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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founded People's Communication Inc., the parent organization for the websites The New Significance and NYT eXaminer (no longer active).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.
Numerous routes have been taken in the course of seeking the good society. Ideals have been fought for, some have won and…
Below are parts two, three and four of my draft essay “Paths Toward an Anti-Capitalist Liberation”. I posted part one here last…
Part three of “Paths Toward an Anti-Capitalist Liberation”, begining my attempt at comparative anti-capitalist analysis The Classical Model of Central Planning The…
Here is part 4 of a draft essay I’m working on “Paths Toward an Anti-Capitalist Liberation”: Variations of Market Socialism The next…
Here is the first part of an essay I am working on: Numerous routs have been taken in the course of seeking…
In addition to volunteering for ZNet, I also produce radio with Redeye, a weekly radical current affairs program heard on Vancouver Cooperative…
Last night, a cold, dark icy night, at the Jewish Community Centre in Vancouver, 25-30 activists joined together to peacefully protest the…
In an earlier posting I suggested that western governments could do more to help those effected by the tsunami disaster. Specifically, through…
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