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Street Barricades, Paris Uprising 1968 This month marks the 40th anniversary of the May 1968 Paris Uprising. And it was last month…
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founded People's Communication Inc., the parent organization for the websites The New Significance and NYT eXaminer (no longer active).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.
Standing before an audience at the Brookings Institute on March 8, a day before meeting U.S. President Barak Obama, Greek Prime Minister…
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes-and ships-and sealing-wax- And cabbages-and kings- And why the…
The current situation is marked by two notable factors… (1) The EU is going after Greek debt by pressuring the Pan-Hellenic…
While attention to class has ebbed and flowed among social movements for generations, class rule was always present and the recent economic…
OLYMPIC CRITIC DETAINED, QUESTIONED, AND REJECTED AT USA BORDER – For immediate public release – Thursday, December 10, 2009 Critics…
1. At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what are you for? What…
Yesterday I posted a blog with background information about today’s demonstrations in Greece. Today I post a short update from a friend in Athens…
"Shouting ‘Bread, education, freedom!’ thousands of students, many of them carrying clubs, surged through downtown Athens, where they started fires and tied…
[Originally in Greek. Special thanks to Athens anti-authoritarian movement friends for translating.] Question: What is the Botanical Garden? What were…