“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”
Audre Lorde
The people listed on this page are Friends of ZNetwork. They serve as advisors, contributors, a sounding board, and a source of ideas for the project. Many have been closely related to Z for years, in some cases since Z’s inception. Others are more recent or even newly allied.
We cherish and appreciate our friends’ support and hope we can provide for them a useful source, outlet, and ally as well.
ZNetwork lives in an oppressive and restricted present but is unabashedly oriented to an equitable and liberating future. The same holds for Z Friends.
Click on the names below to read testimonials from each Z Friend, and open their contributor bio to view all their articles featured on ZNetwork.
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– Michael Albert
– Lonnie Ray Atkinson
– Ramzy Baroud
– Walden Bello
– Medea Benjamin
– Jeremy Brecher
– Urška Breznik
– Peter Bohmer
– Patrick Bond
– Leslie Cagan
– Sandy Carter
– Noam Chomsky
– Steve Early
– Mark Evans
– Bill Fletcher
– Ted Glick
– Kathy Kelly
– Bob McChesney
– Sotiris Mitralexis
– Cynthia Peters
– John Pilger
– Justin Podur
Contributor Bio
– CJ Polychroniou
– Don Rojas
– Stephen R. Shalom
– Norman Solomon
– Brian Tokar
– Yanis Varoufakis
– Brett Wilkins
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