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Voices of CHANGE BIOS
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The Real Wealth of Nations:
Community, Nature, Spirit—Creating a Caring Economics
Riane Eisler is an eminent social scientist, attorney, and social activist best known as author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 23 languages, including most European languages and Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Japanese, and Arabic. Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics has been hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as Aa template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking, by Gloria Steinem as Arevolutionary, by Peter Senge as Adesperately needed, and by Jane Goodall as Aa call for action. Her other books include the award-winning The Power of Partnership and Tomorrow's Children, as well as Sacred Pleasure, a daring reexamination of sexuality and spirituality, and Women, Men, and the Global Quality of Life, statistically documenting the key role of the status of women in a nation's general quality of life. Dr. Eisler keynotes conferences worldwide, and is a consultant to business and government on applications of the partnership model introduced in her work. She has received many honors, and is the only woman among twenty great thinkers including Hegel, Adam Smith, Marx, and Toynbee selected for inclusion in Macrohistory and Macrohistorians in recognition of the lasting importance of her work.
Her website is www.rianeeisler.com
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Envisioning Global Justice in Times of War
Starhawk, committed global justice activist and organizer, is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and the award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Her latest is Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, is a highly influential voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion, and has brought many innovative techniques of spirituality and magic to her political work. Her web site is www.starhawk.org.
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Standing up to the Madness*
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on 650 radio and television stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! in its “Pick of the Podcasts.”
Goodman and her brother, journalist David Goodman, co-authored the NY Times bestseller Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, and the New York Times bestseller The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. Their forthcoming book, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, will be published in April, 2008. She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.
Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S. , Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR stations, low power FM, College and Community Radio stations as well as Public Access TV and PBS stations, and on both TV satellite networks -- DISH Network channel 9415 Free Speech TV, 9410 Link TV, and on Direct TV channel 375. Democracy Now! is also available at democracynow.org .
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Deconstructing Corporate Media:
Using Independent Media as a Weapon for Justice
Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has been covering the Middle East for five years. He reported for 8 months from occupied Iraq , and is the author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. Jamail writes regularly for Inter Press Service, Foreign Policy in Focus, and TomDispatch.com. He has also been published in The Independent, The Guardian, The Sunday Herald, The Nation, and Al-Jazeera, among others.
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Is America Possible:
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
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Vincent Harding is currently Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver , Colorado . Additionally, Dr. Harding is Founder and Chairperson of the Veterans of Hope Project . The Veterans of Hope Project was founded in 1997 by Vincent Harding and his late wife, Rosemarie, longtime activists, counselors and teachers of spiritually-based social justice activism.
The Hardings began their work in the Mennonite Church in Chicago , Illinois in the late 1950s and moved to Atlanta , Georgia in 1961 to join with Martin Luther King, Jr. and others as reconcilers and nonviolent trainers in the Southern Freedom Movement. In ensuing years, the Hardings served as scholars, advisors and encouragers for a wide variety of movements, organizations and individuals working for compassionate social change in the United States and internationally.
Dr. Harding is the author of many books and is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Humanities from the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.
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Susan Griffin
is a well-known writer and poet. Her latest book, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, On Being an American Citizen , is about the inner life of democracy. She has published nineteen books, including Woman and Nature , a classic work that inspired eco-feminism, published in a new edition by Sierra Club Books in 2000. (Her thought on ecology is described in Fifty Key Environmental Thinkers published by Routledge.) In 1998, Harper San Francisco published What Her Body Thought , an account of the experience of illness that explores the fear of the body and neglect of the ill in our culture. This is the second volume of a longer work that she calls a social autobiography. The first volume of this extended work, A Chorus of Stones, the Private Life of War , a New York Times Notable Book, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award and won the BABRA award in 1992. Her essays on gender and society were collected in The Eros of Everyday Life , in 1994. Named by Utne reader as one of a hundred important visionaries for the new millennium, she has been the recipient of an NEA grant, a Macarthur Grant for Peace and International Cooperation, and an Emmy award (for her play, Voices.) |
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Don Hanlon Johnson, is the founder of the Somatic Psychology Program at CIIS where he is a Professor. His lifetime of writing and teaching has been focused on the role the body plays in social transformation. His latest book is Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams: Reflections on American Ideals. |
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