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Last weekend I attended the 7th International Rethinking Marxism Conference, November 5-8 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Yesterday, November 9th, marked…
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founded People's Communication Inc., the parent organization for the websites The New Significance and NYT eXaminer (no longer active).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.
[A panel presentation given today, Friday November 6th, 2009 at the 7th international Rethinking Marxism conference, held at the University of Massachusetts…
Title: Bridging the Gap: From Exploitation and Alienation to Equity and Participation Abstract: One of Marxism’s defining hallmarks has always been to…
Michael Hardt’s work, along with Toni Negri, has received wide spread attention and so it is a privilege to be able to…
"The book you hold in your hands has become the principle piece of evidence in ananti-terrorism case in France directed against nine…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] On the surface it may seem a remarkable coincidence that the origins…
Below is a short collection of mostly free online essays and books (links provided) that I used to write for a book…
An interview for the Greek online TV station TVXS covering Z Communications, my book Real Utopia, the Greek Uprising last December and…
Below is an interview for the Babylonia anti-authoritarian newspaper of Greece. Sofia Papagiannakh sent me six questions about urban problems and possibilities.…
Today the European Union took a step to the right as tens of millions of people voted in the European Parliamentary elections. …