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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founded People's Communication Inc., the parent organization for the websites The New Significance and NYT eXaminer (no longer active).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.
My initial reaction to the latest Wikileak is mixed. On the one hand there is concern about the release of “classified” diplomatic…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, September 17, 2010 Media Contacts: Chris Spannos Phone: 508-566-6380 Email: [email protected] Ross Bluestein Phone: 508-360-2200 Email:…
[Paper presented as the basis for dialogue at the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center for Community Leadership, Detroit, MI., August 26th…
Celebrating the first ever U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Atlanta, Georgia in 2007, National Planning Committee member Rubén Solís avowed, "This won’t…
On the ground, the “separation wall” that is between Israel and the Occupied Territories of Palestine is officially more than 4-times the…
Below are three articles regarding the recent Cinema Politica controversy, and the cancelation, and current refusal, by the Woods Community Association to…
This year’s Labor Notes conference in April 2010 featured hundreds of workshops and was one of the largest ever. Over 1,000 labor…
The latest in our local controversy surrounding our Cinema Politica screening of the film Occupation 101 in response to the Israeli raid…
For over a year, Cinema Politica-Woods Hole has been in discussions with the Woods Hole Community Association– the group that rents us…