Brud's ZSpace Friends
Street, Paul | United States
Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of four books to date: Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Right...
Albert, Michael | United States
Michael Albert is a founder and current member of the staff of Z Magazine as well as staff of Z Magazine`s web system: ZCom (www.zmag.org). Albert`s radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Me...
Spannos, Chris | United States
Chris Spannos has had over a decade of experience in self-managed media collectives and also as an activist, organizer, and anti-capitalist. From 1998-2006 he participated in the Redeye collective, heard on Vancouver Co-op radio. In September 2006 he joined Z as full-time staff focusing on ZNet and ZCom web operations. Other media work includes helping out with Z Video productions, being ...
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.
Eingold, Eric | United States
Eric is a graduate student at The New School for Social Research in New York's Greenwich Village. Working with the Radical Student Union, Eric is an adovocate for a participatory society, economy, and polity guided by core vaules such as diversity, equity, self-management, efficiency, and solidarity.
Denton, Marcus | United States
I live in Austin, Texas where I work at a class- and race-segregated inner-city high school. I attended the Z Media Institute in 2003 and founded the Austin Project for a Participatory Society in 2007.
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.
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 ...
Brody, Y. | France
Born in New York City in 1972, the author is a clinical psychologist. To pay the bills, he helps people understand themselves and their environment, and encourages them to imagine all possible changes, individually and socially. His university courses include Media, Culture, and Society; Psychodynamic Psychology; International Business Ethics; and Geopolitics. The general focus here is on is...
Atkinson, Lonnie | United States
2005 ZMI student. I currently live in South Bend, Indiana. Concerned with the lack of political courage and radical vision in today's music, I turned to songwriting as a form of activism. Free to the public, this work is intended not only as a vehicle for protest, but also as an organizing tool.
Hannah, Christopher j | Canada
I am the son of a Cold War fighter-pilot. I am the member of a rock band called Propagandhi and a member of a Parecon-inspired record label called G7 Welcoming Committee Records. In 2007 I was voted the 2nd Worst Canadian in history in a national poll (former prime-minister and dead man Pierre Trudeau was #1, meaning that i am in fact the worst living Canadian in the history of the country). ...
Tadjpour, Layla | United States
I am an iranian american and currently live in Arlington VA. I work with several anti-war groups.
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...
Peters, Cynthia | United States
Cynthia Peters is a freelance writer, activist, and editor of The Change Agent (www.nelrc.org/changeagent), a social justice magazine for adult learners and adult educators. She writes about a wide range of topics including organizing, parenting, marketing, feminism, racism, and gender politics.
