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About the Film Makers
Trish Dalton
Trish Dalton is an independent documentary filmmaker and producer. Her films, 34x25x36 (directed by Jesse Epstein aired on POV in 2009 and was selected by many film festivals), FARM SANCTUARY (co-directed by MJ Watkins was winner of the 2007 Media that Matters 'Good Food' award), TIFFANY'S STORY (made with GEMS, screened at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival), and BORDERING ON TREASON (an OHMS Media Production) share stories of people and their experiences with health, body image, animal rights, sexual exploitation, and war. In addition to making documentaries, Trish has directed, produced and coordinated for such companies as: National Geographic Television, Amazon, Kashi, Danskin, About.com, Beiersdorf, Cossette and IDEO.
Mike Konopacki
Mike Konopacki graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. He began labor cartooning for the Madison Press Connection, a local daily created by striking newspaper workers in 1978. In 1983 he and Gary Huck, cartoonist for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (UE), created Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons, syndicating their cartoons to the labor press in the U.S. and Canada.
Since that time they have published six collections of labor cartoons, Bye! American, THEM, MAD in USA, Working Class Hero, Two Headed Space Alien Shrinks Labor Movement and the latest American Dread. With Alec Dubro Mike has written and drawn comic books and comics on the World Bank, welfare reform and union organizing.
Mike is co-author and illustrator of Howard Zinn's graphic history A People's History of American Empire. In May of 2009 Mike earned his Master of Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and is working toward his Master of Fine Arts.
Michael Zweig
Michael Zweig is Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he has received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and is the founder and director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life. His most recent books are What’s Class Got to Do with It: American Society in the Twenty-first Century (Cornell University Press, 2004), and The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret (Cornell University Press, 2000). In 2005-2006, he was executive producer of the film Meeting Face to Face: the Iraq – U.S. Labor Solidarity Tour.
Professor Zweig received his PhD in economics in 1967 from the University of Michigan where, as an undergraduate, he was a founding member of Students for A Democratic Society (SDS), and as a graduate student helped found the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE). He has a long history of social activism combined with scholarly work and has published widely in professional and general circulation journals, including The American Economic Review, The American Economist, Labor Notes, Monthly Review, The Nation, New Labor Forum, Rethinking Marxism. Review of Black Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, Tikkun, and UE News. He has appeared on NOW with Bill Moyers, the Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy Now!, CNN radio, Marketplace, Al Jazeera English, and many other television and radio programs. His earlier books include Religion and Economic Justice and The Idea of a World University.
Professor Zweig is active in his union, United University Professions (Local 2190, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO), representing 34,000 faculty and professional staff throughout SUNY, and has served two terms on its state executive board. He represents UUP on the national steering committee of U.S. Labor Against the War. He lives with his wife in New York City and on the North Fork of eastern Long Island, where he has been named "Citizen of the Year" by The Suffolk Times for his writing and community organizing around issues of planning, zoning, and land use.