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Michael Albert
- Michael Albert
is the System Operator of Z Magazine, an editor and columnist for
Z Magazine, author of numerous economics related books,
and, with Robin Hahnel, "author" of the economic vision
known as Participatory Economics.
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Harel Barzilai*
- Harel Barzilai
is a founder and sustaining operator of MAP (Misc.Activism.Progressive)
and has been a leader in internet activism for the past decade.
Chip Berlet*- Chip Berlet
is an investigative journalist with Political Research Associates
(Cambridge, MA), specializing in the people, organizations and strategies
of the U.S. Right. He is co-author of the forthcoming Too Close
for Comfort: Right-Wing Populism, Scapegoating, and Fascist Potentials
in U.S. Political Traditions and editor of Eyes Right!
Challenging the Right-Wing Backlash.
Peter Bohmer- Peter Bohmer
has been teaching Economics at Evergreen College (and other institutions)
for over 20 years. He has been voted by students one of the best
teachers on campus everywhere he instructs.
Leslie Cagan- Leslie Cagan
has been the central figure in nearly every major national campaign
for the past quarter century--from mass marches and rallies, to
sustained campaigns, to electoral victories. No one in the U.S.
has more experience in more diverse organizing venues than Leslie.
Robin Hahnel- Robin Hahnel
teaches economics at American University in Washington DC. He has
also authored numerous books on this and related topics including
a text based on this course soon to be published by South End Press.
Anita Karasu- Anita Karasu
has been teaching art and art appreciation successfully for over
25 years. Her capacity to engage students in a process of developing
greater sense of what visual art is about and, in particular, how
to enjoy it, is without peer. This course involves the most sophisticated
pedagogic use of our online system to date, incorporating many links
and visual lessons, as well as more typical lecture and discussion
material.
Walda Katz-Fishman- Walda is professor
of sociology at Howard University, where she has taught since 1970.
She is Board Chair and past-Board Treasurer of Project South: Institute
for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, and an Associate
Editor of Critical Sociology. She has served as Vice-president of
the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chair of the Race
and Ethnic Minorities Section and the Marxist Section of the American
Sociological Association, Treasurer of the Eastern Sociological
Society, President of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Editor
of Humanity & Society, and Associate Editor of Social
Problems. Walda is a scholar activist who combines her research
interests in class, race, and gender inequality and political economy
with political activism in struggles to transform society.
Mikal Muharrar- Mikal Muharrar
is the Coordinator of the Racism Desk for the media watch group
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). He contributes a regular
column on racism in the media to Extra! and has worked
as a Program Coordinator for the Caribbean Cultural Center and African
Diaspora Institute in New York and as a Community Organizer for
the Shaw Project Area Committee in Washington, D.C.. He has also
done original research and editorial work at the Frederick Douglas,
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X Paper projects.
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Cynthia Peters
- Cynthia Peters,
formerly a collective member at South End Press, is a freelance
writer and mother of two. She is the editor of Collateral Damage:
The New World Order at Home and Abroad. Her articles have appeared
in Z, Dollars and Sense, and various anthologies, including Haiti:
Dangerous Crossroads and From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom.
Jerome W. Scott- Jerome is Executive
Director and past-Board Chair of Project South: Institute for the
Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, southern regional organizer
for Up & Out of Poverty Now!, co-editor of Street Heat
— the magazine of the Southern Region Up & Out of Poverty
Now!, past-Board Chair of the Funding Exchange, and a Steering Committee
member of the Regional Economic Justice Network. He was a labor
and community organizer and educator in Detroit, Michigan and Chicago,
Illinois before relocating to Atlanta, Georgia.
Steve Shalom* - Steve Shalom
teaches political science at William Paterson College in New Jersey.
Among his publications are IMPERIAL ALIBIS: RATIONALIZING U.S. INTERVENTION
AFTER THE COLD WAR (South End Press, 1993), THE PHILIPPINES READER
(1987), and SOCIALIST VISIONS (1983). Steve writes regularly for
Z Magazine and is on the editorial board of the Bulletin
of Concerned Asian Scholars. More to the point, however, he
is as clear and concise a thinker on matters political as this country
has to offer.
Holly Sklar* - Holly Sklar
is a wide-ranging writer and political analyst whose books include
Chaos or Community? Seeking Solutions and Streets of
Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. She is a
columnist for Z Magazine.
Norman Soloman- Norman Solomon
is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. His
eight books include "Unreliable Sources" (co-authored
with Martin A. Lee), "The Power of Babble," "False
Hope: The Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era," "Wizards
of Media Oz" (co-authored with Jeff Cohen) and "The Trouble
With Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh." His
commentary articles on media issues have appeared in a wide range
of publications including the Boston Globe, New York
Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International
Herald Tribune, the National Catholic Reporter, Z Magazine
and The Progressive. He is an associate of the media watch
group FAIR and the executive director of the Institute for Public
Accuracy, a new nationwide consortium of public-policy experts challenging
media distortions from major think tanks.
Brian Tokar*- Brian Tokar
has written numerous books and articles on Green Activism and has
been a central and tireless organizer in the Green movement. His
knowledge of the ins-and-outs of that movement, and of the broader
issues of ecological policy and science are unparalleled.
Robert Weissman- Robert Weissman
is editor of Multinational Monitor magazine and co-author of the
weekly column Focus on the Corporation. A lawyer, he is also co-director
of Essential Action, a Ralph Nader-founded corporate accountability
organization. Robert has worked on a wide range of corporate accountability
issues, including: trade agreements including NAFTA and GATT, corporate
welfare, intellectual property rules, tobacco, corporate misconduct
in the Third World, workplace safety and corporate speech rights.
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