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Renewing the Anarchist
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Archive: Summer Conference 2001
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- Alejandro de Acosta is a doctoral student
in the philosophy, interpretation, & culture program at SUNY-Binghamton.
His dissertation is called "The Power of the Affects."
He will be speaking on
Anarchy & Minority
- Andrew Dinkelaker, a sociopolitical
theorist & Institute for Social Ecology alumni, writes about
creating structures & processes that are based on social
anarchism & direct democracy. He does union organizing &
contract negotiations for the United Electrical, Radio, &
Machine Workers of America in Boston.
He will be speaking on
Why We Need Consensus Decision
Making
- Michael Dorsey has been spanning the
globe to bring you the thrill of anarchist victory, the agony
of capitalist defeat, the human drama of political & economic
competition. He was arrested in Brazil for protesting Dubya's
daddy. He's part Amazonian anthropologist & high-altitude
mountaineer, & part wacko.
He will be speaking on
Globalizing Terror
- Harry Halpin is both a cognitive scientist
specializing in the study of symbolic systems & an active
anarchist organizer specializing in direct action. Working with
organizations such as Earth First! & Anti-Racist Action,
& with research on the mind, he has come to believe that
anarchism is more than political ideology; it is also a philosophy
of life validated by the latest scientific insights.
He will be speaking on
Neuroanarchy
- Robert Helms is a medical research volunteer,
house painter, labor activist, & self-taught historian. He
has been researching the early anarchist movement of Philadelphia
for several years & is preparing a book on that subject.
He is also known as the creator of the occupational zine Guinea
Pig Zero.
He will be speaking on
History as a Libertarian Device
- Becky Houlihan is involved in tenant
organizing & community activism, & is a member of the
Sabate Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-Boston).
She will be speaking on Collectives, Federations, &
Revolutionary Struggle
- Ramsey Kanaan is a founding member of
the anarchist publishers & distributors AK Press. He is a
member of the Bound Together anarchist bookstore collective,
an organizer of the annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, &
has been involved in anarchist organizing for over twenty years.
He will be speaking on
When Fucking the System Isn't Enough
- Robert G. Krause, a member of the Connecticut
Global Action Network & Danbury Independent Media Center,
teaches philosophy at Western Connecticut State University &
Quinnipiac University, & lectures at Yale University in bioethics.
He served as a medic with his affinity group for A20 (D.C.) &
A19 (Quebec).
He will be speaking on
The "New" Anarchism
- Roman Krznaric, a Ph.D. student in the
Department of Government at the University of Essex, UK, is trying
to complete his thesis on the Guatemalan oligarchy.
He will be speaking on
Mortgaged Democracy
- Seung-Kuk Kim is a professor in the
department of sociology at Pusan National University & the
corepresentative of the Pusan Citizens' Coalition for Economic
Justice. Next year, he will serve as president of both the Korean
Society for Anarchism & the Korean Society for Theoretical
Sociology. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University.
He will be speaking on
In Defense of the Korean Anarchist
Movement
- Mark Lance is an associate professor
of philosophy as well as an associate professor of justice &
peace at Georgetown University. He is also a longtime activist
on such issues as militarism, economic injustice, gay rights,
Central America, and South Africa. His current activist work
is primarily with a group called Stop U.S. Tax-Funded Aid to
Israel Now (SUSTAIN).
He will be speaking on
Institutionalized Practice & Anarchy
- Jessica Lawless has been merging art
& anti-authoritarian politics since the mid-1980s. She is
a founding member of three Seattle collectives: Home Alive, Lilith's
Revenge, & the Black Cat Cafe. Jessica was also part of the
Chicago-based guerrilla art group, Sister Serpents. She has just
completed her M.A. in cultural studies at Claremont Graduate
University.
She will be speaking on
Anarchism, Urban Uprising, &
the Mainstream Media
- Todd May, professor of philosophy at
Clemson University, is the author of five books, including "The
Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism." He
has worked in many political arenas, most notably divestment
from South Africa, against aid to the contras, & for Palestinian
rights, & has been the faculty adviser for the gay group
at Clemson University for eight years.
He will be speaking on
How Anarchists (& everyone else)
Should Think about Ethics
- Ian Mayes lives & works in a well-established
intentional community in Virginia named Twin Oaks. He's visited
intentional communities throughout the country, & is active
within the Federation of Egalitarian Communities, the Anarchist
Communitarian Network, & the Anarchist Parenting website.
He will be speaking on
Anarchism & the Intentional
Communities Movement
- Shawn McDougal is a black community
organizer from Los Angeles currently working with the American
Friends Service Committee. He is a founding member of the LA
Anarchists of Color group, served as an elected member of the
planning committee of the Bus Riders' Union, has experience in
mass & small group militant direct action, & is a founding
member of the Community FEAST collective.
He will be speaking on
Direct Action
- Blake McGreevy is a student at McGill
University in Montreal. When not pondering the role of theory
in a revolutionary struggle, he spends his time as a member of
the black bloc.
He will be speaking on
Anarchism & the Academy
- Cindy Milstein, coorganizer of Renewing
the Anarchist Tradition, is a board member of the Institute for
Anarchist Studies & a faculty member at the Institute for
Social Ecology. She wrote for the booklet Bringing Democracy
Home, & writes for anti-authoritarian periodicals, including
a regular column in Arsenal magazine.
She will be speaking on
Anarchism in/as the Anticapitalist
Movement
- Chuck Morse founded & serves on
the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. He teaches
at the Institute for Social Ecology, was active for many years
in the left wing of the Green movement, studied philosophy at
the New School for Social Research, & presently lives in
Brooklyn.
He will be speaking on
Anarchism & Historical Consciousness
- Tamara Myers is currently (unsuccessfully)
working on dropping out of her Ph.D. program in education. She
advises women studies undergrads, teaches gymnastics, has worked
with homeless youth, & is a member of the Number Three Collective.
She will be speaking on
What Might Liberatory Education Look
Like?
- Darini Nicholas, a faculty at the Institute
for Social Ecology, where she has taught/facilitated courses
on globalization & cotaught the course Understanding Capitalism,
is also a part-time faculty at Norwich, where she has taught
courses on globalization & race as well as ethnic relations.
She will be speaking on
Anarchism, Race, & Nationalism
- Richard Gilman Opalsky holds an M.A.
in philosophy from the New School for Social Research & is
presently a Ph.D. student in the philosophy program there. He
spent the last academic year teaching philosophy & radical
politics at St. John's University as an adjunct professor, &
writes regular columns for Clamor Magazine & Musical Activism.
He will be speaking on
The Crisis of Coercive Authority
- Wayne Price has long been involved in
the revolutionary movement, including with the Love & Rage
Anarchist Federation & the Revolutionary Socialist League.
Currently, he is a member of the collective that puts out The
Utopian: A Journal of Anarchism and Libertarian Socialism, &
is working on a book about William Morris.
He will be speaking on
Anarchism & African American
Liberation
- Clarissa Rogers, a longtime activist
currently living in Philadelphia, has been involved in numerous
radical organizations & projects including community organizing,
prison issues, & radical education. She has assisted many
groups with training in facilitation & development in group-process
skills.
She will be speaking on
Why We Need Consensus Decision
Making
- Andrea Schmidt recently returned to
Montreal after completing her first & last year of graduate
work at Harvard Divinity School. Absurdly, she continues to believe
that theorizing can be a revolutionary practice & that "taking
theory seriously" doesn't require taking oneself seriously.
Andrea is a member of Urgence Manif.
She will be speaking on
Anarchism & the Academy
- Jaggi Singh is an activist, organizer,
& writer based in Montreal. He has been actively involved
in organizing against the APEC meetings in Vancouver (1997),
the MAI in Montreal (1998), & the OAS meetings in Windsor
(2000), as well as against the FTAA & the Summit of the Americas
in Quebec City (2001). He is an activist with the Anti-Capitalist
Convergence (CLAC), a member of the Alternative Bookshop Collective,
& an organizer of the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair.
He will be speaking on
Anarchy in the Streets
- Tony Sparks is a graduate student in
the department of cultural studies at Claremont Graduate University,
where he specializes in anticapitalist social justice movements.
Tony lives in Seattle with his partner Jennifer, their cat &
black lab.
He will be speaking on
Representation & Resistance
- JT is a Massachusetts-based activist
whose work focuses on issues of race, gender, civil rights, &
legislative policy. A recent graduate of Umass Amherst, JT has
worked professionally in related fields for the past two years.
JT will be speaking on:
Anarchist Alternatives & Collectives,
Federations, & Revolutionary Struggle
- Brian Tokar, a thirty-year activist,
is author of Earth for Sale, The Green Alternative, & the
editor of a new collection on the politics of biotechnology,
Redesigning Life? He is a faculty member at the Institute for
Social Ecology & a founding member of the Northeast Resistance
Against Genetic Engineering.
He will be speaking on
Understanding Biotechnology Systematically
- Kevin Van Meter is a student of interdisciplinary
studies at the Institute for Social Ecology; an organizer with
the Modern Times Collective, an anarchist/autonomist/green collective
on Long Island; & is employed as a youth organizer for the
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.
He will be speaking on
Everyday Resistance as Strategy
- Stanislav Vysotsky is a teacher's assistant
in sociology at Northeastern University & is a member of
the Sabate Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-Boston).
He will be speaking on
Collectives, Federations, &
Revolutionary Struggle
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