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Michael lives in Massachusetts in the U.S., works at Z, and is available for talks about economic and social vision and strategy – parecon, parsoc, socialism, etc. – as well as about media, activism, U.S. society, and war and peace, among other possibilities. Albert likes to speak for about an hour and then have ample time for discussion (even up to two or three hours). The time allotment is flexible, though. On speaking trips Albert also likes to meet with activists, do workshops, etc. The more he has to do the more likely he is to accept an engagement. Fare and housing need to be paid. Honorariums are negotiable, but it is far easier for Albert to say yes, given all other claims on his time – if they are provided.
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Jessica Azulay is an activist and writer from West Virginia. She has been a radical organizer for more than a decade with involvement in the anti-capitalist globalization, Palestine solidarity, immigrants’ rights, and peace movements. Jessica was the co-founder of the (now defunct) NewStandard, a nonprofit, reader-funded news website run on the principles of participatory economics that thrived for more than three years as a model for nonhierarchical workplaces. Now she is excited to help others form collectives based on parecon principles by sharing her experience with that and other projects. Jessica currently works and organizes in Syracuse, NY, where she builds websites for activist groups for a living and works with various peace and social justice organizations.
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Peter 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. He teaches economics and political economy at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and prefers speaking in the West but will consider other places. He requests expenses. Peter is available to talk and lead discussions on economics and the U.S. and global economy, participatory socialism, political economy of racism, Latin America, especially Cuba and Venezuela, and the student and other social movements in the United States, past and present.
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John is a restaurant worker, organizer, and writer from Providence, RI who has lived in New York City for many years. He has been involved in labor, student, and environmental organizing. Currently, John is organizing in the restaurant industry, as well as pursuing a Masters in Labor Studies at the CUNY Murphy Institute for Workers Education. His essay, “Did You Just Say Class,” appeared in Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press 2008), edited by Chris Spannos. He is also a founding member of the revolutionary political group Organization for a Free Society (OFS). He can speak on topics concerning participatory economics, class relations, environmental justice as it relates to class and economic democracy, grassroots organizing, the restaurant industry, the labor movement, and revolutionary holistic analysis, organization and strategy. John is also an avid sports fan! East coast travel is easy for him, but he would need travel expenses covered for other places, as well as housing. Honorarium is helpful and negotiable.
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Mark is based in Birmingham (UK) where he works in health care on a neurosurgical ward whilst also studying to be a mental health nurse. He has a background in trade union organising as well as other areas of social justice activism. Over the past few years, however, most of his time has been focused on organising around participatory vision and strategy. Mark is a founding member of PPS-UK and as part of his role within this organisation likes to give talks on Liberating Theory, participatory economics, and participatory politics. He is particularly interested in giving talks / running workshops for people who are interested in ideas for radical-progressive social transformation and are serious about organizing. |
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Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist theorist, sociologist, and activist with a Yugoslav background and a member of the antiauthoritarian, direct action wing of the global justice movement. Grubacic is a cofounder of the Global Balkans network of Balkan anticapitalists in diaspora. His affinity toward anarchism arose as a result of his experiences as a member of the Belgrade Libertarian Group. His books include Globalization of Refusal, Wobblies and Zapatistas, Don’t Mourn Balkanize, and The Staughton Lynd Reader. Topics: anarchism; libertarian socialism; anarchist sociology; anarchist pedagogy; Wobblies and Zapatistas; anarchist world-systems analysis; war and breakup of Yugoslavia; humanitarian "interventionism"; the Balkans and Eastern Europe; and hidden history of U.S. democracy.
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Antti Jauhiainen resides in Helsinki, Finland and has been active in several broader projects (human rights, anti-war, student and university), focusing on discussing and applying participatory structures and viewpoints in all of them. Jauhiainen is also one of the founders of Parecon Finland, an organization focused on appliance of strategy and vision for long-term changes in the current nordic model, and publishing and activism around the specifics of participatory economics. Specific areas of interest and expertise are participatory economics, strategy & vision and education.
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Pat Korte[send_email_to]patkorte[/send_email_to] |
Pat Korte is a member of the Organization for a Free Society (OFS) and has been active in a variety of campus and community organizing projects. Since 2005, he has been active in building campus opposition to U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. In 2006 he co-founded a national student organization carrying the name of its New Left predecessor, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In 2008, we worked as a community organizer for Empower Our Neighborhoods (EON) in New Brunswick, NJ, focusing on building the foundations for new forms of participatory decision-making. In 2009, he travelled to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade. He recently published "Which Way for the New Left?", co-authored with Brian Kelly, in "Real Utopia," edited by Chris Spannos. Pat is available to speak on methods of social and historical analysis, economic vision, revolutionary strategy and organization, and the history of the failed German Revolution (1918-1923) and its significance today. |
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Originally from France (Britanny) Yoann has been active in the UK with the Stop the War Coalition, the Camp for Climate Action, Climate Camp Cymru and the Project for a Participatory Society – UK (PPS-UK). He has developed a very keen interest in Participatory Economics and Vision and Strategy over the past 5 years and is now more than happy to share his enthusiasm. He now lives in Wales where he works part time as a hydro engineer. He is available to facilitate discussions and workshops on Participatory Economics as well as introductions to other aspect of what a Participatory Society could look like. He can travel anywhere in Wales where there is public transport and as far East as Birmingham. Travel fares would need to be covered. The more notice you give the more chance he’ll accept.
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Meaghan is an organizer with the Brooklyn Food Coalition in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a degree in Economics from New School University where she was an active participant in the Radical Student Union around anti-war and student struggles. She is a member of the Organization for a Free Society as well as an organizer with the Grassroots Anti-Imperialist Network (GAIN). She has spoken at conferences and events including the United States Social Forum, the Left Forum, and the Counter G-8 Forum in Tokyo, Japan. Previously, Meaghan was active with both the Pace and New School chapters of Students for a Democratic Society.
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Brian Kelly is an organizer and writer living in the Hudson Valley of New York. He has been involved in youth, student, anti-war, and environmental issues since his teenage years. His essay, co-authored with Pat Korte, “Which Way for the New Left?”, appeared in the anthology Real Utopia, edited by Chris Spannos. He is a founding member of the Organization for a Free Society (OFS), a revolutionary organization in the United States. He can speak on topics concerning participatory economics, human consciousness, story-based and narrative strategy, hegemony, power analysis and mapping, grassroots organizing, revolutionary parties and organizations, and sexual repression.
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Mandisi Majavu is a social scientist by training. Some of his work has been published in anthologies. He is available to speak on: South African social movements, African current affairs, race & xenophobia in South Africa, class and classlessness, post-colonial theory, and Parecon. Travel expenses for room and board are required. Honorariums are negotiable.
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Cynthia Peters is an activist, writer, and editor living in Boston. She is available to speak on kinship vision (including the politics of family, childrearing, sex, and sexuality), as well as movement-building and activist strategies for doing reform work in ways that bring about radical change. She has two decades experience doing anti-war and anti-imperialist organizing, environmental and racial justice work, labor organizing and education, tenant organizing, and internal organizing among radical organizers in Boston. She has taught classes at the Z Media Institute for the past 18 years. She has spoken in a wide variety of venues — from university settings to the World Social Forum in Brazil to close-knit workshops for students, organizers, tenants, and Iraq veterans. She is available as a speaker and/or workshop facilitator. An honorarium is helpful and negotiable. Needs reimbursement for travel and housing.
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Justin Podur has reported from the Dem. Rep. of the Congo, Pakistan, India, Haiti, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Israel/Palestine, and Mexico. He also writes on North America. He has written for Z Magazine, Frontline (India), New Politics, New Left Review, rabble.ca, and is part of the Pueblos en Camino collective (www.en-camino.org). He runs a blog (www.killingtrain.com). He is based in Toronto, where he teaches in the Environmental Studies program at York University. He is available for talks and workshops on international issues, ecology and politics, race and racism, and cultural vision. Travel expenses required, destinations near Toronto preferred (but others possible, depending on the event).
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Lydia Sargent is co-founder and editor of Z Magazine. She is a writer, author, playwright, and actor, living in Woods Hole Ma, in the U.S. She was a founder and original member of the South End Press Collective. She organizes the Z Media Institute every year as well as teaching classes there. She is available to speak about media, culture, gender and feminism, but also to do one woman performances – on those and related topics. Travel and board required – honorariums welcome.
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Steve Shalom has been involved in movements challenging the status quo and proposing alternatives to existing institutions since the sixties. He edited Socialist Visions in the early eighties and in recent years has been working on the outlines of a participatory political system, Parpolity. He has written widely on issues of U.S. foreign policy, lately focusing on the Middle East and just war theory. He teaches at William Paterson University in New Jersey, and gives talks to college and community groups. He is available to speak on political vision or international politics and cares more about the size of the audience than the size of the honorarium.
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Chris Spannos has over a decade of experience in organizing, activism, and self-managed media production. He is a full-time staff member of Z Communications and editor of the anthology "Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century." Chris can give presentations on Internet Organizing and Activism, Class & Classlessness, Participatory Economics, and Participatory Society. He is available for events large or small, intimate and interactive, or straightforward talks with Q&A. Travel expenses for room and board are required. Honorariums are negotiable.
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Tom is a writer and activist from California. He has written numerous essays on labor struggles, economics and revolutionary history. He has been active in labor and community organizing since the late ’60s. He spent much of the past decade organizing a community land trust that helps working class tenants convert their buildings into cooperatives. Topics: economics, class, housing, libertarian socialism, syndicalism, the Spanish revolution of the ’30s. Travel expenses would be required.
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Gregory Wilpert is a long-time activist recently focused on Latin America and particularly Venezuela. He is the author of the book, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chavez Government (Verso Books, 2007). He is co-founder of Venezuelanalysis.com and coordinates projects of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Venezuela. Besides speaking on Venezuela, he is also available to speak on 21st Century Socialism, Participatory Socialism, and Consciousness. He is currently working on a book on consciousness and participatory society. Greg is based New York and prefers to give talks in the immediate area, but would consider requests from elsewhere. Honorariums are negotiable and travel reimbursement is needed.
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