Guy Rens, Canadian historian and
writer, author of "Vlady: de Revolucion al
Renacimiento, la vida y la obra de Vlady,
pintor mexicano" (Mexico, Siglo XXI,
2005), is Vice President of the Canadian
Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA)
and an independent research and
management consultant in the
information and communications
technology domain.
Emily Reynolds
Emily Reynolds is an organizer with the
Occupy movement and Street School
Collective. Throughout 2012 she studies
the impacts and uses of social media in
revolutionary movements with Street
School Collective and plans to provide
free training in community organizing
and direct action throughout 2013.
John Reynolds
John Reynolds has been a peace, social
justice, and social ecology activist for
over four decades. He has been a Green
Party activist and organizer since 2001,
and is active in several local community
organizations, especially the South Bronx
Community Congress. John Reynolds was
and remains an Occupy Wall Street
participant.
Florence M. Rice
Ms. Rice has spent 7 decades in struggle
against violent USA racist
oppressions.She is a Jamaican
immigrant.She was blacklisted and forced
out of the workforce when she bulked
against an order by her employer not to
testify on behalf of Cong. Adam Clayton
Powell.Since 1980's she has worked
against racist practices in housing and in
the food industry.
Keith Richards
Keith J. Richards is a multi-facetted artist
and a graduate of The University of
Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts in
Psychology. His works include, “The
Exclusive Preview,” “Katharsis”, “WKJR
FM V1,” and a book “Animated Poems
Volume 1.” His music can be heard at
www.youtube.com/keithjulianrichards
and his book can be ordered at
www.amazon.com. He is the founder and
owner of Animated Life, LLC and a
member of the O-Team, the East
Brooklyn Poets, and Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity Inc.
Deborah Richter
Dr. Deborah Richter practices primary
care and addiction medicine in Vermont.
She is a past president of Physicians for a
National Health Program, and currently
serves as president of Vermont Health
Care for All.
Cecilia Rio
Andrea Ritchie
Karl Riukas
Cecilia Rio, an associate professor of
women’s and gender studies at Towson
University in Maryland, is an
interdisciplinary scholar who received her
doctorate in economics from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst in
May 2001. Her academic work focuses on
the intersection of race, gender, class
and domestic labor. Her publications
have appeared in Rethinking Marxism
and Critical Sociology.
Eloy Rivas Sánchez
Eloy Sánchez is a PhD student in
Sociology and Political Economy at
Carleton University. He also works with
Mexican and Canadian organizations that
are engaged in the struggles against
privatization and commodification of the
commons in Mexico, such as Red de
Solidaridad Zapatista-Canada, Frente de
Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra, and
Mexican Migrant Workers against
Deportations (MUR).
Martin RIvlin
Specialist in Maoist theory and politics
Patrick Robbins
Patrick Robbins is a Brooklyn based
educator and activist. He's worked with
Occupy the Pipeline, the Sustainability
Working Group, 350.org, Sane Energy
Project and others. He received his MA in
Climate and Society from Columbia
University and works at the Cooper
Union Institute for Sustainable Design.
He has performed his workshop "The
Climate Apocalypse, with Booze and
Cookies" at several venues around NYC,
and is keenly interested in the
intersection of capitalist culture and
climate change.
Hiram Rivera
Hiram Rivera is the Executive Director of
the Philadelphia Student Union. Hiram
Rivera is a native of New Haven, CT, a
father, an activist, and an organizer. He
most recently served as Youth Organizing
Coordinator at the Urban Youth
Collaborative in New York City. He is on
the board of Teachers Unite.
Pascal Robert
Michael Roberto
Kirstin Roberts
Diana Robinson
Annie Robinson
With a J.D. from Boston University, Pascal
Robert is a blogger and online activist
whose parents fled Haiti in the mid
1960's from the oppression of Francois
"Papa Doc" Duvalier. Born and raised in
NYC, he has been on online radio
discussing Haitian history and issues
facing Haitian people.
Michael Joseph Roberto teaches
contemporary world history and the
history of socialism at North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State
University. Recent publications include
“Crisis, Revolution, and the Meaning of
Progress: The Poverty of Philosophy and
its Contemporary Relevance” (Cultural
Logic, 2009) and “Moment of Transition:
Structural Crisis and the Case for a
Democratic Socialist Party” (with G.
Meyerson, J. Essex and J. Noonan in
Cultural Logic, 2010).
Kirstin Roberts, early childhood teacher,
Chicago Public Schools
Jeffrey Robinson
Robert Robinson
Miguel Robles-Duran
Leonard Rodberg
Jeffrey A. Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor of Management and Global
Business: Rutgers. Founder Center for
Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic
Development interdisciplinary venue for
innovative thinking and research on
entrepreneurial activity and economic
development in urban environments.
Research: impact of practices and
entrepreneurship on societal issues;
community and economic development
issues for urban areas globally. Recipient:
Aspen Institute’s Social Impact Faculty
Pioneer Award.
Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D., is Professor and
Chair of Urban Studies at Queens
College/CUNY. Along with his late wife,
Joanne Lukomnik, he was one of the
founders of Physicians for a National
Health Program. He has been involved in
the struggle for health care reform since
1974, when he led the development of
the Dellums Health Service Act. He is
Treasurer and Research Director of PNHPNY Metro. He also created and directs
the Inforshare Community Data website
(www.infoshare.org).
Russell Rockwell
Russell Rockwell has taught sociology at
Fordham and St. John’s Universities. He
has published articles on Critical Theory
and Marxist-Humanism. He is the coeditor (with Kevin Anderson) of the
volume published last year of the
correspondence between Raya
Dunayevskaya and Herbert Marcuse and
Erich Fromm during the years 1954-1978.
Julio Rodriguez
Julio César Rodríguez is a community
journalist with 15 years of experience
working in community media and giving
political workshops for young people. He
lives in the city of Maturín in the state of
Monagas in Venezuela, and holds
workshops on political affairs,
communications and public speaking in
his community. He is a member of Radio
El Comunitario FM, a community radio
station in his city.
Eleanor Rodgers
Eleanor Rodgers is a founding member of
Occupy Kensington and a long-time
Socialist Alternative activist.
Hernan Rodriguez
Hernán Rodríguez-Burgos has been a
graduate student and laborer within the
state of NY for the past nine years.
During this period, he has been involved
in various educational activities which led
him to the topic of "economic
development policies". His aim is to try to
present a portrait of the mechanisms
through which governments justify "job
creation activities" by way of neoliberalinfluenced economic development
policies which typically seem to come at
the cost/expense of taxpayers.
Belinda Rodriguez
Jairo Rodriguez Hernandez
Belinda Rodriguez graduated from New
York University in 2012 with a bachelor's
degree in Environmental Studies. She
became engaged in climate justice
activism after participating in the 2011
White House sit-ins against the Keystone
XL pipeline. Belinda currently works to
support campus fossil fuel divestment
campaigns in NYC as an organizing fellow
for 350.org
Heather Rogers
Heather Rogers is a journalist and author.
She has written for the New York Times
Magazine, Mother Jones, and The
Nation. Her first book, Gone Tomorrow:
The Hidden Life of Garbage, traces the
history and politics of household rubbish
in the United States. Green Gone Wrong:
How Our Economy Is Undermining the
Environmental Revolution, her latest
book, takes a critical, on-the-ground look
at popular market-based solutions to
ecological destruction.
Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers is a PhD candidate at the
CUNY Graduate Center. He studies
religion in the early American republic.
Peter Roman
Extensive research and written about
Cuban Government. I am currently
analyzing the case of Gerardo Hernandez,
one of the Cuban Five. I am a member of
the editorial board of Socialism and
Democracy, where I coedited two
volumes on Cuba with articles by Cuban
authors. I teach political science at
Hostos Community College of the City
University of New York
Natassa Romanou
Richard Roman
Natassa Romanou is research faculty in
Global Climate Change, Physical and
Biogeochemical Oceanography at
Columbia University. She has authored
more than 20 scientific papers in peerreviewed journals and co-authored a
book. She has served as a reviewer of
European Union Projects FP-7 as well as
U.S. projects and is a contributing author
to the Intergovernmental Panel for
Climate Change Assessment Report (to
be published later in 2013). She is an
active member of SYRIZA-New York.
left activist in the US in the '60s and
Canada since then. Associate Professor
Emeritus, University of Toronto and
Fellow of the Centre for Research on
Latin America and the Caribbean at York
University
Nancy Romer is co-founder and Chair of
the Governance Board of the Brooklyn
Food Coalition. She is a professor of
Psychology at Brooklyn College.
Nancy Romer
René Ropac
René Ropac is a PhD student in Sociology
at Temple University. His main focus
revolves around urbanization,
globalization, and political sociology.
Born and raised in Austria, he is
interested in political and social
movements in Austria and other “core”
countries. He is currently researching a
newly emerging political
party/movement in Austria, the
economic and political causes for its
success, the social composition of its
supporters, and its social and political
implications.
Ovidio Roque
Ninotchka Rosca
Fred Rosen
First Secretary, Cuban Mission to the
United Nations
Ninotchka Rosca is AF3IRM's national
adviser. She's been a lifelong activist for
human and women's rights, for national
liberation and independence. She is a
novelist, a journalist and a political
analyst. She has 7 books published.
Fred Rosen is the editor of NACLA Report
on the Americas. He has been associated
with NACLA, as editor, director and/or
board member since 1992. Between
stints at NACLA, he has worked as a
journalist in Mexico.
Henry D. Rose is currently the statewide
coordinator for the New Jersey
Environmental Justice Alliance. Mr. Rose
was lead organizer for SEIU 1199 New
Jersey. He is chair and founder of Blacks
for Social Justice, the publisher of Chin
Check newsletter, and a member of
People’s Organization for Progress. He is
a regular contributor to “The Black
Agenda Report.”
Henry Rose
Corinne Rosen has been a community
organizer in several different capacities
for 10 years. She has worked on political
campaigns - both large and small - as
organizer and manager. For about the
last 2-3 years, Corinne has been with
Food and Water Watch, organizing to
keep fracking out of New York State,
amongst other environmental efforts,
such as the preservation and availability
of local, healthful food.
Corinne Rosen
David Rosen
David Rosen writes the blog column,
“Media Current,” for Filmmaker
magazine and regularly contributes
articles to AlterNet, CounterPunch,
Huffington Post and The Brooklyn Rail.
He is the author Sex Scandal America:
Politics & the Ritual of Public Shaming
(Key Publishing) and contributed the
chapter, “Sexual Politics in the Age of
Obama: Assessing Obama’s First Term,”
for Hopeless: Barack Obama and the
Politics of Illusion, ed. Jeffrey St. Clair, AK
Press.
Martha Rosler works in video,
photography, text, installation, and
performance. Her work deals with the
separation of the public and private
sphere, exploring issues from everyday
life and the media to architecture and
the built environment. Rosler has
exhibited and published widely on an
international scale. Rosler lives and works
in Brooklyn.
Martha Rosler
Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is a professor of social and
cultural analysis at New York University.
His latest book is Bird on Fire: Lessons
from the World’s Least Sustainable City
(Oxford University Press, 2011). He is also
a member of the OWS Strike Debt
Assembly.
Dr. Suzanne Ross
International spokesperson for
International Concerned Family and
Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; longtime
international solidarity activist.
Carne Ross
Sal Rosselli
Kate Rossiter
Carne Ross is a former British diplomat
who resigned in 2004 over the Iraq War.
He founded the world's first non-profit
diplomatic advisory group, Independent
Diplomat, which advises marginalized
countries and groups around the world.
He is heavily involved in Occupy Wall
Street, and writes about world affairs and
alternate systems of organizing. His new
book is called, "The Leaderless
Revolution: how ordinary people will
take power and change politics in the
21st
century.”
Sal Rosselli
is the President of the
National Union of Healthcare Workers,
which is affiliated with the California
Nurses Association. Before co-founding
NUHW, for decades, he led SEIU United
Healthcare Workers West and helped
build it into the second largest healthcare
workers' union in the country. He is now
leading NUHW-CNA to build a
democratic, member-led union that puts
members first. Sal has been active in
Kate Rossiter received her MA in
Performance Studies (NYU) and her PhD
from the Dalla Lana School of Public
Health (University of Toronto). Her
research explores the intersection of
health research and theatre, creative
approaches to teaching the social
determinants of health, and the impact
of neoliberalism and the knowledge
economy on daily and bodily practices.
Methodologically, Kate’s work moves
between practical and critical
explorations of performance and health
research.
David Rouge
MA, Urban Affairs, director of rental
assistance for homeless adults at New
York City’s Department of Housing
Preservation and Development. Member,
New York chapter of the Ernest Becker
Foundation. He has organized
symposiums on the topics of violence,
psychology and religion for the
Foundation. Has expertise in the fields of
housing development, energy
conservation, and in supportive housing
for homeless disabled individuals.
Christina Rousseau
Christina Rousseau is a PhD candidate
based at York University in Toronto,
Canada. Her dissertation looks at the
Wages for Housework campaigns in Italy
and Canada, investigating the debates
about housework in these campaigns
against the backdrop of the broader
social, political, economic and cultural
climate of the 1960s and 1970s.
Connected to the issue of housework,
she explores the way in which this
feminist movement was central to fights
for access to abortion, welfare, and child
care.
Marty Rowland
Linda Rousseau
Ursula Rozum
Patrick Roxberry
Ron Rubin
Jarvis Rucker
Along with Messrs Arena and Howells,
Dr. Rowland is a founding member of the
public housing grassroots support
organization known as C3, in New
Orleans, Louisiana. For over nine years,
C3 members challenged, served time in
jail for protesting, and delayed the
privatization of public housing in this
southern US city. Marty is of the school
of common property resource
management advanced by the late Nobel
Economics Laureate Elinor Ostrom. Dr.
Rowland is adjunct professor at Pace
University.
Ursula Rozum was the 28 year old Green
Party candidate for Congress in New
York's 24th District in 2012. She won 8%
of the vote in a close race where both
the Democrat and the Republican spent
over $5 million. The Democrat won with
49%. Rozum works at the Syracuse Peace
Council. She has a BA in Political Science
and Latin American Literature from
McGill University in Montreal, Canada,
speaks English, Polish, Spanish and
French, and can fix a flat bike tire in
under 5 minutes.
Long time peace activist, helpful to
veterans in Lehigh Valley, including
Veterans Sanctuary project.
Ron has a B.A. in Philosophy from
Brooklyn College and is the owner of a
small business in Manhattan for about 40
years. He has studied economics for the
last forty years.
Anja Rudiger
Anja Rudiger, Ph.D., is Director of
Programs at the National Economic and
Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), based in
New York City. Anja works with
grassroots groups across the United
States to develop human rights strategies
and tools to advance social and economic
justice, particularly in the areas of health
care and budget/revenue policies. Her
previous experience includes roles at the
British Refugee Council and the UK
Secretariat of the European Monitoring
Centre on Racism and Xenophobia.
Catherine Ruetschlin
Catherine Ruetschlin is a policy analyst at
DEMOS and the author of the November,
2012 report: Retail's Hidden Potential -How Raising Wages Would Benefit
Workers, the Industry and the Overall
Economy -- among many other studies.
Allen Ruff
Allen Ruff is a US historian and an
independent writer on foreign policy
issues. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Peter Rugh
Peter Rugh is an independent reporter
based in Brooklyn, New York. He has
covered the environmental movement
for Free Speech Radio News and
WagingNonviolence.org. Pete has also
contributed to other outlets, include
Vice, Alternet, Truthout and
CounterPunch.
Jon Rynn
Bryan Sacks
Malcolm Sacks
Sharmin Sadequee
Karly Safar
Jon Rynn is author of the book,
"Manufacturing Green Prosperity: The
power to rebuild the American middle
class", and has a Ph.D. in Political Science
from the CUNY Graduate Center. He
worked for many years with the late
Professor Seymour Melman, and has
blogged for the Roosevelt Institute, Grist,
and Alternet. His website is
economicreconstruction.org
Bryan Sacks is an instructor of Philosophy
at Drexel University and a Doctoral
Student in the Journalisma and Media
Studies department at the School of
Communication and Information, Rutgers
University.
Venceremos Brigade member.
Sharmin Sadequee is the Director of
Prison and Family Committee for NCPCF.
She is the sister of Ehsanul “Shifa”
Sadequee, who was unjustly targeted by
the US government and persecuted for
his religious beliefs and is currently held
in the Communication Management Unit
in Marion, Illinois. She has been speaking
out against the injustices that her
brother and family and other Muslim
families have experienced at the hands
of the US government.
Karly Safar is a member of United
Campus Workers-CWA, Local 3865,
employed at the University of TennesseeKnoxville.
Maliha Safri is an assistant professor in
the economics department at Drew
University, and has taught and published
on political economy and migration, with
articles in Signs, the Middle East Journal,
and most recently a piece in Economist's
Voice "The Economics of Occupation."
She has been involved with popular
education seminars & activist courses for
twelve years with the Center For Popular
Economics, based at the UMass in
Amherst, & has been active with worker
cooperatives in New Jersey & New York.
Maliha Safri
Yusef Salaam
Alex is a core organizer for the
international campaign to Stop the JNF,
as well as film documentarian of
Palestinian testimony against the JNF.
Wrongfully convicted in the so-called
"Central Park jogger case," Yusef sits on
the board of the Campaign to End the
Death Penalty, the advisory board for the
Learn My History Foundation, and is the
inspiration for People United for
Children.
Maria (Josie) Saldana-Portillo
Director of the Gender and Sexuality
Studies at NYU, Josie Saldana has written
extensively on the Nicaraguan revolution.
Her scholarship focuses on Latina/o
cultural studies, development and
globalization studies, comparative race in
the Americas, and 20th century
revolutionary thought and literature of
the Americas. Josie is the author of "The
Revolutionary Imagination in the
Americas and the Age of Development",
published by Duke University Press.
Alex Safron
Fabiola Salek
Josefa Salmon
Preeti Sampat
Jose Sanchez
Joseph Sanchez
Lynn Sanchez
Chair - Department of Foreign Languages,
Humanities & ESL Associate Professor
and Coordinator of Women's Studies
Research Fellow at John Jay College Vicepresident, CUNY Council on World
Language Study School of Arts and
Sciences York College, CUNY
Professor of Spanish and Latin American
Studies, Loyola University New Orleans,
1986-present. My research interests are
Indigenous texts, Bolivian film and
Marxism and Indian movements. I have
published most recently: DECIR
NOSOTROS en la encrucijada del
pensamiento indianista", and many
articles on Bolivia, indigeneity, and film.
Author of several books and articles;
active in Latino politics for decades;
member of the board of several
prominent Latino organizations; wellknown scholar-activist in urban affairs,
housing policy, Latino politics and
American politics.
Lisa Sánchez González
Lisa Sánchez González is a professor and
scholar. She received her PhD from UCLA
in 1995 and is the author of Boricua
Literature (NYU Press, 2001) and The
Stories I Read to the Children: The Life
and Writing of Pura Belpré (Centro Press,
2013). She also has over a decade of
production credits in news and public
affairs community-based radio stations in
the US. Among her awards and
nominations she was honored with an
international appointment as a Fulbright
Scholar in American Studies in 2000.
Joan Sangster
Joan Sangster is professor of Gender and
Women's Studies at Trent University.
One of the North America's leading
feminist labor historians, she is the coauthor (with Meg Luxton) of 'Feminism,
co-optation and the problems of
amnesia: a response to Nancy Fraser' is
the 2013 Socialist Register.
Kimberly Sarabia
Kim Sarabia is a Filipina American
feminist and organizer. She has held
support and leadership roles in various
social justice organizations for over six
years. She has been devoted to
transnational women’s issues, weaving
together the intersections of migration,
gender, and labor.
Stephen Sarma-Weierman
Gina Sartori
Stephen Sarma-Weierman is an M. Div.
student at Union Theological Seminary,
pursuing ordination in the United Church
of Christ. He is passionate about queer
rights, human and non-human animal
rights, education reform, and overcoming
capitalism.
Quincy Saul is a writer, organizer and
musician. He is a columnist for Capitalism
Nature Socialism and a co-founder,
writer and organizer for Ecosocialist
Horizons. He is the co-editor of Maroon
the Implacable: The Collected Writings of
Russell Maroon Shoatz, co-published by
PM Press. He is the author of Reflections
of Crisis: The Great Depression and the
21st Century (2010), and the co-producer
of The Music of Cal Massey. He is a
columnist for The Africa Report and his
articles have been published by
numerous online outlets including Narco
News and Area Chicago. He is a member
of Scientific Soul Sessions.
Quincy Saul
Alain Savard
Alain Savard is a post-graduate student in
political science at University of Quebec
in Montreal. He's been involved in the
student movement since the 2005
student strike. During the 2012 student
strike, he was on the executive council of
a local student union and on the
executive of CLASSE from May to
September.
Jeremy Sawyer
Kelly Saxberg
Jeremy Scahill
Josh Scannell
Albert Scharenberg
Danny Schechter
Jeremy Sawyer is a school psychologist,
an activist, and is currently pursuing a
PhD in Developmental Psychology at the
CUNY Graduate Center.
Kelly Saxberg is a film producer, director
and editor who has worked on over 80
films. She was the writer, director of
Under The Red Star, a docu-drama about
the left in Canada. She was producer,
camera and editor for Hard Time and In
Security. She is the director of Letters
from Karelia and Rosies of the North
produced by the NFB.
Albert Scharenberg is Co-Director of the
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York
office. He has taught Political Science and
History at the Free University Berlin and
worked as a staff journalist at the
German monthly “Blaetter fuer deutsche
und internationale Politik”. His latest
book publication is a biography of Martin
Luther King, Jr. His most recent Englishlanguage publication is The Sound of
Berlin: Subculture and the Global Music
Industry, in: IJURR 34 (1).
Rebecca Schein completed a Ph.D. from
the History of Consciousness Department
at the University of California, Santa Cruz,
and now teaches in the Human Rights
Program at Carleton University’s Institute
for Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research
examines the normative dimensions of
“citizenship,” “community membership”
and “publics,” with particular focus on
the political and pedagogical work these
concepts support in social movement
contexts. She has a recent piece in Social
Movement Studies and is an editor of
Studies in Political Economy.
Rebecca Schein
Tim Schermerhorn is a rank-and-file train
operator and organizer in Transport
Workers Union Local 100 for more than
30 years. He is a former vice president of
the local and former vice chairman of
train operators, Labor Notes Policy
Committee, Working USA Board. He is
also a founding member of Black
Workers Rank and File Network.
Tim Schermerhorn
Abby Scher
Abby Scher is a sociologist and journalist
who writes frequently about economic
justice issues. She is a former coeditor of
Dollars and Sense magazine.
Elias Schewel
Elias Schewel is a geographer,
environmental planner and activist from
Philadelphia. His work experience has
ranged from urban forestry and green
infrastructure planning in New York City,
to mapping land ownership in Detroit's
neighborhoods and West Virginia's
counties. He has a undergraduate degree
in urban studies from the Gallatin School
of Individualized Study and a Masters in
Urban Planning from the University of
Michigan.
Naomi Schiller
Naomi Schiller is an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Anthropology at
Temple University. She has been doing
research on Venezuelan media
production and reception since 1999. Her
research and teaching focus on the
anthropology of media, ethnographic
film, the state, and social movements in
Latin America. Dr. Schiller is completing a
manuscript entitled Televising the
Revolution: Community Media,
Liberalism, and the State in Venezuela.
Jeff Schlesinger
Jeff Schlesinger is a student of the
monetary system. He has worked on Wall
Street as a computer programmer for
several financial institutions. He currently
works as a social worker. Jeff got his B.S.
from Long Island University and his MSW
from Adelphi University.
Sarah Schulman
Luz Schreiber is an organizer with SEIU
and Civic Education Coordinator for the
Right to the City Alliance. She formerly
worked with North West Bronx Clergy
Coalition, and on SLAM’s open
admissions campaign and other projects
between 1998 and 2000. Co-founder of
Ollin Imagination (a cultural circle of
resistance of parents, artists, students,
and educators of colour), Luz is a creative
writing major and Hunter Student Union
organizer.
Sarah Schulman is the author of 16
books, most recently Israel/Palestine and
the Queer International, The
Gentrification of The Mind: Witness to a
Lost Imagination and Ties That Bind:
Familial Homophobia and Its
Consequences.
Jason Schulman
Jason Schulman is Adjunct Assistant
Professor of political science at Lehman
College in the Bronx. He is on the
editorial boards of "Democratic Left" and
"New Politics" and is a member of
Democratic Socialists of America. He is
the editor of the forthcoming book from
Palgrave Macmillan, "Rosa Luxemburg:
Her Life and Legacy."
Luz Schreiber
Alan Schulman
retired after 35 years inside public
education as English/Humanities
Teacher; Founding Academic
Administrator, Umoja Unity HS, The
Door; Special Projects, Office of Teaching
and Learning, DoE at Tweed. Schulman
has been an Activist with People Against
Racism in Education, Directed The
International Bridges Project; and, in
2012, coordinated The Student Rights
Handbook Project. Schulman has
consulted on Alternative Ed Models with
Ministries of Education in Santo
Domingo, Zimbabwe, Cuba and Europe
Michael Schwartz is professor and chair
of sociology at Stony Brook University.
His scholarship focuses on social
movements, political processes and
economic dynamics. His most recent
book, War Without End, analyzed the
impact of the 10-year U.S. occupation of
Iraq on political, economic, and social
processes in Iraqi society, and on the
changing dynamics of the indigenous
resistance. He has been an active
participant in various social movements
starting in the 1960s.
Michael Schwartz
Professor Emeritus, Howard University
(biogeochemistry, environmental
scientist, PhD, Brown University). He is an
active member of the DC Statehood
Green Party/Green Party of the United
States. His website with his older son is
www.solarutopia.org. Publications
include: Life, Temperature and the Earth
(2002, Columbia Univ. Press) and several
recent papers in CNS.
David Schwartzman
Katherine Sciacchitano
Joseph M. Schwartz is the author of The
Permanence of the Political and The
Future of Democratic Equality (which
won the 2011 American Political Science
Association award for the best book in
political theory). Schwartz is a leader of
his AFT local and a National Vice-Chair of
Democratic Socialists of America. He
frequently spoke at Occupy Philly teachins.
Sophie Schwoerer is the Vice Chair
Person of MEDHIN, Ethiopian Democratic
Party and a member of the
Communications Committee of the NJ
BlueWave. Sophie Schwoerer is a Budget
and Political Analyst, and an advocate for
women rights and a Human rights
activist.
Katherine Sciacchitano is a former labor
lawyer and organizer and presently a
professor at the National Labor College,
Washington, D.C.
Kim Scipes
Kim Scipes is an Associate Professor of
Sociology at Purdue University North
Central in Westville, Indiana, USA. A longtime labor activist in the US, Scipes has
been challenging AFL-CIO foreign policy
since 1986, and his book, AFL-CIO's
Secret War against Developing Country
Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? was
published by Lexington Books in 2010,
with a paperback edition issued in 2011.
Joseph M. Schwartz
Sophie Schwoerer
Greg Scott
Greg Scott is a sociologist, holding the
position of associate professor at DePaul
University in Chicago, IL. There he
teaches ethnographic documentary film
production, photographic/visual
sociology, drug use and abuse, and public
health and high risk behavior. He is
executive director at Sawbuck
Productions inspiring social change
through film, photography, and sound.
Jerome Scott was a labor organizer in
Detroit auto plants in the 1960s-70s, and
a community organizer, popular educator
and author in the South since the 1970s.
He is a founding member and former
director of Project South: Institute for
the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide in
Atlanta, GA. He serves on the National
Planning Committee of the U.S. Social
Forum, is active in Grassroots Global
Justice and other social justice
movement organizations, including the
League of Revolutionaries for a New
America.
Jerome Scott
T.M. Scruggs
Until recently T.M. Scruggs was the token
ethnomusicology professor at the
University of Iowa. His primary research
focus is on the use of music to construct
social identity in the Americas. From
2005 to 2007 he lived in Venezuela,
where he taught at the Universidad de
los Andes in Mérida, and researched
music, cultural politics and community
media.
Hamideh Sedghi, Ph.D. is a Visiting
Professor of Political Science,
Department of Political Science, Brooklyn
College, CUNY. Author of Women and
Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling and Reveiling. Cambridge University Press Reza
Ghorashi, PhD. Professor of Economics
and Coordinator of International Studies
Minor at Stockton College of NJ. Hamid
Zangeneh, Ph.D. Professor of Economics,
Widener University and editor of Journal
of Iranian Research and Analysis.
Hamideh Sedghi
Joel Segal
Until recently a Senior Legislative
Assistant to Rep. John Conyers and Chair
of the Congressional Universal Health
Care Task Force, Joel Segal has played a
prominent role in building support for HR
676, the single payer "Medicare for All"
health care reform bill that Rep. Conyers
has promoted as an alternative to Obama
Care. He has played a similar role in the
development of the Humphrey Hawkins
21st Century Full Employment and
Training Act., which was first introduced
in Congress two years ago.
Nick Serpe
In the last 14 years A.J. Segneri has been
an activist, community organizer, political
campaigner, and social entrepreneur. His
work in the civic and social engagement
arena he has worked on on many fronts
of struggle as well as help build coalitions
and movements. Segneri is the Executive
Director for the Foundation for a United
Front that is based in both Springfield
and Chicago, Illinois. He is also the CoChair for the Green Party of the United
States.
Ms. Selbovitz is Chair of the Cornell ACTG
CAB. She is a member of the AIDS
Treatment Activists Coalition (ATAC) and
the Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA). She
holds a Master’s in Public Health from
Johns Hopkins University.
Nick Serpe is the web editor at Dissent
magazine.
Leo Seserko
I am professor at the Environmental
Protection College at Velenje, Slovenia.
As Member of Parliament in Slovenia, I
made a proposal to shut down the Krsko
nuclear power plant in that country. I
participated in the Paris meeting of the
Ecosocialist International Network.
Javier Sethness Castro
Javier Sethness is a libertarian socialist
and rights-advocate. He is author of
Imperiled Life: Revolution against Climate
Catastrophe (AK Press, 2012), and he
blogs on various aspects of the crises of
capital at Notes Toward an International
Libertarian Eco-Socialism
(intlibecosoc.wordpress.com).
A.J. Segneri
Mariel Selbovitz, MPH
Jackie Sewell
Al-Tariq Shabazz
Stephen Shalom
Alex Shams
Tamara Shapiro
Jackie Sewell is the National Organizer for
the Young Democratic Socialists, the
youth section of Democratic Socialists of
America. In her work, she focuses on
building YDS chapters, continuing
campaigns for Affordable and Accessible
Higher Education, and strengthening
relationships with partners and student
groups. Since 2008, she has been
organizing with YDS on campuses in
Kansas and nationally by serving on the
Coordinating Committee as a Great Plains
Regional Organizer and female Co-Chair.
Alex Shams is an Iranian-American
graduate student of Middle Eastern
Studies at Harvard University. His
academic research focuses on gender
and feminism in Islamist political
movements in Iran and the Arab World,
and he most recently returned from
research in Tehran on women's
experiences of increased access to higher
education in the 1980s and 90s. He has
been involved in anti-war and Palestine
solidarity activism for years, including a
year working on refugee rights issues in
Beirut.
Nicky Sheats
Kira Shepherd
Nicky Sheats, Esq., Ph.D, is Director of the
Center for the Urban Environment at the
John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy
of Thomas Edison State College. He is a
founding member of the New Jersey
Environmental Justice Alliance, the only
statewide environmental organization
that focuses solely on environmental
justice issues.
Stuart Shields
Stuart Shields teaches International
Political Economy at the University of
Manchester. His research is concerned
with critical approaches to international
political economy and post-communist
transition. He was the convenor of the
BISA International Political Economy
working group 2008-2011. Together with
Werner Bonefeld, Hugo Radice, and Greig
Charnock set up the CSE Trans-Pennine
Working Group.
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez
Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, ER nurse for 30
years, is president of her 2800 member
bargaining unit at Montefiore in the
Bronx. A long time activist in social justice
movements, she’s a founding member of
NYSNA’s progressive caucus: "Staffing,
Security & Strength" (S-3), that slammed
the opposition in the 2012 elections.
Judy, with NYSNA leaders and members,
is engaged in the bold task of rebuilding
the 38,000 member union into an entity
capable of challenging the neo-liberal
employer agenda.
Josh Shmizer
Josh is a former student activist at
University of Tennessee, where he is now
a worker.
Joe Shortsleeve
Theresa Shoatz is the daughter of Russell
Maroon Shoatz and has been a
community organizer for over 20 years.
Donating her time to the Human Rights
Coalition of Philadelphia (HRC FED UP!),
Decarcerate Pennsylvania and Scientific
Soul Sessions, she has fought tirelessly
for her father’s freedom during his two
decades in solitary confinement.
Student at Columbia, Barnard Columbia
Divest member, and member of the
National Fossil Fuel Divestment
Committee
Syeda Nuzhat Siddiqui
Syeda Siddiqui is a renowned peace poet
in Urdu language. She was born and
raised in Pakistan. Currently, she lives in
Toronto, Canada. Her area of research is
global peace and human rights.
Theresa Shoatz
Cleo Silvers
Darryl Siemer
Cleo Silvers – Harlem Community Activist
Cleo Silvers began serving the community
in New York City – Harlem and the South
Bronx in 1967. She continues today with
a focus on healthcare, housing and peace
and justice as well as preservation of the
arts in the Harlem community.
Tom Siracuse
Charlene Sinclair is the Program Director
for Engaging the Powers at Union
Theological Seminary and a member of
the Poverty Initiative. In addition, she is
the lead consultant for InSinc Consulting,
LLC, a consulting firm that provides
comprehensive grassroots organizing and
political strategy. She is currently
pursuing a doctoral degree in Social
Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in
New York.
Tom Siracuse was born in NYC. After
graduating from U. of Conn, he served in
the Peace Corps 1963-65 in community
development and at Ministry of
Education. Taught ESL at George
Washington HS for 29 years. Adjunct
professor of ESL at Hostos Community
College and at BMCC, 1996-2000. Chair
of Shut Down Indian Point Now, VP of
Committee For Environmentally Sound
Development and chair of Manhattan
Local of Green Party, running for 6th
District of NYC Council on Green Party
line.
Sunit Singh
Sunit Singh is the Editor-in-Chief of the
Platypus Review and PhD student in
Divinity at the University of Chicago.
Charlene Sinclair
Marina Sitrin is a sociologist, lawyer and
is a postdoctoral fellow with the
Committee on Globalization and Social
Change at the CUNY Graduate Center.
She has both participated in, as well as
has been writing about, the new global
movements. She is the author of
Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and
Autonomy in Argentina and the coauthor, with Dario Azzellini, of Occupying
Language and the forthcoming They
Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing
Democracy from Greece to Occupy.
Marina Sitrin
Lara Skinner
Catherine Skopic
Lara Skinner is Associate Director of
Research at Cornell's Global Labor
Institute and Co-Chair of the Labor, the
Environment and Sustainable
Development Working Group of the
Worker Institute at Cornell. She received
her PhD from the University of Oregon in
2010; her dissertation was entitled Is it
Just Sustainability? The Politics of Urban
Sustainability, Labor Unions and Social
Justice. She has worked for unions doing
campaign research and policy
development since 1999.
Catherine Skopic has been worked on
environmental issues for 3 decades. She
taught at L.I.U. C.W. Post Campus and in
public school. She is Chair of the
Environmental Task Force of The
Congregation of Saint Saviour; member
of 350.org, UCS, PSR, IMAC and AAUW.
She has been a rep to the UN- CSD - the
Commission on Sustainable Development
and attended Rio+20. She is a founding
member of RenewNEWYORK.
Allen Smith
Allen Smith has a B.A. in mathematics
from Oberlin College. From a young age
he was interested in a more just way of
holding land. He now teaches at the
Henry George School of Social Science in
New York.
Alice Slater
Director, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
NY, is on the International Coordinating
Committee of Abolition 2000 and directs
its Energy Working Group. She’s on the
Board of the Lawyers Committee for
Nuclear Policy, the NYC Bar’s Energy
Committee, the Steering Committee of
Shut Down Indian Point, and the Advisory
Board of the Global Network Against
Weapons in Space. She is a UN NGO
Representative, has written numerous
articles and op-eds, with frequent media
appearances
Stan Smith
Jackie Smith represents the International
Network of Scholar Activists on the US
Social Forum's National Planning
Committee. She co-chairs the USSF
Communications and Technology
working group and teaches sociology at
the University of Pittsburgh. She also
edits the Journal of World-Systems
Research (www.jwsr.org).
Jackie Smith
Debby Smith
Michael Smith
Dr. Richard Smith has been a mechanic,
trans-African eco-tour leader, carpenterbuilder, and university lecturer at
Rutgers. He has written extensively on
capitalism and China’s environment, and
on ecology and capitalism for New Left
Review, Monthly Review, the Ecologist
and other magazines and academic
journals. He is completing a book on
capitalism, global ecological collapse, and
the eco-socialist alternative.
Richard Smith
Ashley Smith is on the editorial board of
the International Socialist Review. He
writes for the ISR and other publications
focusing on US imperial policy and Haiti.
Ashley Smith
Desiray Smith
Harold Smith, PhD
Rachel Smolker
Dr. Smith of the Founder and CEO of
OyaGen and Professor of Biophysics at
the University of Rochester
Rachel Smolker is co-director of
Biofuelwatch and an organizer with the
Energy Justice Network. She has worked
to reveal impacts of biofuels and
bioenergy on land use, forests,
biodiversity, food, people and the
climate. Rachel works with national and
international climate justice coalitions
such as Climate Justice Now to oppose
market-based false solutions to climate
change. She has worked as a field
biologist, is the author of "To Touch A
Wild Dolphin," and lives in Vermont.
Blain Snipstal
Blain is the Agroecology Field Organizer
for the Rural Coalition/Coalicion Rural, he
farms in rural Maryland. Blain is a youth
leader of La Via Campesina, the global
peasant movement, and has traveled and
studied agroecology, organizing, and
political and social change extensively
with campesinos in Latin America.
http://www.ruralco.org/node/550.
http://www.farmplate.com/blog/farmpla
te-young-farmers-series-blain-snipstal-laminga-cooperative.
Mohammad Soleymani is a faculty
member in Department Social Science
and Human Services at BMCC. He has a
Ph.D. in Economics from the New School.
He has been teaching Economics classes
BMCC since September 1987. He
published an article entitled: “Heavy
Price of Globalization”. Currently he is
working on the negative consequences of
globalization on sustainable
development, global warming and
worldwide inequality.
Mohammad Soleymani
Sheldon Solomon
Professor of Psychology and Ross
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at
Skidmore College. As an experimental
social psychologist, his interests include
the nature of self, consciousness, and
social behavior. Author, with Jeff
Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski of In the
Wake of 9/11: The Psychology of Terror
(2003, American Psychological
Association Book) exploring the effects of
Rachael Sotos
Rachael Sotos is an adjunct professor in
the Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies at Pace University, a
graduate student in Classics at Fordham
University. Her philosophical work is
centered in political theory, the
dismantling of the history of
metaphysics, environmental ethics and
Hobart Spalding
Hobart Spalding is Professor Emeritus of
Latin American and Caribbean history at
CUNY Graduate School and Brooklyn
College. He has visited Cuba several
times and, among other things, helped
put together two special issues on Cuba
for Socialism and Democracy. He is a
Board Member of the Left Forum.
Katherine Spaulding
Irwin Sperber
Megan Sperry
Kate Spaulding teaches economics at the
Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor
Studies at SUNY Empire State College and
works for Manhattan Borough President
Scott M. Stringer. She has a M.S. in City
and Regional Planning from Pratt
Institute and is a 2012 Fellow of the New
Leader’s Council Institute.
[email protected]
Teaches in Sociology Department, SUNY
New Paltz; special interest in
environmental policy and public health;
Executive Committee, Mid-Hudson
Group/Sierra Club; Associate Editor,
Capitalism Nature Socialism; active in
antiwar movement in Berkeley during the
1960s.
Filmmaker: The Domino Effect
Michalis Spourdalakis
Stephen Squibb
Fignole St. Cyr
Jill Stein
Michael Spourdalakis, Professor of
Political Science at Athens University is
also a founding member of Syriza. One of
leading authors on Greek party politics
over the past three decades, he is the
author of "Left Strategy in the Greek
Cauldron" in the Socialist Register 2013.
Fignole St. Cyr is the General Secretary of
the Autonomous Confederation of
Haitian Workers and a member of the
International Commission of Inquiry on
the UN Occupation of Haiti.
Dr. Jill Stein is a mother, physician,
longtime teacher of internal medicine,
and pioneering environmental-health
advocate. She was the nominee of the
Green Party for President of the United
States in the 2012 election. Dr. Stein was
a candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts in the 2002 and the 2010
gubernatorial elections. She is a graduate
of Harvard College and the Harvard
Medical School. As a physician and
environmental health advocate, she has
helped fight for campaign finance
reform, green jobs, and a ban of selected
toxic pesticides. She was an instructor in
Medicine at Harvard Medical School for
over 20 years, and co-authored In Harm's
Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development
(2000) and Environmental Threats to
Healthy Aging (2009).
Alex Steinberg has been a socialist and
independent Marxist scholar for many
years. He has taught Hegel and Marx in
alternative education institutions. He is a
member of alternative radio WBAI and
formerly the Pacifica National Board. He
has written on Marxism and the
philosophy of science and other topics
bearing on philosophy and revolution. He
was a past presenter and panel organizer
at the Left Forum, most recently in 2011
when he gave a talk on Marxism,
psychoanalysis and human nature.
Alex Steinberg
Susan Stellar
Maura Stephens
Susan Stellar is a resident of the city of
Detroit and a decades-long
environmental and community gardening
educator-activist. A member of News and
Letters Committees, she writes for News
& Letters and supports all genuine
freedom struggles.
Maura Stephens is an independent
journalist and contributor to Common
Dreams, CounterPunch, Truthout, and
other independent works. She is
cofounder of Coalition to Protect New
York, Frackbusters, and other grassroots
antifracking and peace/justice/human
rights groups. She works as associate
director of the Park Center for
Independent Media and teaches
journalism and community journalism in
Ithaca, New York. She lives in a so-called
"sacrifice zone" county in the NYS
Southern Tier. She is associate director of
Park Center for Independent Media and
teaches journalism in Ithaca.
Sabrina Stevens
Leutisha Stills
Bob Stone
Dr. Vincent Stravino
Sabrina Joy Stevens is a teacher-turnedwriter/activist driven from the classroom
by the injustices of the school
privatization movement. She is dedicated
to ensuring that 1st-person perspectives
on what public school stakeholders
experience and need, rather than private
interests and elitist ideology, prevail in
the public conversation about education.
She currently works at the American
Federation of Teachers and runs an
advocacy-driven communications project
called Voices from the Classroom.
Leutisha Stills is a political blogger and
activist. She wrote for Black Agenda
Report, Jack and Jill Politics and 3 CHICS
POLITICO on legislative policy and
political issues. She is pursuing a
doctorate in Public Policy focusing on the
effects of long-term unemployment and
the policy developments that continue to
compound and exacerbate the issue. She
is currently employed with the District of
Columbia Government and resides in
Metro Washington, DC.
Emeritus professor of Philosophy at Long
Island University, C.W.Post Center. He is
finishing work on an introduction to
Sartre's partly unpublished "second
ethics" titled "Morality and History" with
co-author Elizabeth Bowman. He is
Research
Associate
at the
Center
for
Retired Medical
Doctor
and
prominent
member of Lehigh Valley Social Justice
community (LEPOCO). Three trips to
Israel as fact finder.
Paul Street, journalist, historian, political
commentator and author of five books
including The Empire's New Clothes:
Barack Obama in the Real World of
Power and They Rule: The 1% v.
Democracy (Fall 2013). He is a member of
the International Organization for a
Participatory Society. His writings and
commentaries have been featured in The
New York Times, CNN, The Huffington
Post, Al Jazeera, Al-Alkhbar and Black
Agenda Report among many other media
outlets. Street is a regular contributor to
the ZNet website.
Paul Street
Charles Stroman
Father, Brownsville Brooklyn resident,
food justice youth advocate, Medgar
Evers College student, and member of
the Brownsville Community Justice
Center.
Charles Strozier
Chuck Strozier is a Professor of History
and Director of the Center on Terrorism
at John Jay College, CUNY, as well as a
practicing psychoanalyst in New York
City. He is the author of Apocalypse: On
the Psychology of Fundamentalism in
America, among several volumes on
related issues. In 2011 he published his
study, Until the Fires Stopped Burning:
9/11 and New York City in the Words and
Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses.
Karsten J. Struhl teaches political and
cross-cultural philosophy at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) and
the New School for Public Engagement.
He has co-edited Philosophy Now
(Random House), Ethics in Perspective
(Random House), and The Philosophical
Quest: A Cross-Cultural Reader (McGrawHill). He writes about human nature, just
war theory, global ethics, visions of
communism, ecology, ideology, Marxism,
and Buddhist philosophy.
Karsten J. Struhl
Nicole Stubbs
Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon
Stephanie Sucasaca
Nicole Stubbs is the Co-founder and CEO
of First Access, a social enterprise
dedicated to reducing the cost of lending
and borrowing in informal markets using
mobile technology. She has lived and
worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America,
Europe and the US. Nicole holds an MPA
in Development Economics from
Columbia University and a BA from
Kenyon College. She is a bridge between
modern high tech possibilities and real
world issues at the bottom of the
pyramid (BOP).
Stephanie is a student activist and
president of the Socialist Alternative Club
at Queens College.
Jess Sundin
Jess Sundin is a founding member of the
Twin Cities-based Anti-war Committee.
Most of her activism has been in
opposition to wars and occupations in
Iraq and Afghanistan but she also worked
to oppose US military aid of the
repressive governments of Colombia &
Israel. A proud member of AFSCME Local
3800,she is also a member of Freedom
Road Socialist Org.
Bhaskar Sunkara
Bhaskar Sunkura is a contributing writer
for In These Times magazine and the
founding editor of Jacobin Magazine.
Marvin Surkin
Jan Susler, Esq.
Ida Susser
He is co-author of Detroit: I Do Mind
Dying and An End to Political Science. He
had a long academic career teaching
graduate students at Union Institute and
currenlty teaches at Ramapo College.
Jan Susler is a reknown lawyer who has
represented Puerto Rican political
prisoners for the last 40 years. She will
speak about Political Prisoner Oscar
Lopez Rivera who has been in US prisons
Lee Sustar is a labor editor for
SocialistWorker.org. His writing on
economics, politics, and international
affairs has appeared on Znet, in New
Labor Forum, and in the International
Socialist Review. He is a contributor to
Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back
(Monthly Review Press, 2012) and author
of the upcoming Striking Back: How
Chicago Teachers Took on City Hall and
Pushed Back Corporate Education
"Reform" (Haymarket Books).
Lee Sustar
Matt Swagler
Sean Sweeney
Sean Sweeney is the director and
founder of the Cornell Global Labor
Institute, a program of the Cornell School
of Industrial and Labor Relations. Sean
has worked with unions in many
countries on issues of climate change,
energy and transport policy, sustainable
food and water systems, and economic
democracy. Presently the Cornell Global
Labor Institute team is working on an
initiative
called Trade
Unions
for Wait,
Energy
Debra is Director
of World
Can’t
initiated in 2005 to drive out the Bush
regime and reverse the direction it
launched. WCW continues efforts to stop
the crimes of our government. Debra
worked with abortion providers for 25
years, organizing community support and
helping withstand anti-abortion violence.
Since the age of 19, when she confronted
Nixon in a face-to-face event & told him
to stop the war in Vietnam, she has been
a leader in the opposition to US wars and
invasions.
Debra Sweet
Larry Swetman
Robert Taetsch
Vannina Sztainbok is a Lecturer in the
Department of Sociology at the
University of Toronto. Her research
focuses on the gendered and racial
politics of urban development,
displacement, and resistance. Currently,
she is exploring the ways that Afro-Latin
Americans make claims to urban
citizenship. Her publications include
“Exposing her Body, Revealing the
Nation: The Carnival Vedette and the
Symbolic Order” (forthcoming in Social
Identities: Journal for the Study of Race,
Nation and Culture).
Marzena Szulikowski is a PhD student in
Sociology at the Graduate Center.
Progressive peace and environmental
activist. Active in real estate
development with son
Madiha Tahir
Madiha R. Tahir is co-founder of Tanqeed
(www.tanqeed.org), a magazine of
politics and culture covering Pakistan and
the South Asian diaspora. Her work has
appeared in a host of outlets including
BBC's "The World", Foreign Affairs,
Democracy Now!, The Wall Street
Journal, Caravan, The National, Global
Post, The New Inquiry and The Columbia
Journalism Review, among others. She is
co-editor of a collection of essays,
Dispatches from Pakistan, with Vijay
Prashad and Qalandar Bux Memon.
Vannina Sztainbok
Marzena Szulikowski
Oronde Takuma
Oronde Takuma is a member of the NYC
International Peoples' Democratic Uhuru
Movement (INPDUM) Local Organizing
Committee (LOC) tasked with building
this revolutionary African working class
anti-colonial pro-independence
organization in NYC. Oronde serves as
the Political Education Director for the
organization tasked with propagating the
Revolutionary African working class
theory of African Internationalism among
the INPDUM membership and the African
community.
Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor is a writer and
documentarian born in Winnipeg,
Manitoba and raised in Athens, Georgia.
She is the director of the acclaimed films
“Zizek!” and “Examined Life,” a series of
excursions with contemporary thinkers.
Astra has contributed to Monthly
Review, Adbusters, Salon, Alternet, The
Nation, Bomb Magazine and other
outlets. She is active in Occupy Wall
Street's Strike Debt group and its Rolling
Jubilee program.
Walter Teague
Christy Tennery
Gregory Tewksbury
John Tharakan
Luna Theekat
A progressive activist since 1960's, living
in the Washington DC area since 1977.
Walter is a practicing social worker and
psychotherapist since 1981, using the
Robin Hood Principle. Walter’s recent
work has focused on preventing US
attacks on Cuba and supporting the
effort to prevent catastrophic climate
change and on the world-wide, mostly
invisible and seldom treated epidemic of
millions of children traumatized by war,
extreme suffering.
Professor, Howard University, College of
Engineering, Architecture and Computer
Sciences, directs the Graduate Studies
program in Department of Chemical
Engineering. His research interests
include: environmental engineering &
biotechnology, appropriate technology,
sustainable development, focusing on
water treatment, renewable energy,
waste management, ethics/philosophy of
technology. Chair/Co-Chair of
International Conferences on
Appropriate Technology (2004-12):
http://www.appropriatetech.net.
MJ Thompson
She holds an M.A. in Sociology and
Anthropology. Past Adjunct Professor of
Sociology at Southern CT StateU. She is
the Co-Chair of the Green Party of CT.
and founder of the Ecological Health
Organization CT (ECHO). She is a member
of Solidarity and writes for Against the
Current. She has been an AFSCME state
and local officer and is a member of
AFSCME Retirees Council 4 in
Connecticut. She is a feminist, artist and
speaks on workmen’s compensation and
labor/environmental health issues.
Assoc. Prof. Political Science, William
Paterson University and Founding Editor,
Logos: A Journal of Modern Society &
Culture.
Elise Thorburn
Elise Thorburn is an activist and
researcher based in Toronto. She is active
in assembly projects in Canada and
internationally, including the Greater
Toronto Workers' Assembly and the EduFactory Collective. She is also an Editor
with Upping the Anti, a journal of radical
theory and action. Her research focuses
on theories and histories of assembly
style political movements, feminist
political configurations, and current
efforts to build non-hierarchical, antiauthoritarian political projects.
Linda Thompson
Cassie Thornton
Hillel Ticktin
Linda Tigani
Seth Tobocman
Cassie Thornton is an artist who has
completed many projects involving
experimental forms of pedagogy. The
Feminist Economics Department, which
she founded in 2011, undertakes projects
that investigate the impact of
governmental and economic systems on
public behavior and the unconscious. In
2013 she will bring the FED to the Labor
Archives at San Francisco State,
Provisions Library, Headlands Center for
the Arts, and Elizabeth Foundation for
the Arts thanks to A Blade of Grass
Foundation.
Hillel Ticktin is Editor of the journal
Critique and Emeritus Professor of
Marxist Studies at the University of
Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of
articles on Marxist Political Economy,
particularly on the USSR, FSU, South
Africa, Finance Capital and the nature of
capitalist decline.
In 1980 Seth Tobocman was one of the
founding editors of World War 3
Illustrated. His illustrations have
appeared in the New York Times and
many other magazines. Tobocman is the
Author/Illustrator of five graphic books:
YOU DON’T HAVE TO FUCK PEOPLE OVER
TO SURVIVE, WAR IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD PORTRAITS OF ISRAELIS
AND PALESTINIANS DISASTER AND
RESISTANCE and UNDERSTANDING THE
CRASH He currently teaches at School of
Visual Arts in the department of
cartooning and Illustration.
Brian Tokar
Brian Tokar is an activist and author,
director of the Institute for Social
Ecology, and a lecturer in Environmental
Studies at the University of Vermont. He
is the author of The Green Alternative,
Earth for Sale, and Toward Climate
Justice, edited two books on the politics
of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and
Gene Traders, and co-edited the recent
collection, Agriculture and Food in Crisis:
Conflict, Resistance and Renewal
(Monthly Review Press, with Fred
Magdoff).
Alex Tom
In 2012, Alex, along with other Asian
activists and organizers, formed the
China Education and Exposure Program
(CEEP) to build a deeper analysis of China
for US progressives and leftists and to
build relationships with the grassroots
movement in China.
Conor Tomás Reed
Saadia Toor
Conor Tomás Reed has been an activist,
student, and educator in the City
University of New York since 2006. Conor
is involved with the Free University and
the Graduate Center general assembly.
Saadia Toor is Associate Professor of
Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
at the College of Staten Island. She is
author of The State of Islam: Culture and
Cold War Politics in Pakistan. She speaks
and writes frequently US imperial policy
toward Pakistan and South and Central
Asia.
Opal Tometi
Opal Tometi is the New York based
National Organizer for Black Alliance for
Just Immigration (BAJI), where she helps
to educate and advocate for immigrant
rights and racial justice with AfricanAmericans, Afro-Latinos, African and
Caribbean immigrant communities. She is
also the Coordinator for Black
Immigration Network (BIN), a national
network of organizations and individuals
uniting for racial justice and migrant
rights. Opal is an advocate to end
violence against women.
Marissa Torres is a public school teacher
and activist in New York City. She is an
active member of her union and has
organized around school closures and colocations. She is a member of MORE
(Movement of Rank and File Educators)
the social justice caucus of the United
Federation of Teachers, the International
Socialist Organization, NYCoRE (New York
Collective of Radical Educators), and
Teachers Unite. She currently teaches 5th
grade in Brooklyn and is involved in
organizing to fight the criminalization of
youth.
Marissa Torres
Dao Tran
Dao X. Tran coedited 101 Changemakers:
Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US
History (2012) and is working on a
collection of oral histories of domestic
workers.
Sanho Tree
Christopher Towne learned about
'preemptive prosecution' and political
prisoners from his involvement in the
Anti- War Movement. He has been
working on a series of comic books to tell
the stories of the people imprisoned
under the auspices of the 'war on terror'
and general attacks on civil liberties. His
recent graphic illustrated comic on Aafia
Siddiqui is a remarkable example of the
success he has achieved.
Sanho Tree is a Fellow at the Institute for
Policy Studies and has directed its Drug
Policy Project since 1998. Prior to that,
he was a former diplomatic and military
historian and was also an editor of
CovertAction Quarterly.
Walter Tsou
Walter Tsou, MD, MPH is a nationally
known consultant on public health and
health care reform. He is Adjunct
Professor of Family Medicine and
Community Health at the University of
Pennsylvania. He was President of the
American Public Health Association in
2005. He served as Health Commissioner
of Philadelphia from 2000 to 2002. He
was the founding Deputy Director for
Personal Health Services and Medical
Director of the Montgomery County (PA)
Health Department from 1991-2000.
Walter Tsou, MD, MPH
Officer, Healthcare for All Pennsylvania;
Former Health Commissioner, City of
Philadelphia; Adjunct Professor of Health
Policy: University of Pennsylvania,
Jefferson University
Christopher Towne
Annie Tummino
Terisa Turner
Annie Tummino has been active in the
feminist movement since 2000, when she
became Administrative Director for the
National Organization for Women-New
York city chapter. In 2003, she cofounded the Women's Liberation Birth
Control Project, of Redstockings Allies
and Veterans, NYC. She was the lead
plaintiff in the landmark Tummino v.
Hamburg federal court case, filed in 2005
and decided April 2013, wherein the U.S.
constitutionally-guaranteed right to birth
control was re-affirmed.
Ecofeminist Terisa Turner focuses on
direct, cross-border actions by womenled social forces to keep fossil fuels in the
ground and to build global alternatives
that point to a post-late-fossil-fuelcapitalist transition to a new (and
ancient) solar commoning civilization.
Turner studied at the Univ. of York (U.K.),
Oberlin (U.S.A.), and received her Ph.D.
from the London School of Economics.
Terisa Turner has worked in Europe, the
Americas, Africa and the Middle East. As
a founding member of the International
Oil Working Group, she worked to
implement the United Nations oil
embargo against apartheid South Africa.
Since 2006 she has focused on
‘commoners against climate change.’ She
has been working with Ecosocialist
Horizons since its founding.
Lynne Turner
Lynne is a member of the New Jersey
Industrial Union Council, an adjunct
instructor of Labor Studies for the
Murphy Institute/CUNY and a veteran
labor organizer and strategic campaigner
with numerous innovative initiatives to
organize low-wage workers and build
labor-community alliances for social
justice. She holds a M.A. in Labor Studies
from the Murphy Institute/CUNY.
Physicist/Philosopher/Economist/Educat
or/Media Critic/Political Activist. He
analyzes complex systems, consults for
the Space Environment Modeling project,
and develops models of opinion
formation. He studies metrics of the NYC
Education system & develops courseware
for NanoHUB, University of Illinois, and
Mechanics Institute. He has taught
Economics at the Henry George School
and S.T.E.M courses for the Society of
Tradesmen and Mechanics. He covers
Global Economic Issues for various media
outlets.
Yannis Tziligakis
Juliet Ucelli
Juliet Ucelli was one of the founders of
the NY Marxist School/Brecht Forum. She
is an activist and educator, and a
member of the Freedom Road Socialist
Organization.
Sue Udry is the Executive Director for the
Defending Dissent Foundation. She has
served as the executive director of the
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of
Rights and organizer for the Coalition for
New Priorities. Sue is on the board of the
National Coalition to Protect Civil
Freedoms and the National Coalition to
Protect Student Privacy (challenging
military recruiter’s access to public high
school students) and is a co-founder of
the Montgomery County Civil Rights
Coalition.
Sue Udry
Jonathan Uss
Jonathan Uss is a co-director of the
documentary “Shutdown: the Rise and
Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War”
distributed by AK press and facilitator of
Challenging White Supremacy Workshops
in the Bay Area. He was an NLG legal
observer with Occupy Wall Street and a
board member of CASA Chapulín in
Oaxaca, Mexico. He is a member of the
Civilian-Soldier Alliance and is currently
an organizer with the Bradley Manning
Support Network.
Zoltan Vaci
Zoltan Vaci was educated at McGill
University and Rutgers University and
holds a B.A. in History and Philosophy
and a B.Sc. in Geological Sciences. He has
extensive geological knowledge and
working knowledge of soil classification
schemes, sediment core analysis, and
sampling techniques. He is an Injection
Specialist at GeoCleanse International
which focuses remediation on sites
whose groundwater has been polluted by
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC which
adversely impact human health.
Kara Van Cleaf
Kara Van Cleaf is a PhD candidate in
Sociology at the CUNY Grad Center. Her
academic interests include feminist and
social theory, the family, cultural studies
of technology, and the economies of
motherhood. Her dissertation research
examines how motherhood and blogging
inform each other. She is an Instructional
Technology Fellow at Macaulay Honors
College, CUNY and an adjunct at The
Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY.
Juliana Vanderlee
Juliana Vanderlee is a graduate of SUNY
Purchase with a degree in environmental
studies. She lives in Orange County, NY
where she is a farmer and an activist. She
has worked with Pete Seager's Hudson
River Sloop, Clearwater and Earthfirst.
Jeremy Varon
Khalil Vasquez
Ramaa Vasudevan
Alejandro Velasco
Edur Velasco Arregui
Jeremy Varon is a Professor of History at
the New School for Social Research, who
teaches and writes about social
movements and political protest. He is a
long time organizer with Witness Against
Torture.
Khalil Vasquez is the Secretary-General of
the Revolutionary Student Coordinating
Committee. Revolutionary Student
Coordinating Committee (RSCC) was
founded in February 2012 as an
organization uniting revolutionaryminded youth and students throughout
the CUNY system in NYC. It is politically
united based on its Points of Unity, works
for the attainment in CUNY of its
Platform, and operates according to its
Constitution. Contact us at:
[email protected].
Ramaa Vasudevan is an Assistant
Professor of Economics at Colorado State
University.
Former Secretary-General of SITUAM
(Sindicato Independiente de
Trabajadores de la Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana – Independent
Union of Workers of the Metropolitan
Autonomous University], and a Professor
of Law and Labor Economics at the
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in
Mexico City. He is an activist in his union
and in various other movements for
democratic social change in Mexico.
Frank Velgara
Coordinator of the Popular Education
Project to Free the Cuban 5, the July 26th
Coalition and other Cuba and Puerto Rico
related organizations and projects.
Vincent Villano
Vincent Villano is the Participatory
Budgeting & Policy Research Coordinator
at Community Voices Heard. He currently
acts as the Co-Chair of the PBNYC
Steering Committee, a group of over 40
organizations and 8 Council Member
offices that guides the process. He also
serves on the PBNYC Research &
Evaluation Team and spearheads the
advocacy efforts to expand PB into more
Council Districts and new areas of the
city budget and beyond.
Joshua Vincent
An advocate for an innovative system of
land taxation. 50 impact studies in the
USA since 2000 have shown that the
Land Value Taxation System typically
lowers property taxes on homeowners,
vastly increases new construction in
urban areas and discourages
disinvestment.He has consulted more
than 75 municipalities, countries, NGOs
and national governments. He works
with tax departments and elected
officials, restructuring their taxation to a
land-based system.
Arturo Viscarra
Arturo is the School of Americas Watch
Advocacy Coordinator. He is also an
immigration attorney in the Washington,
D.C. area. He can be reached at:
[email protected], or: (202) 234-3440.
Richard Vital
Stephen Vittoria
Richard Vital is an independent scholar
will contribute information regarding
ecological degradation under capitalist
states.
Kelley B. Vlahos
Kelley B. Vlahos is a Washington D.Cbased freelance journalist. She is regular
columnist for Antiwar.com, a daily online
news and opinion network founded in
1995 in opposition to the Bosnian War.
She is also a contributing editor to The
American Conservative Magazine, which
was founded in 2002 in opposition to the
Iraq War, and a founding member of the
new Institute for the Study of American
Militarism (ISAM). Personal website:
www.KelleyVlahos.com
Jim Vrettos
Jim Vrettos has taught sociology,
criminology and criminal justice at John
Jay College -- CUNY for the past 20 years.
He co-authored the critically acclaimed --The Elementary Forms of Statistical
Reason and has written numerous
articles on crime and criminal in
professional and popular journals. He has
been a prominent organizer and speaker
at various occupy events at Riverside
Church and at John Jay on stop and frisk
and activism toward ending mass
incarceration.
Harry Waisbren
Harry Waisbren is co-founder of
SuperVoters.org, which is a progressive
video network as well as a platform to
organize video campaigns. He is also an
organizer with Occupy Wall Street, where
he is a member of the 'Your Inbox:
Occupied' team that manages the OWS
email list.
Quentin Walcott
Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research
Scholar at Yale University. He is the
author of The Modern World-System,
and most recently, European
Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power. He
was the director of the Fernand Braudel
Center (1976-2005), president of the
International Sociological Association
(1994-1998), and chair of the
international Gulben¬kian Commission
for the Restructuring of the Social
Sciences, whose report is Open the Social
Sciences.
Immanuel Wallerstein
John Walsh
John V. Walsh is a Professor of
Microbiology and Physiological Systems.
He is a frequent contributor to
CounterPunch.com, Antiwar.com and
DissidentVoice.org where he writes on
issues of empire, war, civil liberties,
economics and the state of political
activism in the U.S. He is also a founding
member of ComeHomeAmerica
(www.ComeHomeAmerica.us)
Assistant professor in Africana and Latino
Studies and Women's and Gender
Studies, Ph.D. in Philosophy and M.A.
from the University of Nairobi.
Specializes in African philosophies,
feminist philosophies, critical race
theories and critical legal studies, social
contract theory, and discrimination and
morality. Her most recent publication is
"Testing Conversations: Women,
children, goats and land" in Listening to
Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of
African Philosophy
Betty Wambui
Esther Wang
Esther is a Texas-born writer and
organizer based in New York City,
currently living on the opposite side of
the world in Beijing. Most recently, she
was a community organizer with CAAAV
Organizing Asian Communities, working
with Chinese immigrants around issues of
housing justice, displacement, and
accountable development. Her writing
has been published in Left Turn
magazine, Racialicious.com, and the
Austin American-Statesman.
Patricia Ware
McKenzie Wark
Paul Warren
Tylon Washington
Lewis Webb
Jerry Weinstein
Ms. Ware is the Former Executive
Director of PACHA and one of the
architects of PEPFAR.
McKenzie Wark is the author of The
Spectacle of Disintegration, The Beach
Beneath the Street, A Hacker Manifesto,
and Gamer Theory, among other books.
He teaches at the New School for Social
Research and Eugene Lang College in
New York City.
Lewis Webb is Program Coordinator,
Healing and Transformative Justice, at
the American Friends Service Committee,
and the Facilitator of the Campaign to
End the New Jim Crow
Writer-works to create paradigm shifts in
education, social justice, media,
technology, and health. He is as apt at
shaping strategy with grassroots activists
as drafting speeches for policy makers.
Work on the reality series All-American
Muslim led him to co-found BIG, a
national anti-bigotry campaign, & cofounded Occupy Money Cooperative to
help the “underbanked” reach financial
security. Now with Nat. Constitution
Center, promotes civic literacy &
engagement. Past clients: the MIT Press
& GLAAD
Suzi Weissman
Mark Weisbrot
Charles Wells
Suzi Weissman is Professor of Politics at
Saint Mary's College of CA, sits on the
editorial boards of Critique and Against
the Current, and hosts a weekly drive
time radio program (Beneath the
Surface) on KPFK in Los Angeles. She is
the author of Victor Serge: A Political
Biography (Verso, 2013).
Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the
Center for Economic and Policy Research,
in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D.
in economics from the University of
Michigan. He has written numerous
research papers on economic policy,
especially on Latin America and
international economic policy. His
opinion pieces have appeared in the New
York Times, Washington Post, and the
Los Angeles Times. He is also president of
Just Foreign Policy.
Charles Wells is an Assistant Professor of
Contemporary Studies at Wilfrid Laurier
University's Brantford campus. He
received his MA and PhD from York
University’s interdisciplinary Social and
Political Thought program after
completing an accredited Bachelor of
Architecture degree at the University of
Toronto. His research interests include
philosophy, sociology, political science,
Dr. Welty is an assistant professor in the
Department of Political Science of Pace
University. She is the director of the Pace
and Justice Studies program on the NYC
campus. Her research interests include
faith-based approaches to peace building
and development work,
humanitarianism, nonviolence,
reconciliation, transitional justice, and
interfaith dialogue. She is coauthor of
Unity in Diversity: Interfaith Dialogue in
the Middle East.
Emily Welty
Patricia Welty
Lee Wengraf
Lee Wengraf is a regular contributor to
International Socialist Review on African
politics.
Laurie Wen
Laurie Wen joined the health justice
movement through ACT UP, and
currently serves as Executive Director of
Physicians for a National Health ProgramNY Metro. She is a steering committee
member of Healthcare-NOW! Since the
Fall of 2011, she has also been active
with Healthcare for the 99%, an official
working group of Occupy Wall Street.
Nicole Whalen
Seamus Whelan
Nicole Whalen is a recent graduate from
The Graduate Center of the City
University of New York with a Master's in
Philosophy. She has longstanding
interests in feminist theory and activism.
Seamus Whelan is a registered nurse,
active union member, and activist in
Socialist Alternative who is currently
running for Boston City Council.
Debra White Plume
Debra White Plume – (Oglala Lakota
Nation) works with Moccasins on the
Ground (www.oweakuinternational.org)
and the frontline experience of bringing
awareness about the ongoing
devastation to Mother Earth such as the
Keystone XL Pipeline to many Indigenous
nations; and creating a new paradigm for
themselves through creating solidarity
and resistance to the destruction of
Mother Earth and sacred water.
Julia Willebrand, NY Green Party
candidate 2006 and 2010 for NYS
Comptroller has chaired the NYC Sierra
Club Solid Waste Committee and the
Manhattan Citizens' Solid Waste Advisory
Board. She was a Fulbright professor to
Hungary, director of college ESL
programs. As a teacher/ UFT delegate,
her caucus succeeded in withdrawing
support for the Vietnam War. Julia has a
Doctorate in Education from Columbia
University
Julia Willebrand
Ron Whyte
Ron Whyte is an activist and organizer
with Food Not Bombs, Fire Next Time,
and Free the Street. He participated in
Occupy Philadelphia. He is also the
administrator of Deep Green Philly, a
news/audio project inspired by the Deep
Green Resistance movement.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is a long-time
environmental activist and author of
Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to
Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Haymarket
Press, 2010). He is Vice President of the
Union of Adjunct Faculty at Pace
University, where he teaches course in
energy and the environment, physics,
and chemistry. He is also the chair of the
science dept. at Packer Collegiate
Institute. His writings have appeared in Z
Magazine, Green Left Weekly,
ClimateandCapitalism.com,
Counterpunch, The Indypendent,
Dissident Voice, International Socialist
Review, and other outlets.
Jason Williams
Jason M. Williams is an Adjunct Prof at
New Jersey City University in the Criminal
Justice Dept. He is a PhD Candidate in the
Administration of Justice at Texas
Southern University. Jason has engaged
in several panels concerning social
control, critical victimology and race and
crime.
Scott Williams
After 5 years of organizing in Durham,
North Carolina, Williams moved to
Philadelphia where he is active in the
movement to build people's assemblies
to unite struggles against police brutality,
school closings, and racism. A frequent
contributor to the Can't Jail the
Revolution youth blog as well as Workers
World Newspaper, Scott has been active
in developing and leading workshops in
the Workers World Party Marxist School
of Theory and Practice.
http://cantjailtherevolution.org/
Steve Williams
Stan WIlliams
Steve Williams is co-founder and formerExecutive Director of People Organized
to Win Employment Rights (POWER), a
Bay Area community-based membership
organization of low-income and working
class African Americans and Latinas. In
2005, Steve co-authored Towards Land,
Work and Power, a political economy and
strategy primer for organizers. He is
currently conducting an assessment of
social justice movements in the U.S.
through a series of interviews with more
than 150 organizers and activists.
L. Joy Williams
L. Joy Williams is a political strategist and
founder of LJW Community Strategies.
She serves as a strategic adviser to
elected leaders and organizations across
the country and has been featured as a
commentator on BET, Pacifica Radio in
New York and Los Angeles, MSNBC,
Current TV and NY1’s Inside City Hall. She
is also host of TWiB in The Morning! on
the award winning online radio station
TWiB FM which airs live Monday –
Thursday at 9AM eastern.
Gregory Wilpert
Gregory Wilpert is the author of
Changing Venezuela by Taking Power
(Verso, 2007) and the founder of the
website Venezuelanalysis.com. Also, he is
a freelance writer on Latin American
issues and an adjunct professor in
sociology and in political science.
Annie Wilson
Annie Wilson is a legal worker and
advocate for environmental and social
justice with a focus on energy policy.
Sean Wilson
Sean K. Wilson is currently a Masters
student and graduate assistant in the
Criminal Justice Dept at New Jersey City
University. His interests are race and
crime, reentry, and critical criminology.
Diane Wilson
Diane Wilson is an environmental
activist, anti-war activist, and author. In
1989 she was a shrimp boat captain and
she began a campaign against Formosa
Plastics, a chemical company building a
PVC facility near her town, with tactics
including several hunger strikes and
sinking her own boat to draw attention
to the matter. In 1994 she won "zero
discharge" agreements from Formosa
and Alcoa. She is co-founder of
CODEPINK. In 2005 a documentary was
made about her, titled Texas Gold.
Chris Winks
Christopher Winks teaches Comparative
Literature at Queens College/CUNY. He is
the author of Symbolic Cities in
Caribbean Literature (PalgraveMacmillan, 2009) and his articles and
translations from French and Spanish
have appeared in numerous journals and
edited collections.
Jonathan Wilson
Kenneth Wishnia
Sherry Wolf
Jonathan W. Wilson is a PhD candidate at
the Maxwell School at Syracuse
University where he studies articulations
of national identity in early-republican
and antebellum New York City. He is also
regular contributor to The Junto: A Group
Blog on Early American History.
Thomas Adcock, Edgar Allan Poe Awardwinning author and political
commentator. S.J. Rozan, multiple awardwinning author of many works of
politically engaged crime fiction. Kenneth
Wishnia (chair), Edgar Allan Poe Awardnominated author of 23 Shades of Black
and other novels. Steven Wishnia,
journalist for The Indypendent and other
progressive publications. Donald
Nicholson-Smith, translator of Manchette
into English, among many other
accomplishments.
American socialist, Jewish anti-Zionist,
independent journalist and author.
Openly lesbian, she was on the Executive
Committee for the LGBT National
Equality March for full civil rights in
October 2009 and served as Press Officer
for the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in
October 2012. Wolf is a member of the
International Socialist Organization and
an editor of the International Socialist
Review.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Wol
f_(activist)
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of
Economics Emeritus, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst and co-founder
of Democracy at Work, a social
movement project for a new economy.
He is currently a Visiting Professor at the
New School University. Wolff is the
author of many books, including
Democracy at Work: A Cure for
Capitalism and Capitalism Hits the Fan.
He hosts the weekly radio program
Economic Update and appears in The
Guardian and Truthout.org and on shows
such as Bill Moyers and Democracy Now!
Richard D. Wolff
Steven Wishnia
Max F Wolff
Journalist, novelist, and bass player, and
author of When the Drumming Stops, a
novel, and The Cannabis Companion. He
has won two New York City Independent
Press Association awards for his coverage
of housing issues in The Indypendent.
Max Fraad Wolff teaches economics in
the Graduate Program in International
Affairs at The New School University.
Max's work can be read at the Huffington
Post, Truthout and seen at Al Jazeera
English, Russia Today, The BBC and other
outlets.
Brittany Wollman Love
Richard Wolff
Helena Wong
Tim Woodcock
Brittany Wollman Love is a writer and
activist who has campaigned both in the
US and abroad for sex worker's rights. As
a graduate of the London School of
Economics she wrote her dissertation on
middle class call girls in the UK. She is
now based in NYC where she writes a
blog on sex, drugs and consciousness
(www.TheDailyTransmission.com) and
advocates with the Sex Worker's
Outreach Project.
As an Energy Consultant for SolarCity,
Tim Woodcock promotes energy
efficiency, affordable conversion to solar
power, and reduction of carbon
emissions. Previously, as a Program
Director at Water Defense, Tim directed
field canvassing, organized strategy
development and coordinated events
and fundraisers. Tim has amassed a
wealth of knowledge about energy
efficiency policy and solutions,
government programs, incentives and
policies, and energy and environmental
economics.
Owen Worth
Jeannie Wraight
Owen Worth works at the Department of
Politics and Public Administration at the
University of Limerick. He writes in the
areas of hegemony and resistance and
his recent book 'Resistance in the Age of
Austerity' was published by Zed (US
Macmillan/Canada Fernwood) and is an
active member of the Conference of
Socialist Economists (CSE). He is also the
Managing Editor of the CSE journal,
Capital and Class.
Wei Xiaoping is the Director of the
History of Marxist Philosophy at the
Chinese Academy of Social Science. She is
the author of numerous books and
articles, including RETHINKING THE
CHINESE HISTORICAL TRADITION (2009),
ON THE TRACKS OF KARL MARX (2005),
and the article "From Principle to
Context: Marx and Rawls on Distributive
Justice," RETHINKING MARXISM, (2008).
Also she is a researcher on Marxist
theory, translation project works of Marx
and Engels into Chinese language[s]
Wei Xiaoping
Tyrene Wright
Tyrene Wright PhD is a Booker T.
Washington scholar, human rights
activist, poet and founder of African
Women for Africa whose mission is to
provide free health literacy programs to
African women. Wright's work focuses on
the advancement of African women and
the social and political dynamics involved
in harnessing the world's resources,
which are concentrated in Africa. She is
the author of the forthcoming "Booker T.
Washington and Africa."
Laila Yaghi
Laila Yaghi is the mother of Ziyad Yaghi.
Both Laila and Ziyad are American
citizens. Two years after returning from
a trip to Jordan to visit his grandfather,
Ziyad was arrested, charged and
convicted of conspiring to maim and
murder people overseas. Laila graduated
from Campbell University in Raleigh, NC
in Applied Science and a concentration in
Business and Information Systems.
Thanu Yakupitiyage is an activist, media
professional, and immigrant rights
advocate, living in New York City. With a
bachelor's degree from Hampshire
College and a Master's degree from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst, her
research has focused on racial discourse
and media messaging in U.S immigration
narratives and she has tracked the pro
and anti-immigrant movement and their
organizing strategies since 9/11.
Thanu Yakupitiyage
Janene Yazzie – (Dine Nation (Navajo),
Sixth World Consultants (www.sixthworld.com) she works on the front lines
of community development,
empowerment and liberation on the
Navajo Nation in Arizona. The goal of
Sixth World is to nurture communityowned programs, projects, and
methodologies to promote economic,
social and environmental justice that
restore Hozho (balance), or community
and individual prosperity as defined by
Dine epistemology.
Janene Yazzie
Yvonne Yen Liu
Yvonne Yen Liu is the research director
for the Restaurant Opportunities Center
United, a worker center fighting for
better wages and working conditions for
restaurant workers. Formerly, she was
the senior researcher at the Applied
Research Center/ Colorlines.com. Yvonne
serves on the board of the Center for
Story-based Strategy and is a member of
the Research Justice Collective. She is
based in Oakland, CA.
Yasemin Yilmaz
Yasemin Yilmaz is a master's student in
NYU's Department of Politics. Originally
from Istanbul, Turkey, she is now working
on her thesis project on the political
economy of media repression.
Kevin Young
Kevin Young is a doctoral candidate in
Latin American history at Stony Brook
University. His dissertation analyzes
economic nationalism, urban social
movements, and U.S. intervention in midtwentieth-century Bolivia. He has worked
as an organizer in the labor, antiwar, and
housing rights movements and is a
member of the participatory socialist
group the Organization for a Free Society
(OFS).
Melissa Young
Eddie Yuen
Barbara Young
Hamid Zangeneh
Young has produced award winning
documentary films on social justice and
the environment in North and South
America and Europe for over 25 years.
The films are used by activists and
academics, screened in theaters and
community settings, and on PBS. Most
recent films: SHIFT CHANGE, WE ARE
NOT GHOSTS, GOOD FOOD.
Eddi Yuen teaches urban studies at the
San Francisco Art Institute. He is a coauthor of Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic
Politics of Collapse and Rebirth (PM
Press, 2012) and a co-editor of
Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from
a Global Movement.
Barbara Young was a domestic worker for
seventeen years. She is an active
member of Domestic Workers United
(DWU) and the national organizer for the
National Domestic Workers Alliance
(NDWA).
Hamid Zangeneh, Ph.D. Professor of
Economics, Widener University and
editor of Journal of Iranian Research and
Analysis.
Jane Zara
Scientist, lawyer and activist in
Washington, DC. Ph.D. in
biochemistry/molecular biology.
Employed as a patent examiner. Activism
in: civil rights of the homeless in DC;
Board member of WPFW-89.3 FM.
Research: licensing of pharmaceuticals;
legal and political history of oral
contraceptives; the prosecution of
Bradley Manning; equal protection;
science research involved basic and
applied research in the role of
glycosylation (carbohydrates) in various
aspects of cellular regulation.
Stephen Zarlenga
Stephen Zarlenga is the Director of the
American Monetary Institute and author
of The Lost Science of Money. He wrote
the American Monetary Act for monetary
reform, which became the basis for Rep.
Dennis Kucinich's introduction into the
112th Congress of the National
Emergency Employment Act (the NEED
Act, HR2990).
Maung Zarni
Maung Zarni is currently a visiting fellow
(2011-13) with Civil Society and Human
Security Research Unit at the London
School of Economics and Political
Science. As a graduate student at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison, he
co-founded the Free Burma Coalition,
one of the Internet's first and largest
human rights movements, in 1995. He is
a democracy activist and author of
numerous essays on Burma.
Diana Zavala
Diana Zavala is a single mother who came
to this country with her mother from
Honduras when she was young. She is a
grassroots activist and has written for the
AntiCapitalist blog on Dailykos. She is a
member of CISPES and recently visited El
Salvador on a literacy delegation. As a
parent of children in the public schools,
she is also active in the struggle to keep
public schools and is a leading organizer
in Change the Stakes.
Rachel Zazlow
Rachel Zaslow is Executive Director of
Mother Health International, an NGO
that supports high volume midwifery
model of care centers in Uganda and
Haiti. Rachel holds a masters in
Performance Studies and is a candidate
for a PhD in Women’s and Gender
Studies. She teaches courses in Women’s
Health and International Development,
War and Trauma, as well as the
intersections between Narrative and
Medicine.
Lina Zeldovich
Lina Zeldovich graduated from the
Columbia University School of Journalism
with honors in science reporting. She
won a John Horgan science writing
award, and three Writer's Digest Awards.
In addition to crime stories, her work has
appeared in TheUptowner.org,
Huffington Post, BigWorldMagazine.com,
and Manhattan Media publications. She
hopes that one day scientists will find a
way to squeeze more hours in a day,
because there is so much to write about
and so little time.
Almaz Zelleke
Vanessa Zettler
Xinruo Zhang
Almaz Zelleke is a political scientist who
is writing a book about basic income in
the United States. She is a member of the
executive committee of BIEN (the Basic
Income Earth Network) and an Associate
Editor of Basic Income Studies: The
International Journal of Basic Income
Research
Vanessa is a Student recently finished her
Bachelor in Liberal Arts with emphasis in
Sociology and Media at The New School
for Public Engagement. Born and raised
in Brazil, she moved to NY a few years
ago to complete her studies. As an
activist she have participated in the antiimperialist work in her city, São Paulo,
and have participated in Occupy Wall
Street since its early stages and was
invited to go participate in the WSF in
Tunisia.
Xinruo Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate from
Peking University, China. She was a
visiting scholar at NYU this past year,
studying under Bertell Ollman and
interning at the Brecht Forum. Her main
research interests are Marxist
philosophy, Western Marxism, and
dialectics.
Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang is an Assistant Professor of
Sociology at Temple University. Her
research and teaching focus on
globalization, labor and labor
movements, and the political economy of
development in China. Zhang is the
author of From Detroit to Shanghai?
Globalization, Market Reform, and The
Politics of Labor in the Chinese
Automobile Industry (Cambridge,
forthcoming). She is currently
researching capital relocation strategy
and labor politics in the high-tech
electronics industry in China and
Vietnam.
Yulan Zhao
Yulan Zhao received a scholarship from
the Chinese Government in 2008 and
spent 24 months at Freie Universitaet
Berlin to make research on David
Ryazanov and MEGA(1). She received her
PH.D.from Beijing University in Jul. 2011
and is now an Assistant Professor in the
School of Marxism Studies at Remnin
University of China, Beijing.Her first work
From MEGA(1) to MEGA(2) - The History
of Marx/Engels Gesamtausgabe is just
published in Feb. 2013.
Michael Zweig is a professor of
economics and director of the Center for
Study of Working Class Life at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook.
He represents his union, United
University Professions (AFT Local 2190)
on the national steering committee of US
Labor Against the War and is a USLAW
national co-convener. He is the author of
The Working Class Majority (Cornell)
among many other books and articles.
Michael Zweig