Peters's ZSpace Friends
Roblin, Stephen | United States
I became political at a young age through my exposure to the daunting problems facing Baltimore city while playing basketball at a west side recreation council. In high school I was introduced to left activist/scholars such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky and others, who provided satisfying answers to questions I had about my society’s allowance for such gross inequalities and injustices. ...
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...
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.
Black, Maxwell | United States
Maxwell Black is a working class internet agitator from Arlington VA. He runs the website www.amovingtrain.com with the stated purpose to: "Challenge the basic cultural assumptions of the mainstream public of the United States through the use of playful and subversive words and images." He can be reached at rejection08@gmail.com.
Kaushik, Raghav | United States
I work in the software industry. I come from India and in my activist career have worked on the Bhopal gas disaster and the Right to Education movement in India.
Langstaff, David | United States
David Langstaff has attended the Z Media Institute in the past and is currently focusing on historical macro-sociology and critical development studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. He can be reached at davidklangstaff@gmail.com
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...
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.
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...
Spain, Steve t ashar | Australia
Lord Steve T 'Ashar' Spain was born on October 28, 1972; in Auckland, New Zealand. He is the son of a kailoma or vasu (both European and indigenous Fijian ancestry) mother and pakeha father. He was raised in some of the traditions of the village life of his cultural homeland (Fiji or Viti as it is called in the Bauan language) with the absence of his biological father. In 1980 he was moved to B...
Peters, Zoe | United States
My name is Zoe Mae Peters. I am a 16 year old unschooler in Jamaica Plain. I dropped out of a Boston public exam school last year after three months in it. My family has had a connection with Michael and Lydia ever since I can remember. I have a connection to Z that I deeply treasure and always will. This summer my mother taught some classes at ZMI, I joined her for a couple of days and met ma...
Cooler-stith, Windy | United States
Windy, a native of Montgomery, Alabama, was blessed with her first son, Mac, when she was just 18 years old. Windy and Mac suffered severe food insecurity and sometimes near homelessness for the first seven years of Mac\'s life.
