Grubacic's ZSpace Friends
Cronan Jr, John | United States
John Cronan Jr. is a restaurant worker of 11 years, organizer, and writer. He is a native of Providence, RI, but has lived in New York City for many years--where he has been involved in labor, student, and environmental organizing. Currently, John is an organizer for the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY), a membership based workers’ center ...
Grubacic, Andrej | Serbia
Andrej Grubacic is a radical historian- or, more accurately, an anarchist historian- from the Balkans. Among his works are few books in Balkan languages, chapters and numerous articles related to the history and utopian present of the Balkans. His writings on anarchism, its past and future, are many, and could be found on ZNet. He used to be based in Belgrade, post-Yugoslavia, but after m...
Kelly, Brian | United States
Brian is socialist organizer, writer, and activist from New York. Brian's writings can be found on his website - Diary of a Walking Butterfly (www.walkingbutterfly.org). Contact e-mail: butterflywalking (AT) gmail.com.
Tokar, Brian | United States
Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a critical voice for ecological activism since the 1980s. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Social Ecology and a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Brian's books include The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992), Earth for Sale (1997), and Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on...
Herndon, Thomas | United States
I'm originally from Austin, TX, but moved to Olympia, WA to go to The Evergreen State College. There I studied quite a bit of political economy, foreign policy, critical race and gender studies, social movements and ethnography and organized a bit with different groups. I also attended ZMI 2007. After my stint at Evergreen, my finances were deeply in the red, and I had caught the I need t...
Fake, Steven | United States
Steve Fake's works have appeared in In These Times Magazine, AlterNet, CommonDreams, Foreign Policy In Focus, Pambazuka, ZNet, CounterPunch, and many other publications.He grew up in eastern Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was involved in student activism. He became interested in radical politics after seeing Good Will Hunting, where he first heard...
Bailie, John | United States
John is the Assistant Director of Training and Consulting and graduate school lecturer for the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) - www.iirp.org. Restorative practices is a new transdisciplinary field that significantly overlaps with the effort to build a more participatory society. John has provided restorative practices training and consulting in the United States and i...
Tadjpour, Layla | United States
I am an iranian american and currently live in Arlington VA. I work with several anti-war groups.
Cat, Tolstoys | United States
Tolstoy's Cat is the pen name of a pacifist Anarchist and aspiring teacher who resides in the occupied nation of the U.S.A. She will remain anonymous, for now, to assure her freedom to write and do what she can to change the world.
Sotiriou, Malamas | Greece
Born in 1981 in Thessaloniki. Raised in a village close to it. Involved in politics after the adolescence. Studies in Crete, Thessaloniki and Glasgow. Nutritionist for a living, writing for pleasure.
Isaacs, Joel | United States
Living in Berkeley in the 70s I was part of a Situationist inspired radical group who wanted to put subjectivity and community back into the revolution. Skip forward. I read Zmag for 20 years. Six years ago I was reading Chomsky's Understanding Power. One morning I woke up frightened. I thought: "All those wild ideas I have about what's really going on in the world - they're all true!"...
Morales, Gabriel | United States
let's talk about sex baby . . . . or, . . . the prefigurative politics zine. . . . i formatted chomsky's notes on anarchism. . . . united students against sweatshop's campus organizing manual. . . . i was also hoping someone wanted to talk about the organisational platform of the libertarian communists . . . and a history of anarcho-syndicalism from www.selfed.org.uk . . . or ...
Evans, Mark | England
These things probably tell you something about me - I got my initial education in social justice listening to Bob Marley and the Wailers as a teenager, then in my late 20's reading Chomsky which led me to Z. I identify with the humanist world view. My favouite comedian is John Shuttleworth. I enjoy all kinds of "roots" music including folk, reggae, bl...
George, Justin | Australia
Hi, I live in Melbourne, Australia, and I think I first came across Znet courtesy of the linear notes of a Propagandhi album along time ago. Soon after that Michael Albert gave a talk at my university- University of Queensland- where I first encountered in any detail his proposals on Parecon, which opened my eyes to exciting and new possibilities for progressive change. I particularly related ...
