Ekine's ZSpace Friends
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...
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.
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...
Ambrose, Joss | England
I DON'T WAVE BANNERS, I'M NOT A PUNK,I'M JUST A TEA DRINKING ENGLISHMAN WHO KNOWS THIS WORLD'S IN A MESS...OK I'M A BIT MILITANT SOMETIMES...I'm co-founder of an up and coming alternative news source called UFOmedia. I must add at this point that UFO = nothing to do with flying saucers.Originally we were known simply as the Underground Film Organisation - we show politi...
Majavu, Mandisi | South Africa
Mandisi Majavu is the Book Reviews Editor of Interface: a journal for and about social movements http://www.interfacejournal.net/ Majavu has written widely on topics relating to human rights, justice, gender, race and basically African politics. His work has appeared in international publications such as Inter Press Services news Agency and Panos News Agency. Also, he has been published...
Francis, Janan | United Kingdom
As I suspect has happened with many of us my political awakening was a strong factor (although not the only one) in causing me to examine life in much greater detail and this resulted in a radical vocational change and new life trajectory. I now work in a large hostel for the homeless and live in South East London. I'm convinced that our society is dysfunctional and although there is muc...
Earp, Charley | United States
Utopian Longings Charley's Brief Autobiography For some reason, I always go back to the year of my birth, as if that explains something about my adult self. Nineteen sixty-three was the year that Martin Luther King, Jr. preached his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. Although just an infant, I imbibed something of that utopian spirit tha...
Yamahata, Noé | Mexico
I borned in Tokyo, Japan, and live in Mexico now. I write some essays in the review Jokyo (the Situation) in the Japanese.
Rai, Milan | England
Milan Rai, the anti-war activist, author and editor based in Hastings, England, first became politically active in the campaign against Pershing II and Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles - nuclear weapons scheduled to be deployed in Western Europe in the late 1980s. A Peace News seller at his school, he's now become co-editor of the monthly magazine. Milan's primary organizational affiliations ha...
Mahat, Ishara | Canada
I am a development practioner with a particular interest on social change and indigenous development in the developing world. I have worked with various development organizations in Nepal and abroad in different capacities especially focusing on project appraisal and development. I have been a consultant and advisor for gender mainstraming projects implemented by CIDA/Nepal. My passion to...
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. ...
Davis, Connie | United States
I now work as a retail clerk. When I started that over 5 years ago, it was a great job with good pay and seemingly good management. But now, with every passing day, every new rule, every cut-back on hours, every new responsibility, every paper I must sign and every shrinking paycheck, I realize that I must become more than my job, more than a couch potato, more than a good c...
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.
