New Speak Out! catalog for 1991-92

[Rich Winkel]

Topic 19 New Speak Out! Catalog for 1991-92
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1991-1992


SPEAK OUT! The Political Speakers Bureau

Speak Out! is a political speakers bureau affiliated with
South End Press and Z Magazine. We are beginning our 2nd year
providing professional speakers (historians, journalists,
economists, etc.) and artists (poets, writers, musicians,
etc.) for campus, community and labor audiences throughout the
U.S. and Canada. The response to our speakers has been so
tremendous in the past year we have doubled our speaker
roster, we are sponsoring Fall and Spring tours and, we will
include book fairs for speaking events.

We can help you organize for an individual speaker or for a
lecture series; we can provide information on fees and topics;
we can also help you find ways to raise funds for speaker
expenses. If you do not see someone you are looking for in the
following pages, call us anyway. We are in contact with
numerous other speakers and artists and may be able to help
you reach them.

As director of Speak Out! I have been involved in a broad
range of social movements and organizations including campus,
community, and national projects. In the early 1980s I
co-founded several local and regional Central American
solidarity groups in the New England area which are still
functioning today. In 1986, after working with District 65
organizing daycare workers, I joined the UFW table grape
boycott and was the national boycott coordinator when I left
in 1989.

I would like to continue receiving notes like the one recently
telling me: "Speak Out!'s work hits the nail on the moon."

To arrange for speakers or make other inquiries contact me at
our central office: Jean Caiani 2215-R Market St. #520 San
Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 864-4561.

Table of Contents

1. Table of Contents
2. A Note to Readers
4. Philip AGEE, Marjorie AGOSIN, Michael ALBERT
5. Robert ALEXANDER, Naseer ARURI, Khalil BARHOUN, Karen BASS
6. Rosalyn BAXANDALL, Walden BELLO, Medea BENJAMIN, Peter BOHMER
7. St. Claire BOURNE, Angela BOWEN, BREAK THE SILENCE MURAL
PROJECT, Walt BRESETTE
8. Dave BROTHERTON, Dennis BRUTUS, Bunyan BRYANT, Jeanne
BUTTERFIELD
9. Johan CARLISLE, Margaret CERULLO, Mike CHAPPELLE
10. Noam CHOMSKY, Ward CHURCHILL, Joe COLLINS, Sam CORNISH
11. Kevin DANAHER, Marv DAVIDOV, Dave DELLINGER, John DEMETER
12. Sara DIAMOND, Barbara EHRENREICH, Daniel ELLSBERG, Magda
ENRIQUEZ
13. Martin ESPADA, Anne FEENEY, Jerry FRESIA, Bill FLETCHER
14. Bill GALLEGOS, Reebee GAROFALO, Brian GLICK, Janice GOULD
15. Rabab HADI, Robin HAHNEL, Chaia HELLER, Edward HERMAN
16. Fred Wei-Han HO, Stuart HUTCHISON, Hettie JONES, George
KATSIAFICAS
17. Christine KELLEY, Hans KONING, Paul KRASSNER, William KUNSTLER
18. Winona LADUKE, Saul LANDAU, Martin LEE, Dave LIPPMAN
19. Zachary LOCKMAN, Clarence LUSANE, Rozena MAART, Rita MARAN
20. Elizabeth MARTINEZ, Alfred MOLEAH, Aurora Levins MORALES,
Isaam NASSAR
21. Prexy NESBITT, Gus NEWPORT, Akua NJERI, Molara OGUNDIPE-LESLIE
22. Sheila O'DONNELL, Michael PARENTI, Cindy PATTON, Robert PINSKY
23. Jason PRAMAS, Earl RAINEY, Margaret RANDALL, Elayne RAPPING
24. Kate RUSHIN, Vera SAEEDPOUR, Sonia SANCHEZ, Lydia SARGENT
25. Susan SCHECHTER, Jules SCHERWIN, Juliet SCHOR, David SCONDRAS
26. Peter Dale SCOTT, Joni SEAGER, Steve SHALOM, Gladis SIBRIAN
27. Holly SKLAR, Norman SOLOMON, Jaime SURIANO
28. Brian TOKAR, Barbara TRENT, Kwame TURE, Michele WALLACE
29. Lawrence WEISS, Carol WELLS, Dessima WILLIAMS, Brian WILLSON
30. Marilyn YOUNG, Fatima ZAIZAN, Bob ZELLNER, Howard ZINN
31. Organizations and Publications Directory
37. Index by Topic

Catalog designed and published by Johan Carlisle
Cover photo by Ellen Shub
Back cover illustration by Eduardo Galeano from The Book of Embraces.
Special thanks to: Jane Stegemann and Anne Schupack

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"Why does one write, if not to put one's pieces together?
From the moment we enter school or church, education chops
us into pieces: it teaches us to divorce soul from body and
mind from heart. The fishermen of the Colombian coast must
be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented
the word sentipensante, feeling-thinking, to define language
that speaks the truth."

-- "CELEBRATION OF THE MARRIAGE OF HEART AND MIND"
From: The Book of Embraces By Eduardo Galeano

The widespread, enthusiastic, and diverse response to our
speakers has encouraged me to consider new possibilities
of shaping our work for the coming year. Over the past year I
have worked with many activists who are questioning previous
assumptions about organizing. In preparing this new booklet I
reflected on the significance of the most often heard query:
"The speaker was great, the audience was great! What do we do
now?" One student expressed the view of many when she suggested
we devise workshops after speaking engagements to explore ways
we might use the information from the talks to bring campus and
community people together more closely around the issues they
work with. She realizes that most of our various events remain
just that -- isolated events, not going anywhere. I thought,
yes, in this way a possibility exists that through Speak Out!
we can begin to make the connections so many activists are
quite clearly yearning to make -- between the speakers material
and lived experience.

The first question, then, this student and I asked ourselves
was, how do we make these connections without allowing the
workshops to become just another plan, another forum, another
agenda? Why is it so difficult to connect with each other even
when our immediate goals are the same? Do these individual
events we are constantly planning reflect our own individual
isolation? Can we dismiss this alienation as inherent in
growing self awarenesss, or must we not face it as part of the
commodity structure affecting all social relations over such a
long time? We evaluate our work by asking: how many, how fast,
how much?, equating activism primarily with good planning.
Indeed we have become superior planners. Unfortunately,
planning based solely on form, especially quantity, squeezes
and imprisons human sensibility. The repetitive nature of
working this way finally becomes nothing more than mechanical.
After almost every event besides the large numbers, the loud
applause, this kind of planning leads to a commonly heard
frustration -- what do we do now? Plan another event?

For a long time I have been plagued with these questions now
urging me to see that by accepting the single-minded emphasis
on the mechanics of planning as our central method of activism
we are collaborating with the non-human forces of the society
we wish to change. All of this related experience -- phone
calls, letters and postcards, coming to me across the country
-- confirm what sounds to me to be a surging desire to
retrieve the lost immediacy of experience central to making
true connections. The following excerpt from Eduardo GaleanoUs
newest work _The Book of Embraces_ throws into sharp relief
what is painfully missing from our work: a fusion of living
experience with political insight.


CELEBRATION OF THE HUMAN VOICE

"Their hands were tied or handcuffed, yet their
fingers danced, flew, drew words. The prisoners
were hooded, but leaning back, they could see a
bit, just a bit, down below. Although it was
forbidden to speak, they spoke with their hands.
Pinio Ungerfeld taught me the finger alphabet,
which he had learned in prison without a teacher:
`Some of us had bad handwriting?,' he told me.
`Others were masters of calligraphy.'

The Uruguayan dictatorship wanted everyone to
stand alone, everyone to be no one: in prisons
and barracks, and throughout the country,
communication was a crime.

Some prisoners spent more than ten years buried in
solitary cells the size of coffins, hearing nothing
but clanging bars or footsteps in the corridors.
Fernandez Huidobro and Mauricio Rosencof, thus
condemned, survived because they could talk to each
other by tapping on the wall. In that way they told
of dreams and memories, fallings in and out of love;
they discussed, embraced, fought; they shared beliefs
and beauties, doubts and guilts, and those questions
that have no answers.

When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to
speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a
mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the
pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of
us has something to say to the others, something that
deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others."


We cannot recapture this closeness to life, to finding new
ways of bringing to life the good material of our political
speakers until we consciously change our organizing methods.
Through Speak Out! we would like to initiate this change
starting with Fall events.

To start, we need to hear from more of you about your specific
difficulties like those elaborated here. We want to know some of
the details surrounding your sense of uncertainty so that we can
work together, with you and the speakers, drawing us closer to
undermining our present reified world. Then perhaps we can work
together toward an exciting discovery of new methods to use these
talks about the Persian Gulf, the environment, women, foreign
policy, homelessness, etc. allowing a continuous living activity
to evolve.

Beginning in the Fall 1991 we will meet with those of you who
want to explore these questions further. At this writing we
cannot be more specific about the content of our meetings. We
are gathering materials and invite you to call us for details.
We welcome your words. Write or call Jean Caiani:

Speak Out!
2215-R Market St. #520
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 864-4561


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Topic 20 Speaker Biographies
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Speak Out! Catalog 1991-1992

SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHIES

PHILIP AGEE, the first CIA Secret Operations Officer to go
public in protest, and is the most controversial critic of the
CIA since its founding in 1947. In his articles, books and
speeches, Agee has done more than anyone to expose the
intricacies in the systematic covert operations of the Central
Intelligence Agency. He has persistently continued to write
and speak despite being regularly hounded and intimidated
since the publication of Inside the Company, CIA Diary in
1975. A leading activist of the CIA-off-Campus Movement, he
speaks on campuses and for community groups across the country
against the CIA support of torture, political assassinations,
and death squads and the overthrow of democratically elected
governments around the world. "If you want to get the CIA off
your campus, bring Phil Agee on." -- Christine Kelley, from
Student Action Union.

* The CIA, Human Rights and American Democracy

* U.S. Foreign Policy

MARJORIE AGOSIN is a Chilean poet and Human Rights activist.
Her work centers around Latin American women and their
participation in resistance movements. She is the author of
Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras, a book depicting the
political tapestries of Chilean women under the Pinochet
dictatorship. Her most recent book, a collection of photos
and poetic text, is dedicated to the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

* Women, Courage and Creativity in Latin America

* Artists Under Censorship: The Writer and Freedom of Expression

MICHAEL ALBERT is a longtime political activist in campus,
anti- war, anti-intervention, and community projects and
movements. He is a founder of South End Press and of Z
Magazine where he is co-editor/publisher/staffer. Albert
has authored or co-authored numerous books including, most
recently, Liberating Theory, and Looking Forward: Toward A
Humane Economy for the Twenty First Century (both South End
Press) and Political Economy of Participatory Economics
(Princeton University Press). He writes a regular column for
Z Magazine, "Venting Spleen," as well as editorials ("Quiddity")
and features under the byline "Salient Science."

* Class, Race, Gender and Authority in U.S. Society

* Participatory Economic Vision

ROBERT ALEXANDER is the founder and director of the Living
Stage Theater Company, a multi-racial improvisational theater
company founded in 1966. Living Stage works with children and
adults combining performances based on social themes with
workshops exploring the artistic process. The Living Stage
Theater Company encourages the use of the imagination through
the art of live theater, leading children and adults to
rediscover their own artistic powers. Alexander believes this
exploration heightens people's awareness of the essential need
for art in their daily lives. And once ignited, the powers of
awareness can lead to joining collective efforts to understand
and alter the world. In addition to directing theater
workshops and performances Alexander is also available to
speak on the following topics:

* Integrating Artistic Experience in Everyday Life

* Artistic Use of the Imagination and Politics

NASEER ARURI is Professor of Political Science at Southeastern
Massachusetts University and for the past 25 years has been
teaching, writing, and lecturing about the Middle East, the
Palestine question, and U.S. policy in the region. He has been
active in the struggle for human rights, is on the boards of
directors of Amnesty International USA and Middle East Watch
and a founder of the Arab Organization for Human Rights. His
most recent book is Occupation: Israel Over Palestine and
forthcoming is Poetry of the Palestinian Intifada.

* Israeli Occupation of West Bank and Gaza

* Human Rights in the Middle East

KHALIL BARHOUN was born in Bethlehem, Palestine; he currently
teaches Linguistics at Stanford University. The former
President of the Council of Arab-American Organizations in the
San Francisco Bay Area, Barhoun speaks and writes extensively
on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East, publishing in many
periodicals including Middle East International and Al-Fajr
(the only English language Palestinian newspaper in the
Occupied Territories).

* U.S. Policy in the Middle East

* Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

KAREN BASS speaks as a medical activist on the medical,
social, and economic problems of crack and cocaine and their
impact on the quality of life in the Los Angeles African-
American community. A particular concern is the connection
between crack distribution and gang violence. A Physicians
Assistant and Clinical Instructor at the University of
Southern California School of Medicine, Bass has first hand
experience of this problem. She has also worked for the past
10 years in the anti-apartheid movement.

* Crack: Crisis in the African-American Family and Gang Violence

* Apartheid, South Africa, and Racism at Home


ROSALYN BAXANDALL, a feminist activist of more than 20 years,
speaks on womenUs rights issues. One of the founders of the
women's liberation movement in the late 1960s she helped start
Liberation Nursery on the Lower East Side of New York City,
participated in occupations to make daycare possible and
testified to make abortion legal. She has been active with
CARASA (Coalition for Abortion and Sterilization Abuse). She
is an Associate Professor and Chair of the American Studies
Department at SUNY, Old Westbury. She co-authors her latest
work The Rise and Fall of Suburbia, 1945-2000.

* Sexual Freedom and Women's Rights

* Racism and Sexism in Suburbia

WALDEN BELLO is a leading commentator on the Philippines and
the Pacific Rim, their conflicts with U.S. dependency. The
author of several books, his most recent Dragons in Distress
(Institute for Food and Development Policy), Bello is the
Executive Director of the Institute for Food and Development
Policy (Food First).

* Economic Development in the Pacific

* Low Intensity Conflict in the Pacific Rim

MEDEA BENJAMIN is co-founder and Executive Director of Global
Exchange, an organization that aims to strengthen people-to-
people ties between First and Third World citizens. She worked
for ten years as a nutritionist and economist in Latin
America, Africa and Europe and was a Senior Analyst with Food
First. Her books, reports and articles examine hunger and
development in the Third World including No Free Lunch: Food
and Revolution in Cuba Today.

* Working Overseas: Alternatives to the Peace Corps

* Cuba: The Revolution Under Siege

PETER BOHMER has worked for the past 25 years as a political
activist in student movements around anti-intervention and
solidarity efforts with Central and South America and the
Middle East. Because of his political activities in the 1970s
Bohmer became a victim of FBI political repression, even a
target of attempted assassination. A founder of the Union of
Radical Political Economics (URPE), he lectures on economics
to union and community groups. Currently Bohmer teaches
economics at Evergreen State College in Washington.

* Lessons of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement

* Causes and Consequences of U.S. Intervention in Latin America

ST. CLAIRE BOURNE is a producer, director, writer and was
cited by LIFE magazine (March 1988) as one of the best
filmmakers in his field. He was the staff producer for the
first national Black public affairs series, "Black Journal,"
during the year the program won the Emmy award. As an
independent filmmaker and director of Chamba Productions,
Bourne has produced more than 30 productions concentrating on
changing cultural and political themes including: "Making 'Do
the Right Thing,'" a narrative documentary about Spike Lee's
controversial feature. Currently he is the executive producer
of "A Question of Color." His films are available for showing
in addition to speaking engagements.

* Political Filmmaking in the U.S.

* Black and White Relations in the U.S.

ANGELA BOWEN, a black feminist writer and activist, is
co-chair of the National Coalition for Black Lesbians and Gays
and editor of its magazine Black/Out. Her writings appear in
many periodicals. As lecturer and workshop leader, Bowen
addresses issues from a variety of perspectives: the artist,
the parent of more than 20 years, the organizer. She speaks at
political rallies, inner city and suburban high schools,
college campuses, community groups. She also does readings of
her own stories as well as of the prose and poetry of other
black writers, especially from the Harlem Renaissance.

* Homophobia

* Black Gay and Lesbian Lives

Break the Silence Mural Project: In the summer of 1989 four
Jewish women artists from the U.S. travelled to the occupied
West Bank. In a collaborative effort with Palestinian artists
they created six murals and taught art as an expression of
international solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for
independence. The Break the Silence Mural Project is a
multi-media presentation of this experience.

* Palestinian Life Under Occupation

* Art and Resistance

WALT BRESETTE, a Lake Superior Chippewa from the Red Cliff
Reservation in Wisconsin, is a leading environmentalist and
treaty expert. Bresette, a radio and print journalist, founded
numerous environmental, treaty and cultural groups in the
region.

* Indian Treaties and the Environment

* Native Culture Yesterday and Today

DAVE BROTHERTON, active for the past 17 years in the
international labor and student movement, was born in the
slums of London. He worked as a rank and file organizer in the
auto and engineering industries while leading a socialist
youth movement and co-editing its weekly. After several shop
steward positions and frequent victimizations he moved to
Holland and served on the executive committee of the Dutch
trade union youth movement. In the U.S. he cofounded CAPSA, a
student youth coalition. Brotherton now teaches at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.

* Class Consciousness and the Student Movement

* Global Development or Exploitation

DENNIS BRUTUS is one of South Africa's best-known poets. A
leading opponent of apartheid, in 1961 he was banned from
speaking in public, from teaching, writing, publishing. In
1963 he was arrested for breaking the ban. Having tried twice
to escape from prison, he was shot in the back and imprisoned
on Robbin Island, notorious for its cruelty to political
prisoners. Now a leader in the anti-apartheid divestment
movement, he continues writing poetry and heads the Black
Studies Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Author of
seven books of poetry, Brutus is especially known for A Simple
Lust (Heineman Education Books).

* South Africa Today

* U.S. Policy in Africa

BUNYAN BRYANT, an active environmentalist on the faculty of
the school of Natural Resources, and a member of the Urban
Technological and Environmental Planning (UTEP) Program,
focuses especially on racial implications of hazardous wastes
in minority communities. He also works with the Center of
Afro-American and African Studies (CAAS), investigating
corporate, agency and community responses to hazardous wastes.
Bryant has written a book and manual on environmental waste;
currently he is completing Theoretical Models for
Environmental Advocacy. Along with Paul Mohai, Bryant was a
co-organizer of the University of Michigan Conference on Race
and the Incidence of Environmental Hazardous Waste held
January 1990 in Ann Arbor.

* Hazardous Waste in Minority Communities

* Environmental Advocacy Issues

JEANNE BUTTERFIELD, National Chairperson of the Palestine
Solidarity Committee, speaks on a variety aspects of the
Palestinian issue. Travelling frequently to the West Bank
and Gaza she leads fact-finding delegations for first-hand
observation and study. An attorney practicing immigration
law in Washington, D.C., she also writes about Palestine for
Palestine Focus and for The Guardian.

* Intifada Update (with slides)

* Palestinian Women Under Occupation

JOHAN CARLISLE, a San Francisco-based free-lance journalist
and managing editor of Propaganda Review magazine, has been
active for eight years researching and writing about covert
action, civil liberties, the drug wars, the media and
propaganda. As a senior editor of Propaganda Review for six
years, Carlisle has helped to analyze and expose the
manipulation of political discourse and the perversion of
democracy in the United States. Carlisle reports and writes
for Pacifica Radio, Pacific News Service, In These Times, and
other publications and has received three Project Censored
Awards.

* Propaganda in Culture, Government and the Media

* Covert Action: The Military's Role in the Drug Wars, the
FBI and Police Misconduct

MARGARET CERULLO, a political activist, teacher, lecturer,
worked in grassroots politics since her student days:
anti-militarist, anti-racist, women's liberation and lesbian
and gay activism. Most recently she does AIDS work with Boston
based ACT OUT and National ACT NOW (AIDS Coalition to Network,
Organize and Win) Network. An editor of Radical America,
Cerullo writes regularly on cultural politics and social
movements. She teaches sociology and feminist studies at
Hampshire College.

* Lesbian and Gay Politics and Their Challenge to
Progressive Movements

* Reproductive Rights, Feminism and Anti-militarism

MIKE CHAPPELLE is an actor, playwright and producer of the
play "Dr. AntonioniUs Imaginary Disease." A one-man satire on
modern medicine, "Dr. Antonioni's" tells about a new disease
he's invented and his reasons for inventing it. Although never
referred to by name, it's clear he's talking about AIDS. But
before the startling facts are revealed, he provides a brief
history of medicine to remove the mystique from the
profession. "Dr. Antonioni's" offers a revealing glimpse of
how the public perceives the medical profession. In addition
to his play Chappelle is available to speak on the politics of
medical research in the U.S.

* Dr. Antonioni's Imaginary Disease

* The Politics of AIDS, Cancer and Biomedical Research in
the U.S.

NOAM CHOMSKY, MIT Professor of Linguistics, a long-time
activist, writer and lecturer speaks widely on a variety of
social and political issues, national and international. He
links the political and intellectual culture with the media in
domestic and foreign policies. He has written extensively and
published many books, such as On Power and Ideology: The Managua
Lectures and, most recently, Necessary Illusions (both South
End Press).

* Contemporary Political Conflict

* The Media

WARD CHURCHILL (Creek/Cherokee Metis) is co-director of the
Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement, as well as a
member of AIM's interim National Governing Council. He served
as a delegate to the International Indian Treaty Council, both
to the UN and Cuba. He is connected with numerous Indian
organizations and is currently Head of American Indian Studies
at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Churchill published
widely on American Indian affairs including Agents of
Repression (South End Press).

* Contemporary Indian Affairs: Indigenist Politics and
Culture

* Political Repression in the U.S.

JOE COLLINS is co-founder (with Francis Moore Lappe) of Food
and Development Policy; a leading spokesperson on world hunger
and third world development. Collins has carried out extensive
field investigations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and North
America resulting in the publication of several books
including World Hunger: Twelve Myths, Aid as Obstacle, and
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity.

* The Truth About World Hunger: Does the Free Market Hold
the Solution

* Is Cuba Next?: Food and Revolution in Cuba Today

SAM CORNISH teaches at Emerson College and is a former Book
Review Editor for the Christian Science Monitor. He is the
author of several books of poetry, books for children and most
recently, a prose-autobiography entitled 1935. A former NEA
recipient and ALA Notable Book Award nominee, Cornish lectures
and reads poetry throughout the country, speaking on black
literature, the black woman writer, James Baldwin, Langston
Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance.

* Poetry and Opposition

* Black American Writers

KEVIN DANAHER is Senior Analyst on Africa and U.S. foreign
policy for Global Exchange. His research has taken him
throughout Africa providing the material from which he
lectures and writes on the impact of U.S. foreign policy,
foreign aid and the world food crisis. He is the author of
several works on Africa and foreign aid to the Third World
including Can the Free Market Solve AfricaUs Food Crisis?;
South Africa: A New U.S. Policy for the 1990s; he is co-author
of Betraying the National Interest, which reveals how U.S.
foreign aid is dominated by security assistance fostering the
instability and lack of democracy it claims to oppose.

* U.S. Foreign Aid: Where Does Our Money Go?

* The Democratic Reforms Sweeping Africa

MARV DAVIDOV, long time activist for the past 35 years, is
best known as the founder of the Honeywell Project, a
nationally recognized peace organization considered the oldest
project in the U.S. confronting management of a major
multi-national corporation through nonviolent civil
disobedience. Since the project's founding in 1966, thousands
of citizens have participated in the demonstrations of The
Honeywell Project. During the Vietnam War, the project
resisted production and use of cluster bombs made by
Honeywell; its work continues to resist the production and use
of these bombs in the Middle East and Central America.

* Nonviolent Struggle for Justice

* The Honeywell Project: Two Decades of Organizing for
Economic Conversion

DAVE DELLINGER, for 40 years involved in civil rights and
anti-war struggles, in movements against racism and sexism in
the U.S., writes and speaks on social and political change.
Currently a member of the National Board of the Rainbow
Coalition, Dellinger is also co-chair of the National
Committee for Independent Action. He is a regular writer for Z
Magazine and is the author of many books.

* Radical Responses to Repression

* Civil Disobedience and Social Change

JOHN DEMETER is a writer and humorist. A former editor of
Radical America, he worked on numerous political campaigns. A
commentator on popular culture -- film, tv, and music --
Demeter gives "musical" lectures on censorship, racism and
politics.

* Rap, Rock and Rights: Who Makes the Rules?

* Pop Goes Vietnam!: Our Cultural Syndrome Continues

SARA DIAMOND, an investigative journalist and sociologist, is
an internationally recognized expert of the U.S. Right. Her
book Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right
(South End Press) is considered the most in-depth treatment to
date on the role of evangelicals in the conduct of U.S.
foreign policy and "low intensity conflict." Her work includes
a comprehensive analysis of religious broadcasting, Christian
Right activism within the Republican Party and its opposition
to womenUs and gay rights. Diamond has taught journalism at
the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writing now
focuses on the role of private and government-funded think
tanks engaged in promoting U.S.-style "democracy" abroad.

* The Religious Right and Low Intensity Conflict

* The Enduring Political Clout of the Christian Right

BARBARA EHRENREICH, active for many years for social change,
especially in the womenUs movement, is cochair of the
Democratic Socialists of America. Now a regular columnist for
Z Magazine, she also writes articles for numerous magazines.
Author of many books, her most recent is The Worst Years of
Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed (Pantheon).

* American Health Empire: Power, Profits and Politics

* Class and Gender in America

DANIEL ELLSBERG, renowned peace activist since the 1960s and
author of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret study of the
U.S. 23-year involvement in Vietnam, was consultant for the
White House, State and Defense Departments on weapons and
nuclear plans. After the government case against him for
releasing the Pentagon Papers was dismissed in 1973 on the
basis of government misconduct, he became a leading figure in
the peace movement. Today he is Senior Research Associate of
the Harvard Medical School's Center for Psychological Studies
in the Nuclear Era and he speaks on all of the dangers of
nuclear policy.

* Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Foreign Policy

* Dangers of the Nuclear Arms Race

MAGDA ENRIQUEZ is the Acting Representative of the Sandinista
National Liberation Front (FSLN) for the United States and
Canada. Born in Managua, Nicaragua she is a founding member of
the Nicaraguan womenUs movement, served on the National
Executive Committee of the Association of Nicaraguan Women
(AMNLAE), founded and directed the first magazine for
Nicaraguan women entitled "SOMOS" (We Are). A Senior official
of the FSLN, Enriquez has worked as Secretary General of the
Department of International Relations and represented
Nicaragua in numerous delegations to the United Nations.

* Nicaragua: The Feminist Movement and The National
Debate

* Engineering Consent: The U.S.Media and Washington's Agenda
Against Nicaragua

MARTIN ESPADA is a Puerto Rican poet and author of several
books including most recently, Rebellion is the Circle of a
LoverUs Hands, for which he was awarded both the PEN/Revson
Fellowship and the Patterson Poetry Prize. PEN judges were
unanimous: "The shared experience of Latin American workers
and immigrants is his subject. This is political poetry at its
best. . . .The greatness of Espada's art, like all great art,
is that it gives dignity to the insulted and the injured of
the earth." Espada lives in Boston, where he works as a tenant
lawyer at Su Clinica Legal. He is available for readings and
lectures.

* Latin Night at the Pawnshop: Oppression and Resistance
in the Latino Community

* The Saviour is Abducted in Puerto Rico: Colonialism and
Independence

ANNE FEENEY is a cultural-political musician and producer. Her
trio combines a wide variety of musical styles: blues, rock
and roll, jazz, reggae, Irish ballads to sing about the lives
of working people and political issues of our times. Her music
comments on and celebrates a wide spectrum of American
culture. Anne Feeney and Friends are available for
performances.

* Anne Feeney and Friends

JERRY FRESIA, from an immigrant working class background, with
a B.S. in Engineering, became a captain in the U.S. Air Force.
Disillusioned by the Vietnam War and inspired by 1960s
activism he turned to political economy studies. Fresia then
became active in the solidarity movement with the people of
Central America. Having taught at seven colleges he writes and
speaks on how educational institutions reflect the
undemocratic nature of the larger society. His most recent
book, Toward an American Revolution: Exposing the U.S.
Constitution and Other Illusions (South End Press) is a
penetrating analysis and exposure of illusions still
surrounding this document. Fresia teaches part-time and works
primarily as an artist.

* The Truth About the U.S. Constitution

* How Colleges Steal Your Soul

BILL FLETCHER is an African-American labor organizer with the
National Postal Mail Handlers Union. For the past 18 years he
has been involved in community based struggles: desegregating
the construction industry, furthering the anti-apartheid
movement and working against police abuse. He is the
co-founder of the Black and Green Project which addresses the
parallels between struggles of national liberation both of the
Irish and African Americans.

* Irish Solidarity Movement in the U.S. and the Black Community

* The Present Struggle in Northern Ireland

BILL GALLEGOS is a Chicano activist and Director of Juvenile
Justice Program for the Constitutional Rights Foundation in
Los Angeles. Former editor of Unity/Unidad, a Spanish-English
newspaper, and a regular contributor to the political-cultural
newspaper Moving Forward/Avanzando, Gallegos has written
scores of essays, cultural reviews and poems. He was a member
of various Chicano organizations and is presently the
president of a Los Angeles parentsU network, Parents and
Students in Action.

* Educational Equity for Latinos

* Chicanos Today

REEBEE GAROFALO, a musician and teacher, lectures and writes
on music, politics and the music industry. He has been active
in promoting popular music studies on an international level
and was the co-founder of Massachusetts Rock Against Racism in
1979. He is currently writing a book entitled Mass Music and
Mass Movements, (South End Press).

* Popular Music and Mass Movements

* History and Politics of the Music Industry

BRIAN GLICK is a longtime political activist, public interest
lawyer and founding member of the 1960's student activist
organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). His
research and analysis sparked the campaign to reopen the case
of imprisoned Black Panther leader Geronimo Pratt. He is
counsel for other African-American activists seeking to
overturn criminal convictions obtained through government
perjury and fabrication of evidence. He is the author of War
at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can
Do About It, (South End Press).

* Covert Action At Home and Abroad

* Political Prisoners in the U.S.

JANICE GOULD is a member of the Maidu tribe of northern
California. She is a poet and writer, her work published in
various anthologies and journals. Gould is the author of a
book of poetry, Beneath My Heart (Firebrand Press).

* American Indian Literature

* Native American Poetry

RABAB HADI is Palestinian, born in the Israeli-occupied West
Bank city of Nablus. She is a founding member of the Union of
Palestinian WomenUs Association in North America and the
Development Director and Field Organizer for National
Mobilization for Survival. As a free-lance journalist
accredited to the United Nations since 1984, HadiUs articles
have appeared in numerous publications. She is also a member
of the the National Executive Committee of the Palestine
Solidarity Committee; co-chair of the Third World Coalition of
the American Friends Service Committee. She is co-author of
Mobilizing Democracy: Changing the U.S. Role in the Middle
East (Common Courage Press).

* Women in the Middle East

* The Middle East Conflict

ROBIN HAHNEL, an economist at American University and longtime
political activist, is the author of numerous books on
economic vision and political strategy. His most recent
co-authored publications are Liberating Theory and Looking
Forward: A Humane Economy for Tommorrow (both South End Press)
and Political Economy of Participatory Economics (Princeton
University Press).

* Economic Vision for a Better Economy

* Cuba, the Soviet Union and East Europe

CHAIA HELLER is a feminist teacher, writer, lecturer. She has
taught classes on feminism and social ecology at the Institute
for Social Ecology in Vermont; on ecofeminism through the
Women's Studies Department at Burlington College. She is a
member of several environmental groups including the Left
Green Network and Youth Greens, currently focusing work on
national organizing and education projects.

* Feminism and Ecology

* Ecofeminism in the 90Us

EDWARD HERMAN has been teaching, speaking and writing about
U.S. public policy and international affairs for the past 30
years. He is an officer of the Institute of Media Analysis,
also editor of Lies of Our Times. Currently he teaches in the
Annenburg School of Communications at the University of
Pennsylvania. Herman specializes in penetrating critical
analyses of the media in all areas of public policy. He is the
author of The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and
Propaganda (South End Press) and lately (with Noam Chomsky) of
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
(Pantheon).

* Mass Media: Purpose, Organization and Control

* The US Economy: Mergers, Corporate Control and Concentration

FRED WEI-HAN HO is an internationally reknown baritone
saxophonist, composer and band leader, educator,writer and
activist. He leads the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble which
combines Asian folk music influences with African American
Jazz . Ho has received numerous awards including the Duke
Ellington Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award. In
addition to Ensemble performances Ho is available to speak on
the following topics:

* Music and Social Change

* Asian American Culture and Social History

STUART HUTCHISON is an actor and writer. Politically active
since the Vietnam War, Hutchison resisted the draft in 1968.
He has produced several programs for Pacifica and National
Public Radio Networks including "Allen Ginsberg on Why He
Can't Broadcast HOWL," and "Dear Abbie- A Celebration of the
Words of Abbie Hoffman." Hutchison is author of two plays,Jack
London Speaks Today" and "Just Before the Dawn" about writer
Thomas Wolfe.

* How to Use Mass Communication to Promote Social Change

* Transforming the Agenda: Making the Mainstream Radical

HETTIE JONES is a poet, prose writer and author of the 1990
highly acclaimed How I Became Hettie Jones (Penguin), a memoir
of the "beat scene" of the fifties and sixties, as well as of
her marriage to and work with LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) in
those days when interracial marriages were rarely visible.
Jones has published numerous books, including many for
children. She has been a long time editor and teacher. In
addition to her work on new books, she is currently involved
with the PEN Prison Writing committee and runs a writing
workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women
at Bedford Hills. Besides reading from her own work she can
talk about the following topics:

* Multicultural Life, an American Future

* Women Artists: Fifties to the Nineties

GEORGE KATSIAFICAS, activist, teacher and writer, has been
active in the movement against the war on Indochina, the
student movement, the struggle for community control in Ocean
Beach (California) and the Palestine solidarity movement since
1969. He teaches at Wentworth Institute of Technology in
Boston where he is noted for his courses on the Vietnam War
and the social movements of the 1960s.

* Vietnam Past and Present

* European Activism

CHRISTINE KELLEY is a student organizer and founding member of
Student Action Union, a student and youth group with members
on 75 campuses. She worked closely with Abbie Hoffman; she
participated in many national and international student and
youth coalitions and gatherings.

* Women's Roles in the Youth and Student Movement: Feminist
Legacies for Young Activists

* The 90's Meets the 60's (with Rosalyn Baxandall)

HANS KONING, born in Amsterdam, has been writing since he
escaped as a student from occupied Holland to serve in the
British Army during World War II. Since 1951 he has made his
home in the U.S. and his first novel, The Affair, established
him as an American writer. His other acclaimed novels The
Revolutionary, A Walk with Love and Death, Death of a
Schoolboy have also been filmed. Among his political books are
Love and Hate in China, Columbus: His Enterprise, and Nineteen
Sixty-Eight.

* Columbus: Let Us Mourn 1492, Not Celebrate It

* Literature and Politics

PAUL KRASSNER is a political satirist and writer. An original
co-founder of the Yippies, Krassner has long been a standup
performer winning two awards for his one-person show. He was
headwriter for an HBO special satirizing the 1980 presidential
campaign and he did on-camera commentaries of the Fox
network's Wilton North Report as well as PBS' The 90's. He was
editor of The Realist, a publication of political satire, from
1958 to 1974; he renewed publication again in 1985.

* An Evening with Paul Krassner

WILLIAM KUNSTLER is among the top movement lawyers in the U.S.
having represented people such as Martin Luther King, Leonard
Peltier (American Indian Movement), the Berrigan Brothers. He
was also one of the attorneys in the 1961 Freedom Riders case
and the 1969-70 Chicago 8 Conspiracy Trial. He was the founder
of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Volunteer Staff
Attorney since 1966. He has published a dozen books and
numerous articles.

* Law and Social Justice

* Political Repression in the U.S.

WINONA LADUKE (Chippewa) is a leading activist on Native
American issues. For the past 13 years she has focused on
environmental and women's concerns from a Native perspective.
President of the Indigenous WomenUs Network, an international
network of Pacific and Native American women, she testified at
the UN and received the Reebok Human Rights Award. LaDuke
writes regularly for numerous publications.

* Environmental Issues from a Native Perspective

* Women's Issues

SAUL LANDAU, a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy
Studies, is one of the leading political activists in the
United States for the past twenty years. He has made over 40
films, including the internationally acclaimed "Paul Jacobs
and the Nuclear Gang" and "The Uncompromising Revolution"
(1988), a film about Fidel Castro and Cuba at middle age. He
has won film awards as diverse as the Emmy and the Cannes Film
Festival and has written many books including Assasination on
Embassy Row (Pantheon).

* U.S. Policy to Cuba in the New World Order

* The National Security State

MARTIN LEE, an award-winning investigative journalist and
media critic, explores the netherworld of international drug
trafficking providing the most comprehensive analysis of the
drug epidemic to date -- who profits, who uses; the history of
narcotics legislation, and the cyclical outbursts of drug
hysteria in the U.S. media. He is the co-founder of the
media-watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
and co-author of Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias
in News Media.

* Narco-Terrorism: The Politics of International Drug
Trafficking

* Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion

DAVE LIPPMAN's one man CIA CABARET presents George Shrub, the
singing CIA agent from the Committee to Intervene Anywhere;
Seymour the Dumpie (former Yuppie); and Lippman himself in a
hilarious, incisive revue of contemporary society. Shrub
presents the "Right Point of View" on U.S. foreign policy, the
environment, race, and other issues; Seymour documents his
transition from hippie to yuppie to dumpie in song, rap and
reflection. He also presents "poor people's music videos"
(songs and slides) from his trips to the world's trouble
spots. Universally acclaimed (except by a few Deans) he has
toured extensively in North America and England.

* Political Satire

* CIA, The Committee to Intervene Anywhere

ZACHARY LOCKMAN, professor of History and Middle East Studies
at Harvard, writes and speaks on the Middle East and U.S.
foreign policy with special attention to the Palestinian
Intifada. Editor of the Middle East Report, he is also
co-author of the recent Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising
Against Israeli Occupation (South End Press).

* Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising

* U.S. Foreign Policy and the Middle East

CLARENCE LUSANE, an activist, lecturer and free-lance
journalist in Washington, D.C., has worked on national black
politics and on U.S. foreign and domestic policy issues.
Lusane writes for many periodicals; in 1983 his article,
"Israeli Arms to Central America" won the Project Censored
Investigating Award. His series on the drug crisis, published
in The Guardian, reprinted in several countries and across the
U.S., is being used by progressive drug experts throughout the
U.S. He is co-author of a new book Pipe Dream Blues: Racism
and the War on Drugs (South End Press).

* U.S. Policy and the International Drug Trade

* The Drug Crisis and the Black Community

ROZENA MAART, South African feminist, activist, poet, is one
of the founders of the first and only black womenUs
organization in South Africa. She is author of a book of
poetry, Talk About It (Williams-Wallace); her work focuses
mainly on violence against women and Black Consciousness. In
1987 she was nominated to the "Women of the Year" event which
acknowledges the political and community work of women in
pursuit of a post-apartheid South Africa. Her work is also
published in "Lives of Courage: Women for a New South Africa."
She works in Toronto, Canada and is an active member of the
Biko, Rodney, Malcolm Coalition. Maart is available for poetry
readings and talks.

* Violence Against Women

* A Feminist Agenda for South Africa and Black Consciousness

RITA MARAN, a founding member of Human Rights Advocates, a
human rights non-profit organization accredited to the United
Nations, writes and speaks about torture as a political tool
for governing. She organizes public forums to bring the
subject of torture into public discussion on radio and
television in England, Europe, Africa and the United States.

* Human Rights and the United Nations

* Torture in U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy

ELIZABETH MARTINEZ speaks about Mexican and Chicano struggles.
As a Chicana, an experienced civil rights activist and writer
for many years, she directed in the 1960s the New York office
of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Martinez is a founder of the Chicano Communication Center as
well as of El Grito del Norte, the Chicano newspaper, both in
New Mexico. The author of several books and numerous articles,
including 450 Years of Chicano History, and Viva La Raza: The
Struggle of the Mexican-American People. She is currently a
regular columnist for Z Magazine.

* Mexican American Struggles: Past and Present

* Racism in America and Our Response

ALFRED MOLEAH is a native of South Africa, born and raised in
Johannesburg. He teaches political science in the
African-American Studies Department at Temple University, has
written extensively about Africa, particularly Southern Africa
and is author of Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation. He is
the former chairman of the Editorial Board of the
International Journal of World Studies, former Associate
Editor of the Journal of Black Studies, and member of the
Executive Council of the International Organization for the
Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. After 27
years Moleah returned to South Africa in 1990 and is now
writing two new books based on these experiences.

* Israel-South Africa Relations

* South Africa, Namibia and African Politics

AURORA LEVINS MORALES is an award winning fiction writer and
cultural activist who speaks on feminism, racism and cultural
diversity. Of Puerto Rican and Jewish heritage, her fiction is
about the people of rural Puerto Rico and the cultural
crossfire of immigrant identity. She is a contributor to This
Bridge Called My Back: Writing By Radical Women of Color.

* Latina Feminism

* A Voice of OneUs Own Writing Workshops

ISSAM NASSAR is an activist and lecturer working with numerous
organizations on Middle East issues including Mobilization for
Survival and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He
also worked as a Human Rights Researcher for Al-Haq/Law in the
Service of Man in Ramallah, West Bank investigating human
rights abuses.

* Life for Palestinians on the West Bank

* Middle East and U.S. Policy

PREXY NESBITT is the senior consultant in the U.S. for the
government of the People's Republic of Mozambique. He has
worked with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1966, traveled, and
studied throughout East and Southern Africa, organized many
anti-apartheid activities in the U.S. and Europe. In 1988
Nesbitt received the King/Mandela award by the Washington
Office on Africa.

* Apartheid in Our Living-rooms: U.S. Foreign Policy and
South Africa

* Mozambique and U.S. Policy

GUS NEWPORT is the executive Director of the Dudley Street
Neighborhood Initiative, a community non-profit planning
agency. He is the former mayor of Berkeley, California (two
terms) and served on the Advisory Boards of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors. During his tenure Berkeley was declared
a Nuclear Free Zone and became the first city to be a
sanctuary for Salvadoran citizens and to divest its money
from banks doing business with South Africa. For over twenty
years Newport has been a community leader, exposing the direct
relationship between the military budget and the economic
crisis of our cities. He is a Vice-President of the World
Peace Council and serves on the Boards of Directors of several
social justice organizations.

* The Military Budget and Our Economic Crisis

* Local Issues and U.S. Foreign Policy: What is the Connection?

AKUA NJERI (Deborah Johnson) was a member of the Illinois
Chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). She was the wife of
Fred Hampton and a survivor of the FBI raid which murdered
Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the BPP,
and Mark Clark, Peoria, Illinois Defense Captain and wounded
four others. Njeri is now the coordinator of the December 4
Committee sponsoring events to commemorate the spirit of Fred
Hampton and raises funds in an attempt to purchase the
building where Hampton and Clark were murdered. The building
will be a base for community organizing, a bookstore, and a
participatory education project for youth.

* COINTELPRO: Counterinsurgency Program Behind the Cover
of the "War on Drugs"

* COINTELPRO: Its Effect on the African-American Revolution
of the 1960s

MOLARA OGUNDIPE-LESLIE is a teacher, poet and scholar.
Appointed Assistant Professor and the founding head of the
Department of English at Ogun State University in Nigeria in
1984, she continues to advance literary and women's studies at
the university level. In all her work she pays special
attention to the place of African women in African literature
as well as to the role of the woman writer in Africa. She
publishes widely on literature, research, education and
culture, authored a book of poetry, and was a columnist for
African Commentary. In addition to poetry readings she is
available to speak on the following topics:

* African Women and Development

* African Literature and African Women's Writing

SHEILA O'DONNELL, a licensed private investigator with Ace
Investigations in Pacifica, CA, specializes in trial
preparation for civil and criminal attorneys. A long-time
movement activist, O'Donnell has developed an in-depth
knowledge of activist security issues, domestic repression,
and government and corporate misconduct. In addition to
speaking about these issues, O'Donnell conducts workshops
designed to teach activists how to protect themselves from
government infiltration and harassment, and how activists can
conduct their own investigations.

* How Activists Can Protect Themselves and Their Organizations

* The Truth About the FBI

MICHAEL PARENTI, Ph.D., political science (Yale University)
lives in Washington D.C. and lectures widely around the
country on issues relating to U.S. foreign policy, American
democracy, and the Media. He is author of Democracy for the
Few (5th edition); Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass
Media; The Sword and the Dollar: Imperialism, Revolution and
the Arms Race; Make-Believe Media, the Politics of the
Entertainment (all St. MartinUs Press).

* Political Bias in the U.S. News Media

* The "New World Order:" U.S. Global Control

CINDY PATTON is a former editor of Gay Community News and Bad
Attitudes, former chair of Boston AIDS Action Committee and
former member of the Board of Directors of Fenway Community
Health Center. She has published in many periodicals is a
regular writer for Z Magazine and the author of several works
on AIDS.

* Examining the AIDS Crisis

* Being a Gay Activist in the U.S.

ROBERT PINSKY is a poet, prose writer and teacher at Boston
University. Author of several books including his most recent
book of poetry, The Want Bone (Ecco), PinskyUs previous poetry
collection, History of My Heart (Ecco) was awarded the William
Carlos Williams Prize of the Poetry Society of America. His
collection of essays, Poetry and the World, was nominated for
the National Book CriticsU Circle award for criticism in 1988.

* Poetry Readings

JASON PRAMAS has worked with numerous student organizations on
national and regional levels including anti-CIA, Middle East
solidarity and environmental work. In April 1990 he founded
the New Liberation News Service, an alternative youth news
service for student and youth groups throughout the country.

* History of the U.S. Underground Press: 1774-present

* Signs Toward a New Counterculture

EARL RAINEY is a Vietnam veteran and President of the San
Francisco Chapter of Vietnam Vets of America. For the past 15
years he has been an investigative photo journalist and
involved in many political movements, in particular work to
assist and free U.S. political prisoners. RaineyUs work has
taken him to many countries: throughout Central America,
Japan, South Korea and most recently to Jordan and Iraq.
Rainey speaks clearly and directly from his experiences --
growing up in segregated schools in the South, discovering
racism in the military and becoming politically aware.

* U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policies from a Veteran's
Perspective

* Being Black in America

MARGARET RANDALL is a poet, photographer, oral historian,
activist, teacher. She has published over 50 books centering
mostly on women and peoplesU culture, her most recent Walking
to the Edge: Essays of Resistance (South End Press). After 23
years living outside the U.S., in 1984 Margaret Randall
returned home, only to be ordered deported. The U.S.
government found opinions in some of her books too critical of
its policies in South East Asia and Central America. After a
four year struggle, in July 1989 she won her case.

* The Writer Battles the State

* Our Sisters' Voices: Taking Personal and Political Risks

ELAYNE RAPPING, active a long time in women and anti-war
movements speaks and writes on feminist and popular culture
issues. Her many articles and reviews appear in a wide variety
of progressive periodicals. She is the author of Looking Glass
World of Nonfiction TV (South End Press) and most recently The
Movie of the Week: Private Stories, Public Events (University
of Minnesota Press). Rapping is a professor of Communications
at Adelphi University.

* Mass Media and Popular Culture

* Feminism and the Mass Media

KATE RUSHIN is a poet and teacher with a background in
theater, communications and radio. Over the past 15 years she
has read her poetry at colleges, for conferences and at
community events. Through her poetry and humor Rushin
addresses racism, sexism, classism and homophobia. Her poetry
has appeared in Sojourner, The Black Women's Health Book, Home
Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, New Worlds of Literature
and other publications. She is author of the acclaimed poem
"The Bridge Poem" published in This Bridge Called My Back:
Writing By Radical Women of Color. She also collaborated with
the Underground Railway Theater on the play "Sanctuary: The
Spirit of Harriet Tubman." For the past eight years Rushin has
been a member of New Words: A Women's Bookstore. In addition
to poetry readings Rushin can speak on the following topics:

* The Personal as Political

* Racism, Sexism and Classism in the U.S.

VERA SAEEDPOUR is the founder and director of the Kurdish
Program, the only Kurdish Library in the Western Hemisphere
and the Kurdish Heritage Foundation in America located in New
York City. Author of numerous research pieces on Kurdish
issues, her latest work on Iraq will be published in a new
book titled, Genocide Watch (Yale University). Saeedpour has
been described as the "resident expert on the Kurds."

* The Gulf War and the Kurds: What is the Truth

* The Kurds as a Minority in the Middle East

SONIA SANCHEZ is a teacher, poet, playwright, and author of
several books. She was awarded the American Book award in
1985 for Homegirls & Hand Grenades. She has been at the
forefront of the black studies movement and taught the first
course in the country on black women at the University of
Pittsburgh. In addition to poetry readings she speaks on the
following:

* Black Studies

* Black Women

LYDIA SARGENT is a founding member of South End Press and a
co-founder and editor of Z Magazine, where she writes: "Hotel
Satire," "Fashion Fetters," and "On Second Street." She was
active in the anti-war movement in the early 1970s with the
local and national People's Coalition for Peace and Justice.
She was a member of political newstheater group, The Living
Newspaper, and has been director, actor and playwright with
the Newbury Street Theater in Boston for 15 years. Her plays
include "Perverse, Immoral and Profane" (on the New Right), "I
Read About My Death in Vogue Magazine," "Vanish Like A Summer
Tantrum," and "The Second Street Hotel." Her talks are an
evening of satire, provocation and drama.

* Gender Politics

* Women and Culture

SUSAN SCHECHTER, active for many years in the women's
movement, is author of Women and Male Violence: The Visions
and Struggles of the Battered Women's Movement (South End
Press); Guidelines forMental Health Practitioners in Domestic
Violence Cases and co-author of her most recent book When Love
Goes Wrong: What to Do When You Can't Do Anything Right (Feb.
1992, Harper Collins). Currently she lectures and consults
about battered women and serves as Program Coordinator for
AWAKE (Advocacy for Women and Kids in Emergencies), a project
for battered women with abused children at Children's
Hospital, Boston.

* Violence Against Women

* Organizing a Battered Women's Movement

JULES SCHERWIN is a noted film director, producer and writer.
As head of a production studio in Hollywood, Scherwin was
blacklisted in the 1950's. He has produced over 150 films
including the celebrated labor feature "Salt of the Earth." He
is also the author of I 'Been Buked and I 'Been Scorned
(Oxford Univ. Press 1991), a biography of Mahalia Jackson and
the violent '60s.

* Film and Politics

* Criticism of Political Cinema

JULIET SCHOR is Associate Professor of Economics and Director
of WomenUs Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of
several books, her most recent The Overworked American: The
Unexpected Decline of Leisure Time (Basic Books, 1991). Schor
is a founder of the Center for Popular Economics and South End
Press, and is currently a research Associate at the World
Institute for Development Economics Research at the United
Nations University. Schor has lectured widely to campus, union
and community groups.

* Decline of the U.S. Economy

* Why Americans Are Working So Hard

DAVID SCONDRAS is a progressive political leader, elected to
the Boston City Council since 1983. He is a leading
spokesperson for the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian community,
and a successful sponsor of Boston City legislation banning
assault weapons, protecting human rights, and barring eviction
of senior citizens from condominium conversions. Scondras has
led efforts to pass anti-apartheid restrictions on municipal
investments and expenditures.

* Lesbian and Gay Rights

* International Human Rights and Civil Liberties

PETER DALE SCOTT is a former Canadian diplomat, now a writer,
researcher and English Professor at the University of
California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books including
Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the
Dallas-Watergate Connection, The Iran-Contra Connection
(co-author, South End Press) and most recently Cocaine
Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America. An
anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and U.S.-Iraq wars, Scott
was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at
UC Berkeley. His research has centered on U.S. covert
operations: their impact on democracy at home and abroad,
their relations to the John F. Kennedy assassination and to
the global drug traffic.

* Iran-Contra Connection

* Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central
America

JONI SEAGER is a Canadian feminist geographer. She is
concerned primarily with feminism, militarism and the
environment, the cross cultural status of women, the
environmental costs of the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars. She
is author of several books including Women in the World: An
International Atlas and forthcoming Earth Follies: Making
Feminist Sense of Environmental Issues. She teaches in the
Geography Department at the University of Vermont and also in
the Women's Studies Department at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

* Women in the World: The Status of Women

* Women, Men and the Environmental Movement: What's the
Problem?

STEVE SHALOM teaches political science at William Paterson
College in New Jersey. He has published and spoken widely on
the complexities of U.S. foreign policy particularly as it
becomes intertwined with socialism. A regular columnist for Z
Magazine he is also the coordinator of the Campaign Against
U.S. Military Bases in the Philippines.

* Foreign Policy: The Philippines, Middle East and Eastern
Europe

* Socialist Vision

GLADIS SIBRIAN is a Representative of the FMLN/FDR of El
Salvador. Born in Chalatenango, El Salvador, she early became
active with Christian base communities, witnessed the torture
and killings of relatives and friends. Forced to take refuge
in the cities, she continued working with the base
communities. By 1980 thirteen members of her family had been
killed and by 1981, after repeated verbal and written threats,
she fled the country when a death squad came looking for her.
Since arriving in the U.S. Sibrian has been working steadily
with the Salvadoran refugee community.

* U.S. Foreign Policy and the Crisis in El Salvador

* Repression and Resistance in El Salvador

HOLLY SKLAR, a writer and lecturer, is the author of
Washington's War on Nicaragua and Trilateralism: The
Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management
and co-author of Poverty in the American Dream (all South End
Press). She is currently co-authoring two books, one on the
National Endowment for Democracy, covert action and U.S.
intervention in the internal affairs of other nations and the
other on revitalizing poor communities. Sklar is a columnist
for Z Magazine, contributor to The Nation and other
publications, and co-host of "Central America Update," CCTV.
She was an observer of the 1990 Nicaraguan election and serves
on the boards of Global Exchange and the American Friends
Service Committee's Nationwide Women's Program and Latin
America-Caribbean Program.

* The Brave New World Order and the Slow Death of the
American Dream

* Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy: From the CIA to the
National Endowment for Democracy

NORMAN SOLOMON is an investigative journalist and lecturer.
His articles about the dangers of nuclear weapons were twice
selected as being among the nationUs "Best Censored Stories."
He is co-author of Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's
Experience With Atomic Radiation (Dell) and Unreliable
Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media (Lyle
Stuart). In addition to speaking out about the coverup between
the U.S. Government and the mass media on nuclear production
and testing operations, Solomon also takes apart the content
of front-page articles and magazine cover stories, debunks the
mediaUs "politically correct" myths and exposes the real
threat to free discussion in the United States.

* The "Department of Energy" Plot: How Does the DOE Get
Away With Radioactive Pollution

* "Politically Correct:" The Media Lie That Won't Die

JAIME SURIANO is a U.S. Representative of the FMLN/FDR of El
Salvador, active since high school organizing national
presidential campaigns, public health and student movements
and a popular correspondent reporting for Radio Farabundo
Marti. In 1980, as a medical student at the University of El
Salvador, he co-founded a "popular clinics" program to bring
basic preventive medicine to rural and marginal communities.
Forced into hiding, later into exile after death threats from
the "White Hand" death squad, he now speaks on all aspects of
the Salvadoran struggle.

* What Does the FMLN/FDR Want in El Salvador?

* U.S. Foreign Policy in El Salvador

BRIAN TOKAR has been an activist for 18 years in the peace,
anti- nuclear and environmental movements. A graduate from MIT
with degrees in biology and physics and a Masters degree in
Biophysics from Harvard University, Tokar is a consultant on
technical and political aspects of environmental issues for
several community-based organizations throughout the country.
Author of The Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future
(R & E Miles), he is also a regular columnist for Z Magazine
and has been published in numerous publications. He lectures
extensively on Green politics and emerging ecological
movements and currently lives on an organic vegetable farm in
Vermont.

* Creating an Ecological Future

* Beyond Industrialism

BARBARA TRENT is co-director of the Empowerment Project, a
resource center for independent videographers and filmmakers
working on socially conscious projects. She has directed and
produced several films including her most recent "Invasion in
Panama" (forthcoming), "Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra
Affair," and "Destination Nicaragua." She has won numerous
awards including Best Documentary from Philadelphia
International and National Educational Film and Video. Barbara
is available for discussion following "Coverup" and the
"Invasion of Panama" in addition to speaking on the following
topics:

* Film and Politics

* Film Education

KWAME TURE (Stokely Carmichael) has been a political activist
and organizer in the Civil Rights, Black Power and Pan-African
movements for two decades. He was one of the founders of the
Black Panther Party (BPP) and former chairman of Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1964 he helped
organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which
gained national attention by challenging the segregationist
Mississippi Democratic Party. He has traveled extensively in
Africa and had his passport revoked and banned in over 30
British Commonwealth countries.

* Pan-African Movement

* Racism and Fighting Apartheid

MICHELE WALLACE is a feminist art, cultural critic best known
for her controversial book Black Macho and the Myth of the
Superwoman, and most recently Invisibility Blues (both Verso).
She has taught creative writing and African-American
literature at several universities and is now Assistant
Professor of English and Women's Studies at the City College
of New York.

* Black Feminism

* The Problem of the Visual in African-American Culture

LAWRENCE WEISS is a Medical Sociologist at the University of
Alaska, Anchorage. He has been a public health activist for
many years in the private and public sectors working with
labor unions, Native Americans, community groups and
professional organizations to improve the general health of
people. He authored numerous critical books on various issues
of public health and is currently writing Malignant Industry:
Social Consequences of the Private Health Insurance Industry,
to be published in early 1992.

* Health Care for Profit: The American System Does Not Work

* Free Health Care for Everyone: Time for a National Health
Service

CAROL WELLS is founder and executive director of the Center
for the Study of Political Graphics and a teacher of art
history at California State University at Fullerton. She has
produced programs on political music and art for radio and
television. Wells develops poster exhibits and slide lectures
in an attempt to integrate art and culture with movements for
change. The CenterUs 3,000 piece poster collection covers a
range of political issues including international womenUs
movement, anti-apartheid, immigrant rights, AIDS, Latin
America, Asian Pacific, Labor, ecology, children's rights. In
addition to speaking, Wells can arrange poster exhibits for
schools and organizations. The newest exhibit is "500 Years
Since Columbus: Perspectives From the Other Side" which
illustrates the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus
from the perspective of the descendants of the "discovered"
people.

* Political Art

* The Artist as Producer of Awareness

DESSIMA WILLIAMS is a fellow of the Bunting Institute at
Radcliffe College. She teaches international relations,
Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies at Williams College. A
member of the government of Grenada from 1979-1983, she served
as ambassador to the U.S., the UN and the Organization of
American States.

* Caribbean and U.S. Relations

* Grenada Today: Nine Years After the Invasion

BRIAN WILLSON, a Vietnam Veteran and lawyer, became
internationally known for his stand against U.S. intervention
in Central America. With other veterans he fasted 47 days at
the U.S. Capitol in 1986 and helped organize the Veterans
Peace Action Teams in the war zones of Nicaragua. In 1987 he
was run over by a U.S. government munitions train at the
Concord, California Naval Weapons Station and lost both lower
legs.

* Nonviolent Revolution in the U.S.

* Change or Perish! The Need for Transformation

MARILYN YOUNG is an historian and activist who teaches Asian
Studies, womenUs history and U.S. foreign policy at New York
University. She is the author of several books including the
highly acclaimed The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 (Harper Collins)
published in early 1991 and the co-edited anthology Promissory
Notes: Women and the Transition to Socialism (Monthly Review).
Young also has written on the Chinese revolution and the
relationship of the United States to the Third World. Most
recently she has lectured widely on the similarities and
differences between the Vietnam War and the war in the Persian
Gulf.

* Vietnam War and the Gulf War: Similar and Different

FATIMA ZAIZAN was born in Morocco and has been active in the
Arab women's movement for many years. She is currently the
co-chair of Public Relations for the Union of Palestinian
Women's Association in North America, a national member of
the Palestinian Academic Freedom Network, and a member of the
program committee of the American Friends Service Committee
Third World Coalition. Zaizan is also a co-founder of the
Palestinian New Song ensemble Al-Watan (Homeland).

* Women in National Social Struggle in the Middle East

* Middle East Policy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

BOB ZELLNER grew up in the South, went to college in
Montgomery Alabama in 1957, one year after the success of the
Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King,
and E.D. Nixon. Son of a former Klansman and Methodist
Minister, Zellner was nearly expelled for meeting with Black
civil rights leaders in Alabama. He was the first white person
to join the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
staff and he was a friend of Michael Schwerner, one of three
men killed in Mississippi the summer of 1964. A longtime civil
rights activist, Zellner has been arrested in five different
Southern states and charged with over thirty crimes. He also
examines the effects of 1964 events on todayUs society.

* Mississippi Burning: Fact vs. Fiction

* White Response to Racism Today: What Has Changed

HOWARD ZINN is a historian and a playwright. At the age of 18
he was a shipyard worker, at 21 an Air Force bombadier. After
getting his Ph.D. from Columbia in history , he taught at
Spelman College in Atlanta, became active in the civil rights
movement, and began writing for The Nation, The New Republic,
and Harpers Magazine. Then, teaching at Boston University, he
became active in the movement against the Vietnam War. Author
of ten books, most notably A PeopleUs History of the United
States, his work has been translated into Japanese,
Serbo-Croatian, French, and Italian. His most recent book is
Declarations of Independence.

* The Use and Abuse of History

* Disobedience and Democracy

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ORGANIZATIONS & PUBLICATIONS DIRECTORY

Below is a partial listing of national organizations and
publications providing services and information useful to
students, individuals, and groups doing political, media,
peace, and social justice work. If your group would like to be
listed in a future Speakout! directory, please contact our
office.

AGAINST THE CURRENT
7012 Michigan Avenue
Detroit, MI 48210
(313) 841-0161
Magazine emphasizing social movements, liberation struggles,
workers' democracy, socialist feminism, independent politics
and dialogue for socialist unity. $18 yr/6 issues, $30/ 12
issues, $4 sample copy.

BARRICADA INTERNACIONAL
c/o Barricada USA/South North Communication Network
P.O. Box 410150
San Francsico, CA 94141
(415)621-8981
BARRICADA INTERNACIONAL is a monthly bilingual newspaper of
the FSLN in Nicaragua covering news and analysis about events
in Nicaragua and Central America. It is distributed by
Barricada USA, a project of the South North
Communication Network. Individual $35/yr., Institution
$40/yr., $18/6mth., $25/low income

CAMPUS WATCH
c/o Bill of Rights Foundation
523 S. Plymouth Court, #800
Chicago, IL 60605
(312) 939-0675
If you want to know what the CIA is doing on college
campuses, subscribe to CAMPUS WATCH, a newsletter monitoring
issues related to the CIA and academia. Published at the
beginning of each academic semester, CW covers officer and
scholar-in-residence programs, staff and asset recruitment,
research on CIA activites and related student activism. $6/2
issues, $10/4 issues.

CENTER FOR POPULAR ECONOMICS
P.O. Box 7852
Amherst, MA 01004
(413) 545-0743
CPE offers training workshops/programs for community and
labor organizers who have not had formal economics training.
Classes are designed to de-mystify economics, and provide a
framework for understanding the economy and alternatives to
mainstream and conservative analyses. Inquire also about CPE
publications.

CIABASE
P.O. Box 5022
Herndon, VA 22070
(703) 437-8487
CIABASE is a data base of intelligence/covert action
activities. Indexed by subject, the data base provides quick
access to a wealth of information about the CIA and related
intelligence matters. The program is 4.5 megabytes; IBM
compatible only. $99

CISPES
P.O. 12156
Washington D.C. 20005
(202) 265-0890
CISPES is the national Committee in Solidarity with the
People of El Salvador. The monthly newspaper, Alert!,
monitors the rapidly changing situation in Central America,
and offers analysis of news and events. Information on
becoming involved in CISPES actions is also available.
$15/yr.

COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN
P.O. Box 34583
Washington D.C. 20043
(202) 331-9763
CAIB is a quarterly magazine monitoring the illegal
activities of U.S. intelligence agencies including the CIA,
FBI, NSA and others. CAIB's coverage of current and past
covert operations offers historical context and analysis.
$17/yr, $32/2 yr.

DOLLARS AND SENSE
One Summer Street
Somerville, MA 02143
(617) 628-8411
A progressive economics magazine, D&S de-mystifies economics
by providing progressive economic analysis accessible to
people with no formal economics training. D&S also publishes
annual editions of REAL WORLD MACRO, anthologies of D&S
magazine articles organized in a textbook format. These
books are used in introductory economics classes at the high
school and college level. 10 issues a year. Individual:
$22.95/yr; $39/2 yrs. Institution: $42/yr; $84/2 yrs.

EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
1653 18th Street, Suite 3
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(213) 828-8807
The EMPOWERMENT PROJECT is a media resource center and
documentary film group actively supporting progressive
projects of social, cultural and artistic importance.
Available for sale are two videos produced by EP: the
award-winning documentary COVERUP: BEHIND THE IRAN CONTRA
AFFAIR, and INVASION IN PANAMA, a documentary examining U.S.
motives and actions during and after the 1989 invasion.
Coverup: $29.95 plus $4.50 shipping; Invasion in Panama:
price to be determined.

ENVIO
Central American Historical Institute
Intercultural Center
Georgetown University
Washington DC 20057
(202) 687-5676
ENVIO is a monthly magazine providing economic and political
analysis, short news articles, interviews and original
documents on Central America and U.S. policy in the region.
Individuals: $30/yr U.S.; $40 Canada Organizations: $50/yr
U.S. & Canada

EXTRA!
F.A.I.R. Office
130 West 25th Street
NY, NY 10001
(212) 633-6700
EXTRA! is a bi-monthly newsletter published by FAIR
(Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting), a national media watch
group focusing awareness on the media and offering
well-documented criticism in an effort to correct bias and
imbalance and to advocate for the inclusion of public
interest voices in national debates. Ind/$30; Org/$40.

GLOBAL EXCHANGE
2141 Mission Street
Suite 202-S
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 255-7295
GLOBAL EXCHANGE promotes international grassroots activism
through partnership projects, speaking tours for Third World
activists and "Reality Tours" to Cuba, Southern Africa,
Haiti, Mexico and Appalachia. A subscription to the
quarterly newsletter, GLOBAL EXCHANGES is included in the
$25 organization membership fee. Other publications also
available.

GLOBAL OPTIONS
P.O. Box 40601
San Francisco, CA 94140
(415)550-1703
Publication: SOCIAL JUSTICE, a quarterly journal:
$30/yr.GLOBAL OPTIONS offers seminars on issues concerning
Latin America, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet
Union. Their work focuses on theoretical and activist work
connected to building a social justice movement.

GREEN LETTER
P.O. Box 14141M
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 861-6838
GREEN LETTER is a national quarterly newspaper reporting on
the development of the green movement in the U.S. and
abroad. Each issue covers international, national and
indigenous organizing with news, analysis and resources
linking social justice and environmental movements.
$20/quarterly; $5 sample copy

THE GUARDIAN
24 West 25th St.
NY, NY 10010
(212)691-0404
THE GUARDIAN is an independent radical weekly publication
covering news, feature articles and events in the U.S. and
throughout the world. $33.50/yr, $18/6 mth

INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
P.O. Box 103
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 458-9828
IICD offers 12-month Global Education programs, including
volunteer work projects in Africa and Latin America. Course
brochure and quarterly newsletter are available.

IN THESE TIMES
2040 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, ILL 60647
1-800-435-0715 (subscriptions)
(312) 772-0100 (information)
IN THESE TIMES is a progressive weekly newspaper covering
international and domestic politics, economics, the
environment, culture and sports. $18.95/6 mos; $34.95/1 yr.

JOHN BROWN ANTI-KLAN COMMITTEE
220-9th Street, #443
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 835-5815
A national organization for educating and organizing against
all forms of racism and white supremacy; helps mobilize
against racist attacks. National publication is NO KKK! NO
FASCIST USA! $6/yr (8 issues)

LABOR NOTES
7435 Michigan Avenue
Detroit, MI 49210
(313) 842-6262
LABOR NOTES is a monthly newsletter for union activists
promoting democracy, militancy and creative strategy within
labor. Individual subscription: $10/yr; Institutional:
$20/yr.

LIES OF OUR TIMES
145 W. 4th Street
NY, NY 10012
(212) 254-1061
LIES OF OUR TIMES (LOOT) is a monthly magazine focused on
exposing misinformation, disinformation and propaganda in
the major media. $24/yr

MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE
2140 Shattuck Avenue, Room 207
Berkeley, CA 94704
(415) 548-0542
MIDDLE EAST CHILDRENUS ALLIANCE is a non-profit organization
dedicated to helping bring peace to the Middle East through
people-to-people ties in the U.S. and humanitarian aid
projects, especially for the children of Iraq, the West Bank
and Gaza.

MIDDLE EAST REPORT
1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW, #119
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 223-3677
MIDDLE EAST REPORT is a bi-monthly magazine of the Middle
East Research and Information Project (MERIP). MER presents
critical analysis of Middle East issues and U.S. policy in
the region. Special publications include primers on the Gulf
War, Israel and Palestine, a human rights series and a
forthcoming womenUs rights series. Individuals $25/yr.
Institutions $45/yr.

MOZAMBIQUE SUPPORT NETWORK NEWSLETTER
343 S. Dearborn, Suite 316
Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 922-3286
The newsletter is published quarterly by the National Office
of the MSN, a not-for-profit organization promoting
educational campaigns, fund raisers, aid drives and other
efforts in support of the Republic of Mozambique. The
newsletter covers events in Mozambique and anti-apartheid
solidarity work. Individual $20.00 Student/Low-Income
$10.00 Organization $30.00

NATIONAL COMMITTEE AGAINST REPRESSSIVE LEGISLATION
1313 West 8th Street,
Suite 313
Los Angeles, CA 90017
(213) 484-6661
NCARL is a national organization monitoring and exposing
legislation supporting FBI and CIA operations in violation
of First Amendment Rights. NCARL newsletter available.
Single Copy $2.50/10 copies @ $2.00 each.

NEW LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE
P.O. Box 41
MIT Branch
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-0399
NLNS is a wire service providing alternative news and media
analysis to individuals and progressive community/student
newspapers. Individual $45; Alternative papers $35/semester;
Membership $200/yr; FAXPLUS Membership/$800.

NEW YORK ON-LINE COMPUTER NETWORK
P.O. Box 829
Brooklyn NY 11202-0018
(718) 875-8949
Modem only: 718-852-2662 (24 hours/7 days)
NYOL is an internationally networked electronic news
"magazine" with an interactive letters page. NYOL carries
public message areas and searchable file sections containing
news, resource lists, bibliographies, historical reports and
media analysis, as well as a variety of electronic
publications, including: Extra! newsletter of FAIR; The Left
Business Observer; and Nicaline News Service, to name just a
few. Unlimited access for $50/yr; $35/yr unwaged/low-income;
3 mos/$15. Non-subscribers can have unlimited access for 10
minute periods. Set modem to: 8 Data Bits * No Parity * 1
Stop Bit (Full Duplex).

NEW YORK TRANSFER NEWS SERVICE
Blythe Systems
235 East 87th Street, #12J
New York, NY 10128
(212) 348-2875
Modems only: (718)448-2358 and (718)448-2683
NY TRANSFER is an alternative electronic news service
covering daily domestic, international, environmental and
peace/movement news. Provides regular updates from the Third
World and the online library offers many background
articles. Automatic delivery via modem to your computer.
Online registration requires no fee. Inquire for rates. Set
Modem to 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity.

NEWS NOTES
2208 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146
(215) 545-4626
Bi-monthly newsletter of the Central Committee for
Conscientious Objectors (CCCO). News about draft and
conscientious objection is covered.

NON-VIOLENT ACTIVIST
War Resisters League
339 Lafayette Street
NY, NY 10012
(212) 228-0450
A publication of the War Resisters League, NON-VIOLENT
ACTIVIST addresses draft resistance, war tax resistance and
ways to end causes of war through non-violent action.
Publishes 8 issues a year. $15/Ind; $25/Org.

NUCLEAR TIMES
401 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 266-1193
NUCLEAR TIMES is a magazine promoting the peace and
disarmament movement. Topics include such issues as military
toxic waste, the Persian Gulf war and arms control. $18/yr,
$28/2 yrs.

OPEN MAGAZINE PAMPHLET SERIES
P.O.Box 2726
Westfield, New Jersey 07091
(908) 789-9608
The Pamphlet Series publishes the text of notable lectures,
interviews and articles by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, John
Stockwell, Helen Caldicott and many others. $3.50 each or 6
issues for $21.

PALESTINE FOCUS
P.O. Box 372
Peck Slip Station
New York, NY 10272
(212) 227-1435
The PALESTINE FOCUS is the bi-monthly publication of the
Palestine Solidarity Committee, a national organization
dedicated to promoting Palestinian rights and Middle East
peace. It focuses on events in the Occupied Territories,
offering analyses of policies in the region and regular
updates on the Israeli peace movement. Individual/$10 yr;
Organization/$20 yr; Institutional/$15 yr.

PEACENET COMPUTER NETWORK
18 De Boom Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 442-0220
Fax: 415-546-1794
Peacenet is a computer network distributed internationally,
linking peace, media, and human rights activists around the
world. Offers more than six hundred electronic conferences
on everything from AIDS to Zimbabwe. Speak Out! has an
online conference providing information on speakers'
availablility and areas of expertise, as well as current
tour information. You can contact Speak Out! online on
PeaceNet as "speakout."
PeaceNet enables you to talk, plan and work with people in
over 70 countries, without travel expenses or phone bills.
You can truly dial locally and act globally.
PeaceNet is a founder of the Association for Progressive
Communications (APC). Linked to partner networks in
Nicaragua, Brazil, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada,
Sweden, the Soviet Union and Germany, and affiliated
networks in Cuba, Costa Rica, Kenya and other countries.
Initial sign-up fee of $15. A $10/month subscription fee
includes one free hour of off-peak time and phone support.
Online rates range from $5 - $10 per hour, depending on time
of day and location. $3/hr. for Internet access from
universities.

PEOPLE FOR A CHANGE
131 Mangels Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94131
(415) 587-3136
PEOPLE FOR A CHANGE encourages grassroots organizing and
publishes a newsletter addressing social justice,
environmental, and peace issues. $10.00/yr; $5/low income.

POETRY USA
Fort Mason Center, Building D
San Francisco,CA 94123
(415) 776-6602
POETRY USA is a quarterly publication of the National Poetry
Association featuring regional literary articles,
international exchange, prison poets, etc. $7.50/quarterly

POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
678 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 205
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 661-9313
POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES is an independent, non-profit
research institute which collects and disseminates
information on right-wing political groups and trends.
Co-publishes with South End Press. Call or write for
publication lists.

PREVAILING WINDS RESEARCH
P.O. Box 23511
Santa Barbara, CA 93121
(805) 566-8016 (Voicemail)
Through the distribution of reprinted articles, collections
of articles, books, and audio and video tapes, PWR serves as
a clearinghouse for alternative political voices and views
rarely found in the mainstream American press. PRW also
publishes a bi-monthly journal containing a compendium of
articles and speeches on current affairs. Free catalogue
available upon request.

PROPAGANDA REVIEW
c/o Media Alliance
Bldg. D, Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA 94123
(415) 332-8369
PROPAGANDA REVIEW is an internationally distributed
magazine, published two or three times per year, which
explores deceptive communication and propaganda in the
media, government, corporations and the cultural
environment. Subscriptions are $20/4 issues (foreign and
libraries - $40) Back issues are $6 each. Write or call for
a free summary of back issues.

PUBLICATIONS EXCHANGE (PEx)
8306 Mills Drive, Suite 241
Miami, Florida 33183
(305)256-0162
PUBLICATIONS EXCHANGE imports and distributes Cuban
newspapers, magazines, books, music cassettes, CDs, videos.
Due to a change in the Cuban embargo, you can now subscribe
to Cuban periodicals. Many books are translated into
English. Write or call for free catalog.

THE OBJECTOR
P.O. Box 422249
San Francisco, CA 94142-2249
(415) 695-7755
Bi-monthly journal for draft and military counselors,
published by the Central Committee for Conscientious
Objectors (CCC0). $15/yr

THE PROGRESSIVE
409 E. Main Street
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 257-4626
Monthly magazine of political commentary and investigative
reporting. Columnists include Molly Ivins, June Jordan and
Elayne Rapping. $19.97/yr

THE QUAYLE QUARTERLY
P.O. Box 8593, Brewster Station
Bridgeport, CT 06605
(203) 333-9399
QQ keeps a watchful eye on the Vice Presidency and is both
humorous and analytical. $14.95/yr

THE REALIST
Box 1230
Venice, CA 90294
(213) 392-5848
A unique newsletter of social and political satire. $12/6
issues, $23/12 issues

SOUTH END PRESS
116 St. Botolph St.
Boston, MA 02115
(617)266-0629
SOUTH END PRESS is a collectively managed, non-profit
publisher providing books encouraging critical thinking and
action. Their 160 titles focus on political, economic,
cultural, gender, race and ecological dimensions of life in
the United States and the world. Call or write for catalog.

STUDENT COALITION AGAINST APARTHEID & RACISM (D.C.)
P.O. 18291
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 483-4593
SCAR NEWS is a national newspaper focusing on anti-apartheid
and anti-racism issues from a student and youth perspective.
Also covers other student/youth news. 6 issues a year:
Ind/$10; Org/$15.

TRAVEL & RESOURCE GUIDE TO PALESTINE
by Patricia Gardiner
Middle East Cultural & Information Center (MECIC)
P.O. Box 3481
San Diego, CA 92136
(619) 293-0167
(619) 232-6707 (fax)
This unique guide is designed to aid the solidarity activist
who wants to travel to the Occupied Territories of the West
Bank and Gaza. It also serves as a useful tool for
individuals who are new to the Palestinian issue and who
wish to connect with organized delegations and fact-finding
tours travelling to the area. Includes sections on
accommodations for the budget traveler, the culture, safety,
currency and banking, entry and exit restrictions, and
travelling within the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan
Heights. The resource section lists various peace, research,
human rights, and media groups in the U.S., and in Palestine
and Israel. A selected reading list is also included. 1-10
copies are $3.00 each; 10 or more copies are $2.00 each.

UNCLASSIFIED
2001 S Street, NW, Suite 740
Washington DC 20009
(202) 483-9325
FAX: 202-483-9314
UNCLASSIFIED is the publication of the Association of
National Security Alumni, an organization of former members
of the U.S. national security apparatus (CIA, FBI, etc.) who
oppose the use of covert operations. Its news and analysis
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Topic 22 Speakers Index (by Subject)
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Speak Out! Catalog 1991-1992

INDEX BY TOPIC

- AFRICA: Kevin Danaher, 11; Alfred Moleah,20; Prexy Nesbitt,
21; Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, 21; Kwame Ture, 28.
- AFRICAN AMERICANS : Karen Bass, 5; St. Claire Bourne, 7;
Angela Bowen, 7; Bunyan Bryant, 8; Bill Fletcher, 13;
Clarence Lusane, 19; Alfred Moleah, 20; Gus Newport, 21;
Akua Njeri, 21; Earl Rainey, 23; Kate Rushin, 24; Sonia
Sanchez, 24; Kwame Ture, 28; Michelle Wallace, 28.
- AIDS: Mike Chappelle, 9; Cindy Patton, 22.
- ART and POLITICS: Marjorie Agosin, 4; Robert Alexander, 5;
Break the Silence Mural Project, 7; Michelle Wallace, 28;
Carol Wells, 29.
- ASIAN AMERICANS: Fred Wei-Han Ho, 16; Walden Bello, 6.
- CARIBBEAN: Sonia Sanchez, 24; Dessima Williams, 29.
- CENTRAL AMERICA: Magda Enriquez, 12; Elizabeth Martinez, 20;
Gladis Sibrian, 26; Holly Sklar, 27; Jaime Suriano, 27;
Barbara Trent, 28.
- CHICANOS : Bill Gallegos, 14; Elizabeth Martinez,20.
- CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE and SOCIAL CHANGE: Marv Davidov, 11; Dave
Dellinger, 11; Brian Willson, 29; Howard Zinn, 30.
- CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: Dave Dellinger, 11; Elizabeth
Martinez, 20; Kwame Ture, 28; Bob Zellner, 30; Howard Zinn,
30.
- CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: Michael Albert, 4; Peter Bohmer, 6;
Dave Brotherton, 8; Elizabeth Martinez, 20; Kate Rushin,
24.
- COVERT OPERATIONS: THE CIA & FBI: Philip Agee, 4; Johan
Carlisle, 9; Ward Churchill, 10; Brian Glick, 14; Martin
Lee, 18; Dave Lippman, 18; Akua Njeri, 21; Sheila OUDonnell,
22; Peter Dale Scott, 26; Holly Sklar, 27.
- CUBA : Medea Benjamin, 6; Joe Collins, 10; Robin Hahnel, 15;
Saul Landau, 18.
- DRUG WAR: Karen Bass, 5; Johan Carlisle, 9; Martin Lee, 18;
Clarence Lusane, 19; Peter Dale Scott, 26.
- EASTERN EUROPE and the SOVIET UNION: Robin Hahnel, 15;
George Katsiaficas, 16; Steve Shalom, 26.
- ECONOMIC VISIONS: Michael Albert, 4; Marv Davidov, 11; Gus
Newport, 21.
- EDUCATION: Bill Gallegos, 14; Jerry Fresia, 13.
- ENVIRONMENT: Walt Bresette, 7; Bunyan Bryant, 8; Chaia
Heller, 15; Winona LaDuke, 18; Sheila O'Donnell, 22; Joni
Seager, 26; Brian Tokar, 28.
- FILM and POLITICS: St. Claire Bourne, 7; Jules Scherwin, 25;
Barbara Trent, 28.
- GAY COMMUNITY: Angela Bowen, 7; Margaret Cerullo, 9; Cindy
Patton, 22; Kate Rushin, 24; David Scondras, 25.
- GRENADA: Dessima Williams, 29.
- HEALTH CARE IN THE U.S.: Barbara Ehrenreich, 12; Lawrence
Weiss, 29.
- HUMAN RIGHTS: Rita Maran, 19; Naseer Aruri, 5; Isaam Nassar,
20; David Scondras, 25.
- IRELAND: Bill Fletcher, 13.
- JEWISH-AMERICANS: Break the Silence Mural Project, 7; Aurora
Levins Morales, 20.
- KENNEDY ASSASINATION: Peter Dale Scott, 26.
- LATIN AMERICA: Marjorie Agosin, 4; Martin Espada, 13; Aurora
Levins Morales, 20; Margaret Randall, 23.
- LAW and SOCIAL JUSTICE: Bill Gallegos, 14; William Kunstler,
17; Sheila O'Donnell, 22.
- LITERATURE and POLITICS: Angela Bowen, 7; Sam Cornish, 10;
Janice Gould, 14; Hans Koning, 17; Aurora Levins Morales,
20; Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, 21; Margaret Randall, 23;
Michelle Wallace, 28.
- MEDIA: Johan Carlisle, 9; Noam Chomsky, 10; Edward Herman,
15; Stuart Hutchison, 16; Martin Lee, 18; Michael Parenti,
22; Jason Pramas, 23; Elayne Rapping, 23; Norman Solomon, 27.
- MIDDLE EAST, PALESTINIANS and the KURDS: Naseer Aruri, 5;
Khalil Barhoun, 5; Break the Silence Mural Project, 7;
Jeanne Butterfield, 8; Rabab Hadi, 15; Zachary Lockman, 19;
Isaam Nassar, 20; Vera Saeedpour, 24; Fatima Zaizan, 30.
MILITARISM: Margaret Cerullo, 9; Marv Davidov, 11; Daniel
Ellsberg, 12; Gus Newport, 21; Joni Seager, 26.
- MOZAMBIQUE: Prexy Nesbitt, 21.
- MUSIC, MUSICIANS and POLITICS: Anne Feeney, 13; Reebee
Garofalo, 14; Fred Wei-Han Ho, 16; Dave Lippman, 18; Carol
Wells, 29; Fatima Zaizan, 30.
- NATIVE AMERICANS : Walt Bresette, 7; Ward Churchill, 10;
Janice Gould, 14; Winona LaDuke, 18.
- NEW WORLD ORDER: Johan Carlisle, 9; Noam Chomsky, 10; Saul
Landau, 18; Michael Parenti, 22; Steve Shalom, 26; Holly
Sklar, 27.
- NUCLEAR INDUSTRY: Daniel Ellsberg, 12; Norman Solomon, 27;
Brian Tokar, 28.
- PHILIPPINES and the PACIFIC RIM: Walden Bello, 6; Steve
Shalom, 26.
- POETRY: Marjorie Agosin, 4; Dennis Brutus, 8; Sam Cornish,
10; Martin Espada, 13; Janice Gould, 14; Hettie Jones, 16;
Rozena Maart, 19; Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, 21; Robert Pinsky,
22; Kate Rushin, 24; Sonia Sanchez, 24.
- POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: Norman Solomon, 27.
- POLITICAL ECONOMY: Michael Albert, 4; Peter Bohmer, 6; Jerry
Fresia, 13; Edward Herman, 15.
- POLITICAL PRISONERS and REPRESSION: Brian Glick, 14; William
Kunstler, 17; Akua Njeri, 21; Sheila O'Donnell, 22; Earl
Rainey, 23.
- POLITICAL SATIRE: John Demeter, 11; Paul Krassner, 17; David
Lippman, 18.
- POPULAR CULTURE: John Demeter, 11; Michael Parenti, 22;
Elayne Rapping, 23; Lydia Sargent, 24; Michelle Wallace, 28.
- PROPAGANDA: Johan Carlisle, 9; Noam Chomsky, 10; Edward
Herman, 15.
- PUERTO RICO: Martin Espada, 13; Aurora Levins Morales, 20.
- RACISM and CULTURAL DIVERSITY: Hettie Jones, 16; Rozena
Maart, 19; Elizabeth Martinez, 20; Alfred Moleah, 20; Aurora
Levins Morales, 20; Kate Rushin, 24; Bob Zellner, 30.
- RELIGIOUS RIGHT: Sara Diamond, 12.
- REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: Rosalyn Baxandall, 6; Margaret Cerullo,9.
- SOUTHERN AFRICA and APARTHEID: Karen Bass, 5; Dennis Brutus,
8; Keven Danaher, 11; Rozena Maart, 19; Alfred Moleah, 20;
Prexy Nesbitt, 21; David Scondras, 25; Kwame Ture, 28.
- STUDENT MOVEMENTS: Peter Bohmer, 6; Dave Brotherton, 8;
George Katsiaficas, 16; Christine Kelley, 17; Jason Pramas, 23.
- TERRORISM: Noam Chomsky, 10; Edward Herman, 15.
- THEATER: Robert Alexander, 5; Mike Chappelle, 9; Stuart
Hutchison, 16; Lydia Sargent, 24; Howard Zinn, 30.
- THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT: Walden Bello, 6; Medea Benjamin,6;
Joe Collins, 10; Kevin Danaher, 11; Molara Ogundipe-Leslie,21.
- U.S. ECONOMY: Michael Albert, 4; Robin Hahnel, 15; Juliet
Schor, 25.
- U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: Philip Agee, 4; Naseer Aruri, 5; Khalil
Barhoun, 5; Walden Bello, 6; Dennis Brutus, 8; Noam Chomsky,
10; Sara Diamond, 12; Daniel Ellsberg, 12; Magda Enriquez,
12; Rabab Hadi, 15; Edward Herman, 15; Zachary Lockman, 19;
Rita Maran, 19; Isaam Nassar, 20; Prexy Nesbitt, 21; Michael
Parenti, 22; Earl Rainey, 23; Gus Newport, 21; Vera
Saeedpour, 24; Steve Shalom, 26; Gladis Sibrian, 26; Jaime
Suriano, 27; Dessima Williams, 29; Marilyn Young, 30; Fatima
Zaizan, 30.
- U.S. HISTORY: Jerry Fresia, 13; Howard Zinn, 30.
- U.S. LABOR: Dave Brotherton, 8; Bill Fletcher, 13.
- U.S. LEFT: Michael Albert, 4; Dave Brotherton, 8; Dave
Dellinger, 11; George Katsiaficas, 16.
- VIETNAM: Dave Dellinger, 11; George Katsiaficas, 16; Earl
Rainey, 23; Brian Willson, 29; Marilyn Young, 30.
- VIETNAM VETERANS: Earl Rainey, 23; Brian Willson, 29.
- VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: Susan Schechter, 25.
- WOMEN and FEMINISM: Marjorie Agosin, 4; Rosalyn Baxandall,
6; Angela Bowen, 7; Jeanne Butterfield, 8; Margaret Cerullo,
9; Barbara Ehrenreich, 12; Magda Enriquez, 12; Rabab Hadi,
15; Chaia Heller, 15; Hettie Jones, 16; Christine Kelley,
17; Winona LaDuke, 18; Rozena Maart, 19; Aurora Levins
Morales, 20; Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, 21; Margaret Randall,
23; Elayne Rapping, 23; Kate Rushin, 24; Sonia Sanchez, 24;
Lydia Sargent, 24; Susan Schechter, 25; Juliet Schor, 25;
Joni Seager, 26; Michelle Wallace, 28; Dessima Williams, 29;
Marilyn Young, 30; Fatima Zaizan, 30.
- WORLD HUNGER: Medea Benjamin, 6; Joe Collins, 10.
- 1960's AND ITS EFFECT TODAY: Peter Bohmer, 6; George
Katsiaficas, 16; Kwame Ture, 28; Bob Zellner, 30.

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