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Veteran White House bureau chief, Helen Thomas, speaks out against the Bush government and the press at the Media Giraffe Conference in Amherst, Mass. Learn more about the Media Giraffe here: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_487.shtml

This is the second in a three-part series of talks from the Social Change Institute, held at Hollyhock on Cortes Island in early May. This time out, Van Jones, an environmentalist, social justice advocate and social entrepreneur who Judy Rebick believes might become a greater leader than Martin Luther King. Van Jones, 37, is the founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for...

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simmons of the Bioneers ( www.bioneers.org ) address the Social Change Institute conference Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons - The Bioneers Story Kenny Ausubel  and Nina Simons are respectively the founder and co-executive directors of Bioneers. One year after Kenny founded the organic biodiversity seed company Seeds of Change, where he and Nina served as CEO and President unti...

Dr. Michael Geist is a professor of law at the University of Ottawa, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, and is a leading authority on internet-related legal issues in Canada. Dr. Geist is a member of Canada's National Task Force on Spam and is a syndicated columnist for the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen. Dr. Geist is also the editor of In The Public Interest:...

Flora MacDonald has been active in Canadian politics since the 1970s. She served as an MP and Cabinet Minister, and in 1979 she became the first woman to be appointed Secretary of State for External Affairs. Since leaving politics in 1989, Flora has been involved in a range of human rights and environmental activities around the globe, and is currently working in Afghanistan and India. She has rec...

Dr. Arne Kislenko in an Associate Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, and an Adjunct Professor in International Relations at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre. Dr. Kislenko has experience in foreign affairs and Canadian Intelligence. He was recently named Ontario's Best Lecturer by TV Ontario's Big Ideas competition. http://www.ryerson.ca/mgroup/arteries/kislenko....

Dr. Charles Burton is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. He has worked at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, and has been a consultant at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs. He has also written several books about China and the Koreas.  http://www.brocku.ca/politicalscience/people/Charles_Burton.html

The Future of the Forum session was recorded by Kim Elliott at the 5th annual World Social Forum, held in Caracas in February 2006. Speakers included Marco Berlinguer, John Holloway, François Houtart, Francine Mestrum, Thomas Ponniah, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Teivo Teivainen, Virginia Vargas and Hilary Wainwright. The session was organized by the  Network Institute for Global Democratization Fo...

Robert Fisk is Middle East correspondent for The Independent. he spoke about his new book, The Great War For Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Harper Collins), his experiences as a foreign correspondent, and the role of journalists in contemporary conflicts.  http://www.independent.co.uk/  note: the question and answer segment of the lecture was not recorded by request of the lecturer...

Jeff Halper is the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House demolitions (ICAHD) and a Professor of Anthropology at Ben Gurion University. He has lived in Israel since 1973. Jeff has researched and written extensively on Israeli society and he has been active in the Israeli peace movement for many years. As the Coordinator of ICAHD, he has forged a new mode of Israeli peace activity based...

A campaigner for peace and economic justice, Walden Bello is professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines. He is also executive director of the Bangkok-based research and advocacy organization, Focus on the Global South. Professor Bello is the author of many books including, Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire and The Future in the B...

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