Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy.

Visit the website: www.chomsky.info | Read the article: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours

Thomas Palley

Dr. Thomas Palley is an economist living in Washington DC. He holds a B.A. degree from Oxford University, and a M.A. degree in International Relations and Ph.D. in Economics, both from Yale University. He has published in numerous academic journals, and written for The Atlantic Monthly, American Prospect and Nation magazines. Dr. Palley has recently started a project, Economics for Democratic & Open Societies. The goal of the project is to stimulate public discussion about what kinds of economic arrangements and conditions are needed to promote democracy and open society. Dr. Palley was formerly Chief Economist with the US – China Economic and Security Review Commission. Prior to joining the Commission he was Director of the Open Society Institute Globalization Reform Project, and before that he was Assistant Director of Public Policy at the AFL-CIO.

Visit the website: www.thomaspalley.com | Read the article: America’s Exhausted Paradigm: Macroeconomic Causes of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession

Veronica Dujon

Veronica Dujon is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Portland State University. Prof. Dujon teaches courses in environmental sociology, sociology of globalization, and the sociology of women. One of her major research interest areas is the role of women in the global economy and how to build socially sustainable societies. She is a member of the Portland Workers’ Rights Board and the PSU Working Group on Social Sustainability.

Eric Holt-Gimenez

Eric Holt-Giménez is the Executive Director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy a “peoples’ think-and-do tank” dedicated to eliminating the injustices that cause hunger and environmental degradation. Previously, he worked as Latin American Program Manager at the Bank Information Center in Washington, D.C., where he monitored the projects and the policies of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has held positions as a lecturer in International Development and Agroecology at the University of California and Boston University’s Global Ecology program. Throughout the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, Mr. Holt-Giménez lived and worked in Latin America where he helped organize and train farm leaders, in agroecology and was a consultant to non-governmental organizations, government ministries, and foreign aid agencies. In his path-breaking participatory research, “Measuring Farmer’s Agroecological Resistance to Hurricane Mitch,” 2,000 farmers documented the superior sustainability of agroecologically-managed farms to conventional farms in Central America. His first book, “Campesino a Campesino” chronicles nearly thirty years work with Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for sustainable agriculture. In his recent book, “Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice,” co-authored with Raj Patel and Annie Shattuck, Mr. Holt-Giménez proposes equitable, sustainable solutions to the root causes of the global food crisis. Mr. Holt-Giménez holds a Masters of Science in International Agricultural Development and a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies.

Visit the website: www.foodfirst.org | Read the article: From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty Eric Holt-Giménez reads from “Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice”

Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen is the author of Endgame, The Culture of Make Believe, and A Language Older than Words.  He was named one of Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and won the Eric Hoffer Award in 2008. He writes for Orion, Audubon, and The Sun Magazine, among many others.

Visit the website: derrickjensen.org | Read the article: Forget Shorter Showers

David Korten

David Korten wrote this article as part of Sustainable Happiness, the Winter 2009 issue of YES! Magazine. David’s latest book, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (published by Berrett-Koehler, Feb 2009), was inspired by this article, part of the YES! series, Path to a New Economy. David is also the author of the international bestseller When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. He is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, and a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies.

Visit the website: www.davidkorten.org | Read the article: Beyond the Bailout: Agenda for a New Economy

Jo Ann Bowman

Jo Ann Bowman co-hosts the local radio program “Voices from the Edge” on KBOO Community Radio in Portland. She is a former Oregon state legislator, current executive director of Oregon Action, and chair of Portland Community Media. She is a long-time voice for Portland’s under-represented communities and a leader in the struggle against racial and economic injustice.

Read the article: Video Interview with Jo Ann Bowman

Cindy Corrie

Cindy Corrie is the mother of human rights activist and observer Rachel Corrie who on March 16, 2003, was killed by an Israeli military, Caterpillar D9R bulldozer in the Gaza Strip as she tried to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home. Motivated by her daughter’s work and sacrifice, Cindy Corrie has dedicated herself to the pursuit of justice and peace in the Middle East and has visited Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza on numerous occasions. In March, she traveled with a Code Pink delegation from Egypt through Rafah crossing into Gaza to challenge the siege and to see the aftermath of Israeli military attacks in December and January. With her husband Craig, she has this past month led the first Rachel Corrie Foundation Delegation to Gaza. “Rachel wrote of the importance of making commitments to places and initiated this one to Rafah and Gaza. The commitment Rachel made continues,” said Cindy Corrie.

The Corries have continued to seek accountability in the case of their daughter Rachel Corrie and to challenge U.S. foreign policy in Israel/Palestine through efforts with the U.S. Congress, U.S. Departments of State and Justice, the Israeli Government, the Israeli and U.S. court systems, and at the corporate headquarters of Caterpillar, Inc. With her family, Cindy Corrie co-edited Let Me Stand Alone: the Journals of Rachel Corrie, a collection of her daughter’s poetry, essays, letters and journal entries, published by W.W. Norton & Co in 2008. She speaks widely throughout the country and world about her daughter’s story and experience and her own. She is a frequent guest at post-performance discussions of the play My Name is Rachel Corrie, co-edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner. Cindy Corrie resides in Olympia, Washington, with her husband, Craig, where with community supporters they carry on the work of the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, inspired by their daughter. She has received a Human Rights Advocate of the Year Award from Seattle University’s Human Rights Network and a Pillar of Peace Award from the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Friends Service Committee.

Visit the website: www.rachelcorriefoundation.org

Danny Schechter

MediaChannel founder and executive editor, Danny Schechter the “News Dissector” is also a founder and Vice President/Executive Producer of Globalvision, Inc., an award-winning media company formed in 1987.

Mr. Schechter has been a broadcast and print journalist and is an internationally recognized speaker and writer on media issues. His work has been honored with Emmy awards, the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong Award, and honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Mr. Schechter was the news director and principal newscaster for WBCN-FM, an on-air reporter for WGBH, and a news program producer and investigative reporter at CNN and ABC. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is “Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception” (Prometheus).

Read the article: Can We Stop Banksters From Killing Financial Reform? Searching for the Depression—And Finding It! Plunder - Teaser Trailer

John Bellamy Foster

John Bellamy Foster is editor of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. His writings have focused on political economy, environmental sociology, and Marxist theory. He is author of numerous books, most recently (with Fred Magdoff), The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences, The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet, and The Crisis of Capital: Economy, Ecology, and Empire.

Visit the website: www.monthlyreview.org

Barbara Garson

Barbara Garson is the author of two classic books about work: All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work and The Electronic Sweatshop. She’s the author of several plays, including the Obie-winning children’s play “The Dinosaur Door” and the Vietnam-era play “MacBird.” Her latest book, Money Makes the World Go Around, published in 2000, described the hollowed-out global economy that was heading for a crash. Now, she’s embarked on a book about the current Great Recession. In the 1960s Garson was the editor of The Free Speech Movement Newsletter on The UC Berkeley Campus. After the success of her play “MacBird” she escaped to the secluded Pacific North West to work in an anti Vietnam War GI Coffee House Near Fort Lewis Army Base in Tacoma Washington. That’s how she came to settle in Portland Oregon for several lovely years.

Read the article: The Mystery of the Missing Unemployed Man

Martin Sanchez

Martin Sanchez not only represents the government of Venezuela here in the United States, he has participated personally as an activist and politician in many campaigns and programs in Venezuela building an alternative to neoliberalism. He brings firsthand knowledge of both the successes and setbacks those who call themselves “Bolivarian Revolutionaries” have had while attempting to build a democratic and participatory brand of socialism worthy of the twenty-first century.

Laura Carlsen

Laura Carlsen is Director of the Americas Policy Program of the Center for International Policy (CIP) online at www.americaspolicy.org. After finishing a Masters in Latin American Studies from Stanford, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to study the impact of the Mexican economic crisis on women in 1986 and has lived in Mexico City since then. She has published hundreds of articles and book chapters on U.S. policy in Latin America and regional social, economic, and political affairs, and co-edited Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico. She currently edits the Americas Updater/Boletín Américas and speaks frequently in the media and to audiences throughout the Hemisphere on globalization and anti-militarization issues.

Visit the website: www.americaspolicy.org | Read the article: Zelaya’s Return to Tegucigalpa Brings Coup Closer to its End

David Barsamian

David Barsamian is the award winning founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado.The one-hour program is broadcast on public radio stations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries. He is winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Award and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes. He is the author of numerous books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Eqbal Ahmad, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and Edward Said. His latest books are What We Say Goes with Noam Chomsky and Targeting Iran. He lectures all over the world. In December 2007, he gave the Eqbal Ahmad lectures in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. Alternative Radio is heard in Portland on KBOO, Tuesdays 9-10AM.

Lisa Sullivan

Lisa Sullivan directs the Latin American office of the School of the Americas Watch and leads its Partnership America Latina (PAL). Born, raised, and educated in the United States, in the 1970’s Sullivan studied and lived in Mexico and Guatemala, then married and moved to Bolivia to work among the poor as a lay Maryknoll community worker. She raised her three children living and working among the poor in the barrios of Bolivia and Venezuela. She saw first hand the brutality of the military on the poor and those working with them. She also came to find out that many of the military leaders got their training in the U.S. and at the School of the Americas in Georgia. In 2004 she started accompanying Fr. Roy Bourgeois to visit countries that send troops to the SOA, meeting with Presidents, Defense ministers, representatives of leading human rights groups and civil society. They have met with 7 presidents (Chavez, Morales, Arias, Ortega, Correa, Lugo and Zelaya) and other leaders of 17 countries to date. Her purpose is to ask the leaders to consider the value to their countries of continuing to send their military to the Cold War era US Army School of the Americas based in Colombus, Georgia.

Juan Bocanegra

Juan Bocanegra is labor educator for the Unions and Immigrant Workers at the Labor Education and Research Center at Evergeen State College. “Boca” as many people know him has also been involved in numerous social justice and community service activities over the past 35 years. He was a founder of El Centro de la Raza in Seattle, worked with the American Friends Service Committee in 1986 to help organize the first Immigrant Rights Defense Committees in Washington State, and recently provided support to the Hotel Workers Rising organizing efforts of UNITE HERE Local 8. He is also a past (2007-08) member of the King County Charter Review Commission, served as state secretary of the Partido de la Revolución Mexicana (PRD), and has been active with the Survival of American Indian Association and LELO (now known as the Legacy of Equality, Leadership, and Organizing). Boca helped organize the April 10th and May 1st 2006 Immigrant Rights Marches in Seattle and the first historical all Latino March on Washington D.C. in 1996. From 1981 to 2001 he was the executive director of the Downtown Human Services Council in Seattle . Boca is presently a member of the Executive Committee of “El Comite Pro-Reforma Migratoria y Justicia Social and Washington State Jobs with Justice.

Peter Bohmer

Peter Bohmer has been an activist in movements for radical social chance since 1967. These have included anti-racist organizing and solidarity movements with the people of Vietnam, Southern Africa, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Palestine and Central America against U.S. imperialism and intervention. For his activism and teaching, he was targeted by the FBI. He has a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, where he wrote a dissertation on the political economy of racism. He teaches political economy at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and is active in organizing for economic justice and against the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Visit the website: blogs.evergreen.edu/bohmerp | Read the article: Venezuela: Socialism for the 21st Century

Jules Boykoff

Jules Boykoff is the author of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space (co-authored with Kaia Sand) (Palm Press, 2008), Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States (AK Press, 2007), and The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements (Routledge, 2006). He has also penned two poetry collections: Hegemonic Love Potion (Factory School, 2009) and Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books, 2006). His writing has appeared recently in The Nation, The Guardian, New Political Science, The Oregonian, and Wheelhouse Magazine. He teaches politics and writing at Pacific University in Oregon, and lives in Portland where he curates the Tangent Reading Series with Rodney Koeneke and Kaia Sand.

Visit the website: www.pacificu.edu/as/politics/faculty/jules-boykoff.cfm

David Buuck

David Buuck is the author of The Shunt (Palm Press) and several cross-genre booklets. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder of Tripwire, a poetics journal. He lives and teaches in Oakland.

BARGE — The Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics— was started by David Buuck in 2003. BARGE has organized several (de)tours around the Bay Area, investigating regional sites & spaces that are underrepresented & overlooked in more conventional touristic, commercial, & socio-political notions of place & public space. BARGE investigates how vernacular landscapes — from highways & billboards to waterfronts & public utilities, from industrial lots & server farms to military bases & surveillance zones — are constructed & inhabited, while also exploring the ways in which engaged psychogeography can provide new modes of counter-tourism & activism. In addition to walks, tours, location scouting & performance, BARGE has developed guidebooks & slide lectures, some of which have been presented in Vancouver, New York, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Washington, D.C., & elsewhere.

Visit the website: davidbuuck.com/barge/bti

CAConrad

CA Conrad’s workshops on (Soma)tics involve poetry engaged with the city of Philadelphia in a way which brings the body of the city to the body of the participants, seeing the socio/economic/spiritual interconnectedness and interdependence with one another. His ten-week workshop series at St. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York City were geared toward regular discussions about making real change in the world through creative outlets. Frank Sherlock & CA Conrad are co-founders of PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension), an organization formed in 2002 that engages poetry in Philadelphia’s public space. They just returned from performing Class/Warfare at Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, and they collaborate on “The City Real & Imagined,” a documentary they describe as “a working of public space in a time of post-9/11 hegemonic decline. Preparations for the death of Baghdad’s children had begun, and the displacement of the working poor in Philadelphia was already underway.”

Allison Cobb

Allison Cobb is the author of the poetry collection Born 2 (Chax Press), which addresses the history of Los Alamos, New Mexico, her birthplace and that of the first atomic bombs. Her second collection, Green-Wood (forthcoming in 2010 from Factory School Books), examines the history of New York City’s famous nineteenth century garden cemetery. She worked for more than a decade for a national environmental nonprofit, and her writing confronts issues of landscape, ecology, and politics.

Alicia Cohen

Alicia Cohen is a poet, artist, and literary critic from the West Coast. Her work is informed by the expanse of the Pacific Ocean which she grew up looking at from her bedroom window and whose tide pools were her earliest teachers. In her adult life she has lived longest in Portland, Oregon where, surrounded by oceans of trees and several volcanoes, she lives, teaches, and writes. Debts and Obligations from O Books is her second collection of poems; her first, Bear, was published by Handwritten Press in 2000. She has also shown work in the visual and performance arts, including a gallery installation and “opera” entitled Northwest Inhabitation Log. She earned her Ph.D. in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo and has taught at Reed College and Portland State University.

Peter Dorman

Peter Dorman teaches economics and political economy at Evergreen State College in Olympia and has served as a consultant for UN and federal agencies as well as nonprofit and activist groups. His writings include books and articles on labor and environmental issues in addition to analyses of the global economy. He began warning of an impending financial crisis a few years before the meltdown, and has since spoken and written widely on the causes and potential solutions. On the climate front, Peter has written on regional and national policy, particularly on the political economy of cap-and-trade legislation.

Barbara Dudley

Barbara Dudley started her legal career defending GIs in court martials in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. She then worked as an attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance and with the Agricultural Labor Relations Board. In the 1980s, she became the President and Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild, and then Director of the Veatch Program, a progressive foundation. In 1992, Barbara became the Executive Director of Greenpeace USA and then in 1998 was appointed Assistant Director for Strategic Campaigns of the national AFL-CIO. She now lives in Portland, is co-chair of the Oregon Working Families Party and a partner in Bethel Heights Vineyard which her family started in 1978.

Barbara has been an adjunct assistant professor at Portland State University’s Hatfield School of Government since 2000. She has taught courses in Political Science, Sociology and Public Administration, including courses on the World Trade Organization, History and Foundations of the Nonprofit Sector, Advocacy and Political Participation, Globalization of Civil Society, and Social Sustainability.

Brian Frank

Brian Frank has been active in environmental and social justice causes for the past decade and is a founding member of Rising Tide North America. Before Rising Tide he spent 6 months in New Orleans doing volunteer relief work where he got a view of the damage climate change can do, and how poor people and people of color are affected by so-called “natural” disasters. He works for a feminist media organization, while volunteering a lot with Rising Tide. Brian believes that only by merging environmental and social justice movements into a common resistance movement against corporate power and resource colonialism can society be turned away from its catastrophic course.

Visit the website: www.risingtidenorthamerica.org

Zoltan Grossman

Zoltan Grossman is a member of the faculty in Geography and Native American Studies at The Evergreen State College,, and a senior research associate at the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute in Olympia, WA. He was co-founder of the Midwest Treaty Network, which has helped organize a rural coalition of Native Americans, grassroots environmentalists, and white sportsmen to protect Wisconsin’s fishery from the threat of metallic sulfide mining.

Robin Hahnel

Robin Hahnel is a radical economist and political activist. He is Professor Emeritus at American University in Washington, D.C. where he taught in the Department of Economics from 1976 – 2008. He has also taught at the University of Maryland at College Park, the Catholic University in Lima, Peru, and most recently at Lewis and Clark College and Portland State University in Portland Oregon where he now resides. He has published ten books, most recently Economic Justice and Democracy (Routledge, 2005), as well as hundreds of articles in both academic and popular journals. He is best known as co-creator, along with Michael Albert, of an alternative economic system known as participatory economics, or parecon for short.

Visit the website: www.robinhahnel.org | Read the article: How a Perfect Economic Storm Became Possible

Marty Hart-Landsberg

Marty Hart-Landsberg teaches economics and directs the political economy program at Lewis and Clark College and is also a member of the Portland Workers’ Rights Board. He has published and edited a number of books, most recently Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy (2007), as well as numerous articles on issues related to social change and class struggle, globalization, and third world development in journals such as Monthly Review, Critical Asian Studies, Review of Radical Political Economics, Against the Current, and Historical Materialism.

Visit the website: legacy.lclark.edu/~marty | Read the article: Neoliberalism: Myths and Reality

Leah Henry-Tanner

Leah Henry-Tanner is Coordinator of the Washington State Bedtime Basics for Babies state-wide crib distribution program and research study, Co-Coordinator of the Native American Women’s Dialogue on Infant Mortality collective, and NW Coordinator of the Healthy Native Babies national SIDS risk reduction effort in Indian Country. She has extensive experience on issues ranging from violence against women of color, infant mortality prevention in Indian Country, to tribal sovereignty. She is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe and a graduate of Western States Center’s WILD (Western Institute for Leadership and Development) program.

Mary King

Mary King is a labor economist on the faculty at Portland State University. Her teaching and research focus particularly on the economic roles—paid, poorly paid and unpaid– of women and people of color in the national and global economy. She’s active locally with the Portland Workers’ Rights Board, Family Forward Oregon and the PSU Working Group on Social Sustainability.

Visit the website: www.pdx.edu/econ/mary-c-king | Read the article: The Economic Crisis and a Sustainable New Deal

Gar Lipow

Gar Lipow, a long time environmental activist and journalist with a strong technical background has spent years immersed in the subject of efficiency and renewable energy. He has written extensively on the economics of solving the global warming, and why pricing externalities (though important) cannot be the main driver of such solutions. He has been published in Grist, a leading on-line environmental magazine in the US, Z Magazine, and in a number of other small periodicals. His on-line reference book compiling information on technology available today, “No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming”, is available at http://www.nohairshirts.com.

Andrea Murray

Andrea Murray has been producing and hosting public radio programming for over 15 years. She began working in radio as host of a community radio public affairs program, then began announcing classical music in St. Louis. She also worked in the newsroom, where she specialized in cultural reporting. Prior to joining the All Classical staff, she spent 6 years as the arts reporter for WETA in Washington, where she produced and hosted a cultural magazine called “The Program.” She’s also done freelance work for several NPR magazine programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Studio 360.

Aimee Ohlin

Aimee Olin became an activist in high school in 1992 where her high school environmental studies teacher, Otter Brown, invited her and 4 other students to be members of the “stream team” where they studied a mile of the polluted Runnins River in Rhode Island; the initiative resulted in 2 awards and $40 million to clean up the polluted mile. Aimee became a canvasser with Clean Water Action in 1998 where she continued to work on local environmental issues. After taking a leave of absence from Brown University, Aimee was one of the first field organizers hired onto the newly opened Providence ACORN chapter, where she became the Head Organizer in 2003 until 2006. “My favorite campaign involved thousands of students, parents and teachers working together to fight program cuts”. In 2006 Rhode Island ACORN members successfully passed anti-predatory lending legislation- a 3 year fight. Aimee is now the Head Organizer of Oregon ACORN whose members just played a crucial role in securing the passage of SB 628 ” The Oregon Home Foreclosure Prevention Act” which gives families the right to meet with their lender directly with a housing advocate to negotiate a loan modification in the hopes to eliminate all unnecessary foreclosures.

Visit the website: acorn.org/?14723 | Read the article: Improving Outcomes in the Obama Administration’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP)

Lauren C. Regan

Lauren Regan is a public interest attorney specializing in civil rights, criminal defense, and environmental law. She is the founder and executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center, a nonprofit organization that strives to protect and educate the public as to their civil liberties and constitutional rights. She has successfully represented hundreds of political activists in both civil and criminal litigation. The Civil Liberties Defense Center assists communities in curtailing government encroachment upon their right to protest, defends activists in court, assists with political prisoner issues, and monitors current governmental attempts to restrict civil liberties and dissent. The CLDC also strives to educate the public, and particularly communities of color or other higher risk communities, by conducting “know your rights” trainings throughout the country. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is often found hiking Oregon’s forests and beaches with her constant canine companion, Nakaia the couch wolf.

Visit the website: www.cldc.org

Leopoldo Rodriguez

Leopoldo Rodriguez has published widely on the failures of neoliberalism in Latin America and alternative development strategies. As a native Argentine he is familiar with the neoliberal policies that led to the Argentine economic crisis of 2001, the popular response that followed in the form of factory takeovers, unemployment councils, and neighborhood assemblies which proved all too transient, and the mixed policy history of the Kirchner governments.

Craig Rosebraugh

A political activist since the early 1990s when he opposed the Gulf War, Craig Rosebraugh is best known for his role as the national spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front. From 1997 through 2001, Craig was the public face of the Earth Liberation Front, representing the group to the international news media and public. He was the co-founder of the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office (NAELFPO) in 2000. Despite being threatened with imprisonment, two raids by federal authorities on his homes and businesses, eight federal grand jury investigations, a forced appearance in front of U.S. Congress, FBI and ATF questioning, and hundreds of death threats, he did not reveal the identities of members of the movements. Craig is the author of Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front, The Logic of Political Violence: Lessons in Reform and Revolution and the contributing editor of This Country Must Change: Essays on the Necessity of Revolution in the USA. Craig holds both a B.A. and M.A. in political science and is currently working toward a law degree from Arizona State University.

Visit the website: www.craigrosebraugh.com

Therese Saliba

Therese Saliba is faculty of Third World feminist studies at The Evergreen State College, Washington, and former Fulbright scholar in Palestine (1995-96).  She is co-editor of two collections, Gender, Politics, and Islam (Univ. Chicago Press, 2002) and Intersections:  Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women’s Novels (Syracuse UP, 2002).  Her essays on Arab and Palestinian feminisms, postcolonial literature, media representations, and Arab American experience have appeared in numerous journals and collections.  She is also former associate editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and producer, with Tom Wright, of Checkpoint:  The Palestinians after Oslo(1997). Saliba is currently associate editor of the online Brill Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, and a board member of The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice.

Kaia Sand

Kaia Sand currently works in the intersections of poetry, journalism and performance. She is the author of a poetry collection, interval (Edge Books 2004), and co-author with Jules Boykoff of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (Palm Press 2008). Her book, Remember to Wave, forthcoming with Tinfish Press, investigates political geography in Portland, Oregon. Sand has created several chapbooks through the Dusie Kollektiv, which also published her wee book, lotto. Her poems comprise the text of two books in Jim Dine’s Hot Dreams series (Steidl Editions 2008), as well as the text for a choral composition by Matthew Sargent, Riverbed Echo. She is working on a series of collages from the NAFTA documents and a multi-media project on foreclosures, The Happy Valley Project.

Kristen A. Sheeran

Kristen Sheeran is the director of Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3), a nationwide network of economists developing new arguments for environmental protection with a social justice focus. Prior to her role with E3 Network, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Maryland’s public honors college. Her research is primarily focused on the tension between equity and efficiency in climate change mitigation. She has published articles in Environmental and Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Climatic Change, Journal of Economic Issues, Eastern Economic Journal, Seattle Journal for Social Justice, and Berkeley La Raza Law Journal. Her book, Saving Kyoto, with Graciela Chichilnisky, will be published later this year by New Holland Press. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in economics and political science from Drew University, and received her Ph.D. in economics from American University.

Read the article: Beyond Kyoto: Equity and Efficiency Reconsidered

Frank Sherlock

Frank Sherlock has coordinated anti-violence workshops with at-risk youth and ex-offenders for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. The series of six-week workshops presented possibilities of poetry as a path to restorative justice and community healing.Frank Sherlock & CA Conrad are co-founders of PACE (Poet Activist Community Extension), an organization formed in 2002 that engages poetry in Philadelphia’s public space. They just returned from performing Class/Warfare at Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, and they collaborate on “The City Real & Imagined,” a documentary they describe as “a working of public space in a time of post-9/11 hegemonic decline. Preparations for the death of Baghdad’s children had begun, and the displacement of the working poor in Philadelphia was already underway.”

Jonathan Skinner

Jonathan Skinner’s poetry collections include With Naked Foot (Little Scratch Pad Editions, 2009) and Political Cactus Poems (Palm Press, 2005). Skinner founded and edits the journal ecopoetics (vols. 1-7, 2001-2009), which features creative-critical intersections between writing and ecology. His essays on the poets Ronald Johnson and Lorine Niedecker appeared in 2008 in volumes published by the National Poetry Foundation and by University of Iowa Press, respectively. His current project is a hybrid text on the poetics of urban open space, written in and on the major Olmsted parks. Skinner teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at Bates College, in Central Maine, where he makes his home.

Chuck Tanner

Chuck Tanner is a researcher for the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. He has conducted research on white nationalist and anti-Indian movements and worked with community organizations around the region to counter racist organizing. He has a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Washington and is presently a student in the Environmental Sciences program at Western Washington University’s Huxley College.

Aaron Vidaver

Aaron Vidaver is a writer and editor living on unceded Coast Salish territories in Vancouver (BC). He was a participant-observer in the direct action housing occupation known as The Woodwards Squat (2002) and subsequently edited Woodsquat, a collection of interviews and writing by squatters and supporters with photographs and primary materials pertaining to the action. He edits Documents in Poetics, Working Papers in Critical Practice and The Rain Review of Books and his writing has appeared in Parser, Anarcho-Modernism, Studies in Practical Negation, XCP, Counter-Interpellation and in two collaborative sequences, Field Guide To Feral Ornaments (with Roger Farr and Steven Ward) and Get Me Off This / S I T U A T I O N (with David Fujino). He serves on the board of the Pacific Institute for Language and Literacy Studies.

Visit the website: www.rainreview.net | Read the article: West Coast Line