Tadjpour's ZSpace Friends
Azulay, Jessica | United States
Jessica Azulay is an activist and writer from West Virginia. She currently lives in Syracuse, NY where she helps out with peace and justice organizing. Jessica was the co-founder of the (now defunct) NewStandard, a news website run on the principles of participatory economics. Now she is excited in helping others form collectives based on parecon. Jessica also has a day-job making websites for ...
Dominick, Brian | United States
. Brian has taught a variety of courses at ZMI in the years since.
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!"...
Dorman, Larissa | United States
Born and raised in San Diego, I am currently a political science/film lecturer at San Diego State University and San Diego City College. In Fall of 2008 I worked to create an activist group called BEAT (Bringing Education and Activism Together) on the City College campus. We have over 1k students on our mailing lists after only 3 years and over 50 active members each semester who ha...
Farbod, Faramarz | United States
I am a native of Iran and father of 13-year old twin boys.
Books, Zed | United Kingdom
Zed is celebrating 30 years as one of the most distinctive voices in independent, progressive publishing. Over the last three decades we have published more than 1,000 titles. Each of these books had a common goal: to give voice to people, places and issues at the margins. Our critical perspectives on topics including trade, aid, government and development are now more current than ever. Tod...
Rama, Taraka | Sweden
I am a PhD student in computational historical linguistics. I am currently residing in Sweden. I am from south of India and I speak three languages. I was heavily influenced by the talks of Ganesh Devy, a social activist, literary critic focusing on oral traditions and tribal rights in India. Currently, my work focuses on finding genetic and areal relations between languages of the world. I am ...
Trigona, Marie | Argentina
Marie Trigona has reported from Argentina for numerous media outlets around the world. A writer, radio producer, and film maker, her work focuses on labor struggles, social movements and human rights in Latin America. Her writing has appeared in publications including Z Magazine and ZNet, NACLA, Monthly Review, Canadian Dimension, The Buenos Aires Herald, Left Turn, Americas Program, Clamor, Ve...
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...
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. ...
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
Adamovsky, Ezequiel | Argentina
Ezequiel Adamovsky, born in Buenos Aires in 1971, is a historian and anti-capitalist activist. He studied history at the University of Buenos Aires --where he also teaches-- and has a PhD from University College London. As an activist, he has been involved in the students movement and, more recently, in the neighbours Assemblies movement that emerged in the city of Buenos Aires after the rebel...
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 ...
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...
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...
