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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh commodo consequat. Read more   Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh commodo consequat. Read more	Janet Afary was educated at Tehran University and University of Michigan. She is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-11: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism and the co-author of Seductions of Islamism: Foucault, Feminism, and Iran (forthcoming). Her writings have also appeared in New Left Review, Journal of Women's History, and in Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror (Nation Books, 2002). She teaches History and Women's Studies at Purdue University.   Vittorio Agnoletto is an M.D. who heads the major Italian NGO working on the problem of AIDS. With his broad history of activism, which includes his earlier participation in the Catholic left, he has become the symbol of unity between the social movements (including its libertarian sectors) and the trade union movements, especially after the traumatic watershed of Genoa in 2001. He is respected by the center left, Rifondazione, the trade unions and social movements, and as such is a strategic figure in Italy. He is the principal Italian representative to the International Council of the WSF, and was elected the spokesperson for the united Italian Social Forum.   Ousseina Alidou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is the co-editor with Sylvia Federici and George C a ffentzis of A Thousand Flowe r s : Social Struggles against Stru c t u ra l Adjustment Programs in African Universities (2000) and author of Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger (forthcoming) and of various articles on Francophone African Muslim women?s discourses and literature. Professor Alidou is a co-editor of CAFA (Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa) Newsletter and a co-founder of the Coalition of African Women Against War.   Kevin B. Anderson is the author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study (1995) and the co-author of Foucault, Gender, and the Iranian Revolution:The Seductions of Islamism (forthcoming). He is the co-editor of a forthcoming volume on non-Western societies and gender of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe and of several other books, including Marx on Suicide (1999), Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology:Beyond the Punitive Society (2000), The Power of Negativity by Raya Dunayevskaya (2002), and The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (2004).   Matt Anderson,MD is an Assistant Professor of Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He works with the Luis Angel Garcia HIV clinic in Guatemala City on issues of treatment access to HIV medicines. His research interests include the misuse of race in medicine and disease mongering by pharmaceutical companies (particularly with respect to vaginal complaints). He and Dr. Lanny Smith have recently established a website www.socialmedicine.org to promote social medicine	Janet Kestenberg Amighi is an anthropologist who worked in Iran from 1971- 1978 collecting data for her book, The Zoroastrians of Iran. She has also worked with Mexican mushroom workers in their unionizing efforts in Kennett Square, Pa, and is currently writing a history of the Kaolin farm workers. In 2003-2004, she twice toured Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories with Faculty for Israeli Palestinian Peace. She and Lawrence Davidson have been making presentations on the topic to promote change. She teaches anthropology at Montgomery Community College, Blue Bell PA.