
AARON TAYLOR KUFFNER (ZEMI 17)
THE YES MEN
(ANDY BICHLBAUM AND MIKE BONANNO)
GAMELATRON: Robotic Gamelan Orchestra
LOST FILM FEST w vj Scott Beibin
SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW ROCKSTARS
ABORTO SIN PENA: ABORTION WITHOUT SHAME AND PENALTY
ART IS A WEAPON: with Eric Drooker
DISPATCHES FROM REBEL MEXICO: with Greg Berger
GRASSROOTS PR AND PUBLICITY FOR FILM AND BANDS
GUERRILLA AND VIRAL MARKETING FOR MISCHIEF MAKERS
GUERRILLA POSTER ART with Robbie Conal
ILLEGAL PUBLIC ART IN UNDER 5 MINUTES! with Monochrom
INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED AUTONOMY
THE MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL ROAD SHOW
OBAMA'S IRAQ hosted by Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films
PANDEMIC PREVENTION: BIRD FLU AND OTHER EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES with Dr. Michael Greger MD.
PUBLICITY AND PR FOR SOCIAL CAUSES with Mahdis Keshavarz
RHIZOME COLLECTIVE: A WORKING MODEL FOR SUSTAINABILITY
RUST - RADICAL URBAN SUSTAINABILITY TRAINING with Scott Kellogg
SCIENTISTS ARE THE NEW ROCKSTARS with VJ Scott Beibin
SELF-DISTRIBUTION FOR INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS, MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS
THE BRICOLEUR EXPERIENCE with Shrine
THE HOW AND WHY OF EFFECTIVE ETHICAL MASS CAMPAIGNS with Scott Beibin
THE LATEST IN HUMAN NUTRITION with Dr. Michael Greger MD
THE SECRET BASES: EXPLORING THE PENTAGON'S "BLACK WORLD" with Trevor Paglen
TRACKING THE CIA'S TORTURE PLANES with Trevor Paglen
USING YOUR WITS TO WIN with Alan Abel
VEG MY RIDE with Rob Del Bueno
BEYOND THE WALLS: THE BATTLE FOR IRAQ'S FUTURE
BRAD: ONE MORE NIGHT AT THE BARRICADES
HOT AND BOTHERED: FEMINIST PORNOGRAPHY
POPAGANDA: THE ART AND CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH
SIERRA LEONE'S REFUGEE ALL STARS
STOKED: THE RISE AND FALL OF GATOR
TAQWACORE: THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
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| Recently added: Dr. Vandana Shiva (physicist, ecologist, activist, author), M-1 of Dead Prez (history of the Black Panther Party), Severn Cullis-Suzuki (environment and culture activist) and award winning investigative reporter Greg Palast. | |
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JENNIFER ABBOTT Jennifer Abbott is a multi-award winning director and editor of documentaries with a particular interest in social justice and deep ecology issues. |
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ALAN ABEL Long before Borat and long before The Yes Men hoaxed the WTO, there was Alan Abel, the legendary culture-jammer and media hoaxer. |
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MARK ACHBAR Mark Achbar reaches large international audiences with his films about the players and the politics in the struggle for human rights and social change. |
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BILL AYERS Bill Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society. |
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BRENT BAKER Founder and C.E.O. of Tri-State Biodiesel |
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BEEHIVE DESIGN COLLECTIVE Drawing connections between colonial history and the present day struggles against corporate globalization, |
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ED BEGLEY JR. When it comes to taking personal responsibility for the environment, few individuals can match the record of actor and activist Ed Begley, Jr. |
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SCOTT BEIBIN vj of Lost Film Fest, and co-founder of Evil Twin Booking and The Redefinery |
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GREG BERGER Berger's films reflect how migrants, from every land, are turning the traditional paradigms of power on their heads. |
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STEVEN BLUSH writer of American Hardcore |
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BOOTS RILEY (THE COUP) Presentation: Hip Hop and The Class Struggle |
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CHESA BOUDIN Chesa Boudin, a Rhodes Scholar, with degrees from Oxford and Yale, has contributed to The Nation magazine and is the author of Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America. |
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BRENDAN BRAZIER Professional Ironman triathlete, bestselling author of The Thrive Diet (Penguin, 2007), creator of an award-winning line of whole food nutritional products, and a two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion. |
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MAJORA CARTER Dr. Majora Carter simultaneously addresses public health, poverty alleviation, and climate change as one of the nation’s pioneers in successful green-collar job training and placement systems. |
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PEDRO CARVAJAL Director of POPaganda: The Art & Crimes of Ron English |
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IAN CHENEY Filmmaker, writer, public speaker and environmental activist. Co-producer of King Corn, director of The Greening of Southie, and co-founder of the Yale Sustainable Food Project. |
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ROSA CLEMENTE Rosa Alicia Clemente is a community organizer, journalist and Hip-Hop activist |
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ROBBIE CONAL Robbie Conal is America's foremost street artist.. |
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SEVERN CULLIS-SUZUKI Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been speaking out on defining what is important to us as a society, on acting with the future in mind and the interconnection between culture and environment since she was a child. |
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TOMMY DAVIS Davis is currently at work on a documentary exploring a revolutionary scientific breakthrough.. |
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TIM DECHRISTOPHER Tim DeChristopher garnered national attention last December for his civil disobedience against the fraudulent BLM oil and gas auction in Utah. |
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ROB DEL BUENO Veg My Ride |
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KATHERINE DODDS Former associate editor and marketing manager of Adbusters magazine, and President and Creative Director of Good Company Communications Inc.. |
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HARRY/HARRIET DODGE Dodge is a visual artist, director, writer, activist and radical queer performer. |
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BERNARDINE DOHRN Human Rights and Child Justice Educator, Author, Activist and Torture and Death Penalty Abolitionist |
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JEFF "THE DUDE" DOWD Jeff “The Dude” Dowd is a Santa Monica based writer, producer, producer’s representative, and a nationally recognized authority on marketing, distribution and exhibition of movies. Jeff helped Robert Redford start the Sundance Institute and Sundance Fil |
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ERIC DROOKER Art Is A Weapon: A Musical Slide Lecture |
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RON ENGLISH Ron English is the celebrated prankster father of agit-pop and one of the most distinctive and profound artists of the modern era. |
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JEFF FEUERZEIG Jeff Feuerzeig is an award-winning director and non-fiction filmmaker whose feature film The Devil and Daniel Johnston won top documentary directing honors at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics. |
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FLY A hands-on comics making workshop presented by seminal NY Lower East Side punk artist Fly. |
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BRUCE FRIEDRICH Bruce Friedrich is vice president for Policy & Government Affairs of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). He has been a progressive activist for more than 20 years. |
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MICHAEL GALINSKY & SUKI STETSON HAWLEY Michael Galinsky and Suki Stetson Hawley make fiction films outside the realm of traditional narrative, about subjects existing outside the realm of traditional society. |
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BRETT GAYLOR Brett Gaylor is director of Rip! A Remix Manifesto and creator of Open Source Cinema |
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BECKY GOLDBERG Becky tours universities speaking about filmmaking, activism, the pornography industry, and feminism. |
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SAM GREEN Sam Green's most recent project is UTOPIA: IN FOUR MOVEMENTS. His feature film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004, aired nationally on PBS, and was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. |
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DR. MICHAEL GREGER MD. Michael Greger, M.D., is a vegan physician, author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. |
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ALEX GREY Transfigurations: An Evening with Alex Grey |
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NASSIM HARAMEIN Nassim Haramein has spent most of his life researching the fundamental geometry of hyperspace, studying a variety of fields from theoretical physics, cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology and chemistry to anthropology and ancient civilizations. |
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SANDER HICKS Hicks is a playwright, journalist, songwriter, activist, and the founder of Soft Skull Press, Inc. |
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MARK HOSLER Mark Hosler is a founding member of the experimental sound collage band Negativland. |
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SILAS HOWARD Artist , musician, director, writer, activist and radical queer performer |
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NAOMI JAFFE Naomi was a member of the Weather Underground, and she has written widely on gender and the militarist ethos, on the question of Palestine and on civil liberties and civil rights. |
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EUGENE JARECKI Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose film WHY WE FIGHT won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He is also one of the directors of FREAKONIMICS. |
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DR. MITCHELL JOACHIM PH.D. Architecture, Ecology and Urban Design by the co-founder of TERREFORM |
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NWENNA KAI GATES Nwenna Kai, is creator, founder, & culinary designer of Taste of the Goddess Cafe, an organic raw vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, CA she co-owns with Oscar Winner Forrest Whittaker. |
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SCOTT KELLOGG Founder of The Rhizome Collective and Radical Urban Sustainability Training (R.U.S.T.) |
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SCOTT HAMILTON KENNEDY Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s latest documentary The Garden was nominated for a 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary feature. |
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MAHDIS KESHAVARZ Publicity and PR for Social Causes |
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ELIZABETH KUCINICH Elizabeth Kucinich's work clearly parallels that of her husband, Congressman Dennis Kucinich. She is engaged in drafting governmental policy surrounding the environment, human and animal rights, as well as promoting corporate social responsibility. |
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AARON TAYLOR KUFFNER (AKA ZEMI 17) Zemi17 (or the human known as Aaron Taylor Kuffner), is a composer, musician, and media artist. |
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PETER KUPER Peter Kuper's illustrations and comics have appeared in The New Yorker, The NY Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, Harpers, and MAD where he has been writing & drawing SPY vs. SPY every month since 1997. Also co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated. |
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DR. STEVEN KURTZ In April 2008, a federal judge dismissed accusations of bioterrorism and wire fraud brought against Dr. Kurtz by the FBI for his possession of scientific materials used in his award-winning art practice. |
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STEVEN LAMBERT Current fellow at Eyebeam’s Open R&D Lab in New York. |
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AVI LEWIS Avi Lewis is one of Canada's most eloquent and controversial media personalities |
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ANDREW LYNN Media educator who walks in the worlds of creative resistance, media art, and bicycles. |
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M-1 OF DEAD PREZ (AKA MUTULU OLUGABALA) Presentation: Hip Hop and the History of the Black Panther Party |
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KATE MAGIC Kate Magic is a UK based author of four raw lifestyle books, and tours internationally giving talks and workshops on raw foods. |
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OMAR MAJEED Omar Majeed is an award winning filmmaker and director of Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam |
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RON MANN director of GRASS, Comic Book Confidential, and Imagine the Sound |
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DAVID MATHISON David Mathison (former Vice President of Reuters) is an internationally recognized media consultant, speaker, publisher, radio host, & hi-tech entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in content distribution. |
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KEITH MCHENRY Keith McHenry is one of the key founders of the Food Not Bombs movement. |
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MONOCHROM Monochrom from Vienna is a worldwide operating collective dealing with technology, art, context hacking and philosophy |
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ISA CHANDRA MOSKOWITZ Vegan chef and author of Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook, Vegan with a Vengeance, Vegan Cupcakes Take over the World, Vegan Brunch as well as Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. |
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ALISON MURRAY Alison Murray is an award winning director who has documented train-riding hobos and traveling fair workers. Her feature films include Mouth to Mouth (starring Ellen Page) and Train On The Braln. |
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INGRID NEWKIRK Ingrid E. Newkirk is president and cofounder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). |
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ZACH NILES Zach Niles is the Co-director/Co-Producer of the film, Refugee All Stars. |
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JEHANE NOUJAIM Award-winning Arab-American filmmaker, recipient of the 2006 TED Prize, and creator of Pangea Day. |
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TREVOR PAGLEN Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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CHRIS PAINE Director of WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? and the upcoming REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR. |
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JOSE PALAFOX José Palafox has long been involved with immigrant and border rights. As a musician and activist, Palafox has been part of the punk-hardcore underground scene since the early 1990’s |
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GREG PALAST Greg Palast shines light on the cockroaches of international finance - the characters who dumped us into this depression - combining economics and award-winning investigative material. |
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CHRISTIAN PARENTI Christian Parenti has reported extensively from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. His most recently published book is THE FREEDOM: SHADOWS AND HALLUCINATIONS IN OCCUPIED IRAQ (2004). |
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JUSTIN PEARSON Justin Pearson is best known for his involvement with musical acts such as The Locust, All Leather, Swing Kids, The Crimson Curse, Holy Molar, Head Wound City, and Some Girls, as well as starting independent record label Three One G. |
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LESLIE JAMES PICKERING Leslie James Pickering is a former spokesperson for the underground Earth Liberation Front, holds a master’s degree in History of American Social Justice Movements and is a distinguished speaker in support of environmental and revolutionary struggles. |
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DANIEL PINCHBECK Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) and Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002). |
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WILL POTTER Multimedia presentation on the “Green Scare,” and how environmental and animal rights advocates became the government’s “number one domestic terrorism threat.” |
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ELIZABETH PRESS Journalist and Producer for Democracy Now! |
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PAUL RACHMAN director of American Hardcore |
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DAVID REDMON David Redmon's feature documentary Mardi Gras: Made in China connects the Chinese sweatshop workers who produce Mardi Gras beads with the drunken revelers in New Orleans who consume them. |
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JON REISS Jon Reiss is a critically acclaimed award-winning filmmaker. He recent documentary is BOMB IT, an in depth look at the explosion of graffiti culture throughout the world and the resulting battle over public space. |
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BOOTS RILEY Boots Riley is a co-founder of Bay Area hip hop outfit THE COUP |
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FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ Favianna Rodriguez is a founding member of the EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA), an Oakland-based collective of third world artist and community organizers who use the arts as a tool in the freedom struggle. |
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DAVE ROSENSTRAUS Veg the System presenter, and founder of the Fossil Free Fuel conversion collective |
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DAVY ROTHBART Davy Rothbarts FOUND Magazine is a treasure trove of mysterious notes, love letters, inane travel journal entries and more, all transformed into unexpected literary masterpieces. |
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RICK ROWLEY Rowley and Big Noise have spent the last 15 years putting cameras on the ground on the other side of the military and media machine. |
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MARK RUDD Mark Rudd was one of the co-founders of The Weather Underground organization, and the leader of the Columbia University student strike against the war and racism in 1968. |
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JOSHUA KAHN RUSSELL A dynamic organizer working to bridge movements for environmental sanity and racial justice, Joshua Kahn Russell directs Rainforest Action Network's Action Tank, is a trainer with the Ruckus Society, and serves on the steering committee of the Energy Act |
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CHELSEA SEXTON Chelsea is one of the key individuals featured in the 2006 film, “Who Killed the Electric Car?”, the book “Plug-In Hybrids, the Cars that Will Recharge America” by Sherry Boschert, and in the Sundance Channel Series, “Big Ideas for a Small Planet.” |
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DR. VANDANA SHIVA PH.D. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor and author of many books, and the Vice President of global movement Slow Food International. |
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SHRINE Shrine is an artist who creates interactive murals from recycled materials, including the temple at Burning Man 2008 |
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BILL SIEGEL Bill Siegel is the co-director of The Weather Underground. He has worked on a number of documentary films, including Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story, Hoop Dreams, and One Love. |
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TIMOTHY SPEED LEVITCH Speed is the subject of the documentary film "THE CRUISE", The Man on the Bridge in "WAKING LIFE", |
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DJ SPOOKY (AKA PAUL D. MILLER) DJ Spooky reconstructs the history of sound and recorded media by several of the most well known artists of their field. |
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ANNIE SPRINKLE Sexologist, Artist and Feminist Porn Activist |
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RICHARD STALLMAN Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software movement. |
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TRISTAN TAORMINO Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, sex educator, and feminist pornographer. |
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SUNAURA TAYLOR Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist who explores issues of disability, animal rights and perception. |
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THE GUERRILLA GIRLS Founding member Frida Kahlo will talk about their work, their philosophy of activism, and their campaign against the lack of ethics in the art world. |
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THE MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL ROAD SHOW In Appalachia, coal companies now blast the tops off the mountains, then dump the rock and debris into mountain streams. Dave Cooper presents a stunning 20-minute slide show about the impacts of mountaintop removal on coalfield residents, communities and |
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THE YES MEN (ANDY BICHLBAUM AND MIKE BONANNO) The Yes Men are a pair of notorious troublemakers who sneak into corporate events disguised as captains of industry, then use their momentary authority to expose the biggest criminals on the planet. |
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ONDI TIMONER Ondi's iconoclastic work is noteworthy for telling stories that unfold over time with incredible access and emotional depth. She is the only two-time Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner, for her films Dig! and We Live in Public. |
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SETH TOBOCMAN One of today's most important political artists, Seth is on the front line of the battle for human rights. |
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PETE TRIDISH Pete Tridish is a community radio advocate and the founder of The Prometheus Radio Project. |
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SEVERINE VON TSCHARNER FLEMING Severine is an filmmaker, agriculturalist, activist and organizer based in the Hudson Valley, NY. She is the director and chief logistician of the Greenhorns project. |
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DR. RYAN WARTENA PH.D. Dr. Ryan Wartena is a chemical engineer and proprietor of the energy system design firm Growing Energy Labs Inc. (GELI). He is equal parts scientist, artist, and environmentalist with a calling to converge art, technology, and consciousness. |
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CRAIG SIM WEBB Stanford University dream & consciousness researcher / author (Lucid dreaming and biofeedback specialist) |
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LANCE WEILER Lance Weiler is an award winning writer and director and digital media pioneer. Wired magazine named Lance "One of twenty-five people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood". |
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BANKER WHITE Banker White is the Co-director/Co-producer of the film, Refugee All Stars. |
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LAURA WHITEHORN Laura Whitehorn is a lifelong activist for prisoner rights, and an editor at a magazine for HIV-positive people. |
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FRANK WILDERSON Frank B. Wilderson III, the award winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid, is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress, and former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. |
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JOSH WOLF Josh Wolf became one of journalism's more recognizable and controversial martyrs, while setting the American record for most time spent in jail for refusing to give up source material to a Federal Grand Jury. |
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PETER DANIEL YOUNG Peter Daniel Young is an author and animal rights activist imprisoned for 2 years for his role in releasing, and conspiracy to release, thousands of mink from fur farms in the Midwest. He is the author of Animal Liberation Front: Complete Diary of Actions |
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JOHN ZERZAN John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. |





















































