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Brooke Heagerty is co-author of "Moving Onward: From Racial Division to Class Unity. " She is working on a new book on Celia, the slave, that will look at how the history of slavery affects us today. She writes and speaks on women, racism, the police state, global repression and the new poverty. She is a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, and editor of it's newspaper, Rally Comrades! |
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Daymon J. Hartley is an award winning photographer, nominated for the Pulitzer five times and named as a finalist twice. He has photographed the struggles of the homeless, poor and undocumented workers in the U.S. and around the world. He covered Katrina, the Intifada in Palestine/Israel, the rebel offensive in El Salvador and five trips to Nicaragua including a contra camp in Honduras. He has used his photography in print in the pages of the mainstream media and the alternative press and in slide shows to enlighten people to the struggles of working people globally. He is photographer for the People's Tribune. |
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Tom Hirschl, Ph.D.., co-editor, "Cutting Edge: Technology, Information Capitalism and Social Revolution, " a book that examines the technological revolution and its implications for society. It brings together contributions from workers employed in the electronics and information industries with theorists in economics, politics and science. A sociologist on the faculty of Cornell University, Tom Hirschl writes and speaks about how new technology in capitalist economies creates progressively higher levels of structural unemployment. He co-authored a paper that received a "Research Paper of the Year" award by the Society for Social Work and Research. As a Cornell faculty professor, his activities include team teaching of "Critical Perspectives on American Empire" and organizing with the Cornell Forum for Justice and Peace. |
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Jack Hirschman is former Poet Laureate of San
Francisco. He has taken the free exchange of poetry and
politics into the
streets, where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit, called,
"America's
most important living poet." He uses his skills to help awaken the
American people to homelessness as an expression of a system that can
no
longer care for its people. He has written more than 50 volumes of
poetry
and essays. His impassioned readings challenge his audience. He reads
poetry and speaks on
the artist's role in social transformation. |
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Walda Katz-Fishman combines her research in class, race, and gender inequality and political economy with developing popular education and political organizing in struggles to transform society. She is a professor of Sociology at Howard University, former Board Treasurer of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide; an Associate Editor of Social Problems, an Editorial Board member of Race, Sex & Class: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Chair-elect of the Race and Ethnic Minorities Section of the American Sociological Association. |
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Hilary Klein lived and worked with women’s cooperatives in Zapatista communities. She developed a project to support women’s cooperatives. She has worked with Latina immigrant women’s health and environmental groups in the U.S. and is working on a book about Zapatista women’s experiences. |
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Marian Kramer
Marian Kramer, co-chair of the National Welfare Rights Union, has been in the front lines of the welfare and civil rights movement from its origin in the 1960s. Today, she is a leader in the fight to turn water back on for over 45,000 Detroit homes. For decades she has fought government programs such as "Workfare"; defended poor women against unjust prosecution for "welfare fraud"; and led electoral campaigns to elect the victims of poverty to political office. She helped organize summit meetings of grass-roots leaders of the poor, housing takeovers, and efforts to unionize in the South. She is the recipient of many awards, including the presitigious Purpose Award for Americans leading with experience. |
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Bob Lee is a journalist and editor of the People's Tribune, a newspaper that gives voice to the millions struggling for survival. It strives to politically educate those millions on the basis of their own experience. It is a tribune to bring revolutionaries together, to create a vision of a better world, and a strategy to achieve it. |
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Francesco Levato is the author of Marginal State, a collection of poetry that tackles issues ranging from domestic violence and exploitation to war and political unrest. He is a vocal advocate of using literary arts as a form of political engagement and social responsibility, as well as a force to create change. |
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