Steve Cedar is a member of Anticapitalistes Catalunya and a lifelong socialist and activist
Olivia Giovetti is a journalist and cultural critic who has written for the London Review of Books, NPR, Washington Post, VAN Magazine, and the Los Angeles Review of Books (among others).
Steven Klett is a professional writer and journalist living in Brooklyn. He is a co-host of Lost Futures: A Mark Fisher Podcast, and contributor to Undefined Boundary: The Journal Of Psychick Albion by Temporal Boundaries Press.
Alan Fernandes is a journalist, educator, graduated in Philosophy from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He sometimes writes on passalavra.info
Dan Weissmann is a researcher in the field of political communication based in the north of England. Until recently, he taught International Relations with a focus on Cultural and Public Diplomacy at Bournemouth University on the south coast of England.
A writer and Poet
I stand up for justice
For suffering kids and women
Who are been abused or blown up
I've been on the news and radio talking about Poetry and I've won competitions and certificates for writing Poetry
And I've written my own romantic poetry book.
Standing for peace and love not war
Helga Baumgarten is a Political Scientist affiliated with Birzeit University, where she taught for many years. She has published internationally on Palestinian Nationalism, on Political Islam and on the problem of transformations in the Arab region.
Her major books are “Palaestina. Befreiung in den Staat. 1991. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp (Palestine. Liberation into the State. Arabic translation 2006: Muwatin ) and “Kampf um Palaestina: Was wollen Hamas und Fatah?” (Herder Verlag 2014). Among her many articles are “The Oslo System” (in German in INAMO 79, 2014, available in English on academia.edu).
Her latest publications include “The struggle for democratic space under violent settler colonialism and authoritarian rule”, published in July, 2021, in: Mackert, Juergen et alii (eds.). The Condition of Democracy, vol.3, p.90-109, as well as “No peace for Palestine. The long war against Gaza. Occupation and Resistance” (in German. Published with Promedia, Vienna, in September 2021. An Arabic translation has been published in January 2024 with Doha Institute).
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