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Here are some videos recorded in March 2008 for a Left Forum panel organized for the release of Real Utopia: Participatory Society…
Chris Spannos
Chris Spannos has had two decades experience in media and also as a social justice activist and organizer. From 1998-2006 he participated in the Redeye collective, heard on Vancouver Co-op radio. In September 2006 he joined Z as full-time staff focusing on ZNet and ZCom web operations. Other media work during that period included helping out with Z Video productions, being the occasional light and sound tech for local theater works in Woods Hole, MA, and also, with others, hosting weekly local public screenings and discussion of political documentaries.
Chris has worked as a multi-diagnosis social service worker, embroidery machine operator, cook, sailor, and bookstore clerk. He edited the volume Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press, 2008). He has contributed chapters to books such as The Accumulation of Freedom (AK Press, 2012) and The End of the World as We Know It (AK Press, 2014), both edited by Deric Shannon. Chris founded People's Communication Inc., the parent organization for the websites The New Significance and NYT eXaminer (no longer active). He developed the latest incarnation of ZNet's web operations. From April 2014 to April 2015 Chris was Web Editor for teleSUR English in Quito, Ecuador, and host of teleSUR's online video show Imaginary Lines. Since June 2015 Chris has lived in Oxford, England, where he works as Digital Editor for New Internationalist.
How ironic is it when a national entity priding itself that its foreign policy is based on humanitarian motives and diplomatic benevolence…
[This was initially posted as a ZNet sustainer commentary, but because of the direct connection to a friend I am reposting here…
[Below is a transcribed phone intreview I recently did about ZNet for Northwestern University’s campus magazine “The Protest.”] ZNet is part of…
The end of 2007 saw sad developments for Gda?sk’s historic shipyard in Poland, the Cold War birthplace of the Left, non-communist,…
"This is a spectacular book of ideas-brave, adventurous, intriguing ideas that reclaim perhaps the greatest human asset of all, political imagination, and…
In June of 2001 I ventured to Cuba as part of a Che Guevara Solidarity Brigade. I had done all my homework before the…
This is the second in a series of blogs reviewing the Solidarity groups 1972 pamphlet publication of Workers’ Councils and the Economics…
Here, through a series of blogs, I want to re-produce Solidarity’s pamphlet Workers’ Councils and the Economics of Self-Managed Society by Cornelius…
I usually don’t think much about my lack of formal education (I dropped out in the 9th grade), but my latest botch…