EZEQUIEL ADAMOVSKY (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a historian and anti-capitalist activist. He studied history at the University of Buenos Aires, where he also teaches, and he has a PhD from University College London. As an activist, he has been involved in student movements and, more recently, in the neighbors’ Assemblies movement that emerged in the city of Buenos Aires after the rebellion of December 2001. A member of collectives and networks of global resistance, he also participated in the World Social Forum process. He publishes in academic journals primarily in the field of intellectual history, and he has written for websites and journals from several countries on issues of globalization, anti-capitalism, and Leftist politics. His books include Anti-capitalism for Beginners: The New Generation of Emancipatory Movements (in Spanish, Buenos Aires, 2003) and Beyond Old Left: Six Essays for a New Anti-Capitalism (in Spanish, Buenos Aires, 2007).

Adamovsky’s courses are Dilemmas for Argentinean Social Movements; Left Strategy in Latin America; and The Left Tradition and Its Current “Identity Crisis

SKIP ASCHEIM lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked as a journalist and technical writer. He was active in the Resistance and covered antiwar politics for Avatar, Boston’s first underground paper. He worked for education reform in the progressive movement known as open education and is the author of Materials for the Open Classroom, a resource guide for teachers. He was co-founder and artistic director of the Boston Theater Project. He also taught English at Tufts University and reviewed books and plays for the Boston Phoenix and the Improper Bostonian and was drama critic for the Boston Globe.

DAVID BARSAMIAN is a radio producer, journalist, author, and lecturer. He is founder and director of Altenative Radio and national producer of Making Contact. His interviews and articles appear in Harper's, Z, The Progressive, and other magazines. He is author of six books, including Keeping the Rabble in Line and Class Warfare with Noam Chomsky and The Pen and the Sword with Edward Said. His new book with Chomsky is Common Good. He was featured in the award-winning documentary film Manufacturing Consent. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its "To Ten Media Heroes." Barsamian lectures on the media, propaganda, corporate power, U.S. foreign policy, and other topics at universities in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He also gives workshops in interviewing and radio production at stations and at major conferences.

ELAINE BERNARD is Executive Director of the Trade Union Program at Harvard University. Bernard is a lively and popular lecturer who has conducted courses on a wide variety of topics for unions, community groups, universities and government departments in the United States, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Japan, Australia and many countries in Western and Central Europe. Her current research and teaching interests are in the area of international comparative labor movements and the role of unions and social movements in promoting civil society and democracy. Some of her more recent talks and publications include: "Why Unions Matter," ‘What's the Matter with NAFTA," "Guidelines for Independent Monitoring of Labor Conditions," "Labor and Politics in the US and Canada," "The World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement: What's the Matter with Free Trade?" "Social Unionism: Labor as a Political Force," "Labor Law Reform in the US: Beyond the Wagner Act," "Public Sector Workers in Reinventing Government," "Why Health Care Should Not Be a Business," and "The Way to the Future: Setting a Social Agenda for Labor."

LESLIE CAGAN has been a tireless organizer for over 30 years: from the Viet Nam war to racism at home, from nuclear disarmament to lesbian/gay liberation, from fighting sexism to working against U.S. intervention. Leslie's coalition and organizing skills have put hundreds of thousands of people in the streets in many of the country's largest mobilizations, and countless smaller public protests from silent vigils to civil disobedience. Her writing has appeared in several left publications, as well as a few South End Press anthologies, and she has served in the leadership of a number of progressive/left organizations. Wrapping up seven years as the Director of the Cuba Information Project, Leslie coordinated the U.S. delegation to the World Youth Festival in Cuba in the summer of 1997. She is presently on the steering committee of the Same Boat Coalition in New York City, is on the board of the Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation, and is a national co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence. In addition, Leslie is coordinating the Cuny Is Our Future Coalition, a city wide effort to defend open admissions at the City University of NY.

NOAM CHOMSKY (Lexington, Massachusetts) is an MIT professor of linguistics and longtime activist, writer, and lecturer who speaks widely on a variety of social and political issues, nationally and internationally. He has written extensively on political and intellectual culture, the mass media, and domestic and foreign policies. He has been a regular contributor to Z Magazine/ZNet, as well as other periodicals, and author of numerous books including: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, After the Cataclysm (both with Edward Herman), Turning the Tide, The Fateful Triangle, Year 501, Rethinking Camelot, Necessary Illusions, The Culture of Terrorism, On Power and Ideology, Power and Prospects, The New Military Humanism, Hegemony or Survival, and Failed States.

Chomsky's course is Mediating Democracy. His evening talk is “We Own the World.”

BRIAN DOMINICK (Syracuse, New York), who attended ZMI as a student in 1994 and began returning as faculty in 2000, was a co-founder of Peoples NetWorks and The New-Standard. He has been involved in numerous social movements and written on topics ranging from collective theory to media and foreign policy analysis. He has volunteered and worked with Z for 13 years.

Dominick’s courses are: Activist Media Skills (with Andy Dunn); How Journalists Fail; Liberating Youth 1 & 2; Mainstream Media (with Cynthia Peters); and Web Publishing (with Jessica Azulay)

DIANE FARSETTA (Madison, Wisconsin) is senior researcher for the Center for Media and Democracy, where she coordinates CMD’s No Fake News campaign. She co-authored CMD’s two reports on video news releases that led to an FCC investigation. She also contributes to WIMN’s Voices, a group blog hosted by Women in Media & News and reports for WORT 89.9 FM, a community radio station and Pacifica Network affiliate in Madison.

Farsetta’s course is Media Self-Defense: How to Win Against Spin.

SEAN GONSALVES (Hyannis, Massachusetts) was also heavily influenced by the social environment of Oakland, home of the famous socialist writer, Jack London (Jack London Square), the Black Panther Party, the Hells Angels, Angela Davis, and countless other activists whose sense of social consciousness and passion for justice was palpable. In Hyannis he worked briefly as a union organizer, which “I was terrible at.” Then he began writing a column for the regional daily paper, the Cape Cod Times. Under the tutelage of then editor William Briesky, he began writing a weekly column. He’s written for the Wash-ington Post and USA Today, both on matters pertaining to race. He’s been involved with the Positive Futures Network, based in the Seattle-area and coordinated by Dave and Fran Korten, publishers of Yes! Magazine, which, among other initiatives, spawned a Take Back Your Time movement. He’s also been affiliated with Time Banks USA, serving briefly on the national board of directors.

Gonsalves’s course is Writing, Editing, & Getting Published.

AMY GOODMAN began her career in community radio in 1985 at Pacifica Radio’s New York station, WBAI. She produced WBAI’s evening news for 10 years. In 1990 and 1991, Goodman and Allan Nairn traveled to East Timor to report on the U.S.-backed Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Their documentary, Massacre: The Story of East Timor won numerous awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Armstrong Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 1996, Goodman helped launch Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now!” which she hosts. The show has experienced phenomenal success, has won numerous awards, is syndicated widely and broadcast around the world, and is also now available as a TV show through the satellite network Free Speech TV.

STEFANIE GUDE has been a member and organizer with the direct-action anti-poverty organization the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) for the past five years. She contributes both as an Immigration caseworker, working to support the struggle of non-status people in the battle against the racist and anti-poor policies of Immigration Canada, as well as through broader organizing work around welfare, housing and policing issues. Her work is grounded in the downtown neighborhoods of Toronto, but is also rooted in alliance-building with other community organizing in cities, towns and First Nations territories beyond provincial and national borders.

MANDISI MAJAVU (Capetown, South Africa) is an activist with the Cape Town anti-war coalition. A Stephen Bantu Biko Fellow, he is currently working on his Masters Degree in psychology at the University of Cape Town.

Majavu’s courses are The Heart of Darkness: Images of Africa through the Mainstream Press and Revolution in South Africa.

PAPER TIGER TV are an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. Through the production and distribution of our public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy, PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media. PTTV believes that increasing public awareness of the negative influence of mass media and involving people in the process of making media is mandatory for our long term goal of information equity. Denisse Andrade (Paper Tiger TV) is an educator, organizer an independent video maker who serves as the Outreach Coordinator with PTTV. She has been involved in various community media both in the U.S. and in Latin America. Website: www.papertiger.org.

CHARLOTTE RYAN grew up in a union activist family wrestling with the aftershock of a local plant shutdown. She has worked as an organizer in labor, community, and anti-intervention settings. She is author of Prime Time Activism: Media Strategies for Grassroots Organizing and co-director of the Boston College Media Research and Action Project which assists grassroots organizations with media research and training.

DANNY SCHECHTER is the author of of Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the Iraq War (Prometheus Books); Media Wars: News At A Time of Terror (Rowman & Littlefield); The More You Watch, The Less You Know (Seven Stories Press) and News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics (Akashic Books and Electron Press). He writes regularly for newspapers and magazines and is a four time Emmy Award winner. Schechter was the news director and principal newscaster for WBCN-FM, an on-air reporter for WGBH, and a news program producer and investigative reporter at CNN and ABC. Schechter’s print journalism has included serving as the London editor for Ramparts magazine; his articles have appeared in Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Detroit Free Press, Village Voice, Media Studies Journal, and Z Magazine, among others. He is the founder and executive director of MediaChannel.org, the world’s largest online media issues network, and recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2001 Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism. He also co-founded and is executive director of Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company now in its 16th year. Finally, he directed and produced a 2004 documentary about propaganda during the Iraq invasion called WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception. Website: www.newsdissector.org.

HOLLY SKLAR is a writer and political analyst whose standout commentaries have appeared in well over 150 newspapers nationwide such as the Houston Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Miami Herald, and Kansas City Star. Her latest book is Chaos or Community? Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics. Sklar’s other books include Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood (co-authored), Washington's War on Nicaragua, and Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management, which foretold the global corporate economy long before “globalization” was a buzzword. Sklar is the co-director of MediaVision, a new project to move progressive views into mass media, and a leading op-ed writer and founding board member of the Progressive Media Project. She is also a columnist for Z Magazine and serves on the board of United for a Fair Economy.

Additional faculty include:
Denisse Andrade, Paper Tiger
Ellen Frank, D&S;
Clarence Lusane
Julie Childers
Beatriz Rodriguez
Randy Albelda
Barbara Ehrenreich