Brendan Smith Brendan Smith
Brendan Smith is an journalist, oysterman and labor activist. He is co-founder of Global Labor Strategies, a consulting partner with the Progressive Technology Project, and has recently joined the staff of the Labor Network for Sustainability. As a proud member of the emerging "green jobs" movement, he also runs an 50 acre organic oyster farm off the Thimble Islands of Long Island Sound. Brendan has published two books, In the Name of Democracy (Holt/Metropolitan) and Globalization From Below (South End), and co-produced the PBS documentary Global Village or Global Pillage?, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2000. He also served as a consultant on the documentary about Lt. Ehren Watada titled In the Name of Democracy: America's Conscience, A Soldier's Sacrifice. His commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Guardian, CBS News.com, YahooNews and the Baltimore Sun Times. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School. To contact or read more about Brendan's work, go to: www.bsmith.org.
Apr 2, 2010
Tim Costello Tim Costello
Tim Costello is, with Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith, co-author of the new book Globalization From Below: The Power of Solidarity (South End) and co-producer of the documentary v…
Apr 2, 2010
Jeremy Brecher Jeremy Brecher
Jeremy Brecher’s new book Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action, just published by Paradigm Publishers, addresses how social movements make social change. Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, including Strike! and Global Village or Global Pillage and the winner of five regional Emmy awards for his documentary movie work. He currently works with the Labor Network for Sustainability.
Apr 2, 2010
Lani Guinier Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier, the Bennet Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is the co-author of The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (Harva…
Apr 2, 2010
Matthew Hoffman Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Hoffman is an attorney in New York City whose writing on voting rights has also appeared in the Yale Law Journal.
Apr 2, 2010
Victor Navasky Victor Navasky
Victor S. Navasky served as editor, publisher, and publisher emeritus of The Nation. In the 1970s, he served as an editor of The New York Times Magazine. In the 1960s, he was found…
Apr 2, 2010
Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the publisher of Restless Books. Among his most recent books are The…
Apr 2, 2010
Jonathan Schell Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell is the Lannan Fellow at The Nation Institute and teaches a course on the nuclear dilemma at Yale. He is the author of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People, an analysis of people power, and The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.
Apr 2, 2010
Steven Manning Steven Manning
Steven Manning, a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York, is writing a book on schoolhouse commercialism, to be published by St. Martin’s Press.
Apr 2, 2010
Amos Oz Amos Oz
Amos Oz, whose The Same Sea has recently been published in the United States, is one of Israel’s leading novelists and a founder of the Peace Now movement.
Apr 2, 2010