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Renewing the Anarchist
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Archive: Summer Conference 2002:
People
- Alejandro de Acosta is a doctoral student
in the philosophy, interpretation, and culture program at SUNY-Binghamton.
His current research is on Latin American philosophy, anarchism,
and the intersections of experimental therapeutic practices and
radical politics. He is cohost of the political radio program
"Bicho Raro" and a member of the Methodologies of Resistant
Negotiation Working Group.
He will be speaking on
Multiple Selves in Multiple Struggles
- Rob Augman is coeditor of Onward Anarchist
Newspaper. He has been involved in the Civic Media Center, a
volunteer-run infoshop/alternative library for the last four
years, and is involved in a newly formed anarchist organization
in Gainesville, Florida. He has also been a student at the Institute
for Social Ecology the last two summers.
He will be speaking on
Fighting to Win: Sufficient Strategies
for Moving Forward
- Christina is a member of the Sofia Perovskaya
and Femme Fatale Collectives in Boston, Massachusetts. She is
currently putting her energy into an anarcha-feminist magazine,
Boston Angry Tenants Union, and getting a bachelor's degree in
marine biology.
She will be speaking on
Anarchist-Communist Analysis
of Environmental Destruction
- Stacey Cordeiro is the coop organizer
at Cooperative Economics for Women in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts,
an organization that helps low-income immigrant and refugee women
of color create worker-owned cooperatives. She has been an organizer
and activist in the micropower radio movement and the Massachusetts
Green Party. She expects that her master's degree in city planning
from MIT will be rescinded at any moment.
She will be speaking on
Cooperative Economics
- Geert Dhondt is a graduate student in
the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst. He is a member of the Valley Anarchist Organization.
He will be speaking on
Marxism, Anarchism, and Empire
- Jay Driskell is a graduate student and
union organizer at Yale University. His dissertation, at the
moment, is an intellectual and political history of the black
struggle for the vote. Before moving to New Haven, Jay was active
in housing, worker, and consumer coop issues as well as anti-sweatshop
activism in Madison, Wisconsin, and attended the Institute for
Social Ecology in the summer of 1997.
He will be speaking on
Reclaiming the State: An Anarchist
Interpretation
of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
- Lorenzo Komboa Ervin is the author of
Anarchism and the Black Revolution as well as numerous other
widely read writings on anarchism and the black liberation movement,
has long been involved in a variety of organizing efforts, civil
rights activism, and prison struggles from the 1960s to the present.
He will be speaking on Anarchism and the Black Revolution
- Paul Fleckenstein works in research
on drug addiction at the University of Vermont, and has been
writing and organizing on anti-war issues since 9-11.
He will be speaking on
The Politics of Oil and War
- Ben Grosscup is currently studying in
the B.A. program at the Institute for Social Ecology. In the
winter of 2002, he interned with the ISE Biotechnology Project
and focused on the town-to-town campaign against genetic engineering.
He will be speaking on
Human Biotechnology
- Kate Hirschoff works as a political
organizer and fund raiser for Clean Water Action in western Massachusetts.
After attending prep school and one semester of college, she
started to think about the effects of the educational system--and
then decided to leave it. She has been committed to positive
social change for many years, and has worked for groups such
as Film Fest New Haven, the Green Party, and the New Haven Gay
and Lesbian Community Center.
She will be speaking on
Rethinking the Value and Effects
of the Educational System
- Justin Jackson is a recent graduate
of Hampshire College, where he completed a thesis on the antiwar
movement as well as conflicts around academic freedom and scientific
research at MIT and Columbia University during the Vietnam War.
He is an unrepentant member of the Valley Anarchist Organization
of Northampton, Massachusetts, and has written for VAO's Up the
Ante! as well as other periodicals.
He will be speaking on
The U.S. Anarchist Press of the
Vietnam Era and Today
- Sandra Jeppesen has written and collectively
published anarchist and punk zines, as well as a novel called
Kiss Painting about anarchists nonmonogamy squats kissing tree-sits
nomads the apocalypse spraypainting whatever. Anarchist collectives
she has been a part of include Who's Emma and the Random Anarchist
Group. She has a master's degree in creative writing and is currently
a Ph.D. candidate in English at York University.
She will be speaking on
Toward Anarchist Cultural Theory
- Patrick Jones is an activist from the
Austin, Texas area who, among other things, is in the MonkeyWrench
Books collective, writes regularly for the irregularly published
Austin Javelina, and with the help of fellow members of the Industrial
Workers World, from time to time fires bosses at his workplace,
a local nonprofit recycling center.
He will be speaking on
Education as Dual Power
- Ramsey Kanaan is a founding member of
the anarchist publishers and distributors AK Press. He is a member
of the Bound Together anarchist bookstore collective, an organizer
of the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, and has been involved in
anarchist organizing for over twenty years.
He will be speaking on
What's Wrong with the American
Anarchist Movement?
- Candace Khaokham is a political science
major at California State University at Long Beach studying with
Larry George (whose works she is presenting here). She is also
a literacy tutor for free school programs, helped develop the
Revolutionary Empowerment and Community Help Center, and is involved
with the L.A. Anarchist People of Color and Asian Pacific Islander
Collective.
She will be speaking on
The Pharmacotic War on Terrorism:
Cure or Poison for the U.S. Body Politic?
- Mike King studies sociology and economics
at the Univesity of Masachusetts in Amherst. He is a member of
the Valley Anarchist Organization.
He will be speaking on
Marxism, Anarchism, and Empire
- Jessica Lawless created and produced
the documentary Paint It Black: Anarchism, Urban Uprising, and
the Mainstream News Media. Her most recent video project Unhung
Heroes, directed by transman Ilya Pearlman, offers a humorous
glimpse at the growing transgendered community while also commenting
on mainstream culture's policing of gender. She lives in Los
Angeles, where she is working in collaboration with Gahisi Sowande
of the Pelican Bay Support Network.
She will be speaking on
Strange Bedfellows: Anarchists
and Their Allies
- Rachel Lichtenfeld studies cognitive
sociology at Rutgers University, where she works on cracking
the patterns of cognition created by globalization and WonderBread.
She is also a member of the Desiderata Communitas.
She will be speaking on
The Tragedy of the Commons
- Camy Matthay has had a long-standing
interest in the relationship between childhood deprivation, personal
and social pathology, and the plight of the planet. She is an
advocate of unschooling both as a sane form of child rearing
and a method of resistance to coercive authority, unbridled consumerism,
and capitalist orthodoxy.
She will be speaking on
Unschooling and Anarchism
- 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, and for Palestinian rights,
and has been the faculty adviser for the gay group at Clemson
University for eight years.
He will be speaking on
Poststructuralism, Identity, and Globalization
- Molly McClure identifies as a queer
woman and transgender ally.
She will be speaking on
Transarchy Rules! or, How to Be a
Fabulous Transgender Ally
- Blake McGreevy is a Montreal-area anarchist,
member of the Alternative Bookshop
collective, Montreal's Anarchist Bookfair collective, as well
as the CLAC.
He will be speaking on
Direct Democracy vs. Self-Management
- Cindy Milstein, coorganizer of RAT,
is an Institute for Anarchist Studies board member and teaches
at the Institute for Social Ecology. She writes for numerous
anarchist periodicals, including a column in Arsenal; wrote for
and designed the booklet Bringing Democracy Home; and several
of her essays will soon be appearing in several anthologies.
She will be speaking on
Twenty-first Century Anarchism
- Suresh Naidu is a graduate student in
the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst. He is a member of the Valley Anarchist Organization.
He will be speaking on
Marxism, Anarchism, and Empire
- Darini Nicholas is a faculty member
at the Institute for Social Ecology, where she has taught/facilitated
courses on nationalism and co-taught the course Understanding
Capitalism. She is also a part-time faculty at Johnson State
and Norwich, where she has taught courses on globalization and
race as well as ethnic relations.
She will be speaking on
Anarchism and Nationalism
- The North East Federation of Anarcho-Communists
is a bilingual (French and English) organization of revolutionaries
from the northeast region of North America who identify with
the communist tradition within anarchism. The federation is organized
around the principles of theoretical coherence, tactical unity,
collective responsibility, and federalism. NEFAC's activities
include study and theoretical development, anarchist agitation
and propaganda, and intervention within the class struggle.
They will be speaking on
Anarcho-Communism, Platformism,
and Class Struggle
- Alan O'Connor teaches in the cultural
studies program at Trent University in Canada. He has published
articles on community radio in Latin America as well as the punk
scenes in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. In 1996, he
was one of the founders of Who's Emma, an anarcho-punk storefront
in Toronto.
He will be speaking on
The Anarcho-Punk Scenes in Barcelona
and Mexico City
- Richard Gilman Opalsky is a Ph.D. student
in political science at the Graduate Faculty of New School University,
from where he also holds an M.A. in philosophy. Presently, Richard
is beginning the work for his dissertation. He is a regular writer
for Clamor magazine, a musical activist in Countdown to Putsch,
and has taught philosophy and radical politics at St. John's
University.
He will be speaking on
Processes Not End States
- Shiri Pasternak is a Montreal writer,
who took her time getting a joint honors degree in creative writing
and English literature, with a minor in political philosophy.
She lived in Wales last year, where she believes she was the
only anarchist. She is a member of Food Not Lawns, a radical
food politics group.
She will be speaking on
Media Literacy for Radicals: Language
and Design for Uprising
- Shanti Salas, an alumni of the Institute
for Social Ecology, is currently interested in infusing contemporary
anarchism with coherent analyses and strategies regarding race
and nationalism.
He will be speaking on
Anarchism and Nationalism
- Andrea Schmidt lives in Montreal, where
she has organized with a number of collectives and organizations
with anarchist tendencies, including the CLAC (Convergence des
luttes anti-capitalistes).
She will be speaking on
Direct Democracy vs. Self-Management
- Stephen Shukaitis is a graduate student
at the New School for Social Research program in global political
economy and finance. He is also a member of the Non-Hierarchal
Social Structures project worker's collective and a guest lecturer
at the New Brunswick (NJ) Psychogeographical Institute, where
he is currently studying the cognitive evaluative frameworks
created by the occupation of everyday life by the corporate capitalist
hegemony.
He will be speaking on
The Tragedy of the Commons
- Stas is a member of the Sofia Perovskaya
Collective (Anarcho Communist Union of Boston-NEFAC). He is involved
in helping with the organization of the Boston Angry Tenants
Union, various antifascist activities, and boring academic pursuits
(a Ph.D. in sociology).
He will be speaking on
Anarchist-Communist Analysis of Environmental
Destruction
- Peter Staudenmaier teaches at the Institute
for Social Ecology, and writes on German history and anarchist
social theory. He works with several worker- and resident-managed
cooperatives in Madison, Wisconsin.
He will be speaking on
An Anarchist Reading of Dialectic
of Enlightenment
- Jory Thomas....
She will be speaking on
Perspectives on Activism in Latin
America
- Treesong is an aspiring community organizer
and freelance writer, with a B.A. degree in philosophy. Currently,
he is working on two books on themes related to this presentation
and is involved in a project to turn a local, independent bookstore
into a community cooperative.
He will be speaking on
A Developmental Approach to Revolution
- Dana Ward is responsible for the Web
site Anarchy Archives, and is also a professor of political studies
at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and the executive
director of the International Society of Political Psychology.
He will be speaking on
The Development of Autonomous Thought
- Bill Weinberg is editor of the on-line
weekly World War 3 Report, as well as the author of Homage to
Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico, and War on the
Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America. As a correspondent
for Native Americas, the quarterly journal of Cornell University's
American Indian Program, he has won three awards from the Native
American Journalists Association for his reportage on indigenous
issues from Nicaragua to Arizona. He is also a reporter and former
editor at High Times, and coproducer of the Moorish Orthodox
Radio Crusade (Tuesdays at midnight on WBAI-NY, 99.5 FM). He
lives on New York's Lower East Side.
He will be speaking on
Free Trade, Ecological Struggle,
and the War on Terrorism in Latin America
- Lee Worden is currently studying self-organization
and decentralized ecological community structures as a graduate
student in ecology and evolution, and would like to get further
away from biology and closer to being able to talk about how
human communities can be organized. Lee comes from the San Francisco
area and hopes to return there.
He will be speaking on
Science, Ideology, and Intervention
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