Socialism 2010
You may want an update of our political mad cow disease. If so, look through the speakers list of the Socialism 2010 conference.
Mexico and Venezuela are represented. My once-over found one professor, Robert Brenner. He writes popular books on the evolution of the economy that socialists seem to like.
I finally found, also, in my quick review, the source of virulent, daily anti-Zionist attacks.
It is good that so many writers, journalists, film makers, activists, teachers, and professional victims know how to improve our country. I didn't notice anyone there who ever ran a business.
The conference comes to us thanks to:
Sponsored by: Center for Economic Research and Social Change, publisher of International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books.
Cosponsored by: The International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker, Obrero Socialista, and KPFA.
For more information, email info@socialismconference.org or call (773) 583-7884.
Of note, Chicago is the hub of socialists: CERSC, Haymarket Books, International Socialist Organization, SocialistWorker.org, Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, and Barak Obama with his buddies, though some like Bill Ayers might balk at being called just a socialist.
Oh, one more item. The publisher named above is "Haymarket." There is a place called Haymarket Square in Chicago where an important "riot" happened. I will slip in the Wiki on it, below. It is important to note this event; it had many offspring. The "workers" of those days were poorly paid and badly treated. We cannot use today's experience to understand the hard times of 100 years ago. If I were a laborer in 1880, I would have been on the lines.
Not that I think of it, my great grandfather was a union lawyer in those days and wound up in jail. He lost his estate (Cunningham Park in NYC) and the family was broken up. My grandfather learned to be steamfitter while working in his public schools. Like I say, times are different.
The nation was being divided up along industrial age lines: workers and business. In the U.S., there were violent outbreaks, but, it appears to me, the fear of socialism and a strong sense of religion resulted in a grudgingly-made change in the business-employee relationship. In general, a real generalization, companies know they are better off with a happy work force and we are moving away from hard labor. Nations where there was little or no change suffered greatly as the struggle did not end.
You may want to visit the Pullman Strike... a disturbance that took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square[3] in Chicago, and began as a rally in support of striking workers. An unknown person threw a bomb at policeas they dispersed the public meeting. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of eight police officers and an unknown number of civilians.[4][5] In the internationally publicized legal proceedings that followed, eight anarchists were tried for murder. Four were put to death, and one committed suicide in prison.The Haymarket affair is generally considered to have been an important influence on the origin of international May Day observances for workers.[6][7] In popular literature, this event inspired the caricature of "a bomb-throwing anarchist." The causes of the incident are still controversial, although deeply polarized attitudes separating business and working class people in late 19th century Chicago are generally acknowledged as having precipitated the tragedy and its aftermath.
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Note: You are viewing the speakers list for last year's conference, Socialism 2009. We will have a listing of speakers for Socialism 2010 up shortly.
John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s. His first film, The Quiet Mutiny, is credited with disclosing to a worldwide audience the internal disintegration of the US army in Vietnam.
Dave Zirin's regular sports commentary can be found in the print and online on the Nation, SLAM magazine, the Progressive, Los Angeles Times and on his Web site, www.edgeofsports.com. He has been a frequent guest on Air America's On the Real with Chuck D and Gia'na Garel, and Democracy Now!, and hosts his own weekly XM show, Edge of Sports Radio. His other books include Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports and A People's History of Sports in the United States. 
Amy Goodman is an investigative journalist and award-winning host of Pacifica radio's Democracy Now! and co-author of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. Her forthcoming book is titled Breaking the Sound Barrier. 
Clarence Thomas is a member Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and a long-time labor and community activist.
Sherry Wolf has been a leading socialist activist for many years and is a member of the editorial board of the International Socialist Review. She has written and spoken widely on topics from the war in Iraq to the occupation of Palestine, as well as about the fight for gay marriage and gender equality. She is the author of the forthcoming book Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation. 
Barbara Becnel was an advocate for anti-gang and anti-racist activist Stan Tookie Williams, who was murdered by the state of California and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. Barbara co-produced Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story. Since Tookie's murder, Barbara has continued to fight to prove his innocence and to expose the criminal injustice system for its true colors. Watch Barbara decry the New Year's Day murder of Oscar Grant III in Oakland, CA, by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle.
Anuradha Mittal, a native of India, is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights and agriculture issues. After working as the codirector of Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy, she established the Oakland Institute, a progressive policy think tank, in 2004.
Anuradha is the author and editor of numerous articles and books including America Needs Human Rights; The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance; Sahel: A Prisoner of Starvation; and most recently of Food And Energy Sovereignty: Brazilian Grassroots Position on Agroenergy.
Robert Brenner is a professor of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. He is the author of The Boom and the Bubble: The U.S. in the World Economy, which foresaw many of the structural problems in the U.S. economy that led to today's economic crisis. He is also author of the forthcoming The Economics of Global Turbulence. 
Nora Barrows-Friedman is senior producer and co-host of Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio. She reports regularly from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip for Flashpoints and as a correspondent for Inter Press Service. She is also a contributor to Electronic Intifada.
Patrick Bond is a political economist based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban, where he directs the Centre for Civil Society. He is active with social movements in South Africa, Zimbabwe and internationally. Recent books are Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society (co-edited with Rehana Dada and Graham Erion for Rozenberg Publishers and UKZN Press, 2008, 2007); The Accumulation of Capital in Southern Africa (co-edited with Horman Chitonge and Arndt Hopfmann for CCS and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2007); Looting Africa (Zed Books and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006); Talk Left, Walk Right (UKZN Press, 2006, 2004).
Todd Chretien is a longtime activist and socialist in the International Socialist Organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a regular contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. He was an organizer in the national presidential campaigns of Ralph Nader in 2000 and of Nader and Peter Camejo in 2004. He was the Green Party's candidate for U.S. senate from California in 2006.
Paul D'Amato is managing editor of theInternational Socialist Review and author of The Meaning of Marxism, an introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx and the tradition he founded.
Sarah Knopp is a high school teacher and rank-and-file activist in the United Teachers Los Angeles. She is involved in recent organizing against California's education cuts and attacks on teachers and students in California. She is a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review, including her recent article, Charter schools and the attack on public education.
Lance Selfa is the author of The Democrats: A Critical History (Haymarket, 2008). He is member of the editorial board of International Socialist Review, a regular columnist for Socialist Worker and co-editor of Obrero Socialista, Socialist Worker newspaper's Spanish-language counterpart. He is editor of The Struggle for Palestine (Haymarket, 2002) a collection of essays by leading solidarity activists.
Nativo López is president of the Mexican American Political Association and the national director of theHermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana. López was spokesperson for the Great American Boycott 2006—a national day of action for immigrant rights on May 1, 2006. He is from Los Angeles.
Mike Davis is a writer, historian and socialist activist whose books include In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire (Haymarket Books, 2008), Budda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (Verso, 2007), and Planet of Slums(Verso, 2006). Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California-Irvine and lives in San Diego.
Derrel Myers is a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a member of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights and a long-time civil rights and antiwar activist. He lost his only son Jo Jo in 1996 when a still unknown assailant shot him. Derrel has committed his life to speaking out, not only against the death penalty, but also against an unequal society that breeds violence.
Barry Sheppard is a veteran socialist and antiwar activist and the author of The Party: A Political Memoir, the Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1988.
Charles-André Udry is a veteran socialist and editor of La Brèche, published in Switzerland, and of Page Deux books. His commentaries can be read at alencontre.org.
Dahr Jamail is one of the few journalists who have had the courage to visit Iraq as an unembedded reporter in order to discern the real truth of the occupation. His writing has appeared in many publications, including Inter Press Service,TomDispatch, and Socialist Worker. Notably, he reported on the siege of Fallujah in April 2004 from the city while it was being attacked by U.S. forces.
Dahr is the author of a book on the occupation, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.
Sharon Smith is the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the U.S., and Women and Socialism. She is a columnist forSocialist Worker and is a frequent contributor to theInternational Socialist Review and CounterPunch. 
Cindy Sheehan is an outspoken antiwar activist. She founded Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization of family members who have had relatives die as a result of war. She has written numerous newspaper columns and magazine articles and three books: Not One More Mother's Child, Dear President Bush and Peace Mom.
Christian Parenti is a correspondent for the Nation and is author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. He received a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics in 2000. His two previous books are The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror, andLockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. He has been a Soros Senior Justice fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.
Watch Christian discuss the occupation of Afghanistan.
Ahmed Shawki is editor of the International Socialist Review and the author of Black Liberation and Socialism, an analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States.
Justin Akers Chacón is co-author, with Mike Davis, of No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S-Mexico Border, which Haymarket Books recently published in Spanish. He is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review on issues of immigration and is a leading activist in San Diego's immigrant rights movement.
Rose Aguilar is a journalist and radio host in San Francisco. She hosts Your Call, a daily, live call-in radio show on NPR-affiliates KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco and KUSP 88.9 FM in Santa Cruz, featuring conversations about everything from the occupation of Iraq and poverty to the environment and the arts. Aguilar is the author of the book Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland about a six-month road trip she took to interview people in so-called "red states."
Anthony Arnove is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and co-editor with Howard Zinn ofVoices of a People's History of the United States, a companion volume to Zinn's classic book. He is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and on the board of Haymarket Books.
Dennis Brutus has been a lifelong fighter against racism and injustice. He taught for 14 years in apartheid South Africa and took part in many anti-apartheid campaigns before being exiled by the government (Dennis visited South Africa in 1993, after the fall of apartheid). Despite being forced out of the country, Dennis remained active in the 1970's and 80's in a number of anti-apartheid organizations, particularly SANROC (South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee), which led the movement to have South Africa excluded from the Olympic Games because of its discriminatory sports policies. He is a prolific author of poetry. Poetry and Protest is a collection of Dennis' writings.
Watch Dennis discuss the problems of sweatshop labor in South Africa and elsewhere.
Dr. Jess Ghannam, the son of Palestinians forced to flee their homes when Israel was established in 1948, is a member of the international executive committee of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition and the Free Palestine Alliance. A clinical professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and adjunct professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, he has also helped establish medical clinics across the Gaza Strip. 
Phil Gasper is the editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document and a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in California. He is a on the editorial board of International Socialist Review and writes its "Critical Thinking" column. Phil is also a contributor to Socialist Worker, CounterPunch, ZNet and MRZine.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and a frequent contributor on the subject of race and class in America. Her writing has also appeared onCounterPunch, Socialist Worker. She is a doctoral student in African American Studies at Northwestern University.
Lee Sustar is the labor editor for Socialist Workerand frequently writes on the unfolding economic crisis. He is a regular contributor to International Socialist Review, CounterPunch and ZNet. He is also co-editor of Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader. Sustar is a member of the National Writers Union in Chicago.
Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of the muckraking Web site and newsletter CounterPunch and the author of numerous books, including Been Brown So Long it Looked Green to Me: The Politics of Nature, Grand Theft Pentagon: Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror and Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland, co-written with Joshua Frank. A veteran of the environmental struggle, St. Clair's latest book is Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth.
Veteran socialist and activist Joel Geier was a founding member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964. Currently, he is associate editor of International Socialist Review and author of numerous articles on the world economic crisis, including Capitalism's worst crisis since the 1930s as well as the movement against the Vietnam war and the 1960s.
Brian Jones is a teacher, actor and activist in New York City. His commentary and writing have been featured on GRITtv, SleptOn.com, Socialist Workerand the International Socialist Review. Jones has also lent his voice to several audiobooks, including Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's Voices of a People's History of the United States, and Zinn's one-man play Marx in Soho (forthcoming from Haymarket Books).
Alan Maass is editor of Socialist Workernewspaper and the daily Web siteSocialistWorker.org. He is the author of The Case for Socialism (Haymarket Books, 2004), an introduction to socialism and the socialist tradition.
David Bacon, a writer and photographer based in California, is the author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon). Find out about his writings and photography.
Martín Sánchez is the consul general of Venezuela in San Francisco.
John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s. His first film, The Quiet Mutiny, is credited with disclosing to a worldwide audience the internal disintegration of the US army in Vietnam.Thirty-six years and some 60 documentaries later, he is still making challenging films for ITV. His films have won Academy Awards in Britain and the United States. He has been a freelance writer since 1986, with his work appearing in newspapers such as the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The South China Morning Post, the Mail & Guardian (South Africa), the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age (Australia), Aftonbladet (Sweden), Morgenbladet (Norway) and Il Manifesto (Italy) and Socialist Worker (US).
John returned to write for the Mirror for eighteen months during the build-up to the invasion of Iraq. Since 1991, he has written a twice-monthly column for the New Statesman. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigous Sophie Prize for "30 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights."
Dave Zirin's regular sports commentary can be found in the print and online on the Nation, SLAM magazine, the Progressive, Los Angeles Times and on his Web site, www.edgeofsports.com. He has been a frequent guest on Air America's On the Real with Chuck D and Gia'na Garel, and Democracy Now!, and hosts his own weekly XM show, Edge of Sports Radio. His other books include Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports and A People's History of Sports in the United States. Amy Goodman is an investigative journalist and award-winning host of Pacifica radio's Democracy Now! and co-author of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. Her forthcoming book is titled Breaking the Sound Barrier. Clarence Thomas is a member Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and a long-time labor and community activist.Sherry Wolf has been a leading socialist activist for many years and is a member of the editorial board of the International Socialist Review. She has written and spoken widely on topics from the war in Iraq to the occupation of Palestine, as well as about the fight for gay marriage and gender equality. She is the author of the forthcoming book Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation. Barbara Becnel was an advocate for anti-gang and anti-racist activist Stan Tookie Williams, who was murdered by the state of California and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. Barbara co-produced Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story. Since Tookie's murder, Barbara has continued to fight to prove his innocence and to expose the criminal injustice system for its true colors. Watch Barbara decry the New Year's Day murder of Oscar Grant III in Oakland, CA, by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle.Anuradha Mittal, a native of India, is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights and agriculture issues. After working as the codirector of Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy, she established the Oakland Institute, a progressive policy think tank, in 2004.Anuradha is the author and editor of numerous articles and books including America Needs Human Rights; The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance; Sahel: A Prisoner of Starvation; and most recently of Food And Energy Sovereignty: Brazilian Grassroots Position on Agroenergy.
Robert Brenner is a professor of history and director of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History at UCLA. He is the author of The Boom and the Bubble: The U.S. in the World Economy, which foresaw many of the structural problems in the U.S. economy that led to today's economic crisis. He is also author of the forthcoming The Economics of Global Turbulence. Nora Barrows-Friedman is senior producer and co-host of Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio. She reports regularly from the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip for Flashpoints and as a correspondent for Inter Press Service. She is also a contributor to Electronic Intifada.Patrick Bond is a political economist based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban, where he directs the Centre for Civil Society. He is active with social movements in South Africa, Zimbabwe and internationally. Recent books are Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society (co-edited with Rehana Dada and Graham Erion for Rozenberg Publishers and UKZN Press, 2008, 2007); The Accumulation of Capital in Southern Africa (co-edited with Horman Chitonge and Arndt Hopfmann for CCS and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2007); Looting Africa (Zed Books and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006); Talk Left, Walk Right (UKZN Press, 2006, 2004).Todd Chretien is a longtime activist and socialist in the International Socialist Organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a regular contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review. He was an organizer in the national presidential campaigns of Ralph Nader in 2000 and of Nader and Peter Camejo in 2004. He was the Green Party's candidate for U.S. senate from California in 2006.Mick Armstrong is a member of the National Executive ofSocialist Alternative (Australia). He has been active in numerous campaigns, including the movement against the war in Iraq and the Palestine solidarity campaign. He is the author of a number of books including a history of the Australian student movement and a Marxist history of the Labor Party.
Paul D'Amato is managing editor of theInternational Socialist Review and author of The Meaning of Marxism, an introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx and the tradition he founded.Sarah Knopp is a high school teacher and rank-and-file activist in the United Teachers Los Angeles. She is involved in recent organizing against California's education cuts and attacks on teachers and students in California. She is a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review, including her recent article, Charter schools and the attack on public education.Lance Selfa is the author of The Democrats: A Critical History (Haymarket, 2008). He is member of the editorial board of International Socialist Review, a regular columnist for Socialist Worker and co-editor of Obrero Socialista, Socialist Worker newspaper's Spanish-language counterpart. He is editor of The Struggle for Palestine (Haymarket, 2002) a collection of essays by leading solidarity activists.Nativo López is president of the Mexican American Political Association and the national director of theHermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana. López was spokesperson for the Great American Boycott 2006—a national day of action for immigrant rights on May 1, 2006. He is from Los Angeles.Mike Davis is a writer, historian and socialist activist whose books include In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire (Haymarket Books, 2008), Budda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (Verso, 2007), and Planet of Slums(Verso, 2006). Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California-Irvine and lives in San Diego.Derrel Myers is a board member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, a member of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights and a long-time civil rights and antiwar activist. He lost his only son Jo Jo in 1996 when a still unknown assailant shot him. Derrel has committed his life to speaking out, not only against the death penalty, but also against an unequal society that breeds violence.Barry Sheppard is a veteran socialist and antiwar activist and the author of The Party: A Political Memoir, the Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1988.Charles-André Udry is a veteran socialist and editor of La Brèche, published in Switzerland, and of Page Deux books. His commentaries can be read at alencontre.org.Dahr Jamail is one of the few journalists who have had the courage to visit Iraq as an unembedded reporter in order to discern the real truth of the occupation. His writing has appeared in many publications, including Inter Press Service,TomDispatch, and Socialist Worker. Notably, he reported on the siege of Fallujah in April 2004 from the city while it was being attacked by U.S. forces.Dahr is the author of a book on the occupation, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.
Sharon Smith is the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working Class Radicalism in the U.S., and Women and Socialism. She is a columnist forSocialist Worker and is a frequent contributor to theInternational Socialist Review and CounterPunch. Cindy Sheehan is an outspoken antiwar activist. She founded Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization of family members who have had relatives die as a result of war. She has written numerous newspaper columns and magazine articles and three books: Not One More Mother's Child, Dear President Bush and Peace Mom.Christian Parenti is a correspondent for the Nation and is author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. He received a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics in 2000. His two previous books are The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror, andLockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. He has been a Soros Senior Justice fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.Watch Christian discuss the occupation of Afghanistan.
Ahmed Shawki is editor of the International Socialist Review and the author of Black Liberation and Socialism, an analysis of historic movements against racism in the United States.Justin Akers Chacón is co-author, with Mike Davis, of No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S-Mexico Border, which Haymarket Books recently published in Spanish. He is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review on issues of immigration and is a leading activist in San Diego's immigrant rights movement.Rose Aguilar is a journalist and radio host in San Francisco. She hosts Your Call, a daily, live call-in radio show on NPR-affiliates KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco and KUSP 88.9 FM in Santa Cruz, featuring conversations about everything from the occupation of Iraq and poverty to the environment and the arts. Aguilar is the author of the book Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland about a six-month road trip she took to interview people in so-called "red states."Anthony Arnove is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and co-editor with Howard Zinn ofVoices of a People's History of the United States, a companion volume to Zinn's classic book. He is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and on the board of Haymarket Books.Dennis Brutus has been a lifelong fighter against racism and injustice. He taught for 14 years in apartheid South Africa and took part in many anti-apartheid campaigns before being exiled by the government (Dennis visited South Africa in 1993, after the fall of apartheid). Despite being forced out of the country, Dennis remained active in the 1970's and 80's in a number of anti-apartheid organizations, particularly SANROC (South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee), which led the movement to have South Africa excluded from the Olympic Games because of its discriminatory sports policies. He is a prolific author of poetry. Poetry and Protest is a collection of Dennis' writings.Watch Dennis discuss the problems of sweatshop labor in South Africa and elsewhere.
Dr. Jess Ghannam, the son of Palestinians forced to flee their homes when Israel was established in 1948, is a member of the international executive committee of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition and the Free Palestine Alliance. A clinical professor of Psychiatry and Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and adjunct professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, he has also helped establish medical clinics across the Gaza Strip. Phil Gasper is the editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document and a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in California. He is a on the editorial board of International Socialist Review and writes its "Critical Thinking" column. Phil is also a contributor to Socialist Worker, CounterPunch, ZNet and MRZine.Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and a frequent contributor on the subject of race and class in America. Her writing has also appeared onCounterPunch, Socialist Worker. She is a doctoral student in African American Studies at Northwestern University.Lee Sustar is the labor editor for Socialist Workerand frequently writes on the unfolding economic crisis. He is a regular contributor to International Socialist Review, CounterPunch and ZNet. He is also co-editor of Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader. Sustar is a member of the National Writers Union in Chicago.Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of the muckraking Web site and newsletter CounterPunch and the author of numerous books, including Been Brown So Long it Looked Green to Me: The Politics of Nature, Grand Theft Pentagon: Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror and Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland, co-written with Joshua Frank. A veteran of the environmental struggle, St. Clair's latest book is Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth.Brian Ashley is a longtime global rights activist and co-managing editor of Amandla Publishers in Cape Town, South Africa, and part of the Alternative Information Development Centre.
Veteran socialist and activist Joel Geier was a founding member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964. Currently, he is associate editor of International Socialist Review and author of numerous articles on the world economic crisis, including Capitalism's worst crisis since the 1930s as well as the movement against the Vietnam war and the 1960s.Brian Jones is a teacher, actor and activist in New York City. His commentary and writing have been featured on GRITtv, SleptOn.com, Socialist Workerand the International Socialist Review. Jones has also lent his voice to several audiobooks, including Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's Voices of a People's History of the United States, and Zinn's one-man play Marx in Soho (forthcoming from Haymarket Books).Alan Maass is editor of Socialist Workernewspaper and the daily Web siteSocialistWorker.org. He is the author of The Case for Socialism (Haymarket Books, 2004), an introduction to socialism and the socialist tradition.David Bacon, a writer and photographer based in California, is the author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon). Find out about his writings and photography.Larry Bradshaw is a paramedic, rank-and-file union activist and socialist in San Francisco. He is member of Service Employees International Union Local 1021 and a member of SEIU Member Activists for Reform Today (SMART). His writing on the fight for democracy in SEIU has appeared in Socialist Worker.
Martín Sánchez is the consul general of Venezuela in San Francisco.Labels: American socialism, Chicago
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