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Amir Amirani is an Iranian-born film director and producer. Amirani joined the BBC in 1992 as a Graduate Production Trainee. He was a writer and researcher for a four-part TV series about the Nobel Prizes. In 1994, he and his brother Taghi founded Amirani Films, which has produced documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, and other British broadcasters, as well as for PBS and other broadcasters abroad. Amir served as writer, director, and cinematographer of the documentary We Are Many, which was released in 2014, an account of the worldwide protests against the Iraq War on February 15, 2003. In 2014, Amirani recorded a series of video “masterclasses” for the Scottish Documentary Institute, in which he shares advice about filmmaking, including choice of topic, the role of the musical score, funding, and the use of films to promote political causes. He is also the co-producer of the 2019 documentary Coup 53, which is about “the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’etat in Iran that changed the course of history.” He has written articles of reportage for the New Statesman, New Scientist, Business Traveller Asia, and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

 

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Dr. Kim Scipes is a Professor of Sociology and has taught on the Westville Campus of Purdue University Northwest since 2004, following different careers as a printing press operator (with over nine years in the printing trades), high school teacher, web publisher, and secretary. He specializes in labor, both domestically and around the world, and is currently a member of the National Writers Union, UAW/AFL-CIO. He has been opening night and plenary speaker at global conferences in Canada, Germany, South Africa and Vietnam. Dr. Scipes has published widely in the United States and in 11 different countries around the world. He is a veteran of the US Marine Corps, serving from 1969-73, and fortunately staying in the United States during his time in the Marines; he became consciously political and “turned around” while on active duty.

 

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Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, writer, activist, and trade unionist. He is the executive editor of The Global African Worker, a co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of 'Solitary Divided,' and the author of 'They’re Bankrupting Us–Twenty Other Myths about Unions.' Bill is one of the leading voices on the American Left and has been working with social movements and unions for the past four decades. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_Emanuele Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/ Follow Us on Instagram:

Ben Burgis is a philosophy instructor, a columnist for Jacobin Magazine (and for Arc Digital Media) and the host of the "Give Them An Argument" podcast and YouTube channel. He is the author of several books, including 'Give Them an Argument,' 'Canceling Comedians While the World Burns,' and 'Myth and Mayhem.' 

 

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Jered Peters is a long-time friend and the owner of Untold Gallery, a 175-year-old church transformed into one of the most unique tattoo shops in the Midwest. Jered apprenticed under the great Jeanne Fritch (who first began tattooing in 1978) at Personal Art tattoo in Lake Station, Indiana. Jered is an avid painter and long-time artist who's been tattooing for over 20 years. Vincent and Jered first met back in 2002, when Vincent received his first tattoo from Jeanne. Soon after, Jered tattooed Vincent's entire back and the rest is history. 

 

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Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, political activist and spiritual thought leader. For over three decades Marianne has been a leader in spiritual and religiously progressive circles. She is the author of 14 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers. Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit that has delivered more than 13 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989. The group was created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS. They have since expanded their service to any person battling a critical illness. She has also worked throughout her career on poverty, anti-hunger, and racial reconciliation issues. She has advocated for reparations for slavery since the 1990s and was the first candidate in the 2020 presidential primary season to make it a pillar of her campaign. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance and supports the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. In addition, she advocates for a cabinet-level Department of Children and Youth to adequately address the chronic trauma of millions of American children.

 

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Avital Ronell (b. 1952) is the Jacques Derrida Chair and professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS, as well as University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English at New York University. Her research and theoretical contributions extend across the fields of literary studies, philosophy, feminist theory, technology and media, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, ethics, and performance art. Among Avital Ronell’s significant works are: Dictations: On Haunted Writing (1986), Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania (1992), Stupidity (2001), The Test Drive (2005), The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (ed. Diane Davis, 2007), Fighting Theory (with Anne Dufourmantelle, trans. Catherine Porter, 2010), Schriften zur Literatur: Essays von Goethe bis Kafka (trans. Marc Blankenburg, 2012), and Loser Sons: Politics and Authority (2012).

 

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Sarah Johnson is an organizer with OURMC | Organized & United Residents of Michigan City. OURMC has embarked on a tenants' union campaign. This conversation broadly covers the past six months of that campaign and the challenges faced during tenant organizing efforts in Red States such as Indiana. 

 

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'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation. Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, 'Parecon' for short, a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity, and people democratically controlling their own lives, but utilizing original institutions fully described and defended in the book, 'Parecon: Life After Capitalism.' Michael Albert has written dozens of books on politics, culture, ideology, and economics. He's a member of Collective 20. 

 

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'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation. Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, 'Parecon' for short, a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity, and people democratically controlling their own lives, but utilizing original institutions fully described and defended in the book, 'Parecon: Life After Capitalism.' Michael Albert has written dozens of books on politics, culture, ideology, and economics. He's a member of Collective 20. 

 

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