SPEAKERS

Iain Boal, a social historian of science and technics, teaches geography at UC Berkeley. He has spoken extensively on the concepts of enclosure,
privatization and the commons, and is the author of The Long Theft (forthcoming, City Lights) and co-editor of Resisting the Virtual Life (City Lights, 1995). He is also active in the Institute for the Study of Social Change, contributing to research on social justice movements in the Bay Area.

Arif Dirlik is Professor of History and Anthropology and Knight Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Oregon. His books
include Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution (California, 1991); Schools into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927-1932 (Duke, 1991); and After the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalism (University Press of New England, 1994).

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was a founder of the feminist movement and anti-war activist and organizer, forming associations with revolutionaries across the spectrum of radical and underground politics during the 1960s and 1970s. She is Professor of Ethnic and Women's Studies at California State University, Hayward. She is the author of The Great Sioux Nation (Moon, 1977), Indians of the
Americas (Zed, 1984), and the memoirs Red Dirt (Verso, 1997) and Outlaw Woman (City Lights, 2001).

John Holloway is one of the best-known analysts of the Zapatista rebellion, and the author of Change the World Without Taking Power (Pluto Press, 2002). He has lived in Mexico for over a decade and teaches political science at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanides in the Universidad Autonoma de Puebla.

Barry Pateman is Associate Editor of the Emma Goldman Papers, and has been the project's research associate in the U.K. since 1989. A
historian, he also teaches free classes on anarchism at the Anarchist Library at City College in San Francisco.

Eddie Yuen is the co-editor of The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization (Soft Skull, 2001) and Confronting Capitalism (Publishers Group West, 2004). He is on the faculty of the activism and social change program at New College of California in San Francisco.