Journalist first, activist second. Sometimes the other way around.

Editor @ the HMC.

We in grassroots, community-based media have an obligation to serve both our kin and ken with honour and integrity as we search for truth.

Coordinator of the Powell River Food Security Project. Actively working to develop an urban food production cooperative in Powell River.

I am an artist working with photography and video. My work is situated within a critical approach to the environment and urban development. I am particularly interested in the feelings of alienation, uprooting and dislocation.

I am a gratuate of Ryerson and York University's Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture.

I am an activist born and based in Winnipeg. I have a five year old son. I helped start the Winnipeg A-Zone, Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House Collective, the Winnipeg local of the Canada Palestine Support Network, and the Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre. I first got involved with activism in the anti-Apartheid and Salvadoran solidarity movements of the 1980s. In 2002, I was privileged to be able to participate in the "Olive Harvest" campaign of the ISM in the Occupied West Bank. I am currently doing a Ph.D in History at the U of Saskatchewan. My M.A. thesis was entitled: "As She Shall Deem Just: Treaty 1 and the Ethnic Cleansing of the St. Peter's Reserve, 1871-1934." Some day, I hope to put out a book related to all this: settler ideology, and the dispossession and forced relocation of the people of Peguis, in violation of Treaty 1 (not to mention a "crime against humanity").

I'm an independent radio producer.

I'm just getting started as a freelance journalist, although I've been intrigued by alternative media for more than 10 years. I am currently based in Southern Ecuador. I love radio and worked at CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph as Spoken Word Coordinator for five years. I've also dabbled in video, enjoy writing and seek out good media collaborations. I make bread; run, hike and dance salsa; like Facebook way more than I ever thought I would; and want to participate in strengthening social movements in Canada during my lifetime.

Currently I'm working as an independent journalist. I've freelanced for The Coast for many years, covering city hall and many issues relating back to it. I'm a new member at CKDU, and am learning to produce radio docs and news pieces. Lately I've been thinking a lot about the need for the media to explain as opposed to inform.

I am a social geographer, activist photographer, urban peasant farmer, and city land liberator.

I moved to Vancouver in 1995 from Pennsylvania with my wife and three kids. We're blessed and grateful to still be here. I am the rabbi of the Ahavat Olam Synagogue, a progressive, activist religious community. I have lived in Israel for four years at various times spread out over a span of thirty years and I lived in Japan for a couple of years as well.

This things always have a quality of half-truth and even bullshit. I wrote this one yesterday for the NCRA. It's the best I can do this week.

Jim Terral is a retired, community-college English teacher. He came to Canada in 1968 as a deserter from the US Army's Vietnam aggression. During that period, he was a writer and audio producer in the Intermedia artists collective (Vancouver), taught poetry during the first years of Capilano College's creative writing program, and sat on the editorial board of the early Capilano Review. He was also active in the seminal food co-op movement (North Vancouver, East Vancouver and West Kootenays) and in several extended cooperative housing experiments.

He left Capilano College to join a land co-operative in the Kootenays. During that period he divided his time between Vancouver, where he worked as a book binder for Intermedia Press, and his home in the Kootenays.

In 1979, he served as a funded intervenor at the Royal Commission on Uranium Mining (Bates Inquiry) representing the Kootenay Nuclear Study Group and the BC chapter of the Canadian Public Health Association. His booklet, "The Hazards of Uranium Exploration" found its way into the debates of legislatures in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Florida.

Terral survived the digital revolution as Chair of Selkirk College's Advisory Committee on Computer Resources, a group that, during the 90s, made recommendations on priorities for expenditures of a quarter- to half-a-million dollars annually. When he left, an all-male committee had been transformed into a group half of whose members were women; one of the women was eventually to take over computer services for the Selkirk College system.

He was also active as a writer-producer for the Association of Theatre Professionals in Higher Education's online theatre project, ATHEMOO; as a collaborator with ATHEMOO Wizard Juli Burke at the University of Hawaii, as a liason producer with Monika Wunderer (Vienna and New York), who coordinated the "oudeis project" (Vienna, Rio de Janiero, Honolulu, and Linz), and as the instructor-director of "Iphigenia at ATHEMOO." (Castlegar)

After joining Kootenay Co-operative Radio, he co-hosted a show on water in 8 instalments with hydrogeologist Ron Butler ("Water, Water Everywhere"). In 2002, he hosted a series of interviews with Middle East nonviolence activists called "Peace Watch-Middle East."

For the last 5 years, he has written and produced "World Report" as a regular 10-12 minute contribution to CJLY's award-winning a.m. show, "Nelson Before Nine."

Last year, World Report won the NCRA Award for Best Newscast 2007. Just this month, World Report migrated to a free-standing 30-minute format.

I am a environmental engineering grad student at the University of Waterloo, where I am researching low-cost drinking water treatments. I was introduced to the Dominion via WPIRG and Anti War @ Laurier student organizations.

ex - indie rock musician; now writing amongst other things. spent 20 years in Europe; born in Quebec, now in Victoria; lots of travelling. Photography, outdoors,