1. David Barsamian is the founder and director of Alternative Radio - an award winning weekly radio program. Alternative Radio is broadcast to more than 125 public radio stations around the world and presents information and perspectives that are either ignored or distorted in the corporate-controlled American media. Barsamian is regarded as an "ace interviewer" and "an ingenious impresario of radical broadcasting", and was presented the award of "Top Ten Media Heroes of 1994". Barsamian's socially challenging interviews and articles appear in the Progressive, The Nation, ZMag and other leading journals and magazines. He is the author of numerous books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Eqbal Ahmed, Edward Said and Arundhati Roy. His latest book with Chomsky is Propaganda & the Public Mind.

2. Peter Mclaren is Professor Urban Schooling at University, Los Angeles. He began his teaching career in his hometown of Toronto, Canada, teaching in an inner-city school. Mclaren completed his Ph.D at The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, in 1983. In 1985 Mclaren worked with Henry Giroux to create the Center for Education and Cultural Studies, at Miami University of Ohio, where he served as both Associate Director and Director. While at Miami he was awarded the title of Renowned Scholar in Residence School of Education and Allied Professions. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, and Associate of Massey College, Professor Mclaren is the author and editor of over 35 books. He lectures world wide and his work has been translated into 15 languages. His most recent books include "Schooling as a Ritual Performance", "Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture", "Revolutionary Multiculturalism", and "Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution."

3. David C. Korten is Cofounder and Board Chair, Positive Futures Network, publishers of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures and Founder and President of The People-Centered Development Forum. He has over thirty-five years of experience in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions as well as in contemporary citizen action organizations. His work in South East Asia won him international recognition for his contributions to pioneering the development of powerful strategies for transforming public bureaucracies into responsive support systems dedicated to strengthening community control and management of land, water, and forestry resources. Korten came to realize that the crisis of deepening poverty, growing inequality, environmental devastation, and social disintegration he was observing in Asia was also being experienced in nearly every country in the world - including the United States and other "developed" countries. Furthermore he came to the conclusion that the United States was actively promoting - both at home and abroad - the very policies that were deepening the resulting global crisis. He is the author of "When Corporations Rule the World" and "The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism". His publications are required reading in university courses around the world.

4. Helena Norberg-Hodge is a leading analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures around the world. A linguist by training, she was educated in Sweden, Germany, England and the United States, and speaks seven languages. She has lectured and taught extensively around the world-from the Smithsonian Institution to Harvard and Oxford universities. Ms. Norberg-Hodge is founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC), which runs programs on four continents aimed at strengthening ecological diversity and community, with a particular emphasis on local food and farming. She also directs the Ladakh Project, renowned for its groundbreaking work in sustainable development on the Tibetan plateau.She is the author of numerous works, including the inspirational classic, Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh, which-together with an award-winning film of the same title-has been translated into more than 30 languages. She is co-founder of the International Forum on Globalisation and the Global Eco-village Network, and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, or "Alternative Nobel Prize".

5. Robert McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. McChesney has written or edited books, including the award-winning "Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935", "Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy", and, with Edward S. Herman, "The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism" etc. McChesney has also written around 100 journal articles and book chapters and another 110 newspaper pieces, magazine articles and book reviews. His work has been translated into ten languages.

6. Tariq Rehman is an acclaimed Pakistani scholar specializing in linguistics. He is currently Professor of Linguistics and South Asian Studies at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, and was full professor at the University of Sana'a, Yemen and Fulbright research scholar at the University of Texas, USA. As head of the Department of English, he has the distinction of introducing a Masters program in Linguistics and English Language Training at the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He writes with simplicity and clarity and increasingly draws on the two disciplines of history and politics. Among his many published books, A history of Pakistani Literature in English remains a landmark.

7. Manish Jain is the coordinator and a co-founder of Shikshantar - an institute engaged in 'rethinking' education and development, India. He can be reached at:
   manish@swaraj.org

8. Edward S. Herman is a Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where he was teaching micro- and macro-economics and financial regulation for 30 years. He has written extensively on economics, political economy, foreign policy and media analysis. He has a regular "Fog Watch" column in the monthly Z Magazine and has published numerous articles in many professional and popular journals. He has published 22 books, some of them are: "The Political Economy of Human Rights (with Noam Chomsky)", "Corporate Control, Corporate Power", "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Noam Chomsky)", "The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader" etc.

9. Ted Trainer teaches at the University of New South Wales. He is one of Australia's foremost environmental campaigners; the good life is bad for the Earth. Trainer is trying to convince his fellow Australians that the standard of living they enjoy is at someone else's expense. The grounds near Trainer's house are littered with homemade contraptions and inventions -- machines that generate power or pump water. Trainer made them to show how anyone with a little ingenuity can harness the wind or the tides to run machines cleaner and more efficient than engines that burn fossil fuels. He believes we must confront at least two major changes. One is to live much more simply and to consume less in our personal lifestyles. The other and more important one, is a radical change in the sort of economy we have. Trainer has called for a new movement toward "eco-villages" as a way to teach the public about sustainable alternatives.

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